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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-02-12
GOLD IN GEORGIA.
Revival of the Fever Of Is4o-An Old In.
dian Tradition in Barlow County.

| n&SlSaA Oh the EeVeT OF 1S4O-An OI0 In
| dian Tradition in Barlow County.
The revival of the Georgia gold in
terest is attracting many practical
miners from the west and southwest
where the fever has somewhat subsidized
and marvellous stories are being told Of
the richness of the ores found in MANY
localities in the northern part of the
State. Dahlonega has long been famous
for its mines. The State agricultural
school is situated there, and after hard
rain the boys flock into the streets to
| pick up nuggets that have been washed
out of the sand. Mines are being dis
covered everywhere, and old traditions
are revived by white-haired settlers
which incite men, young and old, to
join in the hunt for the veins they tell of.
Near Gainesville an aged farmer tells
the story of an Indian chief which has
aroused the interest of the neighbour
hood to fever heat. When Governor
Troup drove out the Cherokee tribe and
settled it in the West, this chief returned
to old haunts in Barlow County, and
gathering all his white friends about
him, assembled a little mound sur
rounded by an amphitheatero of hills. He
turned himself round slowly three times.
saying in his native tongue, From
where | stand | see a mine that
would buy the richest kingdom
in the world" He disappeared
suddenly, and was never seen again.
Some say he spoke of a silver mine,
others believe he meant a gold one, but
whatever it was dilligent search has
been made throughout the neighbor-
hood. Rich mines of manganese and
gray iron ore have been found by those
in search of the gold and silver; copper
has been discovered in large quantities,
plumbago and mica and yellow ochre
unearthed, as it were, by accident
all showing the marvellous mineral
wealth of this section. Numerous old
shafts have been found, shafts which
must have been worked from a half to
three-quarters of a century ago. In ex-
cavating an eighty-foot cut on the Gin
cinnati and Georgia railroad, square
hewn timbers in an excellent state of
preservation were removed from the
roadbed? No outlet to the shaft through
which they must have been lowered
there was ever discovered.
A murder or accident forty wears
back was unearthed short time ago by
the discovery of an old shaft. at the
bottom of which the skeleton of the vic
tim was found.
Fort Mountain, in Murray County, is
celebrated for wonderful spring which
boils up from its very top. Near the
spring are the remains of a fort, from
which the mountain takes its name,
built. it is said, by De Soto to guard
against the attacks of the Indians
while his men worked the rich gold
mines OF the range of which this noun
tain is spur.
Miners are prospecting in the neigh
borhood with great diligence, and as
much excitement prevails there as
characterized the recent strike in the
Cohuttah Mountains, of which the Trib-
une spoke the other day.-N. Y. 1rib-
U7ae.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-02-12
FOB OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
MOTHERS BOY.

Have you seen gallant eourtier.
With bright and pleasant face.
Ever ready, at his Queens command.
To serve with loyal grace?
Have you marked him walk beside hel
With step of pride and Joy?
You would know him in a moment
Mothers boy!
Quick to note the passing trouble
In the face to him so dear;
Always eager to espOuse her cause
With heart unknown to fear.
Oh, the twining arms, the kisses,
Smoothing Ger her days annoy!
Where's the mother who'd not miss him?
Mothers boy.
what to Der the years that, ebbing,
Leave her lonely on lifes shore?
what 10 him the youthful hours that fly,
And light his path no more2
She is stlll the queen he worShiped
With service crowned with 10y.
He will be to her forever
Mothers boy!
Peerless chivalry of childhood,
Tell us who has gained the prize
In the war and struggle of the world.
Among the great, the wise?
TITS the heart that never faltered
In life s dearest, best employ
Faithful service to a mother
Mothers boy!
George Cooper IN Golden Ddis
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-02-12
ADVICE TO GENTLEMEN.

