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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-08
Trustworthy Officials.

lEx-Gov. Lucius Robinson, New York;
The functions aohich zoe exercise
are committed to as as q sacred tratst.
The Government achich zee control as
public officers is not our own, 1t be.
longs to those aoho placed as here. The
M'cs ace enact do not cypress our scill.
they are the roices Of the people. The
money achich zoe handle belonqs to
them and not to as. We can only take
1t from them for the legitimate er-
penses Of Government. More than
thas IS robbery. Official generosity is
official crime. Eueyy needless tar
cuts some comfort from a thousand
homes. 1t means hss food, less fuel,
and less cheer IN nsa',y fanilies.n
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-08
Our State Legislatures.

Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, New York.
When zee haue secured good gorerm-
n'ent IN toac'ss and counties, most of
the objects Of government are gained.
In the ascending scale Of rank, IN the
descending scale Of importance, is the
Legislature, scAich is, or should be.
limited to State affairs. It's greatest
aoasdoa@ IS skoacn By the smallest
amount Of legislation, and its stronq.
est claims for gratitude gro,o ont o,
a07sGt 1t does not do,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-08

Nc. 36-An act to amend and re.
enact section 997 of the Revised
Statutes of 1870, in regard to chal-
lenges of jurors in trials of crimi-
nal cases.
Section'1. Be 1T enacted by the
General Assembly Of Louisiana, That
section 997 of the Revised Statutes
of 1870 be amended and re-enacted
so as to read: In all criminal trials
in this State for any crime. the pun
ishment of which may be death or
imprisonment at hard labor for a
term of II months or more, the de-
fendant in such case shall be entitl-
ed to challenge peremptorily, and
without showing and cause, any
number of jurors not exceeding -,
and any number for cause; and this
whether such Imprisonment shall be
peremptory or within the discretion
OF the court. In all such cases the
State shall be allowed six peremp-
tory challenges for each defendant
on trial. In all criminal cases where
the punishment is less than that
above named, the defendant shall
have six peremptory challenges, and
the State three peremptory challen.
ges for each defendant on trial; pro-
vided this act shall not apply to
trials to be tried by special jury.
At other terms than regular jury
terms of the court in which cases of
trials for crimes and offenses not
necessarily punishable at hard labor
or death, the accused shall be allow
ed six peremptory challenges and
the State three for each defendant
on trial.
r. N. OGDEN,
Speaker House Of Representatives.
S. D. MCENERY,
Lieut. Gov. and President of Senate.
Approved March II, 1880.
LOUIS A. Witt,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
VIM. A. STRONG,
Secretary Of State.
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An Ideal Government.

| UNITED States Senator Thomas F. Bayard.]
Parties are only means to an end.
If the cause is a soorthy one, Of course
every ac0rthy means that aoould tend to
make 1T succeed is to be cheY'isked.-
If politics is to become mere matter
of personal ambitions and partisan
serangle, then the future Of the coun-
try is not aoorth talking about.
But my sense Of admiration for
oar system Of government acas accom-
panied by an apprehensire realisatioa
Of the conditions Wnder achich only 1t
can be practically and permanently
maintained. And the conciction
groacs stronger and clearer dolly that
such a government cam only be main
tanned By the exercise and employment
Of the higher and better qualities of
human nature. 1T is a government
Of loacs emanating from popular aoiA,
but that acill must be for honest and
acorthy ends, accomplished By homore-
BILE means. 1T is controlled By public
opinion, but that opinion must be the
intelligent result Of knowledge careful.
ly acquired, and deliberation, and not
the unstable froth Of tamuH and gasty
passion. And to make public princi-
pies secure they mast be engrafted ON
pirate honor; the aoishes of an intelli-
gent and upright constituency mast be
reflected By an intelligent and upright
representatives. A. faithful represen-
tatiue sho~ld rather displease his con-
stituents than consent to that achich
Injuries them. 1t is his duty fully
and freely to account to them, but not
to conceal his true opinions for fear
cftheir displeasure, for his enlightened
conscience cannot be disreyarded acith-
east injury to them and has entire loss
Of usefulness. To maintain this gov-
ernnaent Of ours such are some of the
conditions, and 1t IS upon the selfpro-
tectang elements Of society that ace
mast rely. As Burke, the great Irish
statesman and philosopher, finely said,
"Flottery is not friendship, and to
mislead is not to serve.n
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Established in 1916.
T.. Il b. JACOBS.
COTTON F1CTORS AND
Commission Merchants.

