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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11
Succession Notice.
nc st

State of Louisiana, Parish Of Bossier.
Notice is hereby given that Richard w.
Turner, administrator of the succession of
Mary A. Shackleford, deceased, has this day
filed in the office of said Clerk, his tablesu
of distribution and final account as admin
istratOr aforesaid. "a
Now, therefore, this il to admoniah all
persons concerned that if opposition Is not
made thereto within the time prescribed by
law, the said tableau and final account win
be homologated as prayed for,
Given under my hand and seal of once.
at Bellevue, this the 9TH day Of May,
1867.
TH0S. N. BRADEN,
nc 5ts Clerk
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

u The highest rate paid for
gold at any period during the past
five years was 2S5, in the month
Of July, 1864. Since 1862, it has
never sold for less than 125, and
this was in March and April OF
last year. The lowest quotation
since January LIST, this year, is
132, and this was in January.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11
Notice.

TO THE VOTERS OF BOSSIER PARISH.
VNhe Board of Registers Of Voters for
l. Bossier Parish, State of Louisiana,
appointed by special orders No. %, Head
quarters, Fifth Military District, April Doth,
hereby give notice that they have this day +,
"Wednesday, May lst,l opened their office
for the registration of veters, in the Court
house at Bellevue, La.
All voters who reside within the said
Parish, will register at this sfsce, until
further notice is given at other Precincts
NatHralized citizens must bring their nat
uralization papers with them
JAMES H. D0BTE,
c. A. BOON,
Il. X. RUSS,
Bellevue, La, May LIST, 1867.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

% The Order of Odd Fellows
in the United States is tiourishing.
There 5000 Lodges, numbering
over two hundred thousand mem
bers. The receipts of the Order last
year were $1,779,OOO, of which
amount 100000 were expended
for charitable purposes.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

H The Old Guard for May,
WILDE found to be a very inter
esting number, which will com
pare favorably with anyyet issued.
Single copies sent, postpaid, %
cents; 50 per annum. Van Evrie,
Horton & Co., publishers, 1852
Nassau street, n. Y.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

- The Supreme Court of the
United States has decided that
there was no legal blockade of
the Rio Grande during the war,
and has ordered the restoration
of the cargo of the Peterhoff to
the owners.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

~ Our planters report that
the present prospect for good
crop of both corn and cotton, in
our parish, are very fiattering in
deed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

Doors, SHOES, TRUNKS, ETC
We would call the attention of our
friends to the card of Mr.. j. B. Lewis,
No. 9 Texas street, Shreveport, La,
to be found in another column. We
speak from experience when we say
that Mr.. Lewis is selling on as reason
able terms as the market admits, as
any person that is judge of fine goods
will say after examining his prices.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

~ The Avalanche says the
city of Memphis is on the verge of
bankruptcy; not a dollar in the
treasury, and harassed with debts
she cannot pay.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

% The telegraph informs us
that Sumner is about to sail for
Europe. The last time he was
there was when he went bowling
like whipt cur over the world,
becaure Brooks broke his head for
wagging his slanderOus tongue
against a venerable and worthy
Southern Senator.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11
~ The Home journal. pub

~ The Home Journal, pub
lished at New York, by Morris,
Phillips & Co., at s. per annum,
comes to us greatly enlarged, and
with such material improvements
throughout, that the successful
editors deserve the highest credit.
No paper is more entitled to pop
ular favor than the Home Journal,
and no family should be deprived
of such a medium of intelligence
and useful knowledge.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

% That wicked Home Journal
says false lips, made ofpink india
rubber, which are attached to thin
lips in a manner which defies de-
lection, and which give a pretty
pouting appearance to the mouth,
are much worn by New York
ladies',
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

II The junior editor of the Ar
kansas Vindicator knocked down
and kicked a Radical who had
offerrd to shake hands with him.
For this offence he was twice
arrested and fined. The Vindica-
tor cries out that there is no JUS
tice in Arkansas.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

u Of all the actions in a mans
life, his marriage does least con-
Germ other people, yet of all the
actions of his life it is the most
meddled with.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

