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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

An eminent divine once remark
ed in a lecture: sIn selecting
your partners for life, choose per
sons of naturally good disposition
those who are by nature cheer
full and gentle. 1t may surprise
you to hear me place these before
piety; but | am of Bakers opin-
ion, who said that the grace Of
God could live with persons that
he could not.n
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

Mrs. Smell, Of Ohio county, In
diana, detected herhusband in The
act Of bestowing a kiss upon the
maid of all work. She dashed a
paiIful of boiling water upon the
unhappy pair. They were seri-
ouslyinjured. Most women would
have preferred to throw cold water
upon such a proceeding.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04
GROWING BEAUTIFUL.-Per.

GROWING BEAUTFUL.-Per-
sons may outgrow disease and be-
come healthy by proper attention
to the laws Of their physical con-
stitution. BY moderate and daily
exercise, men may become active
and strong in limb and muscle.
But to grow beautiful? Age dims
the luster of the eye, and pales
the roses Of beauty's cheeks; while
crOwfeet, and burrows, wrinkles
and lost teeth, and gray hairs, and
bald head, and tottering limbs,
and limping most sadly mar the
human form divine. But dim as
the eye is, pallil and sunken as
may be the face of beauty, and
frail and feeble that once strong,
erect and manly body, the immor-
tai soul, just Hedging its wings
for its its home in heaven, may
look out through those faded win
dows as beautiful as the dew
drop of a summers morning, as
melting as the tears that glisten in
affections eye-by growing kind
", by cultivating sympathy with
all human kind, by cherishing for
bearance towards the follies and
foibles of our race, and feeding,
day by day, on that love God and
man which lifts us from the brute
and makes us akin to angels.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

A young lady once married a
man by the name of Dust against
the wish OF her parents. After a
short time they lived unhappHy
together, and she returned to her
fathers house, but he refused to
receive her, saying: "Dust thou
art, and unto dust thou shalt re.
turn
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

A young man recently went to
the banks Of the Danube for the
purpose of drowning himself. He
laid his hat on the ground, when
a soldier shouted: ''Fall back
there or I'll shoot you.' The
young man picked up his hat and
ran rapidly away. Death by shoot
ing was not in the programme.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

MAN.-During bis days of
youthful enthusiasm every man
promises himself a career of
perfect happiness-of stainless
respectability-of matchless
honor. We fatter ourselves
that the world will reform itself
for our sake. We anticipate a
faultless partner in our future
bride, and cheat ourselves with
the expectation that the even
current of destinies will flow
over sands of gold. Alas! the
first self-deception we are COM
PEELED to resign becomes a bit
ter trial to our fortitude but,
one after another, we see these
cherished visions fade away
we inure ourselves to the de-
gree of mediocrity which is our
allotted portion-and finally,
learn to be contented with such
dirty scraps as the charity oil
fortune throws in our Way.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

An early settler of New York
asked an Indian chief why he
did not work and lay up mon
ey. He replied that he saw no
good reason for making a slave
of himself all his life, that his
his children might be lazy all
Of theirs.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

especial shamelessness or crimi-
nality that a righteous and vir-
tuous public sentiment would
reach this class with its restrain
ing influence in time to save them
from ruin. All men should be
made to feel that the proprieties
of life may not be disregarded with
impunity. The doors of every re-
spectacle household should be
firmly closed against any man
known to be addicted to courses
which involve a breach of good
morals. If this was done we
should have fewer fast young men
and money and high social posi-
ton would no longer screen imam
from tho conscience of idleness,
or palliate the enormity of licen
tious habits. In one word, we
must apply the same moral stand
ard to the vices of the rich as We
do to the vices the of poor. What
is odious and disgraceful in one
should be odious and disgracefu,
in the other also Louisville Com
nercjGl.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

five study christians, not in
the sharp angles of their ereeds,
but in the pleasant roundings
of their lives, we shall find good
men of every name alike in
spirit and practice.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

MoDIFIED.-The fellow who
sung Il would not live always
has modified it by the addition
"in a cheap clearinghouse"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

