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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

A petition signed by many
citizens Of our parish, has been
forwarded Hon. Geo. l.. Smith
asking him to use his influence
to cause a postal route to be
established from Collinsburg,
in this parish, running through
Red Land, also in this parish,
to Magnolia, Arkansas. Pc
titioners also desire a post
Office established at Red Land,
ten miles distant from Collins
burg. The route proposed
would give a more direct com
munication between Shreve-
port and Camden, and be OF
great benefit to the large set
Elements on the route.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

The "code" has decended
from chevaliers to colored poll
ticians, and is now practiced
by school boys. Two children,
pupils at a Lincoln (England)
boarding-school, had a quarrel.
Their juvenile honor was at
stake. For a shilling they
purchased a pair Of pistols,
which was duly loaded with
powder and ball. The other
regulations of the code were
religiously observed. The boys
fired at a given signal, when
one of them fell, wounded. 1t
was found that his six-penny
pistol had burst and blown a
a hole in his leg. We cordial>
~ recommed the use of six
penny pistols. There is some>
thing suggestive Of a duelist's
honor in the price.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

An Oregon Judge recently
fined two men each s. and
costs, and as the men had no
money he took their notes for
tie amount, and thinking the
State ought to have security
from its debtors, the Court
signed the notes as security.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

We have had coEsidera BILE
rain again this week. The
roads everywhere are almost
impossible; the bayous are
full to overlooking, and the
flat lands are all inundated,
while the farming interest is
suffering frightfully.
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Subscription, So Per Annum,
ng In Advance. a
Bellevue, Louisiana,
SATURDA Y::::::::::::::::APRIL Is, 1874

The Police Jury of this par
ish has been in session during
the week, adjonrning Thurs
day evening. We will publish
full proceedings i'll our next
issue.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

The house committee on
territories, by a vote of six to
one, have agreed to recon-
mend the passage of the bill
for the admission, of New
Mexico as a state in the Union.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18
Our sunny South has been

truction-one more plungei in
the wrong direction and the
dark waters OF heathenism may
roll over it for a half a century!
Lien and usnry laws may be
repealed, and other things may
be done by our Legislature !;
but the only thing that can
save us, is for brains-not
muscles, to direct and control
the worlds great interest
AGRICULTURE.
The Northern people have
had much to say about the
prosperity of Southern agricul>
turae, since "this freedom came
about )" but our seeming pros>
perity is really as hollow as a
drum. Since the war, our
capital and energy, have been
directed to the making of cot
ton, depending upon others to
supply us with the necesaries
of life. We have made aeon
siderable show in cotton bales ;
but guano has we'll nigh
exhausted all the vegetable
matter" in our cultivated lands;
our fences are all rotting down,
and "hill-side bitches washed
away )" we have had to adams
don to great extent the SOW
ing of small grain we make
scarcely any manure; we are
fast clearing up and wearing
out what little virgin soil is left
us; our greenbacks have run
away to the Northwest, and
hid themselves in the pockets
of the owners of our cOrn-cribs
and smoke houses; and besides
all this, we are terribly in debt
and demOraliZed-and what is
worse than all, the negroes are
about to run the Agricultural
machine of the South upon
their own hook while the
whites show a strong DISPOSE
ton to fold their arms in de-
spair and sit down upon "the
stool Of do-nothing !"
The negroes have been n ak
ing changes to suit themselves
ever since the war, and it is
now high time for the whites
to make a change. We must
Immediately face about, and
make radical changes in many
respects, or we will see much
harder times than we have yet
experienced.
The only plan can save us,
is, to plant small crops-make
all the manure possible at
home--raise our own provisions,
and plant less cotton-control
labor and be less dependent
upon it-be industrious and
economical-lay aside much OF
the Injuries, pride and "toms
foolery" Of olden times.-J. III.
Olliphant, Stellaville. Ga.
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The Springfield Mo-, cotton
factory employs about 70 hands,
runs "a looms and 5000 spin
dies, and cannot supply the
demand for its excellent cotton
yarn.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

In the production Of wine
and brandy, Los Angeles is the
leading county in the State of
California. The number of
vines returned by the assessor
of that county fer 1873 is A.
100000. The number of gall
Ions of wine returned is $685.
600, and of brandy 10000.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

