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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-05

After breakfast she accompanied
him out of the village, and when
they parted he said: "May the
first work you undertake last till
EVENING""
She went her way home, think
ing the whole time of her linen,
and anticipating its wonderful in
crease but Just then her COWS be-
gan TO low. "Before / measure my
linen" said she, 81 will quickly
fetch the COWS some water"
But when she poured the water
into the trough, her pail never
emptied; she went on pouring, the
stream increased, and soon her
house and yard were all under wa
ter; the neighbors complained that
everything was ruined /; the cattle
were drowned, and with difficulty
she saved her own life, for the wa
ter never ceased flowing until the
setting Of the sun.
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OF PYTHIAS.
rruu.ssuu Lopez No. 5-Mest

TENNESSEE Lopez No. Sheets
every Monday night at Harmony
Hall, I. o. ~. r., corner Beal and fernando
streets. c. Layton, &C; Jno. Wilson, w.;
w. Klostemeyer, e.;G.M.k; rock u. OF Is.
Nj PreVeu7ale a. OF r.; w. "A. EoystoR, K.
Of r. and s.; Joe Locke, P. G.
MEMPHIS Lopez No. 6.-Meets for drill on
6rst Thursday Of each month. Regular meet
nT second, third and fourth Thursday. John
Wood, &C; T 7 Bath, V GA Mergell, p;
Martin Cohen, K r S; ] Lutz. ir; N n T "
Vigus. NJ Il Jos 5 leon, 7 U.
CauR DE LION LoDeE No. ls-Meets Cd and
lth Wednesdays e cry month, at go Second
ftreet, Vincent 5look, opposite Court Square.
Il. \; Briggss, . O.. NJ; Cooper j; y u 4
Tomlinssn. N. Of III d. W. ochaECF. d.
Of x. s.; J. J. Ross, P. G.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
nNHEx.
PyHLro LgpozR oFyIcE.


PUBLIC LEnGER 0FFIcE.
MEMPErs. TEES.. January 3, lS7.l
Business is somewhat lighter in bank.
ing circles to. day, but still a fair business
is being done. But few loans are asked
for, but when applications are made, &C
panied by FIRST class names, they are
generally accepted by the banks at the
usual rates. Exchange Is quiet, as
follows: New York commercial bills. &c
discount buying aud selling at PAR;
Eastern sight, So discount and selling
at par New Orleans, buying at &c
discount and selling at &c premium.
Money on the streets is plentiful at 2 to
81 per cent. per mouth. New York gold
rates are lO6s; hers brokers are paying
LOG to 1863 In stocks, bonds and local
.-s4.- IL. 80 HI. H.
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OF HOson.

FOUNTAIN LODGE. No. &6-neets every
Tuesday evening in Natema Hall, No. Us
Second street. at X o'clock. John J0hRsOn,
Dictator; John Legler, Reporter.
Uxrrr LODGE No. 2l7-meets every Nsdnss-
day night at Hall. No. rs Second street no
stairs. S. 5. Garrett. Dictator; A. 3. Blu.
Reporter.
CHELSEA Lopez. No O-meets p are lih
Thursday in each nonta, at Brick l.4.eh.
W, 2. Mitchell, D.; Al. Knapp. X
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE
BOATS LEAVING TO DAY.
Vieksburg. St. Geneyieve-....-...-.-...5 pm.
ARRITAIs.

AhhlfAiS.
None.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer Belle Of Texas, Friar's Point.
The river here is about on a
stand, with the ice thinning out.
The weather is m~oderating.
The river remains gorged at Ran
dOlph and at Island rs.
No business doing on the levee.
The Belle of Texas cleared Tor
Friar'g Point last evening.
Captain KehO has libelled the
Carl Schurz.
No arrivals or departures at New
Orleans yesterday.
The John Howard from White
river aud Fannie Moore passed
Vicksburg yesterday, en- route to
New Orleans.
The David Sinton got caught at
the mouth of Yazoo' river by the
rapid decline of the river.
Ice in Yazoo river.
Navigation in Arkansas and
White rivers is suspended on ac-
count of ice.
The upper rivers remain closed,
with the ice growing heavier.
The Charles Morgan and John
B. Maude are in a safe ice harbor
at Osceola.
Captain John D. Adams is in the
city looking after his steamboat
interests.
Captain Blake, of the Maude,
came in yesterday Oh the Paducah
road and left last night for St.
Louis.
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was Harvey Realty the
OF the CIreulAgten OF the BlOOc +?

