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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-26
Preserving Power of Soil.

1t is well known that in soil where
lime aboundS, dead bodies are fossilized
in few years, or even few months,
after burial. In soil where there is no
lime, there are sometimes other ele-
ments which often preserve the fea-
lures of buried body unchanged for
many years. The philosophic Hamlet,
musing by an old grave over the fact
that man turns into dust, and dust into
earth, eXclaimS:
Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay
Might stop hole to keep the wind away!
But what would have been his mus
ings if he had stood beside the disin-
tered body of his father and seen brow
and form appearing as natural as when
he gave "the world assurance of
man?' Yet this might have been, for
there are numerous cases on record
where bodies disinterred for removal
after years of interment, have been
found to be as well preserved as if they
had been only few days dead. Gen
eral WashingtOn's features were quite
perfect when his body was taken up to
be put in the sarcophagus, where they
now repose. The same was true of
General Wayne, when his body was re-
moved forty years after death; and of
Robert Burns, twenty-one years after
burial. But it seems almost incredible
that the body Of John Hampden, who
was disinterred 200 years after death,
should have been in a similar state of
preservation. But Lord Nugent re-
cords the fact. His word is not to be
questioned. Possibly the most remark
able fact of all these cases is that the
bodies crumbled to heap Of dust soon
after exposure.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-26
Ny Ride on a Star Route.
A TRUE SKETCH.

wished to go fourteen miles north
ward. BY cars l must go three sides
Uf square. The trip, and waiting at
depots, would take from IL o'clock a.
N. to 4.20 o'clock p. IN.
"For the accommodation of two
small post-officeS, stage, poor affair,
runs dir, c." said mine host.
The freshness of a summer morn
ing, the hilly road, the changing views,
the trees, wild flowers and singing
birds were a delight, even in thought,
and said at once:
"The stage"
While breakfasting, the next morn
ing, the clerk came in and said in a
low voice:
"The stage is here, and your trunk
is on. but finish your breakfast, the
driver will wait"
went out soon, but no stage was
to be seen, and 1 asked if it had gone
for other passengers.
"This is it," said my more laughing
than smiling host.
Such another nondescript vehicle
may | never see. One poor, old, white
horse, an express wagon, the back seat
Of which had been taken out to make
room for my trunk, and the packages
of all forms and sizes, for the driver
proved to be an express messenger,
and universal errand boy of the farm
ers along the route. l hesitated. Ny
trunk was on, and the morning air
fragrant. So, with help, climbed on
the wheel, and pitched into the wagon,
and took possession of the one seat, and
planted my feet upon what seemed an
empty bag, but which proved to have
the honor of being the United States
mai, and to contain two packages Zone
of which, as | got out with the rest
while the mail was changed, l saw
contained exactly two postal cards and
fonr newspapers.
"Where is the driver?" / asked.
"When he found out he was to have
a lady passenger he went in to empty
and rinse his mouth out" was the an
Swer.
He came, out at the elbows, patched
at the knees, with vest and linen
spotted with tobacco juice. l turned
my head away, as sitting down beside
me, he took up the reins and said:
"G'lang, g'lang, g'lang!'
This oft-repeated word alone broke
our silence, until out of the village be
stopped at stone trough, beneath
some trees, to water his horse. On a
bough a robin was swaying, and
warbling his sweetest notes, ending in
long twitter The driver, who was
standing at his horses head, took some
crumbs from his pocket and held them
out. The robin flew down and ate
them from his hand. With a clear,
smooth voice, the driver quoted Words
worth's
"Thou art the bird that man loves best,
The pious bird with scarlet breast,
The bird, who by some name or other,
Ali men who know thee Call thee brother"
He scattered more crumbs on the
stone, buckled the check rein, mounted
the seat with:
"Good-by, my little friend, be here
tomorrow, g'lang, glangp'
h The delicate act, the cultured voice
made me look at him. His face was
ean and clean shaven; his features
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-26

Oae inch makes square. Administrators ana EN-
ncntors Notices 81 90 Transient advertisements and
locals 10 cents per line for rt insertion and cents per
line for each additional insertion.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-26
The Story Of Life.

