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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-01-01
An $50, 200, 900 Fortune.

J.
Before the outbreak of the American
revolution Baron. Carl Christopher
Springer was in suite with the Swedish
ambassador, John Lienberg, and went
to London to settle the differences be-
tween Denmark and Sweden. On az
rlvlng they were not received, but seized.
put on board of vessel and brought to
America. After a while Carl Christie
pher Springer, whose life can be found
In both English and American history,
settled in what was then called the New
Netherlands, and took up tract of
$4,000 acres of land, including almost
the entire city of Washington, Delaware
and parts of Jersey City and BROOKLYN.
Charles, or Carl, Springer raised large
family, who settled in different parts of
the United States and Canada.
The greater part of the landed estate
OF Carl Christopher Springer's family
was leased in small parcels for ninety
nine years. Elizabeth Springer married
Samuel Walker, and they came out from
Wilmington in the caravan that brought
the prinlng-press of the old Pittsburg
Gazette, in 1885, and settled at Eliza
beth. Maj. John p Walker, whose
memory is identified with the growth
and progress of the Monongahela Val
ley, was the son of Samuel Walker and
Elizabeth Springer, and their children
are the oldest heirs living to this estate,
and are in a straight line of descent.
The children, eight in number. are
John Walker, Washington D. c., Mai.
r. c. Walker, United States Army;
Mrs. John McDnnnough, Mrs. .lDr. Pen
niman, Mrs. Samuel Speers, Mrs, Sam
uel Frew, the mother of Mrs J. Fl. Mil
Ter, Allegheny City, and the wife of Gen.
James A. Ekin, daughter of Samuel
Walker, deceased. e =
The Hon. William Springer, M. c.,
is branch of the family, also M. NJ.
Springer, member of Parliament, Cana
da, is heir to this vast estate. The leases
expiring at this time in the city of Wash
ington, Jersey City, and Brooklyn, New
York, are estimated at $4,000 900.
This, together with the Stockholm Bank
fund of $4,000, 900, left by the will of the
father of Carl Christopher Springer,
makes this Springer claim one of the
most stupenduous ever put forward in
this country. The heirs are in corre-
spondence with the Government, and
have now an agent in Stockholm, Swe-
den.--Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. s,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-01-01
Why Gambetta Broke His Engagement.

\ Gambetta is a bachelor; but he has
not lived so long without having at least
contemplated marriage. The story of
his engagement to an heiress in Western
France, and its sudden breaking off,
gives us fresh glimpse of his character.
From the time Of his leaving his humble
home at Cahors, till his rise to the high
est rank of public personages, Gambetta
lived with faithful, loving, devoted
aunt, who had followed him to Paris,
and who made, everywhere he went, a
pleasant home for him. She was at
once his maid-of-all-wor and his con-
genial companion; and he was as deeply
attached to her as she to him. His
engagement to a handsome and accom-
plished girl, with dot of seven millions,
was shock to the good aunt; but she
yielded gracefully to the inevitable.
When the arrangements for the marriage
were being discussed, however, the young
lady took it into her head to make it q
condition of their union, that the aunt
should be excluded from the new estaE-
lishment. She was scarcely elegant
enough to adorn gilded salons. CAM
BETA explained how much his aunt had
been to him; the rich beauty was only
the more obdurate, Gambetta took up
his hat, and with profound bow,
ssAdieu," said he: "we were not made
to understand each other.'' And the
marriage was put off forever. Good
Company.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-01-01

PAUPER COws-One-third of all the
cows kept by dairymen in the United
S,aes produce less milk, than will. pay
their keep. These are simply a clo.
upon the business and are better given
away than kept. So says the Chi
cago Lare- Stock Journal, which very
sensibly appeals to dairymen every
where, that they set about wedding out
their poor cows, so that they will be able
to reap a harvest with a good market
and protect themselves against loss with
low prices. The value : of ) a
cow, measured for factory cheese
production, is determined by the
pounds of milk she yields and
may be looked at wholly from this stand
point, in which case nothing less than
5000 pounds should be satisfactory.
The cheese dairyman has then simple
standard of selection-nlerely the yield
of milk-and the sale milk dairyman
has the same standard. This is very
easy determined with pair of spring
scales hung in the stable, with a book
having name or number for each COW !;
and by weighing ard entering the milk
of each COW in the book one day in a
week, the average Of ! these
weighings will give the aver
age yield per day near enough
for. all praeyical purposes. 4 Cant1a
daifyman afford to take this small trou-
BILE to learn thssindividual character of
his cows when profit or loss depends up
on it? A cow that yields only 5000
pounds at five or six years old should
be got rid of as a pauper that lives on
your charity and refuses to work. On
ly heifers with the first calf can be toll
Grated with SO low a yield, and the pros
pect is not, favorable even with the heif-
er. She should yield 1900 ponnds the
first season to offer much encouragement
to keep her. A heifer whose udder does
not reach back and well up had better
be discarded at once. IF the udaer is
round and hangs down in front Of her
legs like a four-quarts pail she is not
worth an experiment. 1t becomes nee
essary for dairymen to study all the sub
stantial points of good cow, that they
may avoid throwing away food upon an
animal not designed to yield milk in
paying quantity. aE
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-01-01

