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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26
EFFECTIyE CHRISTIANITY

EFFECTIVE CHRISTIANITY
In regard to that Christianity
which the world most requires
to-day, Bishop Huntington tru-
~ remarks: We want in you
Christianity that is Christian
across counters, over dining
tables, behind the neighbours
back as to his face. We want
in you o Christianity that we
can find in the temperance of a
meal, in moderation of dress, in
respect for authority, in amia-
bility at home, in veracity and
simplicity in mixed society
Rowland Hill useu to say he
would give very little for the
religion of q man whose very
dog and cat were not better for
his religion. We want fewer
gossipping, slandering, glut-
tonous, peevish, conceited, big
oted Christians. To make them
effectual, all our public relig-
ious measures, institutions, be-
nevolent agencies, missions,
need to be managed on q high
toned, scrupulous and unques-
! tionable rule of action, without
evasion, or partisanship, or
overmuch of the serpent's cum
ming. The hand that gives away
the Bible must be unspotted
from the world. The money
that sends the missionary to
the heather must be honestly
earned. In short, the two arms
Of the Church-justice and
mercy-must be stretched out,
working for man, siren CITIZEN
ing the brethren, or else youl
faith is vain, and you are yet in
! your sins.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26
PRICES-A Fair offer.

If the Merchants in your place will not
furnish, or send for the Machines, send us
the retail price, Washer SIS, Extra Wringer
$40, and we will forward either or both ma
chimes, free of freight, to places where no
one is selling and s9sure are we they will
be liked, that we agree to refund the money
if any one wishes to return the machines
free Of freight, after months trial, accord
ing to directions
No husband, father or brother should per
NIT the drudgery OF washing with the hands,
tifty-tw days in thG,year, when it can be
done better, more ext enditiously, with less
labor, and no injury to the garments, by y
Doty Clothes Washer and Universal Wrin-
ger.
Sold by dealers generally, to whom liberal
discounts are made.
H. G. BROWNING, General Agent
v9n2. 81 Cortlandt St, New York.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26

The memory of good actions is
the starlight of the soul.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26

NOTE BY THE SECRETARY OF
oTAFE.-The foregoing act, hav-
ing been presented to the Govern
Or ot the State Of Louisiana for
his approval, aud not having been
returned by him to the House OF
the General Assembly in which it
originated, within the time pre-
scribed by the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana, has become a
law without his approval.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26

In the correspondence be.
tween Generals Sheridan and
Sherman, Sheridan asserts that
in the last eight years eight
hundred persons have been
murdered by Indians within the
limits of his present command,
many being fearfully tortured
and mutilated, and some wo-
men have been ravished sue
cessively. Sheridan declares
that the problem to be decided
is who shall be killed, the whites
or Indians.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26
SWEET OIL FOR POIsONs.-.

SWEET OIL FOR POISONs.-A
farmer says: at is now over
twenty years since | learned
that sweet oil would cure the
bite of q rattlesnake, not know
ing it would cure any other
kind of poison, both on man or
beast. | think no farmer should
be without a bottle of it in the
house. The patient must take
a spoonful of it internally, and
battle the wound for q cure.
To cure a horse, it requires
eight times as much as it does
for a man. Here let me say of
one of the most extreme cases
of snake bite in the neighbour
hood, where the case had been
thirty days standing, and the
patient was given up by his
physicians. | heard of it, and
carried the oil, and gave one
spoonful, which effected a cure.
1t isan untidote for arsenic and
strychnine. 1t will cure bloat
in cattle by eating too freely of
fresh clover it will cure bites
of bees, spiders, or other in
sects, and will cure persons
who have been poisoned by a
low running vine in the mead
ows, called ivy"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26
Revenues.


