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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-08-08
DIED

In Bellevue, on July 29th, 1873, MINNIE
ESTELLE ONEAL, aged years; secoua
child of Mr. j. B. and Mrs Laura w. 0neaL
A bright little spirit, one of the home i'd
is dead! Among her friends she was 70 IL
alive, SO full of infantile prattle, 80 gentls -
affectionate in her disposition, that she "
the admiration and esteem of all who Inn
her. And to-day she is dead! Alas, than
agony here, and separation, and misery, =
death, there where this little child has ~
there is certain to be recognition, and reunie
and an eternity that will never know ~
forever either shrould or coffin Weep net 4
her
The living are the only dead,
The dead live-never more to die,
And often when we mourn them fled,
They never were SO nigh.
Then why should memory, yelled with r.
And like Borrowing m0urner crapod,
Sit weeping DER an empty tomb,
Whose captive has escaped
For hope may whisper with the dead
BY bending forward where they are,
And memory with backward tread
Commune with them afar.
The joys we lose are but forecast,
And we shall find them all once more
We look behind us for the past,
But, 10! it's all before!'
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General News Items.

-Four colored men were hanged
at Monroe, La, early on the morn
ing of Tuesday, July 81, by persons
unknown. Their names were Jim
Beatty, Pies Phillips, Tom Ross and
Henry Atkins. Tom Ross was un-
der. sentence of Imprisonment for
life for killing Louis Collins, another
freedman. Beatty was under a life
sentence for killing Constable Fitz-
gerald while trying to arrest him
for disorderly conduct. The other
two freedmen, Atkins and Phillips,
were accessories to the murder. On
trial, the jury stood IL for convic-
ton, the latter being a freedman.
Four other colored jurors favored
conviction.
Under a recent decision of the
Secretary of the Interior lands
granted to Western railroads, and
not sold within three years after the
completion of the roads. are subject
to entry and presumption by actual
settlement, at 81 % per acre. The
following is an estimate of the num-
Der of acres Of public lands that
will be thrown upon the market !:
Central Pacific Railroad, IL, 722 900;
Union Pacific, 1O,764,947; Kansas
Pacific, 5000, 900; Denver Pacific,
100000. Total, 28,5S6,947. The
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road
has 100000 acres of good lands,
but which are not subject to this
decision. 1t is said the land sales
by this latter road are very heavy,
and that there is greet demand
for them by emigrants.
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From Bossier, Major L. D. San
didge and w. Fl. Scanland, were
placed in nomination.
First Ballot-T. j. Butler, 1 4-6;
L. D. Sandidge, 3; w. S. Parham,
2 Sc; w. FL. Scanland, 2; j. T.
Boone, II SO.
Second Ballot. j. Butler, Sc !;
L. D. Sandidge 4; W. S. Parham,
1 Sc; W. III. Scanland, 2; j. T.
Boone. II %.
Third Ballot-Sandidge, II Sc;
Parham, 5-6; Scanland, 2; Boone,
6 20.
Fourth Ballot-Sandidge, 3 Sc;
Parham, 10 Sc; Scanland, q;
Boone, 4 2-6.
Fifth Ballot-Sandidge, 8 SO !;
Parham, IL Sc; Scanland, 2; Boone,
$50.
Sixth Ballot-Butler, 5 SO; San
didge, 8; Parham, 1866, Scanland,
2.
Seventh Ballot-Butler, 3 4-6;
Sandidge, Q; Parham, Sc; Scan
land, IA; Boone, 5-6.
On motion of j. FL. Jordan, of
Claiborne, the nomination of w. 81.
Scanland, was made unanimous.
On motion, it was requested that
the proceedings of this Convention
be published in all the Democratic
papers of this District.
The thanks of the Convention
were rendered the Chairman and
Secretaries. Adjourned.
W. G. MARTIN, Chairman.
w. A. STROUD, Secretary.
ENos Fl. MoCLENDoN, Assist Sec.
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The Wonderful West.

