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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

New Goods at Knorr'5 for fall trade.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

At d. Lowenbergs.
Boots for fall tradca Knorr's--.iust received
try them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

having been made in favor of James !
Smith, by this body, on the 10th Of
1874, for the sum of $l6,
on the Judgment fund, and no war
rant issued therefor;
Therefore, Be it resolved, That /
warrant now issue in favor of said
Smith, on the judgment fund for said
sum of $16 90.
Be it enacted, &C., That G. w.
Durdin, ex-Parish Treasurer, having
this day presented receipts and
vouchers for one hundred and ninty-
nine 5000 dollars ON ordinary fund,
and receipts and vouchers for six
hundred and forty and 90-100 dollars
on Road and Bridge fund, and re-
ceipts and vouchers for four44undred
and eighty-one and 75-1O0 dollars on
judgment fund, said several sums in
Guiding his commissions on said sew
eral sums, and said sums being the
several amounts due by him accord
ing to report of committee made to
this Jury on the 18th instant, he,
said G. w. Durdin, is hereby reliev-
ed of all liability as Parish Treasurer,
for the sums aforesaid, ON the sever
al funds aforesaid.
Be it further enacted, &C., That J.
A. Snider, Parish Treasurer, be
charged with the sum of fifty cents,
Ordinary Fund, and six hundred and
twelve and 40-lOO dollars, Road and
Bridge Fund; and seventeen and
29-100 dollars, Judgment Fund, this
day paid over to him by G. w. Dur
din, as appears by receipts of said
Snider to said Durdin, presented and
delivered to this Jury.
The scrip then presented by said
Durdin, as per above settlement
were, on motion, burned in open ses.
sion.
| The following amounts were allow.
ed to the members Of this body, their
per diem at this.session, to-wit:
Toll. Swindle. for $50 OK
To J. G. Allen, for 80 on
To league Miller, for 80 on
To Emperor Thomas, for 80 On
To Sol Ely, for Is on
TO w. III. Hill, for rs On
To w. HI. Hill, for recording
Acts present session, 6 q
: The Board then issued warrant
for foregoing appropriations, number
J ing on the registry from number IL
, to 145 inclusive.
Read and adopted April Is, 1875.
J. j. SWINDLE,
Il President Of Police Jury.
) w. H. HILL, Clerk.
II The Board then:adjourned sine die
n w. III. HILL,
: Clerk Police Jury.
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IN three years the cotton cron

IN three years the cotton crop
Of the South has yielded lis
$50, 900 bales, Of the estimated
value Of 725. 600. 900. The value
of the crops for three years
preceding the war was 1884,
OOO, OOO.-[N. Y. Com. Adv.
Oh! we were under the i'm.
preston from what the ICONS
mercial Advertiser" has SO 81.
ten said about the South, that
our people have been SO busy
killing negroes and running
them into swamps, and in fish
ing, hunting and hanging
around crossroads groceries,
as to have no time nor disposis
ton to produce SIS. OOO, 600
in three years. Mobile Reg>
lister.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

The same to be left in the hands Of
the President of the Police Jury to
he by him delivered to the Collector
when he shall have executed his
bond as parish Collector, az the law
directs.
Be it Resolved, That If Percy Ba-
ker. claiming to be authorized to col
lect parish taxes, shall not execute
hond IS required by the law passed
by this body within. ten days from
fkis date. the President Of this Jury
ann. by public notice in the official
iournal for the parish, notify all tax
nayors not to pay parish taxes to said
Raker. and that copy Of this resO-
Intion be served on said Baker.
1t appearing that an appropriation
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

Two Kentucky brothers went
into the war fourteen years
ago, one entering the Union ar
my, while the other went with
the rebels. They never met
since, until one day recently,
when they met in q Columbus
Ky.), street, and then the old
war feeling was SO strong that
they wouldn't speak.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

WILL BE ON HAND.-Fhero
being no longer any doubt that
spring is here, a Detroit lawyer
yesterday commenced to write
a Fourth Of July Grafton and
will soon be ready to CORES
pond with committees. AL
though he didn't work over
two hours yesterday he got
along to the point where the
orator always raises his right
hand and says:
1.-THE blood of those who
fought at Bunker Hill still
nourishes the soil from which
patriots spring !" [Applause.j
II Detroit. Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

