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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-01
How SpOols Are Made.

Drummondville is situated on the St.
Francis River and the Northern Divi-
sion of the Southern Railway, Canada,
passes through it. Several years ago
the prevailing wood which grew in the
vicinity was white birch, which does
not we believe, make first-class fire.
wood, but which appears to be the best
for the manufacture of spools. This
probably was the cause why Drum
mondville was selected as the place in
which to locate these factories, and the
farmers in the vicinity can always find
a ready market for this kind of wood at
about $3.50 and So per cord. The wood
after being delivered to the factories, is
first sawed into pieces about four feet
long and from an inch TO an inch and
half square, according to the size of the
spool it is desired to make. These
pieces are put into a dry-house and
thoroughly dried, from whence they are
taken into the factory and given to the
roughers, who, in an incredibly short
space of time, bore hole in the center
a couple of inches deep, turn about the
same space round, and then cut off the
length required for spool. The ma
chimes used for this purpose are revolv-
ing planners, in the center of which is
revolving gimlet or bit, and immediate
ly to the right small circular saw
with guage set to the proper size of
the spools. The roughers receive one
and a half cents per gross for their work
and experienced men can turn out from
one hundred to one hundred and thirty
gross per day. The round blocks pass
from them to the finishers, who place
them in machines which give them the
shape of spools and make them quite
smooth. The spools are thrown loosely
into large cylinder, which revolves
slowly, SO thai the spools are polished
by constant rubbing upon each other
for some time. On being taken out of
the cylinder they are placed in a hopper
with an opening at the bottom, through
which they pass down a slide for inspec-
tion. Here the inspector sits and
watches closely to see that no imper-
feet spools are allowed to pass and very
small knot or scratch is sufficient to con-
denim them. They are packed in large
boxes made the proper. size and no ad-
ditional packing is needed. The pack
ers receive one-quarter cent per gross
for packing and a smart boy who IS ac-
customed to the work can pack about
two hundred gross per day. One pro-
prietor ships over two million spools
per month to England, and another
firm ships over one million spools to
Glasgow, Scotland.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-01
Lip Language.

There was an interesting exhibition
lately in London of the new way of
teaching the deaf and dumb to speak
and to understand by the motion of the
lips. There is a school for this purpose,
in London, of sixty pupils, founded
chiefly through the benevolent exertions
of the Baroness Mayer de Rothschild.
The school assembled at Grosvenor
House, the abode of the Duke of West
minister, now the richest nobleman in
England, and numerous body of guests
were invited to witness the progress
they had made. The teacher. Mr. Van
Praagh, showed the steps of the process
by which mere infants are taught both
to understand and use the lip-language,
and, at an early age, to frame sentences
and hold easy conversation. A gentle
man among the audience asked one of
the pupils to name a member of the
House Of Lords. The answer immedi-
ately came. Lord Beaconsield. An
other was asked to give the name of a
leading member of the House of COM
mons. "Mr. Gladstone was the re-
ply. The sounds they make are monoto-
nous, as they cannot emphasize OF in
fleet their voices. But the main. point
is, they can make themselves under
stood. This blessed invention of ena-
bling the dumb to speak and the deaf
to understand, ought to have been made
at an earlier day. We read in one of
Voltaire's letters of 1760: h" We have
in Geneva woman a hundred and two
years old, who has three deaf and dumb
children. They converse with their
mother (an educated LADY, from morn
ing until evening, sometimes by moving
their lips, sometimes by moving their
fingers. They play all games very well.
know all the gossip of the city, and tell
funny stories about their neighbors as
well as the greatest takers can. They
understand everything that is said to
them by the movement of the lips, and,
in a word, they are very good COM
pany.''-Touth's Companion.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-01
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS,