VI tNo NiSohAntApn OF INC hl0OUs
A Roman correspondent of the
Scotsman writes: "Did Harvey
discover the circulation of tho
blood All Englishmen believe he
did - believe it as firmly as that
Newton discovered the law of gray.
itation. Italians, however, say no
and give the honoro Of the discovery
to Andrew Cesalpino of Arezzo in
Tuscany, who, sixty years before
Haryey's publication, demonstrated
the perpetual motion of the blood
from the veins to the right side Of
the heart, from this to the lungs,
and from the lungs TO the left side
of the heart, and from this to the
arteries, which, in their peripheral
expansion throughout the body,
anastomose, as capillaries, with the
veins.
Cesalpino taught this to his stu
dents in the University of Pisa, and
when he filled the medical chair in
Rome he demonstrated it to his
class by tying a vein in any part of
the body and making it swell be-
tween its capillary expansion and
the ligature, so hat when cut be-
tween these two limits there flowed
from it first the black, yenous blood,
and thereafter the red, ~arterial
blood. All that the Italians will
allow to Harvey is this: that, hay-
ing learned from Fabrico d'Acqua-
psndente, at Padua, the existence
of valves in the veins, he pointed
out the true function Of these valves
as that of opposing the centrifugal
motion Of the blood.
So satisfied are the Psychologists
of Italy that the merit of the
greatest discovery in biological
science belongs to che Tuscan COM
patriot, that on the Both inst. they
will unvail a monument to him in
that sense in the University of
Rome, where he died; while they
propose to place over the gateway
of the University of Pisa, where
first taught, a Latin inscription,
which is translated: "Andrew
Cesalpino, of Arezzo, Lecturer on
Medicine in the University of Pisa,
after the correction of Galen's
errors as to the function of the
and the veins, discovered the
circulation Of the blood through
the whole body, a process which he
demonstrated by ~yiyisections, after
had been applied to the
and which, in his 'Quistioni
Peripathetiche,' published in 1869,
and his 'QuistiOni Mediche,' pub
in 1898, using the very word
CIRCULATION, lIsell ne lrst Iully de-
For months past the English
medical journals have been pub
fishing appeals on the part of the
Haryerian society for subscriptions
to erect a monument to their 'shero
and syonymus" in his native Folke-
stone. Three thousand pounds is
the sum required, and two years the
within which the monument
will be ready for unwilling. Might
not some Harvyian lecturer employ
the interval in reyindicating the
Englishman's title to the discovery
by lnvalidating that Of its formid-
able Italian "~claimant?"
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Attachment Notice.

Before Z. W. Caldwell, Justice of peaos for
Shelby county. Tennessee-S. Toube h Co.
We. y. =, Powers 4 Bro and Leidy Il Co.
VS.. b. e. Powers & BIO.
IN THIS CAUSE ATTACHMENTS HAv-
1 ing been sued out under section 955 OF tbe
Code of Tennessee, and returned by the proper
omcer, levied UPON the property Of the de-
fendants, and affidavit having been made that
tho defendants are justly indebted to plain
tihs s. Tonbe Go, in o sum Of S2O6 95 and
20 plaintiffs Leidy 4 90, 10 the sum Of ST. So,
by account, and that the defendants
are non.rbsidents Of the State of Tennes.
see; it is therefore ordered that defendants
make their personal appearance before d. W.
Caldwell, j. p, on the 22d day Of January
1877, at his office, No. u w. Court st., in the
city of Memphis, Tenn, and defend said az
tachment suits within the time prescribed b.
law OF the same will be proceeded with :
partei and that a copy of this order be p nh
iished once. a week for four successive v esS
the Public Ledger. oeAS
This 18th day Of december, 1876.
A-lOO-l06-ll2 d. W. CALDWELL. IL
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mo, 2l77.i
NOnsIEeaiden Notice.

