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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-11

They say that in a Florida
colored school the boys are
taught to sing this verse: 1
am a little Radical glory in
the name i would not be a
Democrat, Because it is a
shame"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-11

Georgetown, Mass, has been
scandalized by the marriage of
a consulate widower the day
after his first's funeral.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-11

A Cabinet-Maker in Michi>
gan is making a cabinet which
shall exhibit the 90 varieties of
wood that grow in that state.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-11

Maj. J. 4. Kavannaugh, elected
representative OF Jackson on the
Fusion ticket, it is stated, has
been appointed by Kellogg sheriff
OF that parish.-lOuachita Tele-
graph.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-11

A paper in Nebraska, under the
head of Gan hour with cur bust
ness men," describes two saloons,
and ends the item with the remark,
''This completes the round of the
business houses on the public
square,"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-11

The Jenkins of the Sioux
City Journal describes one of
the bellies of a ballroom as ga
graceful little toad"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-11

The Massachusetts. Legislature
talks of a law prohibiting the
catching of trout less than three
inches in length. When anglers
feel a bite, will they have to wade
in and measure the trout before
they land him +?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-11

A great Newfoundland dog got
rabid in Boston and ran into a
house, where he was at once left
to himself. Before he was shot he
broke mirrors aud furniture worth
$500.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-11

Only nine families, it is stat
ed, are left in Pithole City,
Penn. 1t once boosted a pop
ulation of $4,000. Sic transit
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-11

While Professor Watson has
fooled away his time with ass
teroids and comets, a plain
farmer in Wisconsin has dis
covered that a hog buried in !;
snOw-bank can live six weeks,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-11

1t is thought the annual pro-
duction of wheat in Southern
Russia will, by the end of the
present decade, equal eighty
millions of bushels. The pro-
ductlon at present is about
torty-seven millions.
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Ognirr, tratherpm.

England; he Is IN feeble health.
Paper cuffs are said to have
originated in newspaper at
tacks.
The patent office has just re-
ported favorably on three new
kinds Of corkscrews.
Prayed out of town." are
the words nailed on the doors
Of several saloons at Xenia,
Ohio.
1t is reported that the Turk
ish Government has decided to
renounce all its commercial
treaties with foreign powers.
One hundred and twenty
newspapers and periodicals
have been suppressed in
France since MacMahon be
came President.
A jury in San Diego, Cal,
the other day broughtin YER
dict OF not guilty, with a re-
quest to the defendant to re-
store the sheep.
1t is said that oysters weigh
ing three pounds have been
found i'll Tampa Bay, Florida,
which looks very much like
Tampa-ring with the truth.
The recent cold and wet
weather in the Western Terri
tories has been very destruc-
tive to tho sheep, which are re-
ported to be dying by thous-
ands.
1t is said there are old peo-
pie living in the mountains of
Kentucky who have never
tasted or seen q cup Of coffee
in their lives.
There are over ten million
women in America, and vet
Tom Hutton, of Georgia hung
himself on account of a girl
fifteen years old.
The Wyoming Journals fees
for marriage notices are "as
high as the ecstacy and liber-
ality Of the bridegroom may
prompt
"A two-cent piece was taken
from the throat of a boy in
Portland, Maine, recently after
having been lodged there for
six months.
John Reeves said to his bow.
when shaving proved a diff
Guilty, John, 1 wish you would
not open any more oysters
with my razors."
How many shoes are made
in Massachusetts may be
conjectured from the fact that
North Bridgewater alone turns
ut $4,000 pairs daily.
The ladies in Cincinnati, in
commencing a crusade against
liquor dealers, devoted their
first prayer to the members of
the press.
Conscience doth make cow
ards Of US all, particularly of
a Mlchigander: who, on being
arrested for larceny promptly
confessed to burglary, bigamy
and infanticide.
A Chicago man wrote to
Agasslz that he had an apple
which he had preserved for
fifty-three years, and when
Agassiz wrote for it, the joker
said it was the apple of his
eye.
If it wasn't for Andy John
son there wouldn't be any Ex-.
President living. Obstinacv
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-11