Say. what is lifel IT'S to be borni
A helpless babe TO greet the light
With sharp wall, rs if the morn
Foretold IA cloudy moon and night;
To weep, TO sleep, and weep again,
With sunny smiles between-and them
And then apace the infant grows
To be laughing, sprightly boy,
Happy despite his little woes.
Were he but conscious of his joy!
To be, in short, from two to ten,
A merry, moody child-and thenf
And then in coat and trousers clad,
To learn to say tho Decaloguo,
And break it, an minimizing lad,
With mirth and mischief ali agog;
A truant oft by field and fen,
And capture butter fles-and then7
And then, increased in strength and size.
To be, anon, youth full gr"r~s
A hero in hIs mothers eyes,
A young Apollo in his own:
To initiate the ways OF men
In fashionable sin-and them
And then, at last, to be ma
To fall in love, 10 woo and wed!
With scelhing brln 10 scheme and plan
To gather gold or toll for bread;
To sue for fame, with tongue and pen,
A nd gain oT losa tha npiza-aud fhpn7
And then in gray and wrinkled ED
TO mourn the speed OF lies declinei
To praise the scenes of youth beheld,
And dwell in memory of lang syne;
TO dream awhile with darkened ken,
Then drop into lns grage-and then?
= John O.. SaEe.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-26
The Shadow Of the Workingman.


Behold yon swiftly flying boat!
In ,nscious might it sreams along;
w il graceful lines and powerful frame,
ltrroudly bears it's living throng.
To distant lands it plows It's way,
And to the many wealth doth bring;
lis tidings from the absent friends
Are welcome as the smiling spring.
You see it cleave the rlstless wave,
And know old oceans space Twin span;
But, cast o'er all, can you behold
The shadow OF the workingman!
See, on the locomotive rush
With headlong speed DER iron roao
Like living, breathing monster, whom
Some unseen powers onward goad,
Through cities, towns, and shady dells,
Ger gurgling streams and woodland gladcs,
1t speeds you on with clang and roar;
Ay, meath m0Cntains' gloomy shades,
With ease it quickly bears along
Pilgrims of every tribe and clan;
But DER each heeting view dost see
The shadow of the workingmanI
Gomez gaze upon this mighty pile,
The spire of which in cloudland dwellS;
Kissed by the sinking suns last ray,
As gently chime the distant bells;
Come view its granGly massive walls,
Its pillars, halls md arches true,
Which are so neatly, deity wrough',
Without one flaw TO meet the view.
Der all this blended strength and grace
As round it zephyrs gently fan,
Can yon not see, in on line bold,
The shadow OF the woIkingman?
Go seek the lofty mountain hight,
And there behold The CLOWN. scene
The forest. field and waving grain,
The rippling lakes, the meadows green;
Each beauty OF the prospect view,
All thronged with busy, useful life,
Where once the gloomy wilds were seen,
Where savage revels once were ri.e.
Go, look upon AZ eartlfs broad face,
Rep!ete with art and natures plan;
And there, in bold relief you'll see
Tie shadow of the workingman
-Eugeae C.. Fisk.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-26

"lIe Is that. | don't know of any
body that can touch match to him.
He has been through college and beon
to Europe, and has been acquainted
with good many distinguished
men,"
"What has brought him to this?"
"Drink." Mrs. LlLcy Il. Sanford.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-26
NEWSPAPER LAWS.

If subscribers order the discrimination of
newspapers, the publishers may continue to
send them until all arrearages are paid.
If subscribers refuse orneglect to take their
newspapers from the Office 10 which they are
sent they are held responsible until they
have settled the bills and ordered them dis
continued.
If subscribers move to other places with
out informing the publisher, and the news
papers are sent 10 the former place of resi-
dence they are then responsible.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09
BELLEVUE, La, AUG. 4, 1883.

