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all appearances, was where de-
ceased carried his money.


ceased carried his money.
On the 18th inst. two men
with two horse wagon, camp
ed on the Minden road half a
mile from Bellevue, one low
Dutchman, the other u tall
American. The American was
quite laxative and seemed
from his conversation TO have
come with the other from
Waco, or far out in Texas.
BY daylight in the morning of
the 14th inst. the two departed
towards Minden. In the after
noon a small sorrel horse,
branded with a faint G and a
plain s, returned to the freed
mans residence, near which
the camp had been, and was
recognized by him and his
family as one of the horses of
these two travellers. The horse
was taken up and is now in
possession of the freedman.
1t answers the description of
one in the bill of sale found on
the person of deceased.
= This tall talkative American,
then, from all appearances, is
the murderer. He may be
from Texas, but his talk at the
freedman's may have been used
for a blind. He was likely a
clerk or guide, and perhaps, a
nominal partner of deceased.
The writings on the back OF
the cash book may be his, and
so may identify him some day.
When some one shall be got to
read and translate the Hebrew
cash book, and other writings,
his name may be discovered
There were other campers al
same place; but the Jew and
American left long before the
others.
Were a suitable reward offer
ed the murderer might be dis.
, covered and arrested.
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

A very curious mode of try
ing the title to land is practic-
ed in Hindostan. Two holes
are dug in the disputed spot,
in each of which the PLAINTIFF
and defendants lawyer put
one of their legs, and remain
there until one of them is tired.
in which case his client is de-
feated. In this country it is
the client, and not the lawyer,
who puts his foot in it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

If any city of the Continent
can exhibit a more satisfactory
state of the public health during
the past week than New Orleans,
we should be pleased to know it.
We would be disposed to forego
even the blessed dispensation
Of scalawag- carpet bag rule to
emigrate. The total number of
deaths last week amounted to only
0f. The deaths were, with the
exception of those from accident
or violence, of the ordinary ills,
that flesh is heir to. Subtracting
those occasioned by accident, old
age or other unlocked for cause,
the total number of deaths from
ordinary disease in the whole six
districts was but SO. We would
have to go to the mid Andes TO
find better exhibit than this
~. 0. Picay,spe, 9Th INST.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

John w. Taber, formerly of
Natchitoches, has purchased
the drug store, and stock, of P.
III. Kyes s. Co.. at Shreveport,
and has undertaken the bust
ness of Druggist there, as will
be seen by his advertisement
in another column. He is
thoroughly experienced in his
speciality, and is, in every re-
aspect, a business man. His
success, therefore, is not prob
lematical, if the public will
just patronize him enough, at
first, TO discover his qualifica-
tions. ~
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

Charles Brown and Simon
Phelps, both freedmen, against
whom there is a true bill, fol-
the murder Of another freed
man, have been arrested and
are now in jail. Curry Moss,
another freedman, under same
charge for same murder, is still
at large.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

Smith (who forgetful left his
pocket book on the piano last
night. )-"Have yon found any
thing this morning, Angelinaf'
A.ngelina.-"Oh yes, dear =
Thanks! Ihave ordered new
piaao-stool, lace curtains, and
such a love ola bonnet"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

A dentist, trying in vain to
extract a decayed tooth from a
lady's mouth, gave up the task
with this apology: 1.-THE fact
is, madam, it is impossible for
anything bad to come from
vour mouth"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22
An old man died in Bosto

An old man died in Boston
recently, and when on his
death bed his friends asked
him if he didn't feel as. though
he was going to Heaven. He
said he was troubled with
doubts, as he had always been
an Abolitionist, and had inva-
ribly voted the Radical ticket.
Poor old man.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22
Is the War Ended ?

A Radical editor in Missis-
sippi propounded the following
query to w. Ii. McCardle, the
we'll known editor of the Vicks-
burg Herald:
"Has the war ended? If so
why do you still thirst for fur
Their bloodshed-7"
To this, McCardle replies:
"We are by no means sure
that "the war" has "ended !"
When the Confederate armies
surrendered their arms in 1896,
we thought Old "grim yisaged"
had "smoothed his wriGkled
'front.'" and that white winged
peace would smile over all the
land. When those shoulder
strapped rufians, Ord, Pope,
Sheridan, Meade, and Sickles,
ruled the South with the bayo-
net. and arrested and tried
peaceful citizens by military
commission, we thought it just
possible that we were mistaken.
that perhaps the enemy was
still firing along a portion OF
the line. When that wretched
caitiff, Gen. Ord, imprisoned
the writer in Il cell six feet by
by four, because he denounced
him for what he Uas and IS, a
"brutal and cowardly ruffian,' y
we felG quite sure that "the war;
was not "ended." We did not
then, nor do we now "thirst for
further bloodshed," but if the
thieves in the Legislature in
sist on robbing the people OF
thirty million of dollars to pay
the repudiated bonds, we stand
pledged to help hang the rob.
bers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

