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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-01-06
Over Million and Half Given to Edu.
catiOnal and Other Objects,

The following are the gifts which have
thus far been made by Mrs. Valeria G.
Stone, of Boston. from the estate left by
her husband. Quite large sum, it is
understood, is yet remaining to be dis.
tributed, which will be used in accord
ance with the advice of the gentlemen
whom she has selected as her counsel
ors IN the disbursement of this large
trust:
To Bowdoin College, to finish Memorial
To Bowdoin College, to endow the Pro. ~S0''
fessorship of Intellectual and Moral
r., Philosophy. .;...:...:....... $4,000
10 70 tne HtlloweIl Classical School. 10000
10 the Fryebury Academy, Maine - l0.OJ0
10 Dartmouth College, to endow the
stone Professorship, of Intellectual
and Moral Philosophy :.-..;...... $4,000
Andover Theological Seminary, to en-
dow the Professorship of the Rela-
tions of Christianity to Secular Sci
On the condition that a subscription Of '''o''
Slo)00) for the Phillips Academy be
completed So. 100000
Amherst College, to endow the Stone
Professorship of Theology, ON condi-
tion of the College raising $25,0O0.. $1,000
wellesley College, to construct and
w furnish Stone Hall -. 100000
Women's Board of Missions for Har-
pOon College, Turkey. 25O)o
Young Mems Christian Association of
r. Boston, toward new building ........ 25,uOO
Hamilton College, Clinton. N. Y, to en-
dow the Professorship of Natural His
tory. 10000
Chicago Theological Seminary, for the
Professorship of Pastoral Theology
and Special Studies. $4,000
American Missionary Association, for
institutions at Nashville, Atlanta, Tai
ladega. Tongaloo and New Orleans 10000
0berlin College. Ohio, for endowments. $1,000
Drury College, Springfield, Mo-. $1,000
Iowa College ....................... 22,590
carleton College, Northfieid, Mnn.-.... 1000
She has also given 100000 to rela-
tives and friends, and 100000 to
churches and needy students, and for
the redemption of mortgaged homes.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-01-06
Old Fashioned Girls.

81 dunno how it's all come about.
but tryin' to find an old.fashioned gal
among the gals of to-day would be like
lookin' for thimble in the medder. II
makes me nervous and Uneasy to see
'em, sayin' nothin' of hearin' 'em chat
term away like so many jack-daws on
every subject but one of sense. 'Spo-
sin you'd ask one of these enew-fancled
gals of to-day to make mustard plas-
ter, Or set empt,ings, or wash fannels,
or steep up onions and 'lasses and vim
egar for the baby's colda Why, there
hain't one in 500 who could mix two
parts flour and one part mustard and
spread the stuff on a piece of old cotton,
without making more fuss over it than I d
make in curing four cases of Group and
burying six or eight neighbors. When
was gal l could git out of bed in the
darkest night that ever crept over a
white COW and lay my hands on the
ginger-box, the camphor bottle, the
kyann pepper, the stickin' pla ster, or
whatever else was wanted Jist imag-
inc one O. these modern gals putin
foot out O. bed if the hull rest of the
family was tied up in hard knots with
the collie! Not one in thousand of 'em
could 60 down and even find the pantry
door without two lamps burnln' and a
guide-board on her head.
:" Yes, I'm putin patch on the Dea-
cons breeches. larned to patch fore
| was fourteen years old. When l git
it sewed on and pressed down yon
won't hardly be able to disxiver
which from which. This one patch
will give him six months longer
wear of these breeches. Patchin'
was not beneath our old-fashioned
gals; but lands save We! Jist you men,
tion patches to one of these frizzed and
banged and hustled gals of this period!
She'd faint right away and fall into it.
You d think sartin queer of a man who
would throw away a pair of boots be-
cause one of the straps was broken.
Aud yet the gals of the present age are
being brung up to throw away garments
that half an hours work with the
needle would make almost as good as
new.
g Healthy? I guess I'm feeling live
ly for woman seventy-two years old
come next April. l haven't got pain
VI dill dCHc dUOut lue anu uOu SpoCG
to have till my dying hour comes.
Why? Because I haven't bent my ribs
all out of shape by tight-Iacing. Be-
cause [ haven't waded through the
of winter in thin shoes and
cotton stockings. Because I haven't
sacrificed lungs. liver and muscle to
fashion. How many gals of the present
day ever sit down to good, solid mealp
Lands alive! but it's got to be unfash-
lonable to eat anything except gum
drops and sweet-cake! A gal of sixteen
expects to do more runnin' around on
ten mouthfuls of such stuff than her
father does on a solid meal. It's all
right for him to bundle up in cold
weather, but it's all wrong for her. It's
all right for him to 60 to bed at nine, /
but all wrong for her to get under the
quilts afore midnight. 0! gals! gals!
gals! don't know what's to become of
re! I feel consarned about you and
I'm going to set down and talk to you
ike grandmother and tell you just
what I think. -''Aunt Sally" in De-
r0it Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-01-06
NEW YEARS EYE.

