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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

Zach Chandler says: "There is
not the shadow of a doubt but that
Grant will be our next President
lie is as certain to be our next Pres
'lent as"-as achat, will never be
known as some one asked the old
warhorse to take a drink, and he
left the reporter abruptly and pass.
ed behind the green screen, where
newspaper men never 90.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

SHREVEPORT, July %, 1872
The river fell l inch in the past "a
hours. The new gauge now reads 3
feet and 8 inches above the low
water of 1872.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24
Yellow Fever.

Memphis, July 17.-Five new
cases of yellow fever were reported
to the board of health this morning.
Philadelphia, Pa, July 1.-THE
brig Shavat, of New York, arrived
here this morning from Port Depait,
San Domingo, with 8 men on board,
Z of whom were sick with yellow
fever. She had clear bill of health.
Memphis, July 1S.-Two new
cases were reported this morning.
Memphis, July 1S.-Three new
cases were reported to the board of
health this p. m. These make 16 as
the total number of cases reported
since the 9th inst. Total number of
deaths from fever to date is seven.
Business is almost entirely suspend
ed, especially among the wholesale
merchants. Large crowds of citi-
zens are leaving on every train that
departs from the city.
Memphis, July 19.-Three new
cases of yellow fever were reported
to the board of health this morning.
These cases dispel the sporadic the,
DRY. The development of new cases
has given fresh impetus to the ex-
odus of citizens.
Memphis, July 19.-Another gen.
uine stampede Of citizens is in pro-
gress. The rush for railroad tickets
this afternoon recalls the scene of
Thursday week, when 5000 people
left the city. Three new cases re-
ported this afternoon. These make
Z cases as the total cases reported
for to-day. Business paralized and
many retail merchants are closing
their stores.
Memphis, July 2O.-Two new
cases were reported to the board of
health to-day-two colored. Four
deaths have occurred since last
night. A number Of other persons
are down with the fever who have
not as yet been reported, but will be
tomorrow. The total number of
cases cannot be far from IS. The
city authorities are seuding the poor
out of the city. DR.. Sauders states
that the fever is not so malignant as
last year, yielding more readily to
treatment. The streets are almost
deserted and but few churches held
services today. All trains leaving
the city are literally crammed. It
is estimated that 10000 people have
left the city since the 10th. The
Peabody is the only hotel open.-I
The Avalanche, Appeal and Ledger
from this date will issue only half
sheets. The Memphis and Paducah
railroad ceased running trains to-
day. Nearly all small towns ada.
cent have enforced a strict quaran-
tine against this city.
Memphis, July 21.-Fifteen cases
Of yellow fever were reported to the
board of health this morning. The
exodus of citizens is still progress
ing. Business is almost entirely sus-
pended and the general outlook is
but cheerful. The Even.
ing Herald suspended to-day. EN-.
met Lonigal shot himself fatally be.
cause his family refused to leave the |
city.
Memphis, July 22.-Five new |
cases were reported to the Board of |
Health this morning and four deaths |
since last night.
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

The fact that drunken and crazy
men are always we'll supplied with
knives and pistols, is a sad feature
in the records of crime.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

M. de Lesseps thinks that the
Darien Canal can be constructed
Tor 25O,OOO,OO0 francs, and that the
difficulties will not be as formidable
as at Suez.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

General Joe Lane was at a pio.
neer celebration at Salem, Oregon,
recently, and looked vigorous in
body and mind.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

An exchange remarks that smok.
ing cannot be- counted in Hayes
catalogue Of vices. We should hope
not; there is enough "counted inn
about Hayes already.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

livery man is a good pilot in a
smooth sea, but when the wind
blows, then we find out who knows
the most.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

The public debt of Brazil in 1870
WAS S19S,OOO,OOO. 1t is now s44O,.
$4,000, and the Government is
much embarrassed in the attempt to
ply interest upon it. War, public
improvements, steamship and rail-
road subsidies and bad administra
ton are at the bottom of the trouble,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

We are truly glad that the Con-
yenti0n has located the State CAPT
,al at Baton Rouge, where it certain
jy ought to be.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

The Atlanta (Ga.) Dispatch says
there was enough beer swilled in
that city on the Fourth to Law the
foundation for a canal from Atlanta
to Opelika.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24

Truth is stranger than fiction
because it is scearce article.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24
Teachers Wanted I.

