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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-25

v
the Shreveport and Moscow road
from the Bellevue and Red River
road to the west bank of Clark's
bayou.
w. W. Carloss, overseer of the
Shreveport and Moscow road from
the west bank Of Clarke's bayou
to Moscow.
Peter Richardson, overseer of
the Minden and Point road from
Boone's ferry on Daucheat to the
west bank of Boone's creek.
r. H. Davis, oyerseer of the
Minden and Point road from the
west bank of Boone's creek to the
Cobb old place.
d. G. Marshall, overseer of the
Minden and Point road from the
Cobb old place to the Bellevue and
Red River road.
j. S. Dennard, overseer Of the
GREGG landing road.
j. G. McDade, overseer of the
Bellevue and Red Riverroad from
Fillmore to Mrs. Haughton's place.
A. III. Burns, overseer of the
Bellevue and Red River road from
Mrs. Haughton place to the north
bank of Fox Skin bayou near Jor-
dan Mims's.
John w. Rains, overseer of the
Bellevue and Red River road from
the north bank of Fox Skin bayou
to east end of Red chute bridge.
ROAD ovERsEERs-WARD NO. 6
f. G. Hodges, overseer of the
Minden and Arkansas road from
the ward line near W. B. Bryan's
place to the Baptist church.
A. g. Applewhite, oyerseer oi
the Minden and Arkansas road
from the Baptist church to the
Parham old place.
Geo. HOrtman, Oyerseer of the
Minden and Arkansas road from
the Pcrham old place to Cypress
break.
Jordan Pope, overseer of the
Minden and Sykes ferry road from
the north end of the bridge OF
French Greek. to the ward lint
near the Chaffe place.
III. B. Coyle, overseer of tht
Minden and Sykes ferry road from
the Baptist church to the bridg,
on French creek.
B. 2. Deck, overseer Of Belle
vue and and Arkansas road from
Cotton Valley to I. NJ. Galloway
well.
j. NJ. Doyle, overseer of tn,
Bellevue and Arkansas road from
I. M. Callaway's we'll to the war,
line near Mrs. Faircloth's.
VIM. Lennard, overseer of th
road from the Minden and MAG
nolia road to Sykes's ferry.
| Milton Carter, Overseer of tn
:Minden and Magnolia road.
VIM. Oakley, overseer of tn
Cotton Valley and Arkansas roaC
Tim. Oakley, overseer of th
road from Martins ferry to th
Arkansas line.
j. B. Baker, overseer of the roa
from. Martins ferry to the Minde
and Magnolia road.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-25
R. F. Fort.

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Bellevue, Bossit
N parish, La v6nl6
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21

You are the architects Of your own Tor
tunes Rely upon your strength Of holy
and soul. Take for your motto, seli,rc
lance, honesty and industry; fer your
star, faith, perseverance and PLUCK, sn6
inscribe on your banner, Dc just and
fear not" Don't take too much advice;
keep at the helm, and steer your own
shin. Strike cut. Think well OF your
self. Fire above the mark You intend to
hit. Assume youT position Don't prac-
ticc excessive humility; you cant get
above your level, as water DON run up
hill-haul potatoes in a cart over
. rough road, and the small Po-
tatoes will 90 to the bottom.
Energy. iuvincibIe determination with
a r;ghf motive, are the levers that
rule the vorid. The great art oi com
handing is t. takr fair share ot the
work. Civillty costs nothing and buys
everything. Don't drink don't smoke
don't swear: don't gamble; DON'T stesl
don't deceive don't tattle. lie pelre
he generous; be kind. study hard play
hard. BE in earnest. lie seli-rehani'
read good books. Love your fellow man
as your cod: love your country anu OBEY
The laws: love truth; love virtue. A.
wavs 90 what your conscience tells You
10 be a duty, and leave the consequence
with God = ErciTqce
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21
The Sun Spots.

