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Morris tribune., 1883-05-05
SEED OATS.

The subscriber has 800 bushels of
see oats for sale. These oats weigh
40 pounds Or over 10 the bushel, and
are known here as he 'Griffith OATS"
being introduced in this county by
Pa rick Griffith, Of Goodhue county.
Gail and examine qnality.
fnf E. DOWERS.
Morris tribune., 1883-05-05

Pigs Feet and Picked Tongue, and
Hot Coffee, at the Lunch Room. 36
Morris tribune., 1883-05-05

Oranges, Lemons and Grapes, at
Coles Lunch Room. 36
Fresh Oysters by the Can, at Coles
lunch Room. SO
Morris tribune., 1883-05-05
BRAN AND SHORTS.
BULL

For sale at Riverside Roller Mill. 2Otf
Morris tribune., 1883-05-05

| will be i'll Morris on May Sth, to
remain one week only.
17t4 A. c. GREENLEE, Dentist.
Morris tribune., 1883-05-05

FOR RENTING Morris Bakery,
apply to r. X. COLE. 19tf
Morris tribune., 1883-05-05

Before buying elsewhere, call and
examine our new stock of Groceries,
Notions, Boots and Shoes, which will
be sold at rock bottom prices.
II II. f. DYE & Co.
For S ale-Posts and Rails, by
II. NJ. LOWATER.
Morris tribune., 1883-05-05

NAILS us cheap as the cheapest, at
Is GOOD & BRISBINE'S.
ONION SEED.
One peck Fresh Black Onion Seed
for sale.
A. B. STEADMAN,
Morris tribune., 1883-05-05

Posts and Rails for sale.
Il. M. Jo0wATER.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28
A Dynamite Story.

In 1868 prisoner who was con-
demned to hard labor in German mine
Ga fate that befalls many evil-doers in
the Rhineland) managed to effect his
escape. He had held position of some
little confidence in the mine, and when
he decamped he succeeded in taking
with him small tin can, containing
about three pounds of nitro-glycerine
Profoundly ignorant of the nature and
fell destructiveness of the explosive, and
believing from the care with which he
had always seen it served out in the
mines that it was of considerable value.
he clung to his treasure with tenacity.
and eventually embarked for the United
States, carrying the can with him and
using it on his long sea voyage as a
pillow. Arrived in New York, he sought
accommodations in Greenwich Street
sailors boarding house. There, pend
ing his search for a purchaser, he put
the can in the public bar-room, where it
was used by the boarders as a foot-rest
when they BACKED their boots. This
went on for fully two weeks, and prob
ably the little can was knocked about
all that time by careless mariners, who
little knew the danger that they were
incurring. One day there was fight
in the bar-room, and the can was kicked
by a stalwart German in his effort to
reach one of his opponents. That fight
ended instantly. simultaneously with
the kick there was a general scattering
of all the inmates of the room, a crash
ing of falling bricks and splintering
timbers, and report like a seventy
four's broadside. A horse that was
passing in the street was struck by some
of the bricks hurled from the building
and pieces of an iron pillar that had
been shattered, and instantly killed;
but, strangely enough, the men in the
bar-room escaped with slight bruises,
the kickers even, being only stunned BIZ
the PHILADELPHIA Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28
Unexampled Barbarity Toward Indians.

Much is heard of the barbarism of
the Indians in the West, but very little
is ever told of the more inexcusable
acts of barbarity often practised by the
white settlers, both American and Mexi-.
can. Here is an incident that recently
occurred in the new and thriving city Of
Chihuahua, Mexico, which it IS to be
hoped, cannot be exactly paralleled
anywhere in this country. Thirty
mounted men left the city to hunt In
dians. They scalped eight, whom they
caught unarmed, and captured num-
Der of squaws and ponies. They then
turned homeward. and reaching Chihua-
hua on Sunday, were publicly received
on the piazza of the city by the Mayor,
as though they were heroes returning
from a glorious war. The whole CITY
turned out to greet them, and amid
the changing of the Cathedral
bells, and the vivas of the
populace they rode through the streets
deeked with bunting, with eight bloody
scalps dangling from pole carried by
eight men. AT this sickening spectacle
the people were frantic with delight.
and women waved their handkerchiefs
in appreciation of the slayers. The
poor, sad-faced squaws, many of them
carrying their infants on their backs,
only excited the contumelious scorn of
this city full Of Christian people; and
men who called themselves brave
showed their superior manhood by
striking these wretehed barbarian
mothers and their infants as they trod
their weary way in the procession.
Soon after this edifying spectacle the
Cathedral bells again rang for vespers,
and the people Of this most Christian
city met within its sacred portals to
worship Being who taught the uni
versal brotherhoodo dof man. The squaws
thus captured are imprisoned for life,
and the Government pays 5000 for every
Indian scalp presented to tn Il
Tribune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28
SCHOOL. AND CHURCH.