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
GROCERIES,
Dry Goods, Hardware,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS.
Liquors. Tobacco and Cigars.
Texas ST., Shreveport, La.
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That bright and sparkling paper,
the "Gretna Courier, "has just enter.
ed upon its second year. Of course
the people of Jefferson parish give
it handsome patronage, and we
have no doubtits general circulation
is good.
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The Road Question.

we uOllCG Oh late L0aC the sub
ject of public roads is causing no
little agitation in many portions OF
the State. While there are places
where there can be found good roads
of limited length, in good weather,
there are other times when the yery
best portions of the public highways
offer many obstacles to the passage
OF the vehicles. Evidently there is
something wrong in the public road
system Of the country. Laws on the
subject cucumber our statute books:
but still it is fact, patent to all who
travel, that there has never been any
law in Louisiana that would ensure
good roads. At each session of the
courts the Judges will charge the
grand juries on the subject, calling
their attention to the great advan.
tage that would accrue to the travel.
ing public from having the high.
ways kept in good order, and-that
is usually the last of it. Occasion.
ally an overseer or some delinquent
owing road duty is indicted and gets
off with nominal fine, to the dis
credit of the laws and annoyance of
those who should enforce them.
We believe this is moro the fault
OF the laws than the courts; but in
other sections it may be a little of
both. Almost any other law can be
enforced and made effective, except
this one, and it would seem that
there must be something radically
wrong, or the road laws would not
be so generally ignored.
Unfortunately, in the present state
OF human knowledge, we cannot get
along very well without roads. The
time may come when we can dis.
pense with them, altogether. There
may be day coming when our trav-
ell will be done through the roadless
regions of the air, and when we will
have as little use for public high.
ways as the wild pigeonsorsw swallows,
but just at present people find it
necessary to do great portion of
their travel on the land, by the com.
mon road, and they do not favor the
idea of travelling over a road that
offers more facilities for getting
hopelessly mired, or for breaking a
wheel or oyerturning a vehicle, than
for getting through safely. 1t has
been said that a people will be judg.
ed BY foreigners by the state of their
public roads, and if this should form
the basis of judgment for many Dor.
tions of our State we would not &C.
quire the reputation of being pros.
porous or thrifty country.
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L0uisiana!Laws.

No. 35.-An act to provide for the
trial of offenses where the penalty
is not necessarily imprisonment
at hard labor or death.
Section 1. Be 1t enacted by the
General Assembly Of Louisiana, That
it shall be the duty Of the sheriff,
Immediately after the arrest and CON-
mitment Of any person charged with
an ofense not necessarily punisha-
BILE by imprisonment at hard labor
or death, to notify the district attor-
ney of such arrest.
Sec. 2. That district attorneys
may file informations in the Office of
the clerk of the district court, which
said fling shall be as valid as if
made in open court.
Sec. 8. That the judges of the
district courts, at terms other than
regular jury terms, shall have au-
thority to order a special jury, the
number by them to be designated,
for the trial of all criminal cases
where the penalty is not necessarily
Imprisonment at hard labor or death.
Sec. 4. That in all trials held un
der the privisions of this act, said
trial shall be before jury composed
of five persons; provided, that the
accused may waive trial by jury and
be tried by the court; and p''ovided
further, that in all such trials the &C.
cused shall be entitled to challenge
five jurors peremptorily and any
number for cause; and provided fir.
ther, that the State shall be entitled
to challenge three jurors peremptor-
lily and any number for cause.
Sec. 5. That all laws or parts of
laws in conflict herewith be and the
same are hereby repealed.
r. N. OGDEN,
Speaker House of Representatives,
SD. MCENERY,
Lieut. Gov. and Pres't of the Senate.
Approved March II, 1880.
l.. A. Witt,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
VIM. A. STRONG,
Secretary of State.
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SHREVEPORT, April 6, 1885,
The government gauge at 8 D. m.
yesterday read % feet and IL inches
above the low water mark of 1879:
a fall of 8 inches in 48 hours.
Cotton down 81 Is per BALE
Cabin passage Ali.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-08

SUPREME CUoRT.-Edward Rur.
mndez, Chief Justice, twelve years.
Orleans; Felix P. Poche, ten years.
st. James; r. B. Todd, eight wears.
Morehouse; W. NJ. Levy, six years.
Natchitoches; G. e. Fenner, four
years, Orleans.
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1t IS from sodthim, amomy your.
setues, from cupidity, from corrup.
tom, from disappointed ambition and
''ord'nate THIRST for poacer, that fac
tons acsU be formed and l;1ertv en-.
dangered.- Jackson's Farewell Ad-
dress.
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v. sHIDET.
Matchmaker and Jeweler.

