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The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-06-01

TnE now Presbyterian church in this town
was dedicated on Sunday night with appro,.
pirate ceremonies. Rev. A. NJ. Stewart, oil
san Francisco, preached the dedicatory ser
mon
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-06-01
Notice to Mechanics.

PREMIUM OF $500
VIII be eivcn for the bost Model Of two wheels OF
glass and iron. for this Distribuion.
fhe Trustees reserve the right TO reect any and al
modsls mylb-ln
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17
BELLEVUE, La,
Saturday, December IL, 1870.

Have all our officers elect
sent down their eligibility
oaths ? No commission will be
sent unless this be done, and
very likely the time has already
expired wherein this oath
should have been sent.
We have been in need of
Justices and Constables ever
since the adoption of the pres
ent Constitution. Our people
should bestir themselves a little
to get these officers appointed
for every ward.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17
THE BO.SSIER B1NNER.
W. II. soASLASD, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
TIE II VI S

The Bossier Banner win be issued every
Saturday morning. Subscription, per an
mum, Three Dollars--in advance. 81 SO for
six months s for three mouths
Advertisements inserted at 3 per square
of ten lines or less, first insertion-50 cents
FOR each subsequent insertion.
Cards of one square, or less-$l2 per
aanum. Six menths-$7 so. Three months
s..
Announcements of Candidates for Office
$40
EY~ Obituary notices, when exceeding a
square will be charged as advertisements.
ty9 All articles published for the benefit
OF parties or individuals, at their own sole
itatinn, will be charged for as advertise
ments
~ Editorial notices, or any matter oc
cupying spat outside irregular advertising
columns, charged at the rate of % cents per
line.
W n b. Proceedings and resolutions
of public and political meetings, &c, charg-
cd as advertisements.
No deductions from the above rates to
agents except commissions
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

We love to call the attention
of the public to the Insurance
our law donates to the people
by the Homestead exemption,
and earnestly wish our small
farmers would take advantage
of it. We think our Legisla-
ture might better the law in
some particulars. Two addi-
tional cows and calves should
be exempted in lieu of the OK
en-. The provisions should be
enough fora year certainly, aud
not left doubtful, as in the pres
ent law. After the death of
the farmer, the creditors can
force q sale of the Homestead
and exempted property, and the
necessitous widow and children
get only a thousand dollars,
instead of two thousand that
was exempted for the man. In
practice, this widows thousand
is often worth two or three
thousand to her, for our people
are loath to bid against her
but it might not always be so.
1t might be better, therefore,
to allow her to retain the iden-
tical exempted property of her
husband.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

We believe it is held by our
State authorities that no cleo
ton for Police Jurors took
place in November. The old
members should therefore come
together again at the regular
meeting ON first Monday in
January, as there is much press
ing business. Applications for
appointments to fill the vacan-
cies should be made immediate
". Wards T., and Q, have
never been represented at all.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

That article of the Constitu-
ton which forces the sale of all
lands under orders of Courts
to be in small parcels, has had
the effect in all cases to lessen
the price. This has become so
notorious that all partitions are
now being made in kind, if at
all feasible. Thus it is having
the effect to divide up the lands
in a way not expected, and so
may work some good. But the
evil far preponderates. There
is no present necessity for an
agrarian law in Louisiana, for
there is room enough and waste
land enough in all conscience.
We had just as well let pos
terity take care of itself. The
article ought to be repealed, for
it is hard that minors in all in
stances of forced sales of their
property should be injured,
merely to carry out the ideas OF
French communists.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17
NATIONAL BANKS.-The re

NATIONAL BANKS.-The re
port of the Controller of the
Currency will show that on the
first of October the number of
national banks that had been
organized was 1715, of which
IS had been placed in liquida-
ton, leaving 1927 in operation,
with a paid in capital of $780,
476,311. The amount Of United
States bonds deposited as Sc
curity for the payment ofcircu-
lation was S342,833,S50, and
the notes issued amounted to
$331,71S,901, of which $780,
729,SS9 was in actual circula-
ton. Of the fifty-four millions
of additional national bank cir
culation authorised under the
act of last July, only some four
millions have been placed by
the organization of new banks
at the South and West. There
are over two hundred addition
al applications for new banks,
assuming to have in all some
twenty-six millions Of capital,
but it is believed that that half
of them, if not more, only ex-
list on paper, and can never be
organised.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

