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SATURDAY. Inarning Subscription, 80 per
auuurn Al - for six IN Jnths, and = p for
three months
For ADVERT sements inserted in news col
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will lie charged
Announcing candidates for office-invarl'
ably in advance-SlO.
Advertisements inserted for a specified
time and discontinued by the advertiser be
fore that time expires, will be charged at
fhe regular rates for the time and spar'
occupied, and not pro rata rates OF the tIni'
for which the advertisement was oriSInalll
inserted.
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Louis men get a charter from
Congress, then let US have the
privilege of taking stock and
of applying the money arising
from paying in the stock to-
wards the grading and the su-
perstructure of the road (eX-
cept irony in Louisiana. Then
let the st. Louis men furnish
US the iron and rolling stock
and let our share of the road
start from Shreveport in the
direction of Camden. Possibly
our people might raise funds
to do what is above specified
At least we would make a big
endeavor. 1t might cost fou1
hundred thousand dollars
which we think could be raised
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1T STILL WAVES" 1t will he no sur
prise to very many of our readers to learn
that that popular fIlniiy paper, the Star
Spanglcd Banner" "still waves 1t isn't
one 70 the kind that ''suspends'' or "sells
out We have received the November
number which is better than ever. During
1872, thu Banner" has achieved immense
success. Although attacked and abused
by rogues, rascals and swindlers, for its
exposure of their schemes, Yet their abuse
with the good words OF all honest men have
run up its circulation to $4,000 copies. The
Banner" is a large, 8 page 40 column pa
per, Ledger size, ovcrfiowing with splendid
stories, Poetry, Wit, Hnmor, Fun, &c &c
Ii is paper for young and old-in fact for
everybody. 1t .shows up" every quack,
svindier, and humbug in it's "Rogues Cor
ner." aud is money saving paper for every
man, woman and child. l.. Prang & Co,
have just finished superb, full, genuine
Chrome, expressly for every subscriber to
the Banner" perfect beauty, entitled
"A Boquet of Autumn Leaves" which il
color, TINT, shades, and artistic merit, has
never been equalled. This leading home
paper is only 81 year. Chrome sent free
Agents are wanted everywhere. 81. a year
3 months, l5cts, specimen 8 cts. Address
Star Spangle Banner, Hinsdale, \. Ii.
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GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
New Orleans, Nov. 16-Wm. p.
Kellogg, to day made an applica
ton to the United States Circuit
Court for an injunction restrain
ing the State election returning
board, composed of II. &. War
moth, Jack Wharton, Frank III,
Hatch and Duront DaPonte, from
or in any manner performing the
duties of returning officers Of the
election, of the State of LOuisiaua;
also that John McEnery, be en
Joined, restrained and inhibited
from III any manner, acting or,
pretending to act as the Governor
| of the State of Louisiana, and
from making any claim To the
Office of Governor OF the State,
ETC., also that the New Orleans
Republican, the official Journal,
be eDi0ined and restrained from in
any manner publishing any Off
cial notice, document or statement,
relating to any canvass OF state
ment made, or in any manner
emaHating from said pretended
board Of returning officers OF elec-
tons. Judge Durell ordered that
the defendants he cited TO show
cause OH tina 18th, why injunc-
tions pending should not he issued
as prayed for, and in the mean,
time and until further orders this
9 court let the restraining orders
prayed for issued against said de,
fendan;S in form aud to the effect
prayed for.
New Orleans, Nov. IS.-Three
men assaulted a policeman who
5 shot and killed one of the assail,
ants named John Clarity.
Three fires burned the buildings
4 23l. 233 CustomhouSe street
, The adjacent buildings were dam
aged. Total loss $4,000.
Columbia, s. @. Nov. 90
: The total vote of the State is
e $4,000. Grants majority is
I $4,000.
Montgomery, Ala, Nov. 20
conservatives who held seS,
e sion at the capitol, have {
e quorum and are fully organic
Q ed in both Houses. The Gov,
: ernor replies to the Commit
tee informing him they were
t ready for business, would senC
s his message tomorrow. Re
d plying to the Commute from
# the other body, the Governor
after celebrating arguments
} concludes thus: "Abstainin:
1t from further multiplying o
l. of reasons for my Conclusions
Ie permit me to say that m.
official oath and fidelity to th
Constitution aud laws forbi,
% my recognition of any body a
the General Assembly of Ala
bama, other than that whic
organizes under the forms c
ri the Constitution aud the law:
is and in the capitol of the State
le The body that constitute
u, your committee / do not RET
ognize as the General Assem-
% bly,, and therefore have no of
s. cial communication TO tram
e nit to it"
E. Boston, Nov. ia FIRE o.
ID cured on State street, loss OF
r. to two hundred thousand do
lars. 1t is thought that it va
caused by wares brought fro
a the burnt district.
i'd ST. Louis, Nov. ID.
Ia Roe & Co.'S pork packing e
Establishment burned; the loss
d roughly estimated at s100,0C
at upon product.
it Memphis. Nov. 19.-TI
ds horse malady is here in
mild form.
Augusta, Me-, Nov. 10.
IL Grants majority is over 3
let 900. The vote is the smalle
od since 1920.
Jacksonville, Nov. 1T
female college. belonging
to the Methodist Church, W
MT burnedi loss $4,000; insuran
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Zelrs Monthly Magazine form.