Newman Hall S church, in London,
has 1,071 members. It's thirteen Sun
day-schools have $500 children and 400
teachers.
Riots occurred lately between Budd-
hist and Romanists in Colombo, the cap
ital of Ceylon, on account of insults
offered by the Buddhists to the Catholic
crucifix.
The moral effect alone Of we'll
kept bed of flowers in front of any school
house is beyond estimation. No child
is wholly insensible to their silent gen
ial influence. Christian Union,
The Congregattonalfst says that
''there are more than eight hundred
Congregational ministers who are not
engaged in pastoral work, and yet we
talk of the dearth of ministersr'
DIR. Mark Hopkins, in a recent lee
ture to the theological students of Prince
ton Seminary, is reported to have ex-
pressed his views in regard to evolution
very forcibly, saying that the theory was
notonly 'atheistie, but entirely INSULT
cient to explain in any way the origin
of the human species.
"A New York school girl says her
studies are arithmetic, algebra, geog.
raphy, astronomy, grammar, United
States history, general history, etymol-
ogy, spelling, composition, drawing,
reading, writing, and singing by note.
1t looks as if her education is being
sadly neglected. Unless French, Latin,
mental philosophy. calculus, civil en-
gineering and hydrostatics are added to
her studies she will be totally unfit to
assume the duties of wife and mother
a few wears hence -NorYistoUn Herald.
The United Baptist Societies of
Connecticut have nearly consummated
the project of establishing denomina-
ton summer watering place at Crescent
Beach, on the shore of Long Island
Sound, about seven miles west of New
London. They propose to purchase
thirty acres of land, divide it into 800
lots, and sell the lots to cottagers. In
the center of the proposed settlements
$4,000 tabernacle will be erected, in
which daily religious services viii be
held during the summer. Boston Jour-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28
IN MEMORLAM.

Ring out, ye spheres! ring out my mournful
tale;
And on. We groves your solemn music lend
To my great grief, in plaintive, sorrowing
For he is dead, my Husband and my Friend
And oh, thou Love- the sunshine of my youth,
Now lend thy strength to every note of woe,
While in sorrow learn the bitter truth
The lonely hours this widowed heart must
know.
O Love- o Sorrow, wherefore are ye twain,
The rival heirs of my bereaved breast?
Where in successive anarchy yesreign,
Each strengthening each in anguish and
unrest!
The tones of bliss which was wont to hear,
And hear with rapture from his blessed lips,
Are silent nowl Where shall find his peer?
To me the world is shrouded in eclipse!
For dark are all the scenes where he is not,
And tame are all the sounds without his
voice;
Pale Grief is now my silent, bitter lot,
Though the vain world should say, Rejoice,
rejoicei"
But he has passed to purer Light above,
And so hold it sin thus to complaint;
With me he left his great, undying love,
And nothing but the holier thoughts remain.
Those will cherish till the Bridal Song
of the Eternal Kingdom shall unite
Ny soul with his, and with the glorious Throng,
Fast by the throne of Majesty and Light!
There shall the voice which bade the billows
cease a
Their tumult on the Lake of Galilee,
Be heard in thrilling tones of Love and Peace
Of love SO full of joy and harmony
Chambers Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28
Told Him Where.