"A man may be right and yet be left.
lis very easy to recover an old
umbrella. 445
The fisherman is sure of q bite if he
takes lunch with him.
There are many good doctors who
are unable to cure ham. m.-Hartfo ford
Sunday Journal.
We once knew newspaper man
who owned a watch.-Nes0 HaUen Req-
aster Dog?-Y Yonkers Gazette. Cassp
-Salena Sunbeam. .l't @
When the little prattling baby is an hun
just after he awakens from his nap;
Why should he look around. and call for
mamma ,Es55f5s 4
When the little fellow really wants h papa
-Ia@eo6 Strauss
When Webster said "there is al
ways room at the top'' he was not re-
ferring to the advertising page of a
newsPaper.-Bridgeton Nei0s. .tf
The spots on Jupiter don't trouble
some young men half as much as the
spots on their last summer trowsers.-
Mtddtetocn Transcript.
Somebody has disc overed that cats
can't live at greater elevation than
$4,000 feet, therefore back sheds should
be built 13.5O0 feet high.-Binyhanaton
Republican, 94,tf
They say '''tis darkest just before
the dawn" but the man who gets up at
midnight to hunt for lone match on
the corner of the wash-stand, can't see
how it could be any darker. Detroit
Free Press. ~
r. "A traveller in South America reports
monkey with two tails. Now we have
the Darwinian progenitor of the man
who stands in steel-pen coat near the
door at the opera and says, Bravah-h."
~ 7. Herald. ~ i.
Great liars in Scotland. The first
river you come to they will tell you is
the Forth.-Boston Transcript. Yes,
and tell you that a mountains Ben
Snow'd on, when there isn't flake Of
snow within a thousand miles of it.
philadelphia Bulletin. r sa -.l....
"A gentleman told one of his friends
that for an eternity his wife had denied to
be more than twenty-nine years of age
MY wife is more reasonable" said the
friend; 81 have at last persuaded her
to be thirty-two, but / have never, been
able to coax her along any further .
Boston Courier. stSt4
Two hundred Albany females have
made application for the position of
census enumerator. The worst feature
of appointing women to these positions
is that it takes the bread ont of the
mouth of poor, delicate, accomplishing
man. Light work of this kind is what
man needs.-N.1 Y. Aduertiser Ses
AS an innocent-looking old man
was going up Washington Street, a
drayman nodded at him and asked:
"Want dray, Mister?" "No-o. L
guess not" replied the old man; I'm
too fur from home, and can't pay freight
on it. Much obleeged, though. Vicks-
burg is powerful nice town. A fellow
back there asked me if l didn't want
coat; another inquired if I wanted
hack, and now you offer me dray.
wish lived here. Vicksburg Herald.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-01
Explorations in the Rocky Mountains.

Dinner over, odd jobs finished, the
last glance of the mules given and the
short twilight rapidly falling under the
assault of the legions of darkness, we
don our overcoats and gather for our
nightly chat before going to bed.
Much OF the pleasure of this hour, as
OF every other, depends on our sur
roundings. Persons vino call trip with
a government survey all pleasure ex-
cursion, would better think twice. A
thousand and one small vexations at
tend all the time. As a picnic, the expedi-
tion would be lamentable failure
There is the fatigue at night, the frost
in the morning and the gale or the
scorching sun in at monday; your
peeled nose and sealing ears and smart
ing neck testify to the power of the last.
The often encountered alkali dust not
only hurts your eyes and parches your
lips till they crack open but. seems to
decompose your skin, rendering it so
tender that the least rough touch pro-
duces painful wound, and your hands,
which is almost impossible to keep
clean, become sore and unsightly. Then,
half the time your feet are wet, and get
cold in the stirrups, or the blankets be.
come damp and disturb your rest, Or
but there are plenty of other incon-
veniences. Sometimes the camp has to
be placed where there is not single
pleasant feature near or remote-in the
midst of track of sun-baked mud and
glaring white rocks, for instance
where the only vegetation is prickly
grease-wood, like so many Canadian
thistles, and where the principal deni-
zens are jack rabbits, rattle-snakes and
Lizards. But this is not a chapter
of complaints, and I hasten to dismiss
the wrong side of the texture.
Of all the lovely camping places in
my recollection, / think one over in
Western Wyoming, among the name
less heights between the Green and the
Snake rivers, bears the palm. A ravine
diverged from the valley we had been
travelling through, one side of which
was high, grassy bank, and the other
was wooded; but in the woods opened
little glade, down which came an icy
rill, tumbling and foaming between
banks of moss solid to the waters edge.
ALI about were gigantic, yellow-b -barked
spruces, among which this little level
spot had remained clear, just capacious
enough for our tents. 1t was place
for perfect repose. The eye, weary
with incessant far-seeing, rested con-
tent on the verdant slope that cut off
the rest of the world. As, after the
turmoil and noise of the city, the busi-
ness man pulls the blinds close together
and drops the curtain. shutting out the
turbulent scenes of his daily struggle,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-01
LANEyTATTON.
IA snow. and the cold ground is warm.