Every lady is anxious to
know whether her new dress is
becoming; but the most likely
thing to become a lady is a
well-behaved little girl.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

The New York Herald threat
ems war if the financial policy
of the West and South is per>
sisted in. Very good. Weare
in favor of the next war. Let
New England secede.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18
The Louisville Lottery.
From the Cincinnati Commercial

Az LOUISVILLE AOLLeTy.
From the Cincinnati Commercial
+ The manages ofthe drawings
in Louisville '.for the benefit
of the Public Library OF Ken>
lucky" admit that for their
fourth drawing, which took
place in that city last Tuesday,
they sold $4,000 tickets at fifty
dollars. Their receipts there
fore were S2,25O,OOO. One-half
of this large sum they claim to
pay ont in prizes. The other
half, S1,125,000, remains in
their hands. Deducting for
their expenses in commissions
to agents, &c, $35O,000, we
may fairly assume that the net
profit of this fourth drawing
will amount to S750,OO0.
This three-quarters of a mills
lion dollars has been gathered
from the toiling classes in the
several states under the sanc>
ton of a Kentucky law TO es-
tablish a public library from
the profits of a system of gamb-
ling. The ignorant and the
superstitious are levied. upon
to found a literary Institution
intended to expand the mental
and moral nature Of the men
and women of Kentucky in
general, and of Louisville in
particular. The process is a
heavy drain upon the scanty
means of the poor, and they
can see for themselves that one
of their number who has been
benefited by it is as hard to
find as a greenhorn enriched
10y playing with professional
blacklegs. They pay their
money and get nothing in re-
trun. This does not prevent
them from investing again
when artfully appealed to. The
same passion that carries the
dupe back to the sweat-cloth
controls them, though a differ
ent lame is given to it, and it
is cultivated by legislative ems
actment.
No doubt if the shelves OF
the public library in Louisville
were examined by experts, the
opinion Of our correspondent
would be confirmed that they
contain about fifteen thousand
volumes of mainly worthless
; hooks. Yet these books, with
the Library building, represen,
the profits of the three previous
drawings. The $75O,OOO prof
Its of the fourth drawing, il
judiciously expended, would
, render the Library one of The
largest and best in the world
But when the next drawing
comes around the improve
ments in the Library will prob
i, ably not be preceptible. Be
! COTTON 10y a system of swind'
ding, which is beyond thu
reach of daylight, it is an abso
4 lutte sham, and unless it can bt
sustained by some other mean,
< than robbing the masses, i
? will stand as a monument O
+ shame.
:. The Springfield Mo-, cotton
: factory employs about 70 hands
/ runs "a looms and 5000 spin
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

Alexandria Dumas speaks
of a dead actress as that pretty
little Partisan soul born in a
peal Of laughter, evaporated
in a tear.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18
This, That, and the Other,