We are reaching the maximum of solar
spot activity, and we may also look for
some grand auroral displays in connection
with 1t, after which there will succeed a
period OF comparative rest for the next
eleven years on the surface of the great
orb which rules our system. The precise
nature OF the mysterious bond which
unites sun-spots and auroral displays, Is
a question which just now is full of alb
sOrblng interest to astronomers. They
are evidently on the eve of some great dis
covery which will unite the chain whose
links they hold, and gave clearer under
standing of the laws which govern the
material universe, revealing the harmony
and symmetrical beauty of the forces
whose action they now imperfectly com
prehend.
An English observer records i'm the Lon
don Times some interesting observations
which he made on the 10th of February.
There were then eight groups of spots
visible on the sun, some OF them Of enor-
nous dimensions. Four of these groups
were situated i'm the suns northern hemi-
sphere, two in the equatorial regions and
two in the southern hemisphere. The
largest single spot had a length of two
minutes OF an arc by a mean breadth Of
one minute, which is equal to superb
cial area of Ass, ,0O0, 900 millions of square
miles, or seven times the entire surface of
the globe.
Obser vatiOns made a few DAYS later,
exhibited an entire change. The northern
hemisphere of the sun presented most
remarkable linear series Of six groups of
spots, parallel with his equator, each
group separated by the average length of
one group from the next in order, and the
whole forming connected chain of not
less than 100000 miles in length,
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21

trifed with. He had proofs against me
too strong to slight, and he held me to bail
to such vast amount that could not get
bonds. / had to go to prison.
On the following day the papers were
full of it. To add to the excitement,
wrote confession of my misdeeds, which
was circulated everywhere. 1t was ter
rifle blow tc the Neverses and my wife
| sent for my employer / told him all.
l had only used it to show. The money
| had spent was all my own-the savings
of years. None of it had gone to my wife,
however. l had made her presents of
Jewels, but they all turned out to be paste
My employer forgave me. He had not
lost cent through me. He shook hands
warmly.
GOD bless you, my poor boyr' he
cried. "Your desire for revenge has mis-
led you. May you be forgiven as 1 for
give your
He exerted himself for me, but could do
nothing. My ofiense had been too great
was sentenced to five years solitary i'm
prisonment.
Here l am now. My wife has never
been near me. hear she and her father
went to California. Perhaps she has mar
ried again. If so, wish her Joy. But if
she has, when l get out of prison, I'll
track her and make her give her new hus-
band up again.
Courteous reader, through the bars of
his cell felOn wishes YOU adieu.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21

There are people who think it small
matter whether beet costs fifteen or thirty
cents per pound. What are fifteen cents
to lofty soul? But more thoughtful
persons find that the large results of the
life of n civilized community are varied by
the size of the fractions which are inces-
sanity multiplied into each other.
If one makes it II personal question, it
may be laid down as one of not more than
three or four rules for living, that one must
know just how many cents there are in u
dollar. Or, to take Mr.. Micawber's YER
sion Income, twenty pounds; expenses,
nineteen pounds and eleven pence; re-
suit, happiness. Income, twenty pounds ;
expenses, twenty pounds and one shilling !;
result, misery.
Take your bills for any year, and look
through them carefully. The items below
one dollar are not only the most numer
Gus, but they make the largest sum. The
, trifles spent for post prandial cigars and
ike nameless clements OF expenditure, do
not get into bills at all; but twenty to
forty per cent. of our earnings dribble out
of our purses i'm fractional currency.
Most OF us are engaged in a war with
cents, and eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty.
Mankind will never be agreed upon a
list of necessities. But, though no gene
raj statement is possible, tits easy to set
down the necessities of any people. With
the middle class--a class determined by
means only-thesc prime wants are meat,
bread, vegetables, fruits, coffee, tea, sugar,
and few others To this it must be
added that house and furniture take one
thIrd sf our incomes. Clothing, fuel, ser
vice and items take another third, and
are kept within that limit only by q very
vigilant management of the bureau OF the
interior. The man who has spendthrift
at the head of his office may as well go
under at once. In short, not more than
one third OF our incomes can be saved for
the table; generally less is left for this
purpose Western Monthly.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21
4 Stupid Witness.

