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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-01
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A Louisville lady has sued for diI
Vorce, asserting that her husband
has not done any work for fourteen
years. There are some women who
want a man to be on the jump all the
time. - Courier Journal.
Gold thimbles were among the
''costly favors'' distributed in german
the other evening, as if any fashionable
young woman of the period ever has
occasion to use such a thing. AS we'll
give them broom or a sewing ma
chine, says Mrs. Parvenu. u.--BrookLyn
Eagle.
A Morgantown IN. c. boy, who
recently had quarrel with his sweet
heart, sent her the following touching
valentine: ''My dearest and sweetest
Amanda, I've been, not goose, but a
gander. Your heart never harden, but
grant me your pardon, I'm sorry !
histed your dander.
A Duluth woman kicked man on
the shin and jabbed out his eye with an
umbrella simply because he kissed her.
And yet he thought it was very funny.
If she had rammed the umbrella down
his throat and opened it inside of him
he might have been tickled to death. -
Ter6s SiftSRgs.
1t is no wonder that so many peo.
pie are color blind in this country, when
some of the new colors are designated as
burned cream, baked pears, crushed
raspberry, scorched banana, speckled
green gage and terra Gotta" Elephants
/ breath, monkeys smile, and canary
birds gasp, will probably be added in
| the spring. Francisco EUeniag
/ Post. fiH
Miss Edith (aged six)-Mamma,
they say the Gibbses have come into q
whole lot of money. Ella Stanford says
they are real common and vulgar, but
I think we had better be very nice to
th@n, as there are two boys in the
family about my age, and when grow
up something might come of it, YOU
know-THe Judge.
Who knows? Some day, after it
gets to more perfect stage of evolu-
tion and development, the lollipop man
may grow lead in his head, and the
world can utilize its dudes for lead PEN
ellis. As there is nothing in the dude $
head now, there is plenty of room for
the lead, and hence this theory is all
the more plausible. Time will tell
WlJliGmsport Breakfast Table.
General Jackson wrote dollar with
big d and God with a little e. There
are a few million people still living in
the United States who do the same
thing every day. But not in print; oh,
no, brethren, not in print. They re
very careful to have the capitals
properly and respectfully placed in
print, but in business they use a little
nonpareil g, while the ID is four-line
plea gothic burlington Ha0keye.
Will Always Remember
We met as the bell Of the old church re
sounded,
lane;
Ny limbs, how they shook, and my heart. hov
1t bounded
And oh, how sufferedi How great was m,
paint
TTis ages ago, but IN always remember
Her breath, sweet and balmy as hay in tn
IN newell forget that dark night in December
How / went DER the fence with the help Of
cowI
IN, T. Morning Jsarnat
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-01
POETRY AND THE POOR.

=, .rha world is very beautiful?" said,
as Yesterday beside the brimmng stream,
1Iad and alone, [ watched the tremulous
CLEAN
With moss and fern and curving bramble-
And bronze the thousand russet margin
reeds,
And knde all the briers flaming seeds.
aTbe world is very horrible!' l sigh,
As, in my wonted ways to-day thread
fhiII streets, deformed with dim monotony,
Hiding strange mysteries of unknown dread,
The reek1ng court, the breathless fever-den,
The baunts where things unholy throng and
Grim crime, the fierce despair of strong
armed men,
Childinfamy, and shameless womanhood.
And men have looked upon this piteous
Rlank lives unvisited by beauty's spell
And said: LET be; it is not meet to bring
Dreams of sweet freedom to the prison cell.
Sing them no songs of things all bright and
paint them no visions of the glad and free.
Lest with purged sight their miseries they
And. thro' vain longings, pass to blank
despair"
0brother, treading ever darkening ways,
o sister, wheImed in ever deepening care,
Would God we might unfold before your gaze
Some vision of the pure, and true and fairl
Retter to know, tho sadder things be known,
BETTER to see, tho tears half blind the sight,
Than thralldom to the sense, and heart of
stone,
And horrible contentment with the night.
OF bring we then all sweet and gracious
things
To touch the lives that lie so chill and drear.
That they may dream of some diviner
sphere.
Whence each soft ray of love and beauty
springs.
Each good and perfect gift is from above:
And there is healing for Earth's direst woes;
God hath unsealed the springs of light and
love,
To make the desert blossom as the rose.
The Suectntor
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-01