A Male and Female Teacher, with first.
- CLASS certificates, are wanted to take
charge OF Fillmore Academy. Apply at once,
July 10, 1879 nI7s
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-07-24
Michael MOlalIey.
Bellevue. Lu.

WIN dig Wells and Cisterns, and do Ditch
able rates. ~ '0' T9a
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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27
CErYwAYo. the Zulu king, has a
last been captured. y W'

A trsity Of peace has pesn signed
between Spain, Peru and Bolivia.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27

this summer that Mrs. NorPis was 60
iug TO resign on condition that Man
ming take her place as postmaster.
Several citizens of San Antonio ap'
piled for the position, and one Of these
was indorsed warmly by Schlelcher'
and backed up by good recommenda'
tions. Again the citizens OF San An
tonic were surprised by the appoint.
ment Of Manning. Mr., Manning has
been two years 10 san Antonio, aud
has only recently made the discovery
that he is a republican. It may be so,
but nobody knew it, and st all events
as republican he. 10 destitute OF in.
fuenoe or importance. Whatever SER
vices Mrs. Norris and MIR: Manning
may have rendered the republican par
ty to deserve such an important office
as the postmastership. must DO better
known to you and the postmaster gen
eral than Il is to us. We have been
informed that the appointment ct q
person to Gil this Office has been lett
TO our congressional representative.
but we also, learn from reliable
source that COL, Upson's recommen-
dation has been ofno more avail than
that of Col. Schleicher was. si ,,lsi'I
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27
WASHINGTON ,LETTER.
,'H WARRINGTON, D. O.,
.stspt Xlla-i 'S!Sept. II, h79.

Va The entire radical press is complain
ing of the acquittal Of Gully Of the
murder Of Cornslis Chrisholm. The
entire Republican press may be right,
but the subject should be considered
fairly. General Woodford Of New
York, who attended the trial for the
purpose Of observing It, says that oil
the forms Of law we're adhered to; 1thst
the jury was fairly and impartially
drawn, and that the Judge if partial
1t all, leaned to 10 the side:of the pros.
ecutiou, and ruled against tho sccus'
ed. With these facts, 1t is alleged
that the verdict was against che law
and the evidence. This, % every one
will Gee. 10 merely . difference Of o.
pinion between the jury who tried
Gully, and some other persons. such as
occur in all criminal trials everywhere
in which the public take much interest.
The effort to make political capital out
Of this trial in Mississippi is a. ridicu.
lous a. the same effort would be over
like trial in Massachusetts. The ad-
ministration Of justice BY criminal
Courts should be exempt from all pc.
litical influences of course, and it is
as much for the interest Of one party
as another to make it SO. d"
Jefferson Davis has just written a
letter in which he declines to be can
didate for United States Senator from
Mississippi. He does not say positive
~ that he will not acceptit if elected
Washington il to have fair grounds
and race course unexampled by any
in the country. All the arrangements
may not be completed this season, but
by the fall OF 1880 they will be. Before
the civil war this was in some sense
q racing centre, and the best horses in
the country came here. simply because
here was tho Capital, to run or trot on
what was certainly an inferior track.
Now the whole district is engaged in
an effort to secure not only . race
course equal to any, but suitable
grounds for such annual fairs as are
held elsewhere. There is every assur-
ance OF success. i'o.. ...
Texas, Maine. Minnesota, South
Carolina-every section of the coun
try-will yet send its stock and it's az
ricultural products to this city for ex
hibitiOn. "'h Dem.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27
A yvarnInw 20 the Democratic
n Patsy.

