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Notice 70 Tax Collectors.

" on are hereby instructed to proceed at
i once and efficiently with the coilec-
fion of licenses and capital tax, provided
by law. In all cases where sucf licenses
and capital tax shall not have been paid by
the fourth day of April next you will pro-
coed to collect the same Under the provi-
sions of act No. Al. OF 1873, by seizure and
sale, or By application through the Assist
ant Attorney General for wrirs OF injunction
to close up the places OF business of such
persons as refuse to pay their licenses
CHARLES CLINTON,
Auditor.
The above is published for the information
of all concerned. ! shall promptly proceed,
in compliance with the Auditors instruc.
tons. and the letter of the Revenue Law,
to the collection Of all taxes now due the
State and Parish.
&c. HEAD, Tar Collector.
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Mad do9a.

Hydrophbia is still to cerS
tain extent an exciting theme
of conversation on the street
corners and In certain locals
ties. 1t is said that a team of
six oxen, bitten on the road
between here and Miuden have
exhibited decided symptoms of
madness, and it is thought that
they will all have to be shot:
The oxen are the property of
J. J. Blackman.- claiborne
Advocate.
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Harpcr's Weekly is becoming
disloyai- In its last issue it speaks
Of the New Hampshire election
as indicating strong disapproval
'of,the present tendency and con-
'dition Of the Republican party.
"There is" it says, ''immense dis.
satisfaction in the Republican
camp, and. its best men are Won
dering whether reform is hopeless
within the organization"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

The Wisconsin Legislature has
adjourned after a session of forty
nine days, during which three hun
dred forty-nine bills were passed
Bribery is said to have been used
to defeat a bill relative to insurance
companies, which was not passed
A Senator declared that he had
been offered 800 by the Milwau
kee Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

AZ the laying of the corner
stone. Of the new capitol of Iowa,
no speeches were made, except a
lew remarks by a workman who
gcthis fingers pinched. and they
we're brief and to the point.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

Eli Love Of Fort Wayne county;
Ohio. recently climbed a tree to
shake down coon. Eli, however,
fell down himself, and his dogs
installing him for the game. tore
him badly before they discovered
the mistake.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

It is estimated that there are
eight hundred thousand life insu.
rance policy holders in the country,
the amount they are insured for
beng equal to the National debt.
By killing them all off and making
away with their relatives perhaps
we could cancel our obligation and
resume at once. CongressmeI
should consider this.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

It is no longer doubtful that the
Democrats have obtained signal
victory in New Hampshire. Al
though the third party prevented
the election OF Weston by the peo-
pie, the Legislature is Democratic,
which insures his election by that
body.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-04

An Indiana editor mildly re-
marks: eft you can't bring us
wood, remember us in your
prayers. Itissomething to know,
as we sit and shiver, that we are
netforgetten if the stove is cold"
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Here is bread tor you. A Vir-
ginian. who is supposed always to
tell the truth, says he saw wheat
field in California II miles long,
and when the owner plonghs it he
starts on one fnrrow and goes all
day, camps out at night, and
ploughs back the next day.
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Suicidee,
These are the number of suicides
FIT. q Gin r1a 6av.

These are the number of Su icldeS
for a single days
Mrs. Martha Duffy of A tlanta
took morphine because she had
lost in business the money got on
her dead husbands life insurance.
Augustus Ravens, a Cincinnati
merchant of former wealth, was
unable to meet some notes as they
fell due. He wandered off into
the woods and cut his throat.
j. Woods, rum soaked and
poverty-stricken laborer, jumped
from the steamer Cheek Memphis.
Clara j. Herbert, died in Bris
tol, n. H., after refusing food for
many days. She bad no organic
disease, and her persistence is sup
posed to have been caused by
mania.
James Stone, a rich farmer in
Liyonia. n. Y. coolIy divided his
property among his relatives, and
then killed himself with lauda-
mum.
! Brayilla Banks, q convict in the
Cincinnati State prison in Weth
ersfeld, became insane from re-
liyious excitement, and hanged
himself. A letter from his mother
urging reform had caused the
mental trouble.
George Mason, a prisoner il
San Francisco, had u less senti
mental motive. He stabbed him
self because he could not get out
While ice for summer nse wa
, being cut in the Susquehanna a
Wrightville, the bodies of tw,
women were found frozen in so
Idly. Their names are not known
but they are remembered as tw'
vagabonds who Inrked in the y
entity last fall. There were n
:, indications Of violence, and yer,
likely they drowned themselye
, purposely.
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So far. the season has been
favorable for an abundant
Weld of peaches and plums.
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Paulding Centre, Ohio. boasts
a hermit who has preempted 16O
acres Government lands, lives on
parched corn in a bark hut, never
changes his clothes, and never
washes his face!
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Quite a heavy frost in this
vicinity on Thursday morning.
No damage done, we believe,
to vegetation.
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ELMER-Near Glendale, Hamilton Coun-
ty, O., died on Saturday, March Ia. Of drop
sy Of the heart. Frances NJ, wife Of Roswell
Elmer, Jun. aged SO years, late Of Bossier
Parish, La
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The Grant Parish Prisoners.

