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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-19


Donnel, Of Otley, this County, has
been for the past three years engaged
in preparing Book, to be entitled
"The Pioneers OF Marion County"
Two or three Chapters from it have
already appeared in the Voter; and
the whole will also be published In
the Annals Of Ioaca, issued by the
State Historical Society. Mr.. Dom
mel now desires some further data
for this work; and to this end he
appeals hereby to all Old Settlers OF
the County, and to others, to send to
him, at Otley, the information indi-
Gated in the following paragraphs.
The appeal is addressed personally
to each and every person able and
willing to furnish any of the infor-
nation asked for:
/. Your nativity; the date and
place of your settlement in--Tp.;
trial, adventures and anecdotes Incl
dental to your experience in pioneer
life?
2. Names and nativity Of others
that settled in-Tp. at an early
date?
3. First land broken; first crop
and orchard planted; when, where,
and by whom?
4. First School-house built; first
School taught; when, where, and by
whom?
. 8. First Minister Of the Gospel
that preached in-Township,first
Church organized, and Church house
built; when, where, and by whom:
6. First Township officers; when
elected; first lawsuit before a Justice
III worthy Of note?)
Z. Is-Township mostly tim
her, or prairie, hilly, or level?
8. Ifany coal mines, locale them,
and say when they were Uncovered
and opened, and by whom now
owned.
8. Ifany natural curioslties, locate
and describe them.
10. II any village, when and by
whom laid out; why 30 named; first
store; first hotel; when Pcstoffice was
established, and first Postmaster.
It is not required that these state
nlents shall be made all ready for the
press. Mr.. d. will attend to that
part himself. And all responses to
the above appeal should be addressed
to VIM. Donnel, Otley, Marion Co..
Iowa, and will be most gratefully
received and properly used by him.
County papers please copy.]
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-19

]. ]. 00ee has on his right hand Z
tumor which Is pronounced to be >
cancer. It has been coming for some
three or four weeks. We hope this
belief - to its nature may prove
mistaken.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-19

PREsENTs.-Messrs. Lee Patterson
and Reuben Heimbaugh last weejs
completed their terms Of apprentice.
ship respectively with Mr.. CsrTuu,-
ERR, Lumber Dealer and Builder, and
J. s. Cunningham 4 Bro, Hardware
Dealers and Tinmen, Of Knoxville.
Lee received upon the occasion a set
Of Carpenters tools and a fine Chest
~ present from his employer; and
Reuben received from the Messrs.
Cunningham : ~ coat. Both pres
ents are alike creditable toall parties,
- showing faithful work and due
appreciation Of Il. '' Z 'eess s}9 &
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-19

MISUNDERSTANDING to the
official Call, herewith published,
Marion County will have II votes in
the judicial District Convention,
jasper Co. IL, jefferson 8, Keokuk 8,
Mahaska IL, Powesheik land Wash
ingtOn 8; total GO.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-19
NEwBERN, MARION Co., |
Iowa; May 16, 1870. ]

|
ED. VOrER:-Enclosed are -. to
apply ON Subscription to the Voter.
l am much pleased with the enlarge
ment. Had to drop one of my East.
ern papers on account Of it-had not
time to read 'em all. Send you q
few items below:
L. ID. Smith, II. Ticket, A. Cries
baum and A. Kesler are building
neat and substantial dwellings. The
Lutherans are building a residence
for their Minister, in "Chicago."
Capt. 8. s. Arnold, A. Bauer, j.
Fight, Fl. r. Clingman, r. Howard,
Jos. Bauer and T. Stephenson are
fencing new land this Spring, which
is making outside pasture scarce.
Brice Mccoy has sold his farm to
a Mr.. Hunt, and has ''put" for Kan.
sas. A good many others have gone
to Kansas from this section this
Spring.
Corn planting nearly over. Not
so much wheat s0wn as usual; Farm.
ers tired of raising 40-cent wheat.
T.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-19

