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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02
BY w. H. SCANLAND.
TERMS

THE BossIER BANNER is published every
Saturday morning. Subscription, 50 per
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three months.
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umns Is cents per line for each insertion
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inserted
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matter intended for personal benefit, will be
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serted in regular advertising columns.
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deaths made gratis. Obituary notices, trih
utes Of respect, resolutions of public meet
ings, &c, win be charged the same as ad
yertisemepts
No improper, Extensively personal, o
otherwise objectional matter inserted OF
any terms.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
the reporter of the artesian bora
stamp, sent by the New York
Herald to interview JEFF. Davis,
was quietly and courteously shown
ont, with not one point left upon
which to hang a mendacious mar.
rative, the triumph of rericence
was complete. All who ever saw
the ex-President remember the
cold, steely effect of his glance
when he desir, d to look over bis
interlocutor; aud it must have
been a most edifying parallel te
the picture of Dignity aud I'm.
pudence"-that interview with the
nOn-interviewed. After waiting
until Mr.. Davis-whO was mt din.
ner when the newspaper leech
first wriggled mp to the scent of a
fresh selsatiOn-had quietly fin.
isbed his meal, the blood-sueker
AoSGCuCN upOh ulIh anu ucSdD W
draw. Not drop of the raby did
he get; Mr.. Davis preferred not TO
know anything and not to tell
even that, and the baffled pump
tiend went on his way lameDtjRg
and determined not to play
''needy knife grinder" wrote the
story of his own rout and discom-
future. A contemporary notes the
fact that all efforts to interview
General Lee invariably ended in
the same abortiye conclusion. 1t
is a refreshing thing in these false
vulgar and meretricious times to
see how the quiet, stern and Da-
tive dignity of these calm: simple
hammered gentlemen always man
age to repress and subdue the i'm
pertinence of even sensational
newspaper attaches.-[ Mobile
Register. II
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02
A corresnondent ofthe Fred

A correspondent of the Fred
ericksburg Ledger, writing
from Essex county, mentions
the death of a remarkable and
worthy old gentleman of Rich
mond county, Mr.. John B. Sis
son, in the eightieth year OF
his age. He was an industri-
GUS man, and had accumulated
some property, which he left
to his only daughter. He was
a soldier in the war of 1912.
He often remarked that he
never owed any one but five
cents during the eighty years
of his life, and that was a bal
ance on a bill Of goods pur-
chased Of old Mr.. HUT. He
said he could not sleep that
night because of his owing five
cents. Never before or after
ward did he owe any person
one cent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02
Do Sometime.
From the Crescent Cityl

Il
There are too many uno,,
ployed young men in this J.
well as other cities. Thew y =
themselves and others ininst;SaOo
by not seeking employmaOos.
outside of the city, where tbs as
is room enough for all. NaS
Orleans is crowded with ot,,o.
seekers and statesmen, while i
Louisiana there are thousands.
OF acres Of land of unexamnlss
fertility, lying neglected and
uncultiyated. Rather than A.
nothing in the city it is ipfn n
itely better for unemulovad
men to get small farms in the h
country and cultivate them on
shares. Hard work would mil
the hands, but then the heart
would be kept pure. Ana
then there would be the sat,s.
faction of doing something r
promote the prosperity of Lon,
isiana.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02
II appears from English sta

1t appears from English sta
tistics that fully half of the
holdings in Great Britain are
under 20 acres, but these are
divided among 1897, 900 acres,
against over 80, 600, 900 of acres
in larger tracts. The area OF
holdings between one acre and
five acres is $4,000 acres, OF
which more than half is in
pasture. This is one-nine,
teenth of the whole land occu-
pied, and these small farms
carry one-sixteenth Of all the
horses, one-fortieth of all the
cattle, one-13Oth Of all the
sheep; and one sixteenth of al
the hogs; hence there is a larg
er live stock per acre on the
small than on the small farms
Clover had increased in 1877
from 2,69O,370 to 2,S22, 80:
acres. Potatoes, sugar, beets
flax and turnips had dimin
ished.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

A startling tombstone was
erected in Vermont recently to
the memory of "Tabitha, be.
loved wife of Joseph Wright,
Thomas Andrews, Eben Hal,
sted, Charles Dean and Edwin
Marray, by her devoted hus.
band, Cyrus Morgan"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

We learn from the Shreve-
port Times, of 31st ult., that
the Texas and Pacific Railway
has been extended west to
Dallas, Texas, a distance OF
100 miles, the first through
train from Shreveport depart
ing that day.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02
There is an unfeelinp m

