The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-04-08
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MoNEoN. I.A., ArHIL s. 1881
The Police Jury.

Monday and was in session two days.
The report of the Parish Treasurer was
submitted, and acted upon favorabiy.
About fifteen hundred dollars was ap-
propriated to pay claims allowed
against the parish, and two hundred /
dollars to pay for building bridges.
We notice in the proceedings that
our neighbor, the Bulletin, was desig-
mated as the official journal of the par-l
Ish, the bid Of the Bulletin falling be-
low that submitted by us. We are,
consequently, required to drop the
legend we have carried some time, to-
wit .Ofticial Journal Of the Parish, =
and to Withdraw to the shades of pri-
vate life. We are no more-dead, as it |
were and must reconcile the TELE-|
GRAPH to its untoward fate. There is
grief around this office and crepe hangs
on the banisters. The printers are dis
sgusted and irreconcilable, and happi-
ness abides no longer in the composing
room; but the caps, the quads and all
the sorts will have at least twelve
months respite. 1t is not this, how
ever, gives us pain, hut the distress our
readers viii feel in the absence of the
Pilice Jury proceedings in their favor
ite paper. They will miss some old
apd familiar names, and they will hard
iy gen through the next twelve months
alive Without their accustomed supply
of ordinances, reports and the like.
On their account, we part with
the Police Jury with real sorrow.
There is, we can we'll under
stand, a tenderness Of feeling existing
between our readers and the Police
Jury. Both have grown old and affec-
tionate together, and we are to great
extent responsible for the attachment
now to be SO rudely broken up. We
had not thought to lay this outcome of
human love and sympathy before the
Police Jury as a reason why the small
line of type we have carried so proud
~ should not be molested, and, per-
S haps, it would not have. been proper
coming from a corpse, but it really
seems now, to prevent these troubles
and tears, we should have literally
given the TELEGRAPH away. We
& have but one recourse-and not very
simple one, either-and that is to say,
that all of our subscribers, who are
such because the TELEGRAPH was the
official journal of the parish, are now
that ii is no longer official journal, al
liberty to discontinue their subscrip
lions. We will do with them as the
Police Jury has done with us-ge
along without them.
It is something sad to part with sub
II scribers and with our friends of tn,
Police Jury. Our relations with th
members have been most pleasant, an,
we believe we can say, faithfully, tina
we have never spelled the name of an.
member wrong, whatever the manu-
script may have done. Nor have we
consulting memory, made the membe
from the first ward introduce the ordi
nance of the member from the ninth
We have Invariably tried to get tn
right overseer ON the right roa6
whether we knew where the road was
or not; and have cleaned up our ca
cases with Mrs and 'Squires very fir,
quently. AT the expiration of OF
term of Office it is becoming that W
should bear testimony to the fidelit
with which our duties have been di
misunderstanding becoming in u
since we find no resolutions of thanl
in our behalf. We never knew uni
now how to be disconsolate or what
was to be a departing guest.
TRUTH TESTED.
Some fifteen years ago, we were Il
merely by the desire to extend our pr
fessional knowledge, into an eXamin