In the Chancery Cou.d Of Shelby county,
TennVsee-Th0s. u, Allen et III VS.. j. III.
Mcclellan ct al.
TT APPEARING FROM THE CROSS BILL
4 Of j. Ii; Hedges in this cause that the de-
PENDANTS, James Al. Allen. Perry Eugent and
W. Ia. Atehi5ald, are non residents of tho
state 81 Tennessee; it is therefore ordered
that they make their appearance herein
at the court house in tho city of Memphis,
Tenn, on or kefOre the first Monday in Feb
ruary, 1877, and plead, answer or demur to-
said cross bill, or the same win DO taken
for confessed ss to them and set for hearing
ex parte; and that a copy ofthis order bo pab-
lished once q week, for four successive weeks,
in the Public Ledger.
This 2lst day of December, 1876.
A copy-Attest;
EDMUND A. COLE, o, and NJ
By e. y. MoHENRY, D, O. ard M.
Hutchinson ! T0wnEond, and Geo. Gillian,
Soils. for complainant. g7-lO} l09-li5
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NV YoRK. January 5 l2;2O pm. -Cottsn
Is strong. with futures strong. Sales for future
delivery, MSO0 bales.

Ll,EsrOOL. January S 1880 p.n. ct
ton Is bvoyant UpiandA61d; Orleans. Tl-I6j.
.Slas, GOO bales, Of when 400 we're for ex-
poTt and speculation receipts, - bales.
OF which - were American. Arrivals
opened i-l6d higher.
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Adminislralor,a NoLinn-

A LII PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS
a against the estate Of Francis Moore, de-.
ne for payment within the time prescribsd b h.
law; otherwise they will be forever barTed
All persons indebted to said estate will comc
forward at euce and settle their indebtedness
or suit will be pr mutly instituted.
81. WOLF, Administrator.
E-lO4-lIO-llb 2i} Front street.
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II legal hours, in front Of Che Court-house,
emp Tenn, proceed to sell. to the high
property, to-wit; BEGINNING AZ the north
west intersection Of Exchange and Second
streets. IN the city Of Memphis, county of
shelby and State of Tennessee; thence north
with rGcond street 81 feet ~ inches; thence
West "a fee'i thence south 81 feet IL inches
TO Exchange ntreet; thence east M, foet to
the beginning.
Levied on as tho property of defendant. W.
and costs.
Memphis, December 4. 1876.
G. i. ANDERSON.
-, Sheriff Of Shelby county, Tenn.
By w. d. CANNON, D IS.
d. NJ Scales, Attorney for Plaintiff.
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Attachment Notice.
NOn.Resldent Notice.

Grubbs q Austin VS.. w. J. Hale K G. .-Before
Geo. ID. Crockett, j. p. for Shelby county,
Tennessee.
TN THIS CAUSE AN ATTACHMENT HAV.
i ing been sued out under section 1856 Of the
Code Of Tenn, ssee. and returned levied Upon
the property Of the defendants, and affidavit
having been made that the defendants are
indebted to the plaintiffs in the sum Of Sz7S. 80,
due by note and account, that the claim is
Just, and that defendants are non residents of
state Of Tennessee; it is therefore ordered,
that the said defendants make thier personal
appearance before Geo. j. Crockett, j. p, on
the LIST day of February 1877, at his Office,
No. 2S Main street, in the city Of Memphis.
Tennessee, and defend said attachment
suit within the time prescribed by law,
or the same will be proceeded with OK parte
and that a COPY of this order be PUBLISHED Onoe
a week for four consecutive weeks in the
Memphis Public Ledger.
This 9th day Of December, 1876.
l0l-l0T-ll3-1l9 GEO. d. CROCKETT, j, P.
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huBtA8a
Mrxram Lopss, No. 6-msetp every Tues-
day. s. 5. Garrett. N. g.; A., J. knapp
We: L. s. Burr. Secretary; B.. y. hisk.
cSfSxasAw Lopsz, No. S-mesu every Mon
iay nigAt. Z. NJ. cara. n. g.; A ~. 0ih-
son, VI. a.; 7. j. Hogan. R. s.; John a.
Eot, Treasurer; Themas Bacon. r. s.
scEfLLER Lopez, No. H0-meets every Wed.
nssday night. Frank Dries, N. 6.iv I'd
Bohle, : e.; Chss. Borner. Secretary; John
L~inkhauer, Treasurer.
BIEgEP LeDGR, No. 147-meets oveyy Friday
aiTht. J.W. Anderson, N. 9.j W.k. French,
v. g.; VIZ. Henry, P. and X. s.; y, -. VII
Ems sTuyS err LoDar. No. lsT-mests every
lharsday evening ri Odd Fellows Hsll Ma
eon Webo, N. g.; ]. z. Young, V. O.. ". ID.
Moystsn, Secretary A. x. kenneday. Treas.
Harmony LopGE No. l99-meets every Tues
day night at Odd Fellows Hail, corner Beal
e.: D. q. Reahard. V g.; D. A. Mc0mber,
Sec'y; Henry @. Dent, Treasurer.
ENoAHPHTEFs.
elyoso E~EoAMPxKET, No. 9-msets On the
i6t and Sd Thursday niahte Of each month
n r gondyoar, q. p. W. X. French, h.f (;
P'0 Smith, s. W.; Tbos. Bacon, sgrloo; 3.
bingham, treasurer; 7. J. Hogan, J. ".
NrsPRIs E~NOAEPHKEr, No. &-ueeta y end
ttb Thursday nights Of each month. q. W.
H. Crook. O. P; j. j. Ross. u. p; S. s.
s.Sr rSttt 8. W; 3. B. Cullen. j. WI; c. H
Piischke, scribe; John Waynesburg, Treas.
DEGREE LODGE,
MuvPHrs DReREE LoDoE No. S-Meets first
g.tnrday Of each month. Wm Henry, D
Nj D. A. Wardlaw, D D. NJ; Thomas Ba-
con, 4. u, NJ: l.. s. Burr, I'd a.. D. NJ
+, ?. Holland. Seo'y; +. W. Smith, Treas.
RUTH LoDaE. No. In or R.-meets second
ID fourth Saturday nights Of each month.
rs. Burr. N. a.; Mrs Marcus Jones, Y. CT
III Holland. Sec'y; Mrs. Gee Miller, Treas.
GENERAL RELIEF COMMITTEES J .S. Wilkins,
thairman. go Main street; john w M8yses-
hurr. Sscrstary and Treasurer, 2e Front
street. A. d. Gibson, 6 West Court street, j..
q. Schmidt, AZ Monroe street; l. i. Porter,
q linton street.
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nEursCnER HEUDEa-nuSD.

