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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31
Singular MOnomania OF a Seven.Year'
Old Boy.

Several days ago the Necs published
an item about a Seven-year-old boy, VINO
was found asleep and almost frozen, at
the rost-oilice. To the gentleman VINO
found him he stated that he was AFRAID
to 90 home till he sold his papers. Inc
Nc,cs reporter has since made inquiry
in regard TO the child and developed the
fact that he is a little fraud His par
eats do not require him to sell papers,
and. in fact, are opposed to his engss,
inm in the business at all, but ne VIII
play truant and pay full price to othef
newsboys for papers rather than not o
in the business. The police know ln
well, and at his mothers request once
locked him up over night, but they eaa
not break him.of the mania. Altogethei
it is one of the most singular eases .
monomania on record. The little ieilos
was at the Post-office last nigh. ~ y
O'Clock, and declined to go nome,
though without protesting any fear q
the consequences.-Denrer Neses.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31
Parsen BrOwnlow on Himself

have been laboring man all r,,,.,
long, and have acted upon the Scrinin r,,s
maxim of eating my bread by the p swaa.
OF my brow. Though Soutben, m oa'
in feeling and principle, do not tb bial
1t degrading to a man to labor o. a IN
most Southern disunionists. Wb ~ 10
East or West, North or South r rsenet
nize the dignity of labor, and look fos
ward to day, not very far distant wb h.,
educated labor will be the salvation s -
this vast country! / am known thrnnn u
out the length and breadth of the ls 81,
as the g Fighting Parsop,n while I , mau
say, without mourning the charoa !.
egotism, that no man is more peaceabla
as my neighbors viii testify. Alwav,'
poor, and always oppressed with seen
rity debts, few men in my section and
OF my limited means have given awa a
more in the course of each wear to char
table objects. | have never been a.
raigned in the church for immorals,
| never played card. I never was
profane swearer. | never drank dram
OF liquor, until within few wears wbaa
1t was taken as medicine. / never had
cigar or chew of tobacco in my month
| never was in attendance at n tbaata,
| never attended a horse-race, and never
witnessed their running save on the fair.
grounds of my own county. I never
courted but one woman, and her / mar.
ried. | am about six feet high, and have
weighed as high as Ito pounds | have
had as fine constitution as any man
need desire. | have very few gray hairs
in my head, and, although rather hard.
favored than otherwise, I will pass for
man OF 40 years. | have had as strobc
voice as any man in East Tennessee
where | have resided for the last thirty
years, and have family of seven chill.
dren.-Frona an photographed Sketch
in 1862
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31
Why A Preacher Left His Pulpit.

An extraordinary scene occurred a
few Sundays back in church near
Gaitmore, in the County of Stirling,
Scotland. The minister, one of those
orthordox Calvinists, whose habit was at
frequent intervals to warn his congre-
cations against the Vaccinations of sa-
tan, was delivering a discourse into
which more than the usual allowance
of birthstone was interjected, when sud-
denly large window blind and roller
behind the pulpit lost its hold, falling
right over the preacher, and completely
concealing him for a time from his flock.
A number of window-panes We're brok-
en-, and the unusual clatter of the falling
glass added mystery to an affair which
the preacher, enshrouded as he was, did
not understand. Ignorant OF the cause
of the sudden darkness and horrible
noise, the clergyman thought he might
have exceeded the bounds of discretion
in his denunciations Of the devil, who
had thereupon arrived hastily in per-
son, bent on retaliation a frigh full
shrek of despair, and the exclamation,
g IN gonerl" echoed through the sa-
credredifice, and with one bound the
maddened clergyman cleared the pull
pit, nor stopped until he reached the
extreme outer-door Of the church.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31
An +" Indiscreet" Clergyman.

