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American citizen., 1878-11-16
County s'upt. Education
SCHOOL TRUSTEES.

SEC. 81. BE it further enacted,
That on the first Saturday i'll Dr>
cember, in each year, The patrons OF
each school shall meet at IL O'Clock
NJ, at such convenient place as may
be chosen by them; when assem-
bIed, they shall organize by the ap
pOintInent OF IL chairman and scores
tary, and proceed to elect. by bal
lot or popular choice, three persons.
patrons of the school, W no shall con
stituie a board of trustees for such
school, and shall hold their office
for one year, or until their success
sors are elected aud qualified, ami
the secretary of such meeting shall
notify the county superintendent of
the result of the ri. ctIon aforesaid.
Provided, That in all incOrpOrat-
ed towns, the trustees shall be
elected by the board of mayor and
alder men, at the time aforesaid.
SEC. 81. Be it further enacted,
That it shall be the duty nt the
trustees, two of whom snail cOnsti
tute quorum, at the first meeting
after having been elected or ap
pointed, 60 Organize Dy appointing
one of their number secretary, who
shall preside at their official meet
ings. The SAID trustees may meet
AS often as they may think nece Ssa
ry for the transaction of business.
1t shall also be the duty of school
trustees to select and recommend
teachers for their respective S 'hools,
and TO look especially after the To-
cal interests of their schools, to visit
the same at least once during each
month by one or more of their mum
Der, to see that fuel is provided, to
protect school property, and to care
for the same during vacation.
American citizen., 1878-11-16

In the absence of all our milliners,
we take pleasure in re-printiug the
card of Mrs. F. II. Hardon, WELL
known to many of our fashionable
friends as a lady of fine taste, and
one with whom, it is a real pleasure
to have dealings, as there is so much
fairness in all of her transactions
with a customer. Read her card
which we have just received.
American citizen., 1878-11-16
WINTER SEASON I878-79.

We have now received our Fall Stock Of
Goods, and are prepared to fill all orders
entrusted to us. Our Stock of
RIBBONS, FLOWERS, FEATHERS, Or
NAMENTS, VELVETS, SILKS,
BONNETs, HATS, MILL
NARY, Etc,
is now complete and unsurpassed by any
house in the South, as regards quality and
nrice. An experience of 20 years enables
us to purchase and sell far below our conf
petitors.
Give us a trial and be convinced, and do
not rorget the number of the old stand is
No. 90. Respectfully,
i. r HARDON.
81 and - Chartrcs StreetI
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-07-11
Political Points.

DR.. FL. T. Smith is a candidate
for Representative from jackson.
DR.. j. M. Robinson is candidate
for Representative from Lincoln.
Mr.. T. w. Williams is a candi-
date for Representative from More
house.
The Democracy of Richland parish
have declared for a Constitutional
Convention.
Col. Jno. Kimbell and w. G. Mar
tin are candidates for Representative
from Claiborne.
The Democracy of Claiborne will
hold a Mass Meeting at Homer, on
next Monday, July II.
Natchitoches parish will hold a
Nominating Convention, July Goth.
M. ). Cunningham, Esq, of Natchi-
toches, is a candidate for State Sem
ator from that District.
A Democratic Mass Meeting was
held at Minden, yesterday, July
10th, for the purpose of electing
Delegates to the State, Congression-
al and Senatorial Conventions.
At a recent meeting in Mansfield
resolutions were passed favoring
Maj. Moncure for State Treasurer,
and Hon. j. B. Elan for Congress.
The following Delegates were ap.
pointed to the Baton Rouge Con
ymtion: Boiling Williams, S. E.
Hall, B. F. Jenkins, w. d. Gooch,
J.: L. Logan, e. w. Sutherlin, and
L. 81. Gatlin.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-07-11
Mass Meeting at Shreveport.

