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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-30

The total sales OF the Union Pacific lands
to date foo! up over $1,000 acres.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27
Indifference to Corruption.

These are certainly disagree
able times. We hear little ex-
cept OF fraud and corruption in
public life, and the people
speak of it in such a careless
manner as to convey the i'm
preston that everybody except
themselves are interested in it.
Itseems on one hand as if every
body thought there was abso-
lutely no remedy for these
evils; and on the other hand,
that it was scarcely worth while
to speak of it, long as we are
not absolutely robbed of the
necesSarieS oflife.
We are really afraid that the
newspaper articles which re-
ceive the least attention from
the people, are those about cor
ruption and suggesting the
means to repress it. There were
times when witches were burn
ed, and the people did not pay
more attention to such horrible
practices than if so many moths
had singed their wings in the
flame of a candle. 1t would
seem that the people have be-
come callOus to corruption.
They are beginning to think no
public business can be done in
a fair, honest way; and that
whether we purchase a new ter
Iritory from Russia, or build a
new railroad, or simply provide
the necessary victuals for a poor
house or a woFk-honse, some
body must be bribed; the Gov
ernment must be robbed, and
a certain percentage of the
expense goes into some scoun-
drel's pocket. If the public
thieves do not steal all, and i
merely a fraction is left of the
means appropriated for public
! purposes, the people seem to bt
perfectly satisfied. A grea
many swindlers are even re
lgarded as legitimate and nee
essary expenses. The discove
Try that one hundred millions o
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27
Footsteps Of Decay.

Oh let the soul It's slumbers break
Arouse its senses, and awake
To see how soon
Life, in it's glories, glides away,
And the stern footsteps of decay
Come stealing on.
And while we view the rolling tide,
Down which our flowing minutes glide
Away so fast,
Let us the precious hour employ,
And deem each future dream a joy
Already past.
Let no vain hope deceive the mind,
No happier let us hope to find
Tomorrow than to-day.
Our golden dreams of yore were bright;
Like them the present shall delight
Like them decay
Our lives like Fastening dreams must be,
That into one engulfng sea
Are doomed to fall
The sea of death, whose waves roll on
Der king and kingdom, crown and throne,
And swallow all.
Alike the rivers lordly tide,
Alike the humble rivulets glide,
To that sad wave!
Death levels poverty and pride,
And rich and poor sleep side by side,
Within the grave.
Our birth is but stopping place;
Lilo is the running of the race;
And death the goal
There all our glittering toys are brought,
That path alone of all unsought,
Is found of all
See, then, how poor and little worth
Are all those glittering toys of earth,
That lure US here;
Dreams of a sleep that death must break;
Alas before it bids us wake,
We disappear.
Long ere the damp fearth can blight,
The cheeks pure glow of red and white
Has passed away;
Youth smiled and all was heavenly fair
Age came, and laid his finger there,
And where are theyf
Where is the strength that spurned decay,
The step that roved so light and gay
The hearts blithe tone
The strength is gone, the step is slow,
And joy grows wearisome and woe
When age comes on.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

- "Committing twoicide' is a
new name for matrimony.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27
I BELLEVUE, La SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1869.

dollars, at least, could be gain
ed if our revenues were honest
ly and judicially collected,
seems not to have made any
lively impression upon the
American people. They take
it as a very important item of
news, precisely in the same
manner as they would have
received the news of the burn
ing of Pekin in China.
In regard to this seeming in
difference, the general remark
is: "Well, it has been so for
many years, and very probably
it will be so to the end of time.
If our predecessor could live in
an era of corruption, we our
selves will not die of it; and, as
they tolerated it, we can bear
it too." But here is the faliacy !:
This evil has grown to such
large proportions, that the eye
Of the common observer can
no longer follow it. In the
past, only a few men were at
the public crib now there is a
legion of forty thousand. In
former times, stealing public
money was only exceptional
and Of an individual character /;
to-day, corruption has been re-
duced to a system, and our
whole legislation is its offspring.
Money makes congressman and
legislators money carries a bill
through, or defeats it; and the
position of congressman and
the passage of a law are only
desired because the invested
capital will bring tenfold more
interest than it could. possibly
by any honest dealing.
Our past history proves that
we have not always lived un-
der the same corrupt practices ;
and it is worse than folly to be-
lieve that we shall be able to
live under them in the future.
i Missouri Republican.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

