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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

Judge VIM A. Seay, recently sp.
pointed as Minister Resident to b.
Iva received his commission Monday
and qualified by taking the necessary
oath before Justice L. e. Carter, OF
Shreveport. The appointment OF
Judge Sesy is g good one. He is
not only : gentleman held in high
sstimation by those who know him,
but he has bean an untiring worker
N The Democratic party. Such man
deserve recognition, although we ara
sorry to say they are often disap-
pointed. Judge Seay win prove O
faithful and efficient Minister.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

There are men who seem TO- be
born intellectual heroes; man born to
cut their way through amy obstacles:
meu who only require to nsest difficult
ties in their way and those diAicalties
win be surmoanted They are like
the trees ON the mountain, that re-
quire no more than q bare covering
of soil on the rock to strike their
roots firmly down; nothing more than
the clear, serene. thin cir Of heaven
to throw abroad thar bsaaches in.
These are intellectual giants; and
they would acquire knowledge under
any circumstances; il ID impossible to
crush them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21
Not Honest But Smart.

The counting Of the cash in the
Treasury of the United States has
been completed, and the books bal
anced within two cents. This graft
flying fact has been made the text for
81 good many congratulatory editor
ials in Republican papers, and the
conclusion they all arrive at is that
there are no rascals to turn out, or
else there would have been a big de-
felt in the contents of the strong
box.
The fact of the matter is that no
body expected to find a deficit in the
cash accounts of the treasury. The
rascals that have been plundering the
people were too smart by far to take
cash out of the treasury, but they
robbed by indirection on scale which
never could have been reached If the
simple methods of ordinary bank
swindlers had been employed.
Recently MIR. John Roach present
ed to the government a bill of $685.
600 for storage for a monitor which
had been left at his ship-yard. Sim
liar outrages have been common in
the. management of public affairs
during the last twenty years, and
through such things the rascals have
reveled In their stolen thousands.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

"After all" says the Memphis APP
pea, 'the reconstruction measures
which secured to the colored race the
right to vote under the fourteenth
constitutional amendment seem to
have been a blessing in disguise, for
It was the increase in the Southern
vote by enfranehising the negro
which elected Cleveland President of
the United States These measures,
enacted TO perpesuate the power of
the Republican party, have been its
ruin. Had the Democratic party sue
ceeded in repeating the fourteenth
amendment, and the reconstruction
acts, as proposed by it's national con-
vention in 1868, Blaine would now
be President of the United States
The measures which the Democrats
denounced and which were enated to
strengthen the Republican party,
give to the South about thirty addi-
tional representatives in Congress
and the same increased number in
the Electoral College, which she
would not have under the fourteenth
amendment if the ballot had been
withheld from the colored race
Strike that number of votes from the
Electoral Colleges m the Southern
States and it will be seen that Blaine
and Logan would have been elected
in November instead of Cleveland
and Hendricks
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

Republicans were all in favor of
civil service reform---of course. They
turned out the Democrats and putin
Republicans. This was their reform
when they had power; now, when
they have lost power they want Re
publcans kept in and Democrats kept
cut. Convenient-yery.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

An exchange says it has been dis
covered that the Louisiana Lottery
has taken in $40,OO0,OOO over and
above prizes paid out, since it has
been in existence. No wonder, then,
that it can buy Legislatures, Cover
nors, Conventions, and in a large
measure rule the State Webster
Mass. Eagle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

The power of an enlightened pub
lie sentiment in correcting long-stand-
ing wrongs sanctioned by govern
ment is once moreconclusively shown.
The moral principle Of Great Britain
has long revolted at and remonstrat-
ed against the policy that forced
opium upon China, compelling it
against it's earnest pleadings to take
the poisonous drug that was enfee-
bling and running its besotted victims.
The great Chinese statesman, LII
Hung, bitterly contrasted the posi-
tons of the heather and Chinese ma
tons Of China and England when he
said that they could never meet on
common ground in the discussion of
the opium question. ''China," he
said, "views the whole question from
o moral standpoint, England from q
fiscal. England would sustain a
source of revenue in India, while
China contends for the lives and pros
perity of her people" A change for
the better, however, has come. The
British government in negotiating a
new treaty with China at last gives
the Chinese Government full control
over the taxation of opsam. We may
now expect to see the abolaion of the
opium-trade with that Empire, and
the removal of one of themosS o5ious
scandals of which Christian Power
has been guilty.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

1t present it looks as if the peace
OF Europe viii be preserved, but the
questions. involved are Of such o
character that war;, sooner or later,
win have to decide them. If Eng
land would grant the Irish people
the regulation of their own affairs
It would be one of the most power
ful nations on earth.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