me 9Ta0L 4&I1sn kT1soo616s
After lying in prison for months,
nine of the ninety eight citizens Of
Grant Parish who were indicted
in the United States Circuit Court
under the Ku-Klux law. have been
subjected to seventeen days |
trial, ending on Friday, the Goth |
inst, and on Saturday. the 2lst,
the jury reported that they could
not agree ; whereupon counsel for
the defence applied for bail for the
accused, which was refused, the
prosecuting attorney stating he
had, or would have another batch
of indictments or counts against
them. During the investigation
OF the case for bail. it is stated .ju-
rors said that the jury stood eleven
for the acguittal OF some and nine
for the acqnittal OF the Others.
It would not seem from this that
the jury thought the immense ar
ray OF evidence was sufficient to
convict. But, nevertheless, the
prisoners must needs lie in Jail
until another term Of the Court,
while their enemies are engaged
in trying to rake up new charges
against them and to strengthen
the prosecution by every means
possible.
OF course we know nothing Of
this case only from what we have
gathered from the newspaper re-
ports of the trial and the same re
ports Of the Colfax battle; but we
cannot see wherein the law under
which the prisoners were indicted
has much bearing on it cannot
say why it is that the case does
not come under the criminal laws
of the State, Notwithstanding the
New Orleans Republican thinks
that the only possibility Of escape
y for the prisoners is the doubt Of
their individual participation il
$ the affair which the jurors might
possibly have.
, If this trial was not political, al
Judge Woods AYERS, why is it tha
one party to this bloody fight ar
indicted while the others, whit
> met them in conflict have ESCAPED
y Indictment ? Why is it that thos'
= who are accused of being member
: Of one party to bloody row ar
: ar, ested and brought to trial an
y; those who opposed them IN til
!. fight made the principal witnesse
q for the prosecution This is
u strange way Of administering jus
\. tice without any mixture OF polit
rs cal or personal partiality. Th
; judge, of course is not party t
the indictment, and is in no wis
responsible for the indictmen
But the case is evidently a pOlit
q, cal one. The fight was for otfic
- and if one party was banded t
gether to deprive any person
: persons OF any right or peivi!eg
the other was also.
Nor was either party disguise
as that we have ever heard-and tt
*. law they are charged with viola
IN ing says "disguised parties band'
I'd. together, etc. But aside from th
ed it was said the parties said to
ice the victims Of this band were t
ed. first to arm themselves and bal
al together, ordering certain perso
'u- to leave the country, SC. The
IN if this be so, were they not
guilty, or. more guilty, Of the y
Tho lation of this law than those "
nal we're indicted They most ;
A. suredly were. The fact Is, if th
ted had been victorious party, the
,eo- would have beeu no charges Of /
liz KlnxiSm and no arrests. I'M
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omniuin Gatherum.
A Western Granger has write

|
for some Mard;Gras seed.
The California Senate has passed
a Compulsory Education bill.
The wife Of Gen. Wade Hamp
ton died at Charlottesville, Va,
recently.
The newspapers of Michigan
stand % against initiation to 8 in
favor of it.
The Republican State Conven-
ton of Oregon will meet at Salem
on Wednesday, April 6.
Queen Victoria is now in the
9th year of her reign aud the
55th of her age.
A demand for the dissolution of
the French Assembly has been
signed by several deputies of the
Left.
The Cincinnati Enquirer un-
blushingly says, ''next to pork,
whisky is our main dependence"
The Democratic State Commit
tee of Pennsylvania resolved yes
terday to call State Convention
to meet at Pittsburgh in May.
Virginia farms are Lringing
good prices. In Henrico county
several tracts were recently sold
for an average of $50 an acre.
Much dissatisfaction with the
course of the Government of Japan
is said to exist throughout that
country.
1t was in CollinsviIle, Connect.
cut, that a mighty economical old
gentleman wrote q lines (3JS
words) on single postal card.
This has been a good Winter
for sliding down hill in Portland
Me-, as - broken arms and legs
attest.
The German Silk and Agricul
| tural Association in Lauderdalt
county, Miss, are said to NEAR
| business. They have asked for ex
i emption from taxation for tw,
, years.
| There are said to be two or tire
thousand outlaws in the noun
tains Of California, who live b,
robbery and violence. They ar
quite secure in their mountain
Businesses.
There are two Mexicans in til
Colorado Legislature who neithe
I speak nor understand the Englis
r Ian guage.
| The Kansas City Times, in il
: crusade against political corrul
e ton in Kansas, finds the Stat
;, Treasurer $4,000 short.
Macon County, Kentucky, r
. joices in a Ladies' Calico Clul
Every member is pledged to a
q tend the sanctuary in plain Gallo
y sans hoops, sans bustles, sans d
! that sort of thing-no jewelry, I
is gew gaws-no, nothing Of til
, sort.
!, The latest invention has be,
~ made by a Mr.. Guild, of Hartfor
! 1t is called the Policeman's Ora
:. pie. 1t consists of two prom
+. like those of ice-tongs, by whi
,c an arm or wrist can be seized al
If held as in wise.
b. The Duke of Edinburgh does1
like the poem that Tennyson wrc
in his honor. Tennyson is too c
. now to sympathize warmly wi
% young people getting marie
," Swinburne would make a bet
ID poet-laureate for such an occasit
A malicious politician says t
- Changers of Illinois turn out
- dig the graves of deceased bro
" ers, thus preventing extortion
: the part of that "middle-man,"
sexton.
An old bachelor in Orles
W. tl,,,I-.,c. t1n @,
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Delightful weather during
the week for farming opera
tons.
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Late News,

