The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-06-19

-ae. Inc unmarried officers at the
post had been paying attention to the
beautiful daughter of Mr.. Frank c.
Melville, a wealthy merchant from st.
Paul; but Miss Melville met Aiellien THE
twain fell in love, and a private mar
rage was the result. The hrldegrocm,s
superiors, On learning the facts, con.
signed hin, to a cell, and, the bride went
home to her father r. But The latter
views the affair MUG ch i,,orc coollv than
the wearers Of ensu.ettes, and has prom.
ised to do TIE best he can for his son-in
law, and to procure his discharge, if
possible, from the army.
THE Mayor of Chester, England, re-
peated in recent address the remark
of factor to the effect that "he wotld
60 20 miles to find Z, dairy OF first-class
Cheshire cheesG, and pay 75s. per cwt.
for It; but he did not know where to get
! It, and the dealers would not buy second
and third-class Cheshire, because Amer
lean was better and cheaper" 1t was
added that the only hope of the famous
old country is to improve the quality of
the product which has given her repu-
tation. Thus American competition
teaches the necessity of higher stand
ard of excellence. We can supply in
ferior cheese for prices below those at
which British farmers can afford to make
It, but in the best grades they can easily
hold their own
EXPERIMENTS in California have de-
monstrated that the soil aud climate of
that State are admirably adapted for the
growth both of the tea plant and the
mulberry tree. Neither the culture of
tea nor of silk, however, seems likely to
become practicable there for the pres
ent. The tea plant grows as readily on
the Pacific coast as the camellia, and re
quires even less care. The difficulty,
however, is in devising some process by
which the leaves can be picked at cost
low enough to make the industry profit
able. 1t is we'll established fact that
the tea plant will grow in many of the
Southern States. It is not tropical
plant, but hardy one, and fourishes
best in elevated regions, especially on
the mountain sides. In India it is ex-
tensively grown. There are large tea
plantations there, and the tea of that
country is an important article of traffic
But neither tea culture nor silk culture
can be profitably conducted while the
cost of labor is as high as it is in this
country, and with no better labor-saving
machinery than we now have for use in
those industries.
DR.. DRAsCHE, who was sent by the
Austrian Government to investigate the
plague in Russia, las communicated
some interesting facts to the medical
profession since hiJ return to Vienna
His investigations led him to believe
that the dangerous source of the plague
is the Mesopotamian Valley, where it
first appeared in 1867, and dtrom whence
it was spread by Schuts's caravans car
rying the dead bodies to the catacombs
of Kerbelah and Vetsche. Spreading
further on, it appeared in 1877 in Persia
(Retsch), and then in 1878 it passed to
the Volga, and appeared in the village
of Vetlanka. 1t was brought from AS.
trachan by q woman, who fell the first
victim on the 18th of October of last
year. Up to the 9Th of February, when
the ravages of the plague in Russia ap.
pears to have come to an end, the actual
deaths caused by it did not number
more than 450, according to DR.
Drasche; and the limitation of it's raw.
ages was due to the energetic measures
adopted by the Russian Government
The doctor recommends the establish
ment of an international sanitary com
mission, whose duty it shall be to watch
and prevent the spread of epidemics
espaciallv in Turkey and Persia