We copy the following from o late
editorial 10 the Galveston News:
Supposiog California to have elected
three democrats or three republicans
out of the tour representatives to which
she il entitled, the result gives one or
tho other party . majority 10 the house
OF representatives upon q divison ae-
cording 70 state delegations. Judging
from latest ielegraphic adyices. the
republicans appear to have actually
acquired this advantage by the cleo
ton of all their candidates for congress
10 California, 30 that they may contem,,
plate without alarm the contingency OF
the election ora president devolving
upon the house, after pell nell can.
vass in which no ticket out OF three
or possibly four, should obtain ma
jority of electoral votes. For the
democratic party At large, IL can not
DO regarded as an auspicious tact that
the workiugmsn's party ip California
though successful only with respect to
Q few local Offices, has made such head
way in avowed opposition to both the
old parties. The greenback move
iusnt in other palts of the oou9'
try il ANALOGOUS 10 the workingmens
movement 10 California. Its egre-
Riously 70 iihissake Vie meaning and
character Of the gresubaek movement
to assume that its Inspiration and aim
are covered BY the subtraction OF nat
money. Whatever real and permanent
strength il Mas comes from popular
dissatisfaction with the uses and abus.
90 Of power BY both democratic and 70.
publiosns. and . popular desire TO
Wrest public affairs from the control
or undue influence Of special interests
aud selfish combinations and to bring
government, federal and state, into
close sympathy with the masses OF the
people aud unfailing loyalty 70 the
general welfare. There 10 . plain drift
Of sentiment towards making govern.
ment Q more active and more potent
agency in the service of the whole
people. ltwould have been 10 perfect
accord with the traditions OF the
democratic party, claiming, sit has
always claimed, to BE- the party Of the
people. to have appropriated this SON
timent and consolidated under its flag
the bulk of all elements Of opposition
to the republican regime. But It is
evident thst the democratic leaders
have failed to effect the consolidation
and have thus far failed to put things
in train for it. Unless this failure
is retrieved very soon, . democratic
campaign for the presidency will be an
organised futility from the beginning,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27
A sample Of Hayes Civil Ser.
vice Reform.

The San Antonians are not happy
over the administration Of their Post
Office. Their postmasters are regular
ly imported without regard to the
wishes of the people. In the first
place the widow Of q revenue officer in
the Western district of Texas, import
ed by Grant, aud who proved a de-
faulter to the tune of some $4,000,
even swindling the newspapers out OF
their advertising fees, for which be
had got credit, was appointed, and re-
Gently she has been succeeded by an
other outsider. But we leave the San
Antonio Freie Presse to tell the rest.
This it does in an "open letter" to the
fraudulent President, from which We
make the following extract: .:
In 1874, the term Of Office Of the
San Antonio postmaster, Gambia, ex-
PRED. Gambia was u good republican.
a respected man, u conscientious OF
fetal, and an old citizen OF San An
tonic. No reason was given for his
removal. Several citizens tried to OBJ
tain the vacant position. These were
all, as tar Ms We know, all active re:
publicaus and honorable men, and
were not only supported for the office
BY their own party, but also by their
political opponents. No attention
whatever was paid to their applications.
One day the telegraph brought the
news that a lady, Mrs. Norris, was ap-
poiuted postmaster at San Antonio.
This lady was the widow of federal Of
fetal, a revenue collector of the West
ern district of Texas. We have moth
ing to say as 70 his record-because de
n,ortuis nal nisi benz. He was import
ed from Illinois to fill a fat Office in
Texas. Mrs. Norris was first appoint.
ed postmaster at Waco, and a capable
aui universally respected official had
to make place for her. AS the citizens
of Waco protested against this uuwel-
come change Of official. the postmaster
general appointed her to the San An.
tonic Office, wht r.by she gained an ad.
ditional thousand year as her salary.
The postmaster who had been remov.
ed, was put back in his office-a proof
that there was no good ground for his
removal. The citizens Of San An'o.
MO were very much surprised when
they suddenly discovered that, without
their wish or consent, perfect strang.
er had been foisted upon them. The
citizens sent on monster protest
signed by all the business men OF both
political parties. to the postmaster gen.
eral. This protest was filed away for
future reference in the waste basket.
As Mrs. Norris Was perfectly unknown
in San Antonio. she had to look around
outside Of San Antorio for bondsmen.
Ii is said that her bondsrpen only went
on her bond under certain conditions.
She afierrard imported Mr.. Manning
from St. Louis as her chief clerk, IN.
der condition that he furnish the
houdsmeu. How and in what manner
we do not know. 1t vas reported
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27

