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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-20
SOUTHWARK.

SOUTHERN EXPRESS-Leave Baltimore
$40 p M arrive at Washington ll:Os p. IN.
Leave Washington 11:33 p. M; arrive at Rich
mond 1850 a. m.
RICHMOND EXPRESS Leave Baltimore at
800 p M; arrive in Richmond 1850 a. M
ACCOMMoDATIoN--Le baltimore e2s
a. m. and 9:4o a. m. and 1855 p. m. arrive 4
Washington 1925 and 1928 a. M, and GAS D. m
SOUTHERN MAIL--Leave Baltimore 12:4o
p. m. arrive at Washington 2.s5 p. m.
EXPRESS FROM NEW YORK-Leaye Bal.
timore s;A5p. M; arrive at Washington 6ls D.
m. t4 Ali3 "E "hf i=i4s t'shHt. ia ~
FAST LINE-Leave Baltimore at 7:lO A. m. /.
arrive at Washington ss5 a. m.
EXPRESS FROM NEW YoRK-Leaye Bal
timore 4;26 a. M. arrive Washington 6lS a. m
and arrives at Richmond 1870 pm. ~
MAIL-Leaye Baltimore e:4Op m /; arrive at
Washington s:2s p. m. s5seE "a "a
The Ia0p. m. Express Train arrives at Rich.
mond daily.
.# EDMUND L. DuBARRY, Sup't,
ED. .. YOUNG, Washington, d. o.
F !f General Passenger Agent, hgl
no te ~ Baltimore, Md.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-20
BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC
se4 RAILROAD. @
NORTHwARD.

After 46p. m. October H. 1879. trains will,
run as follows = - 800 ''N'.s" va
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TRAINS TO NEW YORK.

RICHMOND EXPRESS-Leave Leave Wash
ington at l:l3 p. M; arrive at New York at 1910
p. M ftfa5H ts2 go. Ei #5Aa-aGe ha .t
FAST LlNE-Leave Richmond 1890 p. m. !;
ieave washington SOB a. M; arrive New York
4:26 p. m. $50 '.1s
WASHINGTON NIGHT ExPRESS-Leaye
richmond at 2;4o p. m, leave Washington s:Os
p m. arrive at New York GAO a. m.
/ 10 All the above trains, except baltimore Ex-
press Accommodation, and New York trains,
connect at Baltimore with trains on the Northern
Central Railway for the Westand North, The
2;4O p. m. Express Train leaves Richmond daily.
The 1880 p. m. Express leaves daily except SUN
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-20

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Teachers will be allowed one-third discount on
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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-20

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plete stock Of gI % 1a& AZ
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Bidders will state distance and propose
schedule of departures and arrivals.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04
THE B0SS1ER BANNER,
BY w. H. SCANLAND.


THE BossrER BANNER is published every
Saturday morning. Subscription, 50 per
sunum, 81 80 for six months, and 81 90 for
three months.
For advertisements inserted in news col
umns Is cents per line for each insertion
will he charged.
Announcing candidates for office-invari
ably in advance-Sl0.
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time and discontinued by the advertiser be
fore that time expires, will be charged at
the regular rates for the time and space
occupied, and not pro rata rates of the time
for which the advertisement was originally
inserted.
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sracted for
All circulars, communications and cards
of candidates or official aspirants, and otfel
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cash in advance of first insertion. if not in
serted in regular advertising columns,
Simple announcements Of marriages anf
deaths made gratis. Obituary notices, trih
utes of respect. resolutions Of public meet
ings &c, will be charged the same as ad
vertisements
No improper. Extensively personal, o.
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

public generally, a disgrace to
themselves, and a fraud on the
name of humanity. Drinking
is their greatest passion, and,
it would seem, their chief aim
in life was to consume as much
of the ardent stuff as possible.
They pay greater homage to
this demon Of destruction than
any kindred ties of affection
or obligations to society. All
is sacrificed for this unclaimed
Satan on earth, whose evil eff
fects creates a hell, the roar of
whose surging flames are
heard on the hearthstones of
thousands of apparently hap
Ply homes throughout our land.
How few improve from the
lights, or rather, darkness, of
personal experience. The com
mon drunk is equally oblivi-
Gus to such teaching as the
more aristocratic " tippler,' .
who is suddenly taken off in
a fit of ''appoplexy.''
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

