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TOBIAS ON A RAMBLE:.Alexanrdia, ) Oct. 15, 1877. jDear Democrat—I have just returned from a rather extensive ramble through the greater portion of our grand old Parish and a part of Grant, and thinking that it may be entertaining to your many readers to know what I saw and heard, I propose to give them the benefit of my week’s travel.CHENEYYILLE AND THE CROPS.With a nice pair of horses and buggy from Co!. McGinnis’ complete stables, I started last Monday for Cheney ville which place I reached after an easy drive of thirty miles, I noticed the crops closely as I passed, and I am sure I never saw finer cane nor better prospects for a sugar crop from the plant cane, than are to be seen all along the road. The only trouble is that none of the planters have any stubble, and the crops will be short because they will have to save their seed cane for next year out of their plant cane of this year. I think the cotton crop of the Parish, and I have seen It nearly all, both it the hills and on the low lands, will I be more than a good half crop. A great deal of it will be wasted as it is : all open, and the hands can not pick it out fast enough to save it all, Everthing looks flourishing around Cheney ville; the people are in good spirits, and there is a happy, contented look about them in remarkable contrast to the uneasy and unsettled appearance they used to have in the days of radical rule. Indeed, I no liced this to be the case wherever I have been in this Parish. Improvements are being made, ditches dug, fences put up, and the bayou places about Cheneyvillo are taking on somewhat of their ante helium ap-pearauce. Four years of peace anc quiet will make our bayou lands, what they once were “the fairest that e’er the sun shone on.” Nowhere in the world are to be found a more boBpitable and generous hearted peo pie than those around Cheneyville, and in these qualities they are rivalled by all our people wherever one may go. One result of my trip has been to confirm me in the pride I have always felt in my native Parish, and like the old Romans, I carry that pride with me everywhere.
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The Louisiana Democrat
Alexandria, Louisiana, US
Wed, Oct 17, 1877
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