q. good New Year. we clasp
This warm, shut hand of thine.
Loosing forever, with half sigh, half gasp,
That which from ours falls like dead fingers
twine.
An whether fierce its grasp
Has been. or gentle; having been, we know
That it was blessed; let the old year go.
Friend, come. thon like friend,
And whether bright thy face
0rdim with clouds we cannot comprehend.
Well hold our patient hands, each in his
place, .se-.A
And trust thee to the end,
Knowing thou leadest onward to those
spheres
Where there are neither days, nor months, nor
years.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-01-06

formed his resolution to turn over new
leaf in his mode of life. He is to-day
as popular and as great favorite in
social circles and among all classes and
ages in Winterdaie as when he was a
young man. He is the same great
hearted, broad-minded. companionable
man he was twenty years ago. but COM
plete master of himself. And, in the
meantime, he has found Mrs. Severns;
she is the bank Presidents daughter;
and has himself become Director in
the bank. He has kept his resolution
faithfully. The new leaf he turned on
that memorable New Years Eve was
never turned back. Those who prophe-
sled his failure have more confidence
now than they formerly had in the
ability of even clever, good
fellow who had gone wrong to change
his course and go right.
L told you so," said the venerable
President of the bank. at one of the re-
cent meetings of the Directors, at which
Frank Severns' youthful indscretions
and his present high standing in the
business community were alluded to.
lit is not always safe to trust to the
New Year resolves and promises of
those who have discovered the error of
their ways, but knew my man in this
Instance, and one of the most gratifying
incidents of my life is the fact that in
sisted upon his having another chance
at the time our bank was on the point
OF giving him up to go to the dogs.
Moral courage and manly pride, gentle
men-that's what did the work for
Frank Severns."
And the old gentleman was quite
right and not one of the Directors was
disposed to doubt it.-Chicago Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-01-06

The condition of the Jews in Mo-
rocco is deplorable. At Morocco itself
only six weeks ago the Cadi ordered
the cruci6xion of Jew accused of hay-
ing lent money at usurious rate of in
05erest. A short time before this band
of dervishes, who exercise great influ-
ence over the native inhabitants, seized
jew at Anita, and. after flaying him
alive. killed and ate him. This crime
was left unpunished,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-01-06

The snow in England in October
puzzled the swallows. They skinned
over the white ground repeatedly, evi-
IDENTITY in search of worms. The next
day these happy bipeds had all left for
the sunny south.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-01-06

II is now, on this New Years Day,
twenty years since Frank Severns
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-03-04
Taxing Luxuries Of the Rich Instead Of Ne
cessities Of the Poor,

AT a meeting of the Tenth ward Dem
ocratic Associations Brooklyn, Tuesday
q letter from Mr.. William Marshall, the
wealthy cordage manufacturer of Brook
lyn, to the president of the association,
was read, in which Mr. Marshall says:
at is encouraging to see the Demo
cratic members of Congress taking the
sand they have on the tariff question.
We want free trade in the purchase of
ships and the duties taken off of all ma
terial used in the sailing and construc-
ton of ships. The business of the ma
ton is increasing in imports and exports;
but while this is the case, we have lost
our portion of the carrying trade of the
world, and this is because high tariff
increased the cost of construction, sup
plying and manning our vessels. The
proof of this is that the low tariff of 46
built up our commerce, and the high
tariff OF 81 destroyed it. In contrast to
this are the free navigation laws of Great
Britain, which has enabled it to take all
our portion otsthe carrying trade and has
driven our commerce from the seas.
would advocate the highest duties posi-
bic on luxuries, wine, tobacco, silks, laces
&c, but let the necessaries of life come
free, that the cost Of living may be cheap
ened Tor the working people.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-03-04
The Pension Business.

A Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore San says the pension ap
preparation bill, as amended by the Sen
ate and now before the House Appro-
priation Committee, appropriates sos,
283,306.6s, being the largest pension ap
preparation bill ever perfected either by
this government or any other, and il
more than all the pension appropriations
OF all the governments on earth combin-
ed. This is not entirely owing to the
arrears of pension law, although before
that was enacted the pension expendi-
lures were annually less than one half
the amount now about TO be appropria.
ted, The Wholesale pensioning OF the
survivors of the war of 1912 has helped
to swell the aggregate. There are now
on the rolls over $4,000 widows and sur
vivors of that war. II is remarked at
the pension Office that no one engaged
in that war seems to have died in the
last half century. The effect of this i'm
mepse swelling of the pension roll is to
postpone indefinitely the pensioning of
the survivors of the Mexican war A
convention of the survivors met at Lou
isville on the 22nd, and strong memo
rial was sent to Congress asking that the
claims of the Mexican soldiers be con
sidered. The justness of these claims
is generally acknowledged, but there
is general indispoaition to further in
crease the pension budget. 1t is esti-
mated that there are only 5000 survivors
of that war, but from the way survivors
Of the war of 1879 have turned up there
must be about l00o0o,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-03-04
lrsland's Great Land Owners.

The following figures in regard to the
ownership of Irish land are interesting
One man owns $1,000 acres; three men
own 100000 acres each; fourteen men
10000 acres each; ninety men 10000
acres each; one hundred and thirty five
men 10000 acres each, and four hun
dred and tifty-two men 5000 acres each
The Association of Salters own 10000
acres; the Diapers $4,000 acres; the
Merchants $1,000 acres; the Skinners
24,000 acres the Fishmongers 10000
acres; the Ironlnongers 10000 and the
Grocers 10000. 1t is not, therefore,any
exaggeration to say that of f2l, 900, 900,
which is annual Irish rental, at least
fl2,000,0O0 is spent out of the country,
and where, as in the case OF ireland, the
country is not wealthy, and has no 9TH
er industry except agriculture, this state
of things, until remedied, win be pro-
ductive of want and misery,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-03-04
An 0fpbanage Burned.
FOURTEEN BOYS sUFFooATED.

SCRANTON, Pa, Feb. 27.--An appall-
ing catastrophe resulting in the death of
seventeen children-fourteen boys and
three girls--occurred tonight at st.
Patrick's orphanage in Hyde Park. The
building is situated at the corner of Jack
son street and Lincoln avenue, about
mile from the centre of the city. 1t is
occupied by number of Sisters of Char
ity, and under their charge were forty
children whose ages were from six 60
twelve years. The boys and girls oc-
eupied separate dormitories on the Bird
floor. AT half past eight o'clock this
evening one of the Sisters escorted the
children to their rooms and locked the
door for the night She then started TO
descend the stairs When she reached
the second story she discovered smoke
issuing from one Of the rooms, Opening
the doors she was driven back by n
cloud of smoke. Fire was raging along
the ceiling and taking its way to the up
per floor. The Sister darted upstairs aud
found the girls room full OF smoke. She
took the girls 10 the lower floor and
started back toreach the boys dormitory.
The smoke was pouring into the hall
way in binding clouds, and when about
half way up the stairs the Sister met n
stranger She made an effort to pass
him, but he refused TO allow her to pro
ceed, saying that the boys had been res
cued and that it would be dangerous for |
her TO go for them, She reluctantly |
went back An alarm given soon after
the fire broke out, brought four fire com
panies. The flames We're raging fiercely |
when the firemen got TO work. They |
were informed of the belief among the
Sisters that some of the children were
still in the building and made every eff
fort to reach the upper floor. la short
time the flames were beaten back. The I
door of the dormitory was forced open
and the victims of the fire were found
beneath their cots, only two of them were
by the tire and all had evidently
been dead for some time. The cause of
the fire is in doubt Intense excitement
prevails. L
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-03-04
Mr.. Yilden's Leadership and Mr. TiIden's
Retirement,

