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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08
A Western Mining Town.

Tombstone is the very latest and live
lest of the mushroom civilizations in un-
likely places which have been so often
seen to gather helter-skelter around a
find of the precious metals. They
live at headlong pace while they 90 :;
draw around them wild and lawless
spirits; confer great fortunes here, the
suicides grave or that of the victim of
violence there. A school of literature,
in Bret Harte and his followers, has
arisen to celebrate their extraordinary
doings. And with the rapid advance of
population and conventional ideas they
must shortly disappear from sight as alb
solutely as the dodo Of tradition. While
things go well with them, prices of COM
modlties are hardly considered. No
body haggles. The most expensive is
that which is most wanred. Diamonds
- two hundred dollar watches and
chains-LOrd we couldn't hand 'em out
fast enough" says an ex-ieweler. de-
scribing his experi re at one of these
camps IN Its hal"yon days. "Cham-
pagne wasn't good enough for me then, -
says seedy customer, after his discov-
cry and sale of a rich mIne. and sighing
for repetition of the event, not to make
provision for his old age, but that he
may have one more such glorious ''sprce
before he dies. Sometimes this rush OF
life departs even more quickly than 1t
came. One fine day the lead is exhausted,
there is no more treasure in the mine,
away fly the heterogeneous elements, and
the town, he it neverso well built, is left
vacant and desolata as Tadmor Of the
Wilderness. In a Nevada mining town,
once having some thousands OF mhahl-
tants, Indians are living in abandoned
rows of good brick houses, which they
have adapted to their purposes as tar as
possible hy knocking out the doors and
windows and punching holes III the roof
-HurDeF'S HOlHhV
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08
Negro Religious Songs.

According to white authority here, the
religious song first published years ago
bv Mr.. Harris, the " Uncle Remus OF
the Atlanta Constitution, and entitled
! " Uncle Remus's Revival Hymn, is
largely derived from actual lines sung by
tbe negroes and cleverly united. 1t diff
fers from all the other negro hymns L
have heard in having variations of the
chorus. As perhaps the best negro
hymn ever printed, two or three of its
characteristic stanzas, given roughly
from memory, may fifty close these Sc
lections:
O. whar will We be when de great day comes,
Wild de tootin' of de trumpets an de rollin' of
de drums?
Full many poor sinnah will be cotched out
late
An fin no latch to de golden gate.
CHORUS.
Den come along. sinnah, if yer comm
Ole Satan is loose and a bummin';
Sin is sharp as a bamboo brier;
0. Lord, fetch de mournCrs up higher.
o. de song of salvation is mighty sweet song
An de paradise wind blow swift and blow
strsng,
An Abrams buzzom, 'ts deep an It's wide,
An right deres de spot dat de dorkey ought to
hide.
CHORUS.
Den don't be a stoppn an 4 loollin',
If ver fool wild ole Satan ven get took in,
YEN hang DER de brink and get shook in,
So don't be a stoppin' an a lookln'.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08
NO BABY IN THE HOUSE.


For forty months our youngest one
Has been om hearts delight;
The first to gIeet the morning sun,
The last to Kiss al night
She's driven each cloud from our minds,
Each frowu from of our brows;
How close found the heart it winds
A baby in the house.
But yesttrdar. as on my knee
She climbed in childish play,
And 1 said. George. tell to me
How Baby is to-dav?'
''lIe amt a Dsnyl Mes a dirIr
Exclaimed the little mouse;
And IS it So, and is there. then,
No babysiu the house?
lis true the crib is put away,
The creeping dresses, too;
A small form stands upon chair,
See, mes as big as your'
The ruddy cheek, the bright blue eye,
Most happy thoughts arouse;
But still there's something that I miss
A baby in the house.
And thou n with love and pride I sec
My children older grow,
Still. as they stand beside my knee,
My thoughts viii backward 90;
And while KISS the ruby lirs
And press rh- f If young brows,
I miss no less what l have lost
y baby in the house.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08

BOGUS COFFEE.-A physician rented
his stable, in Chicago, to some men who
said that they desired to roast over again
some coffee that had been damaged by
wetting but he soon discovered that
they We're engaged in treating worthless
coffee with poisonous chemicals, so that
it could be deceptively sold for the very
best Java. He informed the Health
Board, and one of the largest grocery
firms i'll the city has been exposed as the
real promoter of the fraud.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08

