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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27

The office of Sergeant-at-
Arms of the House of Repre-
sentatives is worth $4,000 a
year, and the officer has to give
100000 bond for his good be-
havior.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27

If your son parts his hair
in the middle, do not be harsh
with him. Do not shoot him.
Reason the case with him. In
stances are not wanting to
show that young men addict.
ed to such habits have grown
up to be good and even intelli,
gent men.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27

A Chicago widow who has an
income of 100000 a year gets
drunk. She can afford to do it
on good liquor.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27

Impure we'll water has car.
ried off a whole family in Fort
Wayne, Ind.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27

The people of Pennsylvania
adopted the new constitution
by a majority of not far from
one hundred and fifty thous-
and. ---.---
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27

The highest point in Georgia
has been ascertained 20 be
Blood Mountain, in Union
county, which is 1850 feet
above sea level.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27
omnium Gatherum

numerous.
Philadelphia has 40 Baptist
churches.
High heels on ladies' boots.
are disappearing.
The area OF corn in Georgia
in 1873 was 100000 acres
In Montana there is but half
a crop this year of any hing.
Portland, Me-, is proud of a
citizen who had five wives and
torty-two children.
Iowa farmers are anxiouslv
looking out for spring seed
wheat.
Alabama owes S24,41O.49s !.
OF Sl22 for every male citizen
of legal age.
New York imports 10000
letters a week from Great
Britain.
Another ether inquest has
become necessary at Lynn.
Mass. IN. r
"a rainy December makes
fat graveyards," says the Ger
mans. q
Stylish kid gloves are down
to fifty cents per pair IN New
York.
Boston's three leading clubs
are the Banks, Bird and Massa~
chusetts. p. rH.
| a Vermont minister has been.
dismissed for plagiarism. Net.
from the Bible.
Monterey county, CAL, is
larger than Rhode Island and
Delaware put together.
The Colorado market is sup
piled with Buffalo meat, which
sells at two cents per pound.
\ hundred years ago it took
only LOGO lamps to light Paris.
Now it requires nearly 4O,y
600. s..--s q
A genius is popularity sup~
! posed to be one who can do
anything except to make d liv-
ing. IS.
Women like to have husb~
ands named William, for then
they can always have a Will Of
their own.
An Indiana gentleman who
stole his wife's hairand pawned
it for liquor has been ordered to
provide Ler with some more Of
similar quality,
! A cynical lady, rather inclin-
ed TO fiirt, says most meu are
like a cold, very easily eanght
but very hard to get rid OF.
! An Indiana paper has this
among its answers to CORES
4 pondentS: MISUNDERSTANDING
senic is the most certain, hat
: not so rapid as strychnine. Put
a little in her tea"
! Stebbins says: elderly PEG.
/ pie ought to retire early at this
! season of the year. 1t is better
| for their health. Besides it
gives the young folks a better
chance"
! There is more carpeting made
in the Nineteenth ward Of
| Philadelphia than in all the
looms Oftlle rest of the United
States and Great Britain.
There is no doubt that boston
feels the hard times. The leg
drama fails TO draw over two
: thirds of house, and those
who go growl about the price,
The house ofrepresentatives
have set apart a gallery for the
families of members of congress
exclusively, in imitation of that
assigned to the diplomatic
body.
The Philadelphia Press says
the Presidents warm support
in his message of the improves
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27

Charges of serious official
Irregularities against VIM. NJ.
Green, Postmaster of Dayton,
Ohio, are under investiga-
ton.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27

Two hundred thousand buff
talo have been slaughtered in
Colorado and Kansas the past
season. ..f. s.Ht. ..
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27

A portion Of the people Of
ColfaX township, Daviess
county, Missouri, have met
and resolved that they cannot
pay their taxes; that they
will not bid ION each others
property if offered for sale by
the tax collector; and, also,
"that if any outsiders come to
the sales, we (they) will give
them a warm reception"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27

It is stated that there are
fifty widows in Orwell. If you
don't know where Orwell is,
remember that ignorance is
bliss. -E.-@ fH...." .....
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27

1t may interest somebody to
know that thirtyfve different
kinds of fish are caught in Lake
Erie. .
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27
Louisiana Slices.


