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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-06-19
The Wood Family Horse.

John NJ. Wood, of Washington. Ga
had horse that he thought the world
and all of, Notwithstanding it was too
old for any use not being able TO eat
anything but corn-meal cruel. The
other morning, finding it dead in the
stable, he ordered a coffin for it and
sent oue notices of the funeral. There
was large concCurse of people present
some attracted by the novelty of the
affair and others out of respect for the
old horse, which was known far and
near on account of his many virtues.
1t had borne Mr.. Wood fatherthrough
all the campaigns from the Ohio to Sa-
yannah, and WAS surrendered by john
ston to Sherman at Greenville, but i'm
raediately returned to Mr. Wool iii COM
pliance with Sherman orders that all
captured horses she1ld be turned over
70 the Confederate soldiers, in order
that they might have something to be-
gin farming with. Fer many wears il
was the mainstay of the WQod family
v-Aflaafa Cagsslsatios
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-06-19
FARM AND PRESIDE.

If your cows seem indisposed, give
them a warm bran slop well seasoned
with ginger.-N. I. Herald.
A well beaten egg is a great addi-
ton to dried apple pie, giving light
ness and good flavor Also Chicago
journal.
For the young chickens nothing is
so beneficial and so grateful as run
upon the newly-grown grass, and next
to this indulgence they should have an
ample supply of cut or pulled grass
every day.
Herb Tea: Take half pound OF
camomile and a quarter of a pound of
gentian root; put them in q jug and
pour over them quart of boiling
water; let it stand one hour; then strain
into bottle Take wine glass full,
fasting. Toledo Blade.
The practice of mulching young
trees after they are set out seems to be
growing in favor. 1t keeps the soil
cool and damp during the summer and
prevents plants from drawing from the
soil. The mulch should extend well
out from the base of the tree.-CEeUe-
land Leader.
Lemon Pudding: Three eggs, one
scant cup of sugar, two liberal table
spoonfuls of corn-starch, one lemon,
juice and rind; two cups of milk, one
heaping teaspoonfnl of butter. Scald
the milk and stir in the corn-starch wet
up in four teaspoonfuls of cold water.
Cook stirring all the time-until it
thickens well; add the butter and set
aside until perfectly cold. Then beat
the eggs light, add the sugar, the lemon
juice and grated peel, and whip in,
great spoonful at time, the stiffened
corn-starch milk. Bake in buttered
dish and eat cold. albany journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-06-19
The Most DesOlate Part of the Ocean

The schooner Charles E. Moody,
Captain Gates. arrived at Almond
Street wharf yesterday from the Islands
of Tristan d'Aeunha, situated in the
South Atlantic Ocean, in the most des-
olate spot in the world. She stopped
at Martinique to get a cargo of sugar.
The Moody was chartered by New York
parties to 60 to these islands to secure
a cargo of guano. The vessel was COM
PEELED to abandon the enterprise, owing
to her inability to make q landing,
there beng no harbors on the coast
Captain Gates, January u, visited in a
small boat both Tristan d Aeunha and
Nightingale Island Nightingale is un-
inhabited. The other island has ninety
seven inhabitants, descendants of ship
wrecked sailors. All were enjoying
good health, and the majority of the
population were women, who are de-
scribed as being very tall and hand
some. They seemed sharp at trading,
but were without education and yery
indolent and lazy. The Captain de-
scribes lake of fresh water which was
situated on the top of mountain 5000
feet above the surface of the sea, and in
which the tide ebbed and flowed. No
merchant vessel has ever been known
to visit the islands, and there are not
probably ten men in this country who
have ever been there. After securing
laborers, an attempt was made to ex-
plore Nightingale Island, which was
found rich with guano, covered with
eggs, and thronged with penguins. Eff
forts to obtain dead-and- alive cargo
were futile, owing to the impossibility
of finding safe anchorage. The Gov
ernor or head man of Tristan d'Acunha
said that valuable dog had escaped
from II. NJ. B. surveying ship Challen-
ger eleven years ago. 1t was searched
for, found and taken on board the
Moody, but died on the passage to
Martinique. The islands visited are
situated in latitude thirty-seyen degrees
six minutes, longitude twelve degrees
two minutes, are claimed by the En-
glish, and British garrison was at one
time maintained there. United States
vessels never visit the locality.-Rtila-
delphiG Record.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-06-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