Mr.. James E. Sigh, formerly of
this parish, has gone West to grow
up with the country. Under date
Of July 9th, he thus writes from
Ration Pass, near Trinidad, Colo
RADIO, to the Claiborne Guardian:
"Here on the mountains the grass
is the best l ever saw and rains have
been abundant. The stock here
stay fat all Winter. We are in sight
of the snow-capped peaks of the
Rocky Mountains. There is some
snow lying On the highest peaks of
these mountains yet.
have sub.contract getting out
ties for the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad, which is push
ing on through New Mexico and into
Arizona to connect with the South
ern Pacific Railway. I am camped
in the Pass at an elevation Of about
10000 feet above sea level. How
you would enjoy a month here to
drink of this ice-cola water and
breathe the cool, invigorating noun
tain air.
This is the best stock country /
ever saw. The grasses are almost
equal to corn and are inexhaustible.
The mountains abound in extensive
coal and iron beds. Gold and silver
is found here, also, but not in pay
ing quantities. About 40 miles west
of this the Elizabethtown mines are
being worked successfully.
Trinidad is quite a thriving little
place. Business is good now, and
when the Railroad gets there it will
soon enlarge to the dimensions of
city. The Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railways present ter
minus is at La Junta, Colorado,
about 60 miles east of Trinidad, but
they are laying the track now and
will be in Trinidad by August 15.
1t was thought that Texas would be
the great thoroughfare for the
Southern route to California, but
this road is putting a quietus upon
that idea by pushing right on
through to meet the Southern Pacific
without even asking Congressional
aid. How can Scott hope for aid
for his road to compete with this
when this road doesn't even ask for
aidg This road is being built by
private enterprise, and is a legiti-
mate and praiseworthy undertaking.
The men who build it deserve well of
the country, and ought to make
money by it. Now suppose the
Government should interfere with
their legitimate profits by helping
to build competing line, would it
be fair and just? :. It would be like
the Government loaning her credit
to some man to put up store in
Homer. 1t would be just as fair
in the one case as IN the other. If
Tom Scott or "any other man"
wants a road through Texas to Cal
ifOrnia, let him do as this road is
doing-build it. So l look upon the
Texas & Pacific bill as dead, as in
deed in justice and fairness it ought
to be.
My health is good, and L am
making money faster than 1 ever did
in my life before. j. E. SLIGH.n
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THAT statesman with the double.
back-action quickened conscience,
Levisee, has been appointed Internal
Revenue Agent, and it is greatly
feared he will be sent to this State.
Some time ago, he applied for an
Office, and Hayes told him to go
and hunt consulship in a warm
climate. Levisee then had quick
ened conscience; said his name had
been forged to the Electoral certif.
cate, and threatened to make some
revelations. He was summoned
before the Potter Committee. He
was in the Committee room, when,
suddenly, on his name being called,
he disappeared, and could not be
found in Washington while the
Committee was in session. The
very next day after he disappeared
from the Committe room Hayes paid
Levisee for refusing to testify by
appointing him to Office.
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9@ Public attention is called h 4.
card of Chaffe, Hamilton 4 Pov.p
Commission merchants, New Orle.r
This firm does not need any recon
mendation to its patrons-fair deslh.
advantageous sales and quick return
has already earned their conflde..
But it is to the general cotton ahippu,
public, that we wish to commend N
staunch and reliable house. Give 1 ,
trial.
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Yellow Fever.

New Orleans, Aug. New cases
twenty; deaths eleven. Rainy wealth
er for the past "a hours. Yesterday
the mercury fell 10 degrees-unfa-
vorable for the sick.
New Orleans, Aug. 5.-New cases
for the last "a hours %; deaths IL.
DIR. Chopin, president of the
Board Of Health, has issued o ders
that no more reports Of new cases
of yellow fever shall be furnished
the press.
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RAJ The "tintinnabulation :. s.
bells" is now heard in the noise !, 3
day and the silence of the night =
do not mean the silver bells, but tb,.'
thinkers ofbaser metal, which areh,..
around the necks of mischeivous -,
and milk cows that are turned loo..
Craze around town. Afar of, the !.
sic of these instruments has a drr-
influence upon the human sensihilit,..
but when the serenade is kept up 4
night within stones throw Of = ma.
domicil, he first grows wakefuI n.
nervous, and finally d-readfulm.d
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Gen. Butler says that he turned
over all of Gen. Twigg's plate, down
to the last spoon, to the Quarter
masters Department, and has the
receipt for it. What became of it
subsequently the General does not
know.
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CASH RECEIPTS FOR Inv
Snider, brief, SIP. John T
subscription to Sept. q, 1873, A.
Patterson, subscription to Dae ), "a
81. Maj. J. G. Moncure, subs.., 800
to Dec. 3lst, 1878, SIS. I'm
subscription to Aug. %, 1873. ~ = :
Bush, subscription to Dec. 81 ,o,a !. :
W.K. Scarborough (per Bush, spa.'1 y
ton Tor years 1878, 81. IA. SEMI
subscription to March IA, 1879. 3 3 J
V. kilgore, subscription to An,,, ],
1872 50. Francis w. Abney, subs =
ton to Dec. 81, 1880, S.. L.D.ns
didge, on note, $50. Joseph R A..
announcement, $40.
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" Is there one whom difficulties
dishearten-who bends to the storm2
He will do little. Is there one who
aoiU conquer That kind of man
never fails.n-I John Hunter.
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WEBSTER ITEMs.-The Democ-
racy of Webster Parish will hold A
Primary Election on Saturday, 18th
of August.
Corn and cotton crops in Web.
ster, on the road leading from Min
den to Bellevue, are looking re-
markably fine and promise well.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-08-08

