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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

WASTE PAPER.-Few per-
sons are aware of the many
uses to which waste paper may
be put. After a stove has been
blackened it can be kept look
ing very well for a long time
by rubbing it with paper every
morning, Rubbing with paper
is a much nicer way of keeping
the outside of a tea kettle,
coffee pot, and tea pot, bright
and clean. than the old way Of
washing them in suds. Rub
bling with paper is also the best
way of polishing knives and
tinware and spoons-they shine
like new silver. For polishing
mirrors, windows, lamp chin.
neys, etc., paper is better than
dry cloth. Preserves and
pickles keep much better if
brown paper, instead OF cloth,
is tied over the jar. Canned
fruit is lot SO apt to mould If
a piece OF writing paper, cut to
fit the eap,. is laid directly on
the fruit. Paper is much bet
ter to put under q carpet than
straw. 1t is warmer and thin
ner, and makes less noise when
one walks, over it. Two thick
nesses OF paper, placed between
other covering on a bed, are as
warm as, a quilt. If it is neees
sary to step upon a chair, al
ways lay a paper on it and thus
save the paint or woodwork
! from damage.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08
The Natchitoches Times will

The Natchitoches Times will
misunderstood US. We are
,emphatically independent,and
profess to be "the keeper of
our own political conscience, !"
owing allegiance to no. clique
or combination. We are posi-
lively free and outspoken, and
for this offence, have lost all
hopes of chicken pie" even
should the Democracy become
the vietors-your petty party
tyrant being always opposed
to those who dare to think
without asking permission.
We adhere to our Democrat
ic faith for the love of its prin-
ciples, not that we have any
more respect than the Times
has for the present scheming
"rule or ruin" set who have
foisted themselves upon the
people as leaders-place hunt
ers who had rather see the
State ruined, if not ruled by
themselves.
We propose to await the &C
ton of the Baltimore Conven.
ton, because our only hope Of
; deliverance is centered there
We await its action, because
we desire and hope that it will
meet the issue squarely and
make good nominations. We
desire it to make those nomi
nations because we feel tina
i, we have everything to gain
and nothing to lose" in the con
test-as we now have but littl,
preference between Greedy an(
: Grant. Because we dislike tx
see Democrats cut each other,
+ threats about men who hat,
> them. And finally, because ;
backdown on the part of tn
Baltimore Convention is a viz
tual surrender, insuring tn
disintegration and death of on
party. We know that mush
: room leaders will spring up
crack their whips, and deman
the right to ''carry the old vot
in their. breaches pockets,
. but having abandoned prime
pie for personal agrandise
e ment, the people, as a whole
will refuse to follow those lee
ders who secretly connived a
" the death of the grand oil
= party" for the sake of que'
D tionable success.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

WHAT COOP ROADS Do.-An
exchange truly says: "Good
roads benefit every one resid-
ing along their course. Good
roads save horse flesh, they ia
cilitate the transportation of
the produce to market, they
save your temper, they in
crease the value of lands, they
lend attractiveness to the eye
of the stranger, they increase
the traffic and business Of a
town by its vitality in all
branches of traffic. Show us a
a town, which receives a large
country trade by means of the
fine roads leading to it, and we
will show you a place that is
lively, progressive and thrifty
with money circulating In
plenty and men in all branches
of industry busy as beavers
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

To FRIENDS OF CANDIDATES.
Persons who desire to recon-
mend candidates for nomina-
ton to State and local Offices
are hereby notified to apply at
our counting-room, such re-
concentrations coming under
the class of business matter or
advertisements.-N. o. Bee.
If the Bee means to make
these pure patriots, whose only
desire is to Save the State,
pay for grinding their axes"
it deserves the severest pun
ishment possible at the hands
of the Grand Cyclops.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

Among the men who voted
unchallenged in Lowell, Mass,
against the prohibition of beer
were several dead men. One
would think they had had
enough of bier. The prohibi-
tionists think so and are ques-
tioning their right to vote at
all.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