Those who are Il the habit of attending
police anu other courts must have OBJ
served the difficulty under which the law
yers and Judges labor sometimes IN get
ting witnesses to testify il, legal form.
The following, which recently took place
at Cincinnati court, is an amusing and
perfect example A man had been caught
in the act of theft, and pleaded in cxten-
uation that he was drunk
Court Ito the policeman who was wit
ness).
"That did tie man say when you ar
rested him 2"
Witness. ale said he was drunk"
Court. "I want his precise words, just
as he uttered them; lie didn't use the
pronoun he, did he? He didn't say he
was drunk"
Witness. ooh, yes, he did-hc said he
was drunk; he acknowledged the corn"
Court (getting impatient at the witness
Stupidity You don't understand me
at all ! want the words as he uttered
them; didn't he say, / was drunk 2"
Witness (deprecatingly). ooh, no,
your Honor. He didn't say yOu was
drunk; l wouldn't allow any man to
charge that upon you in my presence"
Prosecutor Pshaw, you don't com
prehend at all. His Honor means, did
not the prisoner say to you, 4 was
drunk p"
Witness (reflectively). "Well, he
might have said y0u was drunk, hut
didn't hear him."
Attorney for the prisoner. "What the
Court desires is to have you state the
prisoners own words, preserving the pre-
else form Of pronoun that he made use of
in reply. Was it the 1st person, |, the I'd
person, thou, or the third person, he, she
or it? Now, then, sir with severity,
upon your oath, didn't my client say, II
was drunk p"
Witness (gctting madD. "No, he didn't
say yOu was drunk either, but if he had, L
reckon he wouldn't "a lied any. Do you
'spose the poor fellow charged this whole
court with being drunk ?"
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21

A PLEASANT story has lately circulated
about Count Bismarck. A country clergy
man, an old fellow collegian of the
Counts, was anxious to get his son into
the marines, and at length summoned up
courage to address his quondam comrade,
entertaining, however, but faint hopes of
the great Minister remembering him. Not
being much i'm the habit of writing to
grandees, the good man could not for
some time determine how to begin, but
at length commenced his letter, q" Your
Highness," He soon received the follow
ing: "You old blockhead, you do you
think / have forgotten the happy time
when we studied and drank together in
Gottenberg, and when we were so often
waiting on each other? And now, how
can you address me in such foolish way?
Pray never again call me Highness. Let
us continue on the same terms as of old.
As to your boy, send him to me. I'll take
care OF him"
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21
How full of awe.inspiring interest are

How full of awe-inspiring interest are
these sun-spots, with their black nuclei,
their striped penumbre, and their ever
changing formsl How curious are the
tied facule, which the telescope reveals on
their ragged edges! How beyond com
rents in the luminous envelope of the sun,
into which, were we to throw our entire
globe, it would appear in their depths no
larger than rock rolled into the crater of
volcano l-Prouidence (R. ~ Journal.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21
GrandmOther's Spectacles.

THEY had done good work in their day
They were large and round, so that when
she saw thing she saw it. There was a
crack across the upper part of the glass,
for many baby had made them a play
thing, and all the grandchildren had at
some time tried them on. They had some
times been so dimmed with tears that she
had to take them off and wipe them upon
her apron before she could see through
them at all. Her "secOnd sight" had
now come, and she would often let her
glasses slip down, and then look over the
top of them while she read. Grandmoth-
er was pleased at this return of her vision.
Getting along so well without them, she
often lost her spectacles. Sometimes they
would be for weeks untouched on the,
shelf, in the red morocco case, the flap up
lifted. She could now look off upon the
hills, which for thirty years she had not
been able to sec from the piazza. Those
were mistaken who thought she had no
poetry in her soul. You could see it in
the way she put her hand under the chin
o. 3 primrose or cultivated the geranium.
Sitting on the piazza one evening, in her
rocking chair, she saw ladder of cloud
set up against the sky, and thought how
easy it would be for spirit to climb it.
She saw, in the deep glow of the sunset,
a chariot of fire, drawn by horses of fire,
and wondered who rode it. She saw
vapor floating tlinly away az though it
were wing ascending, and grandmother
uttered in low tone: "A vapor that ap
pearcth for little season, and then van
isheth away" She saw hill, higher than
any she had ever before seen on the hori
zon, and on the top of it d kings castle.
The motion of the rocking chair became
slighter, until it stopped. The spectacles
fell cut Of her lap. A child hearing it,
ran to pick them up, and cried: Grand
mother, what is the matter ?" She an
swered not. She never spoke again. Sec
ond sight had come Her vision had
grown better and better. What she could
not see now was not worth seeing. Not
now through a glass, darkly Grand
mother had no more need of spectacles
Rec. Thomas De Watt 1dlnaoge
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21

ACCORDING to Schem's Ecclesiastical Al
manac, the ministers of the evangelical
churches in this country number 43,600,
or one to every 6l9 of the Protestant pop
ulation. The whole number of church
members ia stated to be 6,06l, ,976.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT
PITY PATS PRA YER.