Texas makes highway robbery
punishable by an imprisonment of not
less than ten years.
"A wholesale tobacco dealer in New
York City claims that cigarette smoking
is dying out, and that 10000 less
cigarettes were sold in 1888 than in
18S2.-N. y Times.
The constitution of Alabama for
bids the formation of any new county
of less area than six hundred square
miles, or the formation of new county
of that size if it reduces any old county
below that minimum.
1t is said that the scene of the re-
cent Vedder-Pearson tragedy at Luna
Island, Niagara Falls, is the precise
spot, where, in 1850, a young man
named Addidgton playfully threatened
TO throw the little sister of his be-
throthed (who, with her mother, COM
pleted the party visiting the spot) into
the rapids. The child shrieked and
sprang from his arms into the swift
running water. He instantly jumped
in to save her and both were lost. -
Buffalo Express.
"A Chicago museum exhibits a
double-headed COW, described as follows:
''This COW has two welcomed heads
of equal size and is well armed with
four brass-tipped horns, The main
head possesses all the features of a
bright and intelligent member of the
bovine family, but the other other lacks
the expressive eyes. However, the ami
NAL sees, hears, and breathes with both
heads, eats with one and drinks with
the other. The body is perfect and
handsome, the cow being a full-blpod
Durham"
Thar; / want you to collect that
and put it to my Credit said old
Farmer Apologize to the cashier Of the
First National Bank of Manasquan, N.
j., few days ago. The cashier exam
ined the faded-looking piece of paper
handed to him, and found it to be a
check for 1910. drawn by New York
merchant in 1872 in favor of the farmer.
1t appeared that the check had been
given in payment for load of cranber-
ries, and had been hidden during the
past twelve years in the farmer feather
bed. 1t was sent to the merchant and
duly honored.-N. Y. MGa. 3
"A Massachusetts Yankee went to
California several years ago, got dead
broke, and was on the point of starving
to death. He then joined the Piutes at
the Pyramid reservation. He remained
there until he had fully mastered the
language and habits of his dusky
friends, and then painting himself and
assuming the garb of the red men went
to Walker Lake, where, in coasidera-
ton of his able advice in the councils
of the tribe, he was elected chief and
allowed three wives. He saws that,
although he sometimes longed for news
from the Bay State. he was perfectly
content to remain where he was, as he
found the roaming, independent life of
the PiGtes just the thing fora man tired
OF the busy scenes of civilization. =
Boston Herald.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-06-19
A Change Of Scene.

Anderson Trainer is an old man and
be has not many years left to spend on
ca. tn. He has been in Leadyille but q
few months. He came here from Viz
GINA City, New, to see if he could not
once more prevail on the fates to smile
on him. He was at one time worth his
hundreds of thousands, and was in a
fair way to be as rich as Mackay. His
mining investments all came out profit
ably and it seemed as if everything he
touched turned into gold. He grew
reckless with his good fortune and got
to making wild investments, because
he thought he could not lose. At last
he tempted fate too far, and he met
with reyerses. This made him desper-
ate instead Of checking him in his wild
sPeculations. One day he made a big
stock deal and lost4eavily He finally
got to gambling, and by a succession of
bad luck and bad management he found
himself after awhile as poor as when
he began life as miner. Since his
arrival in Leadville he has been talking
OF his lost fortune and looking for an
opening where he might retrieve his
lost thousands; but he is too far gone.
The poor old fellow is penniless. old.
and growing decrepit, but he still likes
to talk of the days when he could draw
a check for thousands and have it hon
ored on presentation. He can now be
seen around the saloons, where he likes
TO tell crowd of listening admirers of
what he was and what he had wears
ago. -LeGdUtlte (Cog. Democrat.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-06-19

One of the bloody customs among
the Hindoos of certain class is to re-
quire every woman, previous to piercing
the ears of her eldest daughter prepar-
atory to her being betrothed in mar
rage, to undergo the amputation of the
first joints of the third and fourth
fingers of her right hand. The ampu-
tation is performed by the blacksmith
Of the village, who. having placed the
finger in block, performs the opera
ton with chisel. IF the girl to be
betrothed be motherless and the mother
OF the boy have not before been SUP
jeeted to the operation 1t is incumbent
on her to suffer the operation.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-06-19
For Young Readers.
TIE DAISIES.
Daisiesi