The Richland Beacon has
abandoned patent outsides."
Next.
No. of children between
the ages of six and twenty-one
in Ouachita parish, 4,507;
whites 1922; blacks 1885. .,.
Delta is improving, says
the Madison Journal. Several
new buildings are now in pro-
cess of erection.
All the right, title and in
terest ( line-twentieths) of the
late C. w. Lewis, in and to the
Shreveport Times, is advertis-
ed to be sold on the 3Oth inst.
The Burial Times signs for
the organization of a Grange
in Sparta. The editor insinu-
ates that he is entitled to wear
cookie burrs in his name!
AT a late term. of More
house District Court, Jackson
Turner was sentenced to the
State penitentiary for twenty
years for manslaughter.
The Times says Shreve-
port is ''more literally sup
piled with sharpers, sneak
thieves and burglars than ever
before" The public are eau
toned to beware of them.
The Delhi Chronicle, (anti-
Republican, is well pleased
with its District Judge, Hon.
Robert Ray, Republican.) Il
says he is faithful, true and
| impartial" which is ali that is
necessary in an officer.
The Times of the 10Th com
plains of the wretched condi.
ton of the roads leading to
Shreveport ''from every point
of the compass" It wants a
good road across the bottomtc
the Bossier hills. "Barkis is
willing .... 81. ......'''., "'.'
Up to the 10Th inst, the
Grand Jury of Franklin parish
found true billsin about thirty
cases-one for the murder of g
negro ten years ago, and an,
other for murder committed il
1868.
The Shreveport Times O
the 18th says, it has "neve.
INDUCED in any sanguint
hopes of a favorable result il
the Louisiana case" 1t ha.
no confidence in our "Credit
Mobilier and salary grab Con
gress."a s. a". ...
-Emigrants are still pass
ing through Delhi to Texas al
most every day. The Chroni
Gle rejoices that a few of then
are stopping in Richland par
Ism. why stand we idle here
in Bossier?
The Franklin Sun, (anti
Republican)thin it "but sim
pie Justice" to Hon. Frank Mo
reg, "to say that he has mad,
an efficient Representative il
Congress-" thelevees, mail ser
vice and all the interest of hi,
District having received "a
his hands earnest anC
efficient attention" The SUI
thinks, "having the ear of tn,
administration, he can rende
the District more service thai
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27
Subscription, So in Advance.

Professor Agassiz died in
Boston on the 18th inst.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-12-27

The Minnesota Indians go a
hunting and ship their venison
home by railroad express.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
Shelter an Equivalent for Food.

/ am very much afraid that too few
of our farmers rightly appreciate the
value of shelter and warmth for stock
during the cold weather of our long and
dreary winters The average tempera-
ture of the bodies of cattle is about one
hundred degrees Farenheit. This tenn
perature remains the same in summer
and winter but it must be evident that
more heat is taken off during the winter
than the summer Hence an increased
quantity is demanded, which must be
supplied either by comfortable warm
shelter, or an increase in the quantity,
or change in the quality of the food.
The maintenance of the perfect health
of man and beast depends upon the
keeping of the heat of the bodies up to
a comfortable point. A shivering beast
rarely thrives well. The supply of ami
NAL heat must be kept up in order to
the full and complete discharge Of all
the natural functions. Where stock is
not protected from cold, more and bet
ter food must be furnished. Warmth,
to certain extent, is an equivalent for
food; and on the other hand food is, to
certain extent, an equivalent for shell
ter This being the case, the course to
be pursued by the farmer is very
plain one. He has only to ask himself
whether, in order to maintanhis stock in
sound health, and in good condition, it
is cheaper to furnish them with an in
creased quantity of warmth-producing
food, or give them the shelter that will
secure the required amount of warmth
Correspondent Of The Journal Of tie Farm.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
'Myke EatMt.
Thin and Thick Sowing.