~ A new feature in the New
York Prostitution bill requires all
persons frequenting houses of ILL
fame to first receive a permit
from the Board of Police. This
is pronounced a beautiful idea.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

- A man lately arrived at
Kansas City, Mo-, who started
from San Francisco on horseback,
but had made the last 1900 miles
of his journey on foot and alone,
through terrible SHOWS and severe
winter On the plains.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

Loggy bayou, on or about the 10th june.
The Board would respectfully request
that all citizens living in the neishberhood
OF the above Precincts, who are DESTROYS Of
registering as voters, meet them punctually
as above specified
The Board of Registration win be reopen.
ed for the regular dispatch of business, on
or about the Goth June, at Bellevue, and
continue open at this point up to the Goth,
when the office viii be closed according to.
law.
J. II. DOBIE,
c. A. BOON, Board.
E. X. RUSS,
Bellevue, La, May 10th, 1867. nc
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

% Mankind have been learn
ing for six thousand years, and
few have learned yet that their
fellow beings are as good as
themselves.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

% At one of the schools in
Chicago the inspector asked the
children if they could give any
text in the Scripture which for
babe a man having two wives.
One of the children sagely quoted
in reply the text: mo man can
serve two masters
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

~ An Alabama paper says,
"With the light before us and
bayonets behind us we had better
knock under.n
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

90 A New York divine put
forth the startling proposition
that "every man is born of a moth
er, and every mother is a woman
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

s9 A firm in London, in need
of a porter, advertised for one
''who feared the Lord and could
carry five hundred weight"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

70 A Frenchman has defed
fidelity to be a devil of an itch.
ing which it's forbidden to scratch.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

Spring Fashions-Less change
in gentlemen's pants than last
year. Wash. Republican,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

70 A Georgia paper says Gen.
Grant is the only hope of the
South Boston Post.
If a sinner were told his only
hope of Immortality was through
the leniency and benevOlence of
Satan, the mockery could not be
any greater than the above insult.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

II Mr.. Stevens is said to be
pretty well, but any excitement
brings on palpitation of the heart.
[ National Intelligencer.
Palpitation of the "spleen," you
mean, Mr.. Editor. The old shriv-
ed up apOstate has no heart to
palpitate.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11
Married !:

On the 3rd instant, at the residence Of A.
NJ. KnightOn, in this parish, by Thos Apple
white, j. p, Mr.. d. NJ. RUMPH to Miss Eliza
BUTTS.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

% The Bossier Banner says of
the Military Bill:
"What may be the consequences
of this savage and inhuman meas
ure we are not permitted to for
see.n
Did you never hear, Mr.. Banner,
of the Arkansas game of "heads
[ win, tails you loose w-[ Baton
Rouge Advocate.
The game referred to by the
Advocate, is like the fable of the
boys and the frogs, "fun to the
boys but death to the poor frogs p
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

