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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26
1855 and 1872.

The election for President in
1872 strongly resembles that of
1856, and it will, doubtless, have
the same result. Then, at this
time o. the year, the chances were
more strongly in favor of Fremont,
the Republican candidate, than
they now are for Grant. Mr..
Buchanan had not a chance for a
single New England State. New
York was known TO be in desper-
ate condition; 10 contest, indeed,
was made in that State. Ohio had
gone for the Republicans BY q
majority of tens of thousands.
The Northwest went the same
way. We bad no hope of success
but III the South, in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Indiana. The
October election in Pennsylvania
was nearly a tie. Indiana was
carried by small majority, It
was thus we entered on the NOvem-
Der contest. But we succeeded.
The South stood by us, with the
exception OF Maryland, and in adj
diti0n we carried Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and
California. This gave Mr.. Buch.
anan 40 Electoral votes, to LA
/ against him. Now the probabili-
| ~ is that We shall be robbed Of
Pennsylvania by fraud, but then
We have New York, which has six
more Electoral votes, in our favor.
Now, as then, We are reasonably
/ sure OF New Jersey and Indiana
In California orr prospects are as
bright, while We are now certain
ola State that there was then NJ
hope for, viz: Connecticut. Tit
J South locks as we'll. No mai
can put his finger upon any Stat
that Grant has the least chance in
save South Carolina and Missis
sippi, and in the latter it is by n
means free from doubt. With MI
Greeley's Southern vote of 10
and the 20 he can carry in Ne'
York, New Jersey, Indiana, Cor
necticut and California, he is res
sonably certain of success Oh
Clnnati Enquirer, =
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w. H. sCASLAXD, EDITOR and Proprietor.


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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26
The Apathy of BUSINESS Men
Men


1t is an unfortunate state of
affairs that a large number of
men, including some of our best
citizens, do not sufficiently interest
themselves in public matters
When Election day comes It'll true
most 0f-them go to The polls if it
is convenient aud cast their Vote
for the candidat0of their 5choice
but thIs-is not enough. ---
The government ofthe country
is certainly matter which,afeets
us as directly as many things to
which we give more attention.
We feel the effects of a good or
bad government every day in our
business or domestic affairs-the
prices we pay for tea, coffee, sn.
gar, our wearing apparel, thu
prices we get for the products Of
our soil and our manufactures
the amount of direct taxes We
have to pay on things which we
should, according to the spirit Of
our Government, regulate our.
selves through agents elected by
ourselves; bat we ARE TOO apt to
leave these things to be regulated
by others for us. The misfort.
uue, too, is that the men who
show this apathy in regrad to
public affairs are for the most
part those who are most interest
ed. 1t is disheartening to them
to feel that their vote il offset
by the vote of an unprincipled
and ignorant people whose fran.
chiSe has probably been bought
for trifing moneyed considers.
ton. tt| p
The possibility of electing in.
efficient and INSCRIPTIONS men to
Office by such means is the strong.
est OF reasons why all intelligent
aHd honest citizens should de-
vote more of their time and ener.
~ TO political matters.-lCourier
: journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

DR.. Alexander Dnnbal&is a
modest man. He has been en-
liveuing circles out West with
talk like this: II am going. to
quit operating on horses, feet
pretty soon. l am going into
politics. I expect to be Gov
ernor-Generaf Of Canada
First | will go into parliament.
/ will be neutral and independ-
emit When the House is df
vided on some important CUES
ton, l will arise, make great
speech, aud east the deciding
vote. The attention of the
country will be drawn TO me
at once. The people viii say
'he is the ableSt man of the
day. He has towering inteE
lect. He is mighty states
man. We will make him Gov
ernor- General" And then,
with blush as sweet as a
baby's, DIR. Alexander Dunbar
takes the saw again in his lily
white hands aud resumes op-
erationS Oh the foot of the
horse under treatment. When
the doctor becomes 4 pOliti.
clan, science will go under {
cloud. l... r.. ..
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BS REMEMBER TO VOTE.

The Science OF Health for Octo
Der contaiues an Illustrated article
on Popular Physiology, showing
the effects of improper positions
III sitting, standing aud sleeping,
and the evil effects which come
from transgreSsions in this direc-
ton; the different Medical SyS.
tens are discussed; Diseases OF
the Eye, Illustrated, all article on
Hygienic Dwellings gives direc-
tionS for ventilation, light. loca-
ton, etc. What is Hygienic Ag
riculture?- 1t discusses the Theory
aud practice OF Medicines; Fresh
Fruits and Vegetables; Hopeful
ness as a Remedial Agent: Women
Physicians: and the Health OF
Editors This ma gayine is pnb.
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three ,mOnthS-this anb the next
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26
Soda Lake.