The bill to form the new par
ishi of Vernon has become alaw
by the signature of the Govern
or. Vernon is quite large, be-
ing some forty miles square.
Its constructed mainly out of
the western part of Rapides.
But Natchitoehes and Sabine
each furnish a portion of It's
territory. The parish site is
fixed within a few miles OF
Huddleston Althoughso large
in area, the population and
wealth of the parish must be
small. hEa sea- tsai
Whit viii these new parish
es do for representatives. Can
they elect any. in 1922 viii
they not have to wait till after
the abandonment under the
oensns ok 1857
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

During his sojourn in France
Gen. Won Moltke received up
wards of two hundred presents,
most of them qnite valuable, from
admirers in all parts of the world
[Curron5 Paragraph. Pshaw
that's nothing when some Fedei-
eral generals were in this country
during our war they used to take
more than that at every httletsw 0
they came to from people vino
didn't admire them a bit.-IN. u
Pic0Vune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

a termagant whose husband
finally beat her, ran home to
her father to complain, and
the old man, with great indig-
nation, said: "Tell your hus-
band that if he ever beats my
daughter again, I'll beat his
wife"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

Greedy says the best way to
raise cashmere shawls is to
graft the cashmere goat on the
common William, and mulch
with bran wash.
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The Dahoman language is
easy enough to learn. The
word jug is expressed by say
ing MISUNDERSTANDING.
The moon is hath-ee-a-hing-
fiash-do-wee. Should one wish
to compliment a Dahoman
belle, to express the word
beautiful he must pronounce
acknowledgements. Six
teen is an-flng-tong-no koch
nooh-deh-poh.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22
BELLEVUE, LA.,.
Saturday, April %, 1871,

Lydia Mason, of Kentucky,
crimped her hair with a too hot
iron, and now goes bald.
Down this way ladies take off
their hair to crimp it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

A Radical paper says Sumner is
the Sampson of the Senate. Then
he may destroy the Republican
party with the jaw-bone of the
Prasideut.--La Grange (Ga. Re.
porter.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

The Hartford Times says "gise
the Administration rope enough
and it will hang itself.1 Conyints
Ills of the fact and it shall have
rope enough, if it takes the last
pound of hemp in Kentuckye~
| COWier-Journal,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

One day last week the gas gave
out at the Government printing
Office in Washington, and the
printers, Oh account of the dark.
ness, were obliged to suspend
work for the day.
The gas gave out in New Hamp
shire not long since, but light in
stead of darkness was the result
P0n,erOys Democrat.
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Murder and Robbery

the discovery, on rhe 2Gth inst,
Of the body ola murdered man,
in the woods some two mileS
from Bellevue. near the Min
den road
} Mr.. f.. NJ. Braden was hunt
ing his stock hog; on The 10th
inst. and came ulon a covered
wagon, in the woods. He re-
ported the fact, which, coming
to the ears of Col. r. W. Tur-
ner, led the latter to think the
wagon might belong tn one of
his debtors, lately absconded.
The Col. and Braden went, on
the forenoon of the 20t1, to the
wagon, and soon discovered
that a crime had been commit
ted, there being blood OH the
wagon, and trunks therein bro
ken open. They followed back
the wagon tracks and in about
a hundred yards the body of a
dead man was found.
As soon as possible they re-
ported the fact in Bellevue.
The deputy coroner, and q doz-
en- men, went out to the body,
held an inquest and examined
the surroundings. TIE body
was of a low white man, with
black hair, but was so much
corrupted that the features
were not distine,uishable. The
hreeches pocket were turned
wrong side outward In a
pocket, of his vest or coat, was
found a bill of sale of wagon
and two horses, By 81. Eruse,
of Waco, Texas, to JOHN Mach
emsohn. In the wagon was
found a pair of pants, with the
same name on them; also. what
was called a cash book, with
Nachemsehn, SiIvestien & Co,
written on the outside of the
cover. The body of the book
is in the Hebrew characters,
and two Hebrew printed books
and several letters in that char.
acter were found. From these
/ facts, and letters ard cards
found, it appears that deceased
was a Jew, from Hamburg,
named John Nachemsohn, and
that he has resided at Ii verness,
Scotland I; and Houston, Bren-
ham and Waco, Texas.
| Three wounds, made by a
large knife, wee found IN the
right side of the corpse under
the hreasI-bone; the left side
of the jaw-bone was also brok.
en-, as if by a pistol shot in the
mouth.
/ 1t is evident the deceased
was a peddler, and WIS killed
for his money. If the casl
book is any guide, the murder
ed man was in possession O
about tour thousand dollars
The nature of the wounds indi
cate that the murderer was rid
ing in the wagon with hin
when the deed was committed
Besides what we have alread,
described, there was found, il
} the wagon, a trunk, valise an,
J jewelry-boy bloken open, an,
a trunk still locked. This lat
F ter contained little elsp beside
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22
Blue Buck Ridge.