Aids to temperance-crusadD
and lemonades.
1.-TWO hearts that beat as ohe.n
Texarkana Texas, and Texarkans
Arkansas. (
"A bachelor is politely described
as a man who has neglected his
opportunity of making some poor
woman miserable.
The greatest magicians of the
age are the paper-makers; they
transform the beggar's rags into
sheets for editors to lie on.
In the Confederate cemetery at
New Orleans are statues of Lee,
Bishop Polk, and Stonewall Jack,
son.
George w. Austin, Treasurer Of
the Mankato (Minnesota) Normal
School, has run away with $1,000
Gov. Coke advises every person.
who holds a just claim for money
against Texas that it is WORTH
every dollar it calls for, and if he
will only hold it one hundred days:
lie will get his money.
Illinois has extended to married
women every right but that Of
suffrage. They can keep their
own earnings, and transact busi-
ness with their husbands as
with strangers.
The world uses o5O,OOO,OOO
pounds of tea and 71S,OOO,OOO
pounds Of coffee every year.
China furnishes neatly all the
tea, and Brazil more than half the
coffee.
| Annette Mckee, of Pittsburgh,
Penn., is the wealthiest yeupx
lady in America. She has $1,000.
900 i'll her own right. SSe is
single.
Gen. john B. Hood Of the Late
G. S. A. is doing his best to re-
populate the South. He has been
married five years, and is now tho
father OF seven children.
Germany has u number Of ex-
perimental farms, where all new
theories connected with agricul-
ture or cattle raising are tried and
their merits pronounced upon.
In a recent trial in Baitimuru it
was shown that patent medicine
men can get almanac certificates
OF the wonderful virtues at fifty
cents per head.
A Texas gentleman four years
ago bought Il sow and four pice
for five dollars, branded them.
and turned them loose. lie now
enjoys the proud distinction of
being the clog King" Of Texas
A German writing home fseu
Philadelphia concludes his l. ster
thus: eff IFS till | dies, tv,E
my friends at home that shall
visit mein faterland before I leaves
Philadelphia.
The present administration Of
Chicago is SO abominably indis4
Greet that thu respectable people
who live there are begging the
Legislature to repeal the city
charter and order a new election.
Some people in Illinois, who
have evidently known what it is
to pay ten dollars for five cent
pen-wipers, have petitioned the
Legislature to abolish church fairs.
You may talk yourself into q
bronchial affection, but you can't
convince a Vermont woman that
there won't be a death in the
family if she dreams Of seeing q
hen walking picket fence.
The young ladies of Sacrament
to, California, have secret detec-
tive society for finding out the
habits of the young men. Every
unmarried lady in the place is q
: member, of course.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

The president, cabinet, di-
plomatic corps and all the Off
GERS of the Haytain Governs
ment paid distinguished honors
to the memory of Senator
Sumner.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

French literature is famous
for its autobiographies, its en-
gaging indulgence of literary
egotism, its sprightly gossiping
records of court life and man-
ners, its diaries" Journals"
and "reminiscences"
1t is customary for a French
man, who has played a promi>
nent part in whatever direction,
to leave behind him two testa~
mentary documents. In one
he bequeaths his property to
his family ; in the other he be-
queaths the story of lis life
and recollections to a regretful
country. Montague tells us
almost more about himself
than any other subject aud
nearly every author, from
Montague to Rousseau and
! Voltaire, Chateaubriand and
the elder Dumas, has betrayed
an irresistibly propensity to
prattle-always interestingly
and amusjngH-upon that
most attractive topic to him.
self-himself. Talleyrand has
left a mysterious box full Of
suggestive manuscripts, which
are to be brought out and pub
lished at Il stated period after
his death. Old Dumas ac-
Count of his career is almost
too voluminous to read. Both
Theirs and Guizot are under
stood to have prepared life>
records, and George Sand has
plainly declared her intention
to leave behind her a narrative
OF her long literary reign. We
cannot doubt that Victor Hugo
will consign 70 his posthumous
admires a brilliant auto5iogra-
ply of a remarkable career.
The utility Of such produc-
tons is not SO great as is the
amusement derived from them;
still they enable lis to become
more familiar with the times
in which they are written than
the most CONSCIENTIOUS formal
history could do. They are the
best material can be produced.
A man, to be sure, by no means
writes best when writing
about himself, as Mill's auto
biography plainly shows; nor is
it very material consequence
to posterity what a famous
man ate, what time he got up
in the morning, or what his
method of writing was. But
/. one who thus narrates himself,
and half unconsciously dissects
his own character, places a
distinct and detailed figure OF
a definite period before the
world. The vanity of the
author often misconceives
wherein the principal value OF
his autobiography is to consist
for prosperity. He may imag>
inc that the chief fruit Of liter.
AIRY Immortality is to render
, remote generation curious as
} to his person and habits, minn-
, tia of his boyhool, OF the vicis.
STUDIES of his feeling.
There is something, DO doubt
in this ; everybody is curious
for instance, to know more Of
that now very myterious per
son, Shakespeare ; but, if he ha(
+, written a life of himself, would
not its chief valpe have beer
i, the photograph Of a lite ant
manners existing in, and sc
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omniur Eatherum.