Hon. j. D. Hammond has been
renominated for Representative, by
the Morehouse Democracy.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-08-08

Alfred NJ. Lay, Democrat, on the
l7lst ballot, was nominated for Con-
gress in the 7th Congressional Dis
trict of Missouri.
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BELLEVUE, La,
THURSDAY:::::::::::::::::AUGUST 8, 1873.
Democratic Conservative Senatorial
Convention.
MINDEN, August 9th, 1878.

The Senatorial Nominating Con-
yention of the 21st Senatorial Dis
trict, composed of the parishes Of
Claiborne, Bienville, Webster and
Bossier, met at IL M, at Minden
this day. Hon. VIM. G. Martin,
of Claiborne, called the meeting to
order, and briefly stated the object
of the assembling Of the Convention.
Hon. w. G. Martin was elected
Chairman unanimously.
The Chair, in few appropriate
remarks, thanked the Convention
for the honor thus conferred upon
him, and stated that he would dis
charge his duties to the best of his
ability, his rulings would be fair
and impartial, and if he should err
it would be from the head, and not
from the heart.
His remarks were we'll received
and loudly applauded.
The Chair then announced the
first business in order would be the
election of a Secretary.
w. A. Stroud, of Bossier, was
elected Secretary; and Enos. 81.
McClendon, of Claiborne, was elec-
ted Assistant Secretary.
On motion, the Chair was reques-
ted to appoint one Delegate from
each Parish to serve as Committee
on Credentials. The following
named gentlemen were appointed:
r. B. Howell, of Bienyille, Chair
man; Joseph N. Bryan, of Bossier;
Edmund w. Hodges, of Webster;
j. 81. Jordan, of Claiborne.
The Committee retired, and re-
cess for 20 minutes was taken.
During recess, Judge Boone was
called upon, and delivered a short
address, in which he urged the
claims of Bienville Parish by right
OF rotation. Z. j. Butler, ESQ.,, of
Bienville, followed, also urging the
claims of Bienville. Hon. w. S.
Parham, of Bienville, next address
ed the meeting, in which he favored
submitting the question of calling a
Constitutional Convention to the
people. Maj. L. D. Sandidge, of
Bossier, was next called upon, and
strongly urged the claims of Bossier.
The Committee on Credentials,
through its Chairman, reported the
various parish Delegations present.
by accident the report of the Com
mittee on Credentials, containing
the names of the Delegates present,
has been mislaid. The representa-
ton was: Claiborne, 8; Bienville, 5;
Webster, 4; Bossier, 4. Total, 81
The report was adopted, on mo-
ton of E. W. Cox.
On motion of j. FL. Jordan, of
Claiborne, the Convention took a
recess of 20 minutes for the purpose
of consultation.
After recess, it was ordered on
motion of A. L. Atkins, of Clai-
borne, that none be admitted within
the bar except Delegates.
1t was moved that the Conven-
ton be governed by the two-thirds
rule.
A substitute was offered that the
Convention be governed by the ma
jority rule.
The substitute was lost and the
original motion adopted.
On motion, the Convention then
proceeded to nominate a candidate
10 represent the 21st District in the
StaEA Snnofo of Iou;n:ana
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Morehouse endorses Colonel r. B.
Todd for Congress.
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AND oABBAeE PLANTS.