The Claiborne Advocate says
Webster parish intends build.
ing a brick Court house in.
stead of frame. As taxpayers
have no rights that "we off
GERS" are bound to respect, we
shall not be impertinent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

The Mansfield Reporter has
this in reference to nomina-
tions for DeSoto parish:
"From what we can learn
from citizens from various por-
tions of the parish, we think
that the mass Of the people de-
sire to see no nominations
made for parish officers"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

We don't know anything
about law-have never plead
want of consideration, pre-
scription, Bankrupted nor
availed ourself of Homestead
rights-and so rise to a point
of enquiry, viz: When Web
ster parish confiscates all our
land in herJurisdiction to erect
magnificent public buildings
and Bossier is compelled to dc
the same thing for her NEW
Court house and Jail, would il
be a violation of the Enforce
ment Act for a delinquent tax
payer to nolle pros. by com
hitting suicide? And if not
would he be entitled to a "de
cent and christian burial" il
this LAND of human benevo
lence and official integrity.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

We have had quite favora-
BILE weather this week for the
crops, which are growing finely
where worked.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

Attention is directed to the
law card of J. r. Griffin, Esq,
published on our first page
The firm of Griffin & Snide1
has been dissolved.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

A Detroit man on being foil,
ed in his fifth attempt to com
init suicide wept, because
Everybody and everything
was working against him"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

The salary of the District
Attorney pro tenn, of Webster
parish has been reduced from
$500 to 800 per annum. The
Office Of Parish Physician is
abolished.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08
We understand that there

We understand that there
was a small blacksmith
convention" held in town last
week. The convention was
composed of Is colored men
and one white man. The ne
groes being in the ascendcncy,
of course the white man was at
the bottom-of it. A black
convention of blackmen, in a
blacksmith-shop, at the dead
hour of night, is just about the
blacklist thing we have heard
of lately.
Morehouse Conservative.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

A cow in Concordia parish,
says the Vidalia Herald, has
averaged a calf every seven
months, has had twins twice,
all living and doing well.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

Puckette-Liberal Demo-
crat-says Editorial squibs
are all they" Generalization
Democrats) shave ventlred to
return to broadsides poured
into the grand old party by
the Times"
We are unwilling to return
your broadsides, Pucllette.-
Our tactics forbid the waste OF
"buck-loads ON sparrows."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08
BELLEVUE, La,
Saturday Morning, Iune 8, 1872.

See professional card of ].
l.. Scott, Esq, Shreveport, La.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

The hair on a camel weighs
about ten pounds, and sells for
more than 800.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

We have "fiy time" here
now-millions of them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

IL Pennsylvania wants the
rest of the country to pay so
heavily for the privilege of In
dulging in pig iron, it ought to
be willing to pay its share of
the impost on whisky, but in
stead of that it devises all man
ner of ingenious contrivances
to get its drinks at half price.
An underground distillery has
Just been unearthed in York
County, which was kept run
ming night and day by a man
and his family of eleven child
rem, and the whole region
round about has been surrep-
titiously supplied with whisky
without the flavor of taxation.
This is a mean advantage for
Pennsylvania to take.
They have a young man in
Indianapolis with an unfortu-
nate propensity for stealing
carriages and forging bank
checks, and they call him in
sane and have sent him to an
asylum. We knew that kill
ing people was merely an eVi.
dence of insanity, but stealing
and forging checks have been
accounted crimes heretofore
Perhaps they too are coming
to be regarded only as freak:
and eccentricity and the un
fortunate victims as fit subject'
for special care and kindness
There is rather a curious cas-,
pending in a Massachusett,
court. At Worcester there i
a large copperas factory il
close proximity to a very beau
tiful cemetery. The fumes from
the factory discolor and cor
rode the tombstones, and tn
proprietors of the cemeter,
have asked for an injunction t,
shut up the copperas works
This brings up a very move
question for decision, whethe
a graveyard can stop the ope
} rations of busy industry in it
neighborhood for the sake G
t preserving its freshness an
beauty. The decision is yet t
be rendered.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08
Parish Court Reports.
ORDINARY TERM-M.lY.-

