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Stray Sale.

Il the Peace, Ward No 8, Bossier parish, by
James Fetterman, and will be sold to the high
est bidder, for cash, at Bellevue, La on Satur-
day, the 18th day of August, 1877, light
Mouse Colored Mule, about IL hands high, and
about 5 years old, with saddle and harness
marks
Appraised at $40.
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charges, &c.
HENRY STONE, Stray Master
Bellevue, La May 18th, 1877
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Stray Sale.

Estrayed before the undersigned, by Frank
II Smith, on the 18th day of May, 1877,
and will be sold to the highest bidder, for cash,
July, 1877. one Muley Ok, 6years old; branded
C c on right hip; a split and underbit in each
ear; white and red speckled.
Appraised at 81.
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charges, &c.
HENRY STONE, Stray Master.
May "a, 1877.
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Notice.

Y C slsn.su instant there will be a Masonic
ss H. h n;,l:n at BENTON. La, at which
~ xi HIsahsa ~ recently erected by Cvnress
b On sh; Is dedicated to the order of Mason.
ssea H. l y, occasion an address will ha da
aasita,m;'., 7. Ford, of Shreveport. A cor
ssrnnnse:h Is extended to the Rretbren Of
g "ouges, and the public, to at
WIDEN, See'y. is' W. NJ
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Assessment.

Nhe tax payers of Bossier parish are notified
L that | will visit the following places on
the following days, for the purpose of assessing
property for the State and Parish taxes to- wit
Collinsburg, Monday & Tuesday, June and 5
Red Land, Wed'day & Thursday, June and
Stroud,s Store ---.----....-.. Friday, June 8
Rocky Mount Saturday, June 9
Bellevue, Tuesday Il Wed day, June IL and 10
FILLMORE Thursday, June IA
Mlmss School House. Friday, June Is
OteiS MONDAY, June 10
Dortch's Store ......--.-W Wednesday, June 90
ATKINS Thursday, June 81
benton, Friday and Saturday, June 25 and &c
As the time for completing the rolls is very
short, the tax payers are requested to prepare
fnll descriptions of their land, horses, mules,
cattle, wagons, and all kinds of taxable proper
ty, and have their lists ready ON the days and
at the places above designated
j A. LAND, Assessor Bossier Parish
Office at Bellevue La NIL
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Straw Sale.

Estrayed before P. R. Gilmer, j. P, on the
II 18th day of March. 1877, and will be
sold to the highest biuder, for cash, at Belle
June, 1877. a Brown Mare Mule, about l54
high, and about 20 years old No marks or
brands.
Appraised at $40.
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charges, &c.
HENRY STONE, Stray Master.
March Goth, 1877
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Stray Sale.

E,strayed before the undersigned, by S. F
II Austin, on the 9Th day of May, 1877, and
will be sold to the highest bidder, for cash, at
August, 1877, Black Mare Pony, branded OH
left shoulder with letters 81 W. speck OF
white on left hind foot, and about Is years old
Appraised at $l8
The owner is requested to come forward
prove property, pay charges, &c.
HENRY STONE, Stray Master.
Bellevue, La, May 10, 1877.
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Stray Sales.
Stray Sale.

E'strayed before w. r. Head j p, by Robert
IL W Perrin, on the 9TH day of June, 1877,
and will be sold to the highest bidder, for cash,
at Bellevue, La, on Saturday, the 18th day of
September 1877, a Clay bank Horse flax name
and tail, blaze forehead, left hind foot white,
branded on right shoulder with letter M. about
IA hands high, 10 or IL years old; shod on the
fore feet.
Appraised at $25.
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property, paw charges, Sc.
HENRY STONE, Stray Master
Bellevue, La, June IA. 1877.
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Stray Sale.

E'strayed before the undersigned, by Sam
~ Ely, on the 4th day of June, 1877, and
will be sold to the highest bidder, for cash, at
Bellevue, La, on Saturday, the Sth day of
September, 1877, a Bay Mare Pony, without
marks, and about 9 years old
Appraised at $40
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charges, &c.
HENRY STONE, Stray Master.
Bellevue June z 1877
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Bossier Parish.
Notice Creditors.

4 II persons holding claims against the sue
"A cession of S. w. Vance, deceased, are
notified to present them with the titles by
which they are established, to the undersigned.
SARAH E. VANCE. Executrix
May 81, 1877. nII-3ts
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BELLEVUE, La,
|.ursday.::::::::June IA, 1877.