It is a tradition, derived BY
our first settlers from the In
that this lake was form
ed by an earthquake in 1872 !;
that famous Year for quakes.
A party Of Caddoes had gone
from Uur section through the
present site Of the lake-then
nigh dry 1ahd-to the upper
Red River region, ana on re-
turning by the same trail after
a few weeks they found them
selves barred from their settle
ment by a new formed lake
Such is the report. Possibly
this tradition is true, but it is
quite improbable. If the bot
tom Of Soda lake is of the blue
mud as are the other lake;
hereabout; or if the blue muC
Immediately underlies any de
post Red River waters may
iave made, then Is the tradi
dition proved false Buff tn
battom is Of same kind Of eartl
as the surrounding hills thel
we can be pretty sure tina
there was a sinking Of tn
earth there at some time dul
ing the present geologica
epoch. -........... .....F g.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26
~ Every Vote is Important.


Thursday our oppressed,
ti'Odden-down, ill-used fellow
citizens-whom the Govern
ment of the United States and
the Radical party have taken
nuder their special care and
protectioH-refuSed to stick a
hook into a cotton bale for less
than four dollars for eight
hours work. The Pargoud,
$500 bales Of cotton aud 1900
bags OF cotton seed, arrived at
the wharf this morning, and
not a coiored hand. could be
got to unload her, unless at
the rates stated. Yet the
whole leyee is enc great mass
of the free, and independent
American citizens of African
decent. -Four dollars q day
for healthy work! Here is Il
chance for the thousands OF
young men, who are idling
about cur streets, goSsipping,
and raining for office, and
talking about politics, and
fighting duels, and other de-
mora!izlng nonsense, 10 say
nothing Of frequent alcoholic
! potations; WHO might 60 down
TO the levee and earn three
dollars and a half i day, and
greatly invigorate and there
by greatly develope THEN
physical health and conditions
and thus force the coiored
gents into proper views OF
their duties and interest.
There never was a place
where there was such d waste
of muscular power and where
there was so great Il demand foI
if, as this unfortunate city o
ours. Every body wants t
live by his wits, by auytAin.
rather than honest labor ant
productive industry. Polite
are our course. The offict
seeking passion straddles on
city as the oldhnan OF the Sc,
did the unfortunate Sihdbad
In. o. Times. .'. ..'.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

How they preserve testimO-
ny in Mexico is peculiar
There after a man reaches
three score and ten years he
never dies unless he be killed.
But he still continues to live
upon red pepper, and so be
comes dryer and dryer until at
last his friends finish BIN off
by exposing him in the sun for
a few days. He is then laid
carefully away to be used on
emergencies. Should any law
dispute arise, or should any
old history be desired he is
STEPPED awhile in warm water
and so reViVified as to give his
testimony. After this he is
treated to a good mess of red
pepper and then again dried
and laid away. This is the
secret means whereby those
veracious histories Of Mexico,
by Prescott and others, have
been concocted.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26
"lIp Guarts and at En-"

The mem,srable sayings Of.
great Generals have their uses
in politics as well as in war.
When the Duke Of Wellington
uttered that inCisiEe command
at the battle Of Waterloo, the
victory was won. The physical
and mental strain of d protract-
ed attack and resistance, were
already telling on the swaying
masses Of men locked in the
death grapple Of a struggle
that all felt must be final
Wellington had reserved his
guards until in the evenly bal
anced struggle, an onset Of
fresh men would turn the scale
It was an act OF Observation-Disclosures
Judgment, and the chances OF
! success Were innumeTable ;
those of failure few. The re-
| suit showed he had not mis-
calculated either in the plan OF
the opportunity. In the cleo.
ton that is soon to take place
in our State, we viii have neei
of our reserves. Let them b.
preparing for the occasion
Let every man cast his ballot
Our enemies are massing.-
Openly confident Of thei
strength, even now they assur
themselves a completevictory
The spoils are already divided
and the renegades who hav
gone over to the enemy are a,
lotted the lions share. A IL
feat to them would be morta
The prey once wrested frol
their grasp, they would sea
ter like birds of prey back
their obscurity and leave not
ing behind but the recolloctic
of their infamy. "".." 10y
The dignity, honor and re
utation of State are pen
ing over this conflict. Let ca,
and every man do his dut
and when the time comes
call up the guard let there
no laggards in the field. L
US repeat the command, Il
guards and at EN- fn.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

This paragraph is from the Aus
tin Texas Journal:
The Missouri, Kansas and Tex
as cars,are now running to within
twenty.three miles of Red river.
1t is said flat the Red river rail-
road bridge will be completed the
latter part of5the month, and that
by the first of November the cars
will run to Red river City, four
miles south Ofthe river, by which
time the Texas Central cars are TO
reach Mckinney.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

The aurora borealliS is a
very fine show. Most people
like TO look at it and some are
deeply affected at the specta-
Gle. but very few, we are bound
TO say, are taken the SAINT way
with the Illinois editor, who
says: Here we lean over
the verge of the infinite, long
ing TO grasp its mysteries lost
in the profundities of immen-
sity." What would have be
come of shat man if he had
lost his balance7
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

A Springfield paper informs
us that a prepossessing young
lady not over Is, had TO be
helped from a horse ear and to
her home the otherday in that
city "as she was too drunk to
walk unassisted." To us such
a young lady as that is not at
all "prepossessing."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26
@ Don't Fail to Vote.