Some wag records the follow
ing "decisions' under the in
ternaf revenue law:
The latest decisions Of the
Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue coverthe following points:
Parties using paper collars
must use them from the origi-
nal package-that is, from the
box in which they have pur-
chased; and a three cent reve-
nue. stamp be attached to each
one when put on. When the
collar becomes s6iled and is
turned with the clean side out,
it must receive another three
cent stamp, and must also be
conspicuously stamped with the
word "turned." Boxes, when
emptied, cannot be used a sec
ond time, but must be destroy
ed in the room where emptied,
and the assessor furnished with
a certificate of the fact. If
thrown out Of the window, or
carried out in the coal scuttle
or wash tub, such boxes will be
subject to export duty.
"Bootblacks are required to
use their backing just as they
find it when the box is opened,
adding nothing to it whatever.
The act of splitting in the box
and Swearing the contents with
the brush, constitutes the boot
black a mixer, or rectifier, or
manufacturer Of backing, and
he must pay the ordinary man
ufacturer's license. Each boot
polished, for Which the sum Of
five cents is paid by the wearer,
must receive, at the expense of
the bo0tblack, a four and three
quarter cents stamp"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26

REvELs.-They tell a good
thing on Reyels, which causes
me to doubt the confidence of
the Radicals in his intelligence
and loyalty. A few days ago
Wilson, in conversation with
Thurman, remarked, by way OF
a pleasant joke, that as there
were no vacant seats on the
Republican side of the chamber
they had concluded to give
Revels a desk next to him
(Thurman). Wilson thought
Thurman would enter a serious
protest-but he didn't. He
jumped at once to a practical
VIeW OIL the matter ana replled,
"All right. Put him next to
me, and I'll have him voting
with the Democrats on every
question that comes up in less
than a week" Wilson didn't
laugh any more-and Revels
wasn't seated next to Thurman.
The Radicals took him to their
own side, evidently regarding
him as a tender lamb of the fold,
in need of a little nursing
[Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26

A Tennessee revenue officer
reports that a ''barle ofwhiskie
seezed by me for not being
stampt has been stoll by ruffins
with faces Disguised with
kraip."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26

Not content with the havoc
which our whisky and small
pox are making among the In
dams, Commissioner Delano
has determined to hurry up the
work of determination by fore
ing the poor devils to pay a
revenue tax.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26

Man must be a worker. He
is nothing, he can be nothing,
be can achieve nothing, fulfil
nothing, without working.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26

In deing goodto others, there
is an enjoyment of which the
sordid, selfish man knows moth
ing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26
stray Sale.

yHstrayed before the undersigned, on tho
T. 18th day of January, 1870, By Wm;
Allen, and sill be sold at BelleS ne, "a,
for cash, to the highest bidder, on saturday
the 10th day Of July, 1870, smalp BAL
HORSE PONY Appraised at wy. :.
The owner is requested to come forwarc'
prove property, pay charges, &c.
j. ii. LOTION, Stray Master e
Bellevue, La, Jan. 10, ls7&
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26

In Baltimore, nearly 5000
women find steady employ
ment throughout the season in
packing oysters.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-03-26
How LoNGIT TAKES TO KILL

How LONGIT TAKEsTo KILL
The average duration oflife, after
the commencement of the habits
of intemperance, is: Among me-
chanics, working and laboring
men, Is years; among traders,
dealers and merchants, II years;
among professional men and gem
tleInen, 10 years; among women,
IA years. Those incorporate on
spirits have a greater mortality
than those Incorporate on beer.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-10-21