There is an unfeeling mon
ster in Philadelphia who
should receive the attention of
the women's rights women
Three women, one at a time,
have already married him to
inherit his property. But he
has buried them all, and now,
at 90 years of age, he is ma
liciously looking round for
another woman to bury.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

It's related.of a Southern
farmer that he made a VOW,
when he entered on his farm
p years ago, that he would
never pillow his land when it
was wet. To keep this VOW,
he was obliged to have good
teams and everything in order,
and as a consequence he be,
came forehanded.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02
An Illinois woman, whose

An Illinois woman, whose
husband went off on a drunk,
"broke up" housekeeping in
this way: She took an axe and
smashed all the furniture, in
Guiding the stove and utensils,
killed all the chickens, and
then took her two children and
left the neighborhood.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

1t has been the curse of our
people that they strive-when
they strive at ALTO take care
of to-day, letting tomorrow
take care of itself and the day
after go to the devil. 1t would
seem, on looking back upon
the history of our immediate
past, as if Fate had leased ALL
ALBANIA for a term of years to
the great demon of Unthrift,
to be his to have and to hold.
For with the straight and
broad path to State recupeta>
ton, spread open before them,
our people have either refused
to enter it altogether; or doing
so, have wandered into the
thickets on either hand in search
of those unripe berries, tempo>
rary relief and reduced produc-
ton.
Not that we do not fully ap-
preciate and deeply syiDpa~
thize in the real troubles and
trials and misfortunes that
have come TO us, year after
year. But feeling them nev>
er so keenly, we yet cannot
shut our eyes to the fact that
relief was not only ready to
come, but was anxiOusly
stretching ont its arms to us
and begging to be taken to our
homes, which it was-and is
potent to make blossom like a
rose. And that relief is white
immigration; and we have new
er failed in our purpose to
drum its name into the ears of
eur people until even the deaf,
est of them should hear, and
hearing, pause to think. We
have not been dishearten-
ed by the curse of apathy,
which seems to blight and mil.
dew the energies of our people;
not by the partial attempts al
practical organization, that
have from time to time beer
ushered into life-through the
midwifery of our persistence
only to die in the arms of theil
feeble nurses. Nor shall we be
disheartened in the future; fol
we are firm believers that the
truth of what we have so otter
said sis mighty and will pre-,
vail" over apathy and over the
crushing resistance of presen
want and struggle.-[Mobilt
Register.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02
This is a Good Fruit Country.

1t is pretty generally known
that this country is peculiarly
adapted to certain kinds of
fruits, but it is not generally
believed that certain other
kinds will thrive here; and yet
every experiment in fruit cul-
ture, that has come under our
observation, has proven a COM
plete success. We never saw
finer apples, pears, peaches,
cherries, plums or grapes, OF
the kinds, than we have seen
grown in this portion ofLouisi-
ana-and everybody comedies
the fact that figs are peculiar
to our soil and climate. And
all that is necessary for OuT
people to make it a perfect
Eden of orchards and vine
yards, is to plant and cultivate
them. We received a few days
ago from Mr.. Spencer Mont.
gomery specimens of three diff
ferent kinds of pears, that were
grown upon his place, all Of
large size and of the very best
quality; and while we write
two punches of Concord grape!
lie upon our desk, that were
handed us by Mrs. D. S
McKelvy, of our town, who in
forms US that they were gather
ed from cuttings planted on
on the 25th day of last Janua
ry. Thus we have an cccula
proof of very respectfully size'
cluster ofgrapes borne by vine
the first year. And those ar
not the only vines of last win
ter's setting upon which grape
can be found in Delhi. w
hope that our people will Civ
. more of their attention to tn
, cultivation of orchards an
/ vineyards.-[Delhi Chronicle
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

An overland trip from
Shreveport to Monroe and a
free conversation with the PEG,
pie along the route, would lead
one to think that Tom. SCOTS
North Louisiana railroad is to
be the most circuitous ever
constructed, says a friend.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

A Obstructive freshet washed
away the corn patch of a Wis
consin farmer and laid bare an
almost inexhaustible lead
mine.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

The wool crop of Iowa is
larger than ever before, for the
farmers have discovered that
sheep are much more profita-
bic than grain or cattle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

The rice crop in St John the
Baptist parish is better than
usual this season. The cane
will turn out better than was
expected.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

A Hudson river railroad To-
connective, in use Seven years,
has killed thirteen persons,
and no engineer will run her
unlessshe is paid extra.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

The rice plant in Plaque
mine parish is in a most prom
Using condition, and the heads
are developing rapidly. The
corn crop is feeble.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