ZelIs Monthly Magazine forms
another new feat in our American
literature. 1t is published by L.
Elwood Zell, IL and 10 South
Sixth ST., Philadelphia. Terms,
81 per annum. The November
number is at hand. 1t designs to
furnish a course of popular in
struction, and gives in detail sci
entifc experiments, philosophical
observations, etc. TIE present
number is an exceedingly inter,
esting one.
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RAILROAD TO ST. LOUIS.

We see from the Shreveport
papers that a Gen. Dockery is
in that town as agent for the
st. Louis, Little Rock and New
Orleans projected road, to see
if the people OF Caddo and Bos-
sier are not willing to GIVE
land to the road in order to de-
feet it from it former proposed
route through Alexandria to
Shreveport.
If we could by a gift of a
portion Of our lands get a road
to st. Louis, many of US would
undoubtedly make the dona
ton. But our lands now are a.
such a low price as to be oflit
tie avail towards raising funds
wherewith to build a road
And again we doubt the abili
ty of a company to construc
a road where gifts are asked
for.
We want greatly a road t,
ST. Louis. To get il let Sain
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A great deal of ink, not to
mention the mental wear aud
tear, is being wasted just now
in trying TO explain the cause
of the defeat of Greeley and
Brown. The reason is the sim
pleSt in the world. The Lib
eral-Democratic party suffered
from a disproportion between
its brains and its votes-toO
many of the former and too
few of the latter. 1t is strange
that nobody has thought OF
this fact before.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-11-23

Now that the contest is over,
we would like to see a little of
that financial prosperity which
the partizans of Mr.. Grant
promised as a consequence of
his reelection.
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BELLEVUE, La,
Saturday Morning, Nov. 70, 1872.