Wear your learning like a watch
in a private pocket, and don't en-
deayor to show it unless you are
asked what o'clock tits.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

Amidst all disorders, God is
ordering all wisely and justly,
and to them that love him, gra-
ciously; therefore we ought not
be dismaYed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

An innocent writer informs
us that mankind embraces Wo-
man. He would be a funny
kind of a man who did not.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

A male tyrant in Chicago finds
fault because his wife threw dish
es in his face while he was sick
and helpless. Being a woman oil
proper spirit, she has gone to Oma-
ha with a gambler.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

Though earth be but a desert
ofarid sands, that scorch our
pilgrim feet, yet there are
sometimes beautiful groves and
cool shades which are delight
full to us.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

The grand jury Of Giles county,
Iennesseereport a ''9reatimprove.
ment in the morals Of the masses
during the last twenty months"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

Club life is extending so widely
in England that domestic life is
beginning to complain.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

Tears are as dew which mois-
ten the earth, and renew it's
vigor. Remorse has none ; it is
a volcano, vomiting forth lava
which burns and destroys.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

A good. old Massachusetts dea-
con, recently deceased, was once
called in question upon some
points of faith pertaining to his
denomination. With a great deal
of emnestness his reply was:-
Don't tell me that I'm mistaken; I
know all about consTegationalism,
for my son has taken the Congre-
gational Globe for years"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

"Jim, what makes cats keep
up such a cussed mewing all
the night 7" ''Don't know Bill;
suppose, though it's on account
of their mew-cuss membrane"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

2. Ell. Aylett, killed be the Rich
mond disaster, was a great grand
son of the renowned Patrick Henry.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

Women are angels without
wings, yet some Of them are per-
feet fy-aways.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

Lezurier, man who was arrested
for shouting Cayenne" in the
face ofthe Emperor at a review,
has writtenapenisent letter, plead
ing his own insanity. This is an
Improvement upon the favorite
American defense, for our crimi-
nails have the grace to let some
body else urge the plea for them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04
"A Moral Honlily.

yet not lose caste. We have, in
deed respectable drunkards, gen
teel rakes, and highly esteemed
sporting gentlemen. Where such
people are made much of and adj
mitted into good society, as is GER
tainly done here, there is surely
something wrong in the moral
sentiment and social tone. Our
city is full of idle and dissolute
young men whose means and so
cial connections give them the
eRtreG to respectable society, but
who, if estimated by their worth
less lives and civil habits, would
be frowned upon by all worthy
people, and stunned as apollution
by good women and vil.tuous girls.
Good society indeed despises the
sober and industrious youth, who
is compelled TO earn his bread by
the sweat Of his brow, and does it
like a man, but it beStows IFS
sweetest smiles and brightest IA
vors upon any idle drone who has
been lucky enough TO be born
with silver spoon in his mouth.
Matchmaking mammals and love-
~ maidens welcome them to the
sanctuary of their homes, and
seek to inyeigle them into matri-
mOnial traps. Nor do eminently
respectable papas oppose any OPP
pose any obstacles, and preachers
solemnize the often-resulting mar
ria9es with great pomp, and be-
stow upon the parties thereto the
divine blessing. If a youth has
no money and no friends, and will
not work, he is rightly branded
as a yaorant, and treated by the
police as suspicious character.
but the kid gloyed and perfumed
idler is looked upon, by too many,
as the beau ideal Of a gentleman.
But the fruits of idleness are sub
stantially the same in all. Or the
poor boy, it may make a thief,
who must steal work or perish:
but Of the well born youth, whose
parents feed, clothe, and shelter
him, it makes a drinker, or seduc-
er and sportsman. His mental
and spiritual activities must have
vent in some way, and if not in a
good one, then in a bad way.
Now against this class our Grim
nal laws are an insufficient pIotec-
ton. AS already remarked, the
class of offenders which we are
speaking, hold the laws OF society
IN less esteem than they do the
code that obtains their in own cir
Gle. The trouble lies in The fact
that our penal laws are not power,
fully reinforced, as they should
be, by an exacting public senti-
mentS. II we would control and
eradicate vice we must make it so
odious that none but the most
hardened and desperate viii give
themselves up to it. Public sen
timent must reach that class of
vagabonds who 90 well dressed,
and who, having no useful occu-
patton, waste their time, and their
own, Or their parents money in liz
otous living. Good society must
place them under its ban. Idle
ness and dissipation should be
made disgraceful, and respectable
ty should close its doors. against
all such offenders. A gambler
without family connections, a low
born drunkard, is treated with
due harshness, but what shall be
said OF the manner with which we
treat those who gamble at clubs,
who get drunk on champagne and
oacfIr-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