Clncl0natl, March 1C.-COi. w.
L. Terrell, Covingtou correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
shot and killed Hon. Harvey
Misers, at Covington, KY, to-day.
Both were very prominent men in
Kentucky. The shooting was the
result of a grudge Of long stand
ing.
Atlanta, GA, March 25.-Mr.
NJ. G.. Brown, father of Governor
Brown, a soldier of 1912, died last
night in Cherokee, aged eighty
seven.
Detroit, March pa fire at
Ludington, Michigan, burned the
Pere Marquette Lumber Com
pany's mill. Loss about 100000;
insurance $4,000.
New Orleans, March 26. =
Bishop Wilmer will present a Pc
tition to Judge Woods tomorrow
for the release of the Grant parish
prisoners.
Vicksburg, March 26.-Thonas
Calkin, an ex-policeman, attacked
John w. Levins, local editor OF
the Vicksburger, cutting him i'll
the neck with knife. LAWNS
shot Calkins twice, killing him in.
stantly.
Washington, March 26.-Butler.
of Massachusetts, presented a
new set of credentials for Pinch
back. Referred to the committee
on privileges and elections.
The delegation from the Soutf
Carolina taxpayers this morning
held a brief interview at the CAPT
tol with a number of Republican
Senator's, who expressed sympath,
with their wrongs and willingness
to extend any practicable relief
At three o'clock they called, b,
appointment, on Secretary Fish
at his residence, who received
them with great courtesy, and in
formed them that he was author
lied to say that President Gran
would receive them to.morro,
morning at IL O'Clock. Secretar
Fish will be present at that hour
Providence, r. l., March 23.-
The Democratic State Conventio
met to-day, resolved to make n
nominations for State officers, al
:, pointed a State Committee an
h adjourned.
Philadelphia, March 23.-Tl
carpet-weavers of Kensington,
. the number of eight hundred, Al
again Oh a strike for new sche
ule Of prices.
Tucson, Arizona, March %.
> Major Randall has had fig
= with the Apaches, killing elevt
= warriors. Thirty women al
j. children were captured.
I" Cincinnati, March 25.-In Jur
~ 1872, Belle Secor, a young gi
y aged thirteen, was outraged Al
murdered in Mercer county, Oh
and two men named Mcleod a
Kimmell. suspected of the erin
were lynched by the infuriat
:, citizens. A few days ago Thorn
" B. Douglass, Of Fort Wayne,
- diana, on his death bed confess
that he committed the outra
IT and afterward participated in
'te hanging OF the innocent men.
III Richmond, March 1S.--A {
til ored mail driver has robbed
"a. mail of some two hundred tn
er sand dollars in postoffice ord
N. and drafts, five of which he u.s.
he Those recovered will be reStOl
to to the owners.
IT, Cairo, Ill.,, March 1S.-A terri
on hurricane, accompanied by thun
he lightning and rain, passed o
this city at three O'Clock this mo
ing, causing considerable destr
- ton of property. The center
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The Atlanta Herald makes the
pOiut that the negro is fast learn
ing the political habits Of his white
"man and brother" Less than
two years ago, says that journal,
tho whole African race in this
country denounced Senator Sum.
ner for treason to their cause in OPP
posing Grant and going for Greeley
TOR President, and declared he bad
been bought up by the Democrats
now they are holding mass meet
iRgsiof coincidence and extolline
thedead Senator as the climax o.
craftsmanship and devotion to lib
erty.
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In England, recently, man at
tending the funeral OF his farther
was arrested for an offense CON-
mitted fourteen years previously.
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According to the census of 1870
there are TAO, 615 persons engaged
in the various occupations in Him
DIS. Of these 37G,441 are farmers
and farm laborers; 1885, 21 are en-
gagged in manufactures and min
ing; SO,422 in trade and transpor.
! tation, and 151, 93l in professional
and other occupations. 1t will
thus be seen that farmers and
farm laborers have a majority o.
5,434 over those engaged i'll all
other occupations combined.
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The following is a list Of fires on
the 23rd and oath Of March: Ell
mira, n, Y, loss 100000: Phila
delphia, loss 100000; Wooster
Ohio, loss $4,000; Jersey City
loss $4,000; Memphis, Tenn, loss
$4,000; indianapolis, Ind, $500,
600; Hartford, Conn, loss $500,
600; Elgin, ILL.,, loss S123,O0O
Poughkeepsie, n. T., loss 100000
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The captain remarks that steer
age passengers ought to be very
well behaved, they have SO much
deck DER EN-.
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Now is the spring OF the
Changers discomfort, when
trace-chains break and pillow
gear are unaccountably mis-
laid. No delightful task to
gather up the misplaced i'm
Elements Of husbandry and
"plow deep while sluggards
sleep"-and damn the "situa-
ton" generally.
A taxpayer cannot be too
particular in making out his
descriptive list ofland. A lit
tie misdescription orillegibili-
ty might cause much trouble
and expense. The best plan
for avoiding errors,a as we learn
from persons experienced in
the matter, is as follows: First
one should make an outline
map Of each body Of his lane
showing each subdivision will
section, township and range
This should be attached to hls
descriptive list. Second, hi
should divide his list into foul
columns, the first column being
awide one for the subdivision
of the section, the second TO
the section and two Others TO
township and range, respec
lively. Third, he should writ
the description very plainly
and use no ditto marks.
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have the money.
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Bellevue, Louisiana,
4, 1874.
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ROSSIER BANNER
Advertising Rates !:

Advertisements inserted at the rate OF
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-18

panions. assaulted him ana threw the refrigera-
tor on him. Costellis countenance showed signs
OF severe ill-treatment. A warrant was issued and
placed In the hands OF one OF the officers OF the
Court squad, who arrested Heldwig In an ice
cream saloon on Eighth avenue yesterday morn
ing Judge Murray held him in $500 bail TO an
swer.
Her Own Lawyer.
Josie Walker, colored woman, was arraigned
on charge or assault and battery and dlsordery
conduct, preferred by man named Alfred Smith.
or No. 1lo West Twenty fifth street. Alfred charged
that the prisoner had struck him In the face and
had thrown three brickbats through his windows.
Several witnesses (all colored) were examined In
this case. Their testimony was to the effect that
the complainant, Smith, and another man were
partners In game OF euchre against Josie Walker
and Frederick Housman, formerly coachman for
the late Colonel Fisk. Josie accused the AFORESAID
Smith or cheating, and wished to make q formal
anidavit yesterday that she had seen him secrete
card up his sleeve. Josie said to Judge MURRAY, in
making her complaint, 'Tm good Tor what call
for any time; but you can't play no Heathen Chinee
ON mer'
Josie walker was discharged.
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COURT OF SESSIONS.
Prisoners Arraigncd.
Before Judge Moore and Associates.

Before Judge Moore and Associates.
The Court OF Sessions met yesterday morning,
when the following prisoners were arraigned:-
Robert Wilson, larceny from dwelling house.
Plead not guilty. Trial next Wednesday
Samuel F. Mckay, two indictments for false pre-
tences-one for representing himself as reporter
OF local paper, and obtaining So from william l.
Merford on that prctence and the other for OBJ
tanning 81 rs from Mr.. Shaurman on the pretence
and trustee of school No. H. He plead not guilty
to botn charges. Trial next Tuesday.
Ricardo Wendish. grand larceny. Plead not
guilty. Trial next Tuesday.
owen Ward, carrying concealed weapons -sung.
shot. Pleaded not guilty. Trial next Wednesday,
John Williams and William Reed, grand larceny.
Pleaded not guilty. Trial Thursday Of next week.
ceny from the person. Pleaded not guilty. Trial
jeremiah Quirk and william Sheppard, larceny
from the person. Pleaded not guilty. Trial Thurs
day.
Pleaded not guilty. Trial Thursday.
Charlotte Carpenter, seventeen years old,
Annie McNin, assault with intent to kill John c.
Stephens Pleaded not guilty. Trial Tuesday.
Charles Lake and william Rexey, two youths,
pleaded guilty to grand larceny and were re-
manded for sentence.
Jonn McGibney, relonious assault. Pleaded not
su casha Burnett eighteen years old, pleaded guilty
to stealing suit OF clothes and was remanded for
sentence.
Thomas Boylan, assault and battery, pleaded not
guilty. Trial Tuesday.
Frederick Coleman pleaded guilty to two indict-
ments for grand larceny, one charging him with