If any one expected fashionable
gathering it was simply because they
did not know their host and hostess
very well. The great, comfortable
house was full of guests, but they were
mostly people of the Weatherby stamp;
good, plain, sensible souls, who did not
go through life junketing and dancing,
so they carried into any occasion of en-
joyment in which they participated an
almost childish zest. And all the ladies
purred over that blessed baby. and all
the gentlemen button -holed the Captain
and made him tell the story over.
Found it on the doorstep, You say;
found it on the doorstep? How very
remarkabler'
"And in that very boat-basket. /
mean-grounded. as it were, at my
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-01

Wendell Phillips had a collection
of canes that We're carried by men of
note, and few pixies, one of which was
used in the attack on Harper's Ferry,
in 1859, by one of John Browns party.
Boston JoHrRgI.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-01

"A writer in Boston paper says
that the family refrigerator contains
many of the disease. spreading germs
often mistakenly supposed to be in the
drain pipes, and he thinks that the
boards of health in the different cities
should make regular inspections of all
of them. Philadelphia Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-01

Brick Pomeroy prophesies that the
time is coming when there will not be
a rumseller in New York City.-M \
Mail,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-01

"A farmer of Fall River, Mass, has
recently sold pair of fowls. dark
Brahmas, for forty-seven dollars, to go
to Auckland, New Zealand. The dis
tance is nearly seven thousand miles
Boston Post.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-01

"A Polish womanat Chicopee, Mass,
explained to the officials that her hus-
band would not come >oyerf from the old
country for three years, and asked for
a license to marry another man for that
length of time. The request was
cruelty refused Boston Herald.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-01

Your presence is desired at the christen-
ing party of our adopted daughter,
ETHEL,
"Wednesday afternoon. January 80, 1884.
Ceremony at 3.
MR.. AND MRS. SILAS wEATHERBY.
National Republican., 1884-12-02

the congress take action ia the promises,
and also recommend the immediate
adoption of such measures as will be
likely to ward off the dreaded epidemic,
ana to mitigate its severity In case il shall
unhappily extend to our shores.
The District OF Columbia.
The annual report of the commissioners
of the District Of Columbia reviews the
operations of the several departments of
its municipal government. / ask your
careful consideration of its suggestions in
respect TO legislation especially com
mcnding such as relate to revision of
the civil and criminal code, the perform
ance of labor by persons sentenced to
imprisonment in the jail, the construc-
tion and occupation of wharves along the
river front, and the erection of a suitable
building for district offices.
A Pension for Gen. Grant.
/ recommend that, in recognition Of
the eminent services of Ulysses $. Grant,
late general OF tho armies of tho United
States and twice president Of this nation,
the congress confer upon him a suitable
pension.
Certain of tho measures that seem to
mo necessary and expedient have now,
i'll obedience to the constitution recon-
mended for your adoption.
AS respects others Of no less Importance,
| shall content myself with renewing the
recommendations already made to tho
congress, without rOstating the grounds
upon which such recommendations were
based.
The Preservation or Forests.
The preservation of forests on tho pub
lie domain, the granting Of governments
aid for popular education, the amend
ment Of the federal constitution so as to
make effective the disapproval by the
president of particular items in appropri-
alton bills, the enactment of statutes Ia
regard to the filling of vacancies In the
presidential office, and the determining
OF vexed questions respecting presidsas
tial inability arc measures which may
justly receive your serious consideration.
Graceful Leave Taking.
AZ tho time draws nigh when am TO
retire from the public service, cannot
refrain from expressing to the members
of the national legislature with whom |
have been brought into personal and Of
fetal intercourse my sincere appreciation
of their unfailing courtesy and of their
harmonious cooperation with the exocu-
tive in so many measures calculated to
promote the best interests of the nation.
And to my fellow citizens generally
acknowledge deep sense of obligation
for the support which they have accorded
me in my administration of tho executive
department of this government.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
WAguTNGTnN Ilap I 1894
National Republican., 1884-12-02
DEPARTMENr NoTEs.

