Letter to Editor: Congratulations on New Paper, Grant Parish La
Source: Colfax Chronicle July 15, 1876
Submitted to USGENWEB by: Gaytha Thompson






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LETTER TO THE EDITOR FROM MONTGOMERY - 
July 15, 1876


Montgomery, Grant Parish, Louisiana July 12, 1876

Editor Chronicle:

I am glad to see a copy of the Chronicle and to know that at last Grant Parish
has a newspaper.  Of course we would be glad to see you espouse the Democratic
cause, then we would be able to read with pleasure the many good qualities of
our candidates and at the same time see the other side get blixen.  We hope
however that your paper will be sustained and I know if you will take for
subscription, broom sticks, hoopples and ox horns that you will come out
alright.  Really, we wish you success and this portion of the parish extends a
hard welcome and feel that the people will sustain you.

The crops are doing very well tho' some planters complain of to much rain
while others need it.  We learned that a crowd of men from Jackson Parish near
Vernon pursued and captured a colored man near Grand Ecore and on their return
foully murdered him near St Maurice in Winn Parish.  That community are justly
incensed at their conduct.  After killing him, they left the body on the road
and the wolves devoured it, dragging portions several hundred yards from the
spot where he was killed.

Respectfully
Montgomery