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wadhaie 3altlasera College of Dental over CasEl"U''s [5rs lti Ytckbburg, e.. O. a WYLT, .&tt orey at Iesaw. Lake Providence, La. Pratis Stat and Federal Courts. CI'TON F. DA&VIS, .ALttorniey at I"aw, Lake Providence, La. At Judge Montgomery's law office. Local and Parish News. A Merry Christmas to you. The river is falling at this point. Cotton seed has gone to $9.00. Trade has been good this week. Ye Christmas turkey is ip demand. Stores on Levee street are at a prem ium. Candies in wagon load lots, at Gu. nard's. Business was never better in Provi dence. Less cotton next year-and higher prices. Mr. W. B. Keene was a vistor to town on Tuesday. HIow the advertising merchants are doing the business. Be sure to drop in at McRae's for your Christmas things. Services at the Methodist and Epis copal Churches to-morrow. The dust this week has been as plen tiful as in the middle of summer. The bicycle club of Providence was out for a spiun on Tuesday evening. The choir of the Episcopal Church is practicing for Christmas services. Will Dunn was in town on Sunday, returning in the evening to his ranch. Mr. John Q. Ikerd had the misfor tune to brake his arm on Friday last. The store keepers and clerks have had all they could say grace over this week. Christmas goods at such rare bar gains at MclRae's is attracting the crowd. Against the town ordinances to shoot your fire works within the cor porate limits. The Catholic choir is practicing'for Christmas and some beautiful music will be heard. The night marshal caught him a coon on Saturday night, and got a dollar for the job. About half a dozen wagons with turkeys and chickens from the Hills were in town this week. Charley Whittington's livery stable has turned out to be a blacksmith shop, just as we expected. J. W Pittman has purchased several bales of cotton this week. Ilis cottoan yard is opposite our office. The Building Association is getting more and more popular, because it is the friend of the poor titan. More furniture and stoves have been sold to the colored people this season than ever was known before. To-day we will call on every person who owes us for subscription and job work. Please do not put us off. Mr. C. A. Voelker came in from the Bend on Tuesday evening to attend a meeting of the Knights of Pythias. Excuse the appearance of our paper for the niext few weeks. We are goiug to take a little Christmas in ours. The two sons of our popular parish oner Col. WV. II. Benjamin, are home from Sewalee to spend the holidays Mr. Bud Ste:n went down as far as. Vlcksburg on the Leathers Tuesday anight. lie returned yesterday moru ilug. II. T. Mitchell of Greenville, Miss., succeeds the late J. A. Hlarris as prin cipal of the colored public school of "'rovideuce. Brackhouse, the butcher, is going to give the crack shots some sport on Tuesday next. Read his notice iu another column. Mr. O'Neil is a flutne sign painter, and is readty to do all kinds of sign painting. Give him your work, his prices are reasonable. Father Mahe left this moralig for Millikeu's Bend. Ile will be back on Tuesday mornlag in time for the Christmas celebration. Go to White's and select a service able Christmas present. You can get them In glass. Go and look at the beautiful sets iu crockery. Ou Christmas day the services at the Catholic Church will be at 7 and 10:.80 in the morning. The church will be prettily decorated. No man should reftase to support the nomnluoe of his party, because of the defeat of his preferpnce. lie is a poor democrat who will do it. Bud Stein wishes us to say that as soot as he gets his debts straightened out, he may go to Florida in the sweet by-and-by, but not at presentt. It will only be a few weeks when some of the cotton packets will go to bank. We will bet the Leathers will - be the boat to stay with the people. On account of the wind on Thurs day the telegraph line is down, and we have to go to press without any news from the Shreveport Coavention. Is l N asut-the laws of tIa town to sot : Agrewors,' Marshai 1aloaot is golag to trietiry, estres tbis ordt-. asea Ms aewt eandS dd't .get .rn Its : . . . . . - chrowpo to tlýay et iand bridge com fi~i l~b itt the foot-bridge next to Mrs. McKee's reeldence. Hurry up and get it gentlemen, we have a flne collection of them. Col. Quays, of the Bend, did'nt for get the B.