England and Russia are trying to
patch up peace; France and China
have about settled their difficulties,
while the Canadians have whipped
the Indian half-breeds and captured
Riel. Cleveland still makessome re-
movalsr things generally are in good.
condition and the .goose hangs high"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

The editor of the Colfax Chronicle
Says that there is not one gallon of
whisky now drunk at that place to
fifty that were consumed before pro-
hibition went into effect. The same
can truthfully be said of the wards in
Rapides parish where prohibition is
the law.-Alecdndri0 TOww T'elk.
What picture of increased home
comforts, freedom from debt and
domestic happiness the above para
graph raises in the reflective mind
Neso Orleans City Item.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

Slow and sure is a good motto,
generally, but experience brings
knowledge and with it ability to act
quickly and yet judiciously. The
country 10 entitled to o Democratic
administration, and we doubt NOT
That President Cleveland will give it
one'of the best and one that viii be-
conducted by Democrats, and with
out much further delay.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

For some years the trade in eggs
and poultry has been rapidly increas
ing in Tennessee, and especially in
East Tennessee. Eggs, fowls and
dried fruit have brought more money
into that section than the wheat crop,
as shown by the railroad shipments.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

The New York Sun says: "The
necessity Of making clean sweep of
Republican oficeholders in the South
srn States is admitted even by the
Inugwumps." Yes, the verdict is
almost unanimous that the bummers
should be turned out.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

The Times says q stranger may
not be able to find. bread and meat
in Philadelphia, 'but II he misses
finding a drinking saloon it will be
his own fault"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

Alabama has O total of 324 saw
and lumber mills, IL planning mills,
rs sash, door and blind factories, and
staYe mills.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

The New York Herald considers
editorially the difficulties attending
the extradition of Maxwell, and con-
cludes that Sin due season" he will be
returned to st. Louis for trial. This
is the more to be expected, as there
are no st. Louis criminal lawyers in
Auckland. If there were, Maxwell
could, by paving his wearing apparel,
raise money enough to delay his case
indefinitely. Such is the competition
prodnced by the surfeit Of legal talent
IN st. Louis that a second-h hand over.
coat in fair preservation is said to be
sufficient to procure the discovery OF
technicalities which win delay muir
der trial from one to five years.
Missouri Republican.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

One Of the greatest bridges of the
world has been constructed by Chi
nese engineers over en- arm OF the
Chinese sea- It is OF stone, five miles
long, with 800 arches, each 20 feet
high, and o roadway 10 feet wide.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

The Missouri Republican says Mr..
Bayard has never made the mistake
Of trusting q Republican, and it is
not likely that he ever will.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

The horde of unsatisfed Republi-
can office-holders, seeking to be re-
tained under Democratic admins
tkstion completely put izs the beck
ground the array of Democrats seek
ing just recognition of their claims.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

The New Orleans Picayune says
the Texas and Pacific have been do
ing remarkably good passenger
business for the past few months.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

Germany proposes to hold its first
general exhibition of its products,
arts, and industries, at Berlin in
1888. No foreign exhibits viii be
admitted except those of Austria.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

Greece owes to Great Britain
debt of $4,000, 900, on which il only
pays l per cent. of interest. Russia
and France are creditors to Greece
on the same terms.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

The New York Tribune has the
cheek to claim that nearly 100000
Republicans remain in cAice 'sbecause
no fault can be found with them. -
The Boston Herald thinks s'this is O
poor reward for going slow"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21
Stray Sale.

betrayed befoxe p. B. Gilmer, J. p, for
u Ward 3, Bossier parish, by j. A. Ford,
and will be sold for cash, ut Collinsburg; La.
on Saturday, June %, 1855, Q Dark FROSTY
Cow, marked under half crop In the right ear
and underbit in lett ear, about eight years old.
Appraised 81 4I2.
The owner ID requested TO come forward,
prove property, pay charges. SO.
j. J. BARNES, Constable.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

In the United States under five
years of age the males slightly ex-
coed females, but between that and
sixty-nine years females are in the
preponderance.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

Tennessee, it is said, produces
more honey than any ether State IN
the Union, the annual crop being
over two million pounds. New York
comes in second best.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

The last spike, completing the
Memphis, Selma and Brunswick rail
road, was driven last week.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

The Christian Advocate says: 1.-THE
infdelity that is the most loud-mouth-
ed is the most empty-handed."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

France has not abandoned the
Madagascar expedition. Troops will
Be sent there from Tonquin.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

Statistics are cited to show that
there is one divorce for every sixteen
marriages in Ohio.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

Cool weather has materially injur-
ed the cotton crop IN Arkansas
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

Sunset Cox will go to Turkey. He
prefers that to remaining in Congress.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

If you want sunshine in your life,
make sunshine in your home.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

Plans are being perfected for
Turkish occupation of the Soudan..
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21
Condensed TSasae Table
Queen and Crescent
ROUTE.

