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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16
"a. STORY ABOUT GEN. GAsS.
-OoL Forney writes:

"a STORY ABOUT GEN. GAss.
Ooh Forney writes:
John Guy bore a striking
resemblance to Gen. Lewis
Cass, and while he was proprie-
tor of the National Hotel, in
Washington, the Michigan SEN
ator was among his favored
guests. Guy dressed like Cass,
and although not as portly,
his face, including the wart,
was strangely similar. One
day a Western friend of the
house came in after a long ride
dusty and tired, and walking
up to the Office encountered
Gen. Cass, who was quietly
standing there. Mistaking him
for Guy, he slapped him on the
shoulder and exclaimed: swell,
old fellow, here / am; the last
time l hung my hat up in your
shanty, one of your clerks sent
me to the fourth story; but
now that / have got hold of
You, | insist upon a lower
ROOM"
The General, a most digni-
fed parsonage, taken abaek by
this startling salute, coldly re-
piled: lyon have committed
a mistake, sir. i am not Mr..
Guy; | am Gen. Cass, of Michi-
gan, - and walked angFily
away. The Western man was
shocked at the unconcious out.
rage he had committees but
before he had recovered from
his modification, Gen. Oass
who had passed around the Of
flee, confronted him again
When, second time mistaking
him for Guy, he faced him an6
said: Here you are at last. ]
have just made a devil of 8
mistake; | met old Cass and
took him for you, aud I an
afraid the Michigander ha:
gone off mad" What Gen. Cas-
would have said may well be
imagined, if the real Guy haC
not appeared and rescued tht
innocent offender from the
twice assaulted and twice anger
| ed statesman.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16

New York, Sept. 10, moan
Cotton opened firmer; Uplands >,
Orleans 213c. Sales, 1900 az
New Orleans, Sept 13-Pioaa.
tirm; supertine 81 S7i05 90; daDS
lie extra 4 S7406 90; trebls s,t..,
6 223S6 20. Corn quiet. rnissS
1914; white &c., Oats saag. p
@54c. Bran OIL 140l IL. HasS
none here. Pork flrmer:: ,.ss,
$l4 20 Bacon scarce and i'm.
72SS4094c; choice sugar carsS
163O17c. Lard scarce. tierce Iol ~
keg 114fDl13.T SsgaF nothing Az
ing Molasses, nothing doins
Whisky, quiet. 9O0sl OF. Cs,S..
no stock.
Cotton steady; sales 1000 bal,.,
Good ordinary 1740lSe; Ins
middling 190194c-
New York, Sept 13, sss--.Go.
ton strong; sales 337 bales. In
landr 21I; Orleans 2l4e>
Gold 114a.
Liverpool, Sept Is, eye-.Cot.
ton closed firm.
st. Louis, sept 13-Corn aru.
Whisky S9c. Bagging aacAaged
Pork firm 13Q134. Bacon firm,
shoulders &C. Lard firm.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16

The following dialogue tooI
place recently between an in
quiring traveller and an INTEL
gent contrabaud, IJi
Inqlliring Traveler--Is your
master a Christian2
Intelligent @ ontrahand-No,
sab, he's a memher of Con
gress.
l. T.-You do not unde'
stand me. Does your master
belong to the churchf
I.C.-No, sab, church b'long
to him. He took it on a mort
gage. a7 800
l. It's he a professor of re.
ligion? locs IA sgs
I. C.-No, sab, professor Go
de art OBJ self-defence.
]. T.-But isn't he a Presbr
terrain, or o Baptist, or SOM
thing of the sort
/. C.--No, sab; he used to u
a Methods, but he don't wolf
lit no more.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16

A man. the other day, droye
his horse on board the Staten
Island ferrYhoat, Mortified,
bnt kept as far from the boiler
as possible, thus blocking nm
the rear for teams. Aflss NJ
queStlng him two or three
times to move on withuut ef.
feet, one of the employees took
the horse by the Bride and
was about to lead him forward,
when up rose the. gentleman,
angrtly, and exclaimed:
LET GO that bride, OF I'll
make You feel this whip. If
Jake Vanderbilt keeps any
blank life insurance policies on
hand, and FIJI mp one. in nv
name for $4,000 I'll take E,y
chances at not less than thirty
feet from that boiler. but, with
out the collateral, d-n me If
I'll bulge another step" But
the deckhand "budged" him.
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Advice as to mounting a mus
tang: stranger, 1 reckon you
don't understand that animal
There amt only one way to get
along wita a mustang, and tina
Is to let him 60 just as he is a
mind to, and then steer him.
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Romantic Amelia Ito bar be-
trethed young doctor)-'GIook,
dear, such a beautiful sunset
The sky is all crimson" Unro.
mantle NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
to have had a mustard plaster
ON
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16

