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country for agricultural nipple
ments and wearing apparel and
househould goods of various de-
scription, and the thousand of
other articles, which we could
produce at home? Our mineral
wealth will never be wealth to
US, unless We begin to encourage
the home industries. It is not
other peoples capital that we
need-it is how to prevent other
people from monopolizing our
capital that should be our most
urgent concern. It is a good rule
for the individual mem ber of the
community who has a dollar to
spend, or the fraction Of it, for
any article he desires, to first
look about him and see if he can
buy the home product. If this
becomes the general practice, it
would not be long before the
South would be commercially
independent and prosperous
We are often asked by anxious
people, when the hard times will
be over. We know of no time
when the reaction can set in, this
side OF a pretty general DISPOSE
ton on the part of all classes in
our own section to spend the
product of their toll among
themselves. In doing this they
will be obeying no more selfish
interest than has moved other
sections to their own deliverance
and commercial and monetary
superiority. There is no reason
in business morals or common
sense why we should commit
commercial suicide. Charity be
gins at home.
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New Advertisements.
Straw Sale.

ENstrayed before the undersigned, by Sterling
IL Harrison, on the Eth day of July, 1877,
and will be sold to the highest bidder, for cash,
at Bellevue, La, on Saturday, the 18th day Of
August, 1877. one Cow, marked with two Sits
i'll left ear, and swallow fork and underbt
i'll the right; black, with crooked horns. and
star in the face.
Appraised at Sl2.
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charges, &c.
HENRY STONE, Stray Master.
July IL, 1877.
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Succession Notice.

Succession Of Thomas In Parish Court d
j. Lay, deceased. Bossier parish, Ia
Notice is hereby given that William W. Lay
~ has this day filed in the Clerks once
application praying to be appointed admins
traitor of the succession of Thomas y. LAY,
deceased.
Now. therefore. this is to admonish all per-
sons concerned, that if opposition 10 not maze
thereto within the time required BY law, saio
applicant will be appointed administrator 10
prayed for. r.
Witness, Hon. B. f. Fort, Parish Judge o.
Bossier parish, La, this 3rd day Of July, A. D.
1877, JOANNES SMITH,
Deputy Clerk District Court
July 3. 1877. .ts
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12

THE SECRETARY OF WARS
BROTHER A Observation-Disclosures
McCrary, brother of the Secretary
of War, has been a Mormon for the
last twenty-five years, and has now
gone to Washington to see his
brother. He has two wives. The
other day a reporter interviewed
one of his sons, who was quite COM
municative. He said his father
had taken his second wife about
eighteen months ago. "She was
widow named Thornton, and had a
batch OF young ones by her former
husband. But Lord! you ought to
have seen the rumpus mother kick
ed up when the old man let on that
he was going to marry second.
She hit him on the snout with a
rolling-pin, broke waoh pitcher
over his head, tore his best Sunday
60 meeting coat to strips and threat
ened to break his back if ever he
brought No. 2 to her house. | tell
you, there was lots of fun for a little
while; now it's all over. Mother
had to give in.0
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Stray Sale.

Destroyed before Arthur Edwards, Justice OF
u the Peace, Ward No. S, Bossier parish. BY
Thomas Grisset, and will be sold to the high
est bidder, for cash, at Bellevue, La, on Satur
day, the 18th day of August, 1877, o white
and red speckled Cow, with one horn dropped,
and a split in the left ear, aged about 5years.
Appraised at IS.
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charges, SC
HENRY STONE, Stray Master
Bellevue, La, July 18th, 1877.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12

The New York Times reioices
in the snubbing which the Iowa
Republicans have just given to
the Federal Administration, be-
cause it is likely to teach the
party leaders in other States the
lesson that endorsement of the
"Southern Policy" cannot be
crowded down the threats of the
Republican party.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12