A Nebraska journal inviting
~ says: "Who says farmers
cannot get rich in this state I
Fifteen years ago young man
came to this state without a
dollar in the world. Last week
he went out of the state, carry.
ing with him the sum of one
hundred and thirty-eight cents
the savings of fifteen years Of
frugal life. Come West, young
man ; come West I"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

Knoxville, Tenn., March co.
For the last twenty days the
greatest excitement has prevailed
in the vicinity of Bald mountain
in consequence of subterranean
convulsiens. The people for miles
around assembled in a vacant
house and engaged in devotional
exercises for sixteen days and
nights under the ministration Of
Revs. George and Billy Logan,
Baptist preachers, and j. NJ.
Sumley, Methodist minister.
About one hundred made profess
sion of religion. The closing
scenes of the meeting are repre-
sented as most peculiar and won
derful.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

The idea of the Government
employing spies and informers
to pry into the affairs of it's
citizens, with power to seize
books and papers and enforce
enormous penalties for alleged
violation Of the Revenue law
which are then divided between
the government and the in
formers, each taking a moiety,
is at war with every sentimen,
of Justice and honor'-'Indian.
apolis Journal (Rep.)
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

The epidemic of blood in the
eastern cities continues to pres
vail with startling intensity.
Every day brings a fresh MUIR
der. A few days ago, at Brook
Ign, New York, a Waterman
crushed the head of his wife
into a shapeless mass, and then
cut his own throat. Subse>
quently in New York, Owen
Mangan threw a lighted kero-
sene lamp at his wife and
burned her so badly that she
died and then Patrick O'Neil
beat Jhon Kyle over the head
with a sharp edge stone, during
a drunken quarrel, and fatally
injured him. If such playful
pastimes as these occurred at
the South they would excite
unfavorable comment from
Northern journals touching
our civilization.-[Unio and
American.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04
in some respects it is decidedly

in some respects it is decidedly
inferior. The superstructure
of the educational edifice is
more elaborate, but the fonn-
dations, are weaker. We have
met young gentlemen who
were graduates of respectable
institutions of learning, and
yet were unable to write twenty
sentences of unexceptionable
English without Il fearful
amount oflabor and perplexity.
We have met young ladies
who could chatter iuently in
French, conjure sweet music
from the piano, and trill song
in what is supposed to be very
choice italian, and yet were
almost ignorant of the history
of their own land, to say moth
ing of any other. We have
met both young gentlemen and
young ladies who had grappled
rhetoric, political economy,
logic and geometry, whose
reading was miserable and
whose spelling was damnable.
Fifty years ago the branches
of the tree were not so broad
and beautiful, but the roots
were deeper and stronger.
Commend us, after all, to a
good, old-fashioned commons
school education, where "the
three RS" were driver into the
boys and girls so that they re-
manned forever. Such an edu.
Gated is sufficient for all the
ordinary purposes of life, and
aud it opens the door for high
er culture whenever and wher.
ever it is wanted. But nc
higher culture is worth a rusl
ignores the fundamentals, anC
that the fundamentals are more
or loss Ignored in this progress
sive age, is a lamentable ant
disgracefuf fact.-[St. Louis
Republican.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

There are men who, by birth,
education and worldly expert.
ence, are not only capable of
adjoining, but worthy of occu-
plying the highest positions in
the first circles of society, de-
grade themselves below the
level of a brute by putting" an
enemy in their mouths to steal
away their brains"-thus rem.
dering themselves incapable Of
transacting business, enjoying
social pleasures or the comforts
ola home-making themselves
obnoxious to their friends, the
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04
Editing a Paper in Michigan.
From the Detroit Free Press