A CURE FOR CHICKEN CHoLE-
RAJ see from a late Dixie Far
mer, that some ofyour subscribers
complain of loOsing a good many
fowls from chicken cholera. I
will give you a receipt that has
succeeded well with us for two
years, in preventing and curing
makes them healthy and to lay
finely. Take l 10. lard, 2 ozs. as
saphntida, ! OF. red pepper, pull
yerise. melt and mix all together;
then parch one-half a gallon Of
corn, put the mixture on it, stir all
together and feed two or three
times a week. If too sick to eat,
put the lard mixture down the
throat without the corn. We can
have our hens all healthy and lay
ing, both winter and summer, by
using this preparation Dirie
Farmer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

WTrHoUTAN ENEMY.-Heaven
help the man who imagines he
can dodge enemies by trying to
please everybody. Ifsuch an in
dividual ever succeeded, we should
be glad of it-not that we believe
In a man going through the world
trying to find beams to knock and
thump his poor head against, dis
putting every mans opinion, fight
ing elbowing and crowding all
who differ with him. That again
is another extreme. Other peo
pie have a right to their opinion
so have you. Don't fall into the
error of supposing they will re
spect you more for turning your
coat every day to match the color
of theirs. Wear your own colors,
in spite of winds and weather,
storms or sunshine. It costs the
vacillating and irresolute ter
times the trouble to wind anC
shuttle and twist, that it does hon
est manly independence to stand
it's ground.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27
How Farmers Waste Time.

Mr.. Harrison, in 62 ofhis papers
called "Walks and talks on the
Farm" which have been running
for more than a year in the Amer
lean Agriculturist, has the follow
ing capital hit at the waste of time
by farmers:
E'It is q well-known fact that
dogs wag their tails, and philos-
opher once computed the amount
of power in the aggregate, lost to
the world by this useless habit,
and found that it was sufficient to
turn half the grist- mills in Europe,
If he should figure up all the pow,
er we lose on the farm in the year
for want of a little thought, he
would probably tell us it would be
sufficient to dig in a week or two
all the gold there is in California,
and make us all rich. But, joking
apart, if other manufacturers lost
as much time and power as some
farmers do they would soon be
ruined. We loose time in every
way. We take a load to the city
and come back empty, and then
go empty to the city and bring
back a load. We lose time in
scraping dirt on to road, raise
it few inches above the water,
while half the labor in ditching
would take the water three feet
below the road. We lose a great
deal of time by being in a hurry.
We have not time to oil the har-
ness; to keep carriages clean and
the nuts tight; to drive hoop on
a barrel or pail when it gets
loose; to put up tools and imple-
ments; to plant fruit trees, or take
care of them. We have never
time to attend to the many little
things on the farm, and we lose
more by neglecting them than we
can possibly earn at steady work.
| have known a farmer to go, all
alone, into the woods to chop, and
leave a stout hired man at home
to attend to the stock and do
choresr ~
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

Never Intentionally wound
the feelings of anybody. The
good opinion of the world is
the very best kind you can
have, and the more the better.
The man or woman who says
he or she doesn't care a pin
what the world thinks OF says,
gives utterance to what they
know is absolutely false. We
do care, and it is we'll we do !;
and those are gravely out of
joint whe say they do not.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

u A Minnesota farmer says:
"We raise four hundred busKel of
potatoes to the acre here, which
would be a big thing if we didn't
also raise bugs enough to eat 'em
all up"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

70 A woman confined in Jail
at Toronto had three babies re-
Gently. Let her out! But it may
be replied that she has let herself
out.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27
Not Wanted.