4 r 10000 Brick for sale, by E. r.
Ilynre & Son, Bellevue, La.
4 ~ The blackingberry beginneth to
lbheken.
i n You have not paid us that 81
IT.
] n High, low, jack and-no game
Until next September.
i "a Subscribe for the Bossier Banner.
lavjll cost you only one dollar, cash,
HI balance of yea 1877.
II ~ The rain came just in time to
du the corn and other crops. 1t was
good rain, too.
II m Mr.. J. FL. Lotion has laid the
5hpdation of his new saloon, on the
dabelow E. r. Moore & Sons.
H n The flies, consarn 'em, have ar
d Fed with their wives, mothers-in-
6 iEs, friends, relatives and country
Buins.
II n The Assessor and Collector were
town Tuesday and Wednesday for
purpose of assessing and collecting
|Hs.
Il @ The late rains have wonderfully
dapoyed the crops ofour parish. Pros
aMs offull crops of both corn and cot
Hhare now flattering indeed.
Il n In suit Olympic Boisse and hus-
Ind vs.. H. P. Dickson, ct ais, Bossier
hsh Court, plaintiff has filed appeal
Imd, and ordered transcript.
" We learn that small pox has
nken out in the family of Sam Thorn
late Representative from Bossier. A
u and daughter have been attacked,
a#althe disease has not assumed vir-
lent form.
n " The town of Benton seems to be
aNoylng. One new store house il in
purse OF erection tha Iunhar i, nv, fI,o
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obstinate minds must surrender and
NY mat the wonderful cures of Coughs.
n ana bronchitis effected by DIR. j ri
,.s s1l Cough and Lung Healing Globules.
y. ss 81. way, new principle, producing gas,
sas aifeet to the affected parts, is the only
Is.. ., inai boxes 25c. by mail. DR.. J. ri.
aean' sl4 Chestnut, st. Louis.
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PURE BERKSHIRE PIGS.
Notice to Tax Payers.

OFFICE 1AA COILEClOh,
Bossier Parish,
BENTON, MAY 8. 1877.
Having been appointed State Tax Collector
Ii for Bossier Parish, and given bond in
accordance with law hereby notify the Tax
Payers that / have been ordered by the Audi
tor and Police Jury to proceed Immediately
with the collection of all State and Parish
LICENSES (now past duel and as soon as
practical with State and Parish TAXES for
the present year, and Delinquent Taxes for the
past three years.
The Licenses must be paid by the 25th of
May. Parties living in Wards |. 5 and q can
meet me at Bellevue, May 22d and 23d; all
others at Benton, May Oath and 18th.
Prompt settlement will save costs
For the collection of all other Taxes, will
meet the people at the following times and
places
Rocky Mount June 9Th
Bellevue. .--June 18th and 18th.
Fillmore ID uhe I4tn-
Minis School House June 10Th
Ialn y uho loen'
Atkins. .JuHe %ist-
Tax payers should bear in mind the necessi-
ties of the Government, and make payment
and thereby save me the necessity Of enforc-
ing collection as provided by law.
My office will be open at Benton at all times
after the Goth of May, and Mr. L. w. Wood,
ruff my deputy, is authorized to receipt for
Taxes.
H. w. OGDEN,
Tax Collector, Bossier parish, La.
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Live Stock, &c.
REV. MI. II. BAILEY.

EIKt0n, TODD County, Kentucky,
II as for sale, all ages, pure Shorthorn Cattle,
IL Berkshire and Poland China Hogs,
Cashmere Goats and Cotswold Sheep-wool
and mutton the object My Shorthorns are of
Superior milking families, milk and beef being
the object; are not eXcelled in either by any
Attorney or Ayrshire. Stock delivered on cars
with food, and shipped to any part of the Unit
ed States. Correspondence solicited. Salts.
faction guaranteed vl6n5
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" The town of Benton seems to be
|apfoying. One new store house is in
aa'se OF erection, the lumber is on the
pound foranother, and Cypress Lodge
|1lass completed its new Hall, with
ssn underneath.
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A ttorneys at Law, Texas Street, Shreve-
"A port, La. VIII practice in the Courts of
Caddo, Bossier, Claiborne and Bienville.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-10-04
ReyaccinatiOn.