Every year it is estimated,
about ten thousand people in India
die from snake bites. The deaths
from wild beasts may not be SO
numerous but they spread more
terror. The man-eating tiger is
the special object Of dread. Tue
taste for human flesh once acQuir-
ed, grows stronger by indulgence.
There was an old tigress of Kur
nool which carried off sixty-four
persons in nine months. Her
average allowance was man
every three days. She broke up
the post routes, and scared away
the labOrers from the public works.
A ti9ress in Chindwarlah slew
one hundred and fifty people in
three years, causing the abandon.
ment of the villages and throwing
two hundred and fifty square
miles out of cultivation. In one
district of Lower Bengal one thou
sand four hundred and thirty four
people were killed in six years,
and in Bengal proper there were
13,401 deaths by wild beasts in
the same period. During this
time it has cost the government
$4,000 in rewards, to secure the
killing of18,196 wild beasts.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

When man marries a vicious
woman he becomes possessed OF a
devil.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

PRENTICE AND MANN.-The
Kansas Journal Of Commerce
prints a characteristic anecdote Of
the late George D. Prentice. He
was a college friend Of Horace
Mann, and on one occasion he re,
queSted the latter to supply his
place for a short time as editor-in-
chief Of the newspaper he then
conducted. Mr.. Mann consented,
and was directed by Mr.. Prentice
to make his article as strong as lie
was APPLE. He had just completed
a ''leader" when Mr.. Prentice re-
turned, and he read the article
aloud to him. He b. . done his
best to be severe, and flattered
himselfhe had succeeded. ':Good,"
said Mr.. Prentice, every good:
new let me finish it, He sat
down, and began with these
words; '"Thus far e have re-
strained our feelings.T'
Mrs. E., Of Star City, Nevada,
recently lost her husband, and
running over to the house of re.
lation, without waiting for the
usual salutations, said:
"Well, Johns deadw Cher hus-
handy
"Dead! Is it possible?7
eyes, dead! Died last night!
Want you to come to the funeral.
The Masons and Odd Fellows are
going to turn out, and we shall
nave a beautiful time.' Deaths
being Of rare occurrence in the
settlement, Of course everybody
went TO the funeral. Next day
somebody remarked to the old
lady that there was a large turn
out. eyes indeed, there was,7 she
replied; ''but l didn't enjoy myself
as well as | have at some funerals
the horses cut up So"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

Gen. O'Neil recommends the
Fenians to move Immediately
ON Canada.
They should move some
where or stop their noise.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04
Come UP Higher.

Wherever you are in life, no
matter how low your place is, it is
a good place to sprout in, though
it may not be a good place to
grow and dwell in. Leave your
root where God planted it; but
mount up out of poverty, mount
out Of bad companienship, mount
up out Of secular ways Of life, and
lift yourselves toward the light.
Let outward nature teach you.
Oh, how a root willengender, and
find the sustenance it needs
How it will spread over the rock,
and plunge down into the preci-
pice, and go in search of the
stream that is running afar off
Even the blind root finds its way
without reason, and by a mere in
stinct of appetite, under ground;
and let it rebuke you. How, in
the darkest cellar, the white vine
of the pOtat0e begins when there
is summer outside, to sprout and
grow; and how, if there be Que
crack or tissure; will it begin in
stinctively and inevitably to seek
it, and stretch itself out for feet
and even yards, contrary TO its
] nature, that it may put one little
leaf out where the sun shall kiss
it, and give it its heavenly color
And ought not a man to do as
much as that? Born, are you, il
i9nOrnnce? Born. are you as meI
say, in degraded conditions o
life? Let your soul give nouriSh
ment to your aspirations, anC
spring up, and let at least the lea
that struggles toward the ligh
find light, and begin to show
what the light does for it. You
were not made TO grow for eve
in the circumstances of lownes!
land vul9arity. God calls you
and every aspiration in you is ;
voice Of God, saying, "Come up
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

