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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

Gov. SCOTT AT HoME.-The
Dayton Daily Herald of nov. II,
contains the following statement
editorially: Gov. Scott Of South
Carolina is an Ohio carpet-bsgger,
and we are glad to know a man of
thrift. He is building himself an
elegant residence at Napoleon,
Henry county in this state (Ohio)
which he will occupy when the
inevitable time arrives for him at
the South. That hour seems to
be arriving pretty fast. He has
bankrupted the stats, made repu,
diation q rallying cry with all per
sous out of Office who pay taxes,
and got rich himself. Loyalty is its
own reward" .-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

We call attention to the adj
yertisement of Mr.. L. Griswold's
school in another column. Mr.
Griswold has for many years
made teaching his sole occupa-
ton; and in it, he keeps up full
iy with the times. One of the
methods by which he has sue
ceeded in teaching so thor.
oughly, is what is called sob
ject teaching" This which has
been put forward of late il
many parts of the country as ;
novelty, has been used by hin
for years. .
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

st the meeting Of the Army of
the Cumberland in Detroit, recent
". Gen. RobinBon told story
about Gen. Selfridge and Gen.
Barnum. Both these officers,
when stationed ct Raleigh, were
popular, and rivalry existed
between them. One day Gen.
Barnum visited IN insane asylum
and received quite an ovation.
This excited Gen. Selfridge's
jealousy, and in hope of being
similarly treated, and determined
not to 30 outdoue, he took his
band and serensded q deaf and
dumb institution. u.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

Florence, tina com edian, tells q
capital story Of . waiter at one OF
the London taverns who was sad
~ given to drink. A party of
young men determined to reform
him, and one day they read an
imaginary paragraph from the
pa per relating q terrible accident
in which an iuebriate on blowing
out a candle, was killed by the
igniting Of the fumes OF his
breath. Jerry pricked up his
ears at this, and requested that
the paragraph might be read to
him again, which was done to the
evident horror Of the FSor man,
who immediately went in search
OF the prayer-book. Returning
with this, he expressed a desire to
take a solemn oath upon it, be
noaned the f,ct he had been q
sorry tippler, and was bringing
himself to ruin, and then swort
that never again, 50 long as b,
lived, would ne attempt to blo1
leat q candle
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30
AN .AccoNMoDIT1NGn Rail,

AN ACCOMMODATING" RAIL
RoAD.-The Peoria (Illinois) Re
view is responsible for the follow
ing:
.'In these days of great COM
plants against the eItortion of
railroads it is refreshing to hear
of corpora tons that study the
comfort of their passengers. Such
a one, according to j. w. Parker,
is the twenty miles of road from
Jacksonville to Waverly. A lady
wished to get off the train to see a
neighbor. They stopped the cars
fifteen minutes until she went up
and found her friends at home.
Then she made up her mind that
she would stay there; whereupGu
the conductor and brakeman seiz-
ed her trunk and carried it to the
house, distance about quarter Of
mile. For this piece of politeness
the lady returned her thanks and
peck of apples. The railroad
men accepted them both, and re
turning, divided the apples among
thepassengers. One ofthepassen
gers had a note that was overdue
on a farmer near the track. The
conductor stopped the train, hunt
ed up the man, they sat down
reckoned the interest, paid the
money. and the happy recipient
got on the .rain again, and it pro
ceeded on its way. By this time
the apples presented by the lady
had been consumed, and as the
train was passing an orchard thu
conductor stopped the train for {
third time to allow the passenger:
time to fill their pockets. Iu an
swer TO remarks that il was al
eminently accommodating road
he replied: "This is the accommo
dation train; and we do about a
the majority want us to. If the,
say stop, why We STOP" This is al
actual occurrence. Can any othe
place show so accommodating
set of railway ficials?"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

CORN FOR FUEL.-The Rsa Oak
Express is authority for the state.
ment that number OF persons at
that place are buying corn at Is
cents per bushel, to be used as fuel
during the coming winter. 1t is
said to be cheaper than. coal. We
have no doubt but that there ara
many prairie localities in the West
where the farmer can raise his fuel
in the corn field cheaper than he
can get it in any other way.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

The Marshall Reporter of the
18th states that a bill passed the
House of Representatives reyiv-
ing the charter and extending the
time for completing the first TWEEN.
ty five miles of the Sabine Pass
and Red River Railroad. The.
line of this road runs from Sabine
Pass, via Marshall and Jefferson,
to. Fulton.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

There is a man in Paducah who
breathes through silver tube in
his throat. 1t is Immediately be-
low the apple. and goes into the
windpipe. He can only talk when
he places his finger on the tube.
He has been in this condition for
eleven years. En-.
Charles Nesfeld, a freedman,
resident iu this parish, breathes
through a similar tube. He can.
not talk by mouth at all, but can
make himself pretty well under.
stood by sounds forced out of the
tube and by motions.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30
FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEAS

FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEAS
UREs.-As Shreveport is the
market town for al Bossier
parish, we are, of course, deep
ly interested in the way which
business is carried on there.
Many runors and pieces of in
formation have reached us
which leads us to suspect that
the oldest of all swindling,
that by false weights and
measures, is often perpetrated
there. As an instance, a Bos-
sierite had just sold some pro-
duce, aud concluded to weigh
himself by the same scales the
produce was weighed on, when
10! he had fallen thirty pounds
from his usual weight. Scales
elsewhere put him back to his
normal weight found on the
home balances. Weights OF
cotton may very REASONABLY vary
from what is correct, caused
by the rapid and careless way
of weighing. Nor, should il
surprise our people that weigh
ers should favor the buyer
rather than the seller.
The remedy we advise, is foI
every one to look well to hi!
own interest. If for any rea
son false weighing or mcsaur
ing be suspected, have TIT
matter tested. 1.-THE opposite
party puts Oh an air of wound
ed dignity and refuses to al
low a test, you may be assured
at once that he is a cheatel
An honest man is not afraid t,
be watched. y
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

1t is a curious within that
painters have to always pic
ture angels with wings, and
feathered wings at that. We
have read the Bible pretty
thoroughly, and cannot now
call to mind an instance in it
where angels or spirits are
represented as having wings.
The ancient gods had none, if
we except Mercury with whom
they were only ornaments.
Evil spirits are drawn by our
painters and poets with wings
like bats. 1t would be a pleas
ing novelty to have spirits SO
represented as to create no
idea of bird or bat in the mind.
Man is sail to be but a little
lower than angels, and if a
non-descript bird is pictured
to US, it is hard for us to con-
ceiye it superior to us.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

The Columbia IS. c. Times
saws the KuAlu1 arrests are cut
ting both ways. The whites be-
i ng arrested, their farms 60 to
waste, the negroes are thrown out
of work, the stock Of food is less
ensd, land the freednan must
either starve or steal or smigrate.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

Alexis was quite overcome at
the Boston committees invitation.
The Commercial Bulletin says:
.'The Grand Duke was so much
affected, that he replied in his ma
tive Russian as follows: 'Orl ritOld
buStdh yuken sorai lcgofbutti telIlr
Gle bl0Ski hifur Boston. Gityuy'
rumdnriSki dnlotzer citti bOmcrS
redi, dRidn Olecatcasy acilbi dozen
onyer lykeG neSkemo ondh tallaJi
undle.m
Russian differs but little from
English. The translation of the
above begins "All right old bust
er &C."
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

A negro woman was relating her
experience to gaping congrega :
ton of color, and among other
things she said she had been in
heaven. One of the ladies asked
her, "Sister, did you see any
blacks in heaven ?" eOh, get out!
You spose l go in de kitchen
whom l was darf" -f,,9
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

Josh Billings says: Slight
wont 60 into six and have any
thing left over. Many a young
fellow has found this out by try,
ing to get a number six boot on
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30


We take the following from the
Courier-Jonrnal:
sit cost the people ofthe United
States forty millions Of dollars to
support the army during the past
year. This seems h Oh but when
we reflect that thrt army has
killed nine Indian woman and
children, and arrested twelve
hundred people under the Kuklux
law, we can't conScisntiously say
that it is too high.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30
BELLEVUE, La,
Saturday, Dec'ber 80, 1871,

Alexis has telegraphed for
Driyegalsoff to come on and
join his suite immediately En-.
Shovelsoff, even aided by Chem
isoff and Shirtsoff, is by no means
powerful enough to keep him
from being imposed on by the wo,
men.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

Apothecaries in England have
hereafter to put all poisonous
drugs into bottles Of peculiar
shape, which casDet be mistaken
in the dark for anywhere else.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

The new winter style of gen.
tlemen's wearing apparel are
picturesque and-as the ladies
say-lovely. The coming fash
ion of pantaloons for gentleman is
to be pictorial. Some represent
quiet landscape IN the country,
with cattle and sheep browsing
near bubbling streams and woody
recesses others detail the excit
ing and varied scenes ofthe battle
field; others the exhilaratiag
beauties of the ballroom, with
ladies in their most bewitching
costumes and radiant graces. and
the blonde-haired Adonises and
dark-eyed Apollos also; and sill
others-for very fast young men
are respondent with the exu-
berant charms of the ballet
queens and the goddesses of opera
boufe. The ladies will shortly
find much to admire about the
gentlemen's legs. This will be
some sort of compensation to the
opposite sex, whose pedals have
been a source of observation tC
the male genus since the days o.
ADAM Mobile Register.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

"MJ dear fellow, I'm off to-mor
row. Can l take any letters for
your ''You're very kind,7 an
swered Abbot; .But where are
you Solngi' 81 haven't made up
my mind"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

A young lad who was called as
a witness was asked il he knew
the nature of an oath, and where
he would 60 if ho told a lie. He
said lie supposed he should go
where all the lawyers went. U
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

