The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-09-03
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--HUsTMYRE has h'everything.
-FREsH candies at Gus. Gehr's.
Tins is the month for Oysters.
Once more order reigns in Alex.
andria.
TIE Temperance meetings are
largely attended.
GIVE Moses Mayors effusion q
careful perusal.
READ our new advertisements
in to-day's paper.
GET ready for school, boys and
girls, and study hard.
-PATEoNIzE' those who advertise
in the DEMOCRAT.
AS an evidence OF the times, we
haven't used bill-head in 80 days.
Have We not heard it? What?
Why the bugle blast of the mail.
carrier.
--paoMENADERs were out in force
last Thursday night by the light of
the moon.
-"BABY" We'll, representing the
firm of C. B. Block Co., was in our
Town last week.
-FoR the mu sical treat our Pub
fisher received on Wednesday night,
he returns thanks.
OLD Red is steadily rising, and
very soon navigation will be good
to any poiut ON the river.
REGULAR monthly meeting of
the two Fire Companies on tonight
and tomorrow at = o'clock.
-OUR fashionable drives were n
favorite resort on Sunday, for fortu-
nate possessors of horses and buggies.
Why borrow your neighbours pa
per when it is so cheap This habit
is even practiced by some Of our
merchants.
-THR mocking- birds are again in
tune, making the air vocal with their
sweet strains. God bless the little
choristers.
WHEN you buy from Gus. Gehr,
get waited on by that 'jolliest of fell
lows" VIM. Foisy. "Bud" pleases
everybody
WHO wants OF 90 to the Legisla.
ture from this Parish? Can't some
one come out for this important Of
fee, or is it so small that nobody
wants itP
-CoTToN pickers are now in re-
quest; so cents per hundred and IA
lions, rs cents without rations are
the prices offered. No excuse fol
loafing around Town now.
ON the 28th about noon, the
third bale of new cotton was brought
to Town to j. A. Williams Co; It's
weight 80 pounds, and was raised
hy HORACE Reesin, colored, Just back
of the Fifth Ward.
"VIGlLANcE is the price ofliberty'
The price of the DEMOCRAT is only
$3.50 for one year, or $l.00 from now
until January. Come down with The
money and we'll send you our paper
Don't all send on the same day.
We are informed that the chick
en- thieves are yet busy. Judge w
+. Blackman had his house emptiet
of all his fine brahmas on Saturday
night. Cannot some one arrest these
petty larcenics, even If load of sho
or two has to be rcsorted to?
-TaE Pool line will, on the lst o
October, move from their old loca
tion, No. Ill Gravier street, New
Orleans, to 43 Camp, corner of Ora
yier street, over the Offices of thu
Mississippi Valley Transportation
Company, and will occupy the whole
of the second floor.
ALEXANDRIA is the Legitimate
mart for the sale of cotton from the
Parish of Vernon, and the staple from
that Parish is raised pretty much by
white labor, the study yeomanry Of
the Western portion of old Rapides
before it was taken from her. Pine
woods cotton, rs it is called, is al
ways neatly aud well picked, rates
generally strict middling, commands
the highest figures and is specially
and eagerly purchased here. The
big white plow store drew the prize
this season and was the first on the
2Sth, to receive the first new bale
weighing 497 pounds from Mr.. Lem
Sweat, one of Vernon's trusty ant
thrifty farmers.
In Rapides cotton is still king
and always early in the month o
September commences putting cast
in circulation. We know that thi
month now on US can't be an excep