TO BE Read With the Hope That 1t DO ga
Not Apply to Yourself, Your Friends or
Your Relatives.
The following article has been sent rs
with the request to publish it. We trust
1t does not apply to any of the relatives
or friends of our readers: Allow me to
give some advice to gentlemen. from
twenty to forty years of age, who can
see SO many faults in the opposite sex
and none in their own. As it has now
become fashionable for gentlemen to
express publicly their disapprobation of
the dress, manners, habits and educa-
ton OF the female community at large,
think we ladies, in justice to ourselves,
are now called upon to retaliate, and
also should be permitted to make public
our opinions of the sort of men which
we would, and would not like to marry.
The moral, sensible, steady, industrious,
honorable man. who can work for a
living, besides putting his hand to any
little manly job about his own house.
such as mend a chair or table, paint
door, plaster fire-grate, white
wash the ceiling, paper the bedroom.
clean his own boots, and be a
gentleman withal in company, is inst
the sort of man for me or any sensible
lass to marry. But your empty-
headed, self-conceited. starch-necked.
cigar-smoking. MISUNDERSTANDING, money.
hunting, lady-killing, lazy, loungin9.
selfish, plotting, scheming, mean, de-
celYlng, pomatum plastered animals.
who call yourselves Lords of Creation
you re no more fit for matrimonv than
spider is to command a regiment,
Inc iaet Is my dear fellows, you want,
generally speaking, more common
sense and less puppyism, more knowl-
edge and less foppery, more manliness
ana less lmpudenee, more honor and
less talsehood, more brains and less
mnstaehe! Shave off your mustaches
ana be more like men and less like
monkeys; throw away your cigars and
walking-sticks, take a useful book into
Your fingers and try if YOU can nick mn
q bit OF common knowledge, so that in
Time you may learn to be what the God
OF Nature designed. submit the above
to the Albert-ehained, wash-ninned
brass-ringed. false-fronted, gambling
horse betting paragons of wit, fashion
and frivolity. who are looking out to |
catch any rich woman who could he
TOOL enough to marry them. And. Sc
rl,ousiy speaking, it is much to be de-
piored that such creatures as these.
without affection, knowledge, means.
% useful capability whatever, should be
selected for husbands, and a change in
MS order ofthings is consummation
aa,sYoltly to be wished Tor, Wester.
larel. ''s'"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-02-12
Henry Ward Beecher tells this

Henry Ward Beecher tells this al
his own expense: "a regiment of lun1-
bermen-big, tall fellows, Subjective,
from Maine - were passing through
Brooklyn in '62. There were about
1000 in all. and marched them up to
Plymouth Church, invited them in, ans
gave every man of them whole seal
with cushion in it. There they all sat
with their knapsacks on, and | got on
the platform and began to preach. Ny
friends, it's the only time in my life ]
ever preached a whole congregation to
sleep" IN. Y Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-02-12

In Southern Alaska rain falls dur
ing three days of the week. The other
four days are damp and foggy. Ihs
winters are comparatively mild,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-02-12

Fifteen orange trees near Plant City,
Fia,, yield this year 10000 oranges
Io,oO0 to the tree. These trees are
about forty years old, and furnish an
other Illustration of the vitality of the
orange tree In Heridss
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-02-12
- FUN OF CITY LIFE.
Fun for the Boys, but Not for the Young
Man Who Has Rooms Under Them,


Man Who Has Rooms Under Them.
| In a second story window of an up
town residence, fronting on a cross
street, a dignifed young man sat read
ing one warm Sunday morning moi
long ago. The rising sun was preparing
to ride high in the heavens, and people
were going to church. The smoke of a
cigar curled upward from the youno
mans lips. and he leaned idly from his
window. watching the people passing
along the sidewalk below him. 4
stately citizen, clad in conscious virtue +.
a white waistcoat and some other gar
ments, came walking along. When the
citizen arrived at point directly under
the window where the young man sat.
he suddenly clapped his hand to his
ear, stopped short and looked up at the
young man. The latter looked calmly
down and the citizen moved on.
A thin gentleman passed moment
afterward, twirling cane as he passed
| along. Below the window he, too,
stopped, rubbed his nose violently. and
looked up. The young man again
looked down calmly, but with a little
surprise on his features The thin pen-
tleman looked at him suspciously and
moved on, and an angular person of
the female sex soon followed. She. too.
abruptly stopped, famed her left ear
with her hand and looked up. The
young man blushed and half retired
into the room.
"Wretehn' Kissed the angular female,
and passed on.
The young man looked at himself in
the mirror, but saw nothing in his an
pearance which should impede traffic
In the street below. He returned TO the
window just in time to find fat woman
shaking her fist at him and hear her
threaten to call police. The driver of
a cab sawed at the bits to keep his
horse from starting on a run when il
reached point opposite the window,
ana an aged newsman dropped his
STOCK, put his hand to his eyes and
danced up and down with rage.
The horror-stricken young man closed
the window, drew the curtain and
wondered if he or the populaee were
going mad, while in the room directly
over his head two boys Rugged two pea
shooters to their breasts and voted that
they We're having more fun than one
could shake stick at.-M Y. Times.
In certain counties in Eastern Ken
lucky scores of girls are said to marry
at the age of twelve and thirteen wears.
and by the time they should first be
thinking of sweethearts are often
mothers of large families. A recent
traveller who went through much of the
country on foot says that men, too, as
soon as they can raise cash enough to
put up cabin and buy stuff enough to
make living in it possible, are ready to
assume the duties and trials and cares
OF married life, and many of them find
wives before their boards begin to
sprout or before they know where the
money is to come from to buy food for
the wedding feast Chicago Journal.
Fifteen orange trees near Plant City,
Ia, yield this year 10000 oranges
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-02-04
The New Orleans Exposition.