The old squatter's spirit. A Deputy
United States Marshal, hunting for IL
licit distillers, stopped at a mountain
road blacksmith shop in Arkansas.
The blacksmith appeared in the door
way, and the Deputy Marshal, as it was
neither morning nor oreVening, but know
ing the directness of expression required
by the natives, said:
"Good-day, sir"
Goodbye" replied the blacksmith.
Il don't mean goodbye; l mean how
are you?'
"How am about whatP'
Things in general. -
''Im willing" @
Willing for what?' asked the Deputy
Marshal.
ITO take drink
"Say, want to 60 to Jones Point.
"Why don't you 60, thenP"
because want information.
'.What information do you want?'
That's all right. I'd give FIVE dol
lars to know exactly where I am, y and
he looked around anxiously.
''Well, here" SAID the blacksmith,
''if you won't tell anybody that 1 told
you I'll tell you.
81 won't tell anybody"
eff them whisky makers come around
with guns you won't let 'em know that
| told you, will you?''
'sNo, / swear | won't"
I'm sorter feared. Ride up closer
to the door If Pete Smith and Nath
Moore wanter know whar you got your
information you won't tell 'em, you
say?" and the blacksmith looked around
anxiously, moved uneasily and looked
toward the woods.
mo, I'll swear / won to
''An' you'll give me five dollars to
tell you exactly whar you are?''
yes
Gimme your money!
. The money was paid over and the
blacksmith cautiously putting it in his
pocket, looked around again and said:
'.Now with a promise that you won't
blow on me-
81 want to know where am"
''You are right here,p and lodging
through the shop the blacksmith disap-
peared, leaving the officer no wiser but
five dollars behind on futures. Detroit
Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.


1T is at the quilting sbee' where
you hear the stinging remarks.-M z.
Net0S.
Notwithstanding his retirement on
account of age, General Sherman will
dispense with his staff
If an idea strikes you forcibly rub
arnica on the bruised part, and you NAV
never be affected in like manner again.
IN Y. Herald.
Oscar Wilde's recent statement that
he feeds on himself, y reminds us that
this is about the right time of year for
eating greens. ns.-Lowell Courier.
The Hindoos are said to have $780,.
100000 gods. In order to give the
requisite attention to their religion these
heather must have a lot of idol time at
their disposal.
-" Yes" said the country telegraph
operator, ''some people don't seem to
have any sense. A dispatch arrived last
week for a man around the corner, and
the darned fool hasn't come for it yet. -
Chicago Tribune.
1T is breach OF etiquette never to
be forgiven to sneeze in the presence of
royalty, but royalty has never bothered
itself to tell a man what to do with his
nose when he feels sneeze working
along up his suspenders. Detroit Free
Press.
"A young lover in Iowa paid forty
dollars for a locomotive to run him
thirty-fye miles to see his girl, and
when he got there the family bulldog
ran him two miles and didn't charge
him AGENT. Corporations have no souls.
--Peck's Sun.
-s'Do you think smokers are
nuisancePn asked a Harlem man of a
fat individual who sat next to him on
the train. ''No, sir; 1 do not" en-
phatically growled the person adj
dressed, as he got up and went into
another car. ''Who is that manp'' in
quired the first speaker, turning to a
fellow traveller. He is ham-curer
and runs big smokehouse down town, =
was the reply. ''Ah!'' murmured the
Harlem man, relapsing into sudden
silence. Harlem N. r Times.
Boss, does yer wanter buy a hamP''
asked a negro of white man. .'What
is it worthpe ''Wall, as its yerse'f, yer
may take it fur fifty cents. THAT
won't do. You can afford to sell it for
less, for I believe you stole it, any
how" BOSS, doan' 'euse me SO rash.
Have little mussy bout yer pusson.
But, tell yer, boss, if yer won't say
nothin' bout it, I'll let yer hab it fur
forty cents The white man agreed,
and paid over the amount. The negro,
just as he crossed the street, was ae-
costed by an acquaintance, who said:
What did yer let dat man hab dat
ham so cheap furP'' 20, could
ford it, case stole it outen his own
smoke-house. -ArkuaaSGsc Traveller
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28
The Most Important Thing in Die.

It is wonderful how very few things
are absolutely necessary to human hap
piness- 1t is q great privilege to gaze.
into the most attractive shop windows
just to see how MANY things there are
in the world which you don't want.
IL is pretty difficult to say. what the
most important thing in life is, but
Owen Meredith had 4 very clear in
sight into human affairs, when he
wrote thefollowing Suggestive lines:
We may live without poetry, music and art:
We may live without cor science and live vii b.
out heart;
we may live without friends, we may i've
without books;
But civilized man cennot live without cooks.
--Detgtdt Post and Trdbul&
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28
The Pistol Fool.

