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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-09-29
Plated Silver Weddings.


The Cincinnati Enquirer commission
ed itself to investigate the quality of
wedding presents made in that city
1t would appear from its inquiries that
the Cincinnati people are in the habit
OF making mockery of the finest emo
tions of our human nature, by tender
ing sham tokens of their mutual regard
on the occasion of their friends we'd
ding. As, in nine cases out of ten, the
recipients are not metallic experts.
they continue to use the spurious gifts
under long years of false impression as
to their value, while the donors have
obtained the fondest expressions of
gratitude under false pretences. OF
course, the day comes when the fraud
stands revealed, and ali the sweetness
of friendship is turned into bitterness,
by the discovery that the word "solid''
in the = solid silver ice-pitchern which
was so effusively given, applied, per-
haps, to the ice. perhaps to the pitcher.
but certainly not to the silver.
As, for example, a Cincinnati gentle
man recently carried bent cup to q
jewelry establishment for repairs. It
was "a sacred memento," q q wedding
day gift, solid the cup from
which an only child, now dead, !. guaffed
her thirst" as the Enquirer puts it,
though thirst must be a curious thing
for even a Cincinnati child to quaff. The
gentleman was told that the cup would
have to be repla.ed. A few days after
another gentleman came I'M with a
:. solid silver tea set, which had
always been q source of great anxiety
and rather above his modest house,
keeping. He believed it to be worth
$1,000, but as it was old fashioned he
would sell it for one third of that
amount. The jeweler told him it cost
about fifty dollars. A jeweler who had
sold a plated ice-pitcher several years
before, as wedding gift, was present
at the reading of the recipients will
in which, with many expressions of
gratitude, he bequeathed anxiously and
carefully the sham pitcher to one of his
heirs. . This solid silver pitcher pur-
chased of an Alabama family badly
pressed for funds,r' remarked a proud
native Of Cincinnati. as he entered d
Fourth street store and offered the
property for sale as old silver. Il
paid seventy-five dollars for it, just at
the breaking out of the war. 1t had
been presented as wedding gift to the
owners, and ! should have to pay at
least $500. suppose you can afford
to allow me at least 5000 for what
metal there is in it?'' MY dear sir, -
said the dealer, "your pitcher is worth
to us about seventy-five cents. The
plating upon it has worn so thin that
wonder that even in your confidence
the fact was not long since discovered. "
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-09-29
"A contemporary asks: ..How sha

"A contemporary asks: "How shall
women carry their purses to Illustrate
the thieves?" Why, carry them empty.
Nothing illustrates thief more than to
snatch woman's purse, after following
her half mile, and then find that it
contains nothing but recipe for spiced
peaches and faded photograph Of her
grandmother.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-09-29

Professor Harris says |" there is a
coming of the macl locosm into the mi
crocosm." Time for some folks to take
to the woods when this happens = Bcs.
ton Globe.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-09-29

-" Every Little helps" said Mr..
Little, when Mrs. L. presented him with
twins. Boston RulIetin.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-03
Carp in Georgia.

