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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-24
miscellaneous.
Animals and Human Speech.

Animals have much more capacity
to understand human speech than is
generally supposed. The Hindoos in
variably talk to their elephants, and it
is amazing how much the latter
comprehend. The Arabs govern their
camels with a few cries, and my asSo
ciates in the African desert We're
ALWAYS amused whenever | addressed
a remark to the big dromedary who
was my property for two months yet
at the end of that time the beast evi-
IDENTITY knew the meaning of a number
of simple sentences. Some year ago,
seeing the hippopotamus II Barnums
Museum looking very stolId and de-
jected, l spoke to him in English, but
he did not even open his eyes. Then
l went to the opposite corne Of the
cage, and said in Arabic. Il know
YOU: come here to me-" He instantly
turned his head towards me | re
peated the words, and ~thereupon he
came to the corner where | was stand
ing. pressed his huge. %ungainly head
against the oars of the cage, and looked
in my face with a touch of delight
while [ strOked his muzZle. Ihave two
or three times found a lion who recog
nized the same language, and the eN-
preston of his eyes. for an instant.
seemed positively human. = Bdydrd
Taylor,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-24
viii stand as follows:

After the first Thursday in August
the new apportionment takes effect and
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-24

FERTILIZERS.
For Tobacco Plant Beds
the General Crop.

We beg 10 Announce 20 sr-
tobacco reg IA 81 North t4.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-24
The New Apporficnm""t OF
Judges.

The cutting down - the superior
Court Judges from twelve II nine IN
number. Ill make considerable changes
in iheir apportionment. The reduction
i. made ~ electins only three judges
III the place IF the six whose terms eN-
pire. Below We give the districts and
Judges a the apportionment no" stands
uniting in italics the names 81 the
i,J~,S going out
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-24
Magnificent Offer! Splendid Chance
for some Enterprising Young Farmer
to Add a Beautiful Specimen Of
Devon BlOOded Breed to His stock
yard without the Outlay OF One
Penny!

y0Au VANlVuS ~ OutlA " O"S
Penny!
The Publishers of the FARMER AND
MECHANIC will present a fine, healthy
Devon Calf, raised upon the farm
of a prominent officer of the North
Carolina Agricultural Society, to the
person who shall make up the largest
list of yearly cash subscribers, before
the 10th day of April-next. No name
already on our books will be counted,
of course but beyond this. the offer is
open to all, and subscribers may be en-
rolled from any post-office in or out of
the State. Persons entering the lists
for this splendid premium will please
send on their subscriptions as fast as
obtained they will be properly Gre
dited to the sender and the more the
paper is seer and read, the easier will
be the work of getting up the club.
Address, FARMER AND MECHANIC.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-24

JUDGE Eure l. tie only Judge who
vii retain the lun.ber Of lis District.
and lie composition Of all the districts
is materially changed. For instance,
Wake county, which IS now IN the Sixth
District, passes into the uetr second
district TO which Seymour, now Judge
of the Third District, is assigned as
Judge of the District. The rotation
Of the Judges IS required by the
Constitution to be kept up. but
as the Legislature failed to pass a
rotation act for the new apportionment,
and the only act III force Is the n CON
templatjng II Judges it IS difficult TO
say what will be the appcrtionment
next Fall. By the said act. the Judges OF
tile 9th, eth and sth districts would
next Fall ride the 10th, 18th and 18th
districts respectively. but these last
three districts VIII be abolished. Again,
the Judges of the 10Th, 18th and 18th
districts would be the proper Judges,
under the act. to ride the 2nd. 3rd and
4th districts respectively. but there Will
be no such Judges. We are sure, how
ever. that he wisdom of the Bench will,
ere the time come, devise some remedy
for this state OF things, leaving 1t to the
Legislature to pass an act legallslng
such arrangement as may be made. The
three new Superior Court Judges to be
elected, it will be seen, are to be taken
from the Trans-Montane and North
Piedmont sections, i. e. West of Rowan
and North of Lincoln. The Supreme
Bench reduced in number to three mem
bers is likewise to be elected on the
first Thursday in August. All six of
the Judges are TO be chosen by the vote
of the people of the whole State.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-24
Down.