WHEN mans house is building he
never thinks the carpenter puts in one
third enough nails, and frequently, and
with biting sarcasm, asks him if he
doesn't think the house would stand if
he just simply leaned it up against itself
and saved all his nailsp Then, few
years afterward, when he tears down
the summer kitchen to build new one,
he growls and scolds, and sarcastically
wonders why that fellow didn't make
the house entirely of nails, and just put
in enough lumber to hold the nails to-
gether.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-01-01
PITH AND POINT.

The most afflicted part of house is
the window. 1t is always full of panes
and who has not seen more than one
window blindp
THE doctors say that sealskin is un-
healthy. Bless them Now if they can
be induced to say the same of six-button
kids, point lace, and a few such trifles,
coming generations of married men will
rise up and call them blessed.
THIS is the way the editor of one of
our New England contemporaries gets
even with rival: ga dispatch in
forms us that the latest styles of gentle
mems shirts are of black cambria, with
small white spots. All, then, that our
editor friend viii have to do to be in the
fashion will be simply to take a piece
of chalk and make spots on his shirt"
THE story is told of clergyman that
after preaching an interesting sermon
on the g Recognition of friends in heav-
en-" he was accosted by hearer, who
said: 81 liked that sermon, and now
wish YOU would preach another on the
recognizing of people in this world. /
have been attending your church three
years, and not five persons in the con-
gregation have so much as bowed to me
in all that time.'
MAUD MULLER
Maud Muller, on winters day
Went out upon the ice to play.
Beneath her Derby cleaned her locks
OF red banged hair, and her crimson socks.
She straddled about from ten to two,
And then a hole in the ice fell through.
On the bottom of the pond she sat,
As wet and mad as half drowned rat.
man with a hickory pole went there,
And fished her out by her auburn hair;
And her mother is said to have thumped her
we'll
Though just how hard Miss Maud won't tell
And hun e her over stovepipe to dry,
With her thumb in her mouth and fist in her
eye.
Alas for thu maiden. alas for the hole!
And rah for the man with the hickory pole.
For the truest words of tongue or pen
Are, A skating girls like headless hem
brooklyn Eagle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-01-01

SOME people are puzzled how sheet
of paper can be made unbroken seven
miles long. But what can exceed the
ingenuity that constructs a machine that
with the push of a lever takes the snowy
paper into its ponderous jaws, and, with
the speed of an express train, imprints
upon it even the faintest hair-line of the
smallest type, divides it uniformly and
accurately into pages, places it in book
form, glueing the backs, cuts the edges,
and then folds those edges as evenly and
smoothly as girl would fold her first
love letter, delivers the perfect newspa-
per, six, seven, eight in one second?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-01-01

GINGER FOUND CAKE.-Take one
cupful of butter; sone .cupful of sugar,
one cupful OF molasses, three cupfuls of
sifted -four, three eggs, one teaspoonful
of cream-tartar, one small teaspoonfui
of soda dissolved in one cupful of milk,
one tablespoonful of ginger and one Ia
blespoonful Of cinnamon !; very good.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-01-01

A COMMITTEE of ladies entered Par
Lament recently, on the floor of the
House, having petition signed by TO-
500 ladies asking for the Sunday closing
of liquor houses in England. This is
the first time women have ever appeared
on the floor, a latticed gallery being as
signed them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-01-01

A STATUE of Hannah Dustin has Just
been unveiled at Haverhill, Mass. 1t rep
resents the heroine of Contoocook Island
with one foot shoeless, as she was when
captured by the Indians, from whom
she afterwards escaped by staying them
in their sleep. There are four bas re-
lief panels, portraying incidents in the
tragic history. The whole monument
cost $1,000, and was erected through
the munifcence of Ed NJ. Hale.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-01-01

accident, may be made profitable. But
it may be taken as certainty that not
more than one person in hundred who
have tried it has ever succeeded in keep
ing flock of several hundred fowls in
profitable condition. If one thinks he
is born to succeed, let him tly; he may
possibly become shining example to
show others the way to success.-Er-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-01-01