Matchmaker and Jeweler,
Takes this method of Announcing 20
I his old friends and patrons and Gh
the public in general, that he will ha liz
found on Market Street, near BogeTs nrng
STORE, Shreveport, La, where he Is nrenaraS
20 repair watches. iewelry, &c. pro,nntlv and
a' moderate prices. Satisfaction guaranteed.
National Republican., 1880-09-17
unhelinf ~ m OfTsatt.

A "hred man" who has been employed on
u farm in this county for several months en-
tered suit against his en- oyer the other day
for balance of wages, amounting, as he claimed,
to 532. The suit was on trial in Justice alley
yesterday, and it looked ut first AS if the plain.
tilf had clear case He gave dates and figures
in straightforward way, and seemed very
honest young man. When the farmer took
the stand he said:
"I claim an Offset for that S32. No man need
sue me for what | honestly owe"
"What is your Offset p asked the lawyer.
"He's an unbeiever."
AIN what?"
"Why, in tho bible"
"What has that to do with your ow ing him
1922"
1T has heap to do with it. l had six
hands ia my employ, aud we were rushing
things, when | hired this man. He hadn't
been with us two days when they stopped
the reaper in the middle of tho forenoon TO
dispute about Daniel in the lions den, and in
three days we had Il reg ular knuck.down over
the whale swallowing Jonah. The man who
run the mower got TO arguing about Samson
and drove over stump and damaged the ma
chine tO tho tune of SlS, and the very next
day my boy broke his leg while climbing II
fence to hear aud SEQ the row which was
started over the children of lsruel going
through the Red sea. 1t wasn't week before
my wife said she didn't believe Elijah was led
by the ravens, aud hangme If didn't tiud my
self growing weak ou Noah and his flood.
That's my offset, sir, aud if he was worth any.
thingPd sue him for Il thousand dollars be.
sides.'- Detroit Free Press.
National Republican., 1880-09-17
Indiana Not Depressed.

10 the Editor Of The National Republican:
SIN: The nows from Maine has had but one
effect berc. Every republican now says eve
must carry Indiana" and we will. Instead OF
producing dependency, the result in Maine
has created energy and detorninLtion-such
energy and determination as will win
SO far everything promises well. We have
only to prevent tho importation Of voters from
Kentucky and Porter will be elected by 5000
majority. The people of Indiana arc fully
and do not intend that any act of theirs shall
aid IN placing the confederate brigadors Ia
power. Speakers are going all over the state,
immense audiences meet them everywhere,
md there is u spirit alive that means victory.
Among the speakers hero are several from
Washington General William II. Birney.
Colonel L. n. Hill aud A. VI. Hardy esq. The
last named spoke here last Saturday night to
a large audience aud produced hno imp. es.
| siou. He will be sent out this week for the
remainder of the campaign. General Birney
has made u number of speeches that are well
| received. Colonel Hill spoke every day last
week, and his speech delivered at Portland
Saturday night was printed in tho Journal
here this morning, aud will DO reprinted in
the political supplement. Ex.ATarshal Pitkn
OF Louisiana has made the reputation in this
campaign of being one Of the best political
| orators in the country.
You may call it tho "bloody shirt" if you
please, the southern question is the only one
that an audience will listen TO here. Tho
democrats have 10 speak on that in the vain
attempt to meet the charges made by the re-
publiUans. You will hear better news from
Indiana than came from Maine. p
lNDGANAPoLfs, September II, 1880.
National Republican., 1880-09-17
Concerning Suicide.

The condemnation of suicide among the an.
clients was halting aud Intermittent at best
Pythngoras expressly forbid It, on the ground
recognized by christian and theistic nOraists
generally in later times, that no one has a
right to depart from the position where God
has placed him: and Plato indorses his prohi-
bitiOn, though in less absolute form. Aris.
totlos condemnation is based ON the duty of
citizens TO the state. Pluiarch considered it
cowardly and unworthy of the dignity fman
the N,oplHtohsts condemned ii AS involving
perturbation aud therefore pollution of the
soul; Cicero condemns but stultiles his cen
surrs by his exceptions; Marcus Aureliu8 wa
vers IN his Judgment; Seneca openly applauds,
aud the whole stole school followed him; Pliny
moro than approves. And popular opinion
under the Roman empire was to say the least,
entirely tolerant OF suicide, which was freely
practced, and not only by Stoics who had
Cato for their great cXemplar. Lucretius,
Cassius, Attcus and Pctronus Arbiter may
be named AS conspicuous instances. To Senc.
Gu Inception of suicide appeared the one grand
consolation under the tyranny of Nero; to PHI
ny 1t even constituted superiority in the lot
of man over that OF the Deity that he could at
any moment bring his existence to an end;
Epictctlus thought it cowardly to live on when
life had becom e irksume from weariness or
disease, and on this principle tn poet Silius
Itulcus starved himself to death. In Stoical
| teaching suicide was not merely permissible
but n virtue, and was deliberately practiced
| as such. 1t has been justly observed that " the
| doctrine of suicide was the eliminating point
OF Roman Stoicism," as illustrating the proud
| Sef.reiant, unbending character OF the true
philosopher whose boast it was to hope little
and fear nothing. Life and death in the
Stoical system were attuned to the same key.
The doifcatior Of human virtue, the total alb
scnce of all sense OF sin, the proud, stubborn
will that deemed humiliation the worst OF
stains, appeared alike in each.-LSaturday
RpVipw
National Republican., 1880-09-17
baltimore Markets..