Tie star of Henry Ward Beecher
seems to sink, falling surely, if slowly,
to its setting.
The vigor of the man was wonder
full. we must all admit. in his long fight
against that fatal Indictment his sue
sess, too, was wOnderful-for a time.
But. as the excitement that turned
Brooklyn and half the people of the
Northern States into partisans, died
away, the personal element gave way
to the moral one. and Mr.. Beecher was
silently but finally convicted by public
opinion.
The results OF that conviction begin
to show themselves III the way which
Of al is probably the most unwelcome
to the apostle of gush Plymouth
church-pew-revenues We're seventy
odd thousand in 1874. They fell to
sixty, then to thirty-odd, and now
come down for this year to the COM
paratively pitiful sum of twenty-six
thousand. Mr.. Beecher has in conse
quence had to let his salary be locked
twenty-five per cent, and worse even
than that, his waning repute as a lee
turer has made him abate his lecture
fee from one hundred to fifty dollars.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-24

San Francisco had 1900 marriages
and 243 divorces last year.
John Bright is opposed to England's
Intervention in the Turko-Prussian
war.
Three hundred head of cattle were
burned to death in a fire at Terre
Haute, Ind, on the 18th.
\ Bardstown (Ky.) young man took
his forty-year-o old step-mother over
into Indiana and married her the
other day.
\ seventeen-year-old San Francisco
lad stabbed his mother seriously the
other day because she didn't have his
breakfast ready when he wanted it.
President Hayes rises as early as 6
o'clock. and devOteS eight or ten hours
a day to routine work at the White
House. Before breakfasting. between
s and 9 o'clock. he reads and writes
private letters. and then deyotes an
hour to. in~structing his secretaries.
Wilmington STIR goth: 4 gentleman
from OnSlow county. who was in this
city on Friday, seated that there are two
New lork ~schooners, with a supply of
ice on board, now lying in New river.
and sending runners up and down the
river to all the various fisheries to bnv
up the trout rs fast as they are caught.
Concord Register: Mr.. A. Josev and
Miss Williams, all Of Rowan. fled from
patecnal shelters to the matrimonial
fold a few days ago. cause. Josey wanted
a wife. the young lady wanted Josey.
and her Pa '~waIiopeds her for amor
BUSINESS. the injured lovers fled for
refuge to a magistrat and were mar
ried.
The -NeJr5ernian calls the attention
Of Hon. y. N. Waddell. Ct a;rman of
the Postal Committee. to the fact that
a post-otfice and Quite had been peti-
toned for several times by the pcopIe
of Pamlico village. in Pamlico county
AMI also by the people of Pelletiers
Mills. IN Carteret county, both IN this
State. the former to connec with the
office At NandeInere. a distance of fen
miles. and the latter WIKI the office AZ
Nayeville. a distance Of fifteen miles
These places arr quite thicklv POM
lated. and the inhabitants are pur 10
great Inconvenience through the ne
glect OF the Department in granting
their petitions.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

About four hundred German
Immigrants, with their wives and
families, have just arrived in
Taylor county, from Ohio. They
have bought an even hundred
thousand acres Of land at a dol
lar and a half an acre, cash
down, and have an abundance
OF capital and improved agricul-
tnral implements with which to
commence farming operations at
once. That looks like business
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21
The Debts of Cities.

At the meeting of the Ameri-
can Social Science Association
at Boston, Mr.. Robert P. Porter
read paper on municipal in
debtedness. In one hundred and
thirty cities of the United States
he found that the total debts in
1876 amounted 70 S644,37S, 6S3 !;
and in 1866, in the same cities,
the amount of Indebtedness was
1921 81 ,342, 000-having increas-
ed near three hundred per cent.
in ten years. In eight of the
principal cities he finds the fol-
lowing result:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