-D. On Tuesday he brought us in a flue gobbler for our Christmas dinner, for which we return thanks, and we hope that be will live to pre sent many more. A Merry Christ. mas and a Happy New Year to you. The children's services at the Episco pal Church at 7:00 o'clock p. m. on Christmas eve will be very pretty. In the service about forty-five views fromn the Masters will be shown There will also be services on Christ mas morning at 10:30. The trade from West Carroll this week has been the largest for years. We saw four teams driven by colored men, and the wagons were filled-bed steadl stoves, flour and dry goods in large quantities, which shows that that part of the country is prosperous. Part;of Aschaffenburg & Nicholson's levee outfit passed through town on Wednesday for the upper part of Bunch's Bend. By Monday they ex pect to have their lull force on the ground, and will try to rush the con tract through as quick as possible. Captain V. M. Purdy is always to the front when it comes to public en terprise. lie told us that if a bank was started in Providence he would give the four lots that be owns at the corner of Lake & Scarborough streets andu take stock for them. It would be the prettiest sight in town for a bank. Mr. Lindmore Brown raised a dis turbanccton the streets Tuesday even ing and resisted arrest, for which Mayor Ilamrley fined him $25 and costs or thirty days Icjail. Marshal Blount took a great deal from Mr. Brown, and should have placed him in jail before he did. Mr. Brown deserved what he got. Why suffer with Coughs, Colds and La Grippe when LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE will cure you in one day. Does not produce the ringing in the head like Sulphate of Quinine. Put up in tablets convenient for taking. Guaranteed to cure, or money re funded. Price 25 cents. For sale at Guenard's Drug Store. Mr. McRae is offering the prettiest line of Christmas goods to the trade than was ever brought to town. His prices are down to the bottom rail, and to-day and up to Christmas eve he is going to almost give things away. Go to-day and make your purchases, and avoid the rush ; besides the pick of everything will be there. The choir of thie Cathohic Church always make it a point to· have fine music for Christmas, and this year will be no exception to the rule. They have quietly rehearsed their Christ mas music, and will be ready to rend er next Wenduesday the finuest music in the town. We sincerely hope to hear the fine voice of our friend, Mr. Xav Ransdell, on the occasion. White and McRae are doing most of the business simply because they advertise; merchants who do business like their grandfathers did fifty years ago, would not believe it when we told them to advertise, but they grad- I ually came to think we were right when they see customers passing their stores to go to the up-to-the-times merchauts, W. N. White and W. C. McRae. Mr. Blanche, fromnt St. Joseph, La., came up on Tuesday to look at the plant of the Providence Lumber Co., and left for his home that evening. lie said to us that he lad seen many mills and was in the business himself, but that the Providence mill was the most perfect and the best one that he had seen iu the State. We understand hlie did some business with the Provi dence I umber Company. Mr. Win. Green, int charge of the1 Schudder levee outfit, passed through town on Sunday mornIung last on his way to Donna Vista, where he has commenced enlarging the leyee. Mr. Gano Cunni||gham has charge of the teams, and is considered one of the best all round levee men on the river. WVc were glad to see Ganto, and learn that he has worked himself up to a place of such responsibility. A. E. Kilpatrick, of Fillmore, Cal., had the misfortune to have his leg caught between a cart and a stone almd badly bruised. Ordinarily he would have been laid up for two or three weeks, but says: "After using one bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm I began to feel better, and in three days wasu entirely well. The peculiar sooth ing qualities which Chamberlain's Pain- Balm possesses I have never noticed in any other liniment. I take pleaseve In recommendaing it." Thle lmslenit is also of great value for -rhmat iasth ad lame 3eek. Fer ale ri J. 8. Gpea-., )acaro ia. Ele. Potatoes. Cald law. Celery. Olives. Potato sled. Vfla Pudditr. Cakes. Frmits. Coffee. ALL TO BE HAD AT McRAE'S In company with the hustling in. surance agent, Mr. Ilugh Montgomery, we went over to Floyd on Saturday last. We went over to collect a few subscriptions and Hugh to talk insur. ance, which he did