A recent number OF once Week CON
tains tins account of curious and now
obsolete mode of execution
The inhabitants of the forest of
Hard wick which was co-extensive with
the parish of Halifax had mp to 1850
the custom that if felon was taken
within their liberty with goods stolen
out of or within the liberty of the said
forest, either handtabeu3, baekjeraad, or
co1fessU.d, of the value of thirteen pence
half-penny, he should, after three mar
kets or meeting days within the town of
Halifax next after such apprehension, be
tried, and, being condemned, be taken
to the gibbet and have his head cut off
from his body He was, however, to b5
publiely and deliberately tried 10y IL jury
composed of frithburgers of the said lib-
erty. The process was this On arrest
he was brought before the Lord Blilitl,,
who lived at Halifax, kept the Jail, had
the custody of the axe, and was the legal
executioner. He issued his summons to
the constables Of the four townships of
the said liberty, requiring four frithbur
gers from each to appear before him on
certain day to inquire into the truth of
the charge. At the trial the nccuser and
accused We're confronted before the jury,
and the stolen goods produced. If the
accused was acquitted he was immedl-
itely liberated ; if condemned, he was at
once executed, If that was the principal
market day if not, he was placed III
the stocks, with the stolen goods on his
back except they were too heavy, when
th.y laid "a frAnt of thn Il, IL.
that all might see The execution always
took place on the great market day, IN
order 10 strike the more terror through
ont the district and was performed by
means of an instrument called gibbct,
which was raised upon platform four
feet high aud thirteen feet square, faced
on every side with stone, and ascendrd
by flight of steps. Ia the middle Of
tins platform WAS placed two upright
pieces Of timber, fifteen feet high, joined
at the top by II transverse beam. Within
these was n square block Of wood, four
feet and "A half long, which moved up
and down by means OF grooves made for
that purpose, to the lower part of which
was fastened an iron axe, which weighed
seven pounds twelve ounces. This axe
thus fixed was drawn up by means of II
cord and pulley At the end of the cord
was pin, fxed to the block, which kept
it suspended until the moment Of cxecu-
tion when, the culprit being placed on
the block, the pin WIS withdrawn and
his head instantly severed from his body
The Earl of Morton, passing through
Halifax about the middle of the sixteenth
century, witnessed one Of these cxecu-
tions, ordered model to be made of the
gibbet, and on his return 10 Scotland of
which he was Regent had somewhat
/ similar one constructed which roman
ing long unused, was called The Maid-
On. But on the Sd day Of june, 1851,
he was himself executed by II. The
number executed by the Halifax gibbct
from 1911 to 1860 was forty-nine This,
combined with the strict diciplino of the
Hull constables, doubtless gave rise to
the thieves and vagabonds prayer
"from Hull and Halifax, good Lord
deliver us. y
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-10-21
Terrible Accident at Mont Blanc.

The Journal de Genere gives the follow
ing account of terrible accident upon
Mont Blanc =
Three travellers, an lrishman and two
Amerlcans, with three guides and five
pOrters, left ChamounIx on Monday
morning, to arrive that day and sleep at
the Grands-Mulets. The weather was
fine, but the next morning there was SO
violent storG that the inhabitants of
Chamounix naturally supposed that the
travellers would have given up the idea
of an ascent Of Mont Blame, and would
not have quilted the Grands- Mulets.
There was, therefore, no 1isquet res
pecting them i'll the valley. News came,
1t is true, III the evening, both from the
Croix de Flegere and from Il 3revent
that they had been seen starting for
Mont-Blanc IN spite of the tempest. and
that they had arrived upon the Drome-
darys Hump, an hours march distant
from the summit ; that they had been
seen suddenly to collect together and to
hold fast one to another, and then to dis
appear i'll the snow wreaths raised by the
wind. l., spite Of this, however, people
persisted IN believing that they must
have sheltered themselves against the
wind III some nook or crevice of the ice,
and therefore there WAS no great occa-
sion to hear of the result However.
when the next day the proprietor of the
Pavilion de Ia Pierre Pointue arrived,
expressing his astonishment at finding
that 10 one had redescended, people be-
gan TO have serious apprehensions regard
ing the fate of the travellers The day
was too far advanced to render it posi-
bic to make any immediate search but
on the following morning thirty-two
young men of the valley went off in
search of them. Unfortunately the
shocking weather which prevailed pre-
vented them from passing the pavilion
Of Plerre-Pointue, situated at two hours
journey from Chamounix. They had
to retrace their steps without being able
to do anything. On the following day
new attempt WAS made by twelve cour-
ageous young men; but again the rain
and the wind would not permit them to
scale the mountain. At the hour 81
/ writing there remains no hope that these
unfortunate people have escaped death
1t is probable that at the moment when
together on the top of the Bosses du
Dromadaire, they were making u supreme
effort to withstand the tempest, So terri
bic on those heights that their efforts
Were of no avail, and that they were pre-
cipitated together upon the Glacier du
Mage which spreads out on the side of
the Alec Blanche We have been fur
nished with the names of two of the
guides, Jean Balmatek and Joseph Bre-
ton, who were well known ON account OF
their numerous aScenSions One of the
porters was IA young Garde Mobile, who,
on account of being the support of his
family, was excused from service and
sent home few days previously. His
father was killed some years ago on the
Grands-Mulets by the falling of stone
detached from rock. This terrible
drama has produced at Chamounix an
emotion which we shall not attempt to
describe. The whole of the valley is
literally in mourning,
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-10-21