The Washington Republican
says: "Some one has fastened a
pretty fair criticism upon the
California poet, Joaquin Miller,
who, in his exit Carson's Ride
makes that hero dash away on a
bareback horse" and afterwards
"rise in his stirrups" The crit.
cism is not fair at all, and the
''some one who wrote it is evi-
IDENTIFY a fool. The chief beauty
of the poem is that the poet
leaves to the Imagination of the
reader the fact that Carson stop.
ped at the first house he came to
and borrowed saddle Courier,
Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

URIoUS Disco TERY.-A
Florida gentleman las made a
curious discovery. He observed
that the vicinity Of new rail
road had driven all the curculios
to the extreem end of his garden.
Then, on a calm night, he explod-
ed two pounds of powder in the
hollow of . stump, which drove
every circulio and every winged
insect from the orchard. Firing
a pistol, in a room Full of mos.
quitoes, produced q SIMILAR effects
If it be true that epidemic diseas.
es are propagated through the
agency of animalcul8. here is a
way not only to destroy noxions
insects, but to check she spread O
such diseases. Let our boards O
health lay in a good stock o
gunpowpsr,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30

FLoRIDA.-FIorida must be .
beautiful State, possessing charms
to which we are strangers here
Silver Spring, Florida, is one of
the greatest curiosities in the
South. 1t bursts forth in the
midst of the most fertile country
in tho State. 1t bubbles up in a
basin near one hundred feet deep
and about an acre in extent, and
sending from it deep stream six
ty to one hundred feet wide, and
extends six to eight miles to the
Ocklawaha river. In the spring
itself fifty boats may lie at anchor
quite a fleet. The spring thus
formsa natural inland port, to
which three steamers now run
regularly from the st. Johns max.
ing close connections with the
ocean steamers at Palatka. The
clearness of the water is truly
wonderful. 1t seems even more
transparent than air; you see the
bottom eighty feet below the bot
tom Of your boat, the exact form
of the smallest pebble, the cut
line and color of the leaf that has
sunk, and all the prismatic coler'
are there reflected. Large fish swim
in it, every scale visible ant
every movement distinctly seen
If you go over the spring in a boa
you will see the assures in tn,
rocks, fsom which the river pour
upward like an inverted cataract
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-12-30
Use of Metals as Fuel.

An inventor proposes to substi-
tute metals for coal as fuel for
ocean steamers, and has taken
cut a patent for a method of car
rying out his views, his object be-
ing to obtain larger amount of
steam from a given quantity of
flel.
When coal is burnt the solid
coal is turned into gas, a large
portion of heat becomes latent,
and is wasted by volatiiising the
solid. The oxygen of the atmos-
phere is a gas by reason of the
large amount of heat combined
with it. When zinc, iron or man
ganese are burned the resulting
oxide is a dense solid; little or no
heat is wasted, as it is not turned
into vapor. In addition to this,
the inventor obtains the cosmical
heat latent in the oxygen of the
atmosphere, and the result is that
one pound of zinc will evaporatc
more than four times as much
water as one pound Of coal, the
advantage of which, on long sea
voyages is obvious. The zinc OF
other metal thus becomes vehicle
of power, much larger than Car
be obtained from the same weight
or bulk of coal, and the o tide o
the metal may subsequently bt
economically reduced at any con
venient place where coal is acces
sible. The following is the man
ner in which it is preferred to car
~ out thisinvention. The furnace
of the boiler is divided into tw,
or more parts; first, the hearth o
CRATE on which the metal is burn
ed lin this description we will con
: fine ourselves to the metal Ziuc;
secondly, chamber behind tn
hearth to collect the oxide. Il
the case of tubular boilers, tn
heated gas from this chamber
made to circulate through tn
tubes. The furnace has the bol
tom and sides and sometimes tn
top also, of brick, fire-clay. or an
other refractory substance. TIL
air is admitted over the combust
BILE metal, or by a blast throug
the Same; in the latter case pipe
or twcers are built in the bottoI
or sides of the furnace.
Whether this method prove
practically successful or not, it
certainly based on sound prime
Piles. Every one know wha.
small proportion Of coal compare
to the iron is used in the furnac,
of iron founderies, and how I'll
" partial combustion of the Ire
= itself increases the heat derive
from the coal. If stoves could
e built that would burn iron,
would doubtless be as cheap
fuel as coal, perhaps cheaper.
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WILL be given for the finding and
w bringing to me of . DERRINGERs
PISTOL, lest by me between Bellevue and
Red Chute ferry on the evening of the 26th
instant. b. +. O'NEAL.
Dec. %, 1871. --... ~ II -
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Notice.

I shall cease to keep Hotel after ?lst
December, inst, 1871 j and only expect
to open a Boarding House.
Bellevue. La, Dec. 30th, 1871
ANN SMITH.
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On some of the best managed
European railways electricity is
more and more taking the place of
human watchfulness and the or
binary interventions of machine
~. For example, on several lines
there are contrivances by which
the passing of a train is automati.
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