Daisiesi
Low IN the grass and high in the clover,
STARRING the green earth over and over
Now into white waves tossing and breaking.
Like foaming sea when the wind is waking
Now standing upright, tall and slender,
Showing their deep hearts golden splendor;
Dalntily bending,
Airily lending
Garlands of flowers for earth's adjoining,
Fresh with the dew of summer morning:
High on the slope, low in the hollow,
Where eye can reach or foot can follow,
Shining with innocent fearless faces
Out of the depths of lonely places,
Till the glad heart sings their praises
Here are The daisieSl
Daisies!
See them ebbing and flowing,
Like tides with the full moon going;
Spreading their generous largeSs free
For hand to touch and foA. eye to see,
In dust of the wayside growing,
On rock-ribbed upland blowing,
BY meadow brooklets CHANGING,
On barren fields a-dancing,
Till the world forgets to burrow and grope,
And rises aloft on the wings of hope;
--Oh!. of all posies,
Lilies or roses,
Sweetest or fairest,
Richest or rareSt
That earth in its joy to heaven upraiSeS
Give me the daisies!
Why? For they glow with the spirit of youth.
1ucf DeauJlIul eyes nave the glory OF truth;
Down before all their rich bounty they fling
Free to the beggar and free to the king
Loving they stoop to the lowliest ways,
Joyous they brighten the dreariest days,
Under the fringe of their raiment they hide
Sears the gray winter hath opened so wide;
Freely and brightly
Who can count lightly
Gifts with such generous ardor proffered,
Tokens of love from such full hearts offered,
Or look without chances of joy and delight
at pastures star-coyered from morning till
night
When the sunshiny field ablaze is
With daisiesl
Daisies,
Your praise is
That you are like maidens, as maidens should
be:
Winsome with freshness. and wholesome to
see;
Gifted with beauty, and joy to the eye,
Head lifted daintily-yet not too high;
Sweet with hl<uiity, radiant with love,
Generous, too, as the sunshine above;
Swaying with sympathy, tenderly bent
On hiding the scar and on healing the rent;
lnnocent-looking the world in the face
ct fearless with natures own innocent
grace;
Full of sweet goodness, yet simple in art
White in the soul and pure gold in the heart
An. ike unto you should all mandenhood be
Gladstone to know, and most gracious TO see;
Like you, my daisiesi
Vide Quake.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-06-19

Governor Cleveland, of New York.
has signed the bill prohibiting the man
nfacture and sale of oleomarparine.
This has created breeze among the
manufacturers of that article, who have
large amounts o. capital invested in the
business, and who are loudly de-
1ounclng. the measure as unconstitu-
tional and unjust. They declare that
they viii defy the law and Let the courts
decide % iss yalidity.--N r Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
STATE ITEMS,

Two lads killed an adder three feet
three inches long, near Rock Point,
Burlington.
Mortified provides homes for 64
fresh air children sent out by the Bos-
ton country week committee.
Trenor w. Park, two years age
put at the disposal of the Tribune
fresh air fund a beautiful house al
Bennington, where thirty tired moth
ers and small children can find enter
tainment. Last year his heirs again
invited the manager of the fund to
fill the house, and it has now been
offered for the third time.
The camp for the militia muster al
Brattleboro is to be known as 'Camp
James S. Peck" in memory of the
late adjutant and inspector general
Col. j. j. Estey is detailed as instruc-
tor in company and skirmish drill, and
manual of arms. Major G.. G.. Kins-
man is detailed as instructor in guard
duty. The muster began Friday, con-
tinuing six days.
Three years ago David Nelson, at
work in the railroad shop at Lyndon
vile, lost his pocket book containing
about 5000. He thought fellow
workman stole it, but could get no
proof. He has since gone to Indiana.
A few days ago a workmen in clearing
off an old cupboard in the shop where
Nelson used to keep his things, found
the wallet on top of it with the money
intact, and it was forwarded to him.
Capt. Alfred X. Nichols, an old
Vermont soldier, died at Philadelphia
on the 9Th inst, of dropsy of the
heart. He was native of Vermont
and at the outbreak of the war a resi-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28

