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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-12-07

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BELLEVUE. LA.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER =, 1882
q Autumn poetry is now tn,
abfiction.
% Turnipsare now in thier prim,
for cooking.
y Christmas, two weeks from
next Monday.
% Bring in your eggs. They
lre in demand.
q There are only two prisoners
10 our parish Jail.
y Fresh pork sells from the
wagons at ten cents per pound.
" A two-horse wagon load OF
Eiswood sells at fifty cents per load.
u Groceries and canned goods
cheaper than the cheapest, at Mr..
IRA. Kelly's.
y But few Of our people INDUCED
10 turkey on thanksgiving day. Be-
cause they couldn't get them.
% Everybody invited to buy
their drugs, stationery, toilet arti.
cles, &C., Of DIR. w. j. Mobley.
~ Patrons of the Commercial
Restaurant, Shreveport, speak in
glowing terms of the table fare.
q The scarcity of eggs at pres.
ent are accounted for from the fact
that all the chickens are Democratic
ROSTERS.
e The Commercial Restaurant.
Shreveport, is growing in populari-
y. Good fare and polite attention
tell every time.
q The early morning and white
hosts are welcome visitors to our
people, and give them new vim and
quick step.
u Pure drugs, a full line of fancy
toilet articles, perfumery, toilet
soaps, hair brushes, tooth bru she's,
&C., at DIR. Mobley's drug store.
y Did you notice that the comet
and the Republican majorities in
the several States disappeared
about the same timef
q The heaviest frost of the sea-
son fell here on Wednesday night,
9th ult. Thursday morning the
fields and woods looked beautiful.
o Old Santa Claus must have
all his fruits, candies,
and nuts to Jules Guerre, Shreve- |
port If you don't think so, 20 and |
see for yourself.
~ Prices will talk, and a hand
'ome stock of goods is sure to draw
! crowd. Messrs. Henry Dreyfuss
b Son, of Shreveport, have an im-
nense stock of ready made cloth
nc, which they offer at away down
,rices.
~ We would direct the atten-
ion Of the travelling public to the
advertisement of Boazman's Board.
ng House and Feed Stables, at
'hreveport, in this issue. They are
onveniently located, and the com
Drts of guests and the good care of
heir horses will be given especial
ttention.
q Mrs. Pauline Beall, daughter
Col John Pickett, died at Hot
rcingS. Arkansas. on the 1st inst
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-12-07

generous heart.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14
PLEASANT PRAIRIE.

The Union ticket was elected with
one exception-Mr. Cropley beine
elected town clerk on the Republican
ticket. The new ticket was not gen.
uine democratical turn coat, but, as its
name implies, a union of forces t(
break up an old ring.
The weather has been very unfayor
able for spring work. A number OF
farmers are wishing for fine weather
as feed is rather scarce.
The Rooney farm is being newl,
fenced, and is receiving many othel
needed improvements. By few year,
of careful tillage, it would be made {
valuable farm.
The new cattle yards and sheds a
the junctionlare decided improvement
on the old yards at Truesdell. The
new road to the junction is not graded
yet. AT present appearances ferry
viii be needed.
Mr.. Graves Crosby will take posses
sion of Frank McNeil's farm as soor
as the roads permit.
Steve has bought the farm now oc
cupied by Mr.. Shelly.
Albert Barter is the proudest man a
present. tits boy.
Miss Hattie Iimpert began hel
school on Monday at No. 4.
G. A. Haley will trim up the under
brush for the benefit of the youngster1
in the Dexter district for. the next
term.
ALI Reynolds made his pater ma
roof a flying visit Saturday.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14
SOMERS.