BALTIMORE Mn, Sept 10.
Cotton steady Middhig l36GllAc.
Flour active and frmcr but Without change.
Wheat southern higher aud hrm; western
higher and strong. southern red VI O3fyl Os; do.
amber, 81 l06pl lG; No. l Maryland 81 70; No. 2
western winter red. spot aud september, 06A1
l O6A; October, 81 07AHl 071s November 81 USJk
09l 09Is; December,Sl l0@l l0ts.
Corn-southern quiet, but higher for yellow;
western higher and strong Southern white, 54c;
do, yellow, j6 western mixed. spot and September,
5l3G52c; October, 52lSG52Ac;
Oats steady. Southern. 44CJlj; western white, i2
Gi3c.; do mixed, ildnhc.
Rye more active at 9jc
Hay unchanged.
Provisions firm and unchanged.
Butter firm. Prime to choice western packed,
lTGajc.
Eggs scarce and higher at lS9t0e.
Petroleum unchanged.
Coffee quiet Rio cargoes, ordinary to fair, 1870
lGc.
sugar firm. soft. 1OaSc.
Whisky quiet and unchanged,
Frcghts unchanged.
Recepts-Flour, 5.022 bbls wheat, 1880 bu;
corn, 1000 bu; oats 900 bu rye. 3ji bu
ShipmentS-Nhent. 81 600 bu corn, 2GO0 bu.
Snle,-WheRt, j23,2Gl Ou; corn, 80 300 pu.
Virginia skies. deferred ~; do. cousos, 5si4: do
second series. %; do. past-due coupons 9iS. 10.
new tonIorIIes illa do. ten-iorty coupons y5I bid
to-day.
National Republican., 1880-09-17
I ,Aw SCHOOL
- or THE
COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY.

JAMES G. wELLrNU, IL D.,
PRESIDENT.
THr HoN. WALTER 5 cox, IL. D..
PRoF EssoH o. ritE Law or tlENL AND PERSONAL
Property, ~ CONTRACTS AND or CRiMks
ANu MtsbEMEAOHs,
WILLIAM a. NfAURY, H.. D.,
PROFESSOR o. hquuY, JUhisPguDEScE, or CON
MON Law ANp FAULTY PLBAbiNo, or THE
LAW or tVtDESCE, AND THE LAW
Of PAHrNEHsHtP.
THE HOY. ALEXANDER B. HAGNER, LL~ ID.
LECrunEn oN CMiMlSAL Law.
GEORGE y. APpLEBI, ltsQ,
JUDGE OF Moor COURT NSp ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
or LEGAL PRACTICE.
Tho exercises OF tho school VIII be resumed IN the
Law Building uf the University judiciary square,
l!ub street, between aud n strccts), on the SEC.
OND WEDNESDAY ~ OCTOBER October ij), ut
O'Clock y. m. when opening addresses viii bs made
hy TIE Professors, AMI when Undergraduates Of the
previous year, as well US new students, are Invited
to be present
The entire CHARGE for tuou lectures and all racil-
Is Ss9 for single yeur s5D Tor two years, payable
nsdvance, hall yeury or ia monthly iustallnOnts, ut
the option OF studputA
rhe fee for the Postgraduate course In practice,
covering period ut nine muuth8, is 93.
by pa tlCulRr Invitation, being IN response to call
from moro than seventy graduate, I'm law and mem.
bors OF the bar, the Hon. Alexander B. Hngner. LII
d. Assoc ate Justice nf the supreme Co rt Of the Dis
lfct Of Columbia, VIII deliver peCial Course O
Lectures on Criminal Law during the session u
evening OF each week VI O'CLOCK, aud the general
theory O the course viii be Duinpd by Judge HHg
mcr at the opening uf the school the 3h OF OCt Jber
Ihn spec nl fee for this course VIII be no.
CutalOgles may bg lld ON application to Messrs
W. II. a. u, H. MORRISON, 4ii prnnsylvuntn ave
nue. also Mt the National savings Bank. corner Now
Ork avenue aud Fifteenth street; by addressing
Tie President the Faculty. selb-t
National Republican., 1880-09-17
FREE ADVERTISING.
N q O III a. R G u :
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Recond third OF as many repetons M nro necsssary
to secure what you advertise for We wish tho ad'
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Are doing n favor by uslng our ree columns, as We
ore determined to make THE REPUBLICAN
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to INITIALS ONLY are not delivered through the
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WANTED-saELP.
INSTRUMENTATION.