DR.. Cary, fish commissioner of Georgia,
writes me an interesting letter about
the carp fisheries in that State. One year
ago last fall he distributed seven hundred
carp through Georgia, stocking about
thirty ponds. Last fall he stocked three
hundred ponds in Georgia, scattered from
Dalonega to Savannah. The interest in
carp has increased enormously just now.
Every mail brings application for fish,
and DR.. Gary is satisfied that five hun.
dred ponds are being prepared aud will
be ready for carp next fall. If these eau
be stocked there will be about on thou.
sand ponds in the State properly stocked
with carp, four hundred Of which will be
old ponds. I think that DR.. Cary will
find / 1000 new ponds ready for fish in the
coming fall. To meet this demand is
important. The government ponds at
Washington were swept away in the
freshet of last week, and the carp scat
tered, but the Baltimore government
ponds have q large supply. Dr.. Cary
thinks that the carp put in Georgia
ponds in 1879 will spawn this spring,
without doubt. If so he will be able to
supply all Georgia demands. He is 60
ing to establish State Matching ponds
during the present year, from which he
will get all the fish that can be needed.
The results of growth in the fish in
Georgia ponds as reported BY DR.. Cary
astounds every one here. The ichthyolo-
gists declare that it is almost incredible
that any fish can grow as these carp have
grown in Georgia. DR.. Cary writes
"On the goth of November, 1879, I de-
posted in Marietta pond carp weigh.
ing half an ounce apiece. On the 2lst
of November, 1880, just one year later,
carp were taken from this pond weigh
ing over four ponds. Two specimens
lust one year old taken from a Macon
pond measured % and "a inches respec-
lively. Specimens taken from Dougher-
tv county pound exceeded in weight and
size either of fthese. Many similar cases
were reported and the estimate of Dr.;
Hessell that carp in the south would
equal four pounds year. Put 20 small
carp in q pound this fall. One year from
the spring they will spawn and give at
least 5000 small carp that are healthy
and will grnw-more probably $4,000.
But say 5000. At four pocnds of
growth each they will give 10000 pounds
of the best meat in year, at no expense
or trouble. What Georgian will then
have to 20 out and hunt a ground-hog.-
Fl. ". @. in atlanta Constitution.
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- Twelve of the fourteen Republican
United States Senators just elected were
opposed to the nomination of General
Grant fo7 third term.
THE house where Sherman received
Johnston's surrender fifteen years ago
has been converted into town of $500
inhabitants and factories paying nearly
100000 annual revenue tax. Yellow
tobacco has done it.
- 1t was getting we'll into the night.
She yawned, and chen asked him if he
ever saw swapping turtle. "Ouce," he
replied, Gin u show" Said she, cts
very funny, but, do you know, you sort
of remind me of that bird?" "Why ?"
she asked. "Ob, you hang on so."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-03

- The Enterprise Cotton Factory of
Augusta has declared dividend of 10
per cent, and there is talk of increasing
its spindIes from $4,000 to $4,000.
OF the fifty eight men who framed
the Constitution and declared the indie
pendence of Texas, March 2, 1886, one
is still living: Dr.. Charles B. Stewart, of
Montgomery County.
: A little girl Of twelve years, the
daughter of a clergyman, WAS asked !:
"Sadie, does your papa ever preach the
same sermon twice?" After thinking a
moment, Sadie replied: eyes, | think
he does; but think he hollers in differ
ent places"
- jeff Davis wrote me for my picture
to put in his book along with some
others. l wrote him that would not
be found in such company. I will bet
him $500 that his book does not appear
by the lst of April, nor while I live
Robert lbomts.
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The Sonth Revived.

That the Republican party cherishes,
at least so far as its stalwart branch goes,
the hope of one day again dominating the
South with military and carpet. bagging
forces, is fact admitted freely by many
OF the prominent mouthpieces of that
party. Senator Patterson's famous Ia
mentation over the many "good years of
stealing" that still remained in South
Carolina left q plaintive echo which is
still ringing in the ears of all his class.
To these gentlemen, if they ever hope
to obtain clutch on the money bags Of
the South again, it will be of unusual
interest to learn how prosperous that Sec
tion has become. Recent observation
shows that there has been marvellous pro-
gress in the mechanical and industrial
arts since the locust carpetbagger was
got rid Of New villages are springing
up and old ones are widening and show
ing more thrift. Country stores, where
all useful and luxurious articles are sold,
are established in every hamlet. Manu-
featuring centers are forming.
at Chattanooga there has been estab-
lished the largest tannery in the United
States; Nashville possesses the largest
wagon factory in the country; Richmond
has instituted an immense business in the
manufacture of cigarettes from tobacco Of
the finest quality, grown in places and on
lands which ten years ago were supposed
to be unfit for growing any tobacco even of
the coarsest kinds. Wood is worked in
all sorts of forms, and the chief supply Of
the best ash, oak and walnut for Eastern
cities is now found in the South. Iron is
being made ut the lowest cost and of the
best quality in many places, and the lead.
ing iron cities of the North are driven to
construct new lines of railroad to reach
the Southern mines in order to maintain
her place. At nearly any point of the
South on which he could put his finger
the old political carpetbagger can find o
gold mine. richer than the District that
he used to work, if he could only get at
it.
If the Scots, CHARACTERISTICS, Pattersons,
Dorseys ct al. can only rehabiltate the
old military or carpetbag governments
and repeat their old games under them,
their fortunes would be assured. unfor-
tunatelY for them, however, the South
has q, .ern1ined tosupervise the workings
of these gold mines to certain extent
itself. The rule established there for the
future is that every one, native or carpet
bagger, shall put a hand to the plow, not
thrust both arms up to the shoulders in
the State Treasures again.-New York
Star.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-03