the militia People seem to feel
a greater interest in knowing
what has been done in the matter
of the militia than any other topic
now discussed; and well they
may, because if organized-as we
think likely-it will prove an en-
gine of the most tyrannical op-
preston. If it should fail to
prove oppressive, it would come
short of the purposes Of its advo-
Gates. We would not give the
toss Of copper for the chances
of protection the militia would af-
ford to any one, even from its
own rapacious deeds. 1t will be
necessarily oficered by debased
and beggared men whose sole pur-
pose will be to crafty their own
ambition and to make money from
any and every source. Its ranks
will be filed by that class of per
sons who will readily act as the
creatures of their appointed supe-
riors, and who will deport them
selves in such a manner, and that
designedly, as to provoke difficult
ties and afford pretext for arrests.
| And then we shall indeed have
"peace," with q vengeance! If
the legislature will act for the
good of all classes and colOrs it
will let all the militia bills go upon
the table indefinitely. 1t is mad
ness and folly to suppose that the
free people of Louisiana will sub
nit to unjust ndinhumaa oppres-
sion without a desperate struggle
for selfprotectton. They will not
do it. With the horrible details
of crime perpetrated by the mill
tia of Arkansas even the world
is familiar and it's honest people
of all sects and creeds thoroughly
disgdsted. Such scenes cannot
be enacted in Louisiana without
being followed by bloodshed.-
There are enough so-calIed sdes-
perate7 men in the State-men
who had rather die than have
their wives, sisters and children
outraged and butchered-who will
contest on the very borders OF
their territory the right of savage
hordes to invade their homes and
insult their household gods, and
who will die like heroes in their
defense.
Let the honest, sensible men OF
the legislature think well before
they act. They are now forewarn.
ed of the sanguinary evils which
must follow when Louisiana is at
! tempted to be inundated upon the
altar of Radicalism, as Arkansas
: has been, but not as Arkansas
would have been if her people had
foreseen the extent of their misery
and suffering. And we do not
deal in braggadocio, but in rea
, sober truth. We would avoid the
; untold pangs and miseries W.
clearly foresee as theresult OF put
: ting upon the country an army O
: undisciplined and reyengeful mi
litia. We would save life, and w
would save property. Let th'
people alone, and let them cult
/ yate their acres in peace. Let th'
: negro alone, and let him max,
' money, as thousands have don,
/ the past year. But, if we are II
have war, let the legislature sa,
$50, in a formal manner, and th'
people willhave ammunitionrea
at a moments notice. OUGHT,
. Telegraph.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

~ According to late Paris adj
vices, Louis Napoleon is going i'll
to the newspaper business. Unless
he has a pile he'll get busted sure.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

u Beware of women who seem
very sweet. Dealers in candy are
not always candid.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-01-01
PUESiPS.

The social arithmetic puzzles which
we gave last eek have arous ed a good
degree of interest. We have received a
good many answers to them, some of
which give correct answers to both. some
TO one. aud sill more to neither. Some
one-a lady. we think-who writes on
handsome, initial paper, in a plain. round
hand, says: In answer to your ii ST puz-
zle | would say. the last named speaker
is Utcie to the invalid How is that? If
the speaker is uncle, the invalid would
then be neice-and the man expressly
says he is thankful he has no neice. But
in the second puzzle this corresponds mt
was more successful, and gave the cor
rect solution. Another correspondent.
writing from Burke, does not attemp; 10
solve the first puzzle, but lavishes his
a :timttic OF the second. and sums up The
the shOemaker'S loss as follows: 10
one pair shoes. 81. TO paid customer ia
change 81. To the counterfeit bill which
he had to redeem. S5-rotal loss. $1,000
Others think the shoe dealer lost ST. while
one i sure he lost only 81. One core
spondcnt thinks the brothers were half
brothers, and that the last one mentioned
Was not related to the neice OF the former.
Among all our letters. but one giveS the
correct answer to both problems, which is
this: The brother that was glad he had
no neict. was dther to the invalid. CO.
The shoe deale's loss was S5-the shoes
aud 81 !; no mole and no less than it would
nave been ii he had been able to give his
customer the change without the aid OF
the grocer. " no will send Us some more
good puzzles: Those sending us prob
lens must give also the demonstration 1T
illt. same time.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-01-01
RObbed -fg0iH.