THE SINGER FAMILY SEWING
Observation-Disclosures tue
public has had a full and fair OBJ
portunity to test all the different
sewing machines brought before
it, that which succeeds in holding
a higher position in general favor
must, OF course, possess an extra
ordinary degree of merit, cOnSid-
ering the immense competiTion
that does aud has existed. Ii is,a
fact worthy OF notice that the
Singer faIniiy sewing maceine, al
though competing with hundreds
which use its owl inventions
stitches, feeds, etc., always have
been a fovorite over them. This,
to our mind, proves that it is for
all manufacturing aud domestic
purposes indispensable. Mr.. VIII
liam u. Cooper, No. SO Canal
street, New Orleans is tue agent
for these machines in this State.
49, ~ d.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26
nS- Candidates your tickets
must be paid for in advance. 5a

1t may be CARTONS, and al
that, bat it is a significant fact
that wherever, in Tuesdays
elections, there were Demo
cratic and Liberal gains,it was
in localities largely populated
by Germans. The Germaus
turned the tide in Cincinnati,
Cteaveland, Toledo and other
points in Ohio.-[St. Louis Re
publican.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

Never pay a boy to look af-
ter your shadow while you
climb a tree to look into the
middle of next week.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

The st. Louis Democrat says
that eolored manran around the
amphitheatre at the Fair grounds,
in the short space of one minute
and five seconds, or at the rate Of
a mile in four and one fifth min
Ufpa
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

The best place TO pass sthe
season is at home. There is
no place like home-a quiet,
happy, cheerful home-a
Christian home, is nearer to
heavemthan any other spot on
earth.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

4 carpenter who was maxi
ing an air-tight ice box, in a
restaurant in Savannah, acct
dentally shut himself in it, aud
was nearly dead when releas-
cd
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

The result of the elections
in PENNSYLVANIA proves moth
ing except that in a fight be-
tween impecuniouS honesty
and opulent rascality the for
mer is very apt to be knocked
down aud dragged out.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

Hon. William II. Seward
was welcomed To his home in
Auburn New York, on the
twelfth of October 1871. His
death occurred at the same
place on the tenth of October,
1872, almost a year from the
tina of his return.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

There are thirty one -four mills
in st. Louis, and they clean upon
an average $4,000 bushels every
twenty four hours.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

The Cameron ring in Penn
sylvania recently made a sin
gular mistake. They took one
Of their number out of the
penitentiary when they ought
to have put twenty Thousand
Of them in it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

Some think tart replies to
be smart, but it is never wise
to let our wit wound other
peoples feelings. Soft an
swerS turn away wrath; tart
speeches lead to general sour
ness.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

Talk about Greeley being
elected" exclaims Logan
"Why, gentlemen, We have
the tureasury and the army,
and we can use both, and will
do it 20 beat him."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

Ii is lost time trying to eX-
plaihothe eccentricities Of the
Adams boys" They are
merely grown too large for
their pantaloons. There is
not the first case on record of
imllamed dOnkeyism in high
life.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

The woman who never
watched her neighbOrs is said
to be-a cousin to the woman
who did not know how many
daughters her sister-in-law
had. -- -
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

TO use a very inelegaDt,
though quite a suggestive eN-
preston, the radicals in this
parish are "fattled. When a
game cock-asking the pardon
of that noble bird for ass0cia-
ting him with such a party
has been struck in a certain
place by the cruel gatf, he
byeatbes as the man does who
has "the death rattle" and
hence the origin Of the phrase.
Well, the'"party of moral ide-
as" has been struck with a
"SalSher," y and not only
brealheS hardly but staggers
ominouSly-and if our people
he but true to themselves;
WORK increasingly, and vote a
straight ticket, the adversary
will be so effectuaily cat down
THAT his vile carcass will be
flung from the pit as offal is
dung to the dogs.-fSTeve-
port Times. ..o. lGa ai a.Hdn
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

A pie manufacturing company
in New York city makes 100000
pies per week-nsing 10000
pounds of sugar therein.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

Who are for Grant and Kel-
lOgg? office-hOlders who: are
too lazy to wrok.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

Civility cost nothing and buys
everything.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

R5 Voters OF Bossier. to
the polls on Monday next,
without fall al
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