The vexed question as to how often
vaccination is needful is again discussed
by the London Lancet, the best English
medical authority, which distinctly dep
recates the frequent repetition of re-
vaccination as being useless and tend
ing to unsettle the minds of people in
regard to its preservative power. 1t
states that revaccination, once sufficient
ly performed at or after puberty, need
never be repeated. The nurses and
other servants of the London Smallpox
Hospital, when they enter the service,
are invariably submitted to vaccination,
which in their case is generally revaccina-
tion, and is never afterward repeated ;
and so perfect is the protection that,
though the nurses live in the closest
and most constant attendance on small
pox patients, and though also the other
servants are in various ways exposed to
special chances of infection, the res
dent surgeon of the hospital, during his
forty.ona years Of Office there, has never
known smallpox 10 sssss any Of these
nurses or servants,
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-10-04
Quaint Methods of Punishment.

Mr.. H. E. Scudder tells some quaint
things IN Harper's Magazine concern
ing Mr.. Gardner, the late master of the
Boston Latin school. His modes of
punishment were as various as the Of
fences. One class had behaved, as he
thought, in silly, childish fashion.
He sent out for some muslin and con-
fectionery, and drawing out the "house-
wife," which he kept in drawer of his
desk, made up little bags of candy,
which he presented to each boy. One
urchin in the first class, who had been
tormented by his neighbor in recitation
"a teasing fellow-fnally lost his tenn
per as his hair was twitched rather hard
er than before, and slapped his persecu-
tors face. 1t was at that moment only
that Mr.. Gardner looked up. "There
there /" said he, "Let's have public
exhibition. We must all see this per-
formance. Boys, go up on the plat
form :" and up they went to the great
stage at the end of the room. ",Now,
W, you pull H-'s hair" and the
first offender enjoyed second twitch.
"And H, you slap VS. face, "
which was done, when the boys were
allowed to come back, crimsoned with
modification.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-10-04
Rainy Days.

"saints have been calm when stretched upon
the rack,
And Montezuma smiled on burning Goals !; =
But never did housewife notable 4.
Greet with smile rainy washing day.
Nor could she ever be reconciled to
the thought that this world was not made
to hang clothes. lines on, and that the
wind (which whistleth about continu-
ally" is no respecter of wet linen,
One rainy day nurses more amiablilty
than half q dozen dry ones. 1t makes
the folly of ll-humor so manifest. There
is no use trying to "fret or spleen
against a rainy day, for the sky relents
no more than cope OF Lead, and Its
watery issues rather thicken than fall.
A dull spectacle And yet it has adj
vantages. Was it of gadding, sun
shiny day, think you, when the world
and his wife were abroad, and all crea-
lures parted, that Homer
-" Heard the Iliad and the Odyssey
Rise to the swelling Of the voiceful sea Z"
No surely not. 1t is to rainy days
that we owe the conception of most good
and great thinkings, sayings and doings
"a day that solicits not or tickles the
sense, plays no fantastic tricks with sun
beams, but stands over you with the
vast, gray, motionless, thought-molded
aspect of an Egyptian sphinx. What a
foster-mother of studious thought!
Give me a rainy day for close and con-
tinuous thought, and rainy day for
one of those quiet, almost unconscionable
maps, when the "patter-patter Ut the
" rain on the roof" lures you into sweet,
lovely dreamland, far from the busy
world with it's furry and sunshine
Co.o., Pnok
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Sam Weller's Engagement.

"Now, in regard to the matter on
which I, with the concurrence OF these
gentleman, sent for you, said MIR. Pick
wick
"Ihat's the pint, sir" interposed
Sam "out with it, as the father said to
the child, ven he swallowed the far
den ="
"We want to know in the first place, :"
said Mr.. Pickwick, whether you have
any reason to be discontented with
your present situation"
Galore I answers that ERE question,
gen'l'men," replied Mr.. Weller, 81
should like to know, in the first place,
vether you're a-goig' to purwide me
with better"
A sunbeam of benevolence played on
MIR. Pickwick's features as he said Z:
CT have made up my mind to engage
you myself"
Mr.. Pickwick nodded in the affirma-
tive.
"Wages ?" said Sam.
"Twelve pounds year" replied MIR.
Pickwick.
"Clothes ?"
"Two suits"
"Work ?"
"To attend upon me and to travel
around with me and these gentlemen
here"
"Take the bill down." said Sam en-
phatically. "I'm let to a single gentle
man, and the terms is agreed upon.
"You accept the situation p inquired
Mr., Pickwick.
"Cert'nly," replied Sam, "1f the
eIothes fits ns bali as we'll as The place,
hey'lI d."
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A Chanter OF Horrors.

