Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1880-10-06

simply awful.
When it is considered that this state of
affairs il very damaging to the trade Of
Shreveport, and that two or three thousand
dollars would give them Q good road all
the way to Linden, now that the shed is
nearly finished, IL seems strange that these
dollars are not raised and the work done.
But there are more things strange on this
earth than are dreamed Of in the philosophy
or the ordinary or rather average man, if |
may be permitted to garble Shakspcarean
quotation to suit the purposes of thsletter
| Somebody has said, and the somebody
lives in Shreveport and ought TO know her
people. that the enterprising men Of this
city are those " ho have 10 money How
ever be that rs il may, here in Shreveport
at the eastern end of the Texas and Pacific
railway aud about at the head Of naviga-
ton on the Red River, for fifty aud seyeuty-
five miles east the people must come TO
trade, aud the only advantages offered
them are the result of a private specula-
ton. Bnt there is no pleasure in thinking
or writing about oil these things while
there are hopes of something better in the
future.
BY this time you have heard that Col.
Stubs has bought property pear Arcadia
for depot and promises to have railroad
there by the first of May next. so with a
depot just twenty miles from Homer things
Look better.
Work will soon begin actively Oh the
New Orleans Pacific from this point, and
50 there is something tangible here.
have seen the books Of the construction
company. Capt. sam Morrison, of the
Standard, showed me the other day whole
library of ledgers, note receipts, contract
hooks, &c, all gotten up by l.. L. Summons,
binder for the company which has con-
trscted to build the road.
Cotton, am told, is still on the decline.
Even with the unfavorable reports that
come directly from the cotton fields all
over the country some occult influence
conspires to bear the market and keep the
staple down. We need better system OF
crop reports. 1t too often happens that
parties who live abont the minor cotton
centres are buyers Who in the interest Of
their principals 81 make their reports as to
keep the staple down. The truth is never
Known. The actual result is seldom, if
ever, such as pointed out by the reports.
Self interest in spectators ruins the farm
ers. The staple is low now. but mind if il
won't go up ~ soon rs the producer has
sold his crop.
Barnnm- show has come and gone, and
IL ~as, iii many respects, far superior Ia
! anything have ever seen, but the Iulus,
so extensively advertised what a trans
parent humbug. just imagine Sanck,
, Alex Walker, Louis Whitaker, Jack
Goodson, the trusted body servant Of the
publisher Of the Guardian, John McFar-
land, or any half dozen average darkics
about Homer stripped stark naked, except
n flap around the waist aud half the thighs
decorated with ostrich feathers, their
limbs and face painted and their wool
conhed out hu-hy aud you have the ter
| rlble Iulus. ! had few words with one
of the sayagrs after his act was over.
/ His old Virginia Niger English WAS very
/ fair. hut seven elephants, five or six
camels, zcbraS, hippopotamHs, rhinocrros
and many other animals, with several
! interesting autuuata were well worth
double the price of admission.
/ Let me conclude with wori about
roads. By the way of Benton and Belle
vur the road is said to be very good
senator Vance drove from Benton TO
Shreveport III an hoHr and ten minutes,
Saturday morning. Those persons dcsir-
! ing to come over with cotton had better
try that route. ID. Is. H.