The Democracy of the 4th Ward
held Mass Meeting at Shreveport,
last Saturday. N. @. Blanchard,
ESQ.,, explained the objects of the
meeting. I'M. Rodgers was elected
President, and Ed. M. Austin and
r. G. Grain, Secretaries.
The following named gentlemen
were elected, by ballot, as Delegates
to the Baton Rouge Convention
j. M. Hollingsworth, W. Fl. Wise,
N. G. Blanchard, N. Gregg, s. j.
Ward, A. d. Land, j. W. Duncan.
The following resolutions were
then adopted:
Resolred, BY the Democratic Con-
sentative voters Of the Fourth Ward
of the Parish of Caddo, in Mass
Meeting assembled
1st-That the paramount issue
involved in our approaching State
Campaign is the overthrow and de-
feat of the Radical party, no matter
in what disguise it may present
itself for the suffra ges of the people.
2d-That we invoke a spirit of
harmony and concession at the
Baton Rouge Convention, and dep
recate any action tending to divide
and distract our party.
3d-That we most cordially en-
dorse the present State Administra-
ton, which has brought peace, pros
perity and happiness to a hitherto
distracted people.
4th-That we favor the speedy
calling of a State Constitutional
Convention by the next Legislature.
5th-That the questions of the
adoption or rejection of the pro-
posed Constitutional Amendments,
or either of them, should be left to
the determination of each individual
voter at the ballot box.
6th-That we present to the
Baton Rouge Convention the name
of our distinguished fellow citizen,
the Hon. John G. Moncure, for the
nomination for State Treasurer. He
is eminently worthy and we regard
his claims as far stronger than that
of any man in the State.
7th-That we heartily endorse the
course of the Hon. J. B. Elan, our
Representative in the last Congress,
and that his fearless, conscientious
and painstaking labor in the inter
ests of this District meet our high.
est approval, and that he is Justly
entitled to the thanks of the people
of this District.
8th-That our Delegates to the
State Convention be instructed to
carry out the spirit of the foregoing
Resolutions.
The Democracy at Greenwood,
Caddo Parish, appointed DR.. j. 1.
Schumpert to the Baton Rouge
Convention, with instructions to
favor Moncure for State Treasurer,
Elan for Congress and State
Constitutional Convention.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-07-11
Marksville Bulletin /: r

Marksville Bulletin: The pro-
gramme of the Radicals of Avoyelles
parish is slowly developing itself.
They will attempt to form what
they term combination ticket, that
is, one composed of Radicals and
Conservative Democrats. By doing
this they hope to retain their hold
on the negro vote and divide the
Democrats. ANY Democrat who
could possibly be induced to lend
himself to such a purpose would be
so isolated that bis brain would
whirl in dismay. If any contem-
plate such a thing let them remem-
Der that influence is more quickly
lost than established.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-07-11

The Lake Charles Echo lectures
the Democracy of that section for
Its criminal indifference to political
matters. They are not registering,
and are thus throwing away their
votes and assisting the Republicans.
That Senatorial District is Demo-
cratic BY 1000 majority, and yet,
the Echo fears it will 60 Republican,
simply because the Democrats will
not register. That journal warns
us, that If other sections do not do
better than Calcasieu, that the Re-
publicans will carry the State.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-07-11

Jacob D. Cox, Republican, of
Ohio, has been appointed a member
OF the New Orleans Sub-Investiga-
ting COMMITTEE, in place of T. B.
Reed, Republican, of Maine.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-07-11

Our confrere G. w. Tomkins.
Esq, editor of the Minden Demo.
Graf is a candidate for Representa-
tive from Webster.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-07-11
BELLEVUE, La,
THURSDAY, :::::::::::::::JULY II, 1873.
Eliza Pinkston Come Again /!

And now comes the infamous
Eliza Pinkston with quickened
conscience, and recantation. We
all recollect what blood and thunder
bull.dosing stories she told the Wis
iting statesmen and ballot-box stuff
fers in New Orleans during the
progress of the Presidential count.
It was telegraphed all over the
country that her husband had been
brutally murdered, and she literally
cut into shoe-strings, by blood thirs-
ty Democrats, simply because they
were Republicans. Of course, we
all knew that those ISLANDERS were
circulated for political effect-to
detract the attention of the country
while the visiting statesmen and the
Returning Board were stealing the
vote of this State for Mr.. Hayes.
Eliza Pinkston, twin relic of The
jerks, survived her alleged personal
injuries and aff1iction in the loss of
her husband, and married again.
But, it seems, she could not live
under the burdens of guilty con-
science, and now confesses the truth.
She states that her husband was
murdered and herself assaulted, not
by Democrats, but by colored men
who had quarreled with her hus
band and threatened to kill him
but not because Of politics.
Disturbances of that nature were
frequent among the colored people
then, and are now. But this one
happened opportunity. The Repub
licans were offering a premiam for
fresh "Southern outrages.n For,
with a first class "outrage,n they
could cry out ''intimidation,n stuff
the ballot-boxes and give the State
to Hayes.
Accordingly, delegation of Re
publicans was sent up to Catahoula
and Eliza was brought to New Or
leans. Notwithstanding that she
was hacked into shreds, she walked
down to the Customhouse, where
she was told what she must swear
to, and that she would be paid $500
for a good, first.class bull. dosing
story. She then went to the ST.
Charles Hotel and actually walked
up stairs, when, for dramatic effect,
she was laid on a sofa, and carried
into the parlor where the visiting
statesmen were in session. And
there like Mark Antony, exhibiting
the bloody garments of the dead
Caesar, did the hypocritical John
Sherman, bewail over the imaginary
wounds of his $500 subject.
.. 81. Brewster and j. Ell. Dink-
grave were the ring masters of this
side-show. Eliza, after receiving
the $500, entrusted $3.50 to Brews-
ter for "safe keeping" And Eliza
states he is better custodian than
she thought, as he still has it.
Swindling the woman out of her
well-earned money is probably the
cause of her confession. She is liy-
ing near jackson, Mississippi, in
tolerably good circumstances, and
has quit the "outrage" business.
Marksville Bulletin: The pro-
gramme of the Radicals of Ayoyelles
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29