Un6 SCf6eUS.
Maine is doing more to in
it's manufacture than any
other State in New England.
Photographic communication
with Havana will be opened by
the first of June.
The Catholic schools of
Cincinnati are patronized by 12,-
600 pupils.
- Strawberries are plenty in
the New York markets at % cents
each.
- The population of Florida
is 14O,424, of which 77,747 are
white and 62,677 colored.
One hundred and twenty
thousand children in New York
do not attend school.
Over one hundred new yes.
sells are being built or contracted
for in Maine.
- Whether Louis Napoleon
will knock the chip from Bismark's
shoulder is the question in Europe.
- A man in London beat his
wife nearly to death "for having
too many children"
- The Legislature of Ala,
bama has created a new county,
and named it ''Dixie."
-Two-thirds of the prisoners
in the Pennsylvania Penitentiary
were formerly volunteer soldiers
The common school fund
of Indiana is greater than that OF
any other State, being 81, 900, 900
Philadelphia has 142,71i
youth between the ages of six and
eighteen.
A man in Napoleon, Ark.
said he would drink a gallon o:
liquor in a day or die. He die
both.
The "Great Republic" il
the name of a Mississippi steamer
just completed, at a cost of $500,
900.
- In Boston, recently, 5000,
900 Of glassware was sold at auc
ton, the largest sale of the kline
yet made in this country.
Seventy new manufactures
Of cotton and woollen goods hav,
been established in Michigan, Iii
nois and Wisconsin, within a short
time.
- Vermont journal sepa
rates the marriages from tn
deaths by a page. He sees NJ
sense in their customary juxtapo
sition.
- Mrs. James Waters, Q
Burlington, Mo-, has given brit
to six living boys in eightee
months-two at one time and fou
at another.
On a Late trip of the steam
er Belle Memphis to Memphis
twenty-five passengers name
Smith registered their names fo
the passage.
-Newbern, N. c., import
twelve hundred barrels of Scotc
snuff annually from a single fri
! in New York. 1t supplies all tn
North Carolina clippers"
- The Boston Post says it
a singular fact that there was n
coroner's inquestheld on the bod
of President Lincoln, and no legs
, evidence taken as to the mamie
| of his death or its cause of it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11
Notice To Voters.

NNhe voters of Bossier are hereby notified
l. that the Board of Registration for
Bossier Parish, La, win visit the following
Precincts, viz
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

BELLEVUE, La,
Saturday,: ::::":May II, 1867.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11
Registration.

Capt. James FL. Dobie, Chair
man of the Board of Registrars
for this parish, arrived in our vii
lage on the LIST inst, but owing to
the non arrival of the other mem
bers of the Board, the books were
not opened, until the Monday fol-
lowing, when all the members of
the Board were present.
Up to the time of our going to
press, FRIDAY morning,) there
have been registered:
White votes, 81
COlOred 50
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

Has crossed the Stygian river"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-11

A Vermont journal sepa.
rates the marriages from the
deaths by a page. He sees nc
sense in their customary juxtapo
sition.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-01-08
LETTER FROn CULp .PER COUNTY

correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch
CULpEPER c. H., January 5. lSG7.-This
war-scarred old county is recuperating more
rypidIy than could have been anticipated. This
i. NV first visit since the close of the war, and
wonderful indeed is the progress which has
been made Still more wonderful is the spirit
Of the people. They are hopeful and enter
p,i>ing and liberal "
But my ride, a day or TWO since, through
miles of fenceleSs fields, sufficiently reminded
III. OF the war That ride was to visit an old
freud, Major joseph +. Flcklin, who, in con
ne ZION with Mr. j. Lawrence String gtclloW,
has been. since the war; pioneer II wool
growing on l:Isa Scale 10 Virginia. Not on
iv has be a large and productive focS OF partly
improved sheep, bu sufficient humber of
pure Merinos (purchaSrd from the celebrated
forks OF George Canpbeil and E. Bridge, OF
N.rnout) to insure, ere long, good supply
OF that valuable breed H. is confident OF the
;roitabeness Of wool growing which, at the
present price OF wool, is estimated to pay 100
per Ct, besides enrching the land. THIS
method OF using the soil is peculiarly desirable
nov. as it is com iarativey independent OF the
labor question, the proprietor being able, with
the aid of shepherds dog, to give all needtnl
attention to a flock of several hundred sheep.
lu this region they require but little feeding
dulDg he winter, and this is peculiarly true
Of Mrrinrs. which are a hardy treed, aud do
Well in short pastures. On the whole, [ am
much impressed with the idea that if nine
tenths OF our young men who are half-starving
IN stores, and all OF them who are, like Mr..
Macawbcr, waiting for something to turn up
would 90 10 work to produce something would
lease land ano 60 TO wool growing, for instance,
they would d. great thing tor themselves
and for their State.
$, nd you some samples from Major Flick
lin 5 flock. 81 outd like also to send piece
OF nearly new plumbago picked tron4 the land,
but it would be too heavy for Uucle Sam 5
mail oagss, I notice some Northern men are
leasing laud ea. The Rapidan and goiug into the
sheep business --.--
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-01-08

