The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-03-05
THINGS ABOUT HOME.

we can hail the advent OF spring ana
tip our Summer beaver TO the clerk
of The weather for this early dispen.
satiob, and consider that rude win
ter, as an institution, is among the
things Of the past.
Our planters and farmers have put
in a big and effective weeks work,
and some of them have planted corn,
though most of them incline to the
belief that old mother earth is yet
too cold, and have delayed general
corn planting for few days.
Business in Town and over in
Pineville, like Theodore Tilton's
amorous Bessie Turner, is only so so,
though we know two Of the DEMO
GRATIS advertising patrons who are
satisfied with their weeks purchases
and sales, and place some of this
good result to their good sense in
using its columns to further their
commercial transactions.
| Old Red, in the early part of the
week, was on rise, but, TO keep up
her cratic pianks, at this writing
she is falling. Still the Pool Liners
have come and gone as usual, and
our weeks report of their arrivals
and departures log the following for
them.
AS we predicted in our last, the
Packet Bart. Able left ON her down
ward trip on sharp time, and had
about half load and few passen-
gers.
Unexpectedly and unheralded,
Captain Woods big toter, the Silver
City, passed up Monday night about
8 o'clock, and only touched here a
few minutes. Billy Quicksall, how
ever, found time to leave US full
file of New Orleans papers.
Early Friday morning the big
Kate Kinney, aad that laundering
whistle, passed down. She had as
freight LOO bales of cotton, good
lot of cattle and some twenty five
tons of sundries. .g
The same evening the new and le-
viathan Laura Lee, about 2 O'clock,
blew her whistle and made a Pine
vile landing and one Of an hours
duration at the We'll Warehouse.
She landed some freight there and
6llea up with good lot Of Rapides
sugar and hay.
The same evening, near sunset,
the Koi-noor of the Pool Line, the
Jewel, passed up tolerably light and
touched the upper wharf for a few
moments. Eugene Barrow is yet
Charlie browns substitute in her
office, and we feel inclined to com
pliment Charlie on securing so good
a substitute. He carried that good
ness in this Offices behalf into prac-
tice by leaving, handsomely done up,
complete bundle of papers.
Sabbath morning, at precisely 81
O'Clock, the gilt edged Maria Louise
raised Us up level with our bed ties
ter with the shock of her continued
whistle blasts. She had that river
mail, wanted passengers, wanted
greenbacks for her freight dues, and
made no bones in whistling for all
these at once and "too id unan
imous" to sensitive and rheumatic
nerves. We are glad to know, how,
ever, that she was victorious on the
whole line, 80 la
At s O'Clock, on the same Sabbath |
morning, the Joe Bryarly, from some
where high up in the river, came
steaming by Town, and did not even
blow her whistle; she had on eight
tiers of the staple and a few folks in
sight. a5ra ;.4 a:e
The Packet Bart. Able, at g A. |
M. Monday, hove in sight, and, in
few minutes, was at the big Town.
wharf--she had fair freight, a
goodly number Of passengers, made
her usual Pineville and upper wharf
landings, and was of for Grand
Ecore by 10 o'clock. @
The Silver City passed down on
Monday evening-had good as.
sorted cargo-54s bales of cotton,
245 head of cattle, 700 sacks of oil
cake, 112 barrels of oil and $50 |
sacks of cotton seed. a.a. +
The Yazoo Valley brought up the
rear, for this weeks report, of the
departures and arrivals, reaching
here Monday evening late, on her
up trip, bound for Shreveport.
The Democratic. Conservative
masses of Rapides wanted a Consti-
tutional Convention, in other words,
they wanted to wipe out the bad one
of 1898 -on1 orso MT l.t:, r.