A pickpocket recently arrested
in Rochester defended himself by
saying that he was only searching
the mans pockets for proof of
frauds against the government.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-04-11

new directory, claims 27,4O9
people.
The Pennsylvania Demo
cratic State Convention will be
in Pittsburgh in May.
All YoD, q Celestial, is to be
tried in Butte county, Califor-
MIA, for murder.
! An unusually large peach
crop is expected in Delaware
tue coming season.
Andrew j. Fuller, Nash
vile, drunk four weeks, NOR
phine-dead," is the way a
late suicide is put.
Licking county, Ohio, is the
greatest sheep county in the
State. 1t contains nearly 3OO,-
900 head.
Brooklyn, n. Y, has appro-
priated $4,000 to provide free
baths during the coming sum-
mer.
The bill giving up the dead
bodies Of unclaimed paupers
and criminals in Chicago for
dissection has become an Him
OILS law.
1t has been shown in q case
in Minnesota that two men can
start a bank on $40 capital,
take in money and run away
with $4,000 in thirteen
months time.
The country demands econo-
my, and if Congress has any
other idea it is laboring under
a delusion from which it will
awake only to learn the mag
nitude of it's mistake.-[Port-
land Press (Rep)
The Cincinnati Enquirer Of
fers to bet five hundred dollars
that no fashionable lady ever
goes to bed without first look
ing in her glass, and a rival is
willing to risk the same sum
that no Cincinnati editor goes
to bed without drinking out of
his.
The Jail lin Dale county, Ala,
not having any prisoners, is
used as a ballroom.
The Mississippi Legislature
has passed the bill for funding
the State debt in s per cent.
bonds.
According to a writer in the
London Times, the fifteen En-
glish marine insurance COM
panies lost S3,64O,OOO in 1872,
not one realizing a profit.
The Republicans of Indiana
will hold their State Conven-
ton on the 18th of June, and
the Democrats on the 18th of
July.
a call has been issued in
Oregon for an independent
State Convention in Salem,
April Is, to nominate candi-
dates for State officers.
Ex-Governor Letcher and
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens
have by letter commended
Governor Kemper of Virginia
for his veto Of the Petersburg
charter.
PHILADELPHIA Daonla are ho-
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The Dollar.

tentiously described as a nation
of dollars worshippers. Deny
or resent it, whoever may, it
would require, indeed, the
alterness subtlely Of a logical
gymnast, successfully to gains
say the charge. In Russia Of
Old, it was the greatest of all
offences to tWeak another mans
bread ; in America, especially
i'll the times upon which we
have now fallen, there is no Of
fence upon which the ban of
society falls SO oppressively as
that, alas CT having no money
in ones pocket. The dollar is,
IN very fact, everything, the
want of it is severely even
though indirectly punished,
aud the whole philosophy Of
life may be said to be reduced
to the surest and most rapid
means Of making "a pile"
And this universal moneys
making passion on the part OF
the people is by no class more
deftly made use of, to serve
their own ends, than by a GER
tain strip Of politicians and
public agitators. 1t is a happy
and neyer-tai!ing recourse.
They thus get the hurrahs of
the throng, not by devotion to
any great principle that com
templates the moral elevation
OF society, the purification of
politics, or the expansion of
genuine patriotism, but, rather,
by solHe scheme or measure
the circumference and DIANE
ter Of which are represented
by the dollar.
Now, it would of course be
quite snperflouous to under
value either the lesirableness
or advantages of money-as
useless, indeed, as to affect to
be insensible to the downright
Inconvenience Of poverty !;
nevertheless, if the mere scaui-
sition of money be not the
chief good-as it undoubtedly
is nOt-so neither is the lack
it a just cause of reproach
Both are extremes, and, like
all extremes, to be avoided !;
but they are not avoided, for
it is these very extremes, more
than any others, that charac-
teriZe and even constitute soci-
ETY. at the present day, and
vigorously divide it.
In the nature of things,
wealth must be in the hands
of a comparatively few. 1t
cannot be dispersed over many
million Of men; and whether
it be the result of superior in~
dustry and ability-honest or
dishonest-or the caprice of
fortune, it's possessors must
still be a small number, as
compared with the great bulk
Of mankind, who must ever
remain strangers alike to it's
cares and its luxuries, which it
comprises about equally.
Without sermonizing, then,
the question may be frankly
asked. What is it which gives
life a compensatory aspect, to
the mass of men who are shut
out from that which is accre
dited as the great source and
channel of human endowment =?
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Regular session Of the Police
Jury Of this parish, Monday.
Webster Parish District
Court is now in session.
The New York herald., 1874-09-16
DENNSYLVANIA RstLROAD.
THE GREAT TRUNK LINE


