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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

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Poor little Louis Bonaparte
is now being berated by all the
dogish disposed papers of the
Union. But yesterday he was
the Great Emperor Napoleon
III, to-day the little, narrow
headed, narrow-minded son of
q Dutch Admiral. Perhaps this
last parentage is true, and if 10
it may account for the fact that
he has shown more common
sense than any Corsican ever
did. He ruled the great French
nation for twenty-one years
with more wisdom than ever
his reputed uncle displayed.
Let us talk a little about
the great Corsican. He had
placed under his command
by the French Republic
fine. well-drilled. enthusiastic
armies. With them he display
ed greater generalship than
history records of any other
person. Enough praise this,
surely, to fall to the lot of any
man. But let any one read
carefully the exhaustive history
by Theirs, audit will be clearly
seen that the First Napoleon
had no political wisdom what
ever. Neither could he con-
struct such electives armies as
the Republic furnished him.
The first Napoleon fell for want
Of political wisdom. the last
from wantof generalship mag
ae long be the last.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

1t 10 said that a short-h hand re-
porter OF the Washington Globe
can write with both hands at the
same time, the left hand taking
notes, and the right transcribing-
and is said to be the only man in
the world who can do this.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

A Vermont girl wants to know
if the woman's rights movement
includes the right to do the court.
ing. iii does, she is in for it, as
the men in her vicinity are very
bashfnl. There is something prac.
tical in that.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

A mania to marry seems tc
have seized upon our freed peo.
pie On one day lately, oul
Clerk issued nine licenses, and
hardly a day passes without
one or more being issued. We
are glad to see it. We are glad
to know that they are fast
adopting civilized customs.
Moreover our lawyers may
expect to reap a harvest in flu
ture divorce cases. and we win
CLEAN along after them by pub
fishing judgments desperation
OF property. notices not to
credit. 60.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

A poor but honest youth, ut
Wilmington, n. c., was recently
encouraged to to be good and yir.
tuous by a reward of ten cents for
finding and restoring to the own.
er a booklet book containing Sz3S.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

Fifteen hundred pounds of nj.
tro glycerine exploded in the Hoo.
sac tunnel, Massachusetts,, blow.
ing the superintendent Of the
works TO atOma
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

A western paper noticed the
opening Of q new whisky store,
and the next day apologised for
the brevity Of its local columns,
because "the reporter was ill., He
had assisted ut the opening.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

Anna Dickinson says ahe pro
poses giving newspaper men that
talk about hel, "tit for TAFT Sol
Miller, a Kansas editor, replied to
this by saying: Gall right, An,
ma, we'll trade; here's your tat"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

Good WHISPERS are Citing
skarce; Is years ago they vas
plenty, but the desire tew git
ritch, or tew hold offiss, has took
the pucker ont OF this honest and
cheerful amusenent.-[Josh Bit
lings.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

Swinging is sad by the doctors
to be very good exercise for a per.
sons health; but many POOR
wretch has come to his death by
it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11
photographic News.
[FIpm shreveport south. Western.