DEU7soasR BsuDKE-BuED . meets LIST Sunday
n each moath at2 o'elsck Pm. al Cochran
mann, Vice gres't; W. GlaentIer, eec'y; II.
W. Schultre, Ireas'r; Aug Zweiiel and John
Hanawefker, Sick Committee for Northern
Division; John Weadsl and John MaTgle,
Sick COMMITTEES for Southern Division.
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streets, in the city Of Memphis. procf I'd h.
sell at public outoty. TO the highest adder.
tho following described real estate. fowl .
Range three. north 8, east. west halt ~ seet,on
twenty. containing three hundred md thirty-
one and eighty. me huqqrodths acres, situate
State Of Arkansas. Also tbs foliowing obat-
tells. Three brown horse mulos. II. lGH md
l5h hands h gh three Drown mare mules
10 and u hands high two sorrel horse mules
about 10 hands ntgni 9ae OK wagon one mule
white spotted aud one red and white snattsd
forty heads Of stock cattle.
All equity Of redemption waived In said
trust deed. and title believed 10 be Good INT
/ viii sell ouly as Trustee. NV
lOlS oHAS. s. COOK. Trustee.
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,herilf's Sale Of Roal ESTATE.

DUBLIC NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN
l. that by virtue Of a venditiOni exponaS 10
me directed from the Honorable Circuit rourt
o. shelby county Tenn, in the case Of R. N.
judgment rendered On the S0th day Of NaIch
1876, for the sun OF four hundred and ninetv
dol ars and forty. eight cents, with interest
and costs of suit to aatisiy said Judgment
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securities there IS very hItle doing.
OnTrOn.

The market this morning opens strong
and higher, with a good demand. Yes
terday's business aggregated 5000 bales.
Official quotations are advanced.
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LgoAL.
mo. 2ts0.l
InsOlvent and Neh.Resldent Notice.