IARTHuR's HoME MAGAZINE pub
fishers of this widely circulated and highly
popular magazine, announce "a new depart
ure," for 1873 II is to be enlarged and IL
lustrated and lifted TO higher level Of
literary and artistic excellence. In their
new dep lrture," they offer TO every sub
scriber for 1873. free, . copy of The Chris
tian Grares" a new line and stipple steel
engraving repr, seuting Faith, Hope and
Charity" a group of exquisite grace and
beauty The English copy of this engrav-
ing sells for Sl5. II is said TO be a long
time since any thing has appeared il Chris
tian art so attractive and beautiful this
elegant picture Price of magazine 81 sc
a wear with reduction for clubs. Address
7. s. Arthur & Son, Philadelphia, Pa.
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tuition, it is enacted that a par
ish is a precinct, and that many
polling places may be estab-
lished therein. What was the
great moving cause that actu-
ated the Legislature in thus
evading the Constitution? We
take it to be this: The Repub
LEANS had got power in the
State by means of the recon
struction measures and they
made Constitution be-
fore they had well studied the
character of the black man.
Through the black man they
hoped to perpetuate their pow
er. If the blacks and whites
were all forced TO vote together
in a precinct in each neighbor-
hood then could the employer
white man have a controlling
influence on the employed
: black man. And more than
this any white man who had
; put a black man under obi
. cations to him or who had even
: eXacted a promise from the
black man, could control him
, This control the Republicans
, may assert is effected by in,
timidation. But it is not so
1t is only the same control thai
4 has ever been eXerted among
4 white men, one towards anoth
5 er. To counteract this influence
t the Republicans saw that they
; must impress it on the BLACK
. man that their party was the
u black mems party, that they
must join into clubs and al
4 go together in large crowd
Il and where the white men VIII,
&c might influence them coul'
D have less chance to do So
'o Hence arose the subterfuge @
Il making a parish a precinct.
&c Now if precinct were es
tablished for every few hun
dred voters and those voter
, registered to vote at the prt
cinct, it would be a fairer pla
y to the people and be a certai
VI way of preventing a man fror
" voting twice or voting in al
'h others name; and the chanC
{ for many other frauds woul
be materially lessened.
d Had such been the law til
% vote in our parish would hay
III been much greater and tt
III Fusion majority equally {
ed large. For many Liberal viii
~ men refused to travel so far
wv required to vote and cOntente
themselves with pairing {
ne with black men whom the
O. were not sure ofcontroling, b.
TO whom they sould have contrc
ed had a precinct been in Il
IN neighborhood where all Il
is nPighborhood were required
Il vote.
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stand the terrible effect of a
high wind in a great city dur
ing a fire.
After the fires had pretty
well died down, smoke was
seen issuing in thin streams
from several places in the roof
of the Court house. A ladder
was quickly got and placed up
stairs in the jury room against
/ the hole left in the ceiling by
the architects, for just such oc-
casions, we suppose. Up this
water was carried and the be-
ginning fires extinguished.-
The high wind seems to have
driven live Goals under the
states in several places and
thereby kindled the sheeting
just under.
All our citizens did faithful
work in saving property and
preventing the spread of the
fire; but we must particularize
J. G. Head as leading in the
most dangerous predicaments,
For the sake of the temper,
ance cause we are sorry to say
that whisky had nothing to dc
, in causing the fire; but that Oh
the contrary it was one great
f cause of its spreading no fur
Their. And thereby hangs {
: tale. Mr.. Frank Smiths cleri
first discovers the fire; he lock:
the store door, rushes to The
1 rescue and works like a Tro
: jan. A co-laborer become
= weary, tagged out and athirs
D for the national beverage. TIL
e groceries are destroyed. !
( certain barrelin the back roOr
q Of Smiths arises before hi
minds eve. The clerk mus
4 needs go with him thereto. Tn
door is unlocked and the twai
enter, when lol a light fam
is seen upon the floor in tn
. back room. This they immt
mediately put ut,and thereb
6 save the whole Smith block
IS Some of the flying Goals ha
t. fallen down the chimney {
d Smiths store and enfamed
d lot Of shucks and corn lying O
N the floor near and in the fir
70 place.
W The loss by the fire in rel
81 and personnel property h.
been only about four thousan
dollars, as the four store al
grocery buildings destroys
D were plain framed single stol
houses, and as prices are 10
Il in our village. -
ST Mr.. L. G. Raspberry is Il
re greatest loser in personal pr
in perty, which may amount
as four hundred dollars worth.
8 While the State Constitute
1D =.
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Registered Voters of Bossier by

Bullock, the Georgia thief,
occupies a magnificent resi-
dence in the Champs Elysees,
Paris.
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Fifty female type-setters work
in San Francisco. and their num-
Der steadily increasing. They
favor the comma as a punctuation
mark.
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While the State Constitution
exits in its present shape it is
our duty to carry itout accord
ing to its true intent and mean
ing although some of its pro-
VISIONS might work a little to
our injury. The election law
is not such a one as we would
have favored. Indeed in one
particular we believe tits in
opposition to a good provision
Of the Constitution. Yet the
party in power saw fit to enact
it and to put it into effect fol-
a reason very apparent.
The Constitution requires a
registry Of all voters, and that
they must vote at their pre-
cincts as designated by regis,
try. When the Constitution
was formed a precinct was g
place to vote at. For instance
in Bossier we had at one time
thirteen precincts. The ide;
never occurred to us, at leas
in the country, that there wa'
any distinction between "pre
cinct" and polling place. -
But now, to evade the Consti
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FIRE.