uplands 15ac.; Orleans 16c., sales
1000 bales. Gold I1130111s.
New Orleans, Feb. Corn
easier at67@Gsc. Bran firmer at
81 %. Hay quiet; prime so4025.
Pork firmer; mese s23. fierce 124c.
Cotton in good demand. Sales
94O0 bales. Middling 14s9145c.
Receipts lO,949 bales. Exports,
foreign, 1927 bales. Stock on
hand l4S, 246 bales. Gold 111i.
Jefferson, Texas, Feb. IA fire
broke out last night in the Russell
Building, on Austin street. The
whole block was consumed, inclu-
ding the houses of the following
firms: Grinnan & Wayland, S.
w. Stone, D. J. Shohan, Faulkner
& Shryock, Birge, Nicholas & CO.,
}: p. & j. G. Afford, and Pinski.
The Daily Democrat was also
burned. The total loss is probably
not less than three hundred thou
sand dollars; about two hundred
thousand Insured.
Memphis, Feb. 7.-Alcorn's gin
house, with 400 bales of cotton
burned. Loss $4,000.
Iuka, Miss, Feb. s.-Hotel burn.
ed. Loss $4,000.
Pittsburg, Feb. 7.-Slnith &
Bros locomotive works, with 90
adjoining buildings, were burned.
Loss $4,000.
New York, Feb. Fire at 500
Broadway. Loss over 100000.
Washington, Feb. G.-House-.
The motion to suspend the rules
to have a committee to inquire
into the abuse OF cadets at West
Point on account of race and color,
received only twenty-five afiirma-
tive votes. SCI a.-.s.r-f .
Maynard moved to suspend the
rules to take from the Speakers
table the bill in relation to the
Southern Pacific Railroad, and re-
fer it to the committee on Pacific
railroads with leave to report at
any time after the 10th inst. The
rules were suspended and the bill |
referred; ayes 129, nays 81.
This action is regarded as equiv |
alent TO the ultimate passage of
the bill. All the Southern mem |
bers voted aye. E
London, Feb. 6.-Paris is gen. |
orally assuming the appearance
of order, and somewhat of its for. |
mer splendor.
The exchange of wounded pris-
oners is proceeding.
u
Trochu wishes to return to Brit
tany on account of his marked Tn
popularity. There are threats to
shoot him.
Berlin, Feb. 5.-Uneasines is
succeeding the e1ultation caused
by the fall of Paris. |
Incessant exertions are being
made for the resumption of war;
the plan being to equip the armies
and overrun the whole of France,
and reduce it to subordination by
a savage and relentless campaign.
Paris, Feb. 5.-Intense suffering
and hundreds are dying
daily of starvation. The food re.
ceived is wholly inadequate.
London, Feb. 6.-The Standard
says Beauregard has notified a
large number of Confederate OIL
GERS 10 come to France in case OF
a renewal of the Struggle.
Favre has resigned the Ministry
of the Interior, but will remain
of Foreign Affairs.
1t is rumOred that Ecuador.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

Gladstone spoke l78 times dur.
ing the last session of Parliament,
aud his speeehea oecnpy. eighty
columns of the Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

The Kentucky Supreme Court
has settled the fact that q dog
roaming on a neighbours premises
may be killed with impunity or
other suitable means.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

IN Sonora Indian scaIps are
quoted at $500,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

List OF Jurors drawn on the 2ls.
day Of January, 1871, to serve az
the March District Court of BIZ.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

urge that the country needs and
deserves peace.
The official journal of Paris SAYS
no conditions of peace have yet
been discussed.
The whole army Of investment
will march through some of the
principal streets of Paris, simply
for the purpose of passing through
the city. The houses on either
sidO of the route will be cleared
of their inhabitants and occupied
by the German troops.
The feeling against Gambetta is
increasing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

There are now about $4,000
miles of railroad in the United
States.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

NEW PROCESS OF SUGAR MAX
ING.-Mr. j. Fabregas, a Cuban
planter, is said to;have discovered
q process by which sugar can be
madeifrom cane juice without boil
ing it, and in consequence revo-
luton in sugar making is antici-
pated. KPlanters will all be anx-
lous to hear something more about
this discoyery.-GNerI 5eria Sugar
Boacl.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

MURDERED NEGRoEs.--An in.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. iI this parish
lately reckoned up, from memory,
abont thirty negroes who have
been killed in this parish in the
last two years, all but three or
four::killed.by men of their own
color, and We. do. not remember
that a single. negro murderer has
been punished for the crime. Most
all.of these-criminais are employ
ed on plantations or steamboats, in
this parish, at high wages, and
there has been no public officer to
modest or make them afraid.
What a commentary on Radi, al
rule, and Interpretation of the
lives and interestslof freedmen p
Planters Banner, ST. MaAy parish.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-02-11

No deductions from the above rates TO
agents except commissions. ............
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-14
Democratic Rule.