seems to think the only way
to earn his salaryis by speech
making. The people would
willingly compromise on a
little more voting and good
deal less spouting.-[St. Louis
Democrat Rep
"Did you execute this in
strument witout fear or com
pulsion from your husband %
blandly asked the Judge.
Fear. Compulsion /! He com
pei mt. You don't know me,
Judge"
A modern thinker says that
many people will be astonish-
ed when they get to heaven by
finding angles laying no
schemes to be archangles.
A gentleman has two cana
ries which he calls "Wheeler
and Wilson" His reason for
these appellations is that
neither Of them are "Singers."
The Rev. G. 0. Cummings
is said to be the handsomest
editor in California. He has
glossy side whiskers and a
figure like Apollo. But is he
truly good!
The California Assembly
has passed a bill making it a
felony for any person to at
tempt to obtain money by rep
resenting that he can influence
any member of the Legisla-
ture in his action on bills or
other matters Of legislation.
A lady in Lake city, Flori-
da, has growing il her garden
a genuine cork tree thirty feet
high, the bark on which is
sufficiently thick to make
bottle corks. There is also in
the same garden a genuine
black pepper bush, which
yields regularly a full crop of
the berries.
Here's a funny reply given
by a little boy in London, to
the following question asked
him by gentleman: "What
occupation does your father
pursue for a living % He
answered, with great simplici-
ty. "He is a dreadful accident.
maker, sir, for the newspapers. "
The truth is, so far as the
body of the people are sound
which is unquestionably. the
case-all these abuses and
foulnesses in politics can be
corrected, and they will be il
time. 1t is equally true, how
ever, that every right minded
man ought to take hold of his
share of the work and waste
no time about it Boston
Journal (Rep.)
One hundred and twenty-si,
} young lawyers and Ga youns
doctors were graduated a
! Michigan University last week
There were nine feminine med
ical graduates and two lega
ones.
In Sweden, out of 49,, OO
children Of school age, onl,,
| 9,131, or three per cent, ar
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

Three hundred hogs died
in Pottawattamie County, Ia,
during the past year Of cholera
and a disease similar to the
epizootic.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

The salt production of Mich
igan last year was 4,116,7O0
bushels.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-18

The lumber prospect in Min
nesOta and Wisconsin is very
encouraging.
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1874-02-22

cuencia censurada por republicanos
tan autorizados como los Sres. Caste.
lar y Maisonnsve.
lCosa providencial! Las tres refor
mas que mas han defendido nuestros
antagonistas, Ia representation en- Cor
tes, el tftulo | y la ley provincial, le-
Jos de perjudicar al partido incondi-
cionalmente espanol, la colectiviiad
que es nacional antes que polftica, han
servido para desacreditar al partido
reformista en- ambos lados del mar.
Sus despilfarros, sus exacciones, su
tiranfa, su nepotismo aquf, y sus anu
biciones, sus resellamientos y sus ms
tiutos demag6gicos ALA le han des-
prestigiado para siempre. Bien dice e
proverhio que "no hay NAL que poi
ben no venga.' Las reformas han ma
tado al reformismo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1874-02-22