A writer in the London FARMERS
CHRONICLE gives the following as his
experience of thick and thin sowing of
seed His experiment was made with
oats:
The first year we got the best sample
we could of black oats of forty pounds
weight, and sowed them to the extent
of a sack -four bushels) an acre; and
the result of this first trial was about
thirty bushels to the acre, weighing
thirty-eight pounds to the bushel. of
course, the grain was thin, and there
was also an increase of that limited
hairiness at the base of many OF the
cones which points to retrogression
from the characters of the plumper seed.
Our next trials were with white oats Of
the weight of forty-seven pounds per
bushel; seeded sack to the acre. The
results in this case were forty bushels
to the acre of q good even seed, but
weighing only forty-fve pounds per
bushel, that is, two pounds less than
the sample sown. The next year our
oat experiments were considerably mod
flied, for we had determined to sow but
two bushels to the acre; and casting
about to get the heaviest seed in the
market, we procured sample weighing
somewhere about forty-eight pounds per
busheI. These were sown at the rate
of two bushels to the acre, and resulted
in crop of nearly forty bushels to the
acre, weighing as much as the sample
shown. Now, it is worthy of remark
that a neighbor's oat crop of the same
year was not only Of the nature of an
experiment, but it was also lesson on
the subject of thick seeding, which we
shall not soon forget This crop, like
our own, was the white Canadian oat,
sown in field of the same kind of soil,
but if anything the land was Of better
quality On seeing the field while the
crop was being cut, the first remark was:
You have seeded too thick" and sure
enough, upon the mistaken principle
that "if you don't put it in, you can't
expect to get it out" more than sack
an acre had been sown; and thus, while
in our own case the straws were remark
ably regular, both in height and size,
the average of the latter being that of
a good-sized goose-quill, surmounted by
panicle of from 100 to 800 grains of
oats, the majority of the eulms of the
thick-sown crop, growing beneath few
of the taller and larger growth, might
be compared to crow quilts, their seeds
numbering from five to twenty. These
facts, then, tend to show that if poor,
starved seed is used it may only make
matters worse to SOW too thickly, as
many are apt to do; and the result of
last years oat growth is convincing
proof that it is not large number of
stems which make up a good crop, but
a comparatively small number Of fully
developed ones.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
Roads and Road Making.

There are but few duties performed
bv town or municipal authorities which
are more important than making and
keeping in repair the common highways.
1t is duty, we are sorry to say, sadly
neglected in many parts of the country;
and in some localities the matter of
road making is regarded as OF no i'm
portance whatever, and the working
out of highway taxes, by the residents
of the towns or districts, is simply a
farce and fraud Every good citizen
should feel an interest in good roads, as
they contribute immensely to the COM
fort of travelling, and save much in the
wear and tear of carriages. 1t is true,
we must not expect in the rural districts
the well-cared for, solid roads of subur-
ban towns around cities; but there is no
excuse for the rocky, neglected paths
which are often found, and over which
it is positively dangerous to travel If
towns would attend to one point con-
nected with their highways, that is,
carefully remove, once in two weeks,
during the Summer, every stone which
is brought to the surface by rains or
drought, it would render even bad roads
very comfortable. These loose stones
are not only cause Of great discomfort
to travellers, but also of intense anxiety
They put in peril life and limb, as Lorses
are very liable to stumble in passing over
Them and carriages are often broken.
TRY an experiment Ride over neg
lected road in the country of mile in
extent, if yon have the courage; then
stop at farmhouse and give the far
mer couple of dollars to pick out the
stones; ride back over the pathway
again, and notice how great is the
change. Upon your return you can
trot briskly along, with a sense of COM
fort and security; whereas, in passing
over it previous to the removal of the
loose stones, you proceeded slowly and
in misery. This illustrates how cheap
ly and expedtionsly bad roads can be
improved. If every town in those sec
tions, where land is full of small bould
ers, would provide simply for the remov-
al of them from the pathway as often
as once in two weeks during warm
weather, the roads would be more COM
Portable than if ten times the cost was
expended in dumping on loads of sand,
or ploughing up roadside soil and piling
it on the driveway We hope these
hints will not be lost upon those who
have our common highways in charge
Journal Of Chemistry.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
Farmers Associations.