WE'VE dear little lsssie. we've named Pitty fat.
She's got wee kitten she calls Kitty Cat-
Now Pity Pat sleeps In gown snowy "aHe;
While Kitty Cat wears her day clothing al night.
But Pity Patt says she don't like II at sll.
And. pulling the fur out. makes Kitty Cat saRall'
But still she persists in undressing her pet
And falling to dOit, quite angry viii get.
While Kitty Cat cries at what Pity Pat does
To her one little coatee Of silky soft fuz.
Then Pity Pat's sorry, and asks why she cries
AT being fixed tidy FOR shutting her eyes,
Nor saws Now / lay me. =" when going to bed.
But curling up softly. sings puf-r Instead
So Pity Pat tells her. in sOiemnest wsy.
- If you're q bad Kitty Cat. then / must pray.
- Herlay her-dear Father-down sOftly-in bed
Her doesn' t--do nuifn-snd nuffn-her said
'Cepf pur-r-and pur-r-and then goes 70 sleep
But never mind. Father, her little soul keepf'
-SrhO0L ItsLfOr.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21

A BosToN paper says that there are
very few railroads in New England whose
receipts are not now from 100 to 500 per
cent, in excess Of the original estimates.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21
POETRY.
HER CH7GNON ON MY SHOULDER.

ONE dark and dreary winter day.
When snow-drifts fast were melting,
And 'gainst the windows dewy pane
The rainy fakes we're pelting
Beneath the bright gas genial blaze, p,
As outer blasts grew colder,
was seated by my Maggie's side.
with her ettgEaoR on my shoulder
needed not the storm without
Within the sun was shining;
The clouds of life were lifted then
saw the silver lining
And az my darling sweetly smiled.
Ny throboing heart grew bolder;
dreamed, as had never dreamed,
With her ctiqnOn on my shoulder.
dreamed of riches and of fame
Acquired by honest labor;
A name to live when am gone,
And wealth 10 help my neighbor -
dreamed, too, of happy home,
Where growing Old and older,
Her little hand clasped close in nine,
her c1sg80n on my shoulder.
The tide OF years will bear us on;
Our paths are undiverging;
No trOsts OF time can blast the bud,
Nor freeze the love that's singing;
And not until each heart-thrOb cease.
And dust to dust shall molder
Shall forget the blissful time
Her chighOn pressed my sho- -,
-etie Dispatch.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21
A Jealous Sparrom's Keyenge.

In the interior of the Tyne dock wagon
shops the attention of one ef the work
men was attracted 10 the movements ct Il
nair of spsrrOws engaged in CONSTRUCTING
a nest in hollow where two girders met
for the support of the iron root For
several DAYS they laborei most aSsldnousiy
in preparlng their abode, when by some
sudden freak the progress of the tiny fan-
ric was suspended. A few mornings al
terward the ears of the workmen were sa-
luted by loud chirrupinc and fiuttering ot
wings, and from what transpired subse-
quentlv, it was evident that the female
bird had severed the cOnnubial bond, and
enlisted the affections of another, who
now vigorously contested with the re-
iectcd bird for the possession OF the nest.
For several hours the conflict continued,
until the uSurper proved the stronger.
The rejected bird shortly afterward re-
turned and hovered about the spot, en-
parently watching an opportunity Tor re-
venge. This speedily occurred, Tor IN The
course Of short time the newly .loined
pair left for a short period i'm their ao-
sence, the defeated sparrow aprroached
The nest, and placing hls back beneath the
featherv moss, raised il from its resting
place, and sent il 10 the ground. The
SURPRISE Ol the OlncF DlIuS- on hhth u
turn. at beholding the demolition OF Their
dwelling, appeared 10 be great, and was
amusing 10 observe. Notwithstanding
this disaster, however, they commenced
building a second nest in the same place,
the rejected mate watching their proceed
ings with apparent. interest. After two
days of incesSant labor they again leit
for short time, and, taking advantage OF
their absence, the disappointed bird again
demolished their residence. The BIRDS,
on their return, commenced buliclng
their third nest, with what result We know
not.-Our Olra Hr6Side
--s -
THERE are now laid and in operation,
i'm all parts Of the globe, 81 lines of sub
marine telegraph, embracing % 0Jo miles
of distance. Nothing is lacking now 10
an electric girdle around the world but
a line from San Francisco TO China across
the Pacific Ocean.
THE salary of NJ, Emile Olliyler, tfe
ime Minister OF France, Is 100000
francs lie draws il in monthly install
ments His own income. besides, amounts
20 some 10000 francs more.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21