other sections Ofthe country, noti-
fy them In advance that / shall dis
appoint their expectations.
l envy not the prosperity or the
power Of any section Of this great
country; if In my power would
make every portion prosperous, and
all her people happy from one end
of il TO the other. But the hills Of
my own native cline are greener
and dearer to me than any that lift
their heads toward heaven In any
other part of the habitable globe.
Her history and her honor are for
ever sacred to me, and her welfare
and her destiny the object of my
sincerest effort, whether / occupy n
position in public or i'm private life.
OF her / can say as she sits In lone
illness amid her ruins what the Isn-
elite said of his devoted city: "lf I
forget thee, o Jerusalem, may my
right hand forget her cunning
And when the day-break OF new
era of prosperity shall begin TO pur-
pie her horizon with its promise,
and dispel the long, dark night Of
her misfortune and her woe, / shall
hail the coming Of that better day
without n single constitutional scru-
pie to mar the glory Of its advent.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29

A man was scared 10 death In Ber-
ryville, Mo. lie was passing "A
graveyard nj midnight, when two
men sprang from behind q monu-
ment and shouted at him. lie ran
home and went 10 bed. but was so
nervous that he could not sleep,
and before morning he died In con-
VulsiOns.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
Death OF the OIdesI MASON in the
south.

Sir. David Cook, L. ID. &. G. Of
the knights Tcmplar, died at his
home, at Lebanon, at 10 o'clock
Monday afternoon, at the age OF
eighty-three years. lie was born I'm
Massachusetts and had lived at
Lebanon over halfa century. lie
was made a Knight Templar over
fifty years ago and Mason sixty
years since, and was the oldest
member of that order ia the South.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29

TUE yearly renewal Of telegraph
poles requires an amount Of lumber
nearly equaling the annual product
of the State Of Main.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16

The CAMPAIGN documents now be
ing circulated by Petih me sup-
porters contain SOLE curiou, TENS.
Prominent among these items we
find this one put down as one OF the
dangers menacing the country if
the Democrats should gain control
of the government. "The bill res.
toring to the pension-roll Mexican
pensioners who were dropped be-
cause of their disloyalty.'' That is
to say the Radical party is opposed
to paying the veterans who fought
with old Rough and Ready at Mon
terry and Buena VISTA or who fol-
lowed Gen. Scott into the halls Of
the Montezumas any pension what
ever. A large majority Of the Mex
lean heroes were Southern men and
several of them are here in Hawkins
county-straight-out Republicans al
that-and because they live in the
South they are TO be treated IS .rai.
tors by the naughty Radicals Of
Michigan. Say. old Mexican hero.
you man on -crutches down there in
Choptack, how do you relish that
doctrine coming from the head quar-
tiers Of your party at Washingtong
One of the great dangers menacing
the treasury, if the Democrats are
successful. is that the soldiers who
fought in the Mexican war will be
pensioned If the Radicals are sue
cessful of course they will not be
pensioned We say confidently to
these gallant old veterans, bide your
time in patience. The party which
has oppressed you is drawing its last
breath. There will soon be G change
in the Administration of this Gov
ernment and then justice, long de-
layed, will be meted out TO you
Vote for Robt. L. Taylor. He will
be your friend.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16