Farmers mi ght accomplish much by
an association something like board
of trade, common in large cities, ifthcre
would be tolerance and forbearancc and
a Witness on the part of each one to
learn the best mode of attaining an OBJ
ject.
There might be country, state and a
national association of farmers. These
might effect the same results as the
Patrons without the objection of secrc-
cy against them.
We want monopoly held in check;
we want to select reliable men from the
ranks of farmers, professional and busi-
ness men for Office; we want farmers
drove yard in every principal city man
aged by farmers as directors, Many
reforms are needed but we have not
time or space to enumerate them.
Every farmer sorelv feels his wants and
no want more keenly than some bank
ing system by which he can obtain
money on grain or land security. We
hope the late panic in stock will check
this kind of high per cent speculation
and turn little over, at the legal rate
to some hard working neighbor.
Let every farmer put his shoulder to
the wheel; join the Patrons of Husband
ry, or form county and state reform
associations if he objects to secrecy.
Here are two paths, both leading to
effective service. Why hesitate?
Oxford Farmers Club.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18

more, and Prof Kerr, of this city. At
the trial the evidence of the planter and
the analysis of both of these gentlemen
were produced, and the fact was estab-
lished that the article contained sixty
eight per cent of sand. The fact was
established by Prof Liebig that the ar-
ticle was of no value whatever as ma
nure. And in spite of the evidence the
Court and jury decided the guano must
he maid for"
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18

WORTHLESS MANUREs.-The North
Carolina AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL re-
ports the trial in Raleigh of case in
the United States Court interesting to
farmers:
Zone of the leading merchants Of
Raleigh purchased from guano COM
pany, in Baltimore, seventeen tons of
their article. 1t was ordered for far
mer who applied il to his crops, and
finding no good results upon his crop,
afterward had it subjected to analyses
at the hands of Prof. Liebig, of Balti
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18
.nO ~1~

GILT-EDGED BUTTER.-In making
fancy butter there are three essentials
color, texture, and flavor. "The col
or must be rich golden yellow; the
texture firm tenacious, waXy; and that
nutty flavor and smell which impart so
high degree of pleasure in eating itn
Butter of the very highest quality will
bring 81 pound readily. A Philadcl-
pha maker who receives this price gave
Mr.. B. Lyman these facts as to his
management: lie feeds on clover or
earl ly-mown hay; cuts fine, mostens,
and mixes in corn-meal and wheaton
shorts; feeds often, and little at a
time; uses noroots except carrots; keeps
his pastures free from weeds; keeps the
temperature of the milk-room at about
ffty-eight degrees; skins clean; stirs
the cream in the cream-pot; churns once
a week; just before the butter gathers
he puts in bucket of icc-cold water
into the churn: in working he works
out all the buttermilk without the use
of the hand, absorbing the drops with
fine linen cloth wrung from cold water,
and at the second working handles del
icately, with fingers as cold as may be,
salts nearly an ounce to the pound;
packs in one-pound balls.
The Cecil Whig., 1873-10-18

ADULTERATIoN OF BoNE-DUsT-It
has been ascertained that the powder
Of the vegetable ivory-nut is used very
largely for the adulteration OF bone-dust,
being so similar as to be very difficult
of distinction. Even the microscope
scarcely furnishes satisfactory means
of determining the facts in the case, es-
pecially if the external envelope of the
fruit has been carefully removed The
best method, however, short of chemical
analysis, is said to consist in throwing
the suspected substance upon hot GOALS
If vegetable ivory be present, pleasant
odor, like that of roasted coffee, will be
Immediately diffused, while bone-dust
yields disagrceable animal odor. The
precise proportion of the two substances
can only be determined by chemical
analysis
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-11-27

The Iowa State Register, which, as Dick Swiveller would say. is "friendly;D ;D remarksks: Senator Windom, chair man of the transportation committee, ought to know something of the business he has in hand. According to the list of stockholders in the Northern Pacific rail- road. Mir. Windom is interested to the tune of s63, 800 in that great thoroug- fare"
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-11-27