Between the outlet OF Sabine
lake and Calcasieu lake, in
Cameron parish, Immediately
on the coast, lies what is known
as the Blue Buck Ridge, which
is more properly a succession
of ridges. These are downs,
formed by the waves of the
Gulf, out of sand, shells and
mud, and are very rich. The
main ridge is twenty miles long
by about one in width, and di-
vided from it, by sloughs, are
two or three smaller ones. The
whole includes, perhaps, an
area of forty or fifty square
miles of tillable land, which is
just now being settled under
the Homestead acts. Be-
tween these islands and the
high lands lies the salt marsh,
twenty miles in width, making
the settlement the most isolat-
ed imaginable, but at the same
time, the most desirable in
many respects, for this marsh
is a fine hunting ground and
grazing field.
Blue Buck Ridge is said to
be exactly suited for the culture
of the sweet orange, and, in
deed, is well adapted to all
the semi tropical products.
Fish and shell-fsh and game is
in any abundance and withal,
strange as it may seem, the
climate is healthy and pleasant.
This is caused by the fact that
the prevailing winds are from
the Gulf, thus, carrying the
miasm of the marshes and the
mosquitoes inland. Thisis one
of the very few locations on
our Southern coasts where set
tiers can live, and enjoy good
health and good land immedi-
ately on the beach. Our for
ner neighbor, Percy Baker,
has homesteaded himself there,
where he has been some time
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-22

A French paper says that an
Italian collector returning from
Egypt, (not Illinois' has
brought back a well-authenti-
Gated statue of Potipher's
wife. The features are said to
be exceedingly ugly. So Jo-
seph did not deserve the credit
he has had for SO many centu-
ries.
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THE BOSSIER B1NNER.


W. H. scASLANp, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-12-01
THE QUAKERS.

= It has been tacitly taken for a
fact that the highly respectable, even
noble, but somewhat eccentric sect of
Quakers in this country was becoming
extinct, but yearly meeting Of ortho-
dox Friends, held at Baltimore late
Iy, embracing the meetings of Mary
land and Virginia, seems to indicate a
different condition of things. This
assembly established new meeting in
Charles county, Nd. Reports were
read, and also epistles from the yearly
meetings of London, Dublin, Canada,
New England, and several Middle and
Western States The London general
epistle has been issued to Friends in all
years, aud is highly valued for its prac-
teal teachings and christian doctrine.
Delegates were appointed to be present
at the opening of new yearly meeting
next year in Kansas, in which State
there is membership of three thousand
Friends. Interesting and satisfactory
reports were read from standing COM
mittees, upon education in North Car
DINA, peace, colored population. In
dians, and general education at the
South. There has been q steady aggre.
gate increase of membership in the SO.
ciety since 1850. The increase of mem.
bers has been mostly IN the South and
West. The missionary work of tht
society has not been as extensive as il
now is since its earlier days, the field o.
labor comprising the freedmen and In.
dams and in Mexico, Madagascar, India
and NoEFay3E The Friends have foul
colleges and four large boarding schools
in the United States, besides organized
systems of education through daJ
schools, and they have over $4,000 chill.
dren in their Sabbath schools Spring
field Eepu0Ltcdn.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-12-01
VALUE OF IMMIGRATION.

The population of the States at the
commencement of the Revolutionary
war has generally been estimated at I, )
600, 900, and since that Z, 803, S66 foreign
ers have come into the country. AS to
nationality, the statistics show clearly
that the English-speaking races are in
the majority and have been so from the
beginning, Of the whole total no less
than 3,857,S50 came from the British
isle, and 2S4 ,40I from British America,
making an aggregate of 4, 142, al, which,
with the original stock, will account
for the asccndency of the English lam
gnage and institutions, since from this
prolific germ has sprung up an increase
more than sufficient to swallow up all
other races. 1t is computed that the
money value of each immigrant to this
country is $500, at which rate tie whole
total added to our national wealth has
been, 1886, 100000 during the year 1870,
aud Sc, 243, 1886, 800 from the start. This
is estimating these people as producers.
That this is no idle conjecture may be
seen in the prodigious progress the
country has made in every respect, ex-
oeeding in rapidity any known instance.
The power of development is beyond
the influence of this immigration upon
the country, we will give some of the
occupations of these immigrants. OF
laborers there were Lass, $40. These
are the people who have built our rail-
roads and our canals, and who have
supplied the basis of our progress,
and the most consoIing. reflection Is
that they are still pouringin in inereas-
ing numbers. Next to these in impor-
lance were 976, 579 farmers, attracted by
the cheapness and unlimited supply of
land, and who have fed the mighty
stream of American agriculture.-CoL-
ltnabuS COS Statesman.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-12-01
CALM RETREAT.