to the Queen's taste. We met several friends while in Floyd, among them Mr. Goza McWilliams Mr. W. II. Buchanan and Mr. W. A. lHedrick, who has been clerk of the court since West Carroll has been a parish. Since our last visit over to Floyd two or three new stores have been erected. Godfrey Bros., hae a large two story building, just finished, the first story being filled with dry goods, notions groceries &c., while in the upper story they have a nice line of furniture. W. J. J. Ross has a very pretty store and carries a large stock of general merchandise. Mr. Pluck son also has a fine store, which is packed with goods. Redmond & Buchanan, the oldest mercantile house in West Carroll, seemed to be doing a large trade; the business is conducted by two nephews of Mr. Buchanan, who are popular young men. From what we could learn, Floyd is improving, and In the past two years it has settled down to a quiet little town. The popularity of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and the high esteem, in which it is held leads us to believe it to be an article of great worth and merit. We have the pleasure of giv ing the experience of three prominent citizens of Redondo Beach, Cal., in the use of the remedy. Mr. A. T. Trudell says: "I have always received prompt relief when I used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy." Mr. James Orchard says: "I am satisfied that Chamber lain's Cough remedy cured n.y cold." Mr. J. hatcher says: "For three years I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in my family and its results have always been satisfactory." For sale by J. S. Guenard. The peddlers, who make trips to West Carroll, but who make Provi dence their headquarters and board at Hotel de O'Sullivan, got into a little scrimage on Sunday last. One called the other a "d-n tief," and the other let fly his John L., taking him under the chin, which floored him. They tried to keep the little circus among themselves, thinking they coulo beat the town out of that which she had justly earned, but they were fooled. It leaked out, and the mayor got five and costs out of each one of them. The steamer City of Savannah, owned by the Messrs. Cummins, has built up a fine trade between Memphis and Vicksburg, and we learn that a large Ntumber of our merchants who bought goods in Vicksburg and who ipreferred Vicksburg, now send their orders to Memphis, because the Vicks burg imerchauts would not ship their freight as instructed, thereby loosing the trade. The Cummins are deserv. ing gentlemen. and it ill only be a few years when they will control the entire trade between Vicksburg and Grceoville. We believe it is foolishns for the planter to take $9 per ton for his cot ton seed, the price now being paid. Three mnouths ago agents told the cot ton growers that $500 would be the price and that they would not ad vance. They did advance-from $5 00 to $6.00, and then to $7.00, and now to $9.00; aud if the planters will only hold ou to their cotton seed,we believe they will advance another $2.00 in the niext thirty days. There is a scarcity of seed, and the mills know it, and they are bound to have them to crush at any price. Dr. A. J. Stewart left on Tuesday night after remaining in Providence for the past two mouths. The Doctor informed us that be intended locating iu Longview, Texas, and would go there on the first of the year. lie told us that he would make us one or two visits a year, and that We could look for him sometime during the summer. lie made many friends in our town by his gentlemanly bearing, and all wish him success. It is with pleasure that we ar.nounce to the public that Rev. Mr. Knicker bocker has been returned to this charge and will be with us for another year. Our Methodist friends should congratulate themselves upon having this able divine in charge of their church for another twelve months. If the seams of the BUCKSKINC BREECHES were the kind that. rip, while the buttons were poorly fasten ed, and always corrieg off, we wouldn't say they were good pants. As it is, etch d~etsil 1fpsrfit The seams, baut totn poeketa asd St are all the best. Tbyg avd kbF eins we know bow ', -. -. v $-' , i . Y .gy - . CHRISTMA PRESENTS, -Useful anu Substantial I DISPLAY - SShow Windows .......A T TH E ...... BIG STORE. V W. N. WHITE, Agt. 8 &~i h~.Z~ I i~l~~tr Mr. E. E. luoby, of Morgan City, the gentleman who had written that he would be here on Tuesday last to see about starting a batik in Provi deuce, telegraphed