Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1885-08-22
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
RUsToS, La, Aug. 10th, 1885.

Walked out down town Saturday.
On Saturday quite q number OF
wagons were on the streets with mel
ons and peaohes for sale, one colored
man offered bushel Of nice peach
es for fifty cents.
We received the BEACON this even
ing which we were glad to get and
hear the home news.
For few days past bilious fever
has been prevalent in and around
Ruston. DR.. Mccormack says they
are generally taken with chill and
after that continuous fevers. 1t Is
fact that the people who come IN
from the surrounding country look
as pale and swathy as they do i'll tho
swamp.
Mr.. Finley has just returned from
Texas where he has beer to attend
the reunion of the Confederate veter-
ans at Greenville. He sent some OF
the Slattery or Mosby Corn out there
and SAYS some Of it was planted on
the head waters of the Sabine river
and will make 100 bushels per acre.
Mr.. Hoffman, of Monroe, who has
been merchandising at Arcadia for
some time will move into the new
brick store now being completed here
and he and Mr.. Bruner will form a
copartnership in the new store. The
seven brick buildings now in course
of construction have advanced .suf-
fciently to place the joist upon the
walls. We understand that they
will be pushed to completion in few
days. One thing different from the
, swamp country here. Trade comes
from seventy-five to one hundred
miles while over in the swamp the
trade is confined to the immediate
neiphborhood. This is one reason
. the merchants here can build brick
8 stores and fine residences and still
: have money to operate on. The
: customers of the merchants here are
! principally white men and as it is il
q Eastern Texas, they have credit Gus
e toners who live over fifty miles from
Q them but they are men of honor who
will haul their cotton and deliver il
: to the merchant who furnish then
i with supplies. Farmers in the
. swamps will slip their cotton off else
where when they live within fiv'
= miles of the merchants door. Will
1 the same disposition to ''got ava.
Q with the merchant" over here tina
n is so general in the swamp countr.
J. would have the hill merchant badl,
. behind, but as it is we hear of les
= failures in the hill country than il
the swamp country. The merchan
who pays an extraviSant price for tn
use of money to buy goods to sell t
n a sclass of people who use ever
IL strategy to keep from paying
n bound to succumb to inevitable in tn
end. This has been the case in mos
\ of the failures in the swamp countr!
70 Their customers buy extravaganza
d and when pay time comes resort t
every means possible to evade tn
a merchant. Some concert of actio
= on the part of merchants would d
IN no injury to the honest farmer an
s. would protect them from being swil
re died by the dishonest ones.
Is G1BsLAND, LA, Aug.17.-We steppe
on Mr.. Chapman's train last Sunda
70 ct Ruston for the purpose OF visitin
st relatives and friends at this plac
to We have never been:here only pas
as ing on the train and of course cOul
le not have the opportunity of seem
~ the town. If they would fill up a
~ the gaps and vacant lots from IL
II. centre to the outside of where IL
10. buildings are erected Gibsland wou
'ee' be as large as Shreveport. And he
nc in this connection, it seems to I
of that the property owners make