The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-10-13
Correspondence.

ALI your old friends and ardent ad
mirers are in rich, rosy, rubicund
health, and all goes on as ''merry as a
marriage bell''-especially the jingling
of tumblers in the,Edrinking saloons.
For instance, Bob helms is still smil-
ing that same sweet old SMILE
warm are hislwelcomes and hotpunehes.
and cool are his cobblers and zee ! Old
Otard of the year of the great Pyramid
foods forth like bright oily dream of
liquid joy-tumblers3 sclink, and we
''afiliate''-and on we go rejoicing"
Go We thence across that regal
thoroughfare known as Texas street,
and pay our pious regards to the king
of caterers in his Palace" and we
find old Henderson reigning in regal
dignity, giving to the world a grander
and better Bourbon than ever did
France or Spain.
Afterwards we call at the next door
to see the great Burnside, who mends
time, and makes puns, and writes mimi
table letters TO great men like-him-
self There we are refreshed with the
''last local" in the most elegant and
artistic manner. He tells US how a
young piercing lawyer and lean old
rich banker are promiseuously ''piteh-
ing in to each other through your
.art preservatiye of all arts" and VEN
tilating their soiled linen in the most
approved rhetorical style, to the de-
light of an admiring public.
Some of the friends of the parties S,
paper belligerents, are very painfully
apprehensive that they are about to
stop their delectable advertisements, -
and I am inclined to think. if | were
the Gazette or South Western men, as
times are so dull and money SO tight,
and as ercited lawyers and bankers so
freely bleed, say / am inclined to
think, l should get up and put to work
some amiable Ramsey Sniffle". to tote
backwards and forth the elegant left
handed compliments of the parties,
and give the bill further run. Moth
ing like enterprise-so long as it pays
The Caddo, that elegant, light run.
ming swift and gallant stern-wheeler il
just up from the unimportant village o.
Orleans" but of course, brings nc
! news worthy your Journal. But tn.
. cars of the great Southern Pacific
4 Railroad are just in from the city O
Marshall, and the news brought ii
g stirring, exciting and entertaining Fol
( instance, we learn that business il
], orowding-houses going up every
g where-hen-roosts are being robbed
e freedmen grabbing all the potatoes
and Uncle Joe, $50 called, still whis
y pering!
y Speaking of Marshall and the Rail
. road aforesaid, brings up, by tina
y beautiful and poetic law of association
: of great ideas, something else-it is a
y follows to-wit:
Now | don't offer gratuitous advice
often, but | can't torbear to earnestl
insist that you should "pull up stakes
and move with your machine, and settl
: for life, in the young, vigorous. salu
brous and unrivalled city of Beekton
Q situated six miles from this place o
the Railroad aforesaid. Only thin
ut and contemplate how the heading
re your paper would look-the "Becktc
Of Banner -" Bulletin "-'' Bulger 81
Id "Bugle''-'sBlue Hens Chicken
IN Buster" or Battle Flag ''-eith,
to would make your paper appear elegan
artistic and sensational! Do con
at over. Consider the advantages!
ss near your devoted friends. You a
as young, handsome, unmarried, and
IL susceptible. | A-hem!1 Marshall is
he near with such nice evening partis
ge soirees, &c. Shreveport at hand wi
her magnificent saloons and nice ge
tlemenly private games, and other
tellectual amusements. We will
take your paper-fill you to overao
ing with such winning prose and e
chanting poetry-that the men "
envy and the ladies will adore "
Besides we will give you all our 81
it'll vertisements." and-owe you for the
he / know it will be hard for you to t,
18th yourself away from your old friends
the Bossier, but that need not be-bri
aid them all with you. Beckton is lal
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