RECKLEssNEss.- s.-The fearful loss of
life at the burning of the Berditschetf
circus, Russia, n MOI tn ago is said to
have been due in large measure to the
fact that it being New Years day, half
the audience and all the tiremen were
drunk. The fire originated in a large
open caslI of kerosene which stood at the
entrance to the stables and from which
the lamps were refilled as often as they
went out One lamp hanging above the
casll fell into it, and in a moment the
building was in a blaze.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08

My IDEA, SAID MT. , .tpHHNS, IS 10
keep the form constantly before the
young under our charge. 70 that end,
[ have pasted it on the inside of the cover
of every text book used in my school, so
that the moment a book is opened the
pupil sees the good advice staring him
in the face"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08
A FEW NEWSPAPER jokes.
The Detroit Horse-A Boston BGliad-Cho
DuCliafs Etc.
A TRUE BOSTON BALLAD.

With expressionIess face and perfuDctory
miep.
All me that souls should grow hard and chill
(Br0,rn bread, fsh-5aH, pork and 5eanO
That erstwhle Joys should e'er cease to thrill
That duty and custom from rapture wean!
IT~a,,, l-l, , b,sG5 'i5 fsI-J,ay Io,I. ooJ bs1,N
But tbe pulse on her heart Inv as aspbodel.
And the salt cod had murthered her Lies
serene.
,.e. I'll. ,.,,,,,,,,, ..,-,,,. is,+ ,,o,
III, ~
CBro,y,. Jyead. tfs5-5au. pork and bea,,O
Fair Iadye, I'll feast on the Sabbath dish;
And see that the meat be not LOO lean'
.prir,, ma o1so GOOD Store If the datulent
frnit
CBro,r,, J,ead, fst-JoH, pork and 5eal'D
''With speed my behest see You execute,
VI III anguish Oh famine l Il peii'i'' "''--
II sbouId smile, thus the maid, with a weary
sigh.
Ch'o'rn bre6d' J1s'.60lL' pork ana 'e'''L)
,,lII ~, +1,i. Iaa,. ts,epe
"Of the hatulent fruit is depleted our
store; :
tH,o'r', dread' f&'-'a0' PORK ana oea")
[n,i'. oi l"O o' lesn We nave lol' nU more
NAV ,,Iean ''
-Boston Sat- Ere Gazette
AN UNFoRTUNArE DUELIsr.
a ffench Ianued proprietor ana
coloneI Oh uragoonS had de"ouy q!l"rrel;
| pIood only could WASH out the insults
that hao passed between them. .both
men We're eccentric to degree, and they
| a8reea Vnat lots shouId he drawn, and
that the loser should at once proceed to
some retired spot and shoot himself.
The next morning the opponents and
their seconds met at a small cafe outside
the town. Lots were duly drawn, the
landed proprietor proving the winner.
The colonel took his Dad fortune calmly;
he wrote few lines on piece OF paper
Wlllch lie handed 10 us secoHu, 1ooA ''h
H. ,,,o,o fo,.+,,,,+o+o oduo,.sorv 90
C,l,,;,4;o,, o.o,,t1a,,,o,, o,,o1,+ 20 do Ua
H., oooo,o+i,,o. +bo 1oodod pis+oI ,,ovad
steadily into an adjoining room and
,1,,,o,7 +l,o door Tho others remained
broa+bInssIv awaiting tbe detonation
,,.l,iol, ,-os 70 convey, to them +be finale
of +ha +,.ooo1,. A. +ros+ Il ca,oa eocarlv
tl,ov ran 70 tbo door Of tI,e fatal cham-
,,o,. ,,l,o,, Il ,,os thrown onen and the
.,,,,,.a.,ll ,1,f,,,,o+ s+,o5 on +bo +braeboId
.,,la,,i,,o. A. e,,,o1,inc, ,,,oo,,o, nuaav-
IL, ,, .-t21a;,,,,7 bo ,,.itl,
l''' .,:' . ,,1t ,,,,f,rtr,,'o+.9
have missed myself !'-Gviz.
THAT'S WHAT HE WANTED.
A man who had been purchasing a
horse and cutter was yesterday speeding
he animal up aud down Park street,
Detroit, the free Press tells us, when
policeman said to him:
"That's four times you have been
racing up and down.
. Yes, Just four"
"And you want to quit, or you'll get
into trouble"
"How?"
9TH complain Of you.
1" What for"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08