Says the Planters Banner, of
st. Mary: "Sugar and cotton
sell at such low prices that
planters can make nothing in
cultivating their crops, still the
cry everywhere is for "More
hands! More hands !" If every
planter in the South could get
all the hands he wanted, and
if the cotton worm could be
exterminated by some of the
new inventions for their de-
struetion, it would break most
of the planters of this great
country with negroes and Chi
nese, and benefit immensely
the sugar and cotton consum-
ers of the North and of Eu-
rope; but what benefit would
the South derive from it7 We
desire information on this sub
.ject."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

We have it from rumor that
the contract for the finishing of
the Vicksburg and Texas Rail
road has been let to company
capable of putting it through
in a very short time. And from
what we can gather, we believe
there is truth in the report.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

The article In our paper IS
sued Goth November last, in re-
gard to the high price of gro
ceriesin Minden, seems to have
nettled the editor of the Min
den Democrat. We judge from
this, that the article may have
been noticed by the leading
merchants of that town, and
may have some effect to turn
them from the error of their
ways in selling groceries on
credit. This was our sole OBJ
iect. We believe that the cred
it policy would injure any town;
and surely the people of it
ought not to imagine that we
intended their injury, when we
give them good advice, Many
of our citizens are more con-
venient to Minden for trade
than to any other point, and
for their benefit, we would be
glad her merchants could be
prevailed on to change their
policy.
The truth of our assertions
is in the main acknowledged
hy the Democrat, but it denies
that bacon has ever been sold
there at 379 cents a pound
Now, on this point we did not
get our information under oath,
but from common talk of the
people, fretted at the
policy of crediling negroes
So in this matter, little hyper
bole may have been INDUCED
in. The Democrat comes up
to 80 cents, SO we had..as well
compromise on three pounds
to the dollar.
We will have to excuse you,
Mr.. Editor, for your fling at
Bellevue's whisky selling; for
your assertion is pretty nigh
almost true. we furnish q good
article at a very ir.-price, but
at living profits. As to dry
goods and groceries, our mer-
chants may be said to give them
away, they put up with so
small a margin. And don't
charge us with spleen. Really,
if we have such an organ in our
body we don't know it, having
never seen or felt it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

An insurance man in Boston
recently celebrated his golden
wedding, and among the gifts
presented was asssgol(len egg,
from which was Matched fifty
golden eagles. It was not a
goose that laid that golden
egg.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

An acre of land has been
sold in the city of London for
s3,6O0,OO0, and in nearly every
portion of the city land is said
to be increasing in value every
year.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

The following rules are posted
in a New Jersey school-house: aNo
kissing the girls in school hours !;
no licking the master during holt
days.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17
.JoHN ER1CSsoE-This ma

JOHN ERICSsON.-This man
has a passion for invention
similar to Robert Fulton's. His
Hot Air Engine has been a sue
cess in some degree. His gun
boats, the Monitors, have inn
mortalized him. He has now
devoted the rest of his life to
perfecting a steam engine to
run by means of the heat of the
sun. The idea is sublime and
the thing looks feasible.
IF Archimides could burn
the Roman ships by sun refec-
tors, why cannot Ericsson boil
water in the same way3
By the by, why don't Erics-
son or some ingenious man in
vent sun reaectors to boil the
dinner pots of our Texas and
California beef eaters 2
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

They are an accommodatingpeo-
pie in New Mexico. In Santa Fe
a teamster, suffering from the
"blues," appealed to a companion
to shoot him. The obliging fel-
low at once blew off the top Of bis
head, and then rode away on the
mule of the deceased.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

The Albany Journal (Radicall
consoles itself upon the result Of
the election BY saying: 'We
have not lost the State, for we
did not have it,"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17
Telegraphic News.
From Shreveport Southwestern. ]