in the morning of that day
smoke was seen issuing from
the roof Of the grocery house
occupied by J. H. Lotion and
John Fogg. The alarm was
raised and several persons i'm
mediately ran to the house
and burst open the door, which
was found locked. The whole
loft and roof was found burn
| ing, having been fired to all
appearance by a defective
stove pipe passing through the
roof. The impossibility of eN-
tinguishing the flame with wa
ter brought in buckets, which
is our only chance here, was so
apparent that all energies were
Immediately applied to saving
the movables in the house, and
the two adjacent houses. The
grocery house of Mr.. Lie. Ras-
berry, leased by him of Capt.
W. S. Edwards, and the store
) house of Col. j. A. Haynes, in
which was a small remnant OF
goods stood almost in contact
! with the burning house, and Of
,, course soon shared its fate
All three being wooden burned
E rapidly and with great heat
E Mr.. John c. Heads grocery
a stood thirty or forty feet from
r Rasberry's, and hopes were
:. entertained for some time tina
: it could be saved, but a gall
q springing up from the north
$ west so threw the heat an(
E. flames over it as to drive from
S the roof those endeavoring t,
save it. Consequently it wa
. abandoned to its fate. Be
{. tween the place of the burnini
) houses and the Court house j
IT a space Of near a hundred fee
:, In the Court house yard an
i, against the fence were place
1t many valuables removed fror
r the burning buildings. Tn
gale from the northwest BILE
r, the flames so strongly again;
Oh the Court house as to prever
u any one going to that side, an
as a consequence much of thes
valuables were destroyed.
The Court house is of brio
to and covered with slate. Ju'
ID under the ewes is an exposul
T" of wood some three feet
' width, put there we suppose {
~ an ornamental entablature
I, strangely enough in a buildir
designed to be fire-proof. TIL
= wood was charred in man
=, places, and in one place i,
40 famed; but the fame W.
re blown out by the wind. I'll
of wood,as good luck would ha,
it is fat pine, and consequent
very hard to kindle against
plane smoothe surface.
Al The street of our village
two hundred feet wide. Aero
this the gale carried thousan,
of live Goals which set on fl
Mrs. Smiths hotel, and DR.. '
NJ. Swann's and Mrs. Kelly
houses. But as that thing W
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Bossier Banner.
-TERNs-

W. III. sc.rr AND. Editor and PrOprie'or.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-03-21

A JAPANESE ALBUN.-Mrs. LeLong has
in her possession, aud exhibited it in Cal
tfngnla, a beautiful album presented to
nee III Japan. 1t represents neariy al the
various classes ct society in Japan, and
depicting The most noted laBdsca pc scenes.
Zach photograph is about twelve by eighb
inches IN size, and altogether numbering
about 100. They are bound in hand
some centre table volume. Some Lre-
sent single figures, Others groups Of native
Inhabitants, from the highest tfficers IN
court or official dress TO tie seml-sas wage
Amos, with their long boards ana LMiIan
style Of garments and hats.
The "Girl of the Period" is tail Cor
japanese LADY,, graceful beauty, carrying
IN her hand Glove parasoi" about
SIX feet in diameter. The orig iDal Gre
clan bend" is found in these pictures in
the pristine elegance of deformlty Some
are straight and erect; others appear as
though they were compromising with the
quadruped after the latest "modern" stvIe.
The horse boys" who Iun all day long
without firing, beside traveller, are
decked in native simplicity, like the
Sandwich Islanders that Mark Twain de-
scribeS-minus the "stove pipe.'
Groups of girls, the belle playing on the
fecum bent harp, female smokists brawny
wreStieFs, executioners, travelling mer
chants, Inherent peddlers, and many oth-
Ter novel sights are to be seen in this rare
collection
The work was executed by an ar 1st at
Yokohama, who has copies for sale at the
modest price of two hundred and fifty
dollars each.
The collection OF Japanese cnriositits
contains one that is remaYknhlc for it's
history as for its beautiful workmanship.
1t is superb Iacqnered box incruSted
with gold designs, and is tn. only relic
recovered from the i'll fated Oneida The
divers tished IL up ia perfect preservation,
as might have been done with other val.
uables on board.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-03-21
HENRY WARD BEECHER.