IMPORTANT DECISION CONCERNING TAXA TIoN.-The Supreme court of California has decided that the taxation of mort: gage on land, or the money secured there by, and the taxation of the land, Is double taxation, and therefore unconstitutional. The court in Summing up the opinion, says: -'-' 'i'-s
 "I conclude, therefore, that a tax on loans made in the usual course of busi- ness is paid by the borrower, and if the debts be secured by mortgage he also pays 8 tax on the mortgaged property.
 He Is twice taxed-once on the property and once on the debt which the property represents-and yet no new valne has been created by the transaction He is no richer, and has no more property than he had before; and if the money which he received from the lender remained in his hands it is also taxed. If the money has passed into the possession of another taxpayer it is taxed in his hands; so that the property and the money are each sep arately taxed; and if the mere promise or obligation of the borrower to repay the money Is also taxed and the tax is paid by him, as 1t must be, 1t is clear that he has been twice taxed on the same value of subiect-matter. This is violation of that clause of the constitution which re- suires that taxation shall be equal and uniform, and that property, shall be taxed in proportion to it's value. When the mortgaged property has once paid it's tax it has discharged its full obligation to the state, and the owner of 1t cannot and in justice ought not to be subjected to an- other tax, merely because he has borrow ed @ sum of money for which the proper ty is pledged as a security. a2se es. s.
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-11-27

We make the following extFaetsZfrgm an interesting letter in ths N: r. Evening Post regarding New Haven and Yale Col leg63 . vzalaD eh1'
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-11-27
From scribner's Monthly. BLACK ROCK.

'---Life is one, and in its warp and wocf There runs thrssd of gold that glitters fair. And sometimes in the pattern shows most sweet Where there are somber colors
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-11-27
"Crossed the sea And half the sphere to give her meeting"

Days heightened into weeks, and one night when the stars were coming out one
 Dy one over the tranquil sea, he told her
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-11-27

A Washington dispatch says:-"There will be considerable increase in the pub lie debt this month, which is to be mainly attributed to the heavy falling off in GUS tom receipts. About four and one-half million dollars will be paid out of the treasury the last of this week to pension agents to meet the quarterly payment of pensions. The legal tender reserves will be drawn upon to the extent of about eight millions additional to meet demands on the treasury, and the total amount of reserves outstanding at the end ot this month is expected to be about twenty millions. s L
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-03-27
ance of poisoning or drowning:
The Indians.

The st. Louis Republican is aston
ished to find. by consulting the census
tables of 1870, that outside of the Indian
Territory, which is occupied mainly by
civilized or partially civilized tribes, the
total number of Indians in the United
States, including the Territories, is less
than $4,000. The census tables, so far
as the enumeration of Indians is con-
cerned, are poor authority. No effort
has been made to take a systematic CEN
sus of all the Indians, though Census
Marshals appear to have put down in
their reports such of them as they hap
pened to come across in the course of
their regular duties. The most authen-
tic reports place the total number of In
dams within the United States, exclusive
of those in Alaska, at 100000, which
probably approximates the truth. OF
these there are about 70,0OOin Nebraska.
Kansas and the Indian Territory; 80, 600
in Minnesota and the States east of the
Mississippi; $4,000 in the Territories of
Dakota, Montana, Wyoming ard Idaho;
$4,000 in Nevada and Territories not
previously mentioned; and $4,000 on
the Pacific slope. OF this whole Indian
population it is estimated that not more
than 5000 are included in the various
hostile bands.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-03-27
Barbarities of SeaI.Hunters.

In letter to the London Times. Mr..
Frank auckland gives shocking ac-
count of the cruelhes perpetrnted by
seal-hunters. Selecting the third week
in March, when the baby seals are just
born, the hunter chooses place where a
number of young seals are lying, and
harpoons the mothers directly they come
to nurse them. cit is horrible" saws
Mr.. auckland, "to see the young ones
trying to suck the carcasses of their
mothers, their eyes starting out of their
sockets, looking the very picture of fam
inc. They crawl over and over them
until quite red with blood, poking them
with their noses, no doubt wondering
why they are not getting their usual
food, uttering painful cries the while.
The noise they make is something dread
full. If one could imagine himself sur
rounded by four or five hundred thou
sand human babies, all crying at the
pitch of their voices, he would have
some idea of it. Their cry is very like
an infants. These motheriess seals col
lect into lots of five or six, and crawl
about the ice, their heads fast becoming
the biggest part of their bodies, search.
ing to find the nourishment they stand
so much in want of. A"