| Show IN LOUISIANA an overflow of the kiver aiden the swamps editor enquirer BT JOSEPH pariah loniak ana april IS 1896 aa it is raining this afternoon I 1 decided to kill time by writing you a short loiter at this moment we are having a raia the like of which you never have in utah the aher ia rising rapidly be ice from conr to aye feet higher than at any other time during the winter and there ia an overflow on the louisiana side berwein natchez and the month of red nver there is no lew at the points and as it ie mostly timber swamps but littly damage will result there is a greater ariae I 1 have been wondering what a utah boy would think if he were suddenly to a louisiana timber I 1 at night he imagine that there were electrical hashes all around above and beneath him he would eee lightning at the rate ol 01 a thousand thou tand por second but he would soon learn that these lights emanate from a email bug called the lightning bug there is an insect in this country that nourishes and is not alto gather unknown in utah though it is somewhat smaller of stature there than here the insect I 1 refer to is the when it somewhat som what matei the snowbird in ei ze trev call it the this ia aleo a snake country but their names are leffson and ill not undertake the task of enumerating them the regulations are still being maintained here no one can land without they are in i of a health certificate etching they hare not been exposed to smallpox everything here reminds one of summer time the spring time here is like summer time in the west the enquirer has ben forwarded to me from black hawk a number of times since I 1 have been here and is always gladly received I 1 have been threatened with malaria recently but have BO far kept it off I 1 will now by writing a couple of versus on louisiana as followay fol lowa away down in louisiana where the aug arcane does grow and the cotton top does whiten like the northern winters snow ibe fisherman with his babola in the cat and gar and the alligator flops bis tail and makes the region jar there the trees are covered with the richest coat of and the father of waters makes him belf known ao the boss ob 1 great state of louisiana pride of the winter drummer but bis admiration beam when he belvera io 0 CH |