The following incidents OF one days
life in Baltimore, were telegraphed to
the New York Herald one Sunday:
An extraordinary chapter of horrors
occurred here to-day and tonight:
William Herman blew his brains out
on the street.
Joseph Mccarthy, boy, was disem-
bowled by street car, and died In ten
minutes.
Frank Beatty, a blind convict, who
was serving out ten years sentence for
attempted murder of Fanny Cole with a
hatchet, attempted to murder a fellow.
convict in the penitentiary and then cut
his own throat. He will probably die.
An unknown man was beheaded by q
train on the Northern Central railway
near the city.
George r. Dumbleton fell from a
third story window and was found a
corpse.
A boy had his skull fractured by a
kick from horse, and will die.
At midnight naAn attacked another
violently, and whils handling pistol &C.
sideatatiy shot Q child,
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Business on the Brain.

The Virginia New Chronicle is
responsible for this story: Last night
the wife of Justice Moses was aroused
from a sound sleep by stern voice ..
"Are you ready for trial. I say ?"
"Hush! Don't make noise, or else
you'll wake the baby" she replied, en-
deayoring to soothe him.
"Don't talk back to this court" ne
vcciferated. eff you've got any wit
nesses, bring 'em on, but let your lawyer
do the talking"
"Why, Tom, how you do take on!
What is the matterf
II send you up for sixty days-that's
what the matter. Here, Enders, take
her away. Now I'm ready for that petty
larceny case. Bring up the prisoner. A"
And, jumping out OF bed, he started
toward the next room to summon jury,
but fell over rocking chair, barked his
shins, woke Up, and psked his wife wl'ss
was tie matter, anyhow,
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A Sili Old Man.

Mid all the nasty things that come TO make
our tempers smart,
It's very nice in middle age 70 have childish
heart,
To feel-although you've got a house, and
taxes coming due
The little joys Of early lie possess charm for
You.
My boys and girls are gpwing up; I'm fifty in
day;
And all the hair that Time has LIFT has turned
double gray;
And yet jump and skip sbout ind sing Q song
Of glee,
Because we're off to spends month beside the
sounding sea,
Where shall wear my Holland clothes, and
tuck them up and VIDE,
And buy myself an air-ball,on, tucket, and
spade.
I've packed my box and coded ii, and seen my
boys to bed,
And now I'm in the drawDy-room and stand
ing on my head;
my hands
Oh, won't built castle witla moat upon the
sands
know this week I've lost 10 OF money upon
Change,
know the kitchen boilers brst and spoiled
the kitchen range,
I know my wife declares she wants another
hundred pounds;
And should weep and tear my hair because
I've ample grounds
But visions of to-morrow's Bills bid all my
sorrows fade
There's comfort in an air-ballou, bucket,
and spade.
ought to be solemn chap, and cess in black,
and frown,
And do as other fathers do when eipg out of
town;
And swear that all the packing up Sll send me
nearly wild;
And when reach the lovely sea ouht to take
seat,
Or walk about a mile day-.and grunole at the
heat;
But oh, can't contain myself, I'm ohmy head
with joy,
And wont get nv trousers wet ad be
naughty boy,
For shall wear my Holland clothes, nd tuck
them up and wade,
And buy myself an air-5al,oon, bucket and
shade
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CuriOus Facts.

