The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-02-20
communication From q Late Res
ident OF Alexandria.

ria,Fl have been favored with the
local news of Your town aud COM
munity, for which | feel under
many obligations.
Surprising that few lines from
ne might be tolerated by you and
br acceptable to fair proportion
of Your town readers, | have con-
Guided, with y"ur permission OF
course, to say Il few things through
the DEMOCRAT.
And first, am in land where
plenty of "Eog and hominy" pre-
wallis. i know planters here VINO
have sufiicicn.y Of corn and fod.
der to do them hountifully for two
years, and maly of them have
meat enough to supply their ell
tire farm hands for the year and
almost every bo;!y enough for their
own families.
This, too, is country of chur-
ches, especially Methodist and
Baptist churches, and an OCCASION
al p,esby terrain church.
Ny own pastoral charge EN-
braces four churches, all of which
are convenient to Homer, which is
my headquarters. AS there are
none in my family except my wife
and myself, We board i'll Homer
rather than occupy the parsonage
in Lisbon. We board, too: with
an old friend of many years at IS
each per month md pay 81 per
month for rent of furnished room.
We arc in the midst Of old and
tried friends, amongst whom we
lived and labored for eleven con-
secutive years. Men as true as
steel to the duties they owe to God,
their country, their church and
heir pastor.
Money, however, is scarce and
! the people complain of hard times
while in reality there is no portiol
! of the State in which the people
) are in better condition than this
Lawlcssness, however, has pre-
vailed for several years and t.
i some extent still prevails amongs
h Il certain element in society. bu
/. notwithstanding this the vast ma
jority of the people here are hon
est, peaceful and law.abidini
.'itizcns.
The weather has been very il
:; element nearly all of the presell
= year and very little prospect c
L. early Improvement.
T. wisl, to say to my friends, Wit
Is so far as | know, are the cntil
"a citizenship of Alexandria, Thu
III myself and wife will never forg'
IL the If many kindnesses to US al
r. that we constantly pray the hles
Is Jugs of God upon them. We hop
c too, that they will deal as kind
). toward my successor and family
~ they did toward me.
lie, l will say, also, that we ha'
~ prohibition in this parish and tn
Il. have not seen any person und
:. he influence of alcoholic liquo
,iuce the 1St of January. Many
p man HOW controlled by All almO
on uncomfortable appetite for into,
r cants, might overcome that apr
\, lite if he resided here. If y,
10 know of any such cases, suppo
oil you have them try it. Two you
lid men have recently gone from he
m. to lonr city, learn. with VII
AT 10 a continuance in the salo
Ii business there. The good peo]
'"' here having vetoed their iniq
;oas business, they concluded
seek other quarters.
re- Yours, etc,
Ibc THns. j. UPTON
ion We publish with pleasure
of foregoing communication from
has Rev. Thos. J. Upton, late Pas
'he of the Methodist Episcopal Chur
of Alexandria, and assure /
that not only the attacl=s of
or DEMOCRAT, but his many frie'
,ve in tho city will he glad to Lei
. that himself AM, his estimahle v
,r, are so comfortably situated and
,h,. we'll pleased with their new pas
"a raj duties.
to
80. Sclubcrts Coming.
elf,