ORDINARY TERM-MIlY.-
s. n. Cooper VS.. John Colbert.
Judgment for plaintiff.
j. W. Cody vs.. Adam Turoer.
Judgment for plaintiff.
Lou. E. Boon, Administrative.
VS.. John G. Head and r. T.
Stinson. Judgment for plain
tiff.
Mcclure & Barrett VS.. j. A.
Preston ct ais. Dismissed at
plaintiffs cost.
Hoss & Durham VS.. M. J.
Wyche and husband. Judg-
ment for plaintiffs.
Il. A. Harrison, wife, VS.. A.
j. Carter, husband. Judgment
for plaintiff.
Heirs of Hodges VS.. c. G.
NOVEL;. Judgment for plain
tiffs.
W. j. Carter, for use. &c, VS..
Geo. M. Calhoun. Judgment
for plaintiff.
w. r. Prather VS.. G.. f.. Nc
Gala. Judgment for plaintiff,
VIM. s. Mencent VS.. Walker
& Valentine. Judgment fol
for plaintiff.
Charity Parker, wife, VS.. An.
drew Parker, husband. Di.
voree grated.
Laura Stevens VS.. Eli Glib
; son. Dismissed at plaintiff.
cost.
Ellis Wood VS.. j. N. Cooper
Judgment for plaintiff.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

There is more Growing done
out Of the barn-yard than
there is in it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

James Gordon Bennett, the
journalist, is dead.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-08

Mr.. Colfax, an ex-editor, 10.
vice-president, aud Horace
Greedy, an editor, and Gratz
Brown, anex-editor, are on one
presidential ticket. If this con-
tinues, the over crowded edito-
rial profession bids fair to suf-
fer UNNECESSARILY. There ara
other ways 10 reach the highest
places than that which leads
through the editorial sanctum.
If a father has a son he wishes
to train for the presidency, he
should first introduce him to a
member of the Blair family,
and some time within the next
generation he will undoubted-
ly at least receive a nomina:
ton. Vicksburg Times.
When / get you in st. Louis
I'll kill youi," said a Texan des
perado to cattle drover at
Abilene.
"Why not kill me heref''
Because they'd hang me
here; but in st. Louis they'd
think | was insane, and lei me
go"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-02
NEW YORK.
Tie stokes Trial-Bish0p Of Cashel Dead
William Cullen Bryant-Suspicions of u
1Iexican PrOtectorate.

Tie stokes Trial-Bishop Of Cashel Dead
William Cullen Bryant-SuspiciOns of u
Mexican PrOtectorate.
NEW YORK, March lin the Stokes trial
to-day, Judge Cardoza said he would do
either one Of two thinss-let the jury find
general verdict, or direct them to find a
would instruct them to find if the Board of
Commissioners was properly constituted,
but all other facts for prisoners.
The English papers announce the death
of Right Rev. K. DAILY, Bishop of Cashel,
Ireland. aged ninety-one years Bishop
DAILY was appointed to the see OF Cashel in
lS43.
Papers also report the death of Colonel
Charles Windhaln, keeper of the regalia in
London Tower, an otficeF~Of Waterloo.
A Vera Cruz letter says it is generally
believed in Mexican circles that William
Cullen Bryant bears proposition tor an
American prOtectOrate over Mexico.
Arrived-Steamers City of Washington
| and Houston. Arrived Out-Russia and
Republic.
Money stringent at closing at gold with
commission. Sterling firm at 9'As. Govern
ments closed somewhat firmer. State bonds
dull but quiet. Gold ll0ls llOA. Gov
! ernment skies of 1881 lis; ive-twenties
| OF 1862 Ill: 1864 ll07s; 1865 Ills;
new HOS: 1867 lll4: 1868 lll}4 ten-forties
1912. Tennessees old 66A, new 66ls; Viz
ginias old 80, new 50; Lonisanas old So,
new so; levee skies g. eights IS: Alabama
eights 90, tives 60: Georgia skies 20: sevens
81; North Carolinas old 34aa. new la. !;
South CarOlinas old 52la, new 81.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-02
TERMS: $l6 90 PER ANNUM.