There is food for thought III
this paragraph from the Boston
Herald: '.Those people who
think it impossible for Presi-
dent Grant to get Q nomination
for a third term have not look
ed at the figures. There will
be 800 votes in the Convention.
Ofthese'the is Southern States
will have 1873. Grant could
get all these to-day, and 48
more would give him the ma
jority. He would undoubtedly
be the strongest candidate on
the first ballot were the Con
veption to be held next week"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

The Norristown Herald wants
the legislature to define the
season for shooting editors,
and the suggestion seems not
unreasonable. Still, as an off
set, the legislature should also
define the season during which
editors can indiscriminately
make game of other people
Il Exchange.
Exactly. Let editorial bull
lies learn to keep within due
bounds, and they will be very
apt to get along in peace. An
editor has no right to abuse
men, simply because he hat
the opportunity.
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A bill which recently passed
the Legislature of Tennessee,
levying a tax of one dollar each
on male and FIVE dollars on
female dogs, has aroused much
ill-felling among the colored
people in the State. whom The
Louisville Courier Journal says
that each head of q family Is
the owner from one to ten Of
those animals.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

Massachusetts has at last
freed herself from the prohibi-
tory system and proposes to
try what virtue there may be
in a rigid license law.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

The standard of public NOR
ais is fatally impaired when it
becomes possible for men
whose every dollar is the pro-
duct of notorious fraud to hold
their heads high and to assume
and maintain that social posi-
ton which has previously been
accorded only to recognized
worth and solid, honest sue
cess in business.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

tocracy Of knavery. The pull
pit must aid the press in reas
Weakening the dormant NOR
al sense Of the nation, and
then, but not till then, will
that public and private felici-
ty which, as Washington OBJ
served, is connected so indis-
solubly with Morality and Re.
ligion, be re-established in the
land.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

The rush of immigration to
Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah,
and the Pacific coast this
spring via Omaha, is reported
as unusually large. Nearly
10000 emigrants have passed
through since March LIST, and
/ 900 more are there now await
ing transportation.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

The glory Of the farmer is
that, in the division Of labor,
it is his part to create. All the
trades rest at last on his print
tive authority. He stands close
to nature !; be obtains from the
earth the bread and meat. The
food which was not he causes
to be- Emerson.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

the people of the United States
George Washington employed
this language:
Of all the dispositions and
habits which lead to political
prosperity, Religion and Nor
atty are Indispensable sup
ports. In vain would that man
claim the tribute of patriotism,
who should labor to subvert
these great pillars Of human
happiness, these ,firmest props |
of the duties of Men and Citi- !
zens, The mere Politician,
equally with the pious man,
ought to respect and to cherish
them. A volume could not
trace all their connections with
private and public felicity.
Let it simply be asked, where
is the security for property,
for reputation, for life, If the
sense of religious obligation
desert the oaths, which are the
instruments of investigation
| in Courts of Justice And let
us with caution indulge the
superstition, that morality can
be maintained without reli-
gion. Whatever may be con-
ceded to the influence of rein
ed education or minds of Pc
culiar structure, reason and
experience both forbids us to
expect that national morality
can exist in exclusion Of reli-
gious principle.
j Has this solemn voice from
the dim recesses of the Past
no special significance for the
eager whispers of the Present
Religion and Morality have
faded among the people, and
as if in purposed fulfillment Of
: the warning, 10 the security
for property, for reputation,
even for life, is everywhere
shaken by the withdrawal Of
the sense of religious obiga.
. ton from those oaths, which
are the instruments Of investi,
cation in Courts Of Justice
Perjury rears its shameful.
head in the halls Of the Nation
. Legislature even, and a wait
ing people are compelled tt
!. doubt the faith and veracitJ
8 Of the second official Of tn,
republic. The Senatorial of
+ fee has been degraded to ;
! chattel, and is bartered ant
o sold by miscreants. The ju
e dicial ermine is degraded il
the dirt, and corrupt Legisla
lures impeach yet more COZ
!. rupt Judges. These thing
are not monstrous growths
They are the inevitable effect
, of abandonment to the lust o
riches and the removal of tn
!; restraints of morality and re
ligion. But the evil is not il
) remediable. Beyond the tain,
!. ed circles, wide though the
be, lies a still uncorrupte
mass of popular sentimen
20 There remain yet a ten thor
b. sand who have-not bowed til
is knee to Baal, and who ca
a effect the restoration of th
= country. Despite all evidel
= ces of dishonesty-the sens
: of the majority is trustworth,
= and will remain so. But thel
= must be a reaction again
profigacy, not only in polite
: but in society. The remed
! must go as deep as the poisol
or there will be no cure. Z
remove ill-doers and stop the
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