The pistol has harvest of victims
every week. The circumstances are
accidental or criminal, sometimes both
and often criminally accidental. The
sad case of Beal who. was shot by
Frickett on Sound steamer, the two
men being partners in business ut
Boston, is a common illustration near
home. Frickett heard a noise, woke
and blazed away, killing his partner.
We are not surprised to hear that he is
completely unneryed;' that is as
natural as that "a gloom" should be
Thrown over the entire community
when leading citizens shoot each other
down South, and no arrests follow. One
singular reason given for Frickett's
sleeping with a pistol under his pillow
is that he has done so since his marriage
because ''his wife was of nervous
temperament. A wife of such a nery-
GUS temperament that she requires a
loaded revolver in bed to calm her silly
fears would be genuine home comfort
for the Czar
Generally the pistol fool wakes up
and shoots his wife. Such instances
are frequently reported in our news
columns. Sometimes, however, he does
not live to get married, but only to be
refused. In that case he resorts newt
ably to his revolver He resents the
exercise OF woman's unquestioned right
to refuse proposals of marriage as a
crime to be avenged only in blood; he
invests in cheap revolver and peppers
her, and then perhaps shoots himself
the Workmanship IN both cases being
generally bad. A man who will take
this way of ending a love affair is first
class idiot. rs 1855
The murder of whole family at
Brooklyn was all due to pistol idiocy.
The brother of the murdered man be-
lieves that the mother had pistol and
IN excitement shot her boy, that the
father tried to take the pistol from her
and shot her, and then, realizing that
the boy was dead to whom he was
devoted, shot himself - SprS7sqJfeId
Mass. Republican,.
An Eastern editor saws that the
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28
E, La, THURSDAY, JUNE %, 1888
'It was mine," said Katy, laughing

at was mine" said Katy, laughing
again.
Mr.. Dillingham; sat down and took
his daughter on his knee ''We1l, I"
said he, you'd have done just the
same if he'd been a genuine tramp, as
he ought to have been, poking around
folks houses in that fashion. I'm
proud of you, Katy-did.'
$50 am l." said Uncle Frank Saw
yer, and he rolled up his eyes in COM
ical way at Katy.
"And scam |, said her mother and
she kissed Katy.-AdG Carleton Stod-
dard, IN Harper''s Young People.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28
One Order Too Mnch.

A New York marketman, in order to
impress his customers with the extent
OF his business, fixed up box to look
like a telephone, and when the shop
was full would go through the telephone
drill, giving out imaginary orders to bis
assistants. One day when he was wait
ing on a,shrewd old lady, and his stand
was full of purchasers, he began, as
usual, to work his false machine, cry
ing: "Ned, send three firkins of butter
to French's hotel" ''Now, look here
said the old lady, I've often wondered
at the tremendous business you have
been doing with that machine, but now
you've betrayed yourself. French's
Hotel has been closed for four months. =
The butter man was demoralized. fa
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28
Wouldn't Tell.

Socrates used to put his questions in
such way that they could be answered
only by ''yes" or ''no." BY skillful
questioning, he proceeded step by step
from one eyes, to another, until his
opponent found himself in a corner
from which there was no escape. This
method is called '.the Socratic method
of debate
1t works well when he who asks the
questions has clearly in view the point
which he wishes to establish. But when
the questioner is in the dark as to the
subject he is inquiring about, and is
seeking for light, then the Socratic
method is useless. If, however, he can
guess at the answer, ''yes' or ''no"
may show whether the guess is right or
wrong. 1t was after this fashion that
the teacher of New England district
school correctly Jumped at a con-
clusion."
This teacher, whom we will call Miss
L., taught fifty seven boys and girls,
from six to sixteen years of age, divided
into half-a-dozen different classes. One
day, while she was hearing class in
arithmetic, some one in the back part
of the room whistled. As this was not
the first time such noises had been heard,
Miss L. resolved to end them by
making an example of the offender.
Being uncertainas to who was the guilty
one, she began series of inquiries.
tCharlie Smith, did you whistle
then?n she sternly demanded of the boy
who generally had a finger in all the
mischief
t.No, ma am. F"
''SureP You didn't whistle parti-
cleP"
mo, ma'am," he persisted 81 didn't
do it bit. y
..Wen, do you know who didP'
mo, ma am, DON'T
Then Miss L. called up another
scholar and put the same question, with
a similar result.
Thus questioning each one in turn she
went through the school. All denied
having made the noise; some did not
not know who did and others refused to
tell Miss L. said:
"Some one here has told lie in an
swer TO my first question. Who that
some one is you all probably know. My
second question you have either refused
to answer, or have told falsehood.
consider you all equally guilty and shall
punish you all alike-five sharp strokes
of the rattan. Number one come for
wardi''
One by one the scholars received five
stinging blows on the hand. Only one
disobeyed-a little girl whose unruly
temper was well known. She stoutly
refused to hold out her hand.
Then you must go home immedi-
ately," said Miss L., s'and don't ev-
er expect to return. Here! get your
books and take them with youf'
Sobered by this summary treatment
the scholars bent over their books and
indulged in no more disorder that day.
Miss l. dropped the subject until,
after school was closed, she met one of
her pupils alone.
Why didn't you tell me, Johnny"
she inquired, "who whistled in school?"
g wouldn't be so mean as to 6lab on
''But you ought to; then you wouldn't
have been punished, and only the guilty
one would have suffered. Win you tell
me now?n
mo, ma'am; don'twant to tell tales
out of school"
'tBut the one who whistled didn't get
punished, did she?'
mo, ma am"
81 thought So, and Miss l. nod.
ded her head triunphantly.-K Youths
Companion
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"A United States mail wagon gol
mixed up with circus procession in
Philadelphia, yet not one in thousand
Of the spectators knew it. did not belong
there. Ehikadelphia Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28