At Long Branch, the other
day one young girl asked an
other to dance with her. en-
deed I WON'T" was the reply;
what do | want another girl
hugging me for7" A glorious,
sensible girl. that.
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NEW ZEALAND has increased


New ZEALAND has Increased
seventeen per cent in three
years, which is, By far, in q
greater proportion than ever
the United States increased.-
The colony is only thirty years
old, and is already thriving
finely. -li4'Fo' a'lA sag
What a great people is the
Anglo-Saxon-Cel Half Che
world seems destined to their
occupation; the British isles,
North America, Australia, New
Zealand, Tasmania, South At
riaa and even bleak Patagonia
and Terra del Fnego. Hia
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16


A Yankee, out walking in
Virginia, at Wheeling, while to
himself a talking, experienced
a feeling, strange, painful,
alarming, from his csput to his
knees, as he suddenly discov-
cred he was covered DER with
bees They rested on his eye
lids, and perched upon bis
nose; they colonized his peaked
face, and swarmed upon his
clothes. They explored his
iostrils, dived deep into his
ears; they crawled mp his trous-
ers, and filled his eyes with
tears Did he yell like a hye-
na7 did he boiler and roar like
a lion Twas he scarf, and did
he cut an rnnY or did the crit
ter swoon? Meier a one! He
wasn't scarf a mite-he never
swoons nor hollers : but he
hived 'em in a nail keg tight,
and sold 'em for two dollars.
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care dose bells ringing for EFP
inquired Simon of Liberals 'No,
indeed,n answered Tibe, .dey 40
got plenty of fire, and de bella ap
now ringing for water
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A Frencbman, studying Eag-
fish, remarked. as a strange
popularity of Shakespeare. that
whenever You came to a pass
age that was unintelligible, it
was certain to be very fine
The remarkable beauty in that
sentence of Sterne so often
quoted, viz: God tempers the
wind to the Shorn lamb" must
have been found out in the
same way. If a lamb be shear
cd in winter will it make the
weather warm? Not probable.
Will he be enabled to bear the
cold as well as if his fleece re-
manned on him? Not a bit of
it. It's meaning is certainly
not in accordance with either
of these suggestions, and we
must acknowledge its incom-
prehensibility to lis, and there
fore we join with the rest OF
the world in pronourcipg it
very fine. 1-aH I4al tE
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16

The New Bedford (Mass,) Stand
ard says: ''The singular spectacle
of a woman, passing through the
street on her knees, and bearing
three lighted candles in each hand,
was witnessed, a few evenings
since, in the suburban part of tho
city. Holding her hands up and
spread out, iocomotion appeared
to be painful to her. She was
accompanied by two women,
walking one on each side, who aid
ed her to rise occasionally for
rest. 1t was understood to be a
religions penance, in fulflment of
avoB made on the departure of
her husband on whaling voyage,
to be performed if he returned in
safety. He arrived recently from
a successful cruise" ~
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80 DID BELLEVUE, La
Saturday, sept'r 1e, 1871.

IA serious calamity happened
to Minden. in the fire on the
night of the 10th and 18th
inst, which destroyed what is
known as the business part OF
the town Loss about a hun
dred thousand dollars over and
above insurance erin at
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THE BOSSIER BANNER
Official Journal of Bossier Parish.
w. II. scANLANp, PROPRIETOR.
20 aLHrERMs-