The bell punch law Is to be a good
thing after all. Seventeen hundred
applications for punches have been
sent into the Comptroller, accompanie
by $3.50 for each application. This
item even if it goes no further shows up
a handsome revenue of 1925, 600, a
much greater amount than has ever
before been received from the source
under the occupation tax law.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27
What An Intelligent Physician
Says. ...

Says.
DR.. r. G. Strother, of Monroe, La,
who has been medical practitioner
for over twenty five years. in q letter
to the undersigned, says: II have
heard OF your Compound Oxygen
Treatment tor svme length Of time in
q casual, incidental way, but it is only
within the last few months that have
had my attention particularly called to
it in a way that has aroused my pro-
fessionsl interest. l have watched its
wonderful vitalizing power in two or
three instances in which the patients
we're using the Home Treatment. J
One Of these patients was sister, and
her rapid i'm provement from low con.
dition of Nervous Debility and Mus.
cular Prostitution, resulting from ee-
we're acute disease, was almost miracu-
lous. Your little work, The Com
pound Oxygen Treatment, its Mode of
Action aud Results, has fallen into
my hands. and the therapeutical and
pathological views therein ibculcated
being to a great extent in accord with
what theory and experience have been
impressing on me, have read it with
unusual care aud interest. Indeed. i
have read and re read it with q great
deal of pleasure. am sure you have
found 3 curative agent of incalculable
remedial and vitslizing power. aud
adapted to q wide range Of diseases. "
The above named treatise is sent
free. Address Drs. STARKEr K Pa
LEN. 11l2 Gir,rd Street, Philadelphia,
y.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27

Who ins,igsted Dennis Kearney
to threaten the burning Of in Grant
'etligy, and what was the price he got
for giving the third term boom lift
-TSt. Louis Republican. ,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27

Houston is getting away with Gal.
weston badly this year. SO far, on cotton.
Her receipts are about two bales to
Galveston's one. The reason given for
this is that Houston has better ship
ping facilities. and her charges for hand
ling cotton are about one-ihird what
they are in Galveston. to say nothing Of
the hugeness OF samples in Galveston.
the Galveston crop being generally
about GOO bales.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27
TUE Governor has appointed Col

THE Governor has appointed Col
Ford superintendent of the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum 10 place Of Gen. Nc.
Cullougb, removed. Both Of these
gentlemen are Texas veterans Of re-
pute, but neither can claim any spec
isl fitness for the position, and it Is
difficult to see what has been gained
by the change. But Col. Ford we see
it stated is a relative Of the Cover.
nor.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27

It's now generally understood that
Mr. Schurz was the author of the
celebrated civil service order which
was to effec, such wonderful reforms
AMI purify the atmosphere of Repub-
lican politics. SEIZURE may have been
the author but the "finisher" is man
by the name of Hayes.-[St: Louis
Rep.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27

PROF. PROCTOR, the noted astrono.
MGR, has published an article showing
the fallrcy of the prevalent idea that
the earth is suffering, or likely to suf.
fer; from planetary influences. 1t is
all poetry.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27

VICToRIA z. Woodruff is iu Eng.
lapd md sends US a paper containing
her portrait and biography as a candi,
date for President Of the United
States. Her sister Tennie is also in
London.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27

The Colorado Citizen learns there
will be q considerable exodus Of colored
people from that county this fall, and
farm hands will not be so splentiful
next year. ..,...
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27

Da. KINasBURY favors us with
English papers, from which it would
appear that he is holding bis own" 10
defending Texas against injurious re.
morris.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27

Nebraska's recent census shows &
population Of 1886, 400, an increase o.
63,417 since 1870. s.i.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27

GEN. GRANT reached San Francis.
co, having crossed the Pacific ocean,
on the 2lst, and had . grand recsp
ton. He has been absent come two
wears and q half. ,
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-04-03
Boss Wives.