The following extract, taken verba-
tim from q private letter, dated Phoebe,
Nevada, will, it is feared, tend to create
. prejudice against that calm retreat:
"Pioche is the county seat OF Lincoln
county, mining camp q year old. 1t
is on the Great American Desert, and
situated between bare.mountains, look
ing over bare dry plain. Water has
to be brought eight miles by wagon,
and is sold at six cents per gallon.
There are about 800 people here, the
half of whom have been IN the State
prison, (stage and highway robbers,
etc., and the rest ought to be. Our
graveyard has fortY-one graves, of
which but two are filled by death from
natural causes. The rest all died with
their boots on. Shot mostly some cut.
grieVed seeks redress with his pistol.
It's been a close game for several times /;
l got cut in one leg once, butt am here
yet. / sleep with big bull dog, Hen
ry rifle and six shooter The mines
(silYer) employ about 600 men, about
100 are in business. and the rest are
bIackguards of the worst kind-cattle
thieves, renegade Mormons, and men
who are banishsd from society by their
crimes, and ready for anything. It's
$50 miles to railroad or telegraph; we
have three stages week and one mail.
I've done very well here aud would
have made some money, but two OF my
partners in q claim were killed, and
can't 60 on alone. Ny life has been at
tempted twice by the party who killed
my partners. don't allow any man to
scare me if oan have show but when
it gets down to cases where you dare
not sit by window or by an open door
after dark, fits time to Jump the game.
II ever get back to California, 1 think
I'll stay there; anyway Eve got enough
of this kind OF, living. 1 am tired OF
packing six shooters around night and
dAVo
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-12-01
THE RESULT OF FASTING.

Among the candidates for office at
the late California election was one who
was very anxious. On the day before
election several acquaintance sugges-
ted that he must procure pastors.
HYou can never win, old fellow, I'M
less you get pasters," said they. "You
need great number, too. for everybody
will scratch in your favor"
The suggestion was pleasant; the can
didate counted his cash capital which
lay in his right-hand pantsloons-pocket.
Afterwards he walked to printing
house, and ordered the printing of thir-
ty thousand copies bearing his name.
"You will have them gummed and
cut of course" said the printer man.
"No, L think not. I'll do that myself"
replied the candidate.
obviously did the printer man look
at him, but as the cash was paid in adj
vance, he said nothing.
The printing was not done until after
nine O'Clock at night, and the candidate,
who had been walking up and down
the hatchVay, marched triumphanrly to-
wards homo with his thirty thousand
pastors
'About one-half of them will be vast
ed" thought he "the balance added to
the straight ticket will render my cleo
ton sure"
They sat up all night "fixing" the pas
ters-the candidate and his wife, and
his wife's mother aud his eldest daugh-
ter. The candidate spread mucilage
over the backs of the printed sheets Of
paper; the daughter hung them on a
wife and her mother cut until their
hands were stiff and swollen. Two
O'Clock, three O'Clock, five o'clock came,
and still they worked away, yawnlng at
every clip of the shears. The carpet
was strewn with scraps Of paper, the
table streaked with -mucilage and the
candidate himself was perambulatfng
court plaster, so gummy was he. -
my DEAR" said his wife, at half-pAst
FIVE, "havn't you got enough? My
thumb Is almost cut In two with the
scissors, and grandma is quite done up p
eve had better keep on, my love, y
replied the candidate; 81 shall need
them all"
scDear mel" said she, 81 didn't know
there were thirty thousand voters in the
city"
"Of course you didn't; women are
not expected to know anything about
politics"
The candidate had no sleep that night,
and at an early hour In the morning,
sailed forth to distribute his thirty
thousand pastors. Then he worked all
day, spent q good deal Of money for
whisky, and a good deal Of breath for
nothing. Then he sat up another "A
hours to see the ballots counted: In his
precinct, the one in which he had work
ed so hard, eight hundred votes had
been polled, and Of these he had receiv-
ed two, one being by means Of paster.
His luck elsewhere had been no better,
and he went home. His wife greeted
him with smiles she was sure that her
hubby-bubby had been elected. And
in response to her congratulatory ca
resses, the brute turned savagely upon
his wife and said:
any love, yesterday morning l circu-
my name. In the whole city 1 have re-
ceived just thirty votes. If yon ever cay
'paster' to me Pll sue for divorce.
am going to bed"