Persons who have at distance from
nursery wherewith to supply their wants
in the way of tomato and cabbage plants,
can readily raise both, as well as early beet
plants with q very little trouble. The best
plan is to do II in a hot bed which is within
the means of every farmer to construct,-
Nail common boards together to form
box, say six feet long by three wide, the
pitcn, and the sides or ends made TO con-
form 20 this. Dig q shallow pit little less
than the frame in dimensions and ten inch
es deep-set the frame over this. FIJI IN
with from 13 to 10 inches OF horse manure,
excluding the long straw, top off with from
two to two and q half inches OF rich garden
soil made fine. The top Of the bed should
In some degree slant with the frame. Over
the whole any old window sash will an
swer; or If made new, it will last for
dozen years Into this bed dibble the seed
IN rows six to eight inches apart, and when
the plants are up a couple OF lnches tnln
out, allowing an Inch or an inch and half
space bet v cen the plants In the row, these
can be again thinned out II necessary and
it is better that IL should be with tomatoes
and cabbage. After they are an inch or
two high the plants should have air daily
for an hour or two at mid-day, by raising
up the sash O couple OF inches. When the
tom atoes get SO high as to reach the glass,
raise the sash by blocks at the corners. By
that time there will be no danger from
frost. Hot beds should be started from the
Tomato plants can also be raised in q box
placed In q room where there is steady
fire, and permitting the plants 70 nave as
much sun as possible daily: hfch eartn
be Covered with glass to retain the moisture
and application of teptd water should
nearly every day be moderately admln1s-
tered Enough can be raised IN this way
for q small garden, and the labor is inter-
esting and pleasant -Ge'mdnfo'on 1ete-
OrdDA
The daily gazette., 1878-01-14
GENERAL NEWS.

Fonr-hfths Of the shoe manufacturing
firms Of Lynn, Mass, have notified the
Crispins that they will no longer employ
them unless they renounce their con-
nection with all labor organizations,
and gen eral lock- out is expected. The
Crispins held meeting and voted to
'sstand and die in the ditch" To-day
nearly the whole organization will be on
strike. The city marshal has removed
all arms from the armoTies. There are
l09 shoe manufacturing firms in Lynn.
and il four-fifths shut down, about 5000
men will be thrown out of employment.
The strikers are receiving groceries and
money from other cities.
A petition. signed by a large number
OF the members OF the Louisiana Legis-
lature of both political parties. State
officers, bankers, merchants, importers
and business men, has been forwarded
to President Hayes from New Orleans,
asking the appointment of Hon. P. j.
Kennedy as collector OF customs at that
port. Mr.. Kennedy is also indorsed for
the position by a large number of mer-
chants and business men of st Louis,
their petition having already gone fol
ward. Mr.. Kennedy is a conservative
republican.
The daily gazette., 1878-01-14
LOCAL TINE TABLE.
TRAINs LEAyE WTLMTNoToN, !,

TAAINb LEAVE WkkAtN0IONs
For Philadelphia 2.O0, 0.56, s.1o, 600,
s,41, 1000 4. M; i2.37, i2.l0, $50, 4.s0,
$40, s:4s 2; m. on sundays; zoe. . 10 a.
sor Nsr 3 M; n0sa On saSdsSs a - az m m No.
ror Baltimore and Washington: 1914, I 16,
80 z "a; i2si, i2oe, oee. m. Sundays
For Port Deposit. 45s p m; no sunday
For New Castle. s, Q %, . 80 m; 1 90, 90 p
m; no Sunday train. fiH Il
For Dslawere r. r.. . os, 20 m; Q 80 p m;
For Wilmington 4 Northern r. r.. %
m; 8 90. 800 m; no Sunday train. :.
For Delaware Western r. r.: 10 10 . mis- 30
pm; on sundays: 10 30 m. "
TRntNs Aaanyn At n y wIInrsST"m. q e 20
m; 1874, 12U, SOS, 4bi, btA. 621,
siS, q 90, II 70 20 2, L on "a Sundays y 5s'
sSMs,s smpmi on sundsy'' u Ss'a m
From baltimore: Q IS, . II, q m; 12T, II 80,
81 ss,sssp m; ON Sundays; 2is m 10 80
FROM VI washington: 9 rs . m Y q, lass,
FROM fcrs Deposits sooa m; NO Sunday
From New Castle: s5. 20 am 1900 M
From Delaware 4. R.; $50 q m; %, 9 40 =
III; no Sunday trains. .,--
From Wilmington q Northern r.. r.: 0s
II 30 q m: 10 p m; no Sunday trains.
From Delaware Western II. r.: Z 80 m
8 10 p m: on SUNDAYS: 500 y m.
TRAINS FOR wILMfNGr ON LEAVE PHIL
ADELPHIA.
From Broad street and Washington ave
nue. Z 80, g 90, 10 30, 1 45 o m; 2 30. 30
400, . 10, 45, 945, II 80 pm; on Sun.
days: 80 a m; 6 00,s 4b, II 30, p m.
From Thirty Second and Market streets
Z %, II 45 q m, 12 10, 8 IS, 8 30, II 45 p m
on SUNDAYS: 90. IL - p m.
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ORIGIN OF THE AFRICAN RACE.