There is no improvement in roads
or weather. Both bad and growing
worse.
The Dakota fever still finds an oc
casiOnal victim. Isaac T. Bishop has
returned from there, having selected
a large tract of fine land IN Miner
County, which he intends to cultivate
at once. He has secured the services
of Thos. Wells, who will accompany
him with horses and implements.
/ hear that Mr.. John III. Winslow
an old and respected citizen Of our
town, has also sold his farm, and is 60.
ing to Dakota.
Town meeting day was un.
usually quiet, comparatively few
caring to face the hortheaster ia
vote. The town officers Tor the ensu
ing year are as follows: Supervisors
Geo. F. Leet, Chairman, Grin S. Bulla
more, Henry F. Jordon; Clerk, VIM. J,
Rhodes; Treasurer, George ID. Ssrcng
Assessor, VIM. f. Burgess; Justices
A. C. Ozanne and Geo. T. Hughes.
Quite a serious breakdown occurred
few days since in the Hughes Bros,
mill at the Station. causing inconve
nience to those unfortunately out Of
feed.
Several of our toWnsmen are in Keno
sha this week serving as jurors in tn,
circuit court.
s. A. Crosby is buying fat cattle FOL
the Chicago market. He has bought
about one hundred head in this Yiein
ity within few days.
The summer term of school in Dis
trict No. opened on Monday, the l0tl
inst Miss Cronk, teacher.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14
EXAMINATIONS.


The examinations were held the last
four days in March. There were thir-
ty-two at Salem, and twenty-four at
Bristol. Of the whole number forty.
eight took the teachers examination
and eight took the final examination In
the course of study. OF the forty-eight
who wrote on the teachers examina-
ton thirty-one passed-a much larger
percentage than usual. OF this mum.
Der fourteen received their first certifi.
cate. The Superintendent has not
finished the examination of papers OF
those who took the final examination
and they will not hear from him he.
fore the 18th.
Next week we purpose to have some.
thing to say about examinations in
general, and this one in particular, and
about the answers that were received
to some Of the questions.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14
STERLING CENTER,
Blue Earth Co., Mimi,
A ,1rs1 q 1000
ApIH q. 1OOZ,
T

EDITOR KENOsHA TELEGRAPH.
DEAR SIR: For the first time In the
SO years that i have taken the old and
much esteemed TELEGRAPH, ask for
the privilege of telling your many
readers of to us Minnesotians an en-
tirely new source of making sugar
from what is known here as the box
alder tree. About three years since it
was discovered by accident that the
sap from this tree was more than COM
monty sweet Since that time various
persons have given it a thorough trial,
and find that it will run nearly double
the sap that the sugar maple will run !;
that there is one-halfmore sugar In the
same amount of sap, and the quality Of
both the syrup and sugar far surpass
that made from the hard or sugar
maple. Besides all these advantages.
it is one Of the most hardy of our for
est trees; it is also one Of our fastest
growing trees. fully equal to the cot
tonwood, besides being a much more
attractive and beautiful tree as an
ornament. People here are convinced
there is bonanza in this, and claim
that in the near future it will stand at
the head Of our sugar-producing inter-
ests. If any wish to know more con-
corning this tree / will gladly answer
all. Respectfully yours,
ALBERT ACKERMAN..
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

in the hands of astute politicians.
Learned they certainly are. but practi-
cal they are not.
with all your getting, get wisdom
is an old saying and worthy of all ac-
ceptance. Book learning is not ne
cessarily wisdom Practically is
one of the things demanded by this
utilitarian age and money-getting
country. A little experience goes a
great ways in politics, as well as in
everything else; and when to wisdom
is added the needful experience, when
to the acumen of the scholar and the
honesty of the patriot is added the
adroitness of the politician We may
look for good returns from the
scholar in politics." but not till then.
-Mila0Gstkee Sentinel.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14
EDUCATIONAL.
D. A.MAHONEY. = ED1 TOR
a STATE SCHOOL TAI.