UNITED STATES NAIL ROUTE.
Trains leave New YORK from foot Of Desbrosscs and
Express oY harrisburg P.t,sburg West and south
with Pullman palace cars attached 9:5J A. NJ, and
For WilamspOrt and Lock haven. Philadelphia
$50 A NJ: for ,wrnansport Lock Haven. CORY and
Petroleum centre and the Oh Regions ~
For Baltimore, Washington and the souh-Limed
@ a:io Regular at 8 40 A. NJ, and r. NJ. Sun
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80 le 10 IL 80 T. NJ and IL night. sunday. 5aj
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1927 P.M From Philadelphia, $50, d:2I $50 1915,
AZ m;.S IA 4 NJ al az 4. ~ e!a !; s ~ 10 ~ AZ sun
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NJ an Us Se oso.sn
d. NJ. BOYD, Jr, General PASSENGER Agent
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Cabin se5 to $50 according to accommodations Return
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Sc, Tor cIcusrs living further iurtSer Information,
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! NAToNAL LINE. uon,on
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this company 70 ayold Ice and headlands.
TO 'sS% 9SRaSs6HNas3d RasEf s a3d ASb < SolR LT5AP5o ys5
i2l7 ss's "a H5sDJS S$5 BEhs ;iF- J.
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reduced rely prse, seu tickets reduced rates Pre-
Apply at the company's Office No. So Breaaway ,
ITO To PLYMogIa: 0nsRBoURG AND dAMBURG.
The elegant Clyde built iron steamships will sai from
G9ETHE CAPTAIN CAPTAIN Wilson September 22
from Eagle ijnS psr i@Gt sr;i 'tTeei noSokSH.
sGSo9S .s
S FuSG sn D9a ss g. sos
General Agents, il3 Broadway.
/ Shw nS}TS H3EK TO xH GIAsGow, A6 LIVERPOOL.
S e,egant new Clyde built steamers will sail from
sAT 70 SHF'H SF kGsF a ioows Sent m
STATE Of .Weanesdav SEPT *
sTSTE Il s %%sa%aay Sss'
and wadnSsay thereafter ass osr al a.
rs,s al ports ran and Ireland
Steeiase as low as Dy any other line
ap1s s 1TsS s1H Hs%i' S = g.
steerase office No. 40 Broadway.
NoTICE.-THE PASSENGERS BY THE TEAM r
~ STAT or VIRGINIA, tor Glasgow and Belfast wl
Sf HH oG &
JNMAN LINE-soUTHERLy COURSE
Royal o % St eansr. a5s TO Sal as
CITY CITY 9 OF Mon Mon saturday, Sept ~ ALLAN
GiY IrY Or or atsraa yp T. q M
CITY CITY OF OF FICMoND a'%GTdSv Oct
Cabin passage s8j AMI 500 HHLa'y sod oo' " at 10 A. NJ
70 oa a pSnb o Is 5 rates.
stserase Offices 80 Broadway % and pier 8 North River
+ Other points in England and Wales: -The south
arsa Ras Apr ahnr SompnnX Pennsylvania
GFfEESSS6asaSSEFI'' @ o': 10 :.."%sa9ssasy Sep. 1s
First cabin passage SIS and $50 ea%eaey earreney SsS
Tor II and upwards For further par rcuars apply to
ARCHIBALD BAXTER Il co, Agents
" Broadway New York.
Most ni D.EEcT sgT., AND , ECoSoMlcAL S, ROUTE TO
ROTTERDAM
By steamship SCHOTTEN. September IL
BY steamship October
hese beautiful sieamcrs carrying the United states
mail to the Netherlands, well known the regular
lty OF their trips. Rates OF passage low.
FUNGI, EDYE n Co, l.. W. MORRIS,
General AGENTS. 80 Broadway
O'DONOvAN ROSSA.-CnEAPEsT PASSAGE; STATE
~ OF Virginia, Wednes ay; Philadelphia Line. Thurs
day; greatly pa ssage Before buying tickets
anywhere call at Northern Hoel, Cortlandt and
West streets
DOSTERS, BILLS OF LADING, RECEIPTS COL.
L ored Printing. Ac, for steamship lines done with
neatness, cheapness and promptness by the METRO
POLITAN PhIN IN ESTABLISHMENT No. 2IS Broad
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

y EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET BETWEEN
- tlfrL avenue and Union sguare.-Handsomely fur
nshed Rooms en- suite or separately for gentlemen and
Their wives OF single gentlemen, with without Board
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