The present condition of the Demo
cratic party in the State of New York
shows how advantageous the abandon
ment of Mr.. Tilden's leadership and Mr..
Tildens policy has been. The position
of our party as force and q power in
public affairs has sadly changed since
1874. Then it controlled the judiciary,
the State administration, end the Legis
lature. In 1881 it controls nothing In
1874 it was so strong that it elected
Francis Herman United States SENATOR
thlH wrestling from the tenacious grasp
of the Republican machine Represen-
tatiye in the National Senate. In 1881
as powerless minority it witnesses the
election of Republican, and Tom
Piatt at that, as his successor. The ex-
ecutive, with the whole State admins
tration, the Judiciary and the Legisla-
ture, have all been handed over to the
Republican party by the men who were
jealous of Mr.. Iilden's success as a lea
der and who supplapted him. They
have g,atifed their own snimosities
They have retired the ablest leader and
the wisest political manager the Demo
cracy has had for years, the only one, in
fact, who could defeat Conklingt and
with him have retired the whole par,
ty from every position of power and EN-
olument in the State. The result is any
thing but satisfactory to a Democrat who
loves the old party and delights in its
success. The warmest friends OF Mr..
Tilden could not desire for his leader
ship and his policy more telling vindi-
cation than that afforded by the present
unfortunate position of the party that he
once made SO united and invincible.-
Ithaca Democrat,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-03-04


The national banks have demonstrat-
ed their power for evil by their recent at
tempt to cOerce congress into defeating
the three per cent, refunding bill. With
out doubt the national banking system is
the most convenient that has ever been
invented in this country and SO far as the
security of depOsitors and noteholders is
concerned it is the safest and best that
could bp devised. But the furry created
in Wall street the other day, amounting
almost to serious panic. which was
caused by the withdrawal of circulation
by the hanks, has proved clearly the neces-
sity for such amendment of the system
as will deprive the banks Of the power
to enter into . combination to force q
contraction of the currency. That is q
power at once inconsistent with free in
stitutions and incouceivably dangerous
to the interests of business and the wei
fare of the people. OF course it is not
fair to charge that the banks generally
entered into the conspiracy against the
funding bill. While many OF the prinoi-
pal ones engaged i'll it very large por-
ton refused to join it. Still the fact re-
mains that number Of powerful bank
ing institutions may any day preolpitate
the country into financial panics and that
fact should not be permitted longer to
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-03-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, d. &. March |, 1881.

The few citizens who may not be here
on the fourth may like brief account of
what has been done and what is to be
done in the wayof celebrating the day.
The decorations will be chiefly on Penn
sylvania avenue, along which the pro
cession will move. Thirty-eight arches
beautifully and elaborately adorned by
National flags will be suspended over the
intersecting streets--belng an arch for
each State--and more elaborate one
will cross Fifteenth street at the Treas
ury AT the White House everything
will be done that money and skill can do
in the way of ornamentation. Houses
and business places along the Avenue
will generally be decorated. There will be
10000 men at least in the procession, and
General Sherman is Chief Marshall. The
display of fire works at night will be
very extensive, expensive and beautiful.
But the marvel of the occasion will be
the Inauguration Ball. Eight thousand
tickets will be sold, and that number can
find ample accommodation in the ball
building. There are sixteen rooms in
which dancing can take place, all so con
nected, or rather so opening into each
| other through wide spaces, that the mu-
sic, from its single location, will answer
for all the hundreds of couples who may
at the same time be on the floor. The
decorations here are superb. The only
danger that threatens the success of the
ball is that the committee may yield at
the last moment and sell several thous-
and more tickets than the limit now
| fixed.
| Already arrivals here are very numer
ous. AT the larger hotels there are daily
announced guests from every State and
Territory except Oregon and Washing
ton. But the grand rush will be, OF
course, on Thursday. The most liberal
estimate heretofore made as to numbers
will probably be surpassed.
The situation of affairs in Con
gress to-day indicates an extra session,
though some of those Republicans who
for week have been obstructng busi
ness showed signs of repentance this af-
ternoon. Therehas not been in years SC
much ugly determination shown in Con.
gress to gain party ends by obstructine
important public business as by the Re
publcans during this session. Mr.. Frye
usually cool headed, warned his party
friends last week that they could not af
ford to take this course, but he has sine,
suffered himsel, to qe carried along with
the current.
| President-elcct Garfield arrived this
morning. No further intimations as tc
the Cabinet are given, nor does any one
seem to have been informed of the top
les to be treated in the Inaugural mes
sage In fact, the Washington public il
as ignorant to-day of coming events
connected with the administration as il
was a month ago.
|
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-03-04
Cured through Faith.
A MOST REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF ANSWER
TO PRAYER.