The Nashville American says:
" 1t cannot be denied that there
is a growing cutlery in the North
among the Republicans, from
whom a large part ofMr. Hayes
support must come, which pre-
sages trouble in the camp and
disaster, not to the Southern pol
icy, nor perhaps to the real civil
service reform, which does not
depend on the Administration
nor upon any one man, but to
the reputation of the Admins
tration, and to its freedom in
preparing new policies"
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mo great or noble nation will
sever its political from it's moral
hfe." That great sentiment of
Mr.. Tilden is widely quoted as
one of the finest called forth by
our period. 1t has a world of
meaning and of application to
the times.
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The "Mobile Register" says
"Col. j. j. Shannon, of the Meri-
dian Homestead, shipped on the
18th Of June, several boxes of the
Amsden peach to st. Louis
They sold for Sc per bushel.-
They are the earliest and the
best peaches, and bear shipment
WELL"
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DEFAULTINa TAX Co1rrcn.-

DEFAuIT1Ne TAX Co1nroro,.
Mr.. Brainard the expert s..
ed that in his exaninati; tspoft.
the records (not stolen frons . Of
Auditors office he had fon sas 2
q OF the ex-tax collectors . !" 2
defanlters to the anaout Of s n "
994 Sc, the names, parishes .;
amounts being as follows: aug
Earnest Martin, Lafayette. Az, !.
J. L. Monitor, jefferson. y aae o ov
s. Whitehead, Ouachitt, Soo ~ y
,. Kerrigan, St. James, 0 0os !. y
NJ. Morgans, st. Charles 10, ..
r I ohnss,n dreams n,84S 50
Percy Baker, Bossier, IA IS -
I. G. Williams, Caldwell aoa o. o.
}. L. Morris, st. Landry. 6oS M % o
J. Forsythe, Catalonia, Sos %
5. L. Randlett, st. Mary. 3 Sso o % o.
}. s. Fowler, jackson, 10 % %
T'R; Wright, Terrebonpe, 1870 ~ ~
J. P. Harlow, Tensas, 1914 ~ ~
b. Fulton, Orleans, 10 40 ~ ~
9 P"a ses'' dsalndes, l4,703 50
D O. T. 1 Dattgef' Urieans, 5,643 Sc
A. Leblanc, st. Bernard ! 0ss ~
D. D L. L. Snlz:emore, Caldwell, 2,Ol2 Is
3. ID. Dinkgrave, Ouachita, =
(per Frank Morey, atty $500 On
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The President has forbidden
government officials to take part
IN the management of political
organizations, caucuses, conven-
tons or election campaigns, OF
to pay assessments for political
purposes.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12

Gen. Hancock to the cadets
"Avoid the rocks of dissipation,
of gambling, of debt. Lead
manly lives and you will find
opportunities for great service,
when otherwise you would be
passed by"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12

The distance from Shreveport
to st. Louis, via the Texas and
Pacific Railroad and the South.
ern and Iron Mountain Railroad,
is about six hundred miles.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12

The Louisiana Lottery Company
makes it coolies of money chiefly out
OF the poor peoples daily pittance,
and the ex.Confederate heroes Early
and Beauregard are it's managers.
What a picture! No COMMENT
Carroll Commercial.
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A wholesale grocery firm in
New Albany received an order
for 5000 persecution caps."-
Whether the percussion caps
sent will do as we'll remains to
be seen.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12

The excuse that a man was
TOO drunk to know what he was
doing won't wash in the New
England courts. He gets the
same sentence as if he had been
sober.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12

The effect of the administra-
TONS Southern policy in Central
New York is said to be this i:
"Some Republicans grumble,
but none desert"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12

Charles Eicherm of Cincinnati
hanged himself recently because his
wife would not support him. Wo-
men are awfully unteeling nova
days.-B0ston Post.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12

Mississippi Democrats will
hold their convention, August /,
to nominate candidates for Gov
ernor and six other State officers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12

Silas Ponder, son of Hon. w.
A. Ponder, of Natchitoches, has
been appointed to West Point
by Col. VIM. M. Levy.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12