The boss wife is the wife who thinks
she rules and she doesn't, the baby wife
is the wife who governs and doesn't
know it, And men like to be governed
by babies, not bosses.
This is awful humiliating, but its a
fact
Nothing demoralizes a man so effect
ually as to discover that he has married
somebody Drawer and stronger than him
self
A baby wife never let's him discover
it. 1t is enough for her if everybody
else knows it.
Men have strange fondness for weak
women-that is, women who appear to
be weak
They desire to DE protectors and
champions before they are ten years old.
Nothing is SO aggravating to the urchin
as to appear to be ruled by woman
As a rule this is the fellow that IN
evitably is ruled by one without ever
knowing it, and he is always masculine
fellow. Mark that.
Your effeminate fellow rebels against
womanly influence, and founders about
it in a most distressing thraldom, and
never is ruled by woman or anything
else
The one redeeming strait in all boss
wives is the woman in them. | never
saw boss wife Who didn't have femi-
nine spells Some Of them retire to
their rooms once in three or four weeks
stop up the key hole, and have a good
cry before the glass. Then they come
out refreshed and ready for business
again.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-04-03
Photography and Crime.

The Bank of France would appear to
have hit upon an ingenious method of
treating doubtful customers The estab-
lishment has for some time past availed
itself of photography, and among its
officers is a photography detective, to
examine suspicious documents through
the medium of camera, which under
some circumstances, exercises "a sharper
vision than the human eye Where an
erasure has been made, for instance, the
camera detects it at once, let the spot be
ever so smoothly rubbed over, while a
word or figure that to the eye has been
perfectly scratched out, is clearly repro
duced in photograph of the document.
If we are to believe recent account,
the Bank of France has now added to its
precautions an invisible studio placed in
a gallery behind the cashiers. Hidden
behind some heavy curtains is a camera,
ready for work, and at signal from any
of the cashiers, the photographer pro
ceeds to do his duty by depicting the
particular customer who may he stand
ing ut the desk. The clerk engages the
mans attention, and in few moments
the portrait is taken, and the bank is in
possession Of a photograph which may
hereafter prove of value. The camera
is then fitted with fresh sensitive plate.
London News.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-04-03
The Knickerbockers.

This solid Dutch name comes before
the public in connection with the stylish
reception recently given by one of the
family. Henry Knickerbocker has n
fine house in the upper part Of Fifth av-
enue, and seems determined to rival his
parvenu neighbors, some of whom are
of greater wealth. The Knickerbockers
have had the advantage of a frst-rate
notice from the pen Of Irving, which is
still felt, and one of the dailies refers to
this while mentioning the recent recep-
ton The statement, however (made in
the same cannection) that Irving wrote
most OF his history at the Knickerbocker
mansion in Schaghticoke is incorrect
Irving did not meet of the family until
four years after the publication of the
work. In 1913, being then in Washing
ton, he became acquainted with Herman
Knickerbocker, and twenty years after
ward he visited the latter at Schaght
coke homestead The Kaickerbocker
history was a burlesque on volume
in which DR. Michel gave what he
termed picture of New York. The
young wits of that day thought the sub
ject would prove attractive if presented
in a comical vein, and Irvings success
was certainly remarkable The book was
published at the enormous price of So,
and yet tie sale was such that it brought
the author $1,000 This WAS the highest
reward which American literature had
up to that time ever received, and the
success Of the book astonished no one
more than its author 1t may be added
that there is Aourishing literary club OF
the same name, which held social re
union last week at Delmonioos Troy
n. " Times