70 g-rERNs
The Boasier Banner will be Issued every
SATURDAY. uorr IRg. Subscription. per an
mum. Three Do ilars--in advance. 81 50 for
six months; Z for three months
Advertisements inserted At 81 per square
of aen lines or less. ..-a...
Cards of one square. ar less-sl2 per
sunum- Sir molths-s7 So Ehree llanths--
IS
Announrenents of Candidates Fopstsec--
$40.
" Obituary notices, when exceeding q
square, win be charged as advertisements
" All'arficles published for tine beRefit
of parties or Individuals, at their own salic-
,tatiou, win ha charged for as advertise
Inents
~ Editorial notices. or any matter oc
cupying space outside irregular advertising
reiansis, charged at the rate OF IS cents per
line.
~ Y 3. Proceedings and resolutions
Of public and political meetings, &c, charg-
cd as advertise aents- IE E." u
2 No deductit us from the above rates 10
agents except commissions.
10 "a 80 ..saErf#rf..W.. a.L f#a ....
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16


Our Parish Court has been
in session all the week, and
has not adjourned at our going
to press. Much business has
been transacted.
John Guttridge, a freedman,
was found guilty of wounding,
less than mahem, and sentepc-
ed to one year at hard labor in
the penetentiary. Several cases
of assault and battery, were
settled, and in one or two cases
of minor Importance, there
were pleas of guilty entered,
and small fines imposed.
Maine has suffered badly
L
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16

HONEY DEW is said 10 cause
rust in small grain, but the
fact is not we'll established.--
Our section is remarkable for
the great quantity of honey dew
that falls, and also for The rust.
This would substautiate the
above assertion in some de-
gree. sT ~ r1irl 15tlL
1.-The chemical difference be-
tween honey and starch is
quite inappreciable. One will
support life equally as well as
the other. The first is cast
down to ms even as the MAMMA
of old was to the Israelites;
the secondi is hardly produced
from small grain after great
labor and expense Let us,
therefore gather up the honey
by meausof our servants, the
bees, and not attempt to raise
the small grain.
The Italian bee, and the
Langstroth hive should be in.
troduced into the Red river
conntrsntaae5gG 3 ID s.sieg2 0e
10 El3SaI r------.-----jIB0 $50
vIAALa, get down on your hands
and knees minute, please. p
aWhat on earth shall / do thai
for, pete "'Cause 1 want to draw
an elephant"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16

empire, send to Pekin an annual
tribute and ambassadors, Vho are
not received with much iistinG
ton. In his own country, how
over, the king is absolute: a MT
merous court and a we'll furnished
seraglie contribute to 1.-THE splentI-
or OF his throne. All the inhabl-
tants are bound to work Tor the
sovereign three months; and to
tho large revenues of his own do
mains this prince adds the pro-
dnce Of the royal 1.-THE, taken in
kind on productions ofIevery sort.
1t appears from account Of Hamel,
that the mobiles exercise, iii their
respective districts, q very OPP
pressive feudai power; they allow
no house but their own to be
rooted with tile; the people are
obliged to live under 1oofs of
tlatcb.
The soldiery are very numerous,
but they would not be rnidable
to Europeans. They ara armed
with bad muskets, bows, and
Whips. Their ships of var are
superior to those of China, aud
appear to be limitations of the
Portuguese galleys. They are
mounted with caPnons aud furn.
ished with fire pots. The for
tresses, situated on high maun-
tains, have . sort of military
monks for part of their garrison.
According to one modern ac.
count, the Japanese hold The scv-
ereignty of 8 part of. Corea. but
Nj. Krusenstern is of the opinion
that the power of the Emperor OF
/, Japan is confined to the island OF
TsOo Sima, situated in the strait
of Corea.- Matte Brun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16

"WHo MOVED DAT WELL
Some years since, prominent
business man of Northamptsn,
Mass, Who began to SOW hin wild
oats when boy, and has not cot
all through yet, attended a color.
ed ball 4 Market street, in thai
town. After each "breakdown'
he noticed that q well was uear
the house--by the by a shallow ont
was resorted to by the men ia
quenchrheir thirst. Uaebserrsd
while the dance was going on, he
slipped out of the house, ana
moved the curb a few feet beyond
the well, and awaited the result
Presently out came one Of the
dancers, and plnmp into the wei
he went. blowing and putting
he came up to the top and eI,
claimed: "Ay CORY! who moyet.
dat well since rse out hero Iastf'
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=. A..- III A-. ~ -.- SEQ saaa+ .." .. fHE
War exists with Corea, de-
clared by Commodore Rodgers
OF Grant, we suppose certain
ly not by Congress. We have
therefore, published this week
q description of the Coreans,
rs given by the great geogra-
pher, Matte Br1In, in order that
our readers may Judge of our
enemy's prowess.
.NrLw nj. .#" #H# E.seH FH.Htaa Err.. s-sE.f Ia
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A clergyman, who owned s
farm, found his plowmaR sit
ting oa bis plow resting hil
horse. Quoth the clergyman
"John, Wouldn't it be a soo,i
plan for you to have a good
stub soythe here, and bo cut
ting a few bushes along tbs
fence when the horse is resting
a short time 2"
"Wouldn't it he well, SIR
said John, '.for you to have a
tub of potatoes in the pulpit,
and when they are singing,
peel 'em awhile to be ready
for the pot2''
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16