At meeting held by the Pennsyl-
vania board of agriculture, the evils
of the ordinary system of road max
ing were presented forcibly and clear
ly. Chester county, for example, has
in the last ten years, spent 1917, ZOO
on her public roads, and since that
county was organized S2,000,000, OF
about 1000 per mile, have probably
been spent in patching up in the
usual lazy, shiftless way, the high
ways, to their injury rather tnan to
their benefit. Il is fatal to good and
economical road-making to allow the
persons taxed to work out their taxes,
is the conclusion reached. The same
rules should govern the building OF
country roads that govern railroads.
the location should be made with ref
erence to the least draft and not
with reference to the least cost of
land. Don't run a road over a hill
simply because the land costs moth
ing. 1t is cheaper in the end to
build road well at first, even at a
large expenditure. All the main
roads of township should be sub
stantially turnpIked at first. The
work of repairing should be put in
the hands of competent road engi-
neer, who should be allowed to select
his tools and working force. Wider
rims should be required on all wagons
used for hauling loads. Wide tires
roll road while narrow ones rut it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
WASHINGTON NOTES.

"The scafolding is being erected
around the top. of the monument,
said the engineer in charge of the
Washington monument one day last
week, "and everything is being put
in condition for the construction OF
the pyramidal top. 1t will take as
long to fix the scafolding and make
the arrangements as it will to do the
work. 1t is novel piece of engi-
neering, and there may be some hitch
about il, but If there is not, we will
begin to place the stones in position
before the end of September, and put
the finishing touches on the monument
before November L. There is now
every indication of this being accom-
plished." The dates of several of
the most important events in the his
tory of the Washington monument
afford a remarkable instance of coin
cidence. The original resolution to
erect an equestrian statue to the men,
DRY of George Washington at the
seat of the federal government, which
was the hrSt step toward the erection
of the present monument, was offered
in Congress August Z, 1888.
1t has been decided at the treasury
department that clerk must pay his
board bills. The interior department
recently notified salary broker that
the department would not help him to
collect usurious interest, but the de-
cision of the treasury department that
board bills must be paid is in a num-
Der of instances quite necessary.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
The Dairy.

The one sure way to have good
COWS is to raise them yourself.
The exclusive feeding of clover to
COWS gives hard cheese and soft but
| ter.
Good butter and cheese cannot be
made from the milk of COWS that
are deprived of pure water.
The first dairy fair was held in
Wisconsin in 1875, and now Sheboy-
gan county has no less than ninety
cheese factories.
1t is said that an infallibIe test for
distinguishing butter from butterine
| is to melt the substance and then sud-
denly chill it with ice. The lard will
go to the bottom and the butter to
the top, the line of separation being
distinctly visible.
There is a great loss in butter
crooks. There is one way to prevent
some of it. The person who sells the
jar of butter must make a rule that if
the jar is not cleansed as soon as it is
emptled the weight of it shall be in
Guided in the contents. When jars
stand with little butter in them I'M
til it gets rancid, or when the con-
tents are rancid, the jar will be faint
ed. 1t may be urged that if the jars
are glazed they win be sweet as moth
ing Will penetrate them. This is q
mistake. When brine has been kept
in jar, or even butter, the salt will
show itself on the outside of a glazed
jar. The dairyman should take the
full price of the crock, and not the
net, as is the usual custom, and re-
fund the tare when the jar is returned
sweet. This is protection of the
right sort.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
POLITICAL.