s.
FnON MARYsvILLE.-Our CORES
pondent's letter dated 9Th inst. va
not received till last Thursday-altes
last weeks paper WINS printed. We
therefore condense from It:
Citizens and Farmers generally
jubilant over the fine weather and
prospect Of good crops. Has heard
but little complaint Of poor seed,
either Of wheat or corn.
N. B. Moore has completed his new
residence In Marysville. Charley
Miller has built a very commodious
and comfortable dwelling, about q
mile from town, on the Bellefontaine
road. Mr.. Weisner, just above town,
Is building just such barn AZ every
Farmer should have: the basement
stone and superstructure framed.
Work on theme sidewalk in Marys-
vile progressing slowly. The walk
is to extend from the north end OF
the bridge to the Lutheran Church
nearly half a mile. A new School.
house is building in the Onspaugh
neighborhood, about four miles
northeast of Marysville. 1t Is to be
large, that 1t may be used also as
Westinghouse.
The Railroad question is beginning
to be interesting. Several prominent
citizens Of Liberty Tp., who voted
against the tax at the last Railroad
election, would vote for it now II
they had the chance. Depend upon
1t, Liberty Township will 60 for the
Railroad tax when 1t next has q
chance to do so with any assurance
Of getting the Road after the tax ID
voted.
That's the sound doctrine, as we
like to hear It. So mote 1t be.-ED.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-19

DELEGATEs.-Messrs. A. Hamrick
and 8. L.COllins have been chosen a.
Delegates from the NJ. +. Sunday
School here to the County Sunday
School Association in Pella next
week. The other Schools have not
yet chosen Delegates, we believe, but
are to do 90 next Sunday.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-19

| SEWING MACHINEs.-Mr. ]. C..
Sterling comes out this week with
new Advertisement, in this paper,
of the celebrated Wheeler 4 Wilson
Sewing Machines. He il General
and Canvassing Agent for Marion
County.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-19

That's model letter, friend E.,
and would pass current as such in
any Newspaper Office in Iowa.
Thanks--and let us hear further
That Accent wheat won't grow In
this County any more after we get
our Railroad. But even now you
can put it against 90 hog when you
weigh advantages.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27

The effemiuate man is a weak
poultice. He is a cross between
root beer and ginger pop, with
the cork left out of the bottle
over night. He is a fresh water
mermaid, found in a cow pas
ture, with hands full Of dande=
lions, He is a tea cup full Of
syllabub-a kitten in panta-
lertes--a sick monkey with a
blonde moustache. He is a
vine without any tendrils-a fly
drowned in sweet ola paper
kite in a dead calm. He lives
like a butteIfy-noboby can
tell why. He is as harmless as
a cents worth of spruce gum.
as useless as a shirt button
without any button hole. He
is as lazy as a bread pill, and
has no more hope than a last
years grasshopper, He goes
through life on tiptoes, and
dies like cologne water split on
the ground.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27

By act of Congress of Au-
gust 1861, an annual direct tax.
of $40, ,000,0 900 was apportioned
among the States, which was
afterwards limited to one year.
The quotas of many of the.
States. were liquidated in full.
but others are still in, arrears.
All compulsory proceedings for,
the collection of tax were sus-
pended by order of the Secreta-
ry of the Treasury, in 1866; but
that the balances due from the
Statesin arrears should be ex-
acted appears to be obligatory,
as the Supreme Court in a de-
cision rendered has declared,
positively that "if a direct tax
be levied at all, it must he laid
on every State conformably to
the rule provided in the Con
stitution. Congress has clear
ly no power to exempt any
State from its due share of the
burden.' u Proceedings viii,
therefore, be recommended for
the collection of the. arrears,
due. Balances, are still due.
from, several of the Northern
States, as we'll as from most. of
the Southern States. New
York has an unsettled balance.
of 1884 ,O00; and Wisconsin Of
100000. Nearly $2,50O,900
has been collected in Virginia,
North Carolina, South CARROLL
ia, Georgiu, Florida, Mississip-
pi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas
Tennessee, leaving uncollected
in these States Gncluding
S529.OOO, in Alabamal $2,662,-
900. a 'ff 'I
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27
In School Days.