Another man of all work, in the pulpit
and out of it, is Henry Ward Beecher.
Some one said of Horace Greeley that he
is the best known man in Amerca."
Henry Ward Beecher is probably the
"best known preacher in America" And
he, like John Hail." as the great Irish
man likes to be called, seems physically
able to endure service much beyond the
ability of his brethren. Beecher is as fat
as an oyster, a fish on which, he affirms,
comes more brain power than from any
other source. Beccher's labors are i'm
mense. 1t would seem to be enough for
any one man to attend to his congrega
tion, and the fact that for TWEEN ,y-five
years aid more he has maintained his
popularity as a preacher in such posi-
ton is pretty fair test of his ability.
He, too, as all the world knows, 10 sought
to speak on every great occasion, and he
often complies. Physically, as well as
mentally, he means well. Besides his
regular preaching and his addresses on
various occasions, he is the editor (romi
nal Of least) of the ChristSGn Union. He
does not write much for il, but 1t goes out
under his name, and is attaining great
popularity. The publishers recently an
nounced that it's circulation had reached
above 10000. A rumor is circulated in
certain Inner circles which it may do no
harm to mention. It is that Beecher is
soon to give up his church. The inference
! is that he is to devote himself more close
" to the conduct of the Christian Union.
The publishers find it to be SO great a
success under his lead that they wish to
secure his whole time and strength upon
ia good thing for them if they can &C
complish it-but his congregation will
be likely to put in a demurrer. The
same firm, J. B. Ford g Co., who publish
the ObrSstiGx Union, bought out Beecher's
+" Life of Jesus the Christ" Two years
and more ago, they advanced him $4,000
on his work, in order to secure his writing
| it. The first volume only has appeared
When :he next will be issued will depend
upon his ability to give timc to it. 1t is
not unlikely that the wish of the pub
fishers to bring out this volume at the
earliest moment prompts them to present
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-03-21
WHAT IS A LIQUOR SHOP.

A vampire, fatteniug on the pain
OF bleeding hearts and children slain
A tee O virtue, learning, truth
The bane OF age and snare OF youth
A licensed woe and murder den,
A curse and pest to honest men;
A nations burning blot and shame,
Which all it's noblest deeds deiame ;
Deaths gilded door round which mer
wait,
And m&dly take the poisoned bait {;
A source from which pollution streams
Befouliug beRuly's heavenly beams;
The poor mans foe, and wise mans
dread,
Where poverty to vice is wed +;
A trumpet call to all the good
To Join in holy brotherhood,
Tn 8 glazing wrong to sweep away,
And hydrA host OF evils Stay F.;
The misery and crime 1t brIngS,
To rank among departed things,
Whore spectres, trembling IN the gloom,
Ia wakefuI keep !; lest 1t resume
Its blasting sway and daring, wage
Destructive warfare with the age.
Then roass ye, all who hold the helm
OF public action in the realm
Mark well the facts within your reach,
For these fearful lesson teach
OF fostered ignorance and sin
In these abodts oil beer and gin.
If, then, from guilt you would be free,
Declare this EVIL shall not be.
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Chawles had procured an introduction
to ia ,cinating young lady in ball room
and was promenadiHg witt. her around
the room, mentally admring her luxUri
ant hair and superb teeth, and thinking
how his male friends must envy him Just
as they were passing seat where mum
Der of said male friends were seated the
young lady was taken with an involunta
ry sneezing fit At the first jerk her teeth
rolled out on the floor, and at the second
her wad of false hair few off and struck
Chawles in the face. He didn't wait to
witness any more, but vamoused inconti
nently, leaving the false fair one To r2ke
herself together the best way she could.