Charles Avenue being the most notable
event in that line during the year.
I hear that J. B. Gaudet, a former active
Republican, is lying at the point of death
at his residence in this city, with no pros
pect of recovery. The colored people are
pleased with the new Exposition manage
ment, and have been well treated so far.
More anon. GENERAL OBSERVER.
An Euterprisiug, Iteliable ouse.
J. H. Mathieu can always be relied upon, not
only to carry in stock the best of everything,
but to secure the Agency for such articles as
have well known merit, and are popular with
the people, thereby sustaining the reputation of
being always enterprising and ever reliable.
Having secured the Agency for the celebrated
Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption.
will sell it on a positive guarantee. It will
surely cure any and every affection of Throat,
Lunge, and chest, and to show our confidence,
we invite you to call and get .a trial bottle
free. 1
Capt. W. C. Buflington and W. L. Rhodes,
his brother-in-law, got into a fight on De
siard Island. in Ouachita parish, during
which Rhodes struck Buffington on the
head with a mallet, inflicting a wound
which caused death.
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An old and intimate friend of mine is Par
ker's Hair Balsam. I have used it five years.
and could not do without it. It has stopped
my hair from falling, restored its natural black
color and wholly cleansed it from dandruff.
Miss Pearl Aneson, St. Louis, Mo.
A New York woman has given birth to
four girls; a St. Louis policeman's wife
ditto; a Waco, Texas, woman to three of
the same, and a Fannin county. Texas,
woman to five boys, whom she has named
Cleveland, Hendricks, Bayard, Manning
and Chenowith.