The series of disasters which have fol-
lowed the accession of the Democrats to
power in Indiana are partly summed up
by the South Bend Register, which says:
First, the editor of their State organ,
appointed to the responsible position of
State Printer, runs upa bill of $50, 600 in
six months, for State printing, and is
under indictment for perjury; every
important law passed by the Democratic
State Legislature is declared unconsti
tutional and void; the Supreme Court
decided the election of two Of the Soth~
ern Prison Directors illegal; the State
officers disagree among themselves on
most questions affecting State interests;
the Fee and Salary bill is such a miser-
able piece of legislation that Philadel-
phia lawyer cannot unravel it; and when
the Legislature broke up, it left all the
State benevolent and other institutions
unprovided for. What would follow an-
other Democratic victory, should we be
again SO unhappily afflicted, will be
hard to tell.'
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-14
Light.

Light is present to US in every vary
ing condition-but it is ever the same
there is a oneness is essence after all.
1t is the same light that glistens on the
fire. fly, and blazes on the ruddy hearth
stone, and sparkles Oh the jewels in the
diadem, and flashes beauty in the morn
ing. Science tells us that those prolific
beds of coal in the bowels of the earth
were once forests on the surface-forests
Of luxuriant vegetation and they incor
porated the suns rays, and then in mer-
ciful cOnvulsiOns were imbedded in the
center of the lower earth by al all prov
ident foresight for the wants of an i'll
habited world. Science tells us, too,
that time was when the shapeless crystal
was yet new to the covering Of the earth.
Subjected to the wheel Of the lapidary,
it sparkles out to view as a gem of the
first water. 1t is but the release of the
imprisoned rays which shone from the
same great source long centuries ago
SO that, in both the cottage, and freight,
and in the monarch's gem, we nave just
the resurrection of some olden summer,
the great return of some sepulchral sun
light, from which man has rolled away
the stene.-PunsAOn.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-14

north and south road uncalled for and
out of place, even if it were true that the
company was only seeking the money
to be made in building the road. SO far
they have furnished their own money,
| believe, and none of Stanwood's, so
animal and raise the cry of wild cat con-
struction company, as "Citizen' says
you have an equal right with himself
to do.
We have this to say don't be TOO has
ty in Judging matters of this kind. Per-
haps there were those ready to look at
the c. I. & n. r. r. Co. in somewhat
the same light when years ago they
were seen running over the prairie where
the village in which you now reside
stands, looking for the best route to build
road; and the reason they did not ask
any money from Stanwood is that it was
not there.
That there was but one who felt dis
posed to come to you and state his griev-
ances does not prove there were no 9TH
ers and that il was with good deal of
reluctance he endorsed with said Dorcas.
l will venture to say that his reluctance
was not the result of any false state-
ments in the article, for l don't believe
that S. H. Maley would subscribe to
what is emphatically false to accommo'
date you or any other man.
JOHN DORCAS.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-14
Not Quite so Fast.

MIR. EDITOR: some one calling him
self Citizen" has, through the Express,
undertaken to give its readers :" few
facts" as he styles them, in reply to an
article Of mine which appeared in the
ADVERTISER, but instead of doing so,
starts out (after asserting the ability of
Stanwood to do its own talking, with
out the assistance of anyone, on another
subject altogether. He says that
'piedged my word to certain persons" !"
which is not the fact-"not to give the
right of way to any other company un
til the Northwestern decided whether
to build the road to Upton or not" This
also is mistake. He says, when ta-
ken to task for violating his word, he
tried to justify himself by asserting the
certainty of the building Of the road by
said company because they promised to
dig him we'll - which | assert to oe
false. He says that my opinion of the
true sentiments of S:anwOod as to the
|. & NJ. road is worth no more than my
word Oh right of way. He says that he
knows-has right to know, as he lives
there and mingles with them every day
and it is as follows: "The G.. & n.
w. company has always done every
thing it agreed to do for us.n I never
said it had not done all it agreed te do,
SO that in this as in the other items. he
has failed to give ''few factsn in reply
to the article in question. | made no
statement of any assurances given to
Stanwood by the I. 4 M. Co., nor did l
say that Stanwood had withheld or
would withhold the necessary encour-
agement when the company comes with
the assurance required to obtain the aid
asked in the construction of the road.
AS to the bugle arrangement, would
say there has been no pledge forfeited,
as there has been no contract made, any
more than on the right of way question.
When there is, we propose to stick to it
and try to get the right note, so as to
give the right sound, which I trust will
be heard some of these mornings in the
whistle Of the engine on the /. & NJ.
Facts about the right of way question
can be given if necessary.
JOHN DoRCAs.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-14
Relative Rank of Cities.