Frederick the Great is report
ed as having said that there were
three sinews of war. The first
was money, the second was mon
ey, and the third was money!
Ii this be so, says the Savannah
News, it seems that England is
much better prepared for Eu-
ropean conflict than are any of
her possible opponents. 1t is
stated that there are fifteen hun
dred millions of dollars in her
banks, drawing little or no in
terest, and a recent accumnla-
ton Of three billions of dollars.
With that enormous sum at her
command, she ought to have no
difficulty in placing her army on
a ''war footing"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

Hayes retention of Anderson
In office after his conviction and
sentence to the penitentiagy can
only be accounted for on the
ground that he confidently ex-
poets Gov. Nichols to pardon
him. A pardon from Governor
Nichols to such a felon would
not only be an insult to justice,
but would, under the circum-
stances, be construed as evidence
OF corrupt bargain between the
NICHOLS government and the
Hayes administrator.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21


The "Leper country" says
the Detroit Free Press, is an is
land set apart by the laws of
the Sandwich Islands as the
abiding place of all affected with
that loathsome disase. Patients
are sent there to live out their
wretehed days in the most COM
Portable manner possible, and
the King OF the Lepers is the le-
per chosen to administer the
rules and regulations governing
the colony.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

An act has passed the Legis-
ture and been signed by the
Governor requiring the Parish
Judge to have an Office at the
Parish seat and to keep said
Office open and remain there for
the transaction of business from
III A. M. to 3 Pm.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

There are SO chewing tobacco
factories in Richmond, Va,
which employ 4,420 hands, and
the sales for 1877 amounted to
So, POS, 800. There are SO cigar
and cigarette factories which
employ o73 hands; the sales for
the year amounted to 1926, $50.
There are 10 stemming blish-
ments, employing 1913 hands;
sales last year amounted to
$4,000. There are IA reprising
establishments, employing 24S
hands; sales last year amounted
to 100000. There are 9 smoking
tobacco factories, employing al
hands; sales last year, $563,2SS.
Total mber of facrories .116.
Total number Of hands employ
ed, 1925; total amount Of sales
last wear, $40, 446,58S.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

Kansas became a State on
the 29th of January, 1861
On her 18th birthday she had
100000 people, 1929 ,344 in prop
erty, S66,ooo,ooo in farm pro-
ducts last year, 2,311 miles of
railroad, $4,000 school children
and 4,OO8 school houses, an in
terest-bearing common school
fund Of 81, 1881, a land en-
owment fund Of nearly 3,OOO,-
600 acres; a college, seminary or
high school in nearly every
county seat.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

In Peru, South America !,
IS unknown. The coast Of p
is within the region of perpets
southeast trade winds. !
though the Peruvian shores 4 I
on the verge of the great sopa
sea boiler, yet it never rai
there. =
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21
BELLEVUE, La,
THURSDAY, ::.:::::::::::::hah2CH 1879

H Having been drawn as a
juror for the first week of the
March term of the District Court
in and for the parish of Bossier,
we anticipate our usual dav of
publication, and take occasion
to apologize to our readers for
any omissions in this issue of
the Banner.
AS the District Court convenes
on Monday, we expect to meet
some of our fellow-citizens from
all parts of the parish, and have
a pleasant time in interchange
OF viewsin regard to the material
interests of our section; as also
in regard to the political outlook.
And in this connection, we de-
sire to congratulate our people
on the universal peace and quiet
that reigns throughout our Dor
ders.
We will soon be entering on
another political campaign, and
we are thankful that the party
that has always fomented dis
cord and strife has been shorn.
in a great measure, of its ability
to efectually work on the pas
sions and prejudices of a portion
OF our population. Let it be the
aim of all to foster kindly feel
Ing among all classes, and at
the same time give bad men
clearly to understand that they
will not be permitted to stir up
strife, by pandering to the pre.iu-
dices of that class they have
hitherto used to advance their
personal and selfish interests.
We have once more local self
government, with no outside
power to nulify the expressed
will of the people, and we can
rest assured when they record
their verdict, it will stand.
In conducting a publicjournal
we endeavor to disseminate only
such views as we think are cal
culated to advance the best in
terests of those who may, by
any possibility, be Influenced
thereby. We know that we, as
well as others, may err in the
use OF means the best adapted
to that end, and for this, and
other good reasons, we think it
important that our people should
frequently counsel with each
other and, after a thorough can
vass of the situation, adopt such
measures as are best calculated
to secure the end aimed at.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

a. We have received a sum.
mons to serve as a juror, and a
notice to work the road; and we
are at a loss how to discharge
both duties, unless we take a
hoe into the jury room, and have
the road brought to us.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