IL is perhaps to be regretted that the
managers of this great euterpI Use threw
open the doors Ia the public while here
was vet 81 much tn do To place the En-
position in complete order. There was
some excuse for this in the unexpected
magnitude which the enterprise as
>umed, and then some exhibitors al
ways will he tardy, no matter how
much time Is allowed them for com
pleting their arrangements besides,
the railroads seem Ia nave made very
inefficient provision tor handling the
great quantities If freight The incom
pleteness of the show AT first was how
ever, probably less OF "A drawback than
the weather, rain having falling al
most continuously for the first three
weeks With the getting OF the display
IN perfect running order, and the ad
vent of brighter skies, there is now "A
much larger attendance of visitors than
there was AT first: and the managers are
looking confidently for a steady in
crease.
February will, according TO all for
mer experiences with the weather. in
New Orleans, he the most pleasant
month in which to visit the great En-
liage is green, and there is an abund
ance of flowers and fruit, while the air
is a. balmy as that of May day at
the North. The Louisiana jockey Club
races commence January 20, and racing
is announced for every intervening day
for five or six weeks. \ contract, il Is
said, has also been entered into for a
series of Spanish bull fights. but this
cruel sport. il is hoped, the managers
will refuse To tolerate. In February,
also, will occur the great Marii Gras
Carnival, "A festival of Spanish origin,
entirely unknown in the rest of our
country, but which has always marked
the season of greatest activity III the
metropolis of the Southwest.
With all the last named attractions,
added to those ofthe great Exposition,
which should be at its best next month,
New Orleans ought To be crowded with
people from every part of our country,
and likely il will be. - Scientific amer
lean.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-02-04
Texas Letter.

When We crossed the Louisiana and
Texas line, on the 10th of January,
seated in one of the splendid coaches of
the Texas and New Orleans Railroad,
the weather was as soft and balmy as IA
Nav day in Kentucky. Soon we We're
gliding across the wide spreading
prairies, which wer, covered with herds
of cattle, horses and sheep, as far as the
eye could see, and so it continued all
the way To the city of Houston, where
we dined and changed cars tor Hemp
stead, between which places the country
was very much the same, with an DC
casional run through dark, heavy
pine forest and out into the open prairie
again, where the sun seemed setting
behind the grass. The country around
and between Hampstead and Brennan
is magnificently grand, with the city of
Independence seated upon an elevation
to our right, with her towers and spires
plainly visible in the glittering sun
lirht ut evpntida. Hero is the great
Baptist Institution of TeXas-BaS ior
University-presided over 10y President
William Carey Crane, a grand man,
originally from Maryland and Virginia
At Hampstead we again change ears
ami lake The Central Texas Railroad
for Austin, where we arrived about
dark and took lodging at the Avenue
Hotel, one of the most reputable
institutions of the kind in the city. We
were received with that genial hospital.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-02-04
The Battle OF Shiloh.

The survivors of the brave Seven
teenth Kentucky Volunteers will read
with interest the following extract
from General Grants article on toe
battle of Shiloh i'm the February Cent
my. The open field referred TO was
right i'm their front. General Grant
says:
''Shiloh was the most severe battle
fought at the West during the war, and
but few in the East equaled il for hard,
determined fighting. | saw an open
field. In our possession on the second
d,y, over which the Confederates had
made repeated charges the day before.
so covered with dead that il would
have been possible To walk across the
clearing, in any direction, stepping on
dead bodies, without a foot touching
the ground. On our side Federal and
Confederate were mingled together in
about equal proportions; but on the
remainder of the field nearly all were
Confederates. On one paIt, which had
evidently not been plowed for several
years. probably because the land was
poor, bushes had grown up, some to the
height Of eight or ten feet. There was
not one of hese left standing unpierced
by bullets. The smaller ones were all
emf down.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-02-04
W. II. TAYLOR
Beaver Dam Notes.
February 2nd, 1850.