Washington, in springtime, is pro-
nounced the most beautiful city in this
country.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-06-28

An Eastern editor says that the
new Chinese paper ia New York looks
like map of Delaware orchard,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-09-22
CROOKS CROOKEDNESS.
Murderer BOnifO's Expedition 10 the
Sierra Madre-A Strange story.

Tombstone (Ariz.) Epitdph: Tom Jones,
who has Just returned from Graham coun-
ty, yesterday informed an Epitdph reporter
that Bonito and the two bucks who were
employed by Gen. Crook as ENJOYS to the
renegades in the fSierra Madre stopped
over night at Eureka Springs on the 9th
ultimo. There they were interviewed by
Hoag, former sub-Indian agent. Their
pass, dated August 25th, was signed by
Capt. Crawford, commanding Indian
scouts on the reservation, and was issued
for an unlimited time. Bonito said that
his object was to try and induce the rene
gades to return, and that he had been
promised 500 month for his services.
He did not know whether he would ac-
complish his mission, but said he would
return and report to the "Gray Fox" be.
fore Christmas. In Gods name, how
much longer is this farce to be CARRIED
| on Here the people OF Arizona have before
| them the spectacle of red-handed mur
! derer in the employ of the government or
| his way to accomplish the work for which
that great Indian fighter, Gen. Crook, has
| been praised from one end of the land tC
| the other When it is known that thi.
| same Bonito is the identical red devil who
| led the band which raided through thi:
country last spring, and murdered Ameri
can citizens within seven miles of For
Huachues, more in the Whetstones, cross
ed the San Pedro near Benson and mur
| dered the brother of Judge Dibble and hi
companion near Winchester, killed other
on the Gila, and passed ON through Gran
county, n. Nj where they brutally
murdered Judge McComas :fnd wife an'
carried little Charley McComas off int
captivity, the iniamy oil Gen. Crook cal
be plainly seen. Any man who coul,
compound such an awful felony as thi
deserves the scorn and contempt Of ever.
man who has the slightest instinct OF man
| hood in his composition.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-09-22
THE WEEKS BUSINESS
All Trade SYMPTOMS I'm n Highly Pros
porous Condition.

Nav York, September PR. G.. Dun
q Co.'S Mercantile Agency report that,
Notwithstanding the fact that transactions,
as interpreted by the bank exchanges,
show large decline, as compared with
last year, all the symptoms regarding trade
are in prosperous condition. Speculation
certainly is less rampant than year
ago, but legitimate trade is almost
as large in volume and certainly more
satisfactory, both as to the condition OF
stocks held and the profits realized. The
large absorption of goods at the chief job
bing centers indicates q healthy tone in
the retail trade OF the country. Collec.
tions generally are good, and money con
| tinues in abundant supply, and rates fol
loans are exceptionally low for this sea
| son, when so much money is required fol
moving crops.
In dry goods there has been a great deal
of activity of very healthy character and
also in groceries. Iron and other leading
staples are in the main in a satisfactory
condition. In cotton there have been some
| fractional advances, showing that the bul
| element is in the ascendent and price,
closed higher and steady. There is a fai
movement in spot cotton, sellers generally
securing the advance. Advices from tn,
crop still remain unfNorable, and tn,
movement OF new cotton shows no grea
increase. The grain markets continue t
decline. In rice the prices are well sus
tained, with only moderate supplies offer
ing. The market for raw sugar is strong
with prices still slightly advancing.