What do you think of Cleveland's
letter of acceptance?" asked a Repub-
lican of a Democrat. Bogus, sir
bogus. He never wrote it. Wait
till you get the original" was the re-
ply made.
The only doubtful element in the
Presidential contest in Massachu-
sets is whether Butler or Cleveland
will poll the largest vote. This is
the only field for those who put up
their money.
The fact that the Democrats and
| General Buffers party in two States
have united on an electoral ticket
makes it idiotic to assume bargain
between the Republicans and Butler.
Considering the contempt which the
Democratic papers profess to feel for
Gen. Butler and his following, they
devote very dlsproportionate amount
of space to assaults upon him.
William A. Kearney, q Democratic
lawyer of prominence in Logansport,
Ind, writes to the Democratic Cen
trail Committee that he "cannot sup
port Mr.. Cleveland, representing as
he does the free trade of English ele-
ments of both parties"
The Vice President Of the Cleve-
land and Hendricks club at Skowhe-
gan, Me-, has come out for Blaine,
and he recently Joined in the Republi-
can demonstration at that place and
carried torch throughout the exer-
cises.
The reports from Indiana lead to
the conclusion that the Republicans
were never in a better condition and
that the Democrats were never in a
worse.
General Butler and his friends are
fast giving the lie to the assertion
that he has an understanding with
Mr.. Blaine. The Democratic-G Green
back coalition in two Republican
States shows this.
Puck will scarcely commend the
Democratic candidate to the Catholic
voter by representing dispenser of
a corruption fund in the vestments
of Catholic priest selling indulgen-
ces.
In nineteen years the national debt
has been reduced from S2,756,OOO,-
900 to 81, 100000, 900, and the an
nual interest charge from. S15O,9OO,-
600 to less than S5O,OOO,OOO. No
nation has ever made such a record.
The New York Times is specially
pleased with the Cleveland letter, but
the New York Sun characterizes it as
"the feeblest and most unstatesman-
like document that a like occasion in
our history has ever inspired, and is
from every point of view an unfortu-
nate production"
Speaking of Gov. Cleveland's letter
the New York Sun says: ''Will this
spiritless and Intellectual writing, the
feeblest and most unstatesmanlike
document that like occasion in our
history has ever inspired, will it dis
pei the feeling of Reorganization
which is abroad, and allay the doubts
and the discords that rend the Demo-
cratic party? Is there anything in it
that will gather to Grover Cleveland
the strength of that party, reconcile
its factions, and carry it to victory in
this memorable contest? We think
not. in matters of great pith and
moment, the manner is commonly of
small account compared with the mat
ter, but Grover Cleveland's letter of
acceptance is, from every point of
view, an unfortunate production"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28

dent of Burlington. He was one of
the first to enlist upon the call for
three months volunteers and served as
a private in Captain Peck's company
of the First Vermont. On the return
of that regiment he was elected and
commissioned IS first lieutenant of
Company B, Fourth Vermont. He
became captain of this company and
served honorably to the close of the
war.
The State Sunday School Conven-
ton is to be held at Swanton Septem-
Der II and Is.
! John Norton, of Barton Landing,
recently found swarm of wild bees,
with $50 pounds of wild honey.
Flora Letourneau, of Worcester,
four years old, was run over by a
wagon on the highway recently and
killed.
The examination of Mrs. Quinn
was begun in Rutland the 18th. Prof.
Seeley, of Middlebury, who was en-
gagged to make the analysis TO ascer-
tain if poison had been administered.
stated in his evidence that he discov-
cred arsenic in the portions of the
stomach, liver and intestines submit
ted to him for analysis, and that
death undoubtedly resulted from poi
soning.
A three-years-old daughter of A.
Miles, of st. Johns bury, was severe
ly scalded the other day. The moth
er had stepped into the kitchen and
taken the teapot off the stove, and
turning suddenly hit the little girl
who had followed, unknown to the
mother, and spilled the boiling tea
over the little ones face and Shout
der. The father was present and
stripped off the little girls clothing
as quick as possible, but the skin of
the shoulder, and upper arm came off
also.
A party of about three score peo-
pie from Waterbury and Montpelier
made a trip to Ausable Chasm on the
steamer Williams last week. On re-
turning from the Chasm to Port Kent
one of the stages was tipped over,
the breaking of a nut causing the loss
of wheel. Mrs. DR.. Washburn, of
Waterbury, suffered broken collar
bone, and Mrs. Arthur Ropes, of the
same place was severely injured in
the spine. Both were taken to the
Van Ness House. Physicians were
summoned as soon as possible and
the ladies' husbands notified. 1t is
hoped that Mrs Ropes, who was the
more severely injured of the two, is
not dangerously hurt.
The Vermont yearly meeting of
Baptists is to be held at Sutton, be-
ginning September IL.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28

ton as popular as the weather. Here
is cholera witticism. "Well, doc
tor, you see the cholera is abating ev-
eIrywhere. Now do you think it was
the real, genuine, Asiatic cholera,
from Asia?" Certainly, my friend,
certainly; only it was from Asia
Minor, and that accounts for the cpl
demic being such little one" "Oh,
l see."
A lady who has adopted the divid-
ed skirt OF the British Dress Reform
Association was seen in Montreal
lately. She wore no ornaments, had
! short hair, little serviceable soft hat
and plain fiat shoes. Around her an
kles appeared what seemed at first
sight pleated petticoar, but was, in
reality, the trousers of the dress re-
ormers. The wearer spoke enthusi-
astically OF her costume. sit is COM
Portable, healthful, manageable and
cool or warm as one may wish"