Rev. Hosea Rigby. of Pottsville, who
was at one time slave in Louisiana, de-
livered an interesting lecture in tile A
M. Il. Church Last evening, on the
"Origin of the African RaoeT he re-
ferred to the Bible and profane history
to show that Ham, son of Noah, was
the father OF Cush, Mizraim, Phut and
Canaan, that Is the ancestor of the Ca
naanites, Southern Arabians, Ethiopians
Egyptians and the Afncans in gen
BE said that Ham went into Africa
and founded great nation, and that they
became the most learned and refined
people in the world. The word "Ham,"
In the Hebrew language, means black, in
dlcating that Ham was black man.
Ham had four sons and these founded
the Ethiopian tribes. Ethiopia and
Egypt were adjoining territories. and
the people inhabiting these two cOun-
tries were the most ficuishing in ancient
history. tgfH
The cause of the decline of the Ethio-
plans, he argued, was owing to the in
vasion of their country by the Phoeni-
clans, Greeks and Romans, Vandals and
Goths, and Arabs from Asia, who at dit
ferent periods possessed portions of their
country. E4 s.H
In referring to ancient colored people,
he said that the chief carver of Solomon's
1OAnpio WAS u CoiOEcu Iuau, al k1lLiCldu
originated astronomy; and the first per-
sons who ever navigated the sea lived in
Africa; they were the first who built
stone houses and carved in stone. The
history of Africa is not half 80 bad as
that Of any other nation. The people in
that country have been misrepresented.
1t has been stated that some tribes
wear hardly any clothes and roost
In trees, but this, he asserted Is not
true. a +..E
The lecturer adds that the colored peo-
pie could be proud of the blood that is
coursing i'm their veins. He advised
them to leave them to leave alone idle
habits, Jim Crowism, standing at street
corners for pennies, drinking liquor and
so on. The colored race was the great
est people the world ever saw, and they
should respect themselves and all live
industrious ami respectable hyes.-Read-
ing Eagle.
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fsndleton's ! Triumph. !
Remarks Of .Morgan and Ewing on
the Result. a


In relation to George Fl. Pendleton's
triumph in the Democratic Senatorial
cancus Of the Ohio Legislature, Colum-
bus despatch says:
"The most singular things about the
caucus was that no candidates were
placed In nomination, and no speeches Of
endorsement made, members being ex-
pected to cast their votes for the men Of
their choice. After the second ballot,
when 1t was found that Pendleton lacked
but one vote Of nomination, strenuous
effort TO adjourn was made by the Ewing
men, but was promptly voted down.
The ballottings resultedas follows
Pendleton, 40, Morgan, 20; Ewing, 10,
Ward, B, Hurd, 8, and Converse l.. On
the second Senatorial ballot Pendleton
received 40 votes. Morgan 10, Ewing 20,
Ward 4, Payne 2, and Converse l.
The third BALLOT resulted:-Pendleton
81; Ewing, 10; Morgan, Toward 8; Com
verse, q; Payne, 1.
"When 1t was announced that Pendle-
ton had been nominated, receiving fifty
votes on the third ballot, cheer after cheer
went up and swift messengers were dis
patched to Carry tho news to the nominee
at his hotel. The doors were thrown
open and hundreds of visitors poured into
the chambers. In response to calls, Mr..
Pendleton came forward and returned
thanks promising to do his whole duty
as q senator.
General Morgan also came forward
and paid high compliment to the nomi-
nee, saying he was satisfied with the
result. He said that In future, when
the Democracy shall be called on to fight
the battles Of the people against the great
money power, he would be found In the
ranks, with knapsack on back and gun
on shoulder, ready for duty.
General Ewing came forward, pale
and trembling, and said he cordially
acQuiesced in the elevation of man
who had done 30 much for Democra-
cy as Mr.. Pendleton. He said the
people have q majority In the Lower
House, and they would have won
victory for the silver dollar and anti
Resumption IL the people unfortunate
ly inside of the Democratic party had
not packed the committee in the In
teres: of the money pewer. After
speaking at some length on his favor
ite theory, the issue of greenbacks by
the Government as needed by the
demands Of trade and the tendency,
of the money power to fatten on the
poor, he was convinced by the past
history Of the Democratic party that
they would not much longer consent
, to q concilatory splitting the differ
ence between East and South for the
sake of harmony on fnencial policy
but would be an aggressive party. He
then added, If necessary, let New
| Jersey, New York and New Eng
land 70. We are better without then
| IL they retain their errors, for all the
other States of the Union have de
clared for the interests of the people.
This shows where the evil OF th'
Democratic party is. They favor nj
, compromise between East and West
bstween right and wrong, and b.
! lieve they will stand the storm
which is now sweeping over the
Hand"