The cities of New York, Philadelphia
and Brooklyn hold the same relative
rank as to population that they did in
1860. There has been considerable shift
ing places, however, among those that
now constitute the twenty foremost
cities of the Union.
During the last decade St. Louis has
a.cended the scale from the eighth to
the fourth.
Chicago, In a similar proportion, has
changed from the ninth to the fifth.
Baltimore, which in 1860 was fourth,
retrogrades to the seventh.
Boston pursues the same direction,
from the fifth to the seventh.
Cincinnati retires a step from seventh
to eighth.
New Orleans falls back from the sixth
to the ninth.
San Francisco, takinga noble forward
leap, vaults from the fifteenth TO the
tenth.
Buffalo lags behind from the tenth to
the eleventh.
Washington makes stride from the
fourteenth to the eleventh.
Newark, New Jerseys thriving me-
tropolis, drops, nevertheless, from the
eleventh to the thirteenth.
Louisville, twelfth ia rank in 1860, is
now assigned the fourteenth.
Cleveland, going four steps forward
mounts from the nineteenth to the fif-
tsenth.
Pittsburg alone retains the same rela
tive rank now as then, the sixteenth
Jersey City rises from the twentieth
to the seventeenth.
Detroit recedes from the seventeenth
to the eighteenth.
Milwaukee retires from the eighteenth
to the nineteenth.
Albany, which was ten years ago the
thirteenth, now takes the place of Jersey
City, as the twentieth.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-14
THIS AND THAT.

The best wood for making cradles
rock maple.
What's the proper age for parson
The parsonage, of course.
Women should never be lawyers; they
would constantly have "writs'' of at
achment.
The New Haven Register says: "ln
- line, in the article upon Yale Col
| read 'ulln0 n0tcr.'
A private i'll the army recently sent a
letter to his sweetheart, closing with
May Heaven cherish and keep you
from yours truly, John Smith,
How shameful it is that you should
fall asleep" said dull preacher to
drowsy audience, "while that poor i'd
lot is awake and attentive" 81 would
have been asleep too,' said the fool, "If
had not been an IDIOT
The Guardian of last week contains
the following unique advertisement -
Barrister's daughter, Thirty five
healthy, COED tempered, and cheerful,
desires matronship. Is experienced
in using the birch rod. Address, &c.
A school teacher aaked a new boy :,
"Who made the glorious universe ?''
But the boy could not tell! So the teacher
got rawhide, and told the boy if he
didn't tell he would whip him. The
boy looked at the whip and sniveled out:
Please, sir, did ; but | won't do it
agin"
AN old Scotch lady was told that ier
minister used notes. She disbelieved it.
Said one, $50 into the gallery and see.n
She did So and saw the written sermon.
After the luckless preacher had conclu-
ded his reading on the last page, he said:
But will not enlarge The cid wo-
man cried out from her lofty position
6 Ie Gamma, ye Gamma! for yer paper.
give oot.'
A Acertain beadle had fancied the manse
housemaid; but at loss for an oppor-
tunity to declare himself, one day-a
Sunday-when his duties were ended,
he looked shsepish and said !: MARY
wad ye tax turn, Mary ?" He led her
to the church yard, and, pointing with
his finger, got out my fowk lie there
Mary; wad ye like to lie there?" The
grave hint was taken and she became
his wife, but does not yet lie there.
Charlie H., of Salem, Ohio, had got to
be quite sizable boy before he COM
menced going to Sabbath school, and
evidently had but little acquaintance
with the Catechism. One of the first
questions propounded to him was in re-
lation to the fall of our first parent. The
pupil Immediately above him had stated
the fact that Adam fell, and Charities
question naturally enough was: "And
ho,o did Adam fall?" To which he
made the very unscriptural reply: ~
don't know exactly how he fell; but I
expect that he came down like thou
sand of brick"
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-14
Railroads..