reference in Spanish politics, thus making
himself Objectionable as a minister. The
complaint was made in friendly way. but
showed that his continued presence would
not be agreeable at Madrid.
The third alleged cause of trouble, be-
tween the United States and Italy, is an OBJ
iectionabIe dispatch of Minister Marsh to
the State Department, rejecting upon that
government. There is no doubt that it has
only recently been discovered, though writ
ten in September, 1870, and unintentiOnally
published in the diplomatic correspondence
of that year. There may have been COM
ment upon it in diplomatic circles here, but
it has not been brought to the attention of
the State Department.
1t is known that our government has no
disposition whatever to impose minister
upon any other government against it's
wishes, and will, it is intimated, act on the
matter as it acted in the case of MIR. Bur
lingame, who was appointed Minister to
Austria. But that government having ex-
pressed an indiposition to receive him in
that capacity, owing to his having, in 1860,
while member of the House of Represen-
tatives. offered resolution showing his
deep sympathy for Sardinia, he was trans
ferred to the Chinese mission. The friendly
intimations by Spain to our government
are not, however, OF recent occurrences;
they were made about three months ago.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-02
.Henry Dunbar.c

The disagreeable and uncertain weather
had bad influence upon the st. Charles
Theatre last evening The audience was
diminutive, but highly appreciative.
Mr.. j. w. Wallack appeared in the stroll
ing and romantic play of Henry Dunbar,
he assuming the character by that name.
The small audience did not seem to affect
his delineations, for he went through the
part lust as if crowded house was before
him-a characteristic of his, by the way.
The play of ''Henry Dunbar is one that
never fails to interest. and is one Of the few
that person can witness the second time.
Mr.. WaIlaeks impersonation is truly won
derful As the ambitious man he is al. that
can be expected; natural and perfect he
holds up the powerful mirror of ma
ture." AS the man to accomplish his
anxious designs, he is a success; and
as the man who has by crime at
tanned the ends sought for, ne is simply
grand His deep bass voice. coupled
with his easy style, never fails to draw forth
the hearty appreciation OF an audience:
and seldom does more enthusiastic au-
dience gather within the portals of the st.
Charles.
Miss Alice Grey deserves special nention
for the manner IN which she rendered the
character of Nargalet Weutrorh. She de-
pcted the loving daughter to a charm. Miss
Grey has few equals on the American
stage as an emotional and finished actress.
and if she maintains her present style and
does not lapse into the usual stage emo
tional business there is open to her the
road to fortune and fame.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-02
THE CITY HALL.

Very little OF interest is going on at the
hall. The adjournment of the Legislature
has abated in great measure the interest
felt in municipal matters and has left them
to take the ordinary course of monOtonous
quietness.
Owing to the comparative absence OF
meat from the markets during two days IN
the week.-Mrs. being Lent-the sales OF
the leases of these institutions for the
month of March show decrease from the
price received for the previous month of
$500.
The agents of the building No. AZ North
Market street have been notified to at once
thoroughly repair that habitation and place
itin a condition in which it will no longer
endanger either the lives Of inmates or
passers-by.
The time for paying city licenses for the
year has expired. Delinquents will now
be charged an additional per centage,
The new bridges (the slides} are ap-
preaching very rapidly a state Of compile
ton.
The Mayor has not yet returned to active
duty.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-02