MOST REMARKABL INSTANCE OF ANSWER
TO PRAYER.
DAMASCUS, Pa, Feb. 26-Miss Lille
Tyler, relative of Mr.. William Tyler,
the postmaster at this place, has been an
invalid for upwards of six years. Doc
tors have termed her complaint heart dis
ease. She has been treated by some of
the most noted medical men in this coun-
try and has used all kinds of medicines
she could hear of, with no relief. About
a month ago Miss Tyler heard of a lady
in Connecticut who cured ong-standing
diseases by prayer A letter was sent
to this lady and an answer received from
the worker of miracles appointing the
day and hour when Lille and her friends
should engage in prayer for her restora-
ton to health. The day came at last
when the inyalid's friends gathered at
her bedside, This was about week
ago. Miss Tyler was, at the time, too
weak to raise her head from the pillow,
and the company present included her
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan
Tyler snd her pastor, the Rev. Thomas
Wescott. at the appointed time the
young lady and her assembled relatives
engaged in prayer, Asremarkable as it
may seem, before the hour had elapsed
the young lady was sufficiently recovered
70 sit up in bed and has been rapidly i'm
proving ever SINCE, She is today in
such an improved condition that she is
able to ride out, and her relatives are
convinced that her complete cure will re
suit Considerable excitement prevails
in this immediate neighborhood over the
strange cure,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-03-04

New FURNITURE FOR THE WmTE
HousE.-Among the items in the sundry
civil appropriation bill just reported is
one of $4,000 for new furniture for the
White House, the committee thinking
it proper that General Garfield should
have new outfit. 1t is a custom to
make similar appropriations at the be-
ginning of each administration, as the
wear and tear upon the furniture at Off
cial receptions is very great.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-03-04
Twelve Hundred Railroad Companies.

There are some. twelve hundred rail
road companies in this country. While
many combinations and organizations
exist between them, having for their OBJ
ject their own and the public bust
ness, there has so far been no combina-
tion formed between the railroad compa
MES to resist unitedly the unjust attacks
made or to correct the many misrepre-
sentations regarding them. Unity of ac-
ton in this respect may become necsssa-
ry if these attacks are continued
World. 80
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-03-04
WHAT JUDGE BLACK THINKS WILL HAPPEN
TO SUCH A COMRINATION


Some gentlemen propose confedera-
ting railroads. Originally there were
four running from the East to the West,
They put theirpower under one man and
pool their receipts, AL the profits of
the four are divided equally, They
call themselves not the Confederate
States but the confederate rnilroads.
They have constitution in which they
have divided their departments into leg
islatiye, executive and judicial. They
charge what they please, They propose
to destroy competition. They will de
eide whether rates shall 60 up or down,
The whole set Of them are criminals in
the eyes of the law, 1t has been decided
hundred times that such combinations
are criminal conspiracy, for which ev.
cry man concerned in them was liable to
be arrested, tried and imprisoned. Under
fair competition, which is the law of
trade, these companies would rival each
other in doing the people service What
is the remedy3 The State, the power
that governs, the authority that wields
the public power of the country, has the
right to prevent one part of the people
from injuring another You cannot
make any law in this country which will
suspend the operation of the eighth com
mandment.