yTIRGINIA:-Atr rules held in the Clerk 5
Y Office of the c. unity Court of Al@XaI:Gria
county, on the 3lst day Of December, 1856, WI
liam ii. Barley and Granville S. ?. lrlp!eLt, late
lar ners, trading under the firm OF Barley,
Triplett & Co., comp!ainants, against Sarah
Bowden administratrlx, and William bowden,
nfant son and hcir-at-.aw Of AicNaHCeT BOW
den, deceased defendants-In chanccry.
The object os this suit is to subject CERTAIN
real estate in tie city Of Alexandria, Va. ot
which the said Alexander Bowden, died, seized
and possessed, to the payment or 9o-44, WITH
interest from january /, 1861, I'LL paid, due
rom the said Alexander Bowden ct the time Of
his oeccase to the said pla!titts The said real
estate lies on the south side of Queen streets, be-
tween Alfred and Patrick streets, fronting
twenty fe~t on Queen street. and run"inS back
one hundred feet to a ten feet alley
The defendants not having "ppcared ana
eiven security according to the act OF Assem- bly,
and the rules of this Court, and ii appearing by
affidavit that they are non residents oI lhls ate
it is ordered that the said defendants appear mere
within one month after due publication OF THIS
order, and do what's necessary to protect thelr
interest in this suit: and that copy OF TINS Or
der be forthwith insel ted in the AleNandTla Ga
zette newspaper published in the city OF Alex
ardri.. once n week for four successive weeks,
and 10, ted at the front door OF the Court house
of this county. 4 copy teste:
Smoot & Lowe, P. @. jan 0-JaW4#
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-01-08
COURT NOTICES
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

In the Circuit Court of Alexandria county,
the Alexandria and Washington Railroad Com
pany, by James, s.. French President, COM
plalnants, vs.. the Washington, Alexandria and
Georgetown Railroad COMPANY. Alexander
Hay, ). 3. Stewart Benjamin Thornton Joseph
Thornton, J oseph Dawson, the Mayor, Board
OF Aldermen, a1c Board Of Common Council,
OF the city OF Washington Joseph H. Bradley,
Jr., A. Thomas Bradley, Walter Lenox, and
William d. Fowle and Edward Snowden, late
partners, uader the style and firm of Fowle
Snowden & Co., defendants.
This cause Game On to be heard this 9th day OF
Decem Der, 1865 upon the DILL answers exhibits
ana other papers upon consideration whereof,
ana-the arguments OF counsel being heard, tho
Court without deciding any question or princi-
order and decree that one of the Master Com
mssoners OF this Court do state, settle and
report All account showing: -.... ...
lst The amount of the liabilities Of every
kind existing against the Alexandria and Wash
ington Railroad Company, on the 10th day OF
April, 1867
3D. The amount Of liabilities or indebted
ness of the said Railroad Company aforesaid, or
discharged by Alexander Hay, by the Wash
ington Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad
Company, or other person since Said period:
Sd The amount Of money eApended or debts
incurred during said period by Alexander Hay,
the Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown
Railroad Company, or other person, in build
&. repairing, equipping and operating the
said Railroad.
4th The amounts received during the period
aforesaid, by the Washington, Alexandria and
Georgetown Railroad Comply, from all sources,
and stating any further matter that said Com
missioner may deem pertinent, or that either
party may require, and that the books and pa
pers of the Washington and Alexandria Rail
road Company, and Of the Washington Alex;
andria aud Georgetown Railroad Company shall
be produced before the Commissioner taking
such accounts by any person having possession
of the same. Aud that said Commissioner shall
make his report to the next term general or
specially Of this Court
But before taking such account the said Com
missioner shall give notice of the time and place
of taking the same by publication, in some con-
venent newspaper, once Il week for four weeks
succesSively, which publication shall be equiv.
alent to personal service Of notice the parties.
A copy tesre j. TACEY, Clerk.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-01-08