A queer ministerial scandal has recent
ly disturbed Griggstown, N. j. Rev.
Mr.. Williams, while pastor of the Re-
formed Church, was secretly married to
young woman in Princeton. He did
not tell the members of the Griggstown
flock of the nuptials, but, returning to
that picturesque New Jersey hamlet,
continued to visit Miss Mary Voorhis.
Mr.. Williams did not become engaged
to Miss Voorhis, as the newspapers have
said he did; but he went to the farm
house early and stayed late-often until
or 2 o'clock in the morning, Farmer
Voorhis says and the neighbors and the
farmer regarded him as n sutton for Miss
Mary's hand. After the clergyman was
well settled in the parlor, on these visit
ing nights, the farmer and his wife, with
an eye to Marry success, prudently re-
tired, leaving the pair to entertain each
other. This had been continued for
nearly year Before the clergyman mar
riage reached the ears of Farmer Voor-
his. TO confront Mr. Williams with the
rumor was clearly the farmers duty.
and he FASTENED to perform it. The
y
The rumor, however, was verified, again
denied by Mr.. Williams, and then con-
fessed by him to be true. All Griggs-
town condemned the clergyman; he re-
signed, and the Chassis of the Reformed
Church assembled to dissolve the pas
toral relation. Farmer Voorhis made no
charge against Mr.. Williams, nor did
any one else. Mr. Williams told the
congregation that he had been '.indis-
creet'' in not announcing the marriage,
but nothing was said about Miss Voor-
his or the clergyman's denials of his
marriage. There being no accusations,
the people of Griggstown being anxious
to be rid of Mr.. Williams; Mr.. Williams
being anxious to be rid of Griggstown,
the Chassis promptly and unanimously
dissolved the pastoral relation. On the
question of recommending Mr.. Williams
to sister churches, there was diversity
of opinion, resulting in q yote of seven
to six in favor of so doing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31

watch to see what time it was, wnen the
stranger approached him and entered
into conversation. "-That is very
nice watch of yours" he said,
" would you be kind enough to
let me see it?n DIR. Hammond
handed it to the stranger. He looked
at it, held it to his ear, and threw open
his cloak. As he performed this action
DR.. Hammond remarked that he was
skeleton e am not very well, 5" he re-
marked, noticing the surprise of the
Doctor, "and if it's all the same to you
I'll keep this watch for heart, for you
see, haven't got any. But III tell you
something for your courtesy. I'm going
to blow up this boat directly. When
you hear the whistle blow just you jump
of and you'll be all right The stranger
went off with the Doctors watch after
this and the Doctor tried to tell the
passengers, but he couldn't speak. Just
then the whistle blew, he jumped-and
woke up. A factory whistle in the
neighborhood was blowing. Within the
space of few seconds he had dreamed
what had seemed to occupy him for
bourS
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31
A Question OF SuryivOrship.

Mrs. Elizabeth NJ Walter died on the
18th of October, 1870, leaving husband,
Charles w. Walter, and two children,
Mary r. Walter and Joseph B. Walter.
Her mother, Mary Ridgeway, also sur
vived her. The mother, husband and
two children were passengers on the
steamer Schiller, which sailed from the
port of New York on the It'll of April,
1875, and was sunk on the 7th of May
near the Scilly Islands, England, and all
persisted. The mother was SO years old,
the husband 45, the daughter 10, and son
I. There was no evidence as to any
survivorship. Mrs. Walter in her will
bequeathed her residuary estate, real
and personal, to trustees, her husband
being one. The surviving executor and
trustee brought suit in the Supreme
Court for the construction of the will
and the question of the survivorship of
those lost On the Schiller, and whether
as matter of law either inherited under
the elaborate requests of the will from
any of the others. Judge Van Worst,
before whom the case was tried, yester-
day rendered his decision. In lengthy
opinion, in which he reviews the civil
law, the French code, the Indian law
and the English common law, as to
survivorship of relatives perish
ing in common disaster, he
arrives at the conclusion that
by the American cases, following the
English common law, survivorship is
required to be established by facts, and
not by any arbitrary rule or prescribed
presumption from the age or sex of the
persons. In this case, there being no
legal presumption of survivorship, he
decides that no rights could have been
transmitted by one child to the other,
and under the authorities cited the
burden of establishing a ,survivorship
rests upon the party who claims any
portion OF the estate through such fact.
He holds that the heirs claiming through
the children had failed to prove any sur
worship; that the heirs of Frederick
A. and Moses Ridgeway and John and
Henry Gum, to whom the estate was to
60 in default of heirs, took under the
provisions of the will; that there is no
equitable conversion of the real estate,
and the Office of trustee is at an end !;
eHte eilC IiCAb VI Nil VI tuC anu
husband OF the deceased are entitled to
interest at per cent. on the respective
shares intended for the husband and
children from the time of the death of
the testator to the time of the death of
her husband and children, and that
there must be reference to ascer-
tain the value of the real estate.-Nev
York World.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31
Sending Steamers Across the Continent
by Rail.