! Supertne 30 5O, QOuOIe extra %
6005 rs and treble extra &c.
Corn easier; white 10 and yellow
Toe. Oats SIC. Bran 81 07301
10. Hay-prime $27 50028 90.
Pork-mess S22 25022 so. Mo
lasses-prime 56057c. Cotton firm;
sales $4,000 bales; good ordinary
1380135, low middling 144 and
middling 141014Bc.; receipts s.
656 and exports to Liverpool q
455 and to Bremen 1046 bales
Gold 1104.
New York, Dec. 13.-Cotton
quiet and weak; sales 1900 bales;
uplands 154c. Gold 110@1105.
London, Dec. 13.-The wife of
John Slidell is dead.
Bordeaux, Dec. 1.-THE Gov
ernment is instituted here. Vigor-
Gus measures have been decided
upon. Large reinforcements sare
going forward from all points
from the south, perfectly armed
and equipped.
Berlin, Dee. 9.-An anti.war riot
was caused by resistance to the
draft Unmarried men. 1t was Sc
rious. The police were unable to
quell it. 1t was quelled by the
military, by severe measures.
st. Petersburg, Dec. 10.-The
Bank of Russia has advanced the
rate of interest from eight to nine
per cent.
London, Dec. 10.-China news
received at the war Office to day,
says further serious hostile de-
monstrations have been made
against the Christians.
1t is re-affirmed today that
Russia has ordered from Prussia
100000 metrailleuses and mil
lion of metallic cartridges.
The PrusSians eXacted three
quarters of million of francs in
Burgundy, for the expulsion of
the Germans.
The Times has strong and
conciliatory editorial on the Ala
bama claims, and asks no indem,
pity for the insult heaped upon
England for the depredations Of
Alabama; but Graves the settle
ment of claims, not merely be-
cause they are just, but for the in
auguration of a better feeling and
a closer unity between the two
countries.
The Morning Post says the best
Americans avoid, or are driven
from political life, while men like
Butler, WELD political influence.
! One hundred thousand cases of
guns from America which were
seized upon their arrival here,
have been restored to the consig.
nees.
Washington, Dec. I'm the
House today, Banks, of, Massa,
chusetts, offered resolution that
the President be authorized to APP
point a Committee of five to ne
gotiate a treaty with the authori
ties of San Domingo for the requi-
sition of the territory of that gov
eminent, with authority to report
to the House the result of such iu-
investigation as they may make,
and the information they may OBJ
tain, and that the report of said
Committee shall be considered one
OF privilege. The resolution was
referred to the Committee on For
: eign Affairs, with authority to re-
fer at any time provided five days
notice be previously given.
Washington, Dec. 13.-The
franking privilege is abolished
hnt naYprS ara a1l0und fro, nv
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17
San Francisco, Dec. 1O.-Tba