From the Detroit Free Press
Fifteen or sixteen years ago
a man named Harvey started a
weekly paper at Williamton,
Inghan County, call the Herr
aid. The town was small, the
times dull. and Harvey was
probably the LATEST editor who
ever had anything to do with a
Michigan paper. The citizens
encouraged him all they could,
and finally the gentleman, who
had furnished most Of the CAPT
tai dropped into the office one
Friday to see Harvey and spur
him up a little. 1t was publi-
cation day, but the outside,
only half made up, was on the
stone, and not a line had been
set for the inside. Harvey was
in the yard back Of the office,
digging fishing worms, and was
called in.
"See here Harvey, you are
not doing as you should" COM
menced the gentleman; "here
it is Friday and you haven't
worked the first side of your
paper"
I-see-I haven't" slowly
replied the editor, looking in
the drawer for a fish line.
"Well, when are you going
to get the paper out ?"
"SOme-time-next--week.'
"But this is no way to dc
business, Mr.. Harvey. When
you came here didn't you agree
to issue the paper every Fri
day ?"
"I-presume-I--did," drawl.
ed Harvey, "but-I-didn't-
Acknowledgements
l-good!"
He took his rod and went te
the banks of the Cedar, an(
when he returned the Office wa!
packed up in boxes marked
'"old type" and a note on tn
door read: 1.-THE Herald i
dead-too many suckers killet
it,"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

An old lady on a train not
far from Lafayette, bearing the
brakeman sing out "Eubank's
Gut" sailed to the door and
asked. Ills he hurt much %
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

Farewell, Snsan-you have
driven me to the grave" wrote
John Larch of Alabama, four
years ago, and left the note on
the river bank. He was arrest
ed in Cincinnati, the other day,
living with another woman.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

Judge Cowart, of Georgia,
says that the public have no
right to form an opion in a
criminal case.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

iowa raised more wheat in
1875 that any other State in the
Union. In Indian corn Iowa
is second, Illinois leading, and
next comes what used to be the
great corn growing State Of the
Union, Ohio.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

LOUIsIANA.-A State which
Nature has so richly blessed
certainly is worth preserving.
The soil is a mine of untold
wealth. The words of Vengen-
mes are as true to~day as when
they were first written, in the
early part of the present cen>
fury: II will again repeat
what | have already many
times said-that Louisiana is
without doubt, by reason of the
softness of her climate and the
beauty of her situation, the
finest country in the universe
Every European plant, and
nearly all those Of America
can be successfully cultivated
there" The easiest and mos,
practical method of developing
the wealth of this fertile sol
surely is question which con
Germs the people ofall the Uni
ted States.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04
A Delaware man committed

A Delaware man committed
suicide a day or two ago be-
cause some one left a baby on
his doorsteps. He was too fral
for this cold world ifhe couldn't
look his wife in the eye ard de-
liberately declare that it was a
put-up lob to make trouble.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

"WOr-uk!" exclaimed a North
Car0linian, when offered a Job;
"do you s'pose I'd wor-uk,
mister, when coon tracks are
as thick as grass blades %
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

The bridge over Red river at
Fulton was finished on the Goth.
Trains of the Cairo and Fulton
road will hereafter run to Tex
arkana without change.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

Aimee brought away from
Havana, where she stayed
eight weeks, $4,000, and
from Mexico. for seven weeks
work, $4,000 in gold.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

The town ofTlinity, we learn,
is under water, and apprehen>
sions of a serious character are
felt that the lower Ouachita
and Black river lands will 90
nnder.-[Ouachita Telegraph
9th inst.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04
Crime and It's Prevention.