WE have been actively engaged
ia political affairs for the last thirty
years. CHANGING back over the road
we have travelled. a grim spectacle
is presented. There are skeletons,
like mile-stones, standing regularly
all the way. There are the bones of
men who have imagined that their
"c!aims" were not properly consid-
cred by their party, and have an
nounced themselves as "indepeud-
ent'' candidates, aad butted what
little brains they had out in fool
ish effort to break an organized par
ty down. There will be a corpse"
or two laid out on the roadside this
fall. Well. so be it.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16
B0B,g cor mn

III
We Lave u the i}=t few lays cor
ver.eJ with person ..a) were pres.
ent at the speaking between Taylor
and Petite. at * les Fora,
SneedvilIe, Richardson's Creek, Taze
well, Beans Station aud other points
North Of the mountains. All agree
in the main point. The young ORA
tor of the Wataugu is wining fresh
laurels every day and gains a new
victory in every encounter. Bob's got
him and no mistake. The cid men
are pleased and gratifed at the man
ner in which the brave champion Of
the people acquits himself. while the
young men are enthusiastic and
make the air tremble with their
shouts. At Sneedville. Taylor's vic
tory was complete, decided and
overwhelming. His ROOM was crowd.
ed with glad, gratified friends all
pressing forward to take him by the
hand. At Tazewell the Something
was repeated. The peoples cause
was triumphant. Taylor's friends ia
Hancock expect him to carry the
county aud the same hope is cher
ished in Claiborne. We OF course do
not know how these things are, bat
certain it is. he will gain largely in
both counties, aud ia Hawkins the
prospects are as cheering as they
could be. Taylor will certainly car
ry this county by very handsome
majority. Now, let the counties
East Of Us do their duty aud all is
we'll, The current is running in fa-
vor of Taylor in the lower end of the
mountain counties. The skies are
bright, the boys are full Of hope.
Money is going to be used and large
amounts Of it to defeat Taylor and
to fasten the halter OF the Revenue
Ring upon the necks of the free peo-
Pile of the First Congressional Dis
trict, but we do not believe this
game will win this time 1t is true
the Deputy Marshals will be busy
for their chief; 1t is also
true that the great still-houses of the
District will all join in and throw
heir weight in favor of their master,
md it is true that all the Federal
,fiice- holders will contribute part OF
heir salaries to help corrupt the
)allot-box and elect Pettibone, but
he people are aroused now and the
men are at work for their
and we believe they will |
Iect Taylor over all opposition
ver the Custom House Ring, the
Deputy Marshals, the whiskey ma
.ers and Pettibone's money.
There is no question about the
act that Taylor beats him on the
Jump every "dy' Aue people are
nth him, and be carries the crowd
ight along, It ia Impossible to de-
eat the young man IN less party
rill and money have more power
yer our people than we have ever
opposed these wicked and powerful
gents possessed, The fact is Bo5'S
% btn, and he is going to be cleo
I'd Hurrah for Bob Taylor!
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16

Extra Liability to MalariaI In
lection.

Persons whose blood is thin, digestion
weak and liver sluggish, are eXtra-liable
to the attacks of malarial disease. The
must trifiing exposure may, under such
conditions, infect system which, if
healthy, would resist the miasmatic
faint. The only way to secure immuni-
ty from malaria in localities where it
is prevalent, is 10 tone and regulate the
5ystem by improving weakened diges-
ton, enriching the blood, and giving a
wholesome impetus to hillary secretion.
These results are accomplished by moth
ing so effectively as Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, which long experience has
proved to be the most reliable safeguard
against fever and ague and kindred dis
orders, as well as the best remedy for
them. The Bitters are, Moreover, an ex-
cellent invigorant of the organs of uri-
nation, and an active depurent, elimi-
mating from the blood those acrid inn
purities which originate rheumatic all
ments.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16

MONEY is going to be used to lie
feat the peoples candidate for Con
gress this fall. Already it is being
used. Let the common people, the
honest men of this Congressional
District be on their guard. A ring
strong enough to buy up eonven-
ton will 60 step further end at:
tempt to corrupt the baliot-box.
Democrats with itching palms will
be hired to vote for PeLtibone and
money will be used il every other
way to secure bis election. Our APP
peal is to the people, and our hope
is that they will be true TO them
selves.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16
STILL THEY COME :.
Ioaesboro, Tinea, tRepahliean.,