The novel enterprise of transporting
large steamers across the continent has
been successfully carried out within II
few weeks. In October, 1876, George
IL. Bradbury, President of the Occidental
and Oriental Steamship Company, made
a contract with Fletcher, Harrison &
Co., of this city, for the construction of
two slde-wheel steamboats,, each of the
following dimensions: Keel, 210 feet;
beam, 30 feet, depth of hold, 10 IA feet.
Each was to have two boilers, one YER
teal beam condensing engine, with a
cylinder % inches in diameter and II
feet length OF stroke. The contract pro-
vided that the bulls, machinery, and
joiner work should be built and fitted
together here, and that when completed
the boats should be taken to pieces and
shipped by rail to San Francisco, and
there put together again. In accord
ance with their agreement, Fletcher,
Harrison IL Co., early in March, for
warded the hull and machinery of the
first vessel, and they have since dis
patched the hull and machinery of the
second, with the joiner-work for both.
The boilers for the second boat were de-
livered in Jersey City about week ago,
and are now on the way to San Francis
60. The entire weight of the vessels and
machinery as shipped was about 500
tons. The four boilers were completed
before shipment, and taken on locomo-
tive trucks to Buffalo, whence they were
transferred to Lowell flats, upon which
they were transported without change
to their destination. Each shipment has
been delivered about twenty days after
it left New York.
The steamers are intended to run on
San Francisco Bay--one from San Fran
cisco to Sancelito, the other from San
Francisco to San Rafael.-Neao YORK
Tribune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31
Transparency of Metals.

To see through milestone or a brick
wall has usually been regarded as feat
requiring for its accomplishment pow
ers possessed by human beings only
when in a spiritualistie trance, or when
otherwise rendered clairvoyant; and to
see through a mass of metal is ordinari-
~ regarded as equally impossible to hui
man visual organs. 1t is true that it has
long been known that gold-leaf may be
beaten SO fine us to transmit greenish
light tolerably readily. And, indeed, this
is utilized as a practical test of the quail
ity OF gold by the gold-beater, the adj
mixture of small quantities of silver with
the gold employed causing distinguish
mitted light. Hitherto, however, this
property of translucency when in thin
films has been regarded as peculiar to
gold, and belonging to no other metal,
the reason for this being no doubt. to
some extent, that few metals other than
gold can be successfully reduced by
hammering to the requisite degree of
tenuity; save silver and platinum, in
deed, no metals approach to gold. BY
electrical means, however, thin films of
gold and other metals can be obtained
which readily transmit light, the mode
of operating to produce these attenuated
sheets of metal being simply to cause
electric sparks to pass from wires of the
required metals passing into tubes of
rarelied air or other gases, when the
particles of metal detached from the
wires by the sparks become deposited on
the sides of the glass, forming excess
lively thin film, quite continuous under
the microscope. Gold films thus pre-
pared transmit fine green light; silver
gives fine blue color; copper q dull
green; platinum blush gray zine and
cadmium deep blush gray; iron II
nearly neutral tint, but slightly brown
ish.-L0ndOn Society.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31
A Variegated People.

The groundwork of the population Of
the Indian Territory may be said to be
of mosaic There are wild "Indiansby
blood" viz: The Osages, Cheyennes.
Arapahoes, Kiowas and Pawnees, about
10000 all told. These are called
blanket Indians,n and do not cultivate
the soil. They are not much mixed.
Then there are other "Indians BY
blood" VIZ: Cherokees, Greeks, Semi
noles, Choctaws and Chickasaws, who
are partly civilized and very mixed.
When white man marries a woman Of
any of these tribes he immediately be-
comes a "white Indian by marriage"
entitled to all the rights and privileges
of the tribe and to his proportion Of the
lands; ditto of white woman who mar
ries an Indian. There are also lot Of
black Indians by treaty. connected
with the Cherokees, Greeks and Semi
noles. The negroes of those nations
were made free by the treaties Of 1866;
but, unlike the treaties of 1866 with the
other tribes, the Choctaw and Chicka-
saw treaty did not stipulate that they
should be citizens of those tribes. Oh
these civilized Indians by blood, white
Indians by marriage, and black Indians
by treaty there are $4,000 Besides
these there are $500 "negro citizens Of
the United States,n formerly slaves Of
the Chickasaws and Choctaws, who are
not constructively or otherwise ranked
as Indians. The whole population Of
the Territory is about 1900, which Is
greater than that of the State of Nevada.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31
De Poor Mans Chance.