of what are those causes which
tend to fill our prisons, and the
best means by which to re-
move them, is we'll worthy the
attention Of every citizen. In
every age laws have been di-
rected rather to the punish
ment Of the criminal than to
his amelioration, and to the
forcible repression of crime,
rather than to a removal of the
causes that produce it. Yet
the latter object should be,
their principal aim. There is
no doubt but that ignorance,
poverty and intemperance, are
the fertile sources whence
spring offenses against society.
We seldom hear of prosperous,
educated people being Grimm
ais. The latter, in the main,
are those whom civilization in
it's onward march has
dropped out of the ranks, and
who are melted to a perpetu-
al war against it. The statis-
tics of crime prove this. The
majority Of offenders against
the law are the uneducated,
those without trades, the in
temperate, and those who have
never known the comforts Of a
home. The records of the Al
bany Penitentiary for twenty
two years give, out of a total
of 20,514,l1,O26, or upwards
of 90 per cent, who could not
read and write, or could only
read, and 1884, or more than
Is per cent, were Of intemper-
ate habits. In the Eastern
Penitentiary at Philadelphia,
out Of S73 convicts sixty per
cent. could only read, and
. twenty nine per cent. had no
education at all. Out Of 21J
, cOnvicts in the Connecticut
!. State Prison, more than a third
could not read or write, while
only l l 2 per cent. possessed
/ both accomplishments. Of H..
t 900 criminals in the United
: States in 1868, ninety seven
J per cent. had never learned a
trade. The proportion of the
prisoners who were orphans
or who were driven away from
= home in early life, has beer
a ascertained in many Of the
IA Eastern States to vary from 81
Q to Is per cent. Behold her,
the vindication of education
and the necessity Of training
Il up the young to habits Of skill
+ full labor. Educate the min,
S and the hand, give comforta
BILE homes to the people, lie
h the waits of society be care,
}; for, and the problem of the bes
.. - means for the prevention @
crime is solved, as far as it i
susceptible Of so being.
y There are men who, by birth
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

The Vicksburg Chief of Po-
lice has been held to bail in
the sum of $1,000 for black
mailing "the sports of that
city.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

Sartoris is the name of the
future husband Of Nellie Grant,
and not Saleratus, as some pa
pers have it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

Maryland girls won't marry
in the full of the moon, beleiv-
ing that they would have i'll
luck through life, but a Nassau
chusetts girl wouldn't let forty
full moons stop herten seconds.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

"Blessed is the peace-maker."
1.-two ofyour neigabors become
offended at each other, be sure
that you do not add fuel to the
fire of their wrath, but rather
exert your influence to bring
about a reconciliation between
them.
Harbor not revenge. Ifyour
neighbor do you a wrong, let
conscience be his accuser and
the executor of his punishment.
That "revense is sweet is
false it only adds to ones tor
ment, renders him miserable
and makes him a fit companion
for demons. 1t is unchristain,
as we'll as ungenerous, to har-
Dor such feeling, for Christ
says: "Return good for evil,
for by so doing you keep Goals
of fire on your enemy's head
Be not too hasty to express
an opinion OF another-especi.
ally if it is an unfavorable one
for out of such thoughtless
speech grow gossip's materia
for kindling broils between
neighbors and the want Of {
bride upon the tongue stirs NJ
much strife and heart burning
and often stains the charactel
of the virtuous. The discree
man thinks twice before b.
speaks, but the thoughtles'
speaks before they think ant
commit an error in haste o
which they repent at leisure
I[DelM Chronicle
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

The experiment Of raising
the ostrich will be made in
Florida. The farmer of them
looks for q fine feather crop.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04
Subscription, So in Advance.

Savannah, Ga, paid last year
liquor licenses to the amount
of $27,799
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

The water below Napoleon
is higher than ever known.
Twenty-Five miles of the Chicot
and Pine Bluff railroad has
been swept away.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04
A Good Education.
This from Edward Everett:

A Good Education.
This from Edward Everett:
"TO read the English Ian
guage well, to write with dis
patch a neat, legible hand, and
be master of the first four rules |
of arithmetic, SO as to dispose
OF at once, with accuracy, every
question of tigtres which comes
up in practice-I call this a
good education. And if you
add the ability to write pure
grammatical English, regard
it as an excellent education.
These are the tools. You can
sdo much with them. bnt you
are helpless without them.
They are the foundation and
unless you begin with these, all
your fashy attachments, a lit
tie geology, and all other olo-
gies and osophies, are ostenta-
tious rubbish"
We wish the above were
printed in letters of gold on the
walls of every schoolroom,
seminary, college and univer-
sity in the land-for it contains
great truth, too often lost
sight of, too often treated with
snpercilious contempt. Mr..
Everett was one of the most
accomplished scholars America
has ever produced, and. the
peer of any board yet he re-
cognized how little was requir-
ed for a good education, and
how incomplete any education
is without that little. There
is a tendency nowadays in this
country land perhaps elsewhere,
to cultivate the flowers of edu-
cation at the expense of the
stalk, and sacrifice the essen
tails for the sake of the mons
essentials. A knowledge of
ancient languages, Of the high
er branches of mathematics,
and the various departments
of physical and mental science,
is certainly desirable; and when
there is the requisite taste and
leisure, for it, may be acquired
with profit as we'll as pleasure
But thousands of scholars, male
and female, are made to absorb
"a little Latin and less Greek
before they have mastered hall
tho difficulties, or seen half the
r beauties OF their mother tongue
Thousands are crammed with
what Everett calls the "ologies
and osopilies" before they are
thoroughly versed in arithme,
tic, and thousands more are
loaded down with fanciful &C,
l complishments before the,
have any accurate comprehen
I sion of the substantials. II
: many respects the education o
S the present day in the vas
$ improvement upon that which
e prevailed fifty years ago, bu
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

The Extreme Left of the
French Assembly has resolved
to demand a dissolution of that
body when the new Electoral
law is presented.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

Rhode Island has passed the
law giving discharged convicts
one-tenth of their actual earns
ings.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04
The Grave Of General Albert Sidney

Johnston.
From the Paris Kentuckianl
We have lately conversed
with a gentleman who has rev
Gently returned from a visit to
the city Of Austin, in the State
of Texas, who tells us how
mortified and grieved were his
thoughts and feelings in visit
ing the grave of Albert Sindney
Johnston, who deservedly ranks
in the highest roll of military
horoes. 1t is known that after
he fell in the late civil war, his
remains were taken to Texas
and buried in a State cemetery
containing ebout forty acres of
ground, on a bleak and rocky
hillside in Austin, which IL en-
closed with a rough and dilapi-
dated picket fence, and without
a solitary tree or bush to break
the sad and dreary prospect.
He saw the neglected graves
Of Albert Sidney Johnston,
Mccullough, Bowie and Travis,
and other names dear to the
hearts of the old Texans, with
nothing except rough head
stones, and that at the bead of
the grave of the immortal
Johnston, broken into two
fragments.
Wonder is often expressed
by the Southern press that i'm
migrants do not seek the warm
climate and fertile soil of the
Southern States, with all the
advantages ofchurches, schools,
and orgenized and disorganiz>
ed government. The fact is
that nearly all immigrants pre-
fer a new country to one long
settled. In a new country all
things are equal to all Corners.
There is no higher class to prO>
pitiate, and no corporate debt
or bear, in the making of which
the industrious settlers has had
no voice. The West offers vir-
gin soil, and a temperate eli,
mate, and the immigrant goes
there. He also goes to Texas,
which is comparatively new
country, and without the so>
called advantages of other
Southern States. 1.-THE cotton
States desire a sturdy farming
community Of white men they
must put their hands to the
plough and not depend on linz
migration.-[New York Sun.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-08

DON'T IMPROvr-Ths New York Herald.
having stated that the public debt of New York
city was sl25. 900 900. the city officials took il
into their heads to contradict the Heraids
figures The Herald set about the proof. and
ascertained 6rst that the funded debt Of the
city alone was sl3l 100000. This. ton. was
denied by the officers. and then the Herald
scrnped up floating debt Of S2O. 900 900 more.
which it alunted in the eyes Of ito chagrned
and discomfitted foes. making the city debt
$l56. 900 900. or s31 200. 900 more than at 6rst
stated. The city fathers didn't improve mat.
ters much BY disputing the Herald. 100000.
600 Of the debt has been added since January
1. 1869.