n AZ ain HCHOOA 1AA.
The question of state school tax
has been agitated for a number of years
past, and we believe that bills have
been introduced in the legislature pro-
viding for such a tax. These bills
have, however, been killed in commit
tee. The opposition has come from
the southern or most thickly settled
and richest portion of the state; the
cause of this opposition being the fact
that under, a state tax the rich and
thickly settled counties would pay
more than they would get back. Thus
the city of Milwaukee would pay much
more than it would get back from the
state treasury. Perhaps the same
would De true of Kenosha county. At
the first glance it looks reasonable
enough that the southern part of the
state should oppose the plan. But let
us look at the other side of the ques-
ton: The state has for the last FIVE
years given a, liberal pecuniary aid to
the Free High Schools. There are about
ninety such schools in the state Zone
at Kenosha,) and ninety per cent of
them are in the southern part of the
state. The northern counties receive
little or no direct benefit from these
schools, and yet when the legislature
passed law the past winter extend
ing the time for helping these schools
FIVE years longer, there was no opposi-
ton from the northern counties. If
the representatives from the northern
counties had acted like their brothers
they would have voted against giving
any more aid to free high schools, on
the principle that they paid more than
they got back. We are not sure that
we favor a state tax. We have not
studied the subject enough to express
a decided opinion for or against it.
But we do know that to oppose it on
the plea that we would pay more than
we got back is to take a very narrow
and selfish view Of educational inter-
ests. The school laws were not de-
signed to benefit the people of any par
ticular part of the state over another.
but to benefit the whole people. And
if good schools spring up all over the
state, the whole state is benefited, the
people of one part as well as another.
The northern and central parts Of
the state need more and better schools,
and they need help to maintain them.
If a state tax is the only way that help
can be obtained, then let us have
state tax, and stop whimpering about
paying a dollar and getting back only
ninety-nine cents.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14
TARDY JUSTICE.

The report of the House Committee
on Privileges and Elections in favor of
seating Mr.. Lynch, colored Republi-
can, as the representative of the sixth
Mississippi district, commonly called
the " shoestring district, in the place
of the notorious Gen. Chalmers, win
be regarded as an act Of justice which
has been altogether too tardy. The
slender tenure by which Chalmers has
held his Office almost through full
term is a good illustration ofthe rank
injustice and utter disregard of the
rights of franchise which has too long
been permitted to prevail in many
parts of the South. 1t was an attempt
to override and trample down the prin-
ciples Of representative government,
to defraud the majority of the electors
out of their rights; Improved too nearly
successful to be at all consistent with
that jealous care with which the rights
of voters should be regarded. Chal-
mers was fairly beaten by his Repub-
lican opponent by some two or three
thousand majority, but the fiimsy pre-
text by which this magnificent major
ity was dissipated sand reversed was
that the ticket which bore Lynch's
name had printed upon it, between the
subdivisions of the different candi-
dates, simple printers dashes, and
these hardly perceptible divisions of
the ticket were decided by a Missis-
sippi election board to be " distinguish
ing marks" against which there was a
provision in the Mississippi statutes,
and all the tickets upon which these
dashes were found printed were arbi-
trarily thrown out, as a violation of
that statute, the spirit of which had
not the slightest reference to such
marks as these. But even throwing
out all the ballots upon which an irreg-
ular spot could have been discovered
with a microscope, still Chalmers had
not votes enough to count him In by
some FIVE hundred. After having arbi.
trarily thrown out twenty-five hundred
ballots, however, upon most prep0s-
ferrous and untenable pretext, it was
an easy matter to ignore such an incon-
siderable number as five hundred. and
~ VIAC CCA OAlAN0UO VA CAOCekOn W 90 Ao4AN-
ed over to the ex-rebel general, and he
has held wrongful possession of his
seat up to this time. Even now, two
of the committee dissent from the re-
port, and it is believed that. the Demo.
Gratis of the House will make fight
upon its adoption. A resort to fillibus-
tering is even suggested to retain man
in his seat who has no real title to it,
and who deserved to be severely pun
ished for holding a position obtained
by the grossest, most criminal fraud.
1t seems pity that such rank injustice
could have 80 long triumphed, when
the facts of the case were long ago
known, and it was notorious that Chal-
mers had no real title to his seat. The
facts were made known Immediately
after election, and it does seem as
though there was too much red tape
that there ought to be some more sum-
mary method Of adjudication upon
such gross frauds as are and have so
long been patent in this case. = Wiscon-
san Ht1te Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