When terrific flashes shoot
athart the lurid sky, it's a sign
of lightning. and when the
contents of the clouds falls like
water from a squeezed sponge
it is a sign of rain. These
signs never fail, even in dry
weather. A ~ "i-i 4
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16

THE DRAINAGE SCHEME for
New Orleans, when carried
out. will increase tile limits of
that city 10 the size Of COM
bined New York and Brooklyn,
aspace large enough to accom-
odate a population Of two mil
lions, which is ten times the
presentpupulation of New Or
leans. gW ZEl Is t
i've are glad to know that
that city is waking mp at lase,
and that improvements are be-
ing made, even though they
may cost twice what they
ought to.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-16

e There are now, fourtesn dali
ly papers in Rome. ana ten
more are announced as forth
coming.
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Maine has suffered badly
from grasshoppers this year.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-17
MORTGAGE SALE.

DEFAULT having been made in the pay
ment of a certain indenture or mortgage mace
anu executed by Samuel S. HIATT and Cephinett
HIATT. his wife, of Paw Paw, Michigan, to Ma
linda Vickery. on the twenty-second day OF
December, A. d. 1865, and recoi ded in the Of
fee of the Register of Deeds for the county o!
Van Buren,, on the seventeenth day of May, A.
ID 1869, in hber w of Mortgages, on page Isl,
and on which mortgage there is due at the date
of this notice the sum of two hundred and thir-
ty three and 20-100ths dollars, and no suit at
law or III equity having been instituted Tor the
recovery ofthe same or any part thereof: Notice
i. therefore hereby given that by virtue OF the
power of sale contained ia said Mortgage and
the statute in such case made and provided, all
that certain peice and parcel Of land situate
and being in the County OF Van Buren,, and
State of Michigan, known and described as fol-
lows. to-wit. Village lot number six 6 and the
undivided one fourth Of lot number seven III
in block forty -one, in the village OF Paw Paw,
according 10 the recorded plat thereof, VIII be
sold at public vendue at the front door OF the
Court House. in the village of Paw Paw, that
being the place of holding the Circuit Court
in and for said County of Van Buren,, by the Sher-
III of said County, on the 18th daV OF April next
at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon of said day, to
satisfy the amount then due on said indenture
of Mortgage together with the costs and charges
allowed by law, and also Twenty dollars as an
Attorney fee stipulated by the parties TO said
indenture of Mortgage.
Dated Paw Paw, February |, ISL
MALINDA VICKERY, Mortgages.
THEopoRH Z. HssDRIcK, Attorney. s27tl3
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-17
PROBATE ORDER.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, COUNTY OF Van BU-
Rem, Sc. At d session of the Probate Court
for tho County of Van Buren,. holden at the
Probate Office, in the Village of Paw Paw,
on Monday the sixth day of March, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and seventy
one.
Present-George w. Lawton, Judge Of Probate.
In the Matter cf the Estate Of Ward Bower
deceased On reading AMI filing the potion,
duly verified, of Genius II. En- gle administrator
of the estate OF said deceased praying for rea-
sons therein set forth for license to sell certain
of the real estate of which said deceased died
possessed and in said petition described.
Thereupon it is Ordered, that Monday, the
twenty fourth day of April, A. D. 1871, ut ten
o'clock in the forenoon, be assigned for the
hearing of said petition, and that the hers-at-
law of said deceased and all other persons IN
terested in said estate be required to appear al
a session of said Court, then To be holden at
the Probate Office in the Village OF Paw Paw,
and show cause, if any there be, why the
prayer of the petitioner should notbe granted.
And it is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested IN sald
estate, of the tendency of said petition, ana
the hearing thereof by causing IL copy OF this
order to be published in the True NoHherner
a newspaper printed and circulated in said
County of Van Buren,, for six successive
weeks, at least previous to said day Of hearing e.
GEO. w. LAYTON, Judge of Probate.
"A true copyA S32t6
GEO W LAwToN, Judge Of Probate.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-17
CHANCERY ORDER.