SALOONS OUT WEST T-The saloon IL
cense question Is occasioning consider
ableexcItementt throughout Iowa. Council
Bluffs proposes to exact a fee of $780,
Waterloo is wavering between $500 and
$500, Ottumwa and Charlton have al
ready fixed upon $1,000, Fort Dodge
charges $500, and the number cf saloons
has been cut down from twenty-three
to five; Humboldt has a few saloons at
$500 each, jefferson has only two, and
charges them s. 600 each; Crcston has
eight. with the highest fee of all 81 500;
and Bone expects to limit her saloons to
five
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08
Production OF Pig Iron.

The American Iron and Steel Assoc1a
ton has received reports from all the
makers of pig iron i'll the United States
and officially announces that the quantity
Of pig IRON made in 1882 was 4,623,323
tons, which is almost half million tons
more Than ever before made III one yem
in this country. The production OF 1881
was A, Ia, 254 tons: The production OF
the different kinds of pig iron in 1881 ano
1882 was as follows in gross tons:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08

THERE are two sides to question.
OFTEN tramp Is on one side and man
with a pocketful Of money on the other
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08

IT Is a cold day when the mercury
gets left-A the bulb to the thermOme-
ter
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08

STUDENTS DISMISSED. Eight more
sophomores have been ordered to leave
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me, i'm
madiatcly on account Of their connection
with hazing. This makes twelve that
have been obliged to leave within less
than two weeks.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08
The Little COrpOral.

Another queer story is told Of Prince
Napoleon. One of the Great Napoleon's
Old Guard, survivor of Waterloo, who
lived in a small, French country town,
always refused to believe that his he.
loved Little Corporal" was dead, and
stOutly maintained that he would come
back to his own one day. It so happened
that many years ago, when Prince Ma
poleon was stilla young man, he happened
to pass through this town. Some practi-
cal joker came to the Waterloo veteran,
told him that his Emperor had actually
come back, and led him to the street
through which the imperial escort was
moving. From a carriage window a
bareheaded man was sponding to the
salutations of the crowd, and the man
had the face of the First Napoleon. The
old Guardsman gave a cry of Joy
''Vive TEmpereur and fell to the
ground. He was lifted up iifeless.
HERE Is a warning that IS a warming to
smokers. A gentleman in Cincinnati
htviug purchased cigar and lit it, pro-
.edrd to walk along the street with the
E,dy accompa, wing him. All ut once h
fpll down aud became peri city rigid It
was some tim. before he recovere /. The
lesson is, Of course, to avoid Cincinnati
cigars
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08

Total .................4.l44, ,E54 4'6Z5'5-o
The stock of pig IRON held unsold IN
the hands Of makers at the close of 1882
was 3S3, ,G55 tons At the close of 1881
the stock on hand was 1888, 300 tons.
A TIE voTE-When two people agree
to get married.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08

Den don't be stoppin an a lookin',
If yer fool wild ole Satan ven get took in,
YEN hang DER de brink and get shook IN,
So DON'T he a stonnin, an, a LOokIn,.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-08
AN EDITORS HARD LUCK.

Some editors seem never to have any
sort of luck. An exchange relates that
country editor, who accepted gross of
cough syrup in pay for patent medicine
advertisement, undertook to catch a cold
in order to put the syrup where it would
do the most good. He went out on the
frosty ground in his bare feet, got IN
heavy perspiration and then sat in cold
draught, rode in the cars at night with
the window raised-lut without avail;
and now he's discouraged, because he
doesn't know how to utilize his medi-
cine. - Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
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Patent 0utsides.
Morgan City Review