"Oh DEAR" said a fashionable
girl, when she first beheld a
cucumber, I always thought
such things grew in slices!"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

A "smile" that foretells sor-
row-the one you take in a bar
room.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

Would you be strong, con-
quer yourself.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

The English sparrows in New
York now number half a mil
lion.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

We do not want precepts so
much as patterns.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

A heroic soul is scornful of
being sc0rned.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

Two Jews in Vienna recently
passed an Austrian officer who
strutted up and down the street
in his gold-embroidered uniform
as mejestically as a peacock
"Why," said Isaacs to Levy, "that
officer looks as proud as if he had
lost the battle Of Sadowa all aIone.'.
MIR. Ruskin said, in a recent
lecture at Oxford, that life with.
out industry is sin, but industry
without art is brutal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-04

Reckless youth makes rueful
age.
The New York herald., 1870-04-29
sicHEM JIM JuBiLEs.
ORGANIZATION of an Eric.Tammany Political
Association.

Orsnnization of Eric.Tammany Political
Association.
The Sixteenth Ward James Fisk, Jr., Tanmany
Association organized last night at their rooms, Utal,
House, corner Twenry-1fth street and Eighth avenue,
Joseph A. Hart, President pro tenn. In the chair.
w. Vert, Thomas Lynch, joseph w. Moryissey, Jo-
seph II. Purdy and William A. Richardson were
elected officers of the association, together with sew
enveen chaifmen representing Che several districts in
tie ward. fClf
The following resolutions were real and
adUptcd:--
Resolved That tender hearty aid aud support tho
interests OF Old Tammany" and endorse with ieengs OF
pride past action OF our esteemed citizen, Hon. William
NJ. Tweed, at the state capital.
Resolved That the James Fisk Jr Tammany Association
OF the Sixteenth ward recognize In Messrs NJ t. Brennan,
r. B. Hart and Peer B. Sweeney the chosen leaders in the
coming political campailn.
Resolved That the thanks OF the iassoca.on be rendered
Mr. Fisk Jr for his kndness In cooperating with us
In forming our organization.
Speeches were male by Colonel 8. c. Sloan nnl
Marcus Hanlon. OF the Fiji eenth Ward Association.
and MIR. Michael Cr0wey, OF the Twenty-scconl
ward After many DroDiinent citizens OF the ward
had signed tile roll Tie mCeng adjourned amidst
much eDinusIaela, 10 nee; a " triday eys ning.
The New York herald., 1870-04-29
S'cstm r.
CLEARED.