v office sci
National Republican., 1880-09-17

SOME 100000 operators will be affected by
tho strike iuauguruted at Accringtou, Eng.
The masters have taken determined stand,
and positively assert that they will not sub
nit to the demands OF the strikers. The own.
ers of mills where the employees contribute to
the support of the unions will reduce wages
fifteen per cent, and contribute the amount
thus saved to the owners Of mills rendered
idle by the strike
National Republican., 1880-09-17
ArousIng Its READERS.

An alarm of fire at midnight Is a startling
thing, but not bali so startling to many who
hear 1t ms would he the sudden knowledge of
their own dangerous physical condition.
Thousands of thousands are hurrying to their
graves because they arc carelessly Indifferent
to tho msidious inroads of disease and tho
means Of cure. 1t is the mission Of IL. II.
Warner i Co.. with their safe Kidney aud
Liver Cure, TO arouse mon 10 sense of their
danger aud then euro them Memphis Ap.
Opal
National Republican., 1880-09-17
To take effect
SUNDAY. MAY ~. 1850. AZ l.3O 7. NJ.

SbNDA AlA 3D. 1851 u l'3u IL NJ
AM Leave Washington;
SsS-inH ITiMoitES iiiSH! EXrlsS. E &@% why stations
G:5j-Ballmore, Annapolis aud way. (Pleimont
Sirasburg Winchester, IIagerslOwn, Frederick
and Way, via Relay.
so-p2at q R9Sks S1 Way SiSii9ns ~
oOo-NiW YORK, .plrlLAnELpH1A, KosfoN
AND BALTIMORE EXPRESS Pnrlor car
70 Now y ork and Phadeplla-
et0-tOn sunday ony-Baltniore, Annapolis and
oio-tSl: LOUIS, ,CHIcAAGo, coLuMpu7, AND
town. and at Point OF Rocks Tor Frederick and
stations tnsl Of Pednont,. except Sunday;l
daily; Grafton to Sandusky daily, except Satur.
iOOO-BxLTIMoRE EXPRESS stops at Bladcns
burg College. Brltsvile. Laurel, Annapolis
Junction, Jessup's aud Hanover.
i?;lg-Baltlmore Annap9,, kll!Gou City and Way.
i;s5-BAlTlMoRE AND LAUREL EXPRESS
&Sc-Nh% Sdy ,rxliS I9Rk, PlilLADELpHlA AND Bos-
ago-naiiinore an1 Way Stations. winchester
Ere91eFIGf bhGseEson iS 3nS WY u" EsSyl
REL EXPREss. (Frcderick via Kclay,y stops
"a, a annapolis JUNCTION. ,,----.-..., ,,,,.
chester and Way stations ton Sunday 10 Point
of Rocks and Way stations only.
ANp o5EUEUys hIH Mty S'42n
fsSpI'nSS fSEi e fhiengS SD GHy B%
PRESS. stous at Badcusburg and LAUREL
9o5-Point of Rocks and Way stations,
7:}O- BALTIMORE AND LAUREL EXPRESS.
t:30-tSr LOUIS, CINCINNATI CHICAGO AND
PIrISBUkG EXPRESS. (Pittsburg except
Sunday.)
sleeping cars to st. Louis and pittsburg.
O3j-tBALrlMORE DLA DENSBURG AND LAU-
REL EXPRESS
lOl5-tNEw YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON
AND BALTIMORE EXPRESS. sleeping car
to New York, aud special sleeping car TO PhiIa-
dophia.
tDaiiy. SUNDAY only. Other trains daily, except
Sunday
All trains slop Mt Relay Station.
For further Information apply nt the Baltimore q
oh 10 tick offices Washington Station. mud G03 CID
ana 1851 Pennsy lvania avenue, corner Fourteenth
street. whore orders will be taken for baggage to
be checked and received at any point in the city.
W Nj. GLEN EMS,
Master OF Transportation.
GEO. S, KOON1Z, General Agent
L. n, COLE, General Ticket Agent