La Voy del Pots, pcbIicaado la bio
gral(a del general Espartero, hace
esta pYecosa deoiaracio0, de ore to.
namas note, poTque constituyo M
mantis d todo 10 que Sc ba pubicado
sobre la p6r3ida de Am6.ica en- Ia
prenza reformista y una aGrmacion
ie cuqoto aobre Il m;sma question
hemos siempre escrito nosoiros:
"H2I4base (Lsparteto en- 1620,) cerca
de Top;za con el ej6roito de cue forraaba
parte, cuando sc recib & la noticia &c que
eI rey bahia jurado Ia Couatitucion, pro
cIa,nada por aquel ej6gcito que, en- vez de
vonir sin peraida de tempo America,
4 aalvar IL bandera nacional, Sc puao al
seryicio dc IN partidaro poftico q 1is6 la
ccusa de la pfrdid1 para ESpQjsa de Ia
Am6yjca c0ntneataI. La nuava de que Ell
mencionado ej6tcito va n ven ria q refor-
2ar a! que e4taha en- America pr0diy0 o'a
este el mayor desaIjehtO, q amino Il los ene-
nSig0s dc Espaj5a, qse por tod4s parteS en-
pa<ay0n d tragNar consp~acl0neS."
En- estas lineas, que quizas impen-
sadamen'e SO introdujaron en- las CO.
Iumnas del colega federal, esta expli-
cada la conducta del BoLETIN. Nues-
tro principal objeto, 10 hemos djcho
cien vec 5, es defender la integridad
nacional, ca conservar lntegro, pacf-
Gco y rico para Espala 81 g'orioso
resto que nos queda d. puestro antes
inmoaso imperio colonial 81 para es-
To es D. eciso ser abso,utista, conser
vador, radical 8 cantonal, dspuestos
estanos, 4 sero. Para posotros los
principles politicos no con NADIA ante
la integridad de la patria, Para La
Voy del Pals cue qulsre la "salga2iou
de los principlos au0que porezcan las
colonias", nuestfa conduota es incom
prcnaible; para todos los espanoles sin
antes que todo, es la llui-
ca que dehen segulr en- las Antillas
los pcriodistas de concienoia.
I'll mjsmo college scaba de dar con
le @laye 10 naestro pvoeeAer La re-
" ooion 10 1920, iaioi4da por Risgo
? Ia c,ustituc.oa, que Ia sigpio, fae-
ron Ia causa de la p6rdida para Espa
IA de Ia Am6rica c0ntiaentaI y la n
Iaqsta naeya aqsf recihida prodyo d
5ste al ej6roito espano) el mayor dssa-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1874-02-22

ma de La Justicia federal entusias-
maba 4 la plebe con sus elncubracio-
nes; 81 compositor de las canciones
patridticas que cantaban los piratas
eartsQeneros, ha dado la luz pdblica
On manifesto del que entresacamos
los siguientes parrafos que son la con-
dsnacion mas grande que puede ha-
cerse del va ridfculo federalismo:
''Ya sabeis, dice, cuanto anhelo la
realization de federalismo en- nuestro
pals.
Pues bieo; 81 NE dijeran: "ahf tie
aea 4 Espana, acant6nala como mas
te aeomode, dispon y ordeBa & medi-
da de tn deseo, haz 10 que te plazea;
psro tienes que gobernar con tn par
lido, con los cantonales; con los in
tsanalgentee, sin pedlr ayada q Din-
guoa escnela, os juro por Dios que
no sceptarfa, porque tengo la perlec-
ia seguFl lad de que nosotros mismos
oos envolverianos en- ell caos.
Ab1g0 el futimo coavencimiento,
Ia evidenoia abeuIuta, de que pasarfa
en tod2 Esqana 10 que ha pasado en-
una her6ica oiudad.
Y Isl supiGrais, republicanos tede-
rales, las cosas que he visto- -. no
Sc d6nde!
Uno viene gritand): la "junta y ell
gobierno estan destituidos.'
Otro dice, al subir la escalera del
ayuntamiento: eel mejor dia doy de
palos a esa-- junta."
Entretanto, la Junta soberana la
de examen dlsputan 3 dias sobre 81 Sc
dieron 6 no Sc dieron dos tinones.
La Junta soberana discuti6 una vez
tres horas seguidas sobre 81 salieron
del almacen de vfveres dos bacala0s
Otra vez dedic6 una session entera
a dilucidar en- que paraje deberian
venderse las coles.
Sc trataea un asunto importante;
= entraba un voluntario con fusil pidien-
do aipargatas; las al pargatas Sc apode-
raban de la session, basta que todos
nos saimos sin haber tornado ningun
acuerdo.
RepobIicanos federales, ses possible
gobernar de este modo? No, no es
possible; ea impossible de todo punto. "
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1874-02-22

Segun noticias recientes de Munich,
ell c6era segufa causando estragos en-
Baviera. Ref6rese cue en- la noohe
del IS al 19 del pssado noviembre
ocurrieron 23 invasiones y II defun-
clones. Desdo la reaparicion del tire
mendo azote, ha hahido en- Munich
113 invasiones y 20 defunciones Los
que buyeron de Ia capital importaron
el CO efa Gu las ciudades vecinae, en-
donde empezaba hacerse sentir de
un modo sensible.