precedent of Messrs. C0nkling and
Plat is to be held sound, it viii now be
in order for Senators Dawes and Hoar
to resign their seats and ask the Massa-
chusetts Legislature to vindicate their
course by a reelection. But we appre.
bend that these Senators will take no
such absurd course. The public gives
them credit for too much good sense to
expect to see them follow so foolish an
example, and will not believe they Will
do it till compelled to do so. N8body
lean deny President Arthur's absolute
right to make his own appointments,
independent of the dictation of the
local members of Congress, but when
he oyerrules this prescriptiye privilege
of the local members to have their
preferences respected, which has been
exercised almost from time immemo-
rial in the history Of partisan politics,
he must expect to be criticised for so
doing, and besides be held strictly re-
sponsible for the quality and fitness of
his appointments. That he should APP
point his own friends is natural, and if
such Partially is not INDUCED at the
expense of the fitness and propriety of
the appointment in other respects, mo-
body can reasonably challenge his de-
termination. If in so doing be should
take pains to purposely make appoint
ments obnoxious to the best elements
Of his own party, such a course will
ultimately react to his own disadyan-
tage. State Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

No more. intoxicating drinks to be
sold on the State Agricultural Fair
groundsl Thanks to the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of Madi-
son, whose committee, led by Mrs.
Bascom, of the Stat university, put in
their plea before the board and staid
till their plea was granted. The same
was presented to the Dane County
society and granted. Now let it be
shown that the patronage of the TEN.
perance public is worth far more than
that Of the saloon fraternity-that a
Fair run on temperance principles can
be made a success.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

Great teachers are born, not made.
The qualities that give them success
in their work must be implanted, must
inhere in the germ Of character; they
cannot be grated upon any stock.
Yet those who have but modest genius
in this direction, IL their zeal be suf-
ficient, may 6e greatly benefited by a
study Of the characteristics which
made such men as DR.. Arnold great
in their generation. What these men
accomplished shows us the vast i'm
portance of the work of great teachers
upon the world. They stand first in
the moral and social economy of man
kind Boston Post.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

Section 23''of the revised statues, which
allowed newspapers that had been published
three months previous to the,opening of the
legislature to publish the laws, has been
amended. land now papers will have TO be
published regularly for five years before
they can publish the laws,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

Prof. Huxley says: ".That man has
liberal education who has been so
trained in youth that his body is the
ready servant of his will, and does
with ease and pleasure all the work
that as mechanism it is capable of,
the parts of whose intellect sTe of
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

equal strength, in smooth working or
der to forge the anchors, as well as
spin the gossamers of the mind; whose
mind is stored with the great funda-
mental truths of nature, and Of laws
OF her operations one whose passions
are the trained servants of a vigorous
will and tender conscience; who has
learned to love beauty, hate vileness,
and respect others as himself"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

Every failure is step to success
every detection of what is false directs
towards what is true; every trial ex-
hausts some tempting form of error
Not only so, but scarcely any attempt
is entirely a failure; scarcely any
theory, the result of steady thought. is
altogether false; no tempting form is
without some talent charm derived
from truth Whea0ell.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

Mr.. Parnell, the Irish patriot who has
been confined in an Irish prison, has been
released on parole for week to visit bis sick
sister in Paris.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

The House of Representatives il the
refuge and dependence of the people.
The Senate passes law restoring the
franking privilege in gross defiance of
popular opinion, and the House sits
down upon the iniquity promptly.
Which causes one to remark with a
great deal Of JUNCTION Bully for the
House! The Senate is evidently at the
height of its usefulness when it is con-
firming nominations or agreeing to the
sensible legis lation of the House. In
ter Ocean.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14
THE KENOCHA TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY. APRIL IA. 1882.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Osma Correspondent