TN THE C KCUlT COURT OF ALENAN
i dria County, o,ember Is, 1866, Robert !.
Edelin,, NJ. German, Thomas Mccormick, ad-
5ninstrstor Of EIiai Harrison decsaSsd Jamss
ard Mary Wheatley, on behalf Of themselves.
and such other stockholders of the Mechanical
Building Association Of Alexandria as may join
in and contribute to the expenses OF this SUIT,
complainants, vs.: Mechanical Building, Associa-
tion of Alexandria, William Arnold, David
Appich, Ewell G. Atwell, N w, Burchell, Ma
ria Buchanan, administrators of r. Z. Buchanan,
deceased, j. II. Devaughn, A, w. Eastack, )
Newton Harper, Luther D. Harrison, II "
Hardy, John Jones' Margaret kinzer, viii the
J. W. Ma ls G. L. Richards, r. W; R4binson,
John Summers, Stephen Swain, John l.. Pas
coe,' Samuel Beach, d. L. Smoot, administrator
of Peter Davis. deceased, James E. McGraw,
George II. Markell, and Robert Edelin,, TruS-
tees of the Mechanical Building Association or
Alexandria, defendants,
The decree of the November term, 1856, directs
that the papers in the above cause be referred
to w. c. Ieaton, Master in Chancery OF SAID
Court to enquire into and stare a full ana com
plete account of the transac;lonS or SAD oulia.
ing Association; the condition Of the accounts
between the Association and its member !; the
amount due on the several deeds oftrust execu
ted for the benefit Of the said Association the
amounts due from the said Association TO It's
members and the amounts due from Its mem
hers to the snd Association, with Instructions TO
the said Master to publish for four successive
weeks the objects of the reference In some
newspaper published in the city Of Aiexandrl",
in lieu Of personal service upon the parties IN
terested, &c. oo-
COMMISSIONER OFFICE, JAN & 1867.
Notice is hereby given to all parties Interested
in the Decree Of which the foregoing IS an np-
sract, that have fixed upon w EDN bS!A !,
the 9th day of February, 1867, at my office in
the city of Alexandria, when and where l shall
proceed to execute the said decree.
rrW;o; y; G Cbs1esAy YSAToN' Of the
;oo1a,v1w AEourt of Alexaniria Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-01-08
~ w. G.. Y EATON,
in Chancery Of the
ircAEourt of Alexandria Co,
lAJRFAX COUNTY COURT,

TNAIKFAA COUNTY CUU NJ,
\ DECEMBER Court, 1866.
1t being represented to the Court that so
much Of the Alexandria and Leesburg Iu'n-
pike AS lies in the county of Fairfax ha; been
abandoned by the company, it is ordered that
notice be published for eight successive weeks
in some convenient newspaper, and also be post
ed at the Court House door of this county, on
some Court day. of the intention Of the Court to
take charge of said road as a county road
conv teste F. d. RICHARDSON.
doc CO-lawSW
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-01-08
COURT NOTI C E S .

VIRGINIA:-At rules held in the clerk. 5
Y Office of the County Court OF AleXandria
county, on the 3lst day Of DcGe'noGr' lo'o J0nn
P. Clarke plnintitf against Joseph Pa fridge
James II. f'inchat and james 5. Warren, part-
ners, trading under the styIo and firm Of Pr Pr
fridge, Pinchat d Warren deiendants-ln case
lie object of this suit is to recover Of the de-
PENDANTS damages - the amount OF $3.50 ut the
least, with interes: thereon from the eth day Of
July, 1855, li paid, due by the Md defendants
to the said plaintiff
The defendants not having entered their
appearance and given security according to
the act of Assembly and the rules OF this
not residents this State, is ordered thai the
said defendants appear here within one month al
ter due pub bication Of this order, and do what Is
necessary to protect their interest in this sutiand
that copy Of this order be forthwith inserted
in the Alexandria Gazette q newspaper pub,
iishcd in The city Of Alexandria once week
for four successive weeks, and posted ~ the front
door OF the Court house of this County.
A copy-TeStc.