WHITE EGG MUFFINs.-One pint of
flour, whites of eight eggs beaten to a
stiff froth. Add enough milk to make
it into thin batter. Putin little salt,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-01-01

The holiday season this year viii be
peculiarly pleasant, because the long
prostration of industry is ended, and
business everywhere revives. The good
will of the season will be even more
cheerful and cordial, and the, wish of a
happy New Year will have the charm Of
sincere expectation. But whatever the
situation, the magic of the time is resist
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-14
SPORTING.


CHIoA GO. May l3.-The walking mattel
"hich has been progressing since Monday
and IN which the pedestrians walk twely,
nours out of the twenty -four, for six dave
Is developing some new men and some
very last walkers. Three of them have
oeaten the best time on record. The score
at NJ. was: Omstead I89, Sherry
ieo; Cowley 1873, Campagna l79, Cross
land III. and five others following at some
distance.
WASHINGTON. May l3.-Bass ball
Atlantics 6, Nationals 5. Eleven innings
CHICAGO. May l3.-Base ball-Chica-
goes 6, Buffalos o.
CINCINNATI. May l3.-Ba;e ball-Cin-
cinnau |, ClevelaDds 0.
CINCINNATI, May l3. Mr., Buck, who
manages Vanderbilt's Maud s. refuses to
accept Finnegan's terms Of IS 900 a side
tor each OF the five races and a forfeit of
So'ooo' out agrees to the proposition of
MS own tor $4,000 side for each of the
ave races and $4,000 forfeit.
LEXINGTON, May l3.-First race. three
fourths OF mile, colts and FLIES stakes.
Hlndoo won in 1:l73,
Second race, 1t miles, for 3 year olds.
Q1lts won, kirkead second. Time, 2:4OI
Third race. mile heats, Hemvar won.
'ctim second. Time, :423, l:443.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-14
caving in of a Mine and Three Men killed

Caving in OF a Mine and Three Men Killed
CHICAGO. May IA Norway. Michigan,
special says: Early on Thursday morn
ing, No. shaft of the Lumberman Mining
Company's Ludington, Iron Mine. located
8 miles from here. caved in, burying alive
l6 miners. The shaft was so feet deep,
and contained FIVE feet of water. John
Tie. an Irishman, Isaac Vim and Oliver
Gardner. Oornishmen. who were working
directly at the bottom of the shaft were
taken out dead, The others, who were
working in the drifts. were rescued alive,
Immediately upon the caving of the shaft,
an alarm was given and miners from other
parts of the mine hurried TO the scene
and set actively to work to release the
imprisoned miners, and as it progressed the
half suffocated cries of miners could be
heard, growing fainter and fainter. At
about 9 o'clock an entrance was made, and
13 of the miners rescued from the drifts
of shaft uniniured. The remaining three
being directly under the fallen rock, were
killed or suffocated, and were taken out
dead. The shaft was well timbered down
to the walls of the rock that we're con-
sidered safe.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-14
Probate.

Tie record of the Probate Court contains
Estate of William II. Dart, deceased
Application for an appeal trom order al
lowing claim in favor of John Beugstou
iull payment and satisfaction of said
claims acknowledged and endorsed there
on By said claimants respectively. Fina
report Of c. J. Il A G. Dart as surviving
partners of the firm o. order confirming
Inventory act aud acts Of said surviving
partners.
Estate of Mary Liugle, deceased. FiEa
account of account of administrator. fled
aud order nisi approving same by June
and administrator notify heirs
Guardianship of Arnold A. and Austin
E Samuels, miners. Proof of publication
of notice of filing petitition by guardian to
sell wards real estate and didinus issued
to a. d. Wilson, Skandia. Kansas. to take
dispositions of Sophia NJ Shinstrom aud
witness in support Of petition aud cause
continued,
IA. Estate of Jacob Meier deceased
Final account of administrative approved
Estate closed and Administrative discharg
cd
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-14
THE NEFuooISr5.

