The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-03-14

Wv, va ene very lateSG Styie auQ Qe
signs.
The Editor of 1--WE the People,
while out hunting on Sunday, wa
shot on the nose. We ask our con
o frere to give us an explanation o
0 the matter.
MAYOR McGimsey remittec
$500 to the Silsby Manufacturing
Company, Seneca Falls, one da,
last week, part payment on ouI
Steam Engine.
( NONE Of our merchants have re-
. celved their Spring stocks as yet; =
NJ least we are led to believe thus
tor the reason that they haven't ad
vertised the same.
Capt. James Eads has appoin.
ed MIR. d. S. Flower on the corps o
engineers who are to locate his pro
jected Ship Railway across the 18th
mus of Tehauntepec.
MAYOR McGimsey and Council
man Irving have been appointed a
committee Of two to take charge OF
the Town Square and have the same
Kept in neat and clean condition.
-ANcHoy1Es Mustard Ssrdines,
Russian Caviesre and many other
varieties of canned goods, at Mires
RosenthaFs, sign of the Big Ham.
io ne had no where else in Town.
The services at St. Francis Xav
ler's Catholi; Church will begin at
$3.50 o'clock A. NJ. on next palm J
Sunday. Holy Mass will also b,
celebrated at 7 o'clock in the o. or
ming.
In the case Of the State vs. Hen
ry Brown, the decision Of the lowe,
Court was sustained, and the prison
er will have to serve ten years in tn,
nenitentiary, unless reprieved by the
Governor.
CAPT. R. T. Hynson, and his
bride of but few short weeks, ar
rived here "n Sunday evenings train
from New Orleans. They are spend-
ing few days here in the Parish
with relatives.
THE proceedings Of the Police
Jury, as also those Of the City Coun-
Gil, take up great part of our space
this issue. We know both will be
read with interest by all the resi-
dents Of our Town and Parish.
The communication sent to US
from the Fourth Ward, signed "Pe
gasus," is too personal for publica-
ton. The party writing it will
please call for the same, else we will
consigu it to the waste basket.
The City Council have changed
their day of meeting from the frst
Tuesday to the first Monday of each
month. This was done in order to
get their proceedings in the paper
issued on the following Wednesday,.
MAJOR Watts has requested US
to call the attention of our readers
20 the resolution of Mr.. Long intro
duced at the last session of the Po
lice Jury. 1t is in reference to Jury
fees, and was passed at their last
days session.
We are confident in asserting
that the holders of Lottery tickets
here didn't make any big thing from
yesterdays drawing, conseq quently
wc'll have no sudden departures
from THE place tomorrow by either
boat or train.
The Police Jury have reduced
the pay of the District Attorney; he
is to receive 5 per cent. upon all
sn Is prosecuted ny him for the Par
ish. This is in accordance With Sec
lion five, article ninety-six of the
of 1880.
Mr.. j. B. Ashley is tearing down
the old one story brick building in
the rear of bis store, He intends to
replace the same with costly edifice
Of the most modern design of arch
itecture. Twill prove an ornament
to this part Of Town.
Our Town moguls have learned
\ lesson--to collect taxes the same
proceedings INDUCED in by the
State have to be followed out-that
Is to seize and offer for sale. The
,nly way to collect taxes; so sayeth
,he Supreme Court.
Another one of Rapides' fair
'st and loveliest daughters is shortly
% be saatched from her friends and
'elatives here, and be carried away
" gallant knight of the Crescent
City. The young lady to whom We
efer is to be married on the Ath
,rox.
Mn. M. W. Calvit, our Town
ax and license collector, has in to
lays issue, a very important notice
o those who are bound by law to
Jay licenses. In case parties do no.
axe out the same by April 1st, he
Fill proceed against them ss the law
lirects. !,
we are panied to have to chron &
Gle another homicide in Rapides
This time the unfortunate deed was t
ON mitted on bayou Rigolette, on
he North side of Bed River. Up
o the time of going to press yester
lay afternoon, We had not learned
he names of the parties concerned, T
or the facts relative thereto.
-THE young ladies and gentle
nen of Pineville, (at least those who J
we're the recipients of Capt. Garner's )
induess on last Sunday evening, !,
e having kindly given them the free n
Sc of his ferry boat for short ex 7
ursion up the river to Silliman's
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