The Veto MeSsGge-Its constituency
Oratory IN C01sgress-HGS 1t dege'1-
Grated F. Wisconsin MemberS-Se1a-
atof Saa0yer - Representatives VIII
lidnS.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

The total number Of China men in
the United States is only 40 900, and
they have been coming here since the
discovery of gold in California, some
thing. more than thirty years ago.
Last month about 1000 Italians ar
rived, and at this rate only a little
more than two years would elapse be-
fore that nationality would outnumber
the Celestials. Why does not some
member of Congress introduce a bill
to prohibit immigration from Italy?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

J. My husband had drunken habits he conld
not overcome until Parker's Ginger Tonic
took away his thirst for stimulanis, restored
his old energy Of mind aud nerves, and gave
him strength TO attend to business -Gincin-
natl Lady.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

1t is reported in London that the
United States flag ship Richmond, en-
route from Panama to Yokohama,
foundered and went down with all on
board.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

The stalwarts. not content with their
restoration, brought about by the bull
let of an assassin, are not only strain.
ing every nerve to crush Garfield q
most trusted advisers, but have at last
commenced to villify the President
over whose dead body they came into
power. A stalwart has written a let
ter for publication, in which he refers
to Garfield as "a treacherous. cow
ardly, hypocritical man, selfish to the
extreme" the letter making out Presi.
dent Garfield, whose sad death was
incurred by the whole civilized world,
as an individual compared with whom
a common thief would be a very re.
spectacle person. And yet when
these same stalWarts want to carry the
Presidential election of 1884 they will
blandly solicit the aid ofthe thousands
of voters who are thoroughly con-
WINGED of the frankness of the late
President James A. Garfield Ri0eg
Fails Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

The absence of stirring issues in
public matters compels politicians to
do good deal of hunting around for
something to work on. 1t has had
the good result IN New York of max
ing an anti-monopolist organization of
'Tammany. Not that the attention of
demagogues to commercial and trans
portation problems is directly ben
eficial to the country, but it leads to
investigation, and, eventually, to a
healthy public sentiment, which may
remedy some evils. In this instance it
has put the railroad men against the
spectators, and out of the controversy
we may be able to get at valuable in
formation. The railroads charge the
high price Of provisions on the specu-
lators, and the spectators retort with
the charge THAT the pooling arrange
ment is responsible for the fancy prices
of breadstuffs. The examination is
being conducted by a committee of the
New York Senate, and the report will
be worth reading. = Republican and
NeaOs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

The appointment by President Ar
thur Of Mr.. Worthington to be collec-
tor of customs at the port of Boston
does not seem exactly calculated to
heal up the unpleasantness which has
unfortunately existed between the stall
warts and anti-stalwaTts. Both of the
Massachusetts, Senators, and all but
two of the Representatives, it appears,
were in favor of the retention of Mr..
Beard, who had held the Office for some
years, and whose administration of its
duties is believed to have been salts
factory to all parties. At least no
charges have been preferred against
him, and his displacement appears to
rest upon the ground that the position
was wanted for some one personally
more acceptable to the appointing
power. Senators Hoar and Dawes had
both expressed their strong preferences
for the present incumbent, in which
they had been joined by three-fourths
of the Massachusetts, members of the
House, and these preferences were
strengthened by very great dislike of
the person proposed as Mr.. Boards
successor. Mr.. Worthington, the new
appointee, is represented as having
been one of the yacillating style Of
politicians, strongly tinctured with the
greenback fallacy, and a plant follow
er of that absurd and erratic leader,
Benjamin f. Butler. If outside ap.
pearances are not deceptive, more OBJ
jectionable person for the place, in the
estimation of the great majority of the
leading Republicans. as well as of the
prominent business men of Boston,
could hardly have been named for this
responsible position. If the illustrious