A "a
Old Zeb went into the grocery s'o'
this morning. ,,.I.
(" See heall, boss, is dis heah wan els J,
ness ober yandah gwine to make tnips'
any bettah foh the poo folksr "a .
"Yes, Zeb, there's no doubt ina 4 1
will make a decidedly increased delnaia
for our products and manufactures, eo n
sequently it must make better times :
around.n .h A
"WeIl, den, | wants a quartan '
flour. How much yo' ax?"
"One dollar and a shilling" Ina.
Shot, Why, You only ak a0l''
last week y In.
g Flour's gone up, you KNOW.
creased demand in Europe. :;
"Increase' denan' in Europ =. !.
Now lookee heah, boss, don ! - :, :
dah's any increase deman' in La lp;g,
foh white-washin' and cafpet,sna ua0r
and sich like, den wha' does ae t R
peoples chance come in? Dats wiz, VIM:
a worryin' de wool offdis colofed MAJ
skull. ''-Easton Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31

The following exquisite passage is
commended to all novel readers: g Her
large, hmpid, lustrous eyes filled with
big billowy tears, Lurline leaned over
the dying auetioneer's pillow. Lurline,
he sighed feebly. Aye, Alonzo, she
answered. Lurline, he said, meet me
in the sweet buy-and-buyn His breath
came fainter and with more difficulty.
In moment more. he was going, going,
gone, He is dead said the doctor.
Yes, he Is gone, absolutely and with
out reserve, sobbed his wife,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31

On account of the Turco-Russian
war, and the failure of the American
cabhage-erop last year, nearly all the
genuine imported Turkish tobacco used
in this country this summer will have to
be made out of plantain-weed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31

John and Marcus Gilman, aged IS
and l6, sons OF the Hon. John Gilman,
of st. Paul, Mimi, were drowned the
other day while hunting ducks in Pigs
Eye Lake near that city.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-05-31

WHEN q Buffalo young lady parls liS
her beau, who Is too bashi'il y Va,
stand the nicer usages of his posl.,s.ss
she viii say: g William, 4 you "e ssaa
kiss me YOU might be afraid ma M a.osi
hear it. But if Icreak the gate she WO'
know the difference.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-20

We had a conversation the other
day with a gentleman who came in on
the train with General Thos. II. Will
liams from Salt Lake. The Genera
has been 'doing" Europe, vas more
robustuous than usual. and quite com
municative. Nearing Elko he recalled
the stormy Democratic State Conven-
ton held there in 1870. which placed
Bradley in nomination for Governor.
This naturally brought up the subject
of politics, when the General informed
our friend that lie had made his last
race in Nevada. lie spoke of his
fight in Storey county two years ago,
and seemed especially bitter that the
Democratic members of the Legisla-
ture which followed were so migrate
ful as to deny him the complimentary
vote. This he said ended his political
career in the Silver Stale, except in so
far as he might go to punish his en-
emies. He will not prove formidable
on that score. With all OF his aspira-
tons he would never. as the boys say,
put up" to help himself along. 1t is
not likely, therefore, that he will
| squander his ten millions in trying to
defeat gentlemen who failed to recog-
| nize him as a great leader in Nevada.
| Our informant says the General init
mated that he might be in the field for
Sargent's scat from California. Getting
in the field we fear will be about as
near as he will come to grasping the
dazzling prize.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-20
Mine.