It is very singular fact that the shark
is always preceded by pilot fish, which
actually performs the part his name in
dicates. This is well-established fact,
tested again and again by sea captains.
These fish attend the shark everywhere
and carefully direct his motions.
An artesian we'll in Ventura county,
CAL, spouts up fish. In meeting OF
the San Francisco Academy of Sciences,
specimens of the fish, supposed to be
trout, were presented. The well was
bored in 1871, and every year since has
thrown out immense quantities OF
freshly spawned fish in April and May.
In the course of his researches into
the habits of insects, it was found by
Lubbock that an ant, which has a large
number of Larvae to carry from one place
to another, goes and fetches several
other ants to help in the work, while, II
there are only small number OF Larvae,
but few helpers are called.
Recent excavations at Big Boone
county, KY, have brought to light an
immense number of animal remains.
Among them are immense teeth. tusks,
jaws with teeth in them, ribs, spinal COL
umps-in fact there are bones from
nearly every part of the mastodon, be-
sides many that are not like any ever
before found at that place.
The Banyan tree of India is sometimes
found to spread out as to show with one
parent trunk three hundred and fifty
stems descending, and again taking root
in the ground, each stem equalling a
large oak tree, while there are thousands
of smallar ones. This tree is SO expand
ed as to form a small forest of itself,
wherein 1000 persons could stand.
Kentucky's claim to the title "dark
and bloody ground +" is attested by the
numerous Notifications and warlikeimple
ments to be found on her soil. Cast-metal
balls, from the size of walnut to four
and six-pounders, have frequently been
unearthed, and under such circumstances
as to indicate that they were used by a
civilization long anterior to our own.
The sea mouse is one of the prettiest
creatures that lives under water. 1t
sparkles like diamond and is radiant
with all the colors of the rainbow, al
though it lives in the mud at the bottom
of the ocean. It should not be called a
mouse, for it is larger than big rat. 1t
is covered with scales that move up and
down as it breathes, and glitter. like gold
shining through a feecy down, from
which fine, silky bristles wave, that con-
stantly change from one brilliant tint to
another.
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eyes, they have come. They are the
friends of the serpents. Both have
followed you for fifteen long years,
knowing that they would find you in
such place as this at last. Do you
see their eyes dance with delight as they
come nearer? Do you see them wave
their bony arms above their heads, as
they long to grasp you9"
"Keep them away-dont let them
clutch me p screamed Big Nose as he
drew the ragged quilt over his head and
nestled in the musty straw.
"It is terrible to die this way" unused
the strange boy as he looked around
him "The angels would hesitate to
come into such place to bear away the
soul of an innocent babe. But this is
your end. You have murdered wife
and children you have turned the hap
piness of life into gloom of midnight.
You have been curse to the world when
you might have been followed to the
grave by tears of sorrow that a good
man had passed from earth forever.
More devils are trooping in to gloat
over your miserable death-more SER
pents are writhing across the floor to
utter their Kisses in your ear r!'
Big Nose flung the quilt away and
sat up and looked around him. Such
teror-such awful horror-never came
to human face before. The white froth
gathered on his lips-his eyes glared
and as a writhing, kissing snake raised
its head above the bed the man sprang
to the floor with the scream of wild
beast and dashed up the broken stairs.
The river was only few hundred feet
away. Down the wet and deserted street
shadow swiftly passed, halted for q
moment on the dark wharf, and then wild
scream and heavy splash startled the
watchman on lone vessel anchored near
by. The echo of the wild shrek foated
back to the strange boy in the basement.
He waved his hand, and the serpents
gided away. He rose up, and the COB
Inns hurried over the broken floors and
were lost to sight.
"Itis the end" whispered the boy,
and the candle fickered, blazed up for
an instant, and then midnight darkness
swept into the old den and hushed every
sound-embraced everything in its ghost
ly clutch. Detroit Free Press.
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A MiSer,s Present.

A noted miser who felt obliged to
make a present to a lady entered a
crockery store for the purpose of making
a purchase. Seeing statuette broken
into dozen pieces, he asked the price,
The salesman said it was worthless, but
he could have it for the cost of packing
in box. He rent it to the lady with
his card, congratulating himself that
she would imagine that it had been
ruined while on it's way home. he
dropped in to see the effect. The
tradesman had carefully wrapped eseh
piece In separate bit Of paper.
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Faith is necessary 70 victory,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-16

THE FIGURE NINE.-The most romantic
of all numbers is the figure nine, because
1t can't be multiplied away or got rid of
anyhow. Whatever you do it is sure to
turn up again as was the body of Eugene
Aram's victim. One remarkable property
Of this figure (said to have been first dis
covered hy Mr. Green, who died in 1904
is that all through the multiplication tabl,
the product nine comes to nine. Multiply
by What you like, and it gives you the
same result. Begin with twice nine. IS :;
add the digits together, and and max, s
3. Three times nine are 81; and 2 and Z
are 0. So it goes on, up to eleven tim, 9
nine, which gives 90 Very cool; add til,
digits and are lS, and and are O.
Going on to any extent it is impossible to
get rid of the figure nine. Take couple
OF instances at random: Three hundred
and thirty-nine times nine are 3051; adj,
up the figures and they are nine. Fv,
th"l sand and seventy-nine times nine ar,
45G89; the sum of these digit is 81; 2 an,
7 are nine.