CINCINNATI, May l4-Bishop An
drews presided at the General Conference
to day Election of editors proceeded "a
follows: Christian Aduocote, New York.
j Nj Buckley, 22s: ID Curry, l46; j Z
Newman, 2; Quarterly Repie,o D D
Whelan BOT; g K Crooks SO; G. s Prem
tice 2l; editor of Sunday School Publish.
er and secretary of the Sunday School and
Tract Societies. j FL Vincent 259: W.
Freisinger IL; Western Editor OF ,C'aTastian,
Advocate Chicago and Cincinnati, L
Hoyt 204; scattering 81, Psttsburg Chris
tian A1uocdte, the secretary cast the vote
of the entire conference for Alfred
Wheeler; North Western Christian I'D,
vocate. Arthur Edwards 279; Rev. Axteil
IA Next Wednesday was fixed for the
consideration of the newly elected bishops
and com miltee was appointed to arrange
for suitable place for the services
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-14
TELl L1E5(.;sIs.AP.EIC. z {;
t7.,sgrapasa totAs RoekZs,and Argue. !
To-Oav's Dispatches.
ENGLAND

LONDON, May I4.-Janes Caird, az
agricultural authority, in a letter on the
British agricultural prospects aud the
American competition says: Nothing
like the present depression in Agricultural
inter ests has been seen since the repeal OF
the corn laws. In nine years there has
been seven defective hsrvests in England,
where the bulk of the wheat crop is grown,
There has been lost 10 three years a
fourth more than the whole years gheat
crop with loss to growers of more than
ESQ, 10000 with no compensation 10
higher prices. The introduction of for
eign meat and cereals. is of immense
benefit of consuming class of Europe. 1t
must be met by production of articles
which will not bear ioag storage or carri-
age, such as milk, fresh butter, early
meat, vegetables. hay, straw, potatoes.
and sugar beet, grass, farm, dairyiDe aud
market gardening. All interests in the
land, whether of owner, oocupier or labor
err. must be disenthralied. and control of
dead land. must be renewed. Sale and
transfer of land must be simplifed and
cheapenea. 1ncumbered and unwie!dy
estates will be broken up and subdivided
20 form numerous small properties. The
drain of agricultural labor and capital to
the United States and Canada will alter
existing conditions of agricultural property
in Eegland- Our agriculture must adapt
to ehe change. freely accepting the good it
brings by skillfully using the advantages
which proximity to the best market must
always command"
The Oldham limited liability companies
association hsld general meeting to CON-
slider the best means of reducing produe.
ton.
The Darwin weavers intend to support
the Blackburn weavers with levy of three
pence per loom, even if put on half time.
1t is thought the strike will soon end.
RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG. May Ii -Four battal-
ions of rifiemen have been formed By con-
scription in Eastern Siberia.
GERMANY.
BERLIN. May 14.-The promoters of
South Sea trading company hope to be
able to organize it without government
aid, and stock to the amount of $l5O,OO0
will be offered for public subscription.
Newspapers contain comments on Bis
marck's speech stating he will willingly
accept the help of Liberals if they are
ready to deny the Centre party.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-14
Moffat'S Life Pills,
and
PhGniX BitterS.

The Most Successful Medicines
in the World.
Established in 1885, by one of
our Most Eminent Physicians
and now used throughout North
and South America, with more
pleasing results than any other
Medicine.
MOffat's Life Pills
are purely vegetable; they act
on the Stomach and Liver, and
regulate the entire system and
put all the functions of the body
in a healthy condition, and
WARRANTED a certain cure for
all MalariOuS Diseases, TORPID
Liver, Impure Blood, Jaundfce,
Bilious Complaints, Dyspepsia,
Indigestion, COStiveneSs, NerV.
ous and Sick Headache, Colds.
ScurYy, General Weakness, and
Fever & Ague.
MOffat's Phoenix BitteFS
correct the SecretiOns of the
Stomach, and are a Sure Cure
for SIeepleSsness, Nervousness,
Dyspepsia, Female Complaints,
Weakness, Debility, etc.
Thousands Of Certificates are
in our possession giving perfect
CURES effected by these invalU-
able medicines, and we are cer-
tain that they will do just what
we have said. 1t is simply ask
Cd that the afflicted will TRY
THEN ONCE, their use will con-
vince tie most skeptical.
P3ro's Climax Salvc 25 cents n box.
Mnffa:'s Life Pills 25 cents box.
Moifat's PliCniX Bitters $1.OO a bottle.
e1y- Sold by Druggists everywhere.
j. P. MILLS, Sole Proprietor,
Sd Liberty Street New York.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-14
COLORADO.