= Mr.. Segura, of Iberia, Louisiana,
lost thirty COWS by the late severe
weather.
= The feeling between President.elect
Garfield and President Hayes is said to
be far from cordial. The Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Times says
that some time ago Mr.. Hayes appointed
postmaster in Gar6eld's district, against
Gen. GarGeld's protest. One day last
winter an Ohio gentleman seeking ar
office asked Gen. Garfield to help him.
The latter replied: "SIy recommenda.
tion will do you no good whatever. It
will injure you, if anything. The presi-
dent makes point Of ignoring any sug.
gcstions make to him. This was said
with good deal of feeling. 1t is cur.
rent gossip among Ohio people that Gen.
Garfield resented this snub in quiet
wsy.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-03
Reclalming the Everglades in Florida.

An immense transaction, involving
the reclamation of 100000 acres
of land, or one.third of one the
States of the Union, has been un-
dertaken by a company of Philadel-
;phia gentlemen, with every prospect of
success. About one.third of the State OF
Florida is huge swamp, termed-"the
Everglades" dark, impenetrable, un-
known region. No white has ever fully
explored it, and all that is known of it is
great swamp, with number oflakes here
apd there, and islands upon which roam
ferocious wild beasts. The project of
reclaiming this wonderfully rich country
has been talked of for years, and it has
long been considered feasible by many
engineers. Some time since the State of
Florida made a move in the matter,
which is likely to culminate in the recla-
nation of the immense body of land that
has lain under water for thousand
years. Under contract with the State
of Florida, Philadelphia company is
about undertaking this great scheme.
The leading man in the enterprise is
Hamilton Disston, young gentleman of
business energy and ample fortune, and
present head of the saw manufacturing
firm of Henry Disston & Sons. Associa-
ted with him are ex-Sheriff Wm. d.
Wright, w. G. Parsons, Whitman H.
Drake, A. B. Linderman, all Of this city,
I. Coryell, of Florida, and others. Under
the agreement already made with the
State the company. are required to begin
surveys within sixty days, and within SIX
months 10 put force equal to one hum
dred men on the work, and continue as
expeditiously as possible until it is COM
pleted. 1t is proposed to drain the land
by canal and Lake Okeechobce to the
Caloosakachee River, which empties into
the Gulf of Mexico. Another canal may
also be constructed to the east, tapping
the St. Lucie River, which flows into the
Atlantic. These canals will entirely
drain the swamp, and from ten to twelve
million acres of the richest land in the
world will be reclaimed. The company
will receive for the work one.half of the
land recovered, and it is expected that
this will largely repay all expendi-
ture of money that may be made in the
work. The company will organize at
once, with Hamilton Disston as president.
It is proposed to issue 1000. 900 shares of
stock at $40 par value. Each share will
carry with itlthe right to an acre of land.
The proceeds Of $4,000 shares will be
used as tie working capital.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-03
BEAUFORT AND ABBEv1LLE.