Morgan City Review
There has been quite enough of ILL
humored filings in many common
newspapers at the use of what they
term 'tpatent outsides, " by larger con-
temporaries, in order to provide for
the reading public greater quantity
and better variety oil matter than is
often available at home. Original
talent is a rare article. Stories,
poems, essays, news, statistics have
to be collected from sources far
abroad from the meagre surroundings
of country edition; and such, when
needed, are generally clipped out of
magazines and exchanges from vari-
Gus points in the Union.
An editor without exchanges would
be very blank and hopeless icono-
clast, running dry his aching brains
for new ideas or subjects whereupon
to expatiate, as each weeks issue of
his paper demands attention.
TWo-thirds of the matter in coun-
try newspaper is paste and scissors.
The rest, in some of them is purely
local, or very poor stuff indeed, to
amuse or instruct any number of in
telligent subscribers. Spleen, gibes,
fiippant shallow-pated criticism, or
worse than all, mean natured abuse is
soon the ruin of the paper. The ed
itor becomes a cynic, and his business
decays into small jobbery.
Now, "patent outsides" do frequent
ly provide frst-class order of inter-
esting selection-are carefully edited
to that object, and find, as outsides of
country newspapers, both large circu-
lation and appreciative comment.
The Review is not at all dissatisfied
with its excellent outside, as derived
from sterling Publishing House in
metropolitan center, and costing
less, than poorer stuff, worse printed,
that could possibly be collected in
the Office.
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Complimentary.

The Bossier (La.) Banner has just
completed its 21st year. 1t is a neat,
readable paper, and well deserves
the liberal patronage it receives
Yasoo City Miss Sentinel.
The Lake Charles Echo has en-
tered its fifteenth volume, and the
Bossier Banner its 22nd. They both
stand high, and deserve continued
suecess.-Opeloasas Courier.
The Bossier Banner has. reached
the close of its twenty first volume.
The Banner is edited with marked
ability and is a credit to the parish
in which it is published.-DonGM-
sonviIle Chef.
The Bossier Banner has entered
its 22nd volume with an apparent
determination that its first year as
full f1edged voter will be devoted to
the determination of the ring officials
that seek to control our State and
Observation-Disclosures Democrat.
The Webster Tribune wants to
see w. Ell. Scanland, editor of the
Bossier Banner, in the next Legisla-
ture. It is hard to find any truer
man to State and principle than the
Banners editor. 1t our next Legis
lature is composed of enough men
like Seanland we'll wager it will not
receive the abuse the last received
from the press.-MOTeIo&se Clarion.
The Bossier Banner has finished
its 21st volume. It was established
by its present editor before the war,
be then being mere boy. But be
was plucky and ambitious to publish
worthy paper. He soon saw the
defect of his education, and began
to devote bis spare moments to
study. We have known and watch.
ed his career from that day to this.
He has all the time been the soul of
honor, and has steadily improved
his opportunities for knowledge
His editorials are well written, pithy
and forcible, and are republished in
most of his exchanges. He is now
a man of learning and ability, and
a true Democrat in the true meaning
of the word.
IF the people want in the Legisla-
ture man that can't be bribed by
money or the promise of position,
and that will give his whole atten
ton to the business of the country
they could not do better than tC
elect VIM. Ell. Scanland.
We would like to see him one Of
our Senators in the next Legislature
1 Webster Tribune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-04-12
j. A. SNYDER, President.
j. Fl. KEYsER, Snpt't and Sec'y.

HAMs.-This article of food has
taken so strong hold on the gentr-
al public that the consumption has
acquired enormous proportions all
over the world. Germany is now
trying to prohibit the importation
of our American hams, under the
pretext of their unsonndness, trichi-
nea, &C., which is all bosh. But
that some inferior article is put up
By INSCRIPTIONS dealers may be the
truth; but that our frst-class hams
las, for instance, the Plankton s.
Armour Sugar cured Hams, Kansas
City, NO., for sale here by Mr.. B. A.
Kelly-which have gained a world
wide reputation for their soundness,
sweetness, delicious and appetizing
qualities, should be also excluded, is
certainly great injustice. If Prince
Bismark would taste them once we
are sure he would recall his threat
ened embargo.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-04-12