.sas snow. and the cold ground is warm.
ngi ,he maple and green is the willow;
y, ,shiris are chattering free;
basiss Y. md water, with new life are swarm
|ssr,ide surges in, billow on billow;
waits it bringing to mel
.nv life, in the cold ground they laid
- ~, sere the lilies and brown were the
ess;ttered sd the lone chickadee;
= many a weary day, Winter has staid
amer. mss sweet summer, my sorrow be-
seeehe5,
mock me not with your buds and your
,,sssS me no towering carpet to walk upon
We me no music, pray.
.s,sse heart maketh desolate scenery;
- me theme deigneth sorrow to talk up
fsie he ally your pleasance away!
,ss Is the grass on the grave where she
leth;
eordeth,
sroog are the pulses of spring;
s,auny pleading no kind voice replieth,
gane ii these blithe tribes my sorrow re-
gardeth,
From my heart plucketh the sting.
M not be comforted?" Nay, Master hear
me!
fahers in Bethlehem wept by the manager,
Whence, in the night, Thou hadst fed!
Il back to me, pray; stay ever near me !!
81 TO my heavy heart hope be a stranger;
laih find her grave with my dead.
-Heshina0R GLADDEN., in June Ser'ibner.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-01

$50 she has asked you, eh9" groaned
Mr.. Alton.
No said the parson, 81 asked
her. ."-Erchanqe.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-07-31

We are agents for the Brown Cot
ton Gin. Condenser and Feeder.
NM. j. j. GCC0ox + Bro.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-07-31
CHARTER OAK

cooking stove. All stoves sold at man.
ufacturers prices with freight added.
Manufacturer Of plain aud fancy Tin
Ware Metallic roofing, etc., ETC.
A)srge and select stock Of Tin Ware
and House Furnishing good on hand
| GUTTERING. ROOFING, and al man.
nsr Of Job, Tin and plumbers work exc
Guide With dispatch. ~
r Fab i7a.1v
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-06-23
OFFICE aSI Broadway. New York.

Patients receive treatment and leave o
home same day.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-06-23

The sand lots are beginning to
witness strife amongst the different
elements which formerly shouted
under one impulse to the time given
by Kearney, Wellock and other
scamps. The patriotic spirit OF the
leaders OF the sand lot gang does not
point out the same road to all OF
them. The Greenbackers and the
Democrats are fighting for the spoils,
and their hatred Of each other is
ssoW as bitter AZ was once their
united hatred of deceney and law.
Kearney is now at Cincinnati, and
since his indifferent reception at the
tsreenback Convention, at Chicago,
will probably return to the coast a
democrat, and use what influence
he has left to induce return of
the w. p. G., to the Democratic
fold. THIS will be obstinately OPP
posed by the. few honest, though
misguided leaders Of the Greepback
ring and also by those who have
not been seen, and who, knowing
kearney, will not trust his prom
i~es to divide. 1t is possible that
tile acute Democratic leaders may
2,e able 10 WIN q great many OF
their former followers back of the
4 d &ut the Recommendation of
Denis and his immediate friends
III times not long past will be re-
membered, and they will he unable
to regain enough votes for the Dem
ocrats to justify the concessions and
money which will be the induce.
ments to Kearney and Wellock Tor
their efforts. In spite of all they
can do now the Labor party in
California will go as mass for
the greenback ticket, and that
means a plurality of votes for the
Republicans, rs the majority OF
the w. p. G. come from the Demo-
cratic ranks.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-06-23
Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from
practice, having had placed in his
hands by an East India missionary
the formula of simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy and perma-
aent cure of Consumption, Bronchi-
tbs, Catarrh, Asthma, and all Throat
and Lung Affections, also positive
and radical cure for Nervous DebiI-
ity and all Nervous complaints, af-
ter having tested its wonderful cur
alive powers In thousands of cases,
has felt it his duty To make it known
to his suffering fellows. Actuated
by this motive and desire to re-
lieve human suffering, / will send
free of charge to all who desire it,
this receipt, in German, French or
English. with full directions for pre-.
pairing and using. Sent by mail
by addressing with stamp, naming
this paper, w. w. SHERAR, 149
POWERS BLOCK, ROCHESTER,, N. Y.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-06-23

il the convention at Cincinnati
does not nominate Tilden in the face
of his positive letter Of withdrawal,
which they are unlikely to do. the
indications are that a shady horse
will win the race. Tilden's favorite
is Payne, Of Ohio, with Randall
second. Payne will be their strong
est man in Ohio, but Randall will
carry more votes in Pennsylvania,
and IL Hancock does not divide the
Pennsylvania delegates with him,
which he will not do il his friends
see that he can get but little support
elsewhere Randall may after all be
the Democrat nominee. 1t is
scarcely to be hoped that Field will
be able to win the nomination.
Knowing as the members Of the con-
vention do. that his nomination
would result in q certain loss Of the
Pacific Coast.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-06-23

