Union Parish Abstracts from the 'Ouachita Telegraph' Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by Timothy D. Hudson, 3/1/2004 ................................................................................. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Abstracts from the Ouachita Telegraph Mentioning Union Parish Louisiana The 'Ouachita Telegraph' was a newspaper published in Monroe, Ouachita Parish between about 1866 and the 1890s or later. In this file I have abstracted various articles from this paper mentioning Union Parish Louisiana. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 October 1869 page 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. U. R. Milner, once a citizen of Union and subsequently of Jackson parish, whom we knew as a pious and very temperate Confederate surgeon and who is now residing in the small city of Jefferson, has been telling tales on the Board of Aldermen of that place, through the local paper. He states that a certain candidate for city physician did actually purchase the votes of six Aldermen for one-fifth of the salary attaching to the said physician's office. The Aldermen's names are given, all of whom are appointees of Gov. Warmoth. The Doctor relates the full history of the dirty job, not concealing the fact that he himself was the purchasing party and the beneficiary in expectancy! It is said confession is good for the soul; but we are surprised at the Doctor's participation in such an affair, no matter if his conduct was based, as he states, upon the advice of a friend. No one will be surprised at his relevations, except that they are made entirely in the first person. We have fallen upon evil times when the only matter which should excite surprise and comment in the administration of public affairs is the honesty and fidelity of the official. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 November 1869 page 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Confederate soldier named Dixon has just returned from the war to his home in Union parish. It appears he was captured at Vicksburg, where subsequent to his capture, he committed some offense against a Federal officer, for which he was imprisoned, and has just now been released. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 November 1869 page 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mims, of the Farmerville Record, has no idea of yielding his opposition to Chinese immigration. He is now discussing the "problem" with a certain writer whom he calls "a one-horse editor named Horace Greeley, who fires his dirty squirt-gun from the Sodom of modern times." Horace must take care of himself. Note: This newspaper was actually the 'Union Record', but as it was published in Farmerville, the editor of the Ouachita Telegraph apparently made this mistake. Apparently Mr. Mims was either the editor or editor/owner of the 'Record' in 1869. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 January 1870 page 3, column 2 (top) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- River Items The steamer Glasgow is an economical craft. We boarded her a few nights ago, at great peril to our shins, and politely asked the clerk for an exchange or two. He replied that their supply of newspapers was just out! When the May Flower came down the clerk handed us a Bulletin he had obtained from the Glasgow. ... The Camden boats pass down loaded with cotton. The May Flower, on her last trip, was completely weatherboarded in forward of the wheel-house with cotton bales. The packet business in the Ouachita appears to be fizzling out. The man and the boat, for weekly trips to Camden, seem not, as yet, to have found each other. It is rumored there will be a resumption of the weekly packet trade to Trenton and Monroe in a short time. We sin not, we hope, in saying amen. There are now as many as four through boats in the Bartholonew trade, which is rather overdoing the business, we think. The Pioneer and Economist are battling for the supremacy in the D'Arbonne. The Carrie Pool is "lord of the creation" in the Saline trade. The Tahlequah is running to Floyd, the head of navigation on the Macon. And to bring things to a point, the high-headed Monroe and Trenton daily packet, "Rosa F.", has been repaired and is not "so good as she never was!" ... Note: According to research by Roy Austin, the Pioneer was at this time owned and operated by James Edmunds of Stein's Bluff (on Bayou Cornie near Shiloh). This ship sank at Trenton (now West Monroe) in September 1870. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 January 1870 page 3, column 2 (bottom) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The UNION RECORD - This sterling journal is now in the hands of T. C. Lewis & Co., our old friend Mims having retired from the business. The new, as well as the old, managers of the Record have our best wishes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 October 1870 page 3, column 2 (bottom of page) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gov. Warmoth "and party" are announced to speak at Monroe on the 8th, Farmerville on the 11th, Homer on the 13th, and Shreveport on the 15th of this month. It is supposed that the "party" is made up of Capt. Sheridan, who has acquired the reputation of a first-class buffoon, and accompanies His Excellancy as a sort of side-show. Very few people, we imagine, will go very far to hear the... Note: The bottom of the article was destroyed. For several weeks afterwards, the editor made mention of this trip by the Reconstruction governor, who was roundly despised by the Southerners. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------