People who complain of hard
times and scarcity of food should
content themselves with the knowl-
edge that it's generally "good livers0
that have bad livers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12
S155,9s4 So

mn. $155,994 Sc
anything except the aordcrsa
that have been issued to the tar
collectors by the ex-Auditors to
pay these amounts into the
Treasury, the records from which
the amounts are obtained being
virtually the receipts of tax col.
lectors themselves, and thew
having made settlement for the
amounts named; have not paid
the amounts into the treasury
as the Treasurer's books will
show.-[N. O. Democrat.
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Men who would scruple to utter
a lie, do not seruple to entertain a
prejudice, forgetting that prejudice
is standard falsehood.
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BELLEVUE, La,
Thursday, :::::::::::::::::::::::JuIy IL, 1877.

Maj-Gene Joseph Wheeler will
soon remove to Huntsville, Ala,
to practice law.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12

The Richmond Enquirer re-
marks that ladies' husbands and
dresses are now worn tight.
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A Terrible Torpedo Boat.
More Fatal to Her Crew than to the Enemy.
A Veritable Coffin.

of time, and Of all the daring deeds
of all mankind in the history OF
wars, that Of Lieutenant Dixon.
Twenty first Alabama Volunteers,
in the submarine torpedo-boat in
Charleston harbor, in 1864, stands
unparalleled. This boat operated
under water. She could take the
bearing of her enemy more than a
mile away, then settle down under
the surface of the water, head for
the hostile ship, and strike her at
any depth below the water-line.
She required a crew of nine men,
all told-a captain, or pilot, and
eight men to propel her. She was
built in Mobile by I[undley & Nc.
Clintock, who took her by rail to
Beauregard at Charleston. He call
ed for volunteers from the fleet to
man her and use her against the
Ironsides. Lieutenant Payne, of
the Confederate Navy "a Virginian),
and eight seamen, volunteered to
take her out. She was made ready
one evening, and lying alongside a
steamer. The crew were all at
their posts inside the boat, Payne
was standing in the round hatch
way just about to stoop down into
his pllce and fasten the hatch down,
when the wave of passing steam
boat swept over and into her, sink
ing her instantly. Payne caught
by the guards of the steamer and
spring out; the other eight men
went down with the boat and per
ished.
In few days she was raised and
again made ready. Payne again
volunteered, and eight sailors with
him. This time they are lying by
the wharf of Fort Sumter, Payne
standing as before in the hatch to
give his final orders, when the boat
careened, filled, and sunk. Payne
and two men sprang out, the other
six went down in her and persisted.
In few days she was again raised,
and Hundley and a crew took her
into Stono river, where she dived
and swan on the water and under
it, showing all her powers, until
presently she dived and carried her
hapless owner and crew with her to
the bottom. When they were found
week after her nozzle was down
deep into the mud of the bottom.
and the boat was inclined forty i've
degrees to the surface. Her ballast
had shifted and her crew were un
able to relieve her, and they all per
ished. Again she was made ready
for action, and though they had
seen the fate of these three crews,
a fourth, led by Lieutenant Dixon,
of the Twenty first Alabama Infant
~, volunteered to take her out and
attack the Housatonic, new cor
vette, which had just arrived on
the station, and was lying outside a
few miles off Charleston harbor.
Brave Dixon steered his boat with
the certainty of fate, struck the
Housatonic fairly, and blew her
whole stern off. The ship sunk in
two minutes and a halt, and the
torpedo boat disappeared forever.
Six years afterward men in the sub
marine armor went down to wreck
the Housatonic and they reported
the Torpedan lying on the bottom
one hundred feet from where her
great victim lies. Undoubtedly the
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-07-12
Commercial Suicide.
From the Nashville american.