Who are for Greeley and
Brown? The honest farmers,
and all other patriotic men
who are too noble TO sell their
country for the plumber of
office. h
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

OH
Colonel Mcclure, Chairman
of the Liberal Central Commit
tee of Pennsylvania, has issued
a circular in which he charges
that the Democratic and LIB
eral ticket was defeated in that
State by frauds that we're
worse in Philadelphia. bat
were not confined to that city.
He says: In the principal
cities ard towns throughout
the State, thousands of illegal
votes have been lpOiletl.J The
Liberal cause was thus over
whelmed in Reading, Chester,
West Chester, Columbia, Har-
risburg, Pittsburg, and other
localities, while the rural dis.
tFicts gives large and uniform
gains. ! am warranted in
announcing that the large ma
.;ority polIed for Hartranft is
wholly fraudulent.p .s.a1a..
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

BS You Cannot Vote Without
Your Registration Papers.
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The Presidential election
will not take place in all the
States on the same day. 1t
will begin in Louisiana on the
fourth of November next. All
the otheraStates, except Texas,
will follow their votes on
the fifth, and Texas will close
mp the business with a four
days election from the fifth TO
the eighth, inclusive. gv.T g~r
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

THE old woman who walks
FIVE miles to church every San
day and takes care of q large
household, milks the COWS and
makes the butter and the
cheese has been heard from
again, She dwellS. at present
in Lewiston, Me-; her name is
Hobsoh and her age is eigty-
eight. We are given to under
stand that the Sunday walks
to chuch are Hobson's choice.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

The Banner of the South,
published at Augusta, Georgia
says: v""- ' s' H'.5 .'.@
Barley pays well On rich
land, and does but little On
poor soil. Its chief value, is
grazing. Sown in September
ON good land, Two OF three
bushels per acre. it will furnish
rich pastnrage for milch COWS,
calves and poultry from De
cember TO March 1st. After
that date it should not be pas
tured. If stock are kept OF
in March it will in a few weeks
shoot up in q thick mass OF
rft.h green, which may be 'cut
and fed, as soon as it heads
out, to cattle and to mules. ~
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-26

We have had railroads in
this country for something like
forty years now and Yet there
are people still living who
know no better than to Jump
off the ears when they are go
ing at fGihspeed. These idiots
are rapidly being killed eff,
but we suppose they leave a
progeny behind. A Man late
ly jumped from the rear of ain
express train on the Cieave-
land and Pittsbrug road, and
whiFled over and over for a
distante Of 300 feet. His head
was split open and actually
found to contain brains. ..-,
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-11-10
V. & I. R. R.
IN AND AFTER TUESDAY, OCTOBER !, ls72
Through PASSENGER Trains

Fer RENO, connecting with Eastern and Western
bound Passenger Trains Of the c. p. L, R,
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-11-10
DAYS,

Where do the bright days dance away?
With golden hair and silver feet,
With blifhest songs and laughter sweet,
Linked with n chain OF garlandS gay,
And dropping roses as they pass,
They melt into a silence gray
Only TIN" roses left and they
Faded and pprfumeless, alas.
And in their place dark shadows go,
Casting their gloomy lengths ahead,
And following with a nOiSeleSS tread
Zach after each. an endless train
0~fShrouded forms and heads bent low
30 like each one passing slow.
Seems but the last one DER again!
-IMaryS 5. Doubleday.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-11-10
TAKE WARNING

INHE v 4 T. r.. X. co. ARE ANXIOUS TO
/ take due precautiOn against accidents and
loss Of life resulting from the running of their
trains, and they take this method of warning pa
rents and guardians against the dangers attending
the too common practice of children playing about
sneir cars and locomotives. Those having in charge
the business of the Company find it impossible 10
PERSUADE boys. " no frequent the termini and stop
pkg places Of the read from climbing upon the
CARS and engines; and they will feel themselves
obliged to resort to mere decided measures if these
snn0yances are continued. Recent accidents.
which are wholly ascribable to the carelessness o:
persons id jumping on and off the cars when in
~nOfion, should be warning enough in themselves
H.. NJ. YERINGTON, Superintendent.
ususr 10. 1s'o.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-11-10
ON THE LAUGH OF MADAME DIAL
BERT.

Yes! that fair neck, too beautiful by half,
Those eyes,, that voice, that bloom all
90 her honor;
lct, after all, that little laugh
/, what, III my mind sits the best upon
her.
Good God! 'twould make the very streets
and ways
Through which she passes burst into a
pleasure.
Did meIadcholy come to MAJ my days.
And XII me i'll the lap of o much leis-
urn.
No spell were wanting from The dead to
raise me.
But only that sweet laugh wherewith
IA Stays me!
leigh Hunt
The horse disease is said to be
sDraadiur ON this coast