BELLEVUE, La, AUG. A, 1888.
Police Jury met pursuant to ad.
journment. All the members in
attendance yesterday present.
Certificates then issued for mile
age and per diem 10 j. w. Rains,
$50; e. s. Dortch, $23; Thos. Lyles,
s46. 20; J. r. Cavctt, $40 so, and
to Calvin Bemery, for his relief, for
s25.
When, on motion Of j. r. Cavett,
The assessor and tax collector are
hereby required to furnish this body
with supplemental roll of all taxa
able property discovered, after max
ing out the regular rolls, in accord
ance with section IL, act 9G, of the
General Assembly of 1882, to EN-.
brace the years of 1880, 1881, 1882
and 1888, which was adopted.
j. r. Cavett then moved that the
tax collector be requested to make
monthly settlements with the parish
treasurer, in accordance with acG 96,
section "a of the session of 1882,
and the clerk furnish the collector
with a copy ofthis act, and also the
treasurer copy of the resolution
requiring him to publish monthly
statements in the Bossier Banner
which was adopted.
When E. S. Dorteh submitted
the following resolution, which was
adopted:
Resolved, That all assessments
for the year 1883, now stand as fixed
BY the assessor and the Police Jury
sitting as a Board Of Review.
The minutes were then read and
approved, and on motion, the Police
Jury adjourned siue die.
THos. LYLEs, President.
J. FL. KEYsER, Clerk.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

The old established and relia.
BILE firm of Messrs. Utz s. Smith.
Shreveport, have on hand a large
assortment of agricultural imple.
ments of tue most improved order
and durable make; all kinds of ma
chinery, engines for gin houses,
cotton gins and cotton presses,
eyaporators and everything apper-
saing to plantation machinery; en-
gineers' supplies, iron and pipe fit
ting, and general stock of heavy
and shelf ware. They have the
largest supply of hardware and
most varied stock of plows and
wagon woodwork in North Louisi.
ana, all of which will be sold much
cheaper than heretofore.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

GOLDEN DAYs.-The monthly
part Of this beautiful magazine,
published by James Elverson, Phil.
adelphia, is made up from the four
weekly issues. Each monthly part
contains eighty large four column
pages, handsomely illustrated with
illuminated covers. TheApgust num-
Der calls for our best words of CON-
mendation. 1t seems to grow better
month by month. Sample numbers
will be sent for % cents each.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

& n 2 q
Prof. J. w. Nicholson, President
of the Louisiana State University
and Agricultural and Mechanical
College. will visit our town on
Thursday, 10th inst. He is lectur-
ing on the subject of of,education, and
will lecture here on night of 10Th, If
all things be favorable. We are in.
formed that notice of same will be
given by ringing of church BELL
Teachers and others interested in
education should come and give him
hearing. He will lecture if he
has an audience--weather permit.
ting.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Some people. assert that they will
believe only what they can see.-
What is clearly demonstrable they
will accept, but nothing tlse. These
very people, however, believe with
all their might that they have brains,
and yet they never saw them, and
other folks at any rate have no eyi.
dence that they possess them.-Ncu
York Herald.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

PROLIFIC CoRN.-The Shreve.
port Standard of the 1st instant
says: "our friend DR.. II. I. Dill
lard, Q prominent planter of Bossier
parish, on the river, just above the
city, exhibited to us two stalks Of
corn, one containing five and the
other four ears of corn, Ghe finest
We have ever seen grown in this sec.
tiOn of the country. The ears were
OF full size and fully filed out. The
Doctor informed us that he had OBJ
tanned the seed from q friend and
while be did not know the specific
name of the corn it was called the
Prolific Il was the finest corn
We have ever seen grown in this
country. DR.. billiard informs as that
the corn and cotton crop on his ex-
tensive plantation are excellent but
! hat rain is badly needed
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Mr.. Julius A. Jacobs offers reduc-
tons in prices of all goods, to make
room for his fall stock. Cali, ex-
anime and price before purchasing
elsewhere. Remember, Julius A.
Jacobs, Shreveport.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Mr.. Charles W. Edwards. Deputy
Sheriff, returned from Marshall,
Texas, Tuesday with VIM. Dennis,
colored, charged with committing
larceny here few years ago.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Messrs. Henry Dreyfuss &
Son are among the most popular
dry goods merchants of Shreveport.
They carry a very full line of staple
and fancy dry goods, carpets, cloth.
ing, ladies' shoes, notions, &C., and
are doing an extensive business.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

The Pawnee Banner says high pro-
lection and high transportation cause
farmers to pay high prices for what
they must buy, and at the same time
forces him to sell his produce at very
low prices.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Be not diverted from your dnty
by any idle reflections the world
may make upon you, for their cen.
sures are not in your power, and
consequently should not be any part
of your concern.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Petersburg Democrat: Enter.
prsing peopleare beginning to le;s:n
the value Of advertising the year
round. The persistency of those who
are not intimidated by the cry Of
dull times but keep their names
before the public, will surely place
them on the right side in the end"
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