Pittsburg, Pa, is thinking of
passing an act to prohibit unli-
censed hawking and peddling of
vegetables, fruits, oysters, ETC.,
on the streets of that city.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

Such figures are sufficient to
rouse every State and municipal
lty to the urgent necessity of
economy, even if the people
were not distressed by the bur-
dens that are weighing upon
them by taxation.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21
WHY DO YOU PLANT 81 Nm,

WHY DO YOU PLANT SO Muu ~ w
.CoTToN-Ask anv n,an.. bop ais
above question, and he will prunp.I i'su ~
~ toll vo, T. - hFarn
but will add, that there is no ma N f,ur ST
his putting half his land only in o,l rienlt,
ton, because his neighbors will oaI n she
tinue to make cotton their principa ID utt,
crop-he will admit, that excess n h Rom
cotton has reduced the price 80 los| yletac,
that it is rninous to grow it-hInss or
will also admit, that more corn anil all tles
other products for domestic II Sout
grown would be desireabls. sa Eaiust
much more profitable than cettaE Ine, .
at its present figures, still be gM{ I'm )
along i'll the old ruts, and insteadd| the
being an independent selfsuppoh tsat m
ing planter, as he ought to be, wifi :
such rich soil and glorious climaA 'aefe
he continues from year to year ii on ;
>,ava of his oomn;ss;on ,naroh.. afarn
and all for the want of unity offs ae
ton among planters generally. WI sial y
is there no planters associate !" ~
Where planting interests couldh 'eA !
fully and intelligently discuss Beue,
and where perfect understands ariti,
could be had as to area and rotafn ypr /; !,
of the respective crops. Such orgp 4 MA
izations are general over the Wien nj J
West-surely the interests oflb III 81
Southern planters as producers
the great staple are equal to thos 'ht
of the farmers of the West All ~
looking at the present cotton quola a -.
ons, there is not a single plautt gvem
but will promptly exclaim, 'sons nptil
thing must be done or we are ~
luined." Then why not unite, aaa hi q
join together heartily for, mutual Sc (
benefit-s;in union is strength IN -
the multitude of counsel there y
WISDOM" and the necessity for u He '
creased wisdom and strength among sae
Southern planters, never was great i n,
er than it is to-day Carroll Oot M
serUatiUe.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

Grave charges are preferred
against the directors of the Kan
sas Pacific Railroad. 1t is al
legged that they have obtained
s2O,0O0,00O by fraudulent con-
tracts.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

The Supreme Court of Tennes-
see has decided that the State
cannot be sued in her courts. by
her citizens through her officers.
even in a defensive suit.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

6 Gradually but surely all the
line plantations in Ouachita are
gong into strange hands, saws
Inc Telegraph. Ana yet, scot
ton is king
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

st Louis has 100000 inhabi.
tants, and its churches can con-
tain only 10000 people, and yet
st. Louis sends missionaries to
Timbuctoo and Shanghai.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

H For fresh and good IL
quors, cigars, ETC., unreasonable
prices, call on Adam Simon, at
Benton, this parish.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

~ Alas for you, Tom Andersa
and Matt Wells! Meg Merelies g
picts your ignominious fates truly
in the scene where she tells BG
trans fortune and ntters her incaf
tation-
The dark shall be light
And the wrong shall be right,
When Bertram's right
And Bertram's might
Shall meet on Ellangowan height
Prophetic poetic justice, verify
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

In Prussia, males are not 81
mitted to marry under % yss
81 age, nor women under T
years.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

The truth may be in . nutsnel'
but 1t does nut shell out very Web
nowadays.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