1t has taken the people of the
South a long time to appreciate
the philosophy, not to say prac-
teal business wisdom, of keep
ing their money at home, but
they are beginning slowly to
realize it's advantages at last
There is already a noticea bic
improvement from our ideas OF
waste and. extravaganza, and we
are beginning not to dispise the
small things by which a nimble
sixpence may be turned. 1t be-
gan with the shipping of the
blackberries that grow wild
upon the commons, which, it
was discovered, were almost as
saleable as the early strawber-
ries, vast quantities of which
are now yearly shipped abroad.
Then the shipment of plums and
peaches and early vegetables
increased. 1t has been but a
few years since we abandoned
the practice of buying potatoes
from the Northern market, and
now that practice is reversed,
and we are shipping early spring
potatoes in quantities. Early
spring VEGETABLES from the States
south of US have killed the local
business for early vegetables
here, and, as a consequence, the
early vegetables produced in
this portion of Tennessee are
produced mainly for Northern
consumption. Georgia, Ala
bama and Florida find an early
market for spring produce here,
and in turn, we take up the re-
frain and supply Northern mar
kets with our own produce, be-
ing fresher in the Northern cities
by 48 hours shipment than the
produce Of the region several de-
grees south of US. The wheat
straw, which we used to waste,
is now being UTILIZED for packing
eggs, which has grown into an
extensive business. Wheat bran
hitherto regarded as almost
valueless, has become an article
of universal demand for cow
food. A great many such arti-
Giles are now utilized that had
heretofore been wasted. We are
slowly learning the lesson of in
dustrial and commercial indie
pendence. But have only yet
begun. The economic philoso-
ply of keeping money at home
must be popularized. The prac-
tice should become universal to
be perfectly felt. A sort of Muir
ply movement epidemic is need
ed in this particular.
1t is time the South was real
izing her own commercial power,
or rather, that her ante-bellum
commercial prestige was not
wholly obliterated by the disor-
ganization Of her labor system
and enormous loss of wealth.
The cotton crop alone of the
Gulf States during the year end
ing Sept. 1, 1876, amounted to
the enormous product of 4,669,-
28S bales, or 2,201,O 24 pounds,
larger nv nearly a million bo1os
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Mulligan has sailed for Ireland
with letters of credit-not
Blaine's.
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Wagon wheels are among the
things which go by turns.
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Historical act.

Every agent who has been steadily selling
the Improved $50 Homestead Sewing Machine
for three wears, owns his own dwelling house,
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horse. covered with foam, frettlng,
chatting, and painting, reared anu d.
tempted to throw himself forward up
ON the Professor, but the brute
strength and ferceness paled before
the behest of science, ana CoSnac was
powerless to do harm. Inc eApei1-
ments continued about twenty MIN
utes. when the Professor concluded 70
test the docility of the animal. he
said that the principal thing to DC
overcome was Cognac's disposition 10
bite. Tapp approached him, s1rokeu
him on the body, then on the head.
and took hold of his nose. Cognac'
either from good nature or exhaust,
ion, permitted this. and even showed
the same docility toward Tapp $ as
sistant. Tapp thinks he has mace
great improvement in Cognac. lie
thinks the galvanic treatment is sue,
cess. and in this he was cOncuffed
WithNby number of horsemen LII the
audience, although others thougnC
differently. as the animal exhlblteo
his usual viciousness toward any otn-
ers who approached him.
DelOIC 1OollelC do UeehoiA
ring he would come and go back ;lt MS
trainers command. and, in many re-
spects. act like an intelligent horse.
At the close Of the exhibition PROT.
Tapp hitched Cognac up i'll buggy
and the gates that lead into McAlHs-
ter street having been thrown OPEN
he drove several blocks and returned.
There were a great many yehlcles
passing and repassing. and hundreds OF
people on foot, watching to see how
Cognac would acquit himself in har-
ness. He behaved just like any other
horse, and but for the fact that the
"man eater" was followed by large
crowd, 10 one would have suspected
that he was the distinguished animal
that all the world had heard 80 much
about.
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