There is a politician in Nova
Scotia named Gouge. There ana
a good many politicians in this
country whose names are not
Gouge, but that is exactly
what they are.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02
Dead-Headinr Newspapers,
From the Shreveport Times |

From the Shreveport Times
There is no trade, profession
or pursuit that is so generally
and so Unfortunately dead
headed as that of newspaper
publishing. 1t would almost
subject a newspaper to ostra-
cism to charge for religious or
charitable notices. however
literally individuals of the pa
per may have subscribed for |
such purposes, while not even |
the minister himself devotes, |
or is expected to devote, his |
time to the church for nothing.
Does Brown, or Jones, or
Smith, a member of some soci-
ETY. die, a string of resolutions
expressive of profound regret
is straightway passed, wind
ing up with: Resolved, That
these resolutions be published
in the Buncombe Flagstaff"
but never a word is said about
the paying for the same, al
though there mny not be ten
readers of the paper who know
anything about Brown, or
Jones, or Smith, and probably
half of these are glad he is
dead. The same with political
and other meetings. The news
paper is in short, a regular
pack horse in every conceiva-
BILE way-the good public new
er rejecting or never caring
that the publisher has to pay
cash every Saturday night for
every letter, space and quad
that goes into his paper. In,
deed, "the public" seem to en-
terrain an insane idea that the
editor always wants something
to I'LL up" And, indeed, ev-
cry editor is pleased to receive
information of general inter-
est, and to "fill up" with it,
but it is a safe rule to assume
that everything put in a paper
calculated to promote the in
terests of any individual or
class of individuals should be
paid for as an advertisement.
We are gratified to observe
, a growing determination in
publishers to change all this,
and. in evidence of it, repub.
lish the following resolutions
) which were adopted at the
recent meeting of the Missouri
Press Association:
1. That a newspaper estab-
= lishment is a business establish
, ment by which editors and
printers must make a living. 2
2 That a man has the same right
3 to walk into a grocery store
D and order a barrel of sugar OF
a sack of coffee, or into a law
1 office and demand a legal opin-
q ion from its occupant, or into
an undertaker's and request a
coffin, without expecting to
+ pay their respective wares OF
: services, as into a newspaper
Office and demand the use of its
brains and muscle and type
: without a thought ofrecompose
e 3. That hereafter all personal
or political matter having fo1
e its object the promotion o
/ individual fortunes or ambition
@ shall be treated exactly a.
, other business matter, anC
u charged at the option of pub,
o fishers, as editorial advertising
r 4. That Interchangeable,
cal, personal and commercial
l. on the Missouri press i
IS "played out" 5. That any ed
! itor or publisher who fails t,
> carry out these resolutions il
re the letter and spirit shall ceas
v to be regarded as a member O
- this association.
J. There is an unfeeling mon
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

The almost incessant rains,
since our last issue, have stop
ped fodder-pulling entirely,
and arouse reasonable fears
of an early ard abundant crop
of caterpillars. Late corn has
been benefited. but the season
has been too wet for cotton.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

How to drive away ants: II
they are married aunts, borrow
some money from their hns-
bands. If they are single, let
'em take care of the baby for
the afternoon, while your wife
goes to a matinee.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

Toledo has got the mad dog
fever, and there isn't so much
standing at the garden gate as
there used to be.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

A contemporary asserts that
"half the married women in the
world wonder who their hus-
bands will marry next" The
other halt more sensibly won
der whom they will marry next.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

When the Louisville Ledger
wants to make a man wish he
had died before he was born, it
sends it special artist after him.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

A Mr.. Spooner, of New Or
leans, is prospecting for land
in the Teche country to make
Louisiana hay. He proposes
to SOW timothy seed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

Cholera is reported to be very
bad in the northern part of Alex.
andria county, Illinois, thirty
cases being reported from the 10th
to the 18th isn't, twenty proving
fatal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

The Girard estate, in Phila-
delphia, is appraised at 49,
702, 900. The gross rental is
1920, 300 annually, being near
ly 9 per cent. The taxes paid
to S6S.272.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

All correspondence handed to
the Edingburg Scotsman goes
through the hands ola minis
ter, grammarian, lawyer and
editor.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