Simon Pec>'s house. on the road be-
wctn this place and DaLville. was en-
cred on Tuesday evening of last week.
About ten o'clock at night one of the fam
.ly hai occasion to go into the hont pa
If the house. when he found a window
pen. Mr.. Peck at once began to investi-
ate. when ne found that some one had
broken into he house and pied open Il
hest, breaking the lock, and taking the t.
rom 500. Mr.. Peck tracked the man
away from the house. and picked up 500
II the missing money. hch the thief al
topped in climbing over a fence. This is
he second time Mr.. Peck house has been
pui %lariously entered. and tom the ma
are OF the robbeIies ii would seem they
yele committed by some one acquainted
oijh the premises.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-01-01

The Ere prs- gives the following ac-
rnuut # Il brutal uuIIaye: l. i Sa'ur
lay evening". us our Iowu>mtn. Mr.. l.
.Iohonuutt stepped out o. the side walk
- front of + {. St"rr', y CO : store in
W IuuuSki, lac was acco-icl bv one OF
hrcc men VITO were standing in Il group
near hv. and kcd if his name WAS n t
Juhonnutt. Ga his reply III the atlirma-
i've. The man said tlat he JuhunnuiI)
wed him - 30 'ur labor. and had uw ed
I some IA wears, and wished 10 know
whether he WAS ready Ia ply him. Mr..
tb III rh' claim, upon which the man
ours I'll hin. and said he'd '.have il out
OF his skin, then," an ! striking him i'll
the face aI the same moment, knocked
him s,nselcss. Mr.. Jnhpmnntt has IL
din rec Election OF Il struggle, and that i
iii he remembers. Il till after lie WAS pick
ID up and brought home. He was Sc
vcrc.v kicked or brare.1 about the head
AMI eyes, but Is BOW in fair way of Ie
ro,cry. Constable Drew WAS lmmedi-
a!cIy sent tor AMI arrested one Peter
Cameron for committing the assault.
IL" admitted the deed, and plead gross
;nroXicalion AS his only excuse.
ESSEN COUNTY.
The hnilling occupied by DR.. Don
anI Geo Il IhIu>"n', drug store and Mr..
>i.,lc's grocery and rl',hi 9 store 1T J.
land Pond, was burned on The morning
OF the 18th lust. Goods mostly saved.
Elder ). {. Smith is going from West
Char rstnn to III md Pond 10 preach to
hc Frrcwill b ip lists 5 ,lary $500.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The death OF Hiram I5Comhour III
Fletcher. on the / h lust, WIS the fourth
,.;l~r If mau-l lughter that has occurred
ia Fr-Irlic" wi hin 1t f " We ,r-, and thus
far tlcr.. has been no cunvrrtlun of any
accused party. Scott {. broIh-r-in- law
ct lh,- same Bonmh"ur) Was acquitted
lor HI hng Baley, Futon for killing
Chase, and Maiden for the alleged muir
der OF las vile.
Mr. Kennedy of St. Adams has pat
entcd Il clock thai runs ny electricity. IL
has tut t, rec wuee!s, no weights OF
springs, and never requires winding UP.
\ >msie cock and battery can be con-
necled with many diaIS.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
The sland.r suit at Barton, John
'irpp ~. & Il Leland, as declJed 10y
referees, after beg III court two years,
10y giving the piiihtti one dollar dam
ages
Christmas was crlebI;,tod in becom
- mum Al both churches in Barton
in Coventry, lr''shurg. Greensboro ano
Jay.
Isaac Prkrr and wife of Coven.r,
celebrated their g,.len welding las
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-01-01

dred dollars. and that too, at a time when
the prospects of the Portland and Ogdens-
bur" railroad were only in the dim future.
In view OF such results. we would ask.
who can calculate the future Of our town.
now that the railroad has become fixed
fact?
w. II. Hill has sold his building lots n
Pearl street one to Normal Miller and the
other to Francis Bingham. Capt. E. W.
Harrington has bought lot on the east
side OF the Pass umpic, south of tn e catho-
lie cemetery. and intends putting up a
house on it the coming spring. Capt. w.
\. Pierce has also bought building lot on
Portland street.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-01-01
An Invaluable Medicine for the Purifying
of the Blood,

