The Herald from Shreveport, Louisiana • 2

THE HERALD. Every Afternoon Except Sunday. PUBLISHED BY The Herald Publishing Company W. A. SUTHERLAND, Manager.

L. S. CRAIN, City Editor. 'The Herald will be delivered by carriers for 10 cents a week, Subscription by mail, $4.50 a year. Otice on Commercial alley, near Spring street.

Entered at the Postoffice as second- class matter. SHREVEPORT, JANUARY 14, 1897. ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORS. Alexandria is pushing a movement for building 21 new hotel on the subscription stock plan. Natchitoches has distributed in Wards Two and Three of that parish 2,500 bushels of corn and 500 pounds of bacon, relieving the temporary necessities of 650 people.

The same wards are due 4,000 bushels of corn and 8,000 pounds of bacon from the State relief fund, as ordered by the Millsaps committee. Leesville, has addressed a memorial to the Governor asking aid for drouth sufferers. From the tenor of the appeal it may be in ferred that there has been some genuine Millsaps committee delay and an earnest appeal is made "to his excellency to render the necessary aid in corn and meal." Judging from the scarcity of proceedings in our country exchanges it may be inferred that a great "local lull" is epidemic throughout North and Central Louisiana, as well as the grip. Keachie, however, is looking for a boom, as the weather is warm and I favorable to la grippe and cyclones. Mansfield is busy with K.

C. improvements, such as depots, cotton' platforms, etc. The town will soon have a fine passenger depot, the material for the construction of! which is on the grounds. Quality is chief, variety and price are lieutenants at Iler's Pharmacy. WILL THE COUNCIL ACT On the opening of Western ave- nue? Abrogate the swinging gates? Grant petition to pave Texas street? Give the K.

C. the right to raise the "horn" grade? These are the important measures which should receive the cultivated attention of the council, and the three first mentioned are 1m- perative and should not be debated out of sight, as the reason and necessity are too evident. MARRIED. Chadwick-RiGdoN-At the residence of the bride's sister, Mrs. James O.

Terry, 825 Caddo street, Mr. A. Chadwick and Miss Minnie Rigdon were united in marriage at 8 o'clock yesterday evening. The bride is the daughter of the late Jacob Rigdon and a native of the city. The groom 19 an trious new comer to the city who, like all unmarried new comers, fell a willing captive to Shreveport's fair daughters.

The Herald joins in good wishes for the happiness of the young couple. WELLMAN DID THE WORK. The artistic work on the Jacobs mansion, on the corner of McNeil and Travis streets, was done by Mack Wellman. He is ready to do the same kind of work for others, and give bond that will he will do it in the highest style of the art. PERSONAL MENTION.

Coming and Going of Home Peo: Coming to Stay. M. C. Elstner, and United States Marshal Martin and Deputy Bernstein have returned from a session of the court at Opelousas. Dr.

J. M. Ledbetter, recently of Homer, will move his family to Shreveport early next month. Mr. Henry Johnson, of Homer, will make his home in this city and will be with Ledbetter Bros.

Mr. P. D. Allen, of Allentown. and Miss Rosa Eliston, of Haughton, were married at the latter place on yesterday.

Mr. W. P. Leary, of Minden, will soon make his home in this city, where he enters the retail grocery business. KNOCKED DOWN AND ROBBED W.

E. Mitchell, a white man, aged about 22 years, lives in Simsboro, Lincoln parish. On Monday night he arrived in Alexandria from Washington, as a passenger 011 the Southern Pacific railroad passenger train. He states that at the Southern Pacific depot he was met by a man named Edward Dowd, who persuaded him to go to the Union passenger depot. When near that depot he was assaulted by two white men, who knocked him down and robbed him.

He claims that Dowd assisted the other two men to rob him. E. Barnes and Shelby Murray were arrested on Tuesday morning, charged with the robbery. They went before Judge Hunter yesterday for examination, and were remanded to jail for further investigation. Judge Hunter says he is going to do all he can to break up highway robbery in this Town- Talk.