Steamship Dncian tBr) Laird. GlasgowHendcr Bros
Steamship Columbia, Van sice, hay nna-Atlantc Mail
Steamship Co.
Steamship II Livingston, Checseman savannah-Living-
ston. Fox 4 Co.
Steamship Saratoga Couch, Norfolk, City Point and Rich
moni-- Old Dominion Steamship Co.
Steamship John Gibson Winters, Georgetown, DCPhips
stsaraship Fanita Freeman, Ph'adepha- J Lorilard.
Steamship Chesapeake. Bragg Portland u + hmes
Steamship Gauc'is Walden. B9ston-W ' Clvde.
Ship Odessa, vunlev. IInvrc-Boyd 4 Hincken.
Ship Jeremiah Thompson, Kennedy san Francsco-C
Cornstock h Go.
Bark Sterling Hending. Honolulu q Constock Co.
BARK Prtndcessc Alexandra dam. verdon, st kits
Brig Mcdonald (Br Adams, Hopewer NB-Heney
Parker.
Brig Excelsior tgr,, Mayor, Hamilton, Bermnda-D Nc
Coll.
echr Laura Pride (Br), assel, st KittsJones Longh.
Schr q Hertz Clinton Baracoa a-B J Wenbers.
Schr Crandal (Br), Petts, HaifaxCrlndau Bcrtaux
& Ca.
schr F Randolph qsr) Magnus. St John, NBJ W Elwel
&Co.
schr Katie Ranger. Martin, Jacksonvlle-van Brunt
scbr Myrover Brown, Charleston IN l. McCready & Co.
schrL Van Brunt, Tooker Wilmington, NC-Van Brunt
schr yickerson, Sleigh Baltimore-Bakcr Dayton.
Schr G + Rfch Rich. Provincetown.
Scbr 1'hos Ens Kelly, New Bedforl.
Schr Iod,w ok BIii brockwiy, Hartford Racket Bro.
Schr Phenix Smith, New Haven-R-lckett ( Bro
Schr Evelyn. Palmer, STANFORD.
Steamer Bristol Pierce Philadelphia.
Steamer Black Diamond, Meredith Wilmington Del "A
Abbott.
The New York herald., 1870-04-29
DIiEoL.caL krTEnrT TO DESTROY LEE.
Persistent Attempts 10 Throw Passenger
Trims from the Track OF the Boston, HART
ford ana Erie Railroad.

Persistent Attempts TO Throw Passenger
Trains from the Track OF the Boston, Hart-
ford ana Erie Railroad.
BOSTON, April 2S 1870.
Two wicked aud desperate attempts have recently
been made to throw trains nom the track OF the
Boston Hartford and Erie Railroad. On Tuesday
nirht last Mr.. william N. Comey, OF City Mills, was
walking on the track between CITY Mills and Frank
lin Mass, when he discovered lot OF railroad ties
piled upon the track, one OF which was projecting
upwards from cattle guard, Myh enough to
catch the locomotive The SouthbTldge train
was overdue, AMI Mr. Oomey without delay
cleared the track. lie nal Just competed
the woIk wnen lie train arrived and pas cd
along safely. He said nothing About the obstruc-
ii ops TO any the train, but reported the facts
TO The railroad officials. soon after the train had
passed Mr.. Comey saw Two men In tue distance
" ON he hailed, nut they made response and nc
dll not recognize them They soon after disip-
pearel in the woods near by. The officers OF the
ioa then detailed men watch at certain points,
aad gave Mr.. Corney authority to guard it in the
ncIglh OrIood whele TIE IL ~ attempt had btea
maze TO throw train OF. He watched only about
ne Tine when trans were Que, This morning he
went cut JUST before tue steamboat treln for Nor
wien was due, ana to his CONSERVATION saw nat the
track was again obatru.ied. The tram was within
hearing and but short distance away. He was
terrIea, lie says as he never was before Tor tneie
seemed see G prpe'& @ & 2. wa e an
fast rs he could, there being no time TO remove
tue Otsrictions, and pgl1ng IRON MS neck
q red handkerchief waved 1t as yigoroi sly ana
as conspicu0usy as he possibly could, az a. signal
TO Lne engineer to stop the trala. Whilo he was
doing this thrce Mon came out OF the woods by the
SIDE Of the tracs, armed with guns, and all three
fred al him and then disappeared among the trees.
| one ball perforated his nat, and another wounded
| Inn III one OF his arms Mr. ComeJ's signal was
seen by tie engineer, and the train happily stopped
within few feet OF tue distractions, which being
| removed the train proceeled,
The srot se 9ce, by the would be assassins for the
ACCOMPLISHMENT of their hellisn purpose was at the
tOp OF an embankmcnt Winch Is about ninety feet in
| height, and skirted at the 10 tom by mlllpOnd,
into whicn the train must inc, ,iauly have been pre-
| cirtaed BIT fof Mr.. Coney's tr sence OF MAD aud
| aclte Q cxertlons.
| 1t is not kaown Whether the purpose OF the
wfctchcs wHo Onsiru led tGe track was e. ge ~
the road or rob cry o ers, but IL Is ped
! t.oy may W IeGA. ed aaI cau.ht