complete census of California
shows'an increase in ten years Of
1868; increase in the city OF
San Francisco 93,47O or nearly
200 per cent.
Cleveland, G., Dec. 10.-Tho
loss by the burning of the Nation.
al Iron Company's Rolling Mil. ia
100000. Three hundred man
have been thrown out of employ.
ment.
Buffalo, Dee. 12.-The Board Of
Trade passed resolutions that thu.
best interests of the country de,
mand the restoration Of specie
standard of values.
San Francisco Dec. 12.-The
police are arresting all known
thieves as Migrants. Thirty vera
locked up today.
Boston, Dec. 12.-Gaston, dem.
ocrat, is elected mayor.
New York, Dec. 12.-Senator
Cattel of New Jersey, declines .
reelection.
A large boot and shoe manufac.
turing house, whose recent work.
men are now all engaged in the
Crispen strike, will resume work
tomorrow, with a full force of non
society men, many of whom came
from New England. Trouble and
interference by the Crispens is ap.
pretended, and the Secretary of
one of the lodges was to day ar.
rested and taken to the tombs for
disorderly conduct. The Crispens
are using every effort to prevent
the nonsociety men from getting
work at any ofthe establishments
now on a strike.
Boston, Dee. 13.-The city of
Lowell elected tina citizens candi.
didate over the Republicans for
Mayor. The city of Newburyport
elected a Republican Mayor.
New York, Dec. 13.-The Paris
Government refused summons
to surrender. They viii fight to
the last man.
Wood writes from the headquar-
ters at Meung, on the 9th, that
the Duke of Mecklenburg had
three days fighting with the 10th
aud 18th French corps. The fight
commenced the 7th near Meung,
The French fought with We nlerfnl
obstinacy. The French are now
retreating towark Vienzon pur.
sued by Prince William OF Meek.
lenburg. The German loss is
great; the French loss is greater.
More fighting is expected to.mor-
row.
Washington, Dec. 13.-Admiral
Boggs relieves ellison in command
of the European squadron. Gil
son will be retired.
The President has nominated
Alfred Pleasanton, Commissioner
of Internal Revenue.
g. 9. Bowen, member of Con.
gress, from South Carolina, was
Indicted in the District Court to.
day for bigamy.
Senate-A bill was introduced
removing the land grants to the
Selma and Dalton railroad.
McCreery asked leave to intro
duce the resolution of which he
gave notice yesterday, proposing
an investigation with a view to
the restoration of the Arlington
estate to the widow of Gen. r. Z.
Lee; the removal of the grave.
yards on the premises, and gener,
al restitution for any incumbrance
placed there in the interest of the
Government.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

The Japanse carpenters are
ingenious workmen, and their
work is done with marvellous
neatness. a curious feature
of their houses is that they do
not contain a nail, all their
joists and timbers being dove
tailed together by many ingen-
ious devices; and the whole
work, even to the rafters, is as
smooth as if it had been pol
ished down with sandpaper.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

A company has been formed
in New York with a capital of
81, 100000, to make a canal
across the Florida peninsula,
from Jacksonville to Key West,
a distance of twenty miles.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

Gov. Warmoth has commut-
ed the death sentence of VIM.
Carter to imprisonment at hard
labor for life in the State Peni-
Tertiary. Carter was tried in
the Ninth judicial District
Court, Grant parish, for the
murder of Hampton Jenkins,
and convicted and sentenced
to be hung.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

The Augusta (Ga.) papers eau
ton the public against adultera-
tons of confectionery. Hundreds
of tons of kaolin "a white earth
perfectly free from grit) were late
ly dug in that vicinity, and no Sc.
cret is made of its intended use
for adulteration. Besides being
put into candies, it is made to an.
swer as substitute for flour, SUI
gar, starch, etc.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

The white mechanics are,
many of them leaving st. Mary,
says the Planters Banner, and
the black mechanics are filing
their places. And the white
population of the parish is
gradually diminishing, while
the planters are gradually in
creasing the black population.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

The Fort Wayne Democrat
is happy to learn that a move
ment is on foot in Washington
to erect a monument to the
memory of that Christian wo-
man and martyr, Mrs. Surratt,
who, according to Dom Piatt,
a le aiding Republican politician,
"was hung for the crime of
keeping a boarding house."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

Mrs. Agassiz tells us that in
certain Amazonian tribes,
while the wedding festivities
are going on, the bridegroom's
hand is tied up in a paper bag
filed with fire ants. If he
bears this torture smilingly
and unmoved, he is considered
fit for the trials of matrimony.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

The new iron bridge across
the Mississippi at st. Louis is to
be 2,23O feet in length, and its
estimated cost will be about
four and a half millions of dol
lars. 1t is to be supported by
four piers that are to carry
three arches, the cenAal one
having a span Of $50 feet.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

The Indiana newspapers, it
is said, now publish regular
reports of the state of the di-
vorce market, something in this
way: Common separation,
SIS; small alimony, s25; large
alimony, $50 to $500; general
business good and encourag-
ing"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

The heather Chinese is MAX
ing whisky in California by
fernenting old rice and rubber
shoes and things, and the reye-
nue. people are after him. The
whisky made in this way is
much sought after by suicides.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-17