STATE OF MIG judicial Cir
cult. In Chancery.
Harriet l., Daily, Complainant, VS.. John Ii.
Daily, defendant.
suit pending in the Circuit Court for the
County Of Van Buren,, at Paw Paw, on the 9th
day OF February, A. L. 1871. 1t satisfactorily
appearing to the undersigned by affidavit on
file that the above named defendant John IL.
Daily now resides without the State Of Michi-
gan.
On motion Of Stephenson and Barnum solicit
tors for said complainant it is ordered that the
said defendant John II. Daily appear in said
suit and answer the bill Of complaint filed
therein within three months from the date here
of and in case OF his appearance he cause his
answer TO the bill Of complaint to be filed and
a eopv thereof to be served on the complaiuants
solicitors within twenty days after service on
him Of a copy of said bill and notice Of this or
der and in default thereof that the said bill be
taken as confessed by the said defendant.
And it is further ordered that within twenty
DAYS from the date hereof the said complainant
cause this order to DO published in the True
Northerner, newspaper published ii said
County Of Van Buren, and that said publication
be continued in SAID paper once i'll each week
for six successive weeks or that he cause copy
of this order to be personally served on the
said defendant John ii. Daily at least twenty
days before the time above specified for his APP
neorance. S3It7
JOHN KNOW LES Circuit Court Commissioner
STEPHENSON BARsuM Solicitors for Conplt
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-17
CuANCERY ORDER.

State of Michigan The Ninth Judicial Circuit
In Chancery.
Albert Plat and Anna Plvtt, Compliments VS..
Louisa Ashley, Adelbert +. I. Ashley, Bird
we'll Ashley, Dephine Ashley, Robert Ashley
Perley a. 4. Ashley, Emerette Ashley, Mara
L. Plat and William W. Bass, Defendants.
Suit pending in the Circuit Court for the
County OF Van Buren,, in Chancery at Paw Paw
III said County on the twenty-seventh day Of
February A. D. 1871, before John Knowles,
Circuit Court Commissioner.
1t satisfactorily appearing by atidavits that
each of the said defendant Delphine Ashley,
Robert Ashley, Perley Ashley and Emcrette
Ashley do not reside in the State Of Michigan,
but are soverally residents Of the State OF Ohio.
On motion of Chandler Richards Solicitor for
Compliments it is ordered that said Delphine
Ashley, Robert Ashley, Perley 4. Ashley and
Emerette Ashley seyeraily cause their ap-
pearrnce to be entered in this cause, within
three months: from the date Of this order and
that this order be published once in a week
for six successive weeks in the True Northerner
a newspaI or Published in said County, the first
publication whereof 10 be within twenty days
from The date hereof.
Paw Paw, Fob'v 81, 1871: S32t7
JOHN KNOWLES Circuit Court Commits
sioner for Van Buren, Comfy, Mich
CHANDLER RICHARDS, Complsinants Solicitor
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-17
MORTGAGE SALE.

BY virtue of power of sale contained in a
mortgage bearing date February -, a. ID. 1863
made by Naomi Leet and George Silkworth to
William Anderson, and recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds OF the County Of Van Blu,
rem, Michigan, on the twenty seventh day OF
February, A. d. 1862, there being now due ana
unpaid on said mortgage five hundred and
ninety -four dollars and seventy one cents, and
and an attorney fee Of seventy five dollars, the
premises described as commencing at the north
east corner of section twenty-five and running
west eighty rods, thence south eighty rods,
thence east forty rods, thence south eighty rods,
thence east forty rods, thence north one hundred
and sixts rods to place of beginning, in town
four, south range fourteen west. County oil van
Buren,, Michigan, will be sold at public auction
to the highest bidder, at the front door Of the
Court House in the village of Paw Paw, in said
county, at one o'clock p. M, on the twenty
ninth day of May, A. D. 1871.
Dated Decatur, February Is, 1871.
WILLIAM ANDERSON, Mortgagee.
FOSTER FIELD, Attorneys. S3ltl5