Still sits the schoolhouse by the road,
A ragged beggar summing;
Around it still the sumachs grow,
And blackberry vines are running.
Within, the masters desk is seen,
Deep SCARED by raps official;
The warping floor, the battered seats.
The jackknife's carved initial
The charcoal frescoes on its walls,
Its doors worn sill, betraying
The feet that, creeping slow to school,
Went stOrming out to playing!
Long years ago winters sun
Shone over it at setting;
Lit up its western window panes
And low caves icy frettIng.
1t touches the tangled golden curls,
And brown eyes full of grieving,
Of oae who still her steps delayed
When all the school were leaving.
For near her stood the little boy
Her childish favor singled,
HIS cap pulled Low upon face
Where pride and shame were mingled
Pushing with restless feet the snow
To right and left he fingered,
AS restlessly her tiny hands d.
The blue-checked apron fingered.
He saw her lift her eyes; he felt
The soft hand s light caressing,
And heard the trembling of her voice,
AS if fault coafessing.
''Tm sorry that spelt the word;
l hate to go above you;
Because" brown eyes lower fell
Because, you see, l love your
Still memory to gray haired man
That sweet cAild-face is showing,
Dear girl the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing!
He lives to learn in life's hard school,
How few who pass above him
Lament their triumph and his loss,
Like her-because they love him
Il John q. Whittier
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27
II. lib. Watkins.

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Minden, La. Will
"A practice in the 10th and l1th District
Courts. Prompt attention given to all legal
business entrusted to his care VINES
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27
Our Little Children.

"What, no chicken salad" :"
exclaimed a disgusted little
woman of seven summers at
a party the other night, ''and
| SO knocked up by that last
mazurka. This supper is very
stupid 7"
We listened and stared
Was it really a child, or a
dwarfed woman before us Z
We would have doubted until
now, had not a baby face been
lifted to us with very old, wea-
ry eyes, looking out of it. Baby
lips, too, not pouting, or cross,
but with scornful curl at the
corners. We thought of the
terrible magicians in the Ara
bian Nights, and wondered if
that little body didn't hold
some very old blase soul like
Sir Gawaine's, which cried,
Hollow, hollow, hollow, all delights"
We wondered, too, who
nursed it; ifit ever was a real
baby like some we have seen.
Whilst wondering. we heard
from other childish lips around
us the platitudes which we had
found tiresome from older lips.
Some laughed at the scum
ming little men and women" !"
as they called them. Others
looked disgusted. We were
simply sad.
How we have loved the little
children Were we ever so
cross, or so tired, or so busy,
their voices could always send
a thrill of delight to our heart
The tones were so linked with
such round-eyed surprises, such
happy romps, such bird-like
trills of causeless laughter.
such pure sweetness and loving
caresses, that there never was
evil mood of ours the innocent
creatures could not exercise
Alas alas we have lost them
Not by death-though he takes
his full share ; not by the grad
ual changes of growth, but by
the wicked necromancy of the
spirit of the age-rby the crimi
nal folly of parents who force
them to unwholesome maturity
How they used to believe il
the great and good, our little
children? What faith the!
had i'll the reward of virtue
and the punishment of vice
How they would sit with hand
tightly clasped and eyes dila
ted through the giant-killing o
Jack and transformation of Gin
derilla How they woul'
climb until our head grew diz
zy and see-saw until it reele,
again-make mud cakes an,
bake them-tear their clothe
and pin them up with thorns-
sail boats on forbidden ponds
and thrust their mischievou
title faces and hands wher
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27

WHEAT COMING TO RICHMOND.
We are glad to learn that wheat
from Southwestern Virginia and
East Tennessee is pouring into
Richmond via ''Virginia and Ten
nessee Airline TIE DanviIle de
pot is crowded, and the crynis
"still it comes.n This will be goad
news to everybody. The millers
and commission MERCHANTS will
reap a harvest long wished for.
The crop of wheat in the South
west was never larger, and this,
coupled with the fact that Rich
mond is the best wheat market in
the United States, and the farther
fact that General Mahoae has re-
duced freight to about one half
the old rates, will induce nearly
all the wheat from that section TO
find market here. We learn that
sixteen car loads of wheat arrived
in Richmond Saturday and four
teen Monday, over the line above
mentioned. ij5.f atf
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27