| Mr.. EDITOR:-I am somewhat surpris.
ed to see how you open fire about the
article I handed you for publication, and
which appears in the Express Of August
23d. All that was asked of me toward
the enterprise was right of way to build
the road, and one of your citizens has
Informed your readers that that has
been granted; 50 that when man
gives all that has been asked he ought
not to be complained of As my asso.
cate, as appears from the signature,
(how obtained l cannot tell, he can
speak for himself. l suppose he will do
his duty when called upon. shall not
be so presumptuous as 10 make any
statement in regard TO that matter.
Concerning the money and machine
spoken OF you seem to take it as per.
| sonal thrust, while | only alluded to it
in the same sense that you introduce it
matters.
You state that you are not at all sur
prsed at my statement. coming from
one ever ready to stir up the bone of
contention. l most heartily accord to
you the right to your opinion as to the
comparative weight it may have on the
minds Of some thinking people. But as
to endeavo:ing to become notorious in
my anti secret movements and becom-
ing disgusted with the results, | would
say that | have no anti-secret move
ment I call mphatically mine. As to
having become disgusted with the
results Of the movement, or with the
part | have taken in it, therefore being
under some kind of necessity of casting
about to find something about which to
differ, and identify myself with matter
that was none of my business, l say is
very far from being true, whatever may
be your opinion on the subject.
am still in full sympathy with the
movement against all organized secret
societies that are under sworn obliga-
tons to do or not to do certain things.
l would not have noticed this part of
your article, only being charged with
having become disgusted with the move
ment against secret societies silence
would have given consent to the state
mant as truth, while nothing could pos
sibly be more false.
AS to identifying myself with mat
ter that is none of my business, choosing
to differ with yourself in opinion, my
opinion is you are mistaken and have
misiudged this case, if, as you most en-
phatically assert, you have not done this
as regards the sentiment of Stan wood on
railroad matters. am not satified yet
that my article is so much at variance
with the sentiment of Stanwood I be-
lieve there is but little if anything in 1t
that the people will not endorse except
it may be the quotations. For myself
Will say mot prssuming to speak for
Stanwood, as we are informed that they
can do their own talking,) that I still
think your article Of the 9th was ill.,
toned, and that part referring to the
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-14
JOHN DORCAS EXPLAINS.

EDITOR ADVERTISER II would like
to have you publish for me two article IS
which the Stanwood Express refused,
and that toe after agreeing to insert
them.
The Express came out in an editorial
against my railroad article, and at the
same time opened his columns to GER
tain Citizen to misrepresent me, and
then refused me an opportunity to reply.
He complained of somebody for passing
his door and going to the ADVERTISER
to state his grievances. He says 1--WE
invariably believe that none but cow
ard and snake in the grass would pass
our door and state his grievances else
where" )" then right in connection with
this fault-finding, denied me the privil-
ege of stating my grievances at his door.
The following are the rejected articles:
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-14
State Elections in 1871.

During the fall, elections will be held
in sixteen States and Territories. The
following list gives the times and the
officers to be chosen in each:
Sept. 5, California, State officers.
Sept. 5, Wyoming, Legislature.
Sept. II, Maine, Governor.
Sept. IL, New Mexico, Congress.
Oct. ;, Texas, Congress.
Oct. 10, Pennsylvania, Auditor & s G
Oct. 10, Ohio, State officers.
Oct. 10, Iowa, State officers.
Nov. 7, Maryland, State officers.
Nov. 7, Massachusetts,, State officers
Nov. 7, Minnesota, State officers.
Nov. :, Mississippi Legislature.
Nov. 7, New jersey, Governor.
Nov. 7, Illinois. Congress Mt large.
Nov. 7, New York, State officers.
Nov. 7. Wisconsin, State officers.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-14

AN American editor writes thus about
a display of the Aurora Borealis: Last
evening, as soon as Tithonus had retired
for the night, and was enjoying his first
snooze, his spouse, tho rosy fingered
Aurora, daughter Of the morning,
snatched the saffron-covered coverlet
from his bed, and, wrapping it about
ner, danced jig in the northern sky"
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-14

AN old bachelor says that giving the
ballot to women would not amount to
anything practically; because they
wonld insist that they We're too young
to vote until they got too old to take any
interest in politics.