A large body OF high grade ore has
been discovered on the $50 foot level OF
the Jackson mine. 1t was first met
with In a cross-cut at the end Of the
main drift, 500 feet from the shaft. An
up.raise following the body of ore
broke through into a natural cave. or
series of caves, extending upward a
distance OF rs feet. The sides OF the
caves were lined with yellow carbon
ates and high grade ore, and the sand
washed down by the percola;ion OF
wafer from above, assays as high as
$50 per ton in gold and silver. The
extent of the ore body can only be de.
termined by future prospecting, but all
the indications point To its being q
most important development.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-20
Road Tax.

Road Supervisor Wilton is doing a
splendid job on the streets and roads
about town. 1t Is the universal ex-
preston that he has already accom-.
plished more than all the road super
visors put together have hitherto done
for the township. The great trouble is,
that he must cease operations at once
for want of funds. There are only
about 81 900 at his disposal. 1t is quite
apparent that this will be wholly made
qilate TO complete the work in hand.
Under the law the Commissioners are
authorized to levy a road tax of 50 on
each 81 900 valuation of taxable prop
erty upon the petition Of thirds of
the property holders. Now that we
have "A mar who will place the streets
in first!claSs order, such a petition
ought to be started without delay.
The improvements that are now be-
ing made are permanent, and must
tend To enhance the value of all prop
perry on our principal thoroughfares.
There is also another view tn ba taken
of the case: These street and road i'm
~proveRients will give employment to 3
suinber of needy men who have fam
lilies depending upon them for support.
Mr.. Wilton, we understand, with
considerate Judgment and commenda
HE impulses of the heart, employs
chiefly married men on the public
works. This is eminently correct. Let
the petition to which we have called at
tention, be circulated at once, and let
also every property holder sign it.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-20
SHORT BITS.

District Court has adjourned until
Saturday the 23d instant.
Silver closed in London yesterday
at SO ll-l6 pence per pound.
National Guards, attention. Drill
Thursday evening, as per notice in
another column.
Seven hundred bars of base bullion
from Typo were received at the rail-
road depot yesterday.
The funeral Of the late James Ire.
william will take place at 3 O'Clock p. NJ.
to day from the Methodist Church.
A quarter of a mile dash between
T~arantula, Pumpkins and Seaicher, a,
the Willows track mex Sunday.
Joe Nelson was occupy ing his spare
time yesterday shar pening up his in-
stru ments preparatory to a surgical
operation.
An incipient conflagraticn was dis
covered by Frank O'Conpor, yester-
day afternoon, underneath Mr.. Har-
mons lodging house on Main street.
The fire was soon e~xtinguished by the
aid of a few pals Of water.
A warrant was sworn out yesterday
against Henry Massey, the man who
shot Sam Mahoney at Deep Wells Sta
ton some days ago, and Sheriff Sias
left yesterday afternoon for the locality
with the intention Of a;resting Massey.
The White Pine heroes yesterday
had all the small boys in town busily
engaged in turning grindstones to en-
able them-the said heroes to put
a keen edge on their swords prepare.
tory to an expected call to the seat of
war away up in the Idado country.
Mrs. James Christopher has removed
her millinery and d~ressrnaking estab-
iiShment To Buel street, three doors
above Bigelow's Hall. She has just
received "A fresh invoice of goods, and
ladies' will do well to call and examine
her stock.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-20
~ n krREx AND p~ALisApE ~sAILsoAB.
Depnrtur~. Yesterday.
Miss Della lsRynO.

This talented vocalist, late OF the
Tennessee Jubilee Singers, left yester.
day morning for Corinne, where
rumor has 1t she is to be married to a
wealthy gentleman of her race. On
severing her connection with the
troupe with which she had been so
long associated, the %sutjoined self.ex-
p~lanatory certificate was handed TO her.
The SENTINEL has been requested, by
some OF its colored friends, TO give 1t .
place In its columns:
EUREKA, New, June 5, 1877.
To all whom IL may concern: This
Is to certify that Miss Della Rayno,
member Of the Tennessee Jubilee
Singers" has the permission to stop
travelling with the troupe. While we
regret It. we consent only at her 70
quest. All of the troupe will forever
think Of her as a sister. and hope that
she will join us again o BY con
sent OF all the singers.
II. r. JACKSON,
Director and Stage Manager
Jubilee Singers.