The Grand Lodge of the knights
of Pythias, of this State, assembled
in annual convention at Baton
Rouge last Monday. Major R. E.
Wyche, J. A. W. Lowry, Esq, and
Maj. J. N. Bryan are present as del
egates representing Lodges in this
parish.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

The Chattanooga Times does not
hesitate to characterize the Louisiana
lottery as ''the most enticing, insidi-
GUS and demoralizing system of sly
stealing ever invented by the wit Of
man."
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

On the 42nd joint ballot last Fri
day the long struggle between the
Republican factions in the New Hamp-
shire Legislature was ended by the
election Of Austin F Pike as United
States Senator.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

1t is now proposed to build d canal
from the Bay Of Acre, through Pal.
estine to the Jordan, to connect
with another canal from the GulfOF
Akaba totIle Dead Sea, thus MAX
ing an inland sea, and giving com.
for the largest vessels
between the Mediterranean and R,d
Seas.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09
Bridge Notice.

Ry virtue of authority vested In me by Tie
~ Police Jury, viii let the building Of .
bridge across Flat River, to the lowest bidder,
ON Monday, September 10, 1858, according 10
specifications to be submitted on the day II
letting, at Ash Point, Bossier parish, La
E. s D0RTCH,
Police Juror, Ward !.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

George, the Photographer, has so
many engagements ahead, in this
parish, that he will be compelled to
leave Bellevue soon. A word to the
wise. Delays are dangerous
Come and see Mr.. G.. His work has
excelled allothers in style and finish.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

The Chinese have a proverb that of
$1,000, 600 appropriated for public
works the workmen only get s3ooO,-
600, while the rest is stolen by the
Mandrains. This leads the st. Louis
Presbyterian to infer that '.the Man
drains are not all in China
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

The first general census taken in
India, which has just been complet-
ed, shows popnlationof 453, ,S91 $40,
or nearly five times that Of the
United States. The number Of males
exceeds that Of females By 6,oO0, 900.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

The telegraph operators have re-
solved not to drink Intoxicating
liquors while the strike is in progress.
Perhaps a little experience will CON
vince them that it is a good thing
not to drink intoxicating liquors at
any time.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Salt was first made at Syracuse by
white men in the year 1888, when
the annual product was 100 barrels;
in 1880 it was ], 500, 900 barrels.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Fifty thousand dollars have been
subscribed and paid up for an oil
mill at Monroe, which is to be under
headway BY the middle of October.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Every employe of the Atlantic
and Pacific company, from the high
est official down to a day laborer on
a section, is assessed fifty cents a
month in maintaing a hospital.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

The experimental OF ostrich-farming
in Los Angeles county, California,
has thus far been successful. Seven
hundred dollars worth of feathers
have been taken from the birds.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

The Arabs have the following wise
saying: "Fulfll your covenants If
ye covenant, for God is witness /
break no words with men which
God hath heard, and surely he hears
all.n
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

A San Francisco preacher adser.
tised that he would discuss family
scandal on the following sunday
morning. As a consequence tile
church vas crowded. The subject
was Adam and Eve.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

II you have any faith, give me for
heavens sake share of it'll Your
doubts you may keep to yourself,
for | have a plenty of my own.-
Goethe.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Nothing of worth or weight can
be achieved with half a mind. with
a iaint heart, and with a lame en-
deavor.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

The new Mexican Railroad enabled
the authorities by the rapid transpor-
tation of troops to put down rebel
lion in Talnaulipas before it had full
time to organize for offence.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

The Pennsylvania Legislature has
passed and the Governor of that
State has signed a bill prohibiting
newspapers advertising lotteries.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

M. De Lesseps reported to a late
meeting of the Panama Canal Com
pany in Paris that the canal would be
finished by the end of 1883.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Bossier parish is entitled to IL
delegates in the neAt Democratic
State Convention.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

This section was visited by fine
rains Friday, Sunday and Tuesday,
which were badly needed.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Five suits for damages and penal
ties have been, commenced in PhiIa-
delphia against the Western Union
Telegraph Company for delay in
transmitting messages.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Trust him little who praises all,
him less who censures all, and him
least who is Indifferent about all.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09
The Raleigh News saws. Some J