An Iowa woman with a rich
coal mine and a hacking cough
brags that she could have mar
ried two men a day for the
past two years, if she had had
any use for such rubbish.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02


article on the Future of North
Louisiana, especially urges the
people to diversity and altern-
ate their crops-most excellent
advice, often urged, but rarely
followed. 1t seems that our
planters will never awaken to
the fact that cotton is not, by
any means, the only paying
product of their soil. Rye,
oats, barley, millet, rice, pota
toes, turnips, peas, beans, pea
nuts, pumpkins, clover, timo-
thy grass, garden vegetables,
and fruits of all kinds, which,
together with corn, constitute
the chief sources OF the great
wealth of the West, yield here
in perfect abundance-bidding
absolute defiance to caterpil-
lars, bad seasons, low prices,
and other drawbacks attend
ant upon the culture of cotton,
With this fact in view, will
Southern planters continue to
pay heavy tribute to strangers
in one section for many of the
Injuries and necessaries OF
life, and at the same time work
their lives out in cotton fields
to build up the rich manufac'
turing monopolies of the East
This has, hitherto, been theil
practice, and accounts, in &
great measure, for their i'm
poverished condition.
We would not advise thu
total neglect of cotton, for sucl
a course would be, in on
country, equally as impoliti,
as the other; but we do, mos
earnestly, insist upon a care
full cultivation of the various
grains, grasses and roots a
supplemental crops-alternat
ing and improving as expert
ence may dictate. Such ;
course would preserve tn,
| soil, and materially enhanc
the value of the farm; Will
the diversity of crops woul,
insure success-losses upol
T one being made up by sue
cesses on others, thus estat
fishing an equilibrium SO nee
essary to agricultural prosper
ity. And by this means, ev
cry acre of ground could b
used to advantage, and tn
youngest and Oldest have en-
, ployment. Not until thes
facts are fully realized an
acted upon, will we be able
hold our own among the othe
sections of the Union; not III
!, til then-when our capital
kept at home-will railroad
0 canals, manufactures, etc., h
r found among us; and then onl
will the country that bloom
as a rose" have material ext
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

Gen. Mp. Banks came pretty
near getting the editorship Of
the Boston Globe, at a SALARY
of $4,000 a year, but some Of
the stockholders went hack on
him.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

A bushel of corn is as good
as a greenback dollar bill
five pounds of cotton may be
worth a dollar, and may be
worth only twenty-five cents,
after it is ginned, packed and
hauled to market.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

Three hundred soldiers in
garrison, near Paris, are eDgag.
ed in growing strawberries
They work six hours a day.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

ANOTHER SOURCE OF DIsCoN-
TENT.-To pass a vine-embow-
cred portico, at the mystic
hour, and hear a gentle female
exclaim, "Oh, George, don't
smack"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

A Richmond paper says new
ly awakened public opinion
will prevent any more duels in
Virginia.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

Auditor Clinton contemplates
the purchase of more State
warrants about the Doth of this
month.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

In Khiva, when a man owes
a debt and won't pay it, he is
hung, and his worldly goods
60 to the government.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

A Vermont man has gathered
l $50 pounds of spruce gum in
three months, and sold it in Port
land for OIL a pound.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

A Cincinnati man who is gong
to get married next month sits
around boiler shops to get his ear
trained to it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02
BELLEVUE, La,
Saturday Morning, August 2, 1873.

See lumber notice of Onley
g. Turner. Prices greatly re-
duced, and favorable terms
can be secured.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

Alfred Lastrappe is cultivating
Mexican corn in st. Martin parish.
No corn equals it in prolific yield
ing,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

Advices from st. Thomas Othe
10th inst, report a severe drouth'
Drinking water scarce.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

The dry and deserted condition
of a large part of Persia has been
caused by a gradual upheayal OF
its surface.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

The same mule that killed a
man at Lexington, Ind, was
permitted to haul the widow to
the funeral.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

In the case of Sarah L. Lay
ct al. VS.. O'Neill, appealed
from Bossier parish District
Court, the Supreme Court has
decreed that, although the
amount involved exceeded
$500, it was a settlement OF
tutors account, and the Parish
Court alone had jurisdiction,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

Mrs. Duntway has announced
herself a candidate for the mayor
atty Of Portland, o. ..e
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

The corn crop is a failure in
Iberia parish.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

The hay crop this year is the
heaviest ever known IN Oregon.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

There is a heavy immigra-
ton from Iowa to the West,
that is to Colorado. They 90
with their own teams, and take
along their household goods
and cattle. Over 100 moving
wagons recently reached Gree
ley in one day, having come
up the Platte Valley from the
Missouri river, a distance OF
600 miles.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-02

Forney's Press says that if
the money which our people
spend in going to Europe were
expended at home, in planting
trees, in improving streets, and
in building up manufactures,
we would soon have a country
more worthy of being seen
than Europe, and the Europe
ans would come to visit u.s.
Enough money will be spent
in Europe this year to build
manufactures in Illinois that
would increase the value of
corn 10 cents a bushel.