The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-22

finally fell into the hands of it's present pro-
prietor, and became permanent institution.
Mr.. VIM H. Scanand is editor and proprietor
of the Banner, and, 1e suspect, about the
youngest of the whole fraternity, being not
yet twenty years of age. He has had the pa
per over a year, and his contemporaries up in
these parts who have got foul of him have had
no reason to come to the conclusion that his
youth was at all in the way of his taking care
ofhimself, with pen or other weapon, he being
one of Young Americas representative men,
in all respects.
Bellevue is % miles from Shreveport by the
stage road. On the road, and eight miles south
of Bellevue, is Fillmore post .otfi.e, where
there are Methodist and Baptism churches,
spacious store Kept by W. L. Hamilton, and
| 3 ORA residences. Bossier Point office is Is
miles south of Bellevue, and there is Metho-
dist church there, but no store. At Benton, 16
miles west of Bellevue, K. p d. Taylor 81 Co.
keep store, but the settlement is very small
Collinsburg is % miles northwest of Bellevue.
The Methodists have church there, and G.
| w Sentel & Brothers have store there. At
! Rocky Mount, Is miles northwest of bellevue,
considerable business is done by Messrs.
Stewman & Hughes and Crawford, Hughe
& Co., and til re is Methodist church.
Plainville is 25 miles north of Bellevue, and
there j. j. Swindle is engaged in mercantile
| pursuits, and both Methodist and Baptists
| have meeting houses. The landing places of
Collinsburs, Rocky Mount and Plainville arc
at Hurricane and Carolina Bluffs. Cotton
| Valley office is Is miles northeast of Bellevue
There Messrs Hamilton & Edwards are the
merchants, and the Baptist and Methodist dc
nominations have churches At Orchard
Grove office, 25 miles northeast of Bellevue
there is no store and no settlement"
BOssier parish Is extensive, and contains IA
great deal Of fine cotton and corn lands. Its
territorial area comprises ESQ, 600 aeres of land,
and it has forty odd Thousand acres in cotton,
and over $4,000 in corn-sufiicient, If the sea-
son was favorable, to yield twenty-three or
four thousand bales of cotton, aud some 500,
900 bushels of corn. The parish borders on
Arkansas, is bounded on the west by Red Kiv-
er, and on the east by Daucheate river and
Lake Bisteneau. 1t is long and narrow
! parish, hedge shaped, and its river and lake
boundaries, and Bodcau river and lake and
tributaries in it's interior, secure to it a large
extent of rich bottom lands, which are worth
from ten to seventy tive dollars, improved and
unimproved, per acre. The uplauds, some of
which make very good crops, but nothing like
what the bottoms do, may be quoted ut from
five to ten dollars per acre. There is % good
deal of land in the upper part of the parish OH
which the surveyors are yet at work. closely
watched by spectators and others who have
'spotted" the best tracts, and are in waiting
to secure them as soon as brought into market,
The following are the names of the lurger
planters of the parish, making from 200 bal les
up to almost a steamboat load: Col. John NJ.
Sandidge, John Pickett, james Pickett, Mrs.
PAULINE Pickett, John Adger, Mrs. Maeualay
DR. j. w. Vance, DR.. s. w. Vance, Miss Matte
Gimer, r. Y Graves, George E 0ilnief, T. NJ
Gilmer, Henry Marshall, Mrs. NJ. D. c, Cane,
X. c. Cummings, +. G. Hart, Reuben White
N -,
son, w. NJ. Pickett, j. L. Hodges, e. c. Atkins
Edmund w. Hodges, j j. Bryan, David Platt
, w. III. Ellison James Ii. Hughes, John Hami
ter, DR.. II. Mcfarland, D. l. Hooks Col. Cat
| lin, Gen. p. A. Morse, estate j. B. Sugg, w. NJ
Burns, DR. A. Skannall, John Chaffe, Frank
: Smith, j. N. Bryan, Mrs. Ii. N, Haughton and
others. There are many small planters Oh the
| uplands i'll this parish, working little more
force than their own two hands, strong and
willing, who make in the aggregate u good
I, deal OF cotton.
q Bossier is the most broken and uneven eoun
= try have yet visited in Louisiana, and some
q of the highlands look barren enough, but il
the bottoms may be found bodies of lands o
!. unsurpassed fertility. The river bottoms arr
the best, the lake bottoms far inferior which
3 accounts for the wide range of prices giveI
above.
The total population of Bossier is between
eleven and twelve thousand, over 700 OF
whom are slaves, and it pays a State tax o
$2o'ooo. 1t is assessed for over six millions o
dollars in round numbers The parish officers
at this time are A. A. Abney, Clerk; Phil
, Alden, Sheriff; John NJ. Doyle. Assessors Aus
e tin Miller, Recorder; James Ford, Presiden
. Police Jury.
e CROPS, WEATHER, ETC.
Tic scorching drought still continue
through this section OF country. The corr
;. crop is almost total failute Many planter
have stripped the corn leaves for fiddler, ant
A. others who could not get even fodder hav
e turned their stock into the corn fields. Acre
of wilted and withered corn may be seen, OIL
which the ears did not even FORM or with pei
haps one s'nubbin' to a hundred hills. Tire
t. dollars and upwards per bnshel, and hardl
# any to he had at that, is the price Of corn a
- different trading points through this country
!: and at some places told, it cannot b
=, bought at any price unless it is satisfactory
:, shown that it is to be used for bread, and no
T. to be fed to stock
+. Cotton is badly ,ured: Many Of tie up
land planters won't make cotton to the acre.
e The very best of weather from now to barves
J. time will scarce avail to secure a m0derat
crop. The weather is unprecedently hot an
dry.
NY next letter will be from Homer, 40 mile
distant; the parish seat OF Claiborne; which
| with RaffH ille narish adininS RhsSief fh