The Raleigh News says: Some Of
our exchanges appear to think that
there will be popular demand for
the government to establish tele-
graph line of its own. That would
be the beginning Of Imperialism and
lead to the absorption ofrailways and
everything else. If the government
owned the telegraph every striker
would be under arrest to-day.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Now for turnip patches and fall
gardens. g.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

There cannot be greater treachery
than first to raise confidence and
then deceive is.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

The trade dollar is coming into
circulation again. In hundreds Of
places IN New York signs announcing
that the trade dollar will be received
at par are displayed conspicuously.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Adversely does not take from us
true friends; it only disperses those
who pretended to be such.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Impractical men are always hav.
ing ideas SO big that they cannot
carry them ont.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

Unkind language is sure to pro
-duce the fruits of unkindness-that
is, suffering in the bosom of others.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

We sometimes meet an original
gentleman, who, if manners had not
existed, would have invented them.
Emerson.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

The worst Of the panic in the shoe
and leather trade, consequent upon
T Boston failures, is said to be over.
The Bossier banner., 1883-08-09

*tOoeoS was Iueu taken 10 =
o'clock P. NJ.
i After recess, J. c. Vance asked
for reduction of his assessment
When, after hearing, it was fixed at
the assessment made by the Asses.
sor.
S. j. Zeigler then made applica-
tion for a reduction of his assess
lnent, which was not granted.
John Caldwell asked for reduc-
tion of Mrs. Caldwell's assessment.
which was fixed at $4,000. Also, of
Mrs. Stacey's, which was fixed at
s4,114 90.
When $12O was taken from Mrs.
J. NJ. Arnolds assessment.
r. e. Wyche was then allowed,
for jury scrip of 1880, SO, and jury
scrip of 1883, s23 40; total, s29 40.
lie was also allowed, for certificates
of Indebtedness heretofore issued by
this body. viz: SO, CLOS 90, 500.
s1GO, SO, 1926, s110, and s310-to.
tai, 1888 35-to be paid out of road
and bridge fund of 1883.
G. A. Devereux was then allowed
an account for feesin criminal cases.
SlO7 90.
When, on motion, the body adj
jonrned to s o'clock A. NJ, Aug. 3.
AUGUST 3, 1888.
Police Jury met pursuant to ad-
journment. Present: Thos. Lyles,
President; j. r. Cavett, e. s. Dortch
and J. W. Rains, members. The
minutes of yesterday were read and
approved.
II. u. Wyche, Sheriff, then pre-
sented an account for board of pris.
oners, for arrests, for expenses of
arrests of criminals, and for wood
and lights for the Court and Police
Jury, and blankets, buckets and
tubs for Jail, which after examina.
ton, was allowed, amounting to
$1154 90.
The attorney for the succession of
L. W. Turner appeared, aud not de-
string to make contest, the assess
ment remains as fixed.
J. A. snider, ESQ.,, then appeared
for Florsheim Brothers, when, after
hearing, their assessment on land
was reduced to 50 per acre.
A communication was then read
from Ward s. Painter, which, after
considering, their assessment was
fixed at $4,000.
When, on motion, G. W. Edwards
was granted the privilege drumming
flat-boat across Red Chute, on the
Atkins landing road, he giving bond |
with approved security for the faith
full performance of duty, and be is
hereby authorized to charge the fol- |
lowing rates of ferriage, viz: 20
cents for man and horse; 40 cents for |
two horse wagons, and rs cents for
four horse wagons.
When the following was submitted |
and passed:
Be it enacted by the Police Jury
of the Parish of Bossier, That an
act passed by this body, on the 10th
of July, 1883, which reads as fol-
lows-"Be it enacted by the Police
Jury, That the tax collector be, and
is hereby authorized to receive any
parish Indebtedness of
1888, for parish taxes of said year,
and the parish treasurer is hereby
authorized to receive the same on
the various funds out of which they
are payable'-be, and the same is
hereby repealed.
Be it further enacted, That the
sax collector of Bossier parish be.
md is hereby authorized to receive
u payment of parish taxes, all Jury
certificates, duly issued and approx.
ID by the parish treasurer, and all
certificates which shall have
'een approved by the Police Jury.