The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-09-02


what corn ! have seen, and ii is Il fair
average, the grain will not weigh
above 40 pounds to the barrel, and Of
this consider ten barrels per acre q
good average. There will bca demand
for corn in North Louisiana which will
mind old settlers of the corn famine of
1855, when corn was hauled from the
Mississippi, with OK teams, to the
middle of Texas. The Western cribs,
then our source of supply, will be this
year nearly as empty rs ours. I have
not prepared this scant supply of
sauce, any more than 1 have the an
ticipated high prices for meat next
year; nor do 1 know, nor do I believe
that the present outlook, or its affirmed
realization will teach our people that
wealth aud independence really con-
sfst in living strictly at home.
In respect of the cotton crop, there
is one point Of some encouragement
the price will be better than that Of last
year. 1t may be, too, this being Il dry
year, that the yield of lint will be
greater in proportion to seed cotton
than last year but have heard plan
tiers say that they will not make moro
than half an many bales rs last year,
and my own limited observation leads
me to bolieve that with all of last
years bad weather tho present crop
will fall twenty per cent short, oven
with the present favorable weather for
picking. How it is elsewhcrsc, l do
not know, but hereabouts cotton
stopped making ten days ago, Uhere
has been no rain for four Weeks,) and
except on low lands and young cotton,
the botfs are open nearly TO tho top.
An ordinary picker may easily gather,
pounds per day, and receive so cents
per hundred pounds tor picking. The
picking has gone on hriskly for ten
days, but the opening has gone on
equally as fast. 1t is picked clean, and
we shall have good seed next year.
Another paragraph brings mo to the
weather, or rather to its effects, the
weather being about the Same else
where, except in Mississippi where
they are having canvass for Cover
nor. q vote for Lowery, the gallant
soldier whom I last met at Decatur,
on Hoods march into Tennessee
The drouth has lasted but about four
weeks, but tho grass in the old fields ia
burned up, and out in tho hills where
was the past week hunting, the
dogwood trees are dying. All the
| bayous are rs dry as a bone. Hogs,
cattle and wild animals in the river
bottom arc driven to the river for
water-even the holes about the roots
OF fallen trees, tho last to go dry, hav-
ing not mud enough for a pig to enjoy.
1t is mysterious dry spell. The
river lazily runs alOng-at its source a
mountain stream-and men ford it on
small mules with sacks Of meal Mr..
Sandford, just below, came over this
morning from his place, and said it
was not knee-tleep to his horse: When
l scramble down the river bank to the
little spring of clear ice-cold water, or
when 1 get into the swamp, now hard
as pavement, where the hiyh-watcr
mark is twenty feet up tho trees, what
wonder is it that l mentally cxciaim,
What II Country and what People
1t is this variety, do you know it:
which keeps us busy thinking and
acting, and prolongs, with the grace
of God, our Improbable lives.
have not reached the question of :.
new Constitution,-anu may never
again reach it, having slipped up so
internally oncc,-nor do l find time to
discuss what will be the result of tho
Presidents death, nor of the adminis-
tration and execution of the laws in
Louisiana as we all behold it. AS u
fact, and in tho freedom which l fake
in correspondence, l have for the pres
ent, put politics aside. When SO a.
fishing l go a-iishing; when l go
a-catting l so a-catting. Louisiana!
q. W. NJ.
We clip the subjoined paragraph
from tho Nicksburg Herald regarding