last Monday that owing to the rush of business it was impossible to leave his bank, as this was Christmas week it would be an extremely busy one. Mr. Roub is the cashier of the Bank of Morgan city and most of the busintess is transacted through him. lie telegraphed that he wrote at the same time, but we have not as yet received his letter, and pre sume that it was in Tuesday 's mail, that up to the present writing hald not been received, and was side-tracked somewhere on the road. We l,,pe that in the near future Mr. Roft will find time to pay his intended visit to our town. The East Carroll delegation left for Shreveport on Sunday evening last to be on hand early, so they could manipulate the workings of the con vention. Mrs. Lucien Wotod, of St. Paul, Minn., arrived from her Northern home last week to spend the holidavs with the famuily of Judge Field Mont gomery. Marshal Blouunt bhows no preference when it comes to making an arrest. This is as it should be; treat all alike who violate the town ordinances and the B.-D. is with you. Mr. Jim White is behind the conu ter at Mr. T. J. Powell's store. MIr. White is one of the best clerks in the parish, and in years gone by he used to control a large trade. We learnthat Mr. II.K. BIrwick will take charge of the Constant & Benja miin store in the second .ward. Mr. Barwick is conviidercd one of the finest business men in our parish. It was reported to us on Monday that the gin on the RHobertdate planta tion in Bunch's Bend, had burned on Friday of last week. We have not learned the cause of the fire. Christmas services will be held at the Catholic and Episcopal Churches. As every place of butiness in town will be closed on that day, every per son should attend divine worship. Only one member of the East Car roll delegation to Shreveport was admitted on the floor of the conven tion for the want of room-the others had to go up in the peanut gallery. As the year draws to a close, we take this method in returning thanks to our friends for the patronage ex tended to us, and wishing all a Merry Christmas and good health for 1896. , Mr. F. X. Ransdell arrived Tuesday morning from Chattanooga, and will spend the holidays with his brother, Hon. J.;E. ;Randell. This is Xav's first visit to his old home in sometime, and his many friends were glad to see hin. That bridge in front of Mr. R. J. Walker's residence has been in a dan gerous condition for several months, and we have called 4he attention of the Street and Bridge Committee to it seteral times, but they pay no atteen eion to it. It will only take a few mtinstee tort s r it. Our Prospective Bank. The financial statement of the Bank of Donaldson\ ille for the quar ter ending December 7, 1895, ap pears in to-day's issue and shows that there has been no cessation of the onward and upward movene:nt this il.stitution has stead'ly lrrP,! from the date of i olening, Iii three and one-half vea,: it har ac emunnlated a surplus of $12,500 or one-half the amount of its capital stock,.besides paying fair dividends to the stockholders; and the depos its exceed 8100,000 nearly all the year round, at times going far above that sum. The board of directors met last Saturday and declared a semi-aunnual dividend of five per cent., and found the books and affairs of the bank in a condition highly satisfactory to all concerned and creditable to the skillful and faithful management to President McGalliard, Cashier Park and their capable assistants.-Donaldsonville Chief. Why should not a bank succeed as well ;ere as one in Donaldsonville? Donaldsonville is near the city, and the great banks of New Orleans in terfere very much with the business of the local bank; if we had a bank here we woull have nothing of the kind to interfere with it, and it would be bound to succeed. The cadets at the State University have organized a Glee, Maundolin and Guitar Club and will make a tour of the neighboring towns and cities of this State and Mississippi during the holidays. The boys have been prac ticing up for some time anxd will make a most creditable showing when they start out. We understand that the route will be by Natchez, Vicksburg, Monroe, Ruston, Arcadia, Shreveport, Natchitoches, Opelouans, Now Iberia. Lake Charles, and possibly several other places. lThe success with which the Vandcrbilt tand Tulane Clubs met inspired otsr boys with a desire for new worlds to conquer, and hence this move which will undoubtedly meet with the unvarying success which has a:ways attended their efforts.