Q.-General, you spoke of planting
cotton insthe low country. How do the
negroes Of tue low country, in Beaufort
for instance, compare with the negroes in
The upper part of the State? Are they
as prosperous, and are they as good spec.
e,fdn linens Of humanity, rs are the negroes OF
this section?
A.-Having been away from them up
wards of twelve years, / am unable to
speak of their present condition. At
that time, however, the negroes on the
coast were not the equals of the up-coun.
try negroes in aHy respect. The negroes
here are decidedly more intelligent and
more prosperous than were those on the
coast. The mild climate enables them to
80 almost without clothing, and then
theF have no trouble to live on fish and
oysters. believe Abbeville County to
be one of the finest counties in the State.
Your white people as class are highly
educated, and are certainly very fine
people. Your lands are excellent, and
produce the most varied and profitable
crops. This is magnificent country.
t would take potent reasons to induce
me to~leave.
ENDORSEMENT OF THE RE-
PUBLICAN PARTY BY GENERAL sToL-
BRAND.
Q.-Do you think the interests of the
State would bespromoted by restoring the
Republican party to power in South Car
olina?
Aft you mean the Republican party
as it was, no; if you mean the Repnbli-
can party as it it, yes. The Republican
party has always been right. 1t was its
Old fugitive leaders that were not of the
right Kind. blame the Democracy for
not Furnishing the Republican criminals
who came into the hands OF the law,
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DISCIPLINE IN CnILDHooD.-Young
people who have been habitually graft
fled in all their desires will not only in
duIge more in capricious desires, but
will infallbly take it more amiss when
the feelings or happiness of Others re-
quire that they should be thwarted, than
those who have been practically trained
to the habit of subduing and restraining
them, and consequently will. in general,
sacrifice the happiness of others to their
own selfish indulgence. To what else is
the selfishncss of princes and other great
people to be attributed? 1t is in vain to
think of cultivating principles of gener-
osity and benefcence by mere exhortation
and reasoning, nothing but the practical
habit of overcoming our own selfisbness,
and of familiarly encountering privatlons
and discomforts ON account of Others, will
ever enaLIe us to do it when required.
Indulgence infallibly produces selfishness
and hardness of heart, and nothing but
severe discipline aud control can lay the
foundation ofa magnanimous character.
Lord jeffrey.
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- Farm laborers in Japan receive $35
year with board, or so without board.
Ifa arm laborer eats as much as a farm
laborer in America, he makes $500 by
working iur SO year il that way.
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INTERVIEW WITH sToLBRAND:
He Talks Freely, and Gives His Opinion
of Various Matters.
Abberille Press q Banner.

General G.. J. Stolbrand and United
States Commissioner Captain F. d.
Eaton arrived in town last Monday even.
ing and took lodging at Bruce's Hotel.
Knowing the general anxiety of our peo-
ole to be informed as to the object of
their visit, We sought an interview with
them. Upon telling General Stolbrand
that our people knew very little OF him,
and that We should be glad for any in.
formation which he might give US for
publication in the Press and Banner, he
replied:
A.-:'I am very sorry that am not
better known in the up.country; for, if l
we're, I think would be less disliked."
sroLBRAND's CAREER.
We then elected the following infor-
nation fromshim>: .sses
General G. ). Stolbrand was born in
Sweden; from Chicago, Illinois, he-en-
tered the Union army at the beginning
Of -the-war, and came to South Carolina
in 1865 in command of the artillery Of
thes 18th Army Corps. Immediately
aRef ths ,warehee wassengage0 in cotton
planting aud continued in that business
In Beaufort County to 1867. In 1868 he
was appointed Secretary of the State
Constitutional Convention, which met
sthat;year and formed the present Consti-
tuition of the State. This was his first
venture in politics. He was elected to
The House Of, Representatives of the first
Republ lican Legislature, and served until
he was,appointed Superintendent of the
Pepi.entiary in January, 1869. This
position he held until March, 1873. In
1876 he was appointed Superintendent
sof ESnsiusfion Of the Federal Custom
House II Charleston, which place he
held until July, 1877, when the building,
which had been worked at for thirty-two
wears, was finished. In 1880 he was ap-
pointed u. 81 IStorekeeper and Gauger.
September 10, at Negberry, he, was nom.
mated BY the Republicans as their can
d1iid3atefor Congress in opposition to the
Hon. Z. w. Aiken, the Democratic nom.
.inee. His family consists Of his'wife and
FIVE 5chifdsen-three' of whom are at
home. His only living son is a Lieuten-
ant in the o.. IS. Infantry, now ON the
Plains.
TIE. :, ,oyEcr 81 OF THE 1SyEsr1eArtoa.
QSGeneraf, will you be good enough
to tell US the object for which this inves-
tigation is held?
A.-Certainly; this investigation is
made. solely, and for no other purpose
than that Of establishing my right to a
seat in the Seventh Congress from
the Third District of South Carolina. /
have not advised, nor do I desire, that
any arrests should be made here or else
NO ILL-wrLL TO ANYBODY.
Q.-Then you entertain no personal
ill-will or malice toward any Of our peo.
pie?
A1Oh, no; / do not know, the name
Ola single man who may have violated
the election laws in your County; nor do
f-cre-tuknow>the- names of any such
persons. except to prove the justice of
my claim to the seat. / would not, how
eyer, ,.baye you to understand that l am:
isdenihsly.makin any apology .for~ COM
ing here to contend for what conceive
to be my rights. do no such thing as
that.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-03

= Charlotte, N. c., will have water
works at al annual expense Of $4,000.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-03

Tho Grace With Which the cx-Confed
crate President Receives Yisitors-The
Uncompleted History OF the Confederacy
Entertaining Personal Description and
Chat.
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wHAT CAPTAIN EATON SAYS.