Appetite, refreshing sleep, the acqui-
sition of flesh and color, are bless.
ings attendant npon the reparative
processes which this priceless invig-
GRANT speedily initiates and carries
tn successful conclusion. Diges-
ton is restored and sustenanc1 af-
fosded to each life sustaining organ
by the Hitters, which is inotfensive
even TO the feminine palate, vegeta-
BILE in composition and thoroughly
safe.
For sale by all Druggists and Deal
ers generally.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-06-23

We are now having the XII of
weather which saves wood and
coal, and it don't smoke either.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-06-23
How DIR. Whitman Saved Oregon


Tyler was President and Webster
Secretary OF State. The Ashburton
treaty was in psogfoss. and not much
interest was felt in the north western
boundary. Little was known of that
distant region. and from English
sources the assurances were positively
made that the country WAS compare
lively worthless, more valuable fer
hunting and trapping than for all
civilized uses. The was the tondi-
ton of affairs when Whitman reached
the capital. 1t was all but conceded
that privileges an the northeast coast
in respect to fisheries, should offset
the surrender of the Columbia River
region to Great Britain. Governor
Simpson. of the Hudson's By Com.
pany, had reached Washington, had
interviewed Webster, and managed
to leave this impression on his mind.
There was no living man to plead for
Oregon and tell the truth fearlessy,
until, Gin the dead of winter, an
awkward, tall, visaged, vigor
Gus, off hand sort of man appeared
at the Department in his mountain
travelling garh, consisting of a dark
colored blanket coat and buckskin
pants, showing that to keep himself
from freezing he had been compelled
to lie down close 10 his camp fire
while in the mountains, and on his
way to Washington he had not
stopped for a moment, but pushed on
with vigor and energy peculiarly
his own" This man had been taunt-
ingly told that It was impossible for
his Government to be informed so as
to prevent the surrender of Oregon,
but he had surmounted impossibili-
ties and was there in person to make
known the facts.
Entirely unmindful of Ing rude
Rarb and weather.beaten looks,
Whitman sought an interview with
the SecI etary of State, gave his OH
.iect, and stated the plans ard pur-
poses of the British Government. He
had hardly made his object known
when Webster interrupted him: "But
doctor, you are too late we have
just about traded Oregon off for
cod fishery" His first interview
failed to make any strong impress
sion. Webster had made up his
mind that there was actual value in
the fisheries, while he knew nothing
about the Columbia River region, and
at best there never had been any ben
eft apparent from the claim to
owner hip. But Whitman had not
crossed q continent through winter,
snow and ice to be halked in a single
interview. He sought the presence
of the President. and, wild man as
he appeared, dressed in blanket coat
and skins, he interested John Tyler
in his cause, and procured hearing
for himself and for Oregon. 1t is
true that John Tyler is considered |
the least among the Presidents, and |
his name ia not fragrant with great
and good deeds, but we owe him this
much onsideration-to recognize |
that only for his influence the Ash
burton treaty would have gone as al
ready planned, and the national do |
main have lost the great wealth and
glory Of the galaxy Of States to be |
formed from the Pacific north west.
IS. A. Clarke in July Californian.
We are now having the XII d of
weather which saves wood and
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-06-23
STATE RIGHTS.