DENVER, May l3-lt is learned that a
powerful secret organization has been
formed with headquarters in this city
whose object is to go to the Ute reserva
tiou to prospect without waiting for con
aressional action. The society has already
one hundred and fifty members including
several prominent Denver citizens, each
member being compelled TO arm and
equip himself for military services. They
intend to 90 through the Gunnison and
Eagle river countries to the klo 0rande'
unless protection is offered By the govern
mept. will wage war against the utes.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-14
PEHNsyLvANIA.

WILLIAMspoRT,M May l4.-It is reported
that the FIRE which commenced in Milton
about 1880 to day has destroyed sc
buildings. including the car shops
machine shops. and Methodist and reform
ed churches. Unless the wind changes
the entire town will be burned Milton
telegraphed here for assistance. Tele-
graphic communication is now Interrupted.
MILFORD, May l4.-The terrible fires
contlaue. Over three million feet of
lumber. vast amount of valuable tim Der,
and several dwellings and barns burned.
Six thousand acres ablaze this morning.
A light rain is falling. The steam saw
mill of David Dale Il Son at Moscow
burned last pight. Losses in Ocean.
Burlington, and Cumberland counries will
be very heavy. In the vicinity of Riqua
river nearly 20 acres of choice cranberry
bog burned, besides some hundred acres
of valuable cedar and oak forest. and a
large quantity of cord wood. Two houses
destroved
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

SAN Francisco May l3,-The reven.
ue cutter Thomas Corwin is anchored in
the.stream ready to sail for the Arctic in
search of the Jeanette and the missing
wha!ers. The Captain has received his
orders and will depart tomorrow. The
cutter hasibeen thoroughly overhauled,
strongly braced and fitted with every
appliance experience suggests for her
voyage. The Captain expects to be gone
some four months aud will search the sea
in the vicinity of WraRRleland and il
possible explore that unknown country
also.
ELpoRADo, Kan. May I3.-William
Harrison. an Englishman, has purchased
from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad Company ffty-two quarter Sec
tions of land lin Mollor township. Butler
county, this state. and arranged for break
ing up $50 acres ON each. a farm house
will be built on each quarter section and
under English tenantry system ffty-two
Eng!ish families will occupy these farms
Each family will have from E2OO to $500
sterling,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-14
Climax! Climax

Pages Climax SalVe,
A Family Blessing for rs cents.
1t heals without a scar. No
family should be without it.
We WARRANT it to CURE
Sores, Ulcers, ScrOfula Sores;
Fever Sores, Salt Rheum, Sore
Breasts or Nipples, ErysipeIas,
Swollen Glands, Infiamed Eyes,
Scalds, Burns, Cuts, Bruises,
FistuIa, Piles, BOils, ChiIblains,
Frosted Feet, COrns, and all GU
taneOuS diseases ON man or beast.
1t has been used over twenty
five years, without one failure.
1t has no parallel-having per-
fectly eradicated disease, and
healed after all other remedies
had failed. 1t is a compound of
Arnica with many other Extracts
and Balsams, and put up in larger
boxes for the same price than any
other Ointment.
eB- Sold by Druggists every ywhere.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-14
Aeal Estate.

The entry book in the Recorders Office
contains the following:
l3 Daniel Hawkes. to Georgina George,
lot l3, block I, Spencer & Cases addition
Rock Island. $500
Gearglna George to w FL Judge,lot l3
block 7. same 5000
Francis A. Lackey to s. w. Wheelock
lot II, Ritchcocks Place, Moline $1,000.
Carolina A Dart to c. and A G.
Dart, undivide in lots 6, 7. aud 8. block
9, Spencer & Cases addition Rock Island
und !. e + lot 3, block IL, III SD old
town, Rock Island; und 3.lots s, 9 ADD 10
Hales addition; und ], block 9, (52 455
49 499) Lower addition. Rock Island; par:
e. fri Il acresl (49 4l6) sec IA, II,
W. and land in Henry County. Illinois,
SIS 900.
Charlotte A. Dart to G. j. & A. G.
Dart. (40 c32) part lot z. block 9. Spencer
& Cases addition. Rock Island. ST..
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-14
TEXAS.

CORPUS CHRISTI. May l4.aaHorace
Burr shot at bis wife. and Mrs. Barnard
his mother in Law springing between them.
was shot twice Burr then struck ms
sister in law Mrs Brewster over the heaa
with a pistol. telling her 10 the noor.
Reloading the pistol be shot himself dead.
Mrs. Barnards wounds are pronounced
fatal The cause of the tragedy, was
disagreement between Burr and wife,
resulting in the latter returning to her
fathers house.