The Herald from Shreveport, Louisiana • 2

A WILL BE WAILMIL DOWN THE RIGHT OF WAT tations on Red River twenty miles below Slneveport aie reported sold at the price of if 21000 The ncre- (ige is about 1700 ucies and the price was cheap at 14 per acre THE HERALD Every Afternoon Fx -t pt rundaj PUBLISHED iv The Herald Publishing Company Tills MORX-1NG nKr TO 25 This morning the temperature got doiii to 25 and old chills chased one another up and down the spinal column of pter familas as stiuggled into his garments The ice was pietty thick on the buckets anti tubs of icr left out in the yards 1 i noon the wea'l'cr had model'- THE UEKALD ated coindei a bn and the slrorm genially Oveicotts weie di--cardid and even body lech beUer Three carloads of Garrison brick The following upp-is of the alKj bats were being unloaded neui weaih-r is fu Mislu-il by the local Colton street thD morning They i -a- 'V i I 'll AIOST NOTICEABLE IMPROVEMENT ALONG THAT ROUTE The widening of railway light of way along the the removal of old buildings and disreputable looking annexes in the way of fences aDd other airT structures and the surfacing of the three line main tracks makes this stretch a pleasant walkway into the city and affords a more favorable impression to incoming passengers The grading of the grounds and the Citv Park give the neighborhood a more citiiied and busts nesslke look and some of tiie Fair-tielders are beginning to patronize the way for a pleasant walk into the city It has not been so very long ago that this highway was avoided as a pestilence bv the pedestrian with sensitive olfactories He was too apt to run across the recent Shanghai the translated cat and other evidences It was also a favorite haunt for beggars and tiarups and that other cancer of railroad streets the daunting Jezebel wlr'ch made the-walk objectionable to men and dangerous for women and children The calcium light of progress has banished all these things and with the magnificent iinpioveuients of the soon to go up there the thoioughfare will become a popular and sli rier walk into the cityT for the residents of the Fourth and Sixth wards BAE BALL GeDtlemen of the city are sideling the organization of a club for the coming sea-on A representative will be sent to Birmingham to attend the meeting of the Southern League association to be held theie cember 5th Should Shreveport secure a good tariff aud get into that ass ciatiou we will have good sport on the home diamond this coming season as the gentlemen wiil have none but a first-class team THE RIVER Shreveport Dec 2 1896 River at Fulton 107 fell 10 River at Shreveport 09 below zero a rise of 23 I SAYS HANDICAPPED Street Commissioner Wise says that he is doing very little work in the wuy of city improvement just now being handicapped with only two bauds and a pair of mules Johnnie will bring out this evening and give him a chance to warm his nose in tht first block of Titian tresses that tdfvs Guls with that ca-te of coiffure will have a chance to verify a pel superstition and edge in a liltm phUanthropical work at the same tune If you like The IDrald give the cartier your address Tne sub-sciiptiou is only 10c ter week U- 1111)15 11 CENEIIALCOSTBACTOB All kinds of Grading Filling and similar work at lowest contract1" Ad- dress mail or use Teltphoue 11-5 FUR RENT A large front bed-room with without board: handy to city 914 Me Niel street inquire at premises or I I I 1 I I 1 Chief Nelson sent an officer over to Monioe this morning to bring in Miller chargid with the iob-bery of bai 1ki-shop on the 2Gth ult With (lie rise in the liver navi-gation opens The isa Bland and the Joe Walker hate gone up the eieek looking for cotton and other freights and