MATE RIGHTS.
The New York Nation ssa con.
seryative paper, too constrratlTr- 4
10 too dignihed to ses cause for
faultsfinding In many fling. 'lrserv
ing of censure, lest 1t should he said
Of it that it is u partisan sheet.
Speaking of State Rights it says
IF it was State Rights which facili.
tsted and stimulated the slave hnld-
ers' rebellion, it was also State Rights
which supplied the means by which
it was put down. 1t was the habit
Of local self-government; the pride of
the individual States; the effiency
capacity and self-reliance of the State
Governments. which placed at the
ecomRand of tie Federal Govern
ment the vast material resources and
the undaunted and patient courage
by which the Secessionists were
foiled.
This is true. It was State Rights
which rendered poss BILE what the
Nation admits to have been the great
est rebellion the world ever saw.
Had 1t not been for State Rights and
the feeling of allegiance to the local
government of a territory bounded by
State lines, engendered by these
State Rights, the rebellion would
have been impossible. 1t was this
mistaken loyalty to their own States
which made the rising of the South
in rebellion almost unanimous.
Many of those who afterwards became
leaders in the Southern cause we've
originally opposed to secession, both
in thought and action, but when their
State determined tojoin in the rebel
lion they imagined that their first
duty was owing to the State, and
went with it. 1t was State Rights,
and nothing else which fostered this
feeling. Nearly one half of the popu-
lation in the South would have been
opposed to the war, thus rendering
it an impossibilisy--divided as the
Insurgents would have been into
small communities, had the Union
loving portion not been forced TO
join them by the consolidating in
t1uence of State lines and State
Rights. 1t was State Rights whi;h
furnished the means for conquering
the rebellion, because there was no
other machinery Of government at
that time, which could do so. 1t
was not the pride of local self.gov-
crnment, which did this, but it was
loyalty to the Unior, which could
only at that time raise means of
maintaining it through the operation
of State Rights. The South was
conquered not by the individual
.
operations of the several States, but
by the joint efforts OF all under the
direction and control of a strong
central government. A strong gov
eminent would have prevented the
rebellion; the rebellion could not
have occurred, but for State Rights;
and it was finally strong govern
ment and not State Rights which
preserved the Union. II is difficult
to see the benefits derived from
doctrine which can effect more evil
than good, and doctrine the evils of
which, are always felt first, doctrine
the better features of which are only
brought out to partly counteract the
worse. ,-....
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-06-23
French and SPANISH Lessons.

Those wishing to learn either
French or,Spsnish can receive prope
instruction from a thoroughly com
potent teacher by calling open Mrs.
S. E Carlton, No. 1i3 North B street.
Virginia.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-06-23
OUR. San FRANCISCO AGENT

Charles w. Crane is the author
lied agent OF the LYON, C0UsvY
TINES in San Francisco. His office
T. at 3l8 Pine and 10 LeiGiesdoatf
street.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-06-23

Kslloch, the murderer of De
Young, is fighting vigorously for his
life, and from the known contradie-
tons of the new constitution of Cal
ifornia, there is no certainty that the
courts may not at some stage of the
proceedings declare that the killing
was constitutional.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-06-23
ALL OUR MEDICINES ARE PURE.

Thsiundersigned nave lately purchased the
store Of Boisot 4 Stewart, and intend By strict
attention TO business. fair dealing and keep.
ing first class stock Of goods. TO deserve the
patronage of all needing goods In sur line
Orders by STAGE promptly attended to. and
returned by next stage.
W. A. HAsBROUCK. CIV HALL
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-30
Last Nights Dispatches.
SPORTS

CHICAGO. June, 29.-The first race a
the Jockey Club track to-day was a ont
and a quarter mile dash. for 4 year olds
and upwards. for purse of $3.50. Blue
Lodge won, Florence B second, Omega
third. Time, 2:153.
Second race, three quarters of a mile
heat, handicap, for a purse Of $3.50
Charlie Ross wop, Lavacca second, Gene.
We've third. Time, l ;l62. LII.
Third race, one and an eight miles. for
a purse of $3.50, RoselIa won. Charlie
magne second, SaltiIlo third. Time,
2:023
CHICAGO. June %. Base. bail-Chica-
go 2. Worcester /.
BRIGHTON BEACH, june 90 The half
mile dash, for 2 year olds, Bride Cake
Won, Clara A. second, King Nero third.
Time, 81 seconds,
Ihe Brighton stakes. one and an eigh,
mile, Quito won. Barney second. Blauch-
er third. Time, 1855.
The mile dash, Mamie Field won.
Little Red second. Speculation third.
Time. 1:434.
Fourth race, one mile, Virginia won,
Rochelle second, Boardman third. Time,
| IA.
BALTIMORE. june 29.-The Baltimore
base ball club has disbanded. Its hackers
refused to make further advances, as the
club was generally defeated by all clubs
they conteEded against.