The comptroller of the currency has ap.
pointed A. w. Bye, of Syracuse, N. Y, to be
receiver Of the Middletown National bank, OF
Middletown, N. Y.
The issue of standard silver dollars from the
mints during the week ended Nov. 20 was
S39s, 1876. The issue for the corresponding DC.
riod of last year was S3i3, ,4S7
The comptroller of the currency yesterday
extended the corporate existence of the Citi.
2ens National bank, of Plttsburg, Pa, and the
Naumkeag National bank, Of Salem, Mass, to
Dec. 3, 1904.
Postoifce inspectors Saturday arrested at
Richmond, Va, substitute postal route agent
named Cotton iorstealing SlG0 belonging TO tho
money-order funds while in transit. The
money was recovered.
Tho payments made from the treasury by
warrants during the month of November,
1881, amounted to $40, 2l6, 1882, not including
principal OF the public debt Of the United
States,
National Republican., 1884-12-02

At the first opportunity Mr.. A. S. How
lit is to call up in the house the bill to
put into effect the reciprocity treaty with
Mexico. The bill will state what articles
are to be admitted into the United States
free of duty, as prescribed by tho treaty,
putting the provisions OF the latter into
statute. Mr.. Hewitt thinks the bill will
pass without much opposition.
National Republican., 1884-12-02

CoHCur WIN tne secretary OF tne treas
ury in recommending the immediate sus-
pension of the coinage of silver dollars
and of the issuance of silver certificates.
This is n matter to which, in former COM
munications, have more than once in
vOked the attention of the national legis-
lature.
1t appears that annually for the past
six years there have been coined, in COM
pliance with the requirements of the act
of Feb. 2S, 1873, more than 2100O,0OO
silver dollars. The number now outstand.
ing is reported by the secretary to be
nearly ls50OO,OOO, whereof but little
moro than IOOOO000, or less than % per
cent, are in actual circulation. The mere
existence of this fact seems to me TO fur
nish of itself u cogent argument for the
repeal of the statute which has made such
fact possible
But there arc othor and graver consid-
erations that tend in the same direction.
The secretary avows his conviction
! that unless this coinage and the issueance
o. silver certificates be suspended, silver
is likely at no distant day TO become our
sole metallic standard. Tho commercial
disturbance and the impairment of ma
| tional credit that would be thus occasioned
can scarcely be overestimated.
hope that the secretary's suggestions
respecting the withdrawal from circula-
tlon of the 81 and 81 notes will receive
your approval. 1t is likely that con-
siderable portion of the silver now on
cumbering the vaults of the treasury
might thus find its way into the currency.
While trade dollars havo ceased. for the
present At least, to be an element Of active
disturbance in our currency system, some
provision should be made for their sur
render to the government. In view of
tho circumstances under which they were
coined and Of the fact that thoy have
never had q legal tender quality, there
should be offered for them only Q slight
advance over their bullion value.
The secretary, in the course Of his re-
port considers the proprioty of beautify-
ing tho designs Of our subsidiary silver
coins and Of 10 increasing their weight
that they may bear their duo ratio of
value to the standard dollar. His conclu-
sions in this regard are cordially approved.
In my annual message Of 1882 recon-
mendod the abolition of all excise taxes
except those relating to distilled spirits.
| This recommendation is now renewed.
In case these taxes shall be abolished,
the revenues that will still remain to the
government will, in my opinion, not only
suffice to meet its reasonable expenditures,
but will afford surplus large enough to
permit such tariff reduction as may seem
to be advisable, when tho resu Is of recent
aSam aSaTHHo Sov .smo WA anu oonl,noreaai % ueaIles
sh9li uayo SHOWN III Whao quarters those
fected.
OUR FOREIGN TRADE
One tho gravest of the problems which
appeal to the wisdom of congress for solu-
tion is the ascertainment Of the most
eloctive means for increasing our foreign
trade and thus relieving tho depression
under which our industries are now Lam
gushing, The secretary of the treasury
National Republican., 1884-12-02
Caucus OF Republican senators.

After the adjournment of the senate
the republican senators met in caucus. A
committee was appointed to reRrrange tho
membership of committees, more espec-
tally to fill the vacancies caused by the
death of Senator Anthony. The caucus
was in session only five minutes.
National Republican., 1884-12-02

make suitable provision for tho present
needs of the service.
DIPLOMATIC GRADES.
1t has been customary to define in the
appropriation acts the rank Of each diplu-
matte office to which q sal ary Is attached.
l suggest that this course be abandoned,
and that it be left to the president, with
the advice and consent Of the senate, to
fix from time to time the diplomatic
grade Of tho representatives Of this gov
ernment abroad as may seem advisable,
provision being made, however, as now
for the amount of salary attached to the
respective stations.
The Treasury.
She condition OF our finances and the
operations of the various branches of the
public service which are connected with
the treasury department are very fully
discussed in tho report of tho secretary
1t appears that the ordinary revenues
for tho fiscal year ended June 30, 1884,
were-
From internal revenue."..,...u... l2l ,5S6,O72 81
From all other sources""".."..., VI ,S6B,3O7 90
National Republican., 1884-12-02
Leaving surplus of................. 5zGO3, ..