The salary of NJ, Emile Olliyier, tfe
lme Minister OF France, Is 100000
francs lie draws il in monthly install
ments. His own income, besides, amounts
20 some 10000 francs more.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-02-24

An AMERIoAN's VIEW OF AFFAIRS IN
PARIs,-A recent letter from a distin-
gulshed American, resident In Paris,
reviews recent events and their pos
sible consequences as follows: In
Paris there Is much confusion Just now.
An event, an accident, becomes an
epoch or an era quite easily In Paris,
MS YOU know. The recent homicide
by q sort of outside Bonaparte, yet,
after all, a member Of the Imperial
family, has happend ut the worst pos
sible time. 1t sets back or cheeks the
popular current that was beginning to
set In with the new Ministry, and en-
barrasses-I don't think endangers the
Emperor. The killing was on ugly
affair, and the mode Of the trial Is
uglier, and worse still Is the move
ment to prosecute Rochefort, who Is
a Door scamp and had better not be
martyrized. l met a crowd vending
their way to the funeral Of Victor
Noir, and there was an expression In
their faces that / never saw else
where than here, The look was
earnest eyes fixed, mouths compressed,
silence in the ranks, as they fastened
to the funeral, 1t meant mischief
and was determined. But the En-
peror Is politio and wary, and means
to DO Just In this latest turn Of public
affairs. His guiding thought Is the
life of his dynasty, the continuance OF
his line, for this he has cordially &C
cepted a great revolutions constitu-
tional and parliamentary government,
the surrender of .personallsm and Inn
perialism. He has q great power
Of adaptation-what Is greater still, q
wonderful power of appropriating
events, and converting necessities into
concessions. He will not fall In his
lifetime.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-02-24

March," was next performed by the
military band; and the exercises closed
with Dur grand national melody, the
"Star SpaRgled Banner" Here again
the cannon, big drum and the full
force and power Of the entire vocal
and instrumental combination was
called into requisltlon. The effect was
splendid and inspiring In the extreme.
The enthusiastic audience rose to their
feet, with loud cheers and waving of
handkerchief. 1t was a grand scene
Of wild patriotic enthusiasm. Tears
rolled down the cheeks of many in the
excess Of their overweight feelings.
I truly believe that had a big earth
quake happened just then, or had q
huge thunderbolt smashed the building
into total destruction, with a grand
terrific crash, that enthusiastic audi
ence would have gone down with o
wild hurrah Of joy at the congenial
elimination. This Jubilee Is indeed q
grand, triumphant success, so far, and
will doubtless continue so to the close.
Yours truly, ALE DoTEN.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-02-24

TIE LEGAL STATUS OF THE REBEL
MoS.-The decision Of the Supreme
Court Of the United States, in the case
of the United States vs.. Keller, Is an
additional declaration against the pre-
tense that the Government set up under
the rebellion was 4 de tacto one. Keller
was a United States Postmaster before
the war, and owed money to the Gov
crnment at the outbreak Of the rebel
lion. This amount lie paid over under
the order of the so-called Confederate
States to another person, and now that
lie is sued for the balance due from him
10 the Postofice Department, he ell
deavors to set up as a defense that the
act was done under the authority Of the
Confederate States. The Supreme
Court declares that the so-called au-
thority was no authority ; that it had
not the character Of q de tacto Govern
ment. and that Mr.. Keller "must set
tle." These declarations are impor-
tant. If a contrary view Of the Ease
had been taken, the rebellion might
have been considered a speculation,
which to many would have made trea-
sou profitable.