Q.-We do not wish to ask any i'm
proper questions of you, Captain, but
would you object to saying what your in-
tentions are, id the matter of making
arrests IN this County for alleged viola
tiops OF. the election laws?
HSIhave no intention of issuing any
wafrants:of arrest. I am here in the in
terest of General Stolbrand, for the pur-
pose Of taking testimony in this contest.
WHAT sToLBRAND SAYS OF THE GRE
TURNED MEMBER"
Q.-Have you anything to say of the
returned member?"
A.-No, sir. I never speak Of him ex-
cept in general way. During the cam
paign 1 thought it probable that we
should meet on the stump and discuss
political matters, but for some reason the
, meeting never took place. From the
newspapers learn, that he thinks / have
mo holnaor local habitation, unless per-
.haps.itbe in Washington City. The fact
is, Ishaye lived In Columbia since 1869.
/, + have been in Rickens Coanty for sew
seral months, discharging my duty as
sStorekesper. aud Gauger, while my family
reside in Columbia.
soUTHseARoLINA AND ILLINOIS COM
80 PARED.
Gas compared with Illinois, how
does South. Carolina stand?
A.STsthink South Carolina fine
country. The climate is excellent and
the atmosphere is pure. There is no
-smiasma here, as in Chicago from whence
came. While I lived in Chicago my
family suffered greatly, and although the
ancestors of; my family had always been
free from, pulmonary complaint, my old.
!. est son died there of consumption. l
: entered the army with the determination
sof settling in the South at the close of
the war, and since I moved my family
here we have had no sickness at all. I
am well pleased with the country, and do
not intend to leave it, unless l should go
away free from tho general allegation
that has been SO often made against those
Republicans who have already gone.
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On begging the favor OF his autograph,
he replied we were quite welcome
to it and remarking that whenever
you have anything to do, it is
we'll to do it at once" retired to his
study, and returning in few moments,
presented US each with the desired SOU
venir. AS re were leaving he arose with
the grace of knight of old, giving his
arm to my fair friend and escorting her
down the long avenue to the carriage.
Then with another hearty grasp Of the
hand and bon poyagc, We bade farewell to
BeauyOir.
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in that way, because there are too many
rich men.
- 1t is said that Horace Maynard
turned young man out of the Postofice
Department whose family are Republi-
cans merely because he made some bets
on Hancock's election. When Maynard
came back from Tennessee beaten for the
Senate, bis bad humor was the subject of
common comment all over Washington.
He was as sour as old cider, and is said
to have taken petty revenge on bis
political foes by turning several Demo.
Gratis in Tennessee out Of the Postoffice
Department.
= Reports from Chicago are to the
effect that smallpox is increasing there
with great rapidity, and that in several
towns in Illinois and Iowa the disease is
epidemic. Cincinnati, too, is becoming
alarmed, aud remembering that no longer
ago than 1872 eleven thousand one hun
dred and seventy.nine of her people per-
ishcd from this loalhsomc disease, the
papers unite in urging the health depart.
ment TO Immediately take all possible
measures 10 prevent us gaming 4 Iootnolu
in the city.
Daniel Douglass, Esq, member oI
the Legislature from Chesterfield County
died on the Goth inst. Mr.. Douglass was
about IS years old, and was highly
esteemed by the people of the County
He was Sheriff of Chesterfield before the
war, County Commissioner since, and
/ last fall was elected Representative, bu1
owing to failing health was compelled tt
ask for and obtain leave of absence be-
fore the adjournment of the session. HI
died Of dyspepsia. but had been suffering
from complication of diseases.
- The New York Times is displeasct
with the rumored cooperation with Ma
hone Oh the part of the Republicans il
the organization of the next Senate