February 2nd, 1889.
E;hto, Ne,,dE
our newsmnnger failed last week To
report the marriage ot our young Trend
Charlie NJ Conper, To Miss M0llie Hos
kins, q. the Providence neighborhood,
which took place AT the residence OF the
brides father. on the evening o. the
22nd ult Charlie is one of our boys,
and we wish tor him and his young
bride success and happiness through
life.
DIR. Mckinney, brother of our neigh
bor, X. j. Mckinney, has located AT
this place to practice his profession, that
of dentistry. We understand that he
is "A graduate of the Medical and Dental
department Of the Vanderbilt Univer
Sity. which with his good references
entities him To the confidence ant
patronage of the public.
The school Al this place, closed on
Friday night last, with very credltable
exhibition 10y the pupils. The attend
ance was large and orderly.
The Methodist Quarterly meeting
was held at Goshen. on Saturday and
Sunday. The Presiding Elder, Rev. q
II. Browder was in attendance ant
preached impressive and edifying ser
mons. He will preach at the Liberty
church on Friday night next, at &.
o'clock. The meeting at Goshen has
been continued for several days will
every indication of good success.
We noted in former communication
the sale of the Bob Chinn farm b,
Messrs Ham Barnes and Ham Miller
Nv. l...r,, II, hat fI. traln nn
consummated, but the farm is still fo
sale on very reasonable terms.
HTRAL.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-02-04
West Point Baptist Church.

This church closed series of meet
ings of IS days continuance last night.
Thirty. five professed faith in Christ,
twenty nine were received for member
ship aud several backsliders renewed.
The candidates will be baptized Oh the
second Sunday in February The
pastor, Rev. ID. j. X. Maddox, was
aided by the writer. The members OF
the church and hosts of christian people
in this beautiful and fertile section of
country Were quite ready from the be-
ginning of the meeting to the end for
every good word and work, and never
have seen community of christians
work in more unanimous, prompt and
harmonious concert in the one grand
enterprise of bringing souls to Christ.
Ii is quite remarkable also that the
meeting continued with unabated in
terest through series of sudden and
severe changes of weather. Rain,
storm, mud, sleet, snow, ice and cold
were all overcome, many of the con-
gregatiou walking six or eight miles
per day in attending the services.
+. ii. MADDOX,
McHenry, Ky.
January seth, 1855.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-02-04
In Memoriam
McHenry, Ky
January S9th, 1885.

Arthur p, infant son of 5. 4. and :.
X. Leach, Ohio county, Ky, after an
illness of eighteen days, babe the call of
Him who said. "Sufiar little children
to come unto Me and forbid them not,
for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven"
Arthur was seven months and PC
days old when he died. Another bud
has doomed in the beautiful garden
above; another thread is laid in the
chord that binds the living to the
Celestial City. ] wish | could tell you
how sweet he was with his sparkling
blue eyes and rosebud cheeks. Who
can describe them ? Only those who
have known aud loved other Jewels as
precious to them as Arthur was to us,
can know anything about him. He was
the very life and joy of home. Ii
seemed so short time to father. moth
er and the dear grand-mothers, who
loved him as only grandmothers can.
II was hard to say "Thy will be done"
He had grown to be part of the very
life of those around him when the
angels came and took him away 10 the
pearly gates, which swung wide open
( for the pure white baby soul to pass,
where it has long since been said Suf-
fer little children to come unto Me"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-02-04
Bayard on Cleveland.

Senator Bayard writes as follows III
a letter Ia f,iend
1T is certainly my hope that the
methods which have built up the abuses
we see eli every hand i'm the Govern
ment may not be followed by the
expected authorities. IL they are the
election will have been to little purpose
and not worth the effort il has cost. !
believe Mr.. Cleveland is an aflirma-
lively honest marriott mere abstain
or from dishonesty-and with this rs
the rule of his Administration, great
relief must come. The task of wrestling
the taxing power Of the country from
the organized bands of self interest that
have radually come to consider they
are private, roo public, powers, will
he severe indeed.
"The civil service of ministerial
offices will gain in efficiency aud re
liability from nothing so much as sense
of consciousness of moral independence
and a release from a slavish obedience
to the dictates of the machine which
takes their money and destroys then
manhood. look hopefully to the in
auguration of