Wishes to inform his friends and the rest
w Of mankind, that he has just received
a fresh supply Of Bar Liquors, of every
kind, Tobacco, Cigars, Candies, Oysters,
Sardines, Pickles, Candles, and great va
riety of other articles too numerous to emu.
merate All of Bhieh he will sell as cheap,
tor the cash, as they can be bought elsewhere
in the market, and to which he invites the
attention of buyers. vsn4l
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27

faces and hands were strictly
tabooed.
All these things did they do
to the plague and delight of
our heart. But do we not miss
the audacious little rascals p
Is their place filed by the small
finical sneerer who waves
mythical story books aside, and
finds life a Dead Sea apple in
which his tender milk teeth
have reached the core? Are
the crinolined little girls with
their firtings, and tight shoes
and tight dresses, and second
hand affectations, a fair ex-
change for the little romp with
a wild rose flush in her cheek,
who shared her brothers. sports,
and was as active, healthful
and frank as any of them p
Alas, for the times which have
taken from us the sweetest gift
of God-little children? So
near the Unknown-,so far
from the weary known where
we labor, heavily burdened z
1t was cruel to force their foot,
steps into the old ruts that
sicken us to toll through.
Many years ago it seemed
hard to US to lay the bright
head of a child we loved under
the tender eyed spring flowers,
and to know that never more
his dancing step would make
music on the threshold. But
now sometimes we think it was
better, than to have kept him
to bring forth the evil fruit of
an evil time. To see our own
WEAKNESS, or vice, looking back
at us out of childish eyes. To
know that the great possibili-
ties so near to the happy child,
so far off to the sinful man,
would be to him a legend to
be scoffed at.
We have no little children,
unless the type is left in remote
country districts among the
birds and free, wild life Of ma
ture. Where that "story with
out an end'' is ever visibly un-
folding before the eyes of a
child, we think that life is kept
fresher and purer, It opens
leaf by leaf in the bright sun
shine, and though it might fade
at last, or some worm may
canker its heart, yet it has not
been starved of it's early birth
right; it's hopes, it's unquestion-
ing faith, and it's innocent de-
lights, and above all, its large
love for all created things.
God bless the little children,
wherever they may be found
The Moloch of the age has his
lions share, but all parents are
not fools, nor all homes un-
blessed their artless happiness
Suffer little children still to be
among us. and forbid them not
IN. 0. Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27

EDITORIAL LPLATFORM.--BrOWB,
of the Augusta Herald, publishes
the following neutrality-suspicious.,
eve shall pitch into friend or
foe indiscriminately, when we.fnd
any imperfections ia his mental,
moral, or physical nature that de.
mand exposure; we, shall come.
down on vice like a thousand Of
brick on a decomposed pumpkin:
we shall illuminate shells charged
with gun-cottop, nitro -gEycerine
and Greek-fire into, all haunts of
depravity; we shall respect Feli
giop, caurerize hypocrisy, and
SINCE off the pinfeathers of 'dema-
gogues with a stream of fire more.
destructive than the ightningS.
Our personals will be backed with
a 24-lb, howitzeE, apair Of hyepas,
a big dog (until poverty campels
Us to sell him to the sausage mill
around the corner), and we will
occasionally borrow the tigerf from
the faro bank up town.
In politics, we are orthodox,
firmly believing in total depravity
and our own infallibilty. In re-
ligion we are square-toed Repnbli.
can, unless We have more Demo-
cratic subscribers than Republi-
can, in which case we are neutral
to. the utmost extent of our knowl-
edge and belief. All great p0liti-
cal questions we will either stand
up to sqnarely or dodge. We in
vite original articles from con-
tributors from all parts, setting
their wants, inducements to trade,
etc. For terms see ADVERTISING
rates,n
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27
LIB. #. Fort,

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Bellevue, Bossier
IN parish, La. v6nl6
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27


SAARBRUCK.-SaarbRuck is
thus described by the Chicago
Evening Post:
Tt is a town of Rhenish Prus-
sia, on the Saar River, forty
miles south southeast of Treves.
1t had a population, in 1862, of
IL, ,288, exclusive of the suburb
Of St. Johann, on the left bank
of the river, which contains
1860 inhabitants. Its princi-
pal industries are coal mining,
spinning, the manufacture OF
woolen and linen fabrics, and
of pottery and tobacco.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27
The Aristocracy of Rascal
dom.