When our goods and prices leave the store, they start on a journey of adver- SETTLING UP SURE, The United States land receiver's office at Natchitoches makes the following statement of homestead entries, in this State, of public lands in his report for the ending 31, 1896: For 0c 2,962.64 acres; November, acres; December, 2,021.30 acre: total, 7.890.84 acres. The movement as shown by the above figures is steady and indicates a prosperous movement in the right direction, the settlement of the surplus lands of the State. The settlement and cultivation of the country about Shreveport, now only about one-third in cultivation, will permanently sustain a large and prosperous growth of the city. IMPROVEMENT. That pile of crushed brick and the mortar bed on the corner of Texas and Spring does not mean the paving of the great thoroughfare, though it may be taken as an advance evidence of that progress.

It means that Colonel Lee Carter is going to have a fine, regulation concrete walk before his enterprising and popular establishment. MR. BARRON'S ENTERPRISE. A very neat and attractive sign adorns the lamp post in front of Mr. Barron's book store.

It is a pretty little villa, like a Dyak cottage built up in a tree; and, when illuminated, it throws a resy light over the "ad" texts, the store front and the early rising industry of the book emporium. THE HERALD IS GROWING IN CIRCULATION 3 DAILY. PRICES CURRENT. PROVISIONS. Bacon, 54c.

Dry salt meats steady at Breakfast bacon, 8c. Hams, choice canvased sugar cured, 11c. Lard, compound, 44c; pure, BREADSTUFFS. Flour, best patent, half patent or straight 5.25; extra fancy, 5.00. Cornmeal, 1.70 per barrel; 384 pound sacks, 10c less.

Crackers, A soda crackers are quoted at 6e; cream, 8e by the lot. Rice, new Louisiana, COFFEE AND TEA. Coffee, easy; fair, medium grade 184; Tea, better, 25; good, fair, fine, 85; finest, 1.00@1.25 per pound by the chest. SUGAR AND MOLASSES. Sugar, standard granulated, St.

Emma granulated, snow white, 4g; prime yellow clarified, seconds, 4. Molasses, common, prime open kettle, 38. TOBACCO. Chewing Tobacco, good medium, 11 inch, better grades, 35(950; fine quality, ing, ESCULENTS. bushel.

AVy, pound. 1 00. Potatoes, 60c bushel. -raut, 2.85@3.00 barrel. BAGGING AND TIES.

Bagging, 21b, Te; 14 lb 64. Twine, for baling purposes, quoted at 10e lb by the bale. Iron Ties, 45 lb, $1 50. GRAIN AND FEEDSTUFF. Corn, mixed, sacked, 38c bushel.

Hay, choice prairie (Arkansas) 9 00, Texas 10 50. Oats, white 34c, Rust Proof 40. Rye 90c. Barley 75c. Bran 80c.

Chopped corn 90c per 100 lb. Millet seed 85c. Cotton seed meal 90c sack. Wheat 95c. FRUITS AND NUTS.

Apples 2 00. Almonds lb. Brazil nuts 10 1b P. Cocoanuts 3 75. Currants Dried apples evaporated Filberts 12c lb.

Lemons 3 50. Oranges, Louisiana 4 50. Peanuts, roasted 64. Pecans Walnuts 11c lb. Raising 1 65 box.

Loose Muscatels 54c. CHICKENS AND EGGS. Hens, 1 75 1 50 Fryers, 1 75 18 Butter, country, Turkeys, ib 8 HIDES AND WOOL, Dry hides 1, flint, 84 Dry hides No. 2, 6 Badly bug eaten. Dry salted No.

1..... 5 Bull 6 Green salted hides. Ditto, glue and badly Wool, tub washed, Wool, unwashed, Wool, burry and black Beeswax, prime. Tallow Sheep skins, Goat WANT ADVERTISEMENTS Will be inserted in Tax HERALD for 5 cents a line each insertion. There are about six words, on an average, in each line, and 15 conte will make any ordinary want known to nearly every family in town.

Suppose you try it. WHAT DO YOU WANT! Note This Fact: The Herald Goes Into More Shreveport Homes Than Any Other Paper..