The Chicago Tribune of Wednesday says
A convention, unprecedented in our his
tory, is to meet at New Orleans on the tenth
of April. 1t is to be composed wholly OF
colored men, and its announced object is to
promote the union of the negro race. in the
North and South, for commercial and pOllt-
ical purposes. The scheme may be traught
with serious consequences. 1t is Of the
first Importance to the late slaves that our
politics should be cOlorless; that man
should be elected to Office, not because ne is
black or because he is white, but because he
is worthy of trust. If they persist in this
apparent effort to establish an impe'inm IN
imperio, it will indefinitely delay that sec
ond emancipation from demagOgism which
they seem to need almost as much as they
did their first from slavery. We shall have
a Caucasian and an African party. Com
mon sense, and very little of it, ought to
suffice to teach the negroes what the result
of such division would be. 1t is essential
to the prosperity of the country that they
should be educated, and their condition
otherwise improved, as quickly as possible;
but this is not to be done by political COM
bination. We hope that wiser counsels may
prevail, so that the convention will devote
itself to the careful consideration of all
schemes of general improvement, and
ignore politics, as far as may be.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-02
\ TRAGEDY IN OHIO
CONGRESS.

Nomination and C0nfrma tiOn-Tea and
Coffee Tariffs-NO Change till July-The
Globe Contract Renewed The Arms
ODmmiftee-Amendne to Texas Pa
cifir Railroad Biil-Sheid0n's Southern
Quarantine Bill.
WASHINGTON. March Henry P. FarrOn
has been nominated attorney general for
the southern district of Georgia, and Atkins
has been confirmed collector of customs at
Savannah.
.Senate-The chairman of the Committee
on Finance stated that he was instructed
by the committee to state that whatever
change might be made in the tea and coffee
tariff, it would not take effect before the
first of July.
The bill renewing the old contract with
the proprietors of the Globe, for publishing
congressional debates, passed
Wee President Colfax declining to ap-
point the EARNS committee" Mr.. Cameron
moved that it consist OF Senators HamlIn.
Carpenter, Sherman, Sawyer. Logan, Ste
venson and Harlan. An amendment to sub
stitute Senator Schurz for Senator Sherman
was made, when the matter went over.
Appropriations resumed and discussed.
An amendment abolishing the branch
mint at Charlotte. North Carolina, failed.
Mr. Scott reported the Texas Pacific rail
road bill with amendments, with the re-
commentator that it pass; it changes the
name to Texas Southern Pacific railroad
The only amend :nent not merely verbal IS
one chartering branch road from Fulton.
Arkansas. to inte sect the main line be-
tween Marshall and Dallas, Texas. The
branch is given tie right Of way. but 20
subsidies.
Mr. Kellogg will pronose an amendment
fixing the eastern teI. linus at Shreveport
instead of Marshall
House-The merchant of New York and
Boston petition for un..orm tobacco tax
The St. Croiy railroe, bill occupied
nearly all day.
Mr. Sheldon from the { anmittee on Com
merce, reported bill foi Il more effective
system of quarantine on the Southern ant
cuif coasts, authorizing the detail of one OF
more medical officers oi the regular army
who shall, during the coming season, visit
each town or post on the Gulf of Mexico
that is subject or liable to invasions of vel
low fever, and to confer with the local au
thorities with reference TO the establish
ment of a more uniform and effective sys
TEN, and to make a detailed report 10 til,
Secretary of War. The bill! was PASSED
without discussion.
Mr. Clarke, OF Texas, asked leave to
make personal explanation. and to offer d
resolution calling on the Attorney Genera
for information as to the action and bribery
of the federal grand jury at Austin
Texas.
Mr. Cox objected on account Of the alb
sence of one OF Mr. Ciarke's colleagues
who was involved in the matter.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-02

The Jackson Clarion and the Summit
Times have each been abusing the other
to such an extent that Messrs. Robert
Lowry and James 4. Yerger addressed Mr..
E. Barksdale Of the Clarion and Colonel
f. t. Cooper, of the Times, offering 10
settle the difficulties between the antag
onistic parties. Their mediation was ac-
cepted, and now everything is settled
amicably, all is serene, and the readers of
the respective journals are deprived Of tie
pleasure OF gloating over foul abuses and
gross calumDies