AAAS huI0A thCtA dStOl lAotAOo VI OlAA
present mode of doing busi-
ness? Is it not the building
up of great fortunes out Of CO.
lossal robberies {? And the
thing is done by a series of
sensational addresses to the
cupidity of the cheated. High
interest notoriously goes with
low security; but we have,
sir, in this country, a class OF
rogues who may be. called the
aristocracy of rascaldom, and
who get rich by dazzling and
astonishing others into the
hope of getting rich.
They are the contrivens of
enterprises which proposes to
develop the wealth Of the coun-
try, but which commonly turn
out to be little more than
schemes to transfer, wealth al
ready realized from the pock-
cts of the honest into those of
the knayish. They are the f.
nancial footpads, who lure sim
pie people into stock corners, -
and then proceed to plumber
them. They make money SO
rapidly, SO easily, and in such
a splendid sensational way,
that they corrupt more persons
by their example than they
ruin by their knaveries. AS
compared with common rogues
they appear like Alexander or
Caesar as compared with com
mon thieves and cut-throats.
AS their wealth increases,
our moral Indignation at their
method of acquiring it dimin-
ishes, and at last they steal so
much that we come to look up
on their fortunes as conquests
rather than burglaries. Indeed,
their operations on Change
vie with those of military COM
manders in the field, and are
recorded with similar admiring
minuteness of detail. They
are the great sensations of the
world of trade, and have, there
fore more influence on the i'm
aginations of young men just
starting in business than the
dull chronicles of the great
movements of legitimate com
meree. SD.
Now, sir, take the universal
American desire to get rich.
and combine it with the rapid
rascally way of getting rich
now in vogue, and you will fine
you are breeding up a race o.
trading sharks and wolves
which will eventually devopl
us all. Honesty will go alto
Egether out of fashion, and re.
Espectability be associated with
defect of intellect. Why, tht
old robber barons of the Middle
Ages, who plundered sword il
hand and lance in rest, were
more honest than this new aris
Etocracy Of swindling million
aires.
| -zz..Ia
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27

The "Oregenian' says there viii
be about one and a half million
pounds of canned salmon pntiap
this season on, the lower Colambis.
It is estimated that the salmon
catch of this year will anonRt to
$4,000 tons. The fishing season il
nearly over, and apparently the.
800 men engaged in fishing will
be out of q job.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27

WALTER SCoTT.-The words
which Walter Scott puts in the
mouth of Jennie Deans, in her
memorable address to the
Queen, are as true as they are
beautiful. "When the hour of
trouble comes-and seldom
may it visit your leddyship---
and when the hour Of death
comes, that comes to high and
low-lang and late may it be
yours. 0, my Teddy lit is ma
what we have done for oursels,
but what we have done for
others, that We think on most
pleasantly" Ir,jg a5..
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27

The lion and the lamb may
possibly sumtime lay down in
this world together for a fu
minits, but when the lion kums
to git up, the lamb will bemiss-
ing-[J Josh Billings. 'a
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27

During the month of July the
government paid off sev enteen
millions of the public debt, besid-
meeting current obligation.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27
.arcGde Drinking SgEa0ae,
BELLEVUE, La,
r. 0. HILL, Proprietor,

pespeetfully announces to the public that
Ii he has leased the above named Saloon
of Mr. J. c. Head. Gentlemen will find it a
pleasant resort. The rooms are neatly fitted
up, and everything connected with the
house pleasant and inviting. A cordial in
vitation is extended to every one to call,
hoping to render such visits agreeable.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-22

Mr. Disraeli is improving in health.
An early adjournment Of the Bcumenical
Council is looked for.
jules Favre attacked the domestic policy
of the Government in the Corps Legislatif
yesterday.
There is reduction of SO, 75o, 900 in gold
in the British naval estimates as compared
with last year.
The Fleetwood lighthouse on the Eng
lish coast was carried away by ship which
was dashed against it during gale.
An Able has been ordered TO duit the
Roman territory, being suspected Of furnish
ing correspondence regarding the council to
the Gazette d'Aags6ourg.
La Pdtrie suggests that Americans will
best show their gratitude to France and La
fayette by placing at their public meetings
to-day, side by side, the busts of Washington
and Napoleon III.