The testimony in favor of or
chard grass is accumulating.
In some Of the Southern States
it is especially priced.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

President Grant has arrang-
ed with his charming son Fred
die to resign his army commits
sion, and open a bank in
Washington this fall. John
Sherman, jr., a nephew Of Gen
Sherman, will be Fred's part
ner. IF the New York Sun
does not let too much daylight
into the Washington ring, fol
the administration to reap suf-
ficient reward for its honest
labors it will make q very ex-
tensive deposit with the new
bank. IF the President is I'M
lucky, Fred may possibly drop
his partner and open a faro
bank.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

To render Agriculture more
productive and beneficial to
all, it is necessary that its prln-
ciples should be better UNDER
stood, and that we should
profit more from the experience
Of each other, and by the ex-
ample Of other countries which
excel as in this great business.
-[Bnel.
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Death Of a Venerable Lady.
rom the Sbreyenort Times, 23rd.l

From the Shreveport Times, 23rd.l
Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton,
mother of Mr.. w. 3. Hamilton,
a prominent merchant of this
city, died at his residence yes
terday. She was suddenly, and
while in apparently perfect
health, taken with q paralytic
attack Sunday week, from
which time to the moment OF
her death she lay without the
power of speech or motion and
wholly unconscious. We be-
lieve that the power Of vision
was also gone. She had lived
to a ripe old age, and up to the
moment of the unexpected
stroke was remarkably active
and young in feeling for one
who has passed SO many mile
stones in the journey of life
Universally esteemed by bel
acquaintance, and most ten.
DERBY loved by her immediate
family and q very large circle
of relatives and friends, bel
death will carry profound sor'
row to many hearts. Full o.
years and happy in the con-
sciousness Of having faithfully
lovingly and as a true Christian
discharged all the duties Of life
the venerable lady goes dowr
to her grave as to peaceful
slumber.
The remains will this morn
ing be taken to Minden 70
. interment.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

The chances are two to one
in favor of the election Of a
Democrat, pure and simple, Of
tho straightest sect to the
Presidency. We want none
other. We believe the country
desires mono other. The Re-
publican party and its leaders
have been tried and proved
wanting, and now a fair trial
to the Democracy is the right
thing, and not only what the
people desire, but what we feel
confident they will bring to
pass. And OF this the Oonnec>
ticut election is a splendid
presage.-Atlanta Constitution
Dem.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

Holland has /, 200 wind mills
constantly at work pumping
the water from her farms into
river.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29
Hawley says in the Hartford

Hawley says In the Hartford
Courant:
'eThis defeat has in no re-
spect changed the principles
or the duty of Republicans.
We must correct our errors,
take our bearings anew and
move on. We can do our duty:
the result is in other hands,"
Exactly; and SO long. as
Connecticut Republicans con
tinue to have the ideas Of duty
which they seem to have now
the result is likely to remain
Gin other hands,"
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To to the Honorble Police Jury {
BOssier parish. La:

/
The undersigned appointed COM
mittee to report the condition of ac-
counts of G. w. Durdin with the
parish of Bossier, respectfully shows
that the stamemet above exhibits
the balance due by him at this date
to said parish on the several funds,
as mentioned, viz: on ordinary fund,
one hundred and ninety-nine dollars
and fifty-five cents; on Road and
Bridge Fund, six hundred and forty
dollars and ninety cents, and on udg-
ment Fund -four hundred and eighty
one dollars and Is cents; all of which
is respectfully submitted.
w. g. MCDONALD.>
J. A. SNYDER.
J. w. WALKER.
Bellevue, La, April Is, 1875.
Be it enacted, &C., That G. w.
Durdin, ex-Parish Treasurer, be au-
thorized to pay over the balance due
by him according to report of COM
yasttee this day made to the body, to
y. A. Snider, his successor in office
.. Parish Treasurer, and the receipts
IT said Snider shall be proper vouch-
ers for amount of same in settlement
of said Durdin with this body.
Be it enacted, DC, That the follow
ing accounts be allowed to w. g.
Mcdonald, District Attorney pro
tenn:
To salary to 1st April, 1875, $50 %
To defending suit B. r. Oneal
vs. Bossier Parish, No. 1851,
District Court, 81 ~
$1O1 10
The following account was then
presented and allowed to J. A.
Thomas:
To furnishing wood and making
fires for Police July, February
and March, 1875, S. 90
To waiting on Police Jury five
days present session, 90
To broom for use of Jury ROOM, SO
So SO
Warrants were then issued on APP
propriations made at this session
numbering from "a to 126 inclusive
which were duly registered and GER
titled to by the President and Clerk
in pursuance of law, after which the
Board adjourned until 8 o'clock A. NJ,
tomorrow.
w. III. HILL, Clerk.
Bead and adopted April 18th, 1878
il. SWINDLE,
President Police Jury.
BELLEVUE, La, |
April 18th, 1875. !
The Police Jury met pursuant t
adjournment.
Members all present.
The minutes Of yesterday was read
and adopted.
When the following acts We're pass
ed, to-wit: :.
Be 1t enacted, de-, That the act
passed by this body April 18th, 1875
prohibiting the President and Clerk
from issuing parish Licenses to Col
lect0r, &C., be and the same Is hereby
amended so as to strike out the wore
s'issue'' and insert in lieu thereof thu
word deliver.
Be further enacted, &C., That thu
President and Clerk be, and they arr
hereby authorized and required to is
sue the following amount of blanl
parish licenses on trades and profes
sions for the year 1875, tO-wit:
20 Blanks for $85 90 each.
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Two thousand negroes in
Williamson county have the
Kansas fever, and are deteBm-
ined to leave Tennessee. APP
plication was made to the cap
tain of a steamboat to convey
five hundred families from
Nashville to st. Louis on their
way to the land of freedom.
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BOSSIER BANNER
W. 3. Scanland, Editor and Prop'r.
Subscription, So Per Annum,
rein Advance. Ba

BELLEVUE, LOUISIANA:
Thursday, ::::::::::::::::::::::::April 20, 1875.
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"Invisible Green is the name
which the Republican candi-
date for Governor Of Connect
cut bears since he disappeared
under that Democratic MAORI
ty.-Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

Ever since we have heard Of
that Maine editor named T.
Pot, we have been filed with
anxiety to know il . trife
would make him boil over.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

The country press will join
us most heartily in rejoicing
over the following highly i'm
portant news item in the Met
ropolitan Picayune:
Pinchback was a'heavy win
ner during race week, and he
didn't banker after a quarter
stretch badge either.
Country papers never get
hold Of such startling local
items as the above. [Ouachi-
ia Telegraph.
| Of course not. It takes the
whisky slums Of a great city to
furnish such dignified (D and
important "a information. The
country is too verdant, and its
editorial jakes too insipid fol
such brilliant paragraphing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

About I, 600 merino ewes and
lambs have been purchased in
Western Pennsylvania and
Eastern Ohio, by n. w. Ingalls,
for shipment to the Indian
Territory, where he holds, ~
treaty with the Indian'sarango
eight BY fifteen miles. 'l'a
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

'sWhat," says the Rochester
Democrat, ssis the humor Of J..
Bailey worth, when Danbury
goes Democratic BY ss3 major
ity."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