DIR. J. W. PnLAND'S HUMOR DOCTOR,
positive remedy fr all kinds Of IIumors scrofula,
scurvy, salt rheum eryipeias nette rash bos esrbun-
cle ulcers and all obstinate affections OF the skin
mercur di ease. and every aint Of the system Dys-
p psia and tho iginiting II the derange-
ment Of tie digestive organ, viz bilious complaints,
neuralgia nervous affections lie che, lauguor loss of
appetite, epre sion of p and costiveness. tmyl4
We Claim THAT IS sAwYER's sALvE is
en- ell dife cnt from Ill others.
Tha the i gr at many good Sslvss offered for
sal but none good . Mis- Sawyer's Salve.
IhJt family should have box at this Of
tie yer.
Tn t it will do al and even more than 1t is recon-
mendcd 20 do.
Put up in boxes At n cts. 30 cts and 81 each.
re saving is made by taking lLrge box.
sod by all dru ii T..
ira hex free by mail On receipt Of sixty
i've rcGta, b.
IT, L. NJ ROBBINS, Rockland, Maine.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-01-01

on investigation he discovered his tobacco
in his pocket. He did not then mistrust
anything wong, but accidentally looking
into the ragged end 81 the plug. he discov-
cred little white powder. He took the
piece of tobacco to some medical men.
when they analvzed the powder. and told
him it was strychnine. ard that there was
enough of it in the tobacco te kill twenty
men. Mr. Miles does not knotc who made
this dasta dly attempt on his life. but he
has his suspicious; AMI we hope the cow
ardly perpetrator may yet be brought to
Justice.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-01-01
DOES II Pan

The proprietor OF manufacturing bust
less in this town. not many years estab-
.ished. told us the past month hat the adj
sc Using he had done had brought him
lew customers the past year. He adver-
Uses both by circulars and in the newspa-
perS. perhaps to the amount of thirty or
iorty dollars per annum.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-01-01
!.OHI Business.

J. ". Bairows OF Watcrisai raised the
past season lorty-four turkeys which he
old tor so. But the most remarkable
art OF the story i. he ha,! only two tUr-
,eys to begin with, and the $40 i the pre-
'uct OF those two turkeys, with little
clip some hens gave them in ha'chnr the
.Lgs. He has good @obDler and two
zen turkeys left. We ihink those Two
urkev> paid their way pretty well.
y correspondent writes Us that c. z.
,.yman OF Morri>town killed four halt
.;rahma chickens this tall the dresser
weight OF which was - lbs. or j pounds
piece. Who tells 4 larger story?
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-01-01
The GrcwtA Of On, VjIloge.

Those of our citizens who can remcm-
Der our village as it was twenty years ago,
with but single house between the mouth
of Sleepcr's river aud ?addock's village.
Mil be stIu X with the growth of the town
If they will stand at the east end of Pros
vect street and survcy the valley east OF
them. Perhaps the most Noticeable
growth within couple of yeaIs past. has
been on The cast side of the PaSSump-ic
river. We are II eshly reminded of this
tact by learning that Gen. a. Harlrigh
Hill Che pioneer OF Caledonia street) has
sold his house aud lot. (tormelly owned
5y James CIam,) to William IL. Hill.
marble dealer. OF this place. Tor nineteen
humdl ed collars. We hope that Mr.. lii
nav be as successful in lbs real eStale OPP
e. ationS in that part OF the village as the
2euvi al has before him. Oar citizens will
remember the condition OF the east side"
seven years ago. when the general pur-
chased what has been known as the
Harris ILL.," and all the land on CaledO-
| mia street. including t. two houses theI e.
on. tOI a small sum. To-day there a 2
about ", e'ty dwelling houses on that
| purchase. and ''more in prospect. rs
an Illus! ration of the advance in real es, ale.
take tor example u lot OF land four hun
dIcd bv three hundred feet. si,uated Oh the
road leading to Passumpsic village, join
iAg the Catholic cemetery on the south Ga
seemingly worthless swamp and SAND
hiiD which was purchased By General
Hill sin years ago. for thee hui d ed dol.
la :. from which he has realized in sales
OF lots during the year 1868, sixteen hun