The Montgomery Mail has
the following delicate hint:
1T will greatly facilitate bus
mess in the House of Repre-
sentatives if visitors Especially
colored ones) will leave their
dogs at home"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-07-01
South Carolina
MON q Na ENWo ASSOCIATION

4 T. q special meeting Of tho Board Of Direc.
IN ors of tho South Carolina Monument
Association. held on Thursday. juno ODD, 1870,
tho resignation of Mrs. Louisa S. MoCord as
President was rendered and accepted. +
Mrs. Wm. Wallace, of Columbia, Vico. Prcsi
dent. will act ns President until tho annual
election Of oaicors, in November.
District Managers arc requested, to 10 on;
earnestly with their work and have their quar-
terIy reports ready for tho regulhr Quarterly
mo6ting, on the 10th of August, !,
Il I. D. MARTIN, Y
Recording Secretary.
Columbia, s. G., Juno Gath, 1870. 81
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-07-01
NOTICE.

RliliirI days from Ibis date will mako q
4 final settlement Of the Estate Of French
=. Willard. deceased. before l. H. philpot,
Judge of Probate Court. and will on the same
same day apply for discharge as Administrator.
All persons having any demands against said
Estate will render them on or before said dnv
ID. Il. BRADLEY, Admir-.
Juno 90 1870 81
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-07-01
Nos%oo cvRrs $ aosrrA ~ ITS WORST FORMS.

los%oo CITES $ GogULA ~ ITS WORST FORMS.
From y. W. Mills. promiucr. and we'll known
merchant or Norfolk. Va:
No, ! Main St. folk, Va. Sept Is, 1860.
l)R. l.NwRENug--pcnr Sir: Your Koskoo has
wo'<cl wonders III my family. Ny daughter has
been q sufferer from Scrotnla since childhood -
~" lost thirty pieces Of bone from her ankle,
several from her ann, besides having ulcers in scve-
a'paus "f the body. Whilst in this condition she
commenced taking your Koskoo-;t acted like a
charm. on Aer; u"ie, its use the ulcers gradually
heated, nnH her general hcal,i tlyimrroved It
Ns"VeI her Mncl. su.crimg, and perhaps her
ne. L regard huSkoo II specific for all sorofu,ous
a'!rci"Ms. Your Eosico also cured INV yiso Of
dyspepsia from witch she suffered greatly. She
is h9w IN letter lleaith than She Las bccu for fiyo
years Wien the highcs, regards,
all. .."ciC C'i,l'y vn,r.s 81
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Picaons Advertisements.
'Thc State oG Scr,sh Carogiaa
PICKENS COUNTY--CITATioN.

llNNENo CVUN Il---CTTATION.
NM llEREAS, Alfred NJ Folcer made suit to
me. to grant him Letters of 4 administration
With vii annexed Of The Estate and effects Of
h'hhb firih' deceased, these arc therefore to
cite and ndmonish all and singular Tho kindrod
and Creditors Of the said Rahnb Field. deceased.
that they he and appear, before me, in the Court
OF Probate to be held ut pickcns Court House
on tho 9Th Of July next at IL o'clock in the fore
noon, to Shcw cause, fany they have. why the
SAID Administration should not be granted.
Giyrn G under my hand this the 23l day of June,
Juno c,j, 1870 81 .
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Norfolk, Va. Sept. 7, 1860
In. J, j. LAwEENcr--pear Sir. Ny son has
received 50 much benefit from your wonderful
N"sko", 'ha; cannot refrain from expressing my
grH'iInde' had tried almost everything without
ben. lit. bclicvr in all sincerity that your Kos
koo is an ina'hic rcncdy Tor ths disease from
which he has suffered, and, so far as can learn,
has never failed il you only knew the in,mense
amoan, OF suffering that he has undergone, then
you could conceive The value OF such remedy as
hos skob--Wdt @Te'p cures. The great amount of
good it is now doing among us is inestinablc.-
With much gratitude,
am, respectfully yours,.&c..
Mrs NJ. j., A, NELSON
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