The WOUNDED MARSHAL. L Unino
publishes the following letter, which
bears the signature of ''Sister of Char
ity" who was attending upon Marshal
Mcmahon at Pourru aux Rois:
Iou behold me prisoner, and fnry
happy prisoner, | can assure you. Mar
shal MacMahon is as well rs we can ex-
pect. What IA n, and powerful organi
zationl | have never before encountered
a sick person so patient AS the Marshal.
Although for the last eight days he has
been compelled to keep i'll the same posi-
tion, so that it has been impossible to
make his bed-which has no hair mat
tress-yet never II murmur has escaped
him. He has been cut and hewn in the
most frightful manner in his wound,
which traverses the whole of the hip,
and in which child of ten years old
could easily insert the finger, yet never II
groau. Whatever one gives him, what
ever one does, it is always Every well,
dear sister '--never II murmur against
the causes or the effects of our misfor-
tunes. He has done what he could, and
believes that the others have done the
same. As soon as he is sufficiently re-
covered to support the voyage without
danger, he will take his departure for
Prussia, to rejoin his unfortunate sol
diers. He says the commander ought to
set good example. The Marshal and
his wife are goodness Itself. am busily
occupied iii preparing linen and Char
PIE" for the poor wounded, because the
good Marshal wishes that all who are
near him should be attended to just the
same as himself
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-10-21
An Old Debt.

Nearly thirty years ago a luckless boy
and his infant sister were left by the
death of their parents to the mercy of
legal guardians, who, having despotic
control of them by formal indenture,
was at liberty to expand for their bene-
fit the treatment generally i'll store for
nobody's children. In Paris, Maine,
where he lived and led choir, this
guardian was in high popular repute for
his religious severity, being one Of those
too numerous churchmen who talk the
New Testament and live the Old and no
sooner We're the orphans fairly within
his administration, than his inclination
to cuff, box, and heartily thrash them
for their sins was too strong to be ress-
ted Regarding them AS children of in
iquity, although that was by no means
their fathers name, he scourged them
before him daily until they were too old
to stand it longer, and then endeavored
to secure the girls future piety and I'M
happiness by striving to force her into
marriage with his son. Such matri-
mOnial consummation would have kept in
the good mans own family a certain
homestead coming to the maiden at her
+ magnify anu, 40 Iltl DlOiHtI Niltl llbl
approve the project, the attempted
prosecution Of the latter precipitated
revolt. BY advice and aid of her fellow
sufferer Ill the house of bondage, the
damsel fled for rescue and shelter to the
home of distant relative in anoth
er State, leaving her adviser and abet-
tor to face the deacon. After that.
OF course, there was grand scene be
tween guardian and remaining ward,
ending in the withdrawal of the latter
from the household With the sears of
his numerous earlier beatings indelible
upon his back without "A cent in his
pocket, or friend to help him, the young
man went out into the world beggar,
but resolute to bring his prosecutor to
reckoning and himself to fortune some
way. Working his way by land and
water to New York, he took passage be
fore the mast on clipper bound for
California, and in due time reached the
land of gold. Nearly fifteen years of
tireless labor and the usual vicissitudes
there brought him the ownership of a
fine farm, u mile square, near Los Ange-
los. At the present time he is one of the
most prosperous workers III his part of
the State and could afford to forgive
and forget any ordinary injury of his
earlier years but i'll the injustice and
heartless prosecutions of his guardian,
particularly as shown to his sister, there
was something to rankle ierccly lmfor-
given III his nature through all the
changes of three lustres. One day a
correspondent of the Hartford Courani
met him on the cars going northward
from Nashua, and learned that he was on
his way to his old unhappy home in
Maine for the particular and single
purpose of paying the debt justly due
the guardian of his youth in one relent-
less horsewhipping. He had left his
home in California upon this elrand only,
was infexible in his determination to
execute his long-brooded revenge at all
costs and hazards, and has, before now,
done the retributive deed upon the ty-
rant of his boyhood, unless batlied by
the timely fight of that parsonage.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-10-21