A marked copy of last Sundays
Picayune was GENT US this week
It devotes considerable space to the
John McEnery contract. 1t seems an
offer was made to do the same work
for less than $40. 900. The work under
the McEnery contract has already cost
the State $50, 900 and will eventually
cost it 100000. Tseems that while
this contract entered into with John
McEnery by Gov. Wilt gives a con-
tingent fee of so per cent Of land re-
covered, it allows McEnery to locate
the said fifty per cent on any State
land, and as the Picayune says, "where
he RECEIVERS sea marsh worth 125 cents
an acre, he gets scrip for half the
number of acres located upon land
worth rs cents an acre"
Had Gov. Wilt lived to make few
more such contracts, Louisiana would
be poor indeed. -Marksville ReuSeac.
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Homestead Entry No. haas.
Land Office at Natchitoches, La.

April 9th, 1883.
Notice is hereby given that the following
IN named settler has filed notice of his in
tention to make final proof to establish his
claim to the land herein described and expects
to prove his residence and cultivation before
the Honorable Judge, or in his absence, before
the Clerk of the District Court, at Bellevue,
La, on 2Ist May, 1888, and secure final entry
thereof at the expiration of thirty days from
the date of this notice. viz: Homestead Entry
No. l245-Renben Dieksen--for the northwest
quarter of northwest quarter of section two,
and southwest quarter of southwest quarter
Of section twenty two, township twenty two,
North, range eleven, West Louisiana Meri-
dian, by two of the following witnesses, viz:
Josiah Phillips, of Rocky Mount ?. O.;
Dave Bell, of Rocky Mount 2. O.; John Har-
ris, of Rocky Mount p. o.; Henry Harris, Of
Rocky Mount p o.
L. DUPLEX, Register.
April Il. 1855 may 10
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Succession Sale.

Succession of Hannah 2. Dickson. deceased
nv virtue of a writ of sale issued from the
ID Honorable 2iId judicial District Court in
and for Bossier parish, La, and to me directed,
will proceed to sell at the Court house door,
in the town of Bellevue, La, on Monday,
the 18th day of May, 1888, the following
described land belonging to the succession Of
Hannah p. Dickson, deceased, to-wit
West half of northeast quarter and north
east quarter of northeast quarter of section
IL township 81, range II.
Terms of SaIe--Cash, if appraisement or
twothirtls Of same be bid; otherwise real estate
will be re advertised and sold according tC
Law, on aeredit of twelve months, for what j
will bring-credit purchasers to execute Il
months bonds, with approved personal soeuri
ty, with mortgage and vendors lien retained
and bearing s per cent, interest froIa day o
sale. r. WYCIIE, Sheriff
and ez ofiein Anetioneer, Beesier Par, -
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~ The following State cases
we're tried before our District Court
since our last issue:
State vs.. Nose Elias. Charge,
murder. Tried by jury and found
gailsy of manslaughter.
State vs.. Nein Williams. Charge,
saooting with intent to MURDER
Irled by jury and found guilty of
assault with intent to kill.
State vs.. Charles Price. Charge.
Perjury. Plead guilty.
State vs.. Handy jenkins. Charge,
petty larceny. In this case the
ae'endant is allowed to give bond
gut Of Bossier parish, and the sher.
~ u authorized to take the bond
subject to approval of the Court.
state VS.. Sam Darling. Charge,
murder. Case continued.
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Meeting of Bossier School Board.
BELLEVUE, LA. Anril = 1893

BELLEVUE, La, April Z, 1883.
The School Board of Bossier Par.
ish met in regular session. Present:
j. A. Snider, President; Thos. Lyles,
W. e. Connell, w. G. Burt and J.
Il. Keyser, members.
The minutes of last meeting were
read and approved.
When, on motion, all petitions for
schools were ordered on file to be
considered when schools are located,
On motion of W. G. Burt, duly
seconded, The Police Jury of Bossier
parish were requested to levy tax
of at least one mill on the roll of
1883 for school purposes.
The salary of the Superintendent
and Secretary was then reduced to
500 per annum from March 10th,
until such time as public schools are
again general re-established.
When, On motion, the Board ad-
journed sine die.
j. A. SNYDER, President.
J.H. KEYsER, Snpt't and Sec'y.