We, the undersigned, Republicans of
lower Turkeytown District, Carter coun
ty, desiring to show our appreciation of
the course taken by the Jonesboro' Times
in exposing the fraud of the Jonesboro'
Convention, of the 18th of August, here
by subscribe for said paper and ask that
it be sent to US regularly. We do this
for the purpose named, also for the pur.
pose of indicating our disapproval of the
course of one of the delegates from this
civil district, in voting in said conven-
ton against our choice for Congress, al
so as warning to future county con-
ventions to select delegates to represent
us who wi II reflect our will We endorse
the Times, fully.
G B Daniels, G w Little, Isaac II
Mottern, A Snapp, Jas Daniels, Jas
Taylor, Sam'l Thompson, Pleasant Glib
son, John S Morrell, Jas Shell, ] Nor
rcll, w L Morrell, Brownl0w Davis, VIM
] West, Geo Mottern, VIM. Mottern, J
H Mottern, T Croy, T G Hart, James
Riggs, Levi L Taylor, Frank Gibbs, Vim
Scalf, VIM II Mottern, r ID Daniels, Jno
Lacy, Martin Crow, Timmotha Greene,
Sandy Hughes, and Solomon Grow.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16
VERY few Rebels have ever aske

VERY few Rebels have ever asked
the United States Government to
pay them for property taken by the
Federal armies during the war.
Nearly all the Southern claims we
hear so much about come from Union
men asking that property taken from
them by Union soldiers be paid for,
Is Maj. Pettibone opposed to pay
ing those legal men for what they
lost? If Federal General took a
Union man horse the Government
ought to pay him for the animal. Is
Pettibone opposed to it?
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16

A DOG with a rope around his
neck, his tail stuck between his hind
legs, trotting along at his masters
heels is fair illustration of ahject
servitude. But not more so than to
see Democrat with a halter around
his neck trotting at the heels of Pet
tibone, The Revenue Ring is q
powerful corporation and it will take
a desperate and determined effort
on the part of the people to break
If.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16

PETTIBoNE is getting desperate.
The Mountain Boy is too much for
the Great Miohigander We are not
at all surprised at this. East Ten
nessee in the past was famous for
raising orators. The blood in the
veins Of the young men Is the same
as that which made their fathers ia
nous, and blood will tell. Alfred
A. Taylor and Robert L. Taylor
promise to be eminent with the men
of this generation as were Nathaniel
G. Taylor and Landon c, Haynes a
quarter of a century ago. The cold
blood Of Michigan cannot compete
with the warm-hearted, eloquent
young champion of the people, whose
birthplace was the green valley OF
the beautiful Watauga.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16
Ir VS. announced by the ftiend

IT WAS announced by the friends
OF Hon. A. A. Taylor. and we believe
by that gentleman himself at the
Jonesboro' Republican Convention,
that he would be a candidate for
Congress two years hence. If Pet
tibone is elected this time Alf will
not be candidate two years from
now. He will be smothered and
crashed. Pe.tibone will do the run
ming and the Revenue Brigade will
whip the party into his support.
Pettibone's election means ALT Tay-
Ior's political death. This is fact.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16

Col. GREENE slyly boasts that he
has been twice honored by the peo-
pie with a seat in the Senate. Yes,
that is so, William, but when that
was done you were not notifying the
public that you were in accord
with Pettibone and the Revenue
Brigade. The Rev. VIM. Gillenwa-
tiers. Esq, did not ride night and day
distributing your circulars in those
cauvasses. You are now keeping
strange company, old friend.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16

REMEMBER the contest for Con-
gress in the First District this fall is
not strictly a struggle between the
Republican and Democratic parties
1t is struggle Oh the part Of the
people to free themselves from the
Revenue Ring. 1t is fight between
the common people on the one side
and the Federal once holders on the
other. Bob Taylor is the candidate
of the people. Vote for him and
elect him. The people should rule
in this country and net the office
holders. If Pettibene is elected it
fasteus the yoke Of the Revenue
Brigade upon the people Of this dis
trict for years to con g, and nc young
man Gan hope to rise from the ranks.
The only chance to get clear Of the
odious and oppressive tyranny is TO
vote for Taylor. He is emphatically
one of the people.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16

A DROVE of six hundred and eigh
ty-six fat cattle passed through Rog-
ersville on tile 9Th inst. towards the
Eastern markets. They came from
Cumberland Mountains, and are
worth IA or 10 thousand dollars.