Leaving surplus Oi...,...."..... bI6O3,J9b %
AS compared with the preceding fiscal
year there was net decrease of over
$4,000, 900 in the amount of expenditures
The aggregate receipts were less than
those OF tho year previous by about $j4,-
100000. The falling off in revenue from
customs made up nearly $20,000,00O of
this deficiency and about S23,0OO.000 of
the remainder was due to tho diminished
receipts from internal taxation.
The secretary estimates the total re-
ceipts for the fiscal year which will end
June 80, 1856, at 33O,O0O00O, and tho
total expenditures at S29J.620, ,201.16, in
which sum are included the interest on
the debt and the amount payable to the
sinking fund. This would leave sur
plus for the entire year of about $39, 9,0O0,-
900.
The value of exports from tho United
States to foreign countries during the
year ending June 80, 1884, was as follows:
Domestic merchandise....-.. .-...........s72i9 96i So
Foreign merchandise.".....".... l5,5lS, ,7j7
Total merchandise. ................. 7iO, ,5l3, 600
specie o. l33 3S3
National Republican., 1884-12-02
Total ordinary revenues.."... 3lS,5lo,
Tho public expenditures during the

Tho public expenditures during the
same period were:
For civil expenses s...............s 500 $40 ,O07 n
For foreign Intercourse. ............ 1,2GO, 766 81
For Indians ns........................ G,i75,Q0O 70
For 55,i2O, 22S 06
For the military establishment
including river aud harbOr im-
proycments and arsenals......... 80, ,42o, 6O3 90
For the naval establishment, in.
cluding vessels, machinery,
yards .,,......................,. 1892, COL a
For miscellaneous expenditures,
including public buildings,
lighthouses, aud collecting the
revenue S0397lO 90
For expenditures on account of
the District OF Columbia........ 10000 62
For interest on the public debt. 81 57S, ,37S As
For the sinking fund............".. 46 100 90 80
-
Total ordinary expenditures. 2O0,0l6,I7S SO
National Republican., 1884-12-02

The cotton and cotton manufactures
included in this statement were valued
at S2OS, ,900,4l5, the breadstufls at SlG2.-
544,7l5, the provisions at STA, ,4l6,5i7, and
the mineral oils at $47, ,l03,24S.
During the same period the imports
were as follows:
MCrcnanulSe'' O9I 693
Gold and silyer.""..."........-....... 37I26 262
National Republican., 1884-12-02
WILL NOT TOUCH THE TARIFF.


WASHINGTON. Dec. l, 1884.
National Republican., 1884-12-02

On the Goth of February last trans
mitted to the congress the first annual
report Of the civil service commission,
together with communications from the
heads of the several executive depart
monts Of the government, respecting the
practical workings Of the law under
which the commission had been acting.
The good results therein foreshadowed
have been more than realized.
The system has fully answered the OK
pectations of its friends in securing COM
petent and faithful public servants and
in protecting the appointing officers of
tho government from the pressure of per-
sonal importantly and from the labor of
examining the claims and pretensions of
rival candidates for public employment.
The law has had the unqualified sup
port of the President and of tho heads of
the several departments, and the mem-
bers of the commission have performed
their duties with zeal and fidelity Their
report will shortly be submitted, and will
be accompanied by such recommends
tions for enlarging the scope of the ex-
isting statute as shall commend them
selves to the executive ana the commits
sioners charged with its administration.
bankrupt Law.
In view of the general and persistent de-
mand throuRhout tho commercial COM
munity for a national bankrupt law,
hope that the differences of sentiment
which have hitherto prevented its enact
ment may not outlast tho present session.
Tho Cholera.
The pestilence which for the past two
years has boen raging in the countries of
the east recently made its appearance in
European ports with which we arc in con-
slant communication.
The then secretary Of the treasury, in
pursuance of a proclamation of tho Presi-
dent issued certain regulations restrict
ing, and for time prohibiting, the inn
portation of rags and tho admission Of
baggage of immigrants and of travellers
arriving from infected quarters. Lest
this course may have been without strict
warrant of law, approve the recon-
mendation of tho present secretary that
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1884-09-25
WILL GO OVER NIAGARA IN a
RUBBER BALL