tant book-keepers, and at the age of
nineteen he took his place at the head of
the counting-room for to an aptness at
figures and an untiring application to
duty, he added strength Of moral in
tegrity, which made his services almost
invaluable
And now he has grown up to be a
man, and the bright-eyed girl who was
50 intimately connected with that one
dark hour of his life las been his wife
for several years. He is still in TIE
house of Mr.. Phelps, and occupies the
position of business partner, the old
merchant having given up work, and
now trusting all to his youthful associate.
Gilbert Goodwin has seen MANY Young
men fall, and he has often shuddered in
view of the wide road of temptation
which is open to so many more and he
will have no persons in his employ to
whom he cannot afford to pay sum
sufficient to remove them from inevita.
bic temptation.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-10-21
Don Piatt and the Postmaster.

| had been at Lake George some two
weeks without getting any mail matter,
although | had sent over almost every
day. Wearied out at last, went myself
| found a little sandy haired, heavy
iawed, full stomached man pegging away
ut an old boot on cobbler's bench. |
asked the illustrious son of St Crispin
for the postmaster.
I'm him, responded the shoemaker
He ought to be Sam or him, but
| looked incredulouly upon the fact as
serted or referred to, of Postmastership
He continued to drive i'll the pegs, whist
ling rs shoemakers are wont to whistle,
III waXy way, tune that, when ac
compained by the proper words, refers
to some sort of eccentricity of the weas-
el when popping, whatever that may be.
| mildly suggested that If he were the
Postmaster | would be pleased to get my
letters and papers.
What's your name q he asked, sus-
pending the whistled popping of the
weasel, but going on with his exasper-
atlng work
| responded by giving the cognomen,
and was told, briefly, i'll words to wit
" Amt nothing for you" and then he
took up the extraordinary weasel. / re-
monstrated, and asserted that there must
be some mistake.
Well, he said, "go look for your
self There's the P's.
did as directed, and found eighteen
letters and pile of newspapers
"Wh hat the devil do you mean by say
inu | had M mail 2'
SIS that your name y he asked, coolly.
Certainly it is.
"Wel, l thought it was Daniel
Pratt
| was rapidly resolving into an indig-
nation meeting with divers resolutions,
and IA strong tendency to punch some
body's head
You thought that name Daniel Pratt,
did you? Well, it strikes me that it
would be well for you to learn reading
and writing before playing the devil in a
post Office"
"Well, stranger" he responded, slls-
pending both music and work, "ef | had
such an outlandish name as your'n I'd
go back and be "A baby, SO as to be christ
ened over, would"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-10-21

How WOMEN ARE BIRCHED.-It does
not appear that the ladies of Russia are
any better than their sisters in this
country and yet the rod is not spared
on them. They are hogged enough to
make them very superior beings, if there
Is any virtue III licking lasses. A book,
with the inviting title " ! he Rod in all
Countries, says that anecdotes of the
tiagellation of ladies in Russia could be
multiplied to any extent The author
says: :" 1t was stated a few years ago
III German newspaper that three of the
most beautiful women Of st. Petersburg
were driven direct from one of the I'M
perial balls III their own carriages, in all
their tinery of satin and lace, to the po-
lice station, and, after being mounted on
mans shoulders, with their dress tuck
ed up, were smartly whipped with birch
rod. No explanation was given, but
they We're dismissed with the significant
caution to hold their tongues III future.
At another Imperial party some young
ladies, who had been chatting too freely,
were politely escorted by maitre d ho-
tel to distant apartment, where, being
made to kneel over an ottoman, they
were severly smacked by female house
keeper, with their satin slippers, and
then sent home. Ii this is true, it ex-
plains the woman's rights movement that
has lately attracted attention in Russia
This objection Of women to the rod prob
ably comes of permitting them to hive
the alphabet. There is really no safety
when this is conceded.