EAST TWENTY NINTH STREET BETWEEN
II Fifth and Madison avenues s-HandsoInelv furnished
Rooms sngly suite, with without private able
honSe ana Its appointments une % tionable.
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

= HANDSOME SUITS OF ROOMS; ALSO THIRD
- story mont Room. handsomely furnished, 10 let-Io
famines or single gentlemen, with Board most desir-
able location in New York; house facing Washington
square lew blocks from Broadway. l4l Macdorgal
street, conner Fourth.
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

A AND WASHINGTON PLACE fsT JULIEN
T Eeeant Apartments TO let; house entirely reno
waited and enlarged; especially adapted ior families
also SINGLE geatleQen, lunch table.
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

0E AND UPWARDS PER WEEK-FOR ROOMS
WO with good Board, at l5s Beecker street. Beee
Ieet ana eventh avenue cars pass the door,
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

E7TH STREET, lls EAST NEAR UNION SQUARE
Is'Ior oor TO et with private taDle; also Rooms
D en- snite OF sngiy with hrst class Board refe
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

n WEST TWENTY EIG HTH STREET FIRST DOOR
4 rom Fifth avenue.-handsomely furnished Rooms
on teeond and third noors to let with first class Board
An "a German family. References exchanged.
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

II WAVLRLEY PLACE.-NICELY FURNISHED
4 Rooms on the first and upper floors with Eaari
soi fsniie or single gentlemen giving good reference
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

1S EAST SEVENTY. FIFTH STREET r,yIIrD,
- ana gentlemen can secure large and eiegant paas
avenue and Central PARK 'oe"iiy fiitn
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

G2 AND Sc FOR PLEASANT ROOMS, IN PR,.
%O Vate family; breakfast, 81 tine op ny for
GerE an to acquire English z59 West Twenty fifth st.
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

sd DOOR FROM BROADWAY.-ELEGANT ACCOM-
- medatlGns for family desiring private table or TO
take meals Al restaurant No, SO West Thirty first
streeL Highest references exchanged.
The New York herald., 1874-09-16
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

A -ClTIzENs' LINE FOR TROY AND ALL POINTS
"A North ana West.-Eiegant steamboats, daily tSatur.
If Leroy street Fare low ' 'os
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4 = EAST TWENTY SECOND STREET NEAR BROAD
tc way-Elegantly furnished Rooms. with first class
Board, tor families and single house newly
furnished and painted with modern improvements; ref
crences exchanged.
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tx ND ~ East TWENTY EIGHTH STREET Re.
- tween Madison and Fifth avenues a IA ,nd.oana
RcIos h VIII OF NIthou private liable: also other
noons, with Board; small tables; table dihote ~
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

q EAST TWENTY SEVENTH sTRERT-RoOMs AND
~ BOARD FOR gentlemen and their wives and single
EentleInen All conveniences references given and re
The New York herald., 1874-09-16
FRANK THOMSON. General Manager.

CTON1NGTON LINE FOR NEWPORT AND BOSTON
- The new and ma agnificent steamer
RHODE ISLAND. every Tuesday, 1hursday and satur-
day, and the elegant steamer
Friday from pier a3 North River, jay street. as
5P. NJ, arriving in Boston ahead or all other ines
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

1S East THIRTY. SECOND srREET-T.RtE po,pI
10 bret class. N'S hoAfsi
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

DAILY FAMILY EXCURSIONS.
IL TO no. kAWAY BEACH
The popular Sound steamer
AMERICUS,
on and after September will leave every dav as fOA.
lows;-We Eleventh street, North River, at $40 NJ;
Barclay street. North nIver at $3.50 A. NJ. pier No.
North river at a. NJ brooklyn Fulton ferry, 3J
A. M Returning leave Rockaway, at4 p. NJ.
Fare, 35c. Excursion tickets 50c.
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

sd FLOOR WITH PRIVATE TABLE; SPACIOUS
= APartmeres handsomely furnished, with bath pan
sries, orlvate house references exchanged
East Thirty second street between Fifth and Madison
=
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

X EAsI IHlRrY-ShCOSD srREET-ELEGANTIy
iMnshen Rooms en- suite or singy with orsf clos
table parties desiring cheap rooms anc ~ :, o.ss
~Gommocstons need not Apply: references '~'e az
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BoARpERs WAITED.