New YORK, Sept. lG.-[special. J.
A Sun special from Buffalo says: Oliver
Wormald, plucky little fresco painter
of this city, announces that he intends to
20 over Niagara FAILS in rubber ball
for purse of S ,0i 0 as soon as arrange
mepts can be made. The ball Will be
fifteen leet in diameter, and made OF ruo-
Der thrce-quarters Of an inch thlcS' anu
covered with closely braided tarred rope
to prevent injury to the sphere IN case 1t
should strike the rock. Wormald expects
the ball to receive sufficient momentum
while in the rapids to huri it tar out in'a
the river, where he expects to be pickeo
up bv small boat which will be waiting
for him. Compressed air will be injected
into the ball, which will be hermetieal
sealed. and Wormald says he can live II
it ten minutes ii necessary. lie Is abou
81 years Old and was bora in London.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1884-09-25

Joe Rich, the Mormon who put the
annexation plank in the Democratic plat
form, was heard to say while riding N
the stage from Boise Cisy to kuna on
Sunday night after the convention, hav
inr first asked if there Were any Rtpub-
licans ON board, and no one replying:
II got on the platform committee for the
purpose of framing resolution as trap
to catch the vote Of the North and think
now We have got them. The record 81
cur candidate on that question IL su,i
that he can do nothing to further annex
alton without violating that record and
therefore think the South is safe if H.
be elected" or words to that effect.
We have this from person who wa
on board he stage at the time and hear
his expressions. He tells us 'hat he WA
surprised at the admission AS fully show
in the insincerity Of the author OF tha
resolution.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1884-09-25
-T----- -
VILLARO'6 WORK.

Wizards resume OF his management
Of the Northern Pacific has been made
public. In it he makes it appear that
Chief Engineer Anderson, 10 1880, es-'
tinated the total cost Of connecting the
two ends of the Northern Pacific, then
SOL miles apart, ut $50, ,773,9Oo; that II
January, 1852, when there were TO
miles OF road to build, the estimate was
Sz4 ,O0l 900 and asserts that the actus
costs Of constructing new road and oltain.
ins equipment was $39, ,658, ,656.9S; ~
excess over the first estimate Vi Sl8, 1888.
1876 ys, aud over the revived estimate of
Sl4, ,l56, ,056.08. One pcculiazity aboas
Wizards figures is the % cents. We d
not understand them. II is easy 70 -
how Halletts cxtlavagant expenditures
ON the Clark's Fork division could have
eaten up several OF the fourteen miliiOn
dollars, but it is hard to account for the
|
80 cents excess OF expenditure over the
estimate. Probably had Hallett built .
large portion Of the grade on the Clark I
Fork division with earth aud stone instead
oil ice and snow, the road would nut have
J cost as much as it did by 0S cents. q
had Hallett's real performances been =
; great as his blowing, ii is possible tho ods
90 cents would have been saved
The Oregonian plainly charges Villast
. with swindiug the capitalists of fostiant
and other places by allowing them =
\ continue to pour their wealth into Oresos
and Transcontinertsl when he knew ID
= stock was worth little more than th
n paper on which the certificates wer
n printed. Its,ycs them "vlctimiscd Trans
10 continental subscribers. ''n Accor ling :
IL that paper the scarcity Of money in Ii
E. Pacific Northwest is due to heavy invesl
,e meuts in Transcontinental stock, whic
D. money was used to build tho Northes
ID Pacific. The lcn.ral public have ri
e, road across the continent and the 6nal
it eial men are poor through Willard. A
ts one of the public, We say bully for Villas'
m -Wdiia IPdlla Union.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1884-09-25
THE DAY BEFORE AND THE
DAY AFTER

The day before the Democratic coi.-
ven,ion one Of our delegates to the Re
publican convention while at Boise had
the following conversation with Mr. HALEY
in regard to annexation.
MIR. HALEY said in reply to question
as to his views on that OF annexation
"Of course do not know whether | vii
be nominated or not, | have always bcei
opposed to annexation. aud | expect Il
stand ON the same basis if receive tn
nomination
4 They passed the annexation resolution
and put Haley on 'ht platform anu w
have not heard that he has bucked'