luSOlVbut huu Nun'hobAucub NUAACCe
In the Chancery Court Of Shelby county. Ten
nessee-Wm. G. Bartle, eEt'r Of Eliza 7.
Hays, deceased, vs.. Susan +. Martin at al.
TT APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT IN
i this cause that the defendants, susan II.
Martin, Dabney Martin, West Richardson, r.
X. Mason, Dr.. G. NJ. B. Moughs, Kveline
Chambers, James s. Bowling, Merchants
National Bank of st. Leuis, No., and John
b. Smithers are citizens Of Missouri, and non
residents Of the state Of Tennessee. This
suit having been brouaht for the purpose Of
winding up the estate Of said decedent, which
il alleged TO be insolyent, praying that all
creditors he made parties, etc.; II is therefore
ordered that said defendants mako their ap-
pearance herein. at the Courthouse in the
city of Memphis, Tenn, on or before the first
Monday Ia February, 1877, and plead. answer
or demur b. oomplainant'g. bill, or the same
will be taken for confessed as TO them, and
that all creditors Of said estate appear herein
within the time prescribed by Law, and file and
establish their claims against sGid estate, or
the cause will be proceeded. with ex parte !;
and that q copy Of this order be published
onee3 week for four successive weeks in the
Public Ledger.
This Goth day Of December, 1876.
A copy-Attest:
EDMUND A. COLE, @. and NJ.
By r. J. BLACK. D. O. and M
r.Pi Edgington, Sol. for Complainant.
10{.2D9-lik 12l
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or MoNoa.
NAroMA TEMPLE OF II. AND 7.
Al I-maeta averv Fridav avan-

NAroMA TEMPLE OF ii. AND 7. EhISIh
40, l-msets every Friday even ENH
ing at 8 o'clock at Temperance f-th
Hall, No. 29s Second street.
Il. o. Milton. W, @, T.; J II. Thonps0p, ".
v. T.; G. A. s. Richardson. W. X; q. +
shepherd. ". A. R.; Earle Can't, W. Il. r.;
Pun r. Price, W Tr.: r. w. shelton, W.. U ;
o. Olsen, W. D. u; 7. r. Callahan. W. q (.
B. Dunn, W. s D. @. McDougal. p. W.. G. T.
CHELSEA TEMPLE or II. AND 4. No. q meets
every Tuesday evenlng at 8 O'clock, at their
VI, Brick Church. Chelsea W. NJ. Carr,
W. O. T.; r. r. White, W. V T.; Chas. "A.
LanhaIn, W. R.; G.. r, Dawson. W. A. r.;
l.. g. Williams, W. X. r; ~. Chandler
W. =; II. Wheadley, W. Ut r. J. Rawlings.
W. d. u; @. r. Egnew. W. g.; /. Isaacs,
MS; Il. u. Colby. P. W. G. T..
MONTGOMERY COUNCIL No l. T. A. AMI S
T.-meets first and third Saturday in each
month, In Temperance Hall. at ~ O'Clock
pm. Horace H.. Briggs, c. Of G.; G. AS.
Richardson, r.
THALgs TENPLE OF II. Ann T. No. 4-mee,i
every Thursday evening at ~ o'clock at ball
No. 295 Second st. v. A. johnson, w. CT
". II. Atkinson, W. V. T.; J L. Bourne
W. R.; John D. Cox, IT,. W. A r; +. W,
Halle, W. +. T.; Chas. II. MeDougal, W. T.
Y. J.. Davis. W. u; D. g.. Reahard, W. D
g.; Chas Stewart, w. G.i VIM, HOman, W
s.. Jonathan Wood, p. W. c. I.
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Sheriff's Sale Of Real Estate.

DUBLIC NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN-
4 that By virtue Of o vsnditioni exponas IL
me directed from the honorable Circuit Court
Of, Shelby county, Tennessee, in tho case OF
Ask. w Raines VS.. N. D. Smith, Judgment
rendered on the l9th day Of May, 1876, fer
the sum Of two thousand aud eighty-eie ht
dollars and two cents, with interest and costs
Of suit, to satisfy said judgment, etc., 1 will,
On Thursday, January II, 1877,
in legal hours, in frorS Of the Courthouse,
Mempbis, Tennessee, proceed 20 sell, to the
highest bidder, Tor cash, the following de-
serlbed property. to-wit: In block l, Fort
Pickering. lots 9, land b, fronting so feet each
on the south side Of VanBuren street by a
depth OF 1917 feet each TO an alley.
Lot No. fronting 60 feet On the north side
alley
Levied on as the property of defendant,
N, b. smith, TO satisfy said judgment. inter.
Memphis. 18th day Of December. 1876.
O. j.. ANDERSON.
Sheriff Of Shelby county, Te'n
By W.D. CANNON, D. S.
VIM, Strong, Attorney for plaintiff,
% 10 106
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T'rusteas- s;aIo.