In Effect Sunday, May Sd, 1885.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-11
A Midnight Battle.

a sensation occurred at the National
Hotel at Atlanta at 2 80 O'Clock yesterday
morning. At that time the night watch
man in his rounds heard some one in the
0all on the top floor, and hiding be saw a
white man creeping from door to door,
striking match at each room. He hur-
riedly awOke Col. Sloan, who Immediately
went up stairs, and, as he reached the
hallway, ne saw the burglar in the hall
and gave chase. AS soon as he saw the
Colonel the burglar rushed to the back
door, the Colonel following in hot
pursuit. The burglar reached the
doorway and, slamming it in his pursuer's
lace jumped to the top Of the building.
which was one story below. Col. Sloan
immediately summoned the police, and
Officer Meehan answered the call. He
hurriedly went to the top OF the building,
and in the dark saw crOuchiDg behind
chimney the burelar. Officer Meehan ad-
vanced toward him, when be suddenly
sprang forward, and in an instant began
dring at him with a pistol. The officer
returned the fire, advancing as he did
so. Five shots were fired in rapid sue
cessiOn, the two men being not three
eet apart. At the second shot of the
buglar the officer threw his hands TO his
head and dropped his pistol. The burglar
turned to run. and Officer Meehan. COW
cred with blood, gave pursuit, and clinch-
ed him as he was preparing to jump 70
the next building. The officer was I'M
armed and was bleeding profusely. The
man sprang from him and disappeared in
the darkness.
Officers Martin and Mercer hearing the
volley of shots from their beats two
blocks away, rushed to the scene and
going to the top Of the builing found
Officer Meehan covered with blood, but
still on the hot track OF bis assailant.
M trace Of the burglar could he found,
md it is not known If any of the officers
shots took effect.
Officer Meehan's face was blackened
with powder. and an ugly wound showed
on his forehead. The ball OF the burglar
struck him over the left eye and graz
ing his skull, passed through the skin
and came out over his ear. He was taken
10 DR.. Howell's home, where his wound
was dressed. The wound Is not very
serious one, though, had his head been
turned three inches, the ball would have
zone into the skull.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-11

Dr' William Simpson, who came from
missouri few years ago and settled at
braniord, speaks of building a sanitarium
st tEat place. He will be assisted by his
partner, DR.. Roberts, and perhaps one or
Two other physicians.
The land owned by Sir William Beyerle,
at the head of Lake Brau.iey, Orange
county, is being divided into town lots.
and the town there will be named after
that lake. 1t will be on the line of the
Florida Midland railway.
Parties are canvassing Suwannee and
FaIayette counties getting signatures to
petition to the respective boards of county
commissioners of each county, asking an
appropriation to build free draw bridge
across the Suwannee river at BranfOrd.
They are succeeding.
Franklin RediSter: It is rumOred that
a jug peddler, hailing from the region OF
ROCK Mills, has been travelling in the
upper section OF this county, sellng gal
lon jugs readily at IS % each. We sup
pose 1t was the donated contents which
made the jugs so desirable and precious.
Tavares Herald. Some idea of the
amount of correspondence which a real
estate agent is called upon to do may be
had from letter received by Camp &
Campbell, making inquiries concerning
land IN and around TaVares. The letter
contained SO points upon which the
writer wished information. and it reqnired
SIX pages to answer two pages of the
work of typewriter Few people have
any conception of the amount of labor
performed by a real estate agent in the
interest OF the town In which he resides.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-11

eminent, regardless of former political
pTocliVity.
"Second-Yes, but the preachers of ma
tional hate and meters OF race bitterness
find no more fruitful field in Florida than
in New York.
''Third-Naturally more Indifferent, as
they have learned that neither their free
dom nor any Of their civil or political rights
are dependent up0n the success of one and
the defeat of the other party. For the
same reason, and because the most intel
ligent realize that they are as much bene-
fitted as the whites by good government
many of them are throwing off their polit-
ical bondage. though not few are still
victims OF false teaching for political pur-
poses, and many Of the timid are re-
strained by fear of persecution by their
own race.
"Fouth. An objection to a return of the
dark days Of the past, the horrors of
which are blot upon humanity; an OBJ
lection exchanging government having
in view the best interest OF the whole
people for those whose highest aims were
individual and party aggrandIzements;
an objection to n resurrection OF that
theory of government under which the
surest passport to Federal office in the
South was the bitterest hostility to her
people,"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-11