~ When you go to ShrevepoO
be sure and call at Raphael ksbs
y Co.'s and examine their stock "
carpets, oil cloths and mating.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21


In a letter to Secretary =
ton, of date June 8, 1867. !
Gen. Sheridan removed WI
he wrote:
l say now, .unequivocallv !
Gov. ellis is a political IA l
ter and a dishonest man !
| have watched him, and his !, :,
duct has been as simmons - =. J
malk left in the. dust Nv = !,
movements of a snake. /
again he is dishonest, and
honesty is more than mpst
expected of me.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

There has been a great deal
OF discussion as to the practical
bility of the co education Of the
sexes; and it remains an unset
tied question. An English paper
speaking on the subject says !:
''To send men and women to the
same college is to presume that
their calling in life is the same /;
that to revolntionize the relations
of the sexes is to convert woman
from the partner of man into his
competitor; and that the entire
movement of which this measure
forms one feature noticeably
produces in women an aversion
to maternity, as well as some
disqualifications for its highest
duties"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

Inere are now outstanding
s348,61S,24 in greenbacks.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21
VOLUME SEVENTEEN.

With this issue we commence
another volume of the BANNER,
and we return our thanks to the
friends who have stood by it
through good and evil report
We have endeavored to make it
paper suited to the wants of
our people-although we have
never been able to make it all
we desired. But it has not been
for want of disposition on our
part; but for lack of means to
do so.
And now, with the commence
ment of another volume, may we
not hope that its friends will
exert their influence to extend
its circulation, and assist us in
every way they can, to build it
up-PECUNIARILY--so that the
range of its influence may be
enlarged, and we be able to
make it credit to ourself and
the community; and while it is
our business, and from which
we make our living, we are de-
sirous that onr friends should
receive a full equivalent for the
money invested in their sub
scrlption, to which end we in
tend to exert ourself, if posi-
bic, more in the future than we
have in the past.
And, fellow citizens of Bossier.
to make our exertions successful.
we need your aid and encourage
ment. We expect and hope to
have them. remains with YOU.
whether our hopes and expec-
tations shall be realized or not
What sag yous
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

The lawyers of Har,;.
are in trouble. The Tar \
lector has served notices !.
to pay their license. Asm.' .
them have not seen forty l '
lars In SIX months, says th.el !,
ahoula News, they naturas
not know how to meet tba
gency.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-03-21

~ Maury county-Middle
Tennessee-has already shipped
over three thousand mules South
this season, and will ship three
thousand more before crop plant
ing time is over. Estimating the
mules upon an average at 500
per head, We find that one coun-
ty alone in Tennessee, takes out
OF circulation from the States of
Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida,
Alabama, Georgia and South
Carolina, the sum of 5000, 900 or
more, to enrich its people, while
the last named States might
have raised their own mules at
half the cost of Tennessee breed
ers. When thousands of dollars
is annually extracted from every
section of the Gulf States for
mules to raise cotton, which is
sold at less than cost of produc-
ton, how surprising it is to the
thinking mind, how we Southern
people have managed to do half
as well as We have. No! everv
State should raise it's own live
stock and provisions, and until
this is the case, such State need
never hope to be rich and indie
pendent.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-25
AN INTERESTING SUIT.

By reference to our court column 1t will be
seen that our City Attorney has endeavored
to check the sale of the tracts of land on
which are built the National Theatre, on Ba-
rome street. and the stores opposite. The
lots first referred to, when they were in the
middle of swamp, were coded to the New
Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Company
for a depot and those opposite for offices. The
cession, II we remember Alright, was for fifty
years, provided the company should fill up
the lots, and at the end Of the term the city
could reclaim its property by paying for the
improvements erected thereon. At least this
last condition applies to the stores erected on
the west side Of Baronne street within few
years, whatever may be the case with the
lots on which the theatre building is con-
structed.
In 80 far as the stores are concerned, unless
lots 90 up in value to an extraordinary ex-
tent by the year 1888 the term OF the lease, it
is very doubtful whether the Gty will be will
ing to reclaim them by paying for the build
jngS.