-Baton Rouge Advocate. Money spent with a miser is like wasting fertilizer on a rock instead of putting it on good soil that will enr ich the world. Then watch your local papers and trade with the liberal ad vertiser. It will pay you every time. -Lake Charles Echo. Turkey Shooting. On Tuesday next, the 24th. there will be, Turkey Shooting in the willows. near the lake, at 25 cents a shot. There will be 13i fine turkeys to shoot for. Everybody come. IBracketon House. Fcor Sale. Five hundred bales choice Bermuda grass bay, at $10 per ton, Red Jersey Berkshire P'igs and Southdown Sheep of the purest strains. G4O. 8. OWEN, Agt. Buck Meadow Plantation. Dec. 21, '9o-tf. Notice. Estrayed or stolen from the rack at Lake Providence, Lta.. on Tuesday the Sth of November, 1895S. one Blae Mare Mute, about eight years old, or. o1M1 )Isuds high; one ear roipped Any. mneirmatleo leading to-te reca.veay4i my eos rtsita lptnB sa to me at athkertý shore, wwtM . lberal.y rewa red. Des. i· -Y I - . 1 .~ Ir " - `F_ : "t' ý~"il 3 Vi uk ! COD o g.WJ eJ ti IL)n· . 0P~ 3 I.C · DC d 0, I MATHESON'S tLANING. I wish to notify the pnblic generally that I have tu e. ed' ad j,.ining Purdy & Schneider, where I will-do a generad lnSet'll[t iI# ' ng business. I will have a competent man IinehargeWibe wl i~t` I* iiver goods at all hours. My rates are In keeping with tlIuas and Ire tu l lows: All kinds of machinery.5 per cent. Corm,.Oatbran&e.. pet Sl ak..;,*,.* on freight bill.................... All glles, persp ..... :. ... Wagons. 'Carriages. &e.......... .23 DryR boued s sashosl .... Horses. Mules and Oxen, 5 per cent Barrels .......... .. .. r on freight bill............... HaSatf'etlsl tdaln .l ±.. Lumber and BUick. 5 per cent on Floutsr.dm+satperas> ,br .; freight bill ................... Iroa eOito ttree, -.,.... ....." ... Furniture. 10 per cent on freight bill Cotto;per bale...... ...;... .... Il ogeheads and crates. each......... .15 8sagle paekage of aty t ..i:i,-,* Pianot and organs, each............. .50 Liberal discount on above prices in large lota. Consign freight ears. Methe son's Ldg., Lake Providence. La. PETER ]MATSa ON. COLUI a1s They almost 4y. $100 worth of Eco ar The Columbia Bicycle... eaod for a HE best is ever the cheapest. Catalogue 1 Maybe the first cost of the pe , of this splendid less Columbia wiPt be g few dollar t- IA liner of g i,-c ' the price of the bicycle said to be "jusdt "i 'as ': artistic me rit. 'What if it is? Youi will have few or ta Columbiaaent, a Columbia-built just as it abold 'Y_ two .-cent content in the possession of this uneiarris> stamps. will be worth all f its cost. Be Wise in yor s If you must have a low-priced " the superb lAtPOIW NI, $ boys' and girls' sizes. : : : POPE 4F0. CO. 1 , esnive gea.a resssa asaeta u od Guena-d Drug Store LAKE STREET, LAKE PROVIDENCE, LA. 3. e. OV.r'inQar.a, zrc3hz'1*toa . A General Assortment of Pure Fresh Drugs Always n s Filling Prescriptions a spc'ialty by an experlessen d a daly - licensed PhLarmaciek-- Painters Supplies of all idýnb. Toilet and Fancy Articles. Pore Codleo. Landreth's Garden Seed. N. FOUSSI LAKE PROVIDENCE, - O --WOV=E IA-- " Copper, Tin and Sheet-Iron, Ti STEAM AND PIPE FITTItPsn Britching and s"omkestacks, iLock ad COOKIMN AN MEATINCO ISTOVi. I'Job work of every description prlptly done. S-U5- Mississippi Home Insorance -OF Vickeburg, ._ Losses Paid since 0 S. BUT'TS, l'resldent, -P. £. C. LEE, 5wecltsr Phnuix Assurace Coaspany, ofLoa4 -" Lancashire aIsurance tm[ptl oyf WoesIrer A.uranC' ompap y, ot British Ameraiea Aes~a re buabern Iouratese . 4 GreenatSI 1ansarsas ~hr e-gssfIW ass as g we:' ·' low 0Whve s, a d i Ali w - s , Ciet t JIf1tisrt). It= p..u& ozUo ropert li.~rdcii ibstre i ti r. i4itl int. , lb any optulon,tti best coughiupel.dlotue the markcet.r It this waim..4yt is *tl.o glven as soon as hb. -roYtPy otughb ap peArs it wilt prevent the attack:. I. Is .also an Ideal rmedoey for rboopiug sougih. Tyhre Is no danger gha ~I g it to oliidren, iis it cotaius naotiug iajurous. Fr sale by J. 8._ =l uonard. Vtz r tra A£1D KZXPB P For Helena, G2reenvrlle, ita Provi dence, Vioksburg, and All Way Landings The Swif and klegan& Steamer CITY 0? Se Y AKR AU, In Place ot Bald Eagle. A. L. Cuxisuis, L. P.CuIMtae. Master. Clerk. Leaves every Weulsnday at " p. m. Passing Lake Pnr.vdence on Priday noan got. - dows and pasase Saturday evening oi ul. Passage from Providence to Vikasburg $, W t' trip only 55.