I ENTIRE SECOND FLOOR, TOGETHER OK SEP
| arateIy with board. also third door front Room
large ant fourth aoor desirable Tor genuemen
Ie- East TweLty third street.
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= EAST TWENTY EIGHTH STREET-A HAND
fC someiy furnished Room second floor
one or two gentlemen, with without Board, in
strictly private family.
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

10 WEST TWENTY EIGHTH STREET-A PRIVATE
Ie) family viii let Floor, separ ate suite also
back Parior, with without private table, references
exchanged
The New York herald., 1874-09-16
BOARDERs WANTED.

EF n WEST Thirty NINTH sTRKEr-TWO VERY
large. well furnished Rooms 70 let with or with
Beard hot ana cold water, gas &c for gentlemen,
-. pffvate Jewish iamily.
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

40 WEST TWENTY-FOURTH sTREET-HAND-
~ somely furnished Rooms with Board, large and
small together separately; large private bath
running wafer, second, third fourth floors; hall
Rooms for gentlemen; references
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

A PIERRE HOUsE-ONE BLOCK WEST OF CITY
- Hall, 56 Warren sfreet-Room 30 cents day, 81 a
week up; family room ST a day, u IA week up.
NEW ENGLAND HOTEL, 80 BowERY. CORNER
~ Bayard street-2l0 light Rooms, neatly furnished
40c soc per night 81 TO 50 week Tor gentlemen
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

4 = PARK AVENUE.-ELEGANT SUITS OF ROOMS
IT, 10 let, with Board, at this splendid mansion ut
reasonable
The New York herald., 1874-09-16
BROOKLYN BOARD.

HOTEL ST. GERMAN FIFTH AVENUE, TWENTY
IL ,econd street and Broad way y-Reopens elegantly
and newly furnished; superb situauOn elevator all
Improvements; desirable for permanent parties for
ter. American ana European plan -
C TOMPKINS
The New York herald., 1874-09-16
NEW YORK HERD<
ROARDERS WANTED.

DOTH STREET I24 NEAR SIXTH AvENUE.-wIrH
III Board well furnished Second story also Room,
front; rnnnug water large closets, bathroom floor
two persons, SIS, location central; references
The New York herald., 1874-09-16

= EAST TIL RTY. FIRST STREET, ONE DOOR FROM
- rlfh avenue-DesiraOle second Floor singlv or en-
sue also large Room Fourth feor 10 ren with frst
class Board; references.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-07-29
AN INDUSTRIOUS WORKER.

II is said that Victor Hugo rarely
makes use Of the pen be works with
the brain and not with the hand
When composing his works he PAGES
the floor Of his room, holding high his
head, and debating to secretary sit
ting at desk in one corner. He die
tates very slowly, sentence by sent
ence, as Moses, to whom the poet Of
ten compares himself, must have dc
tated tho words engraved upon the
ancient tablets of stone. Moses ho
regards as the greatest man that ever
lived, but there arc grave doubts in
his mind whether or not Moses and
Victor Hugo are not one and the same
person. II Hugo did not live few
thousand years ago under the namo
of Moses, be thinks that the soul Of
Moses must have descended to the
Hugo OF today. 1t is even said that
he has declared any other mind that
ever existed incapable Of writing tho
irst books Of the Bible, and rather in
clines to the belief that he wrote them
himself. If he extends his theory to
Others his lofty contempt for the rest
of mankind must make him assign tho
rest OF us 10 brute state Of existence
at the time ho was the chief Of tho
Hebrews and the law-giver to the hu-
man race. Victor Hugo works inces-
sanity, wearing out two secretaries
when pressed for the timc, and eats
as hearty as any man alive. The
amount Of fish no consumes by him
self woald supply small family, aud
his bcefsteaks are Of old-fashioned d.
mensions. After all, there is nothing
like good appetite and an excellent
digestion, especially when one rises
at FIVE o'clock in the morning and
works until midnight.