MINER, GA, Nov 6.-Editor Of the
Morning NeloS: The MORNING NEWS q
few days ago had an editorial advocating
and setting forth the advantages of foreign
immigration to the South, and especially
50 as applied to the State of Georgia.
Admitting the facts as set forth, this, as
all other questions, has two sides, and, Of
course, the State would advance more
rapidly in capital and in voting popula-
ton. But to take the question upon our
interests as individuals, does not, or
would not the evils very much outweigh
the advantages gained, except as 10 land
or other property 4ecuatOrs? Is not the
individual peace and happiness much
greater with the good citizen now than 1t
would be with the country filled up by for
eign imm grafton? Does not the foreign
immigrants come here with considerable
faint Of what Is troubling the old world
a disrespect for law and order, and for
rights in ownership in whatever a man
has earned as his own?
And would there not be a great deal
more spent in keeping police force than at
present, and is not society much better
now than it would be with heavy. foreign
immigration? Taking all together, ard
admitting the right OF all persons to seek
and to select for themselves, whatever
section, country or cline they may think
best for their own good, prosperity and
happiness; and, admitting that good,
peaceable, honest and industrious people
are not Objectionable or injurious to any
nation, government, or section of country;
ana that our State might advance much
more rapidly as State or community,
both in wealth and population, taken as a
whole, but does anyone believe, or is it
reasonable to suppose, that bringing in
immigrants, to any considerable extent,
and Of an average class, that the pres
ent citizens and inhabitants OF Georgia,
taken either single families or taken by
the thousands OF families, as they now
exist over our State, ajority of which
being at the present occupied IN the cul-
tivatiOn of the lands of the State as farm
ers, would be benefited at the present
time, as a general thing, by adding to
their wealth or happiness or even to the
future prospects of themselves or their
descendants, in the way of increased
wealth, better homes and better society
than they would enjoy if left to the natural
increase and growth of the country with
out any pressure to have it densely pop
ulated by the mixed. moving and surging
masses of the old world!
Yours Respectfully, NJ.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-11
FLORIDA.


Eight or ten more teachers are wanted
Tor Nolusia county.
Daniel Mcleod has held the office OF
county judge OF Walton county 40 years.
A Mr.. Brown. Of Collington, Md, con-
templates opening In Palatka a sash, door
and blind factory.
capt John ID. Graham, OF Orange
WV, took 300 bushels of sweet potatoes
from one acre OF land.
~ Ane Union Congregational Society OF
4aVarcs have adopted the weekly enyel.
ope system OF offerings.
There has been quite an exodus OF the
colored population from Tavares, as the
result OF the recent arrests.
Iceland has ten-pn alley, n choral
union with 1870 mem bers. a new barber.
'hop' ana will soon have new paper.
+. g. Hewitt, Of New SMYRNA, DEPUTY
sherln has been appointed deputy collec-
"r oil revenue by Collector 7. +. Drudy.
Norris Benjamin, OF Ocaia, has entered
SUIT against the Florida Southern Railway
Sohpany FOR ejecting him from their road
lew days since.
Ieo. Lawton, one OF Lake Brantley,s
enlerprising residents. Ia laying out two
aeres OF land in the rear Of Lake Brant-
"y chapel for "a cemetery.
, The frame is up for a colored church on
we west side Of the Florida HALLWAY and
,raFlgation track, At the west end Of
A1'afes' II will DO about 30 by 40 feet.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-11
Type-Writing NIachines.

From the Macon (Gtt.) Telegraph.
Prof. w. ID. Williams, principal of the
Georgia Academy for the Blind, was in
the Telegraph Office Monday. and from
MIN was learned an important fact. The
typewriter, now in general use all over
the world, was the invention of Macon
man.
1t was before the war that Prof. Will
liams turned his attention to the lnven-
tiOn of device by which the blind could
write. There was then in use, and is
now, an arrangement by which a steel
point made characters upon paper. The
point made an indentati0n in the paper
and the pupils learned to read from the
characters from the reverse side of the
paper. AS may be imagined, this was not
only a troublesome method. but a very
slow one.
To overcome these disadvantages, Prof.
Williams set about devising a machine.
He planned it at odd hours, and then
sought the assistance of Mr.. Archie Nc
Queen, now dead, but who was at that
time one of the best machanists in the
country. A portion of the machine was
made by Mr.. Mcqueen and a portion
made North.
When the machine was completed it
proved to be a success. The type were
not of steel, as in the writer of to-day,
but the same as used in every printing
nffice. They were fastened on a cylinder
which worked on gudgeOns, and while the
work of the machine was as good as that
Of the present machine, it was somewhat
slower. This detect would have been
overcome had not the war come on. This
event prevented the professor from per-
fecting or even using his invention, and
it was finally lost amid the cares and
worries OF reconstruction.
When the professor again thought OF
taking up the machine and adopting It
for Use in the academy, he heard of the
invention Of the machine now in use. He
purchased one, and found that in twelve
essential points the new machine was the
same as his own.