When q man can't find anI.
thing TODD, he has lived long
enough.
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The journalism of the pres
ent is characterized by ampli-
cation; but as the population
and activity of the world in
crease, there is so much to no
tice that the day is not long
enough to read all the news
when diluted by descriptions
and details. As the multiple
cation Of daily topics Of inter
est goes on, a remedy must be
found for the intolerable con-
sumption of time in the mere
reading of newspapers, and
condensation must be the char.
acter Of the journalism of the
future. In this way, also, more
will really be learned by the
reader than at present, wher
he must skip over much Of the
contents of the large morning
papers. Condensation SO as K
preserve all the points of rea
interest in any piece of news
in an attractive form is a diff
cult art, but it must be learned
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-04-29

Pinchback, after 2 great DIAL
Of trouble. succeeded in getting
Senators Cameron and Morton
to take dinner at bis liou1e
when they were in New Or
leans, and meet the srepfesen-
tative colored mon.
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Be it enacted, &C., That the follow
lowing report be spread upon the
minutes, to-wit:
G.. w. Durdin,
Parish Treasurer,
In acct with Bossier Par, DIR:
March IL, 1875.-To balance
due on Ordinary Fund, as
per settlement of this date, 5 8 90
To amount received on Ordi-
nary fund since March 18th,
1875, fines, &c, from B. F.
Oneal, Sheriff, 19f w
$199 So
To Road and Bridge Fund, DR.:
March Ito balance due
this Fund on settlement this
date, $64O 30
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March IL, lS75.-To balance
due this Fund this date, on
settlement, 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15
SPECIAL NOTICE.

SCHRYcK's PULMoNIc SYRUP. SEA WHEr
Tonic. AND MANDRAKE Pills. These deserv-
edly celebrated and popular medicines have
effected a revolution In the healing art, and
proved the fallacy of several maxims which
have for many years obstructed the progress
of medical science. The false suppositi0n
that Consumption is incurabe" deferred
physicians from attempting TO find remedies
for that disease, and patients afflicted with Il
reconciled themselves 10 death without
making an effort TO escape from a doom which
they supposed TO be unavoidable. 1t is now
proved, however, that Consumption can be
cured, and that 1t has been cured in very
rently desperate ones by Schenck's PulmODic
Syrup alone; and in other eases BY the. same
medicine in connection with Schenck's Sea
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills. one or both,
according to the requirements Of the case.
Dr. Schenck himself. who enjoyed uninter-
rnpted good health for more than forty years,
was supposed, at one time TO be at the very
gate Of death. his physicians having pro-
nOunced his case hopeless, and abandoned
him TO his fate. He was cured by the af0re-
said medicine, and, since his recovery many
thousands similarly affected have used DR..
Schenck' preparations with the same remark
able success.
Full directions accompany each. making II
not absolutely necessary TO personally see DR..
Schenck unless patients wish their lungs ex-
amined, and for this purpose he is profession
ally at his principal office. corner Sixth and
Arch streets, PHILADELPHIA, every Monday,
where all letters for advice must be addressed
Schenek.s medicines are sold BY all druggists.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15
WhirInooIn.

The Colorado river Is noted for
"swirls, so called. They occur every.
where but only at high stages of water.
A bubble rises from the bottom, and
breaks with slight sound on the SUI i.
face. The water at the point begins a
rotary motion, so small that an inverted
,eacup might cover it. Larger and larger
grows the circle, till surface Of forty
feet in diameter is in motion, spinning
round funnel shaped hole in the center,
two or three feet across at the top, aud
coming to point in the depths below
Often large tree aeaiing down the
stream is caught and its foremost end
thrust up In the air twenty or thirty feet,
while the other passes underneath-the
exposed erd to be slowly drawn down
again, and to disappear. Three soldiers,
deserters from Camp Mohave, passing
through the rayine in q skill, immedi.
ately below the fork, suffered their craft
to run into swirl. One Of the crew, at
the FIRST intimation OF danger, threw
himself overheard beyond the charmed
circle; and rs he swan away, he turned
his head aud saw the boat spin round
aud round until QUO end being drawn
into the vortex aud the other upheayed
in the air, it slowly sank, as it reyolyed
into the lurbid bosom of the river, its
human freight to be seen no more; for
the Colorado river does not give up the
dead--no corpses lodge on its shores.