The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-02-04

January so, 1898.

our episto!ary store. but this time we
have vanquished him. and once more
we are with you.
Since orr last we have had many
and various happenings in this wide
awake Metropolis from weddings and
funerals to the s.Tar and Tar-Tarsv
performances at the Opera House few
days ago. The electric street-car
boom has again subsidized, as is its
periodic custom aud the new Hotel is
for the time being ION top A grand
Jubilee meeting" of the stockholders
was held last night, and The public
was invited to come and have its eyes
opened. to the glorious possibilities
heretofore held in allegiance, but soon to
dazzle the travelling and resideGt pub
! lie. And in all candor, we must pro :
claim that the building and appurten-
ances are superb. The main cause for
apprehension seems to lie in the fact
that the garment is too large for the
wearer." (This proves that Mr..
Gam blin of the Warner & Searles Co.,
was not the cutlery There is however
saving clause The city can grow,
and the tit may be perfect. In fact
we learn from the Post OF yesterday,
that the arrangements are being made
to .sbrick" the main streets OF the Hill
City beyond the peradventure of a
doubt: And with electric cars, fine
telephone facilities, electric lights
.'that never ficker,n Grand Palace
Hotel Gin addition to the admirably
appointed Piazza House,, and railroad
and river accommodations unsur-
passed in the whole Southland, who
can gain-say the City of Vicksburg a
PROMINENT place in the galaxy of
metropolitan center that hold the
Keys OF commerce and traffic for the
most fertile alluvial plain on the sur
face Of the '.habitab,s globep" With
! just a few more leaves turned OF the
pages Of her progress, the City of
Vicksburg may attract enough capital
and energy from her sister cities of the
higher latitudes to absolutely trans
form her recent quiescent and slow
piodding municipality into real city,
with all the veins and arteries and life
blood needful to heaithfail, rapid and
permanent growth. The only ques-
ton is, viii those .sfcw more leaves
be tnrnedp
When the leaves begin to turn, is the
s.burden OF the rAyme.'
When the leaves begin to turn win be th'
suspicious time:
When the hist,H1 of our city
Sung in euphonic dity,
Viii recount the wondereus story Of her
magic newborn glory.
Disproving all the sages
OF those musty. darksumc ages.
When The maxim, EEK Eil--nii''
(Boding neither good nor i'll
To the genius Of creation,
In the HE of any nation)
Was the waich-word and the cry,
From The philosopic sky. >
Verify the finger of progress points
THAT way and tex nihilo nihiIv may
get have to be stricken from the docket
of wisdom, and relegated to the eternal
shade. We venture the prediction
that 1894 will never catch Vicksburg
mapping, unless her Rip Van Wrinkles
go to sleep again, and that's not in
the story.
One OF the most appreciative Vicks-
burg readers of the Banner Democrat is
our genial and highly cultured young
friend, Mr. f. Fl. Broughton, Supt. Of
the Standard Oh Co.'S. interests in
this place. He ranks it next to Shake
spcare and the Bible Lake Provi-
dence owes him a chrome, and we
opine that he is wiling to&ompromise
his claim aud take it out in .sorders
for oil"
Tom Birdsong says that he would
"just likev to meet the Devil, or what
ever other functionary of the BID.
who called him s.Sam." He muttered
..about singing him a-psalm", or
something we didn't quite catch it.
But then the functionary may not be
alarmed, for everything from Bird
songs Emporium goes off in-- smoke.
We must hasten TO "abbreyiate'' Gas
the monkey said to the MANI; but let
us not forget 70 mention that the II. H.
Miller Grocery Co., has moved into
the spacious rooms just opposite the
old stand; and that its most polite and
efficient management IS ready at all
times to attend to up-river orders with
promptness and dispatch.
With kind regards to all friends,
X.
The United States IS busy provid-