VIRTUE dc THE POWER AND AU-
ID thority in ms ycsin by n cerlain deed Of
trust executed BY W d. Kilbey aud Mary l..
his wife, on The I'd day Of March,
1876, which deed " ~ corded in Book b. page
DS3 in the Clerks llioe Of Leo county, Ar
kansas, TO secure the indebtedness therein
mentioned, and the same not having been.
paid. and being requested by the bonehcisrios
mentioned hi Gaid deed " trust, | will, ON
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JILL LEDGER.
SEAsezIO DIREuFORx.

lLM --a-a trtE
SsUrH MRMPHrs, No. I18 -mests I'd Friday
IN aoh month, in Odd Fellows Hall. I'm
Nelson, u N; B K Pullen, Sec'y.
AsGERoNA, No. 16S-meets LIST Monday II
each month. in Odd Fellows Hall. A S
Mostly, WM; @ Lecke. Sec'y;
LEILA SoOrT. No. 229-meets list Wednesday
= each month, in Odd Fellows Hall. AF
Myers. w NJ; r Lyle. Sec'y.
DESOTO, No. 2yJ-meets "a FRIDAY IN each
month, in Odd Fellows ball; Jno W Ora
KItwrsNISe, No. Sl-meets 4th Friday in
sach msnth. in odd Fellows Hall. James S
CARPENTER, WIN; lack I White, Soc'y.
ROYAL ARoH.
pxvK CHAPrEx, No. 2-meets I'd Monday Of
aanh month-st Masonic Hall, In Gayoso
Block. Robt. Galloway. NJ. 3. Il. P; 0. e.
WSSpsfs CHIPrER, No. s5-meets Of Ma
sonic Hall, in 6aynso Block, Sd Monday Of
each month. B. K. Pullen, Il. Z. II. P.i
K. W. Shelton, secretary.
z. n e. X.
EugsKA OouHeIL, No. 6-meess 81 THURS
dsy 81 each month-st &asonio hall. /. day-
oso Block. A. ]. WAsolsr. III. Hit Q. u.
raXFIARs.
cyRxKy CormAFDERY, No. a-nests 4th Mon
asy Of each menth at Masonic Hal. Gayoso
aIcek. I'd Worshsm, n. OK i. j. Bnrohus,
81. ELMO CoEMASDErY No. I5.-Meefs
"a Tuesday Of each month at Masonic Hall.
Gayoso Block. b. +. Haller, r. O.; +. w.
HNTsHrs or RED Caoss OF CONSTANTINE
meets first and third Saturdays Of each month
nj Masonic Hall. l.. u. Hatch, N. 2. s.; Il.
J. Barohus, h.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-01-18
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

Twas the night before Christmas. when all thro'
the house
Not creature was stirring, not even n mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with
In hop, tina ST. Nicholas soon would be there !;
The children were nestled all snug in their
beds,
their heads.
And mamma in her 'kerchief and in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for q long winters
nap,
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
1 sprang from my bed to see what was the mat
ter;
AWAY to the window flew like flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow
Gave luster of midday to objects below;
When, what to my wondering eyes should ap
pear
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer,
With little old driver So lively and quick,
knew III a moment it must be st. NICK.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came;
And he whisted and shouted, and called them
by name:
"Now. Dasherl now, Dancerl now, Prancerl
now, Vixen!
On. Come on. Cupid on, D'mder and Bitten
70 the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now, dash away dash away, dash away air.
AS dry leaves before the wild hurricane fly,
sky,
So up to the house top the coursers they flew,
With a sleigh full Of toys anu st. Nicholas, too;
And then n a twinkng l heard on the roof
The prancing and paving Of each little hoof.
AS drew in my head and was turning around,
Down the chimney st. Nicholas came with a
bound;
He was dressed all in furs, from his head to his
foot
And his clothes were all furnished with ashes and
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his
pack.
His eyes, how they twinkled his dimples, how
merryl
his cheeks were like foses, his nose like a
His droll little mouth was drawn up like bow,
And the beard on his face was as white as the
snow;
The stump of pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke of it encircled his head like a
wreath.
He had a broad face and little round belly
That shook when he laughed like a bowl full of
jelly.
He was chubby and plump. a right jolly old elf.
And laughed when saw him, in spite of my
self.
A wink of his eye and twist of his head
Soon gave me to know had nothing to read.
de spoke not word, but went straight to his
work,
And filled all the stockings. then turned with a
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving nod, up the chimney he rose;
lie sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle
But heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of
MERRY Christmas to ALI and to all good
night"
Clement C. Moore.