The Herald wislies are good sluif but seem to lack the twist'1 HEERFUL A UO uT IT Compl oiler Murlf was out today euheeting frfun the property owneis their two thiids payment on street and eulveit improvement and he said they were responding wituout even a ibaniiendo squea I $2 50 per sipiaie yard the iv i iiis been dime cheaper than the eOiitractois would lake the contracts for anil me people ought to itii urate I ctndeis and bals were given to the mat or he leeching them on Deha of the eit amt the culvert wonc lm inoii been done bv labour- woikiug out ne tuaiir -aivi let a kitten out 4 of ine lufteu basket He said: will ttll you the 1 I nth (neous' prostration on the I part of the lepoi ter if I had gone Id work and paied Texas street i ill-1 llie iioproveiueiit would have stopped tiifie for the next cenuiiry have money (hpnotfc effect pass -s and he lleraidit- starts his homo righ tne neaesi date) I hae money in sight to i jy for lj tins work and the 1 otnei people want similar work done on their 1 It was ren-ii teil that the mayor I iwaj iu view to give the news (taper mfen about 50 days ap ece at the liisl oppotuuity but he dis imv 'ucti intent so Tue ippi concerned SI ILL HARD A I II claimed imv 'ucti intent so far as Tue he is not ready to be down That yonna man is si ill hard at i or Ins 4S iiouis fnoo but will be ca' eil iv tiie aiti porter to-malt wiin lie will probably explain how can got much bleep ouu 1C bhoiV window Mrv Rcu'i has to make ail ail 'jnd mdl li-cvieen this seven up sleeper and one of his -a iug -a Ni-v York Ledger or a -opy of tne Moniiu- Bulletin and we wid allow your man f(J winks in the A BRILLIANT SCHEME A Slirc port man Inm a brilliant seh-'iie He sys he wili shoitly begin the oi'i'i mz i ijon of a local sp'ck cumiMjy for the purchase of the Flouda Ev eralab-- Ju-t what the i-oin env win do tii-'ii is not stall'd but it is suspected they will drain it lor the Fiiida water THEY FIG 11 I' TO-NIGII Tne ten murid fight between FiiZ-immons and Tim Sharkey taiics place ban Fiuticisco tonight mauageis claim that Sharkey will be knocked out in lour munds SubscriOe for The Herald A SUTHICKLAX 1 tn ace 8 CBAINC'tu ivhtor The Herald wilt be du red by i- urieis for 10 cents a week Subscription by mail a in'- Otf-ce on Comoieicjil ad ear Spuee street Entered at the Tot ihc 3 s-aond-Has-matter Shreveport Dkckjh 1 it 2 DUG PERSONA Bogg- of li inde-iling is in the (Jay and u-poils hi- precinct v(erc4iiet The hear of ihe serious illness of Miss Catherine HamiltonTV' We alao regret to hear that Dr is qn'ie ill from what appears to be congestion of the brain The Herald was plcfcsed to meet Mr Dotson of Gairism Texas yesterday Air Dotson says they aretifr developing the Gani- son coal District- Attorney Seals is in the city to sue oim mandamus compelliog the Welkins ami Guif and the Natchez Red River an- Texas reftads to file lin-n- annual roports in obe-t'ieQtie to tiie older issued the-iuteisutt commerce commission DIED I In this "6 :30 a December 20896 the te-idence of her son Mrs Wilhelmia Vordenbaumen Kowats aged 58 ears 2 months and 15 days Funeral will ke place at Lake Charles La at- 4 Thursday Dec-m er DOG a membi-r Mr of the firm of Yoidenbaumea Eastman of this city Hie Ilmald extends its sympathies with his sad loss PATRONIZE UNION PARERS The Shrevepnrt oog raphit al Union requests all who ire triendlv to union labor to pttronize those newspapers beat ig tfie uciou label By so doing yon ilhencour ago good workmen and benelit the cause of honest labor The union label in a newspaper indicates that all the worx on said paper is done by union labor Repit Gully the Shreveport Typographical Union COMES BALK Mr Ed Irvine has turned to his old home after a lilt intermission of 17 years spent mo-tly in Caldwell county Tex Ed has djpne well in Ameii-i and has seven child ivr ml a full grown desii'e to con home and atay to show for it His old friend- a welcome him back caution him about Winkle tendencies of between speils BRY'AN GETS ONE Complete returns fi om Calilomia show that one of the Br an electors pulled through Bryan also seemed one of the Kentucky1 ei tors FOUR TIME'S PRESIDENT Gen Diaz yesterday took the oath of office as president ot Mexico for the fourth consecutive term ami bis fifth term as president official Since ye-leniiy oming ii-- lurbaui-e co-uuei cut-rev has developed over llie kol (elil ihe Flouda peiin-ula being under the i lllumce of the lowtst haiometei on the mainland As a lesuit of (his area rain i- lai at New Orleans and Jcks ill and unsiltlid1 i weather in the East (lull States i It is wy piobtdde that the com- ng 21 limns ill see a luuhei'i lev eopiUeilt this dislut bailee ail 1 high ill us tvwi be 1 lie feature in the Ceutrai a id East 1 Males The wettliei i o'itinues cold all i ioi a a to a tei a I a i mi hi a-' in an alia xli-mi-ing Iron) Tix- ioiitieasl-'Vil'd to he legion Rain ha (lull uns i i neral a oig he an i at us aim a dii tg -ill i In ii a in ext -s in- lut or Mi i ei ant vicinilN is lair i tatneraiil uaiitur lo-niht alii niisd iv LOCAL lifLMS Iu-inein her tin tie wiii i wiir CONDENSED A shat It liu-i fin TMuirn at tlie leMuen-t All Juim A btwali biaj) eii-nuig Mis li All Kelar has lenteil the AIeV iiiau on Fan-mu street and vv-11 on move ri 111 Channel in the open paitu the Edwaid- sli eet eu 1 1 ing as 'n liver rm s-ay It r-houhi lie planted aid have uuad rails on tue e-t -iiuc We are slid lindwig lignite tiodei thee ay l'oi atioi i-mii ihe on It is g'ud lor nothing i idei ii sun 'except as a i oly fu 1 UiDer 'Ihe rgom-iste of the Holrnes il'e Mil divi-inn i-iviied tiie II1- aliil-aer to take a look at the internal inipi erne is and tiie fine dldi-en ihat tlumii' an- XVe ar com na Biother! jL-kOIl We also hav i l'lUt- to mt-J an-i her vi-it to 15 oil -r Cole'- oeci-ilentai annex aud will again take in the urn-invenli Lite ti r-l oppor ui 'y The citizens r- taking he school is GROWING IN CIRCULATION DAILY' I CITY' HOTEL ARRIVALS A Johnson citv A Bell New Orleans Owen Lewisville Ark1 Ij McCarty Lewisville Jno Williams Many Thompson Ruston Mrs A anil child Gainsvillle I Webb Benton A Meyer Chattanooga Teuu Mitchell iSt Louis Mouroe Miss Sue lildler Atlanta Ga Howell Arcadia Linn A'cher Meridian Miss Ballard Dallas Pan nock Ry Wlggbis Hamilton Tex Anderson Zwolla La Weeks Zwolla La Gayle Robson Jas McNeillev Readiug Pa A Irvine Eola La Buseli Hebron Miss Howse Alexandria Robertson city Pegues Mansfield Searcy Dallas Thali-her city Will Richards New Y'ork PRICES CURRENT Bacon oje Dry salt meats at 4c Breakfast bacon 9c Hams choice cauvased sugar chreil 11c Lard compound 4c pure UREADSTUF1S Flour best patent $54) half patent or straight olo extra fancy 45J 175 per barrel 38A pound Sticks 10c less crackers A soda crackers are attic cream 8c by the lot ltico new Louisiana S'tViH I COKFfiK AND IK A "offee eav: fair lute medium grala 181 better 20(211 Tea tair 25 good 4 hr- 50 fine 75D 85 finest 1 00(5 125 per pound the chest SUUAK AND MOLASSES Sugar standard granulated St Emma granulated o' snow white prime yellow clarified 4 seconds 4 Molas-es omnmui 1825 prime open kettle 38 TO BA i CO 'hewing Tobacco good niediuinil r- Ileh -hetter grailes 35(550 fine oOta Smoking 25f 52 i 'A s' a- 7i i -t ft ESCULKX'IS Ouionsy Toc bushel Beans liavv 3(5)-'5J pound Irish Potatoes o0c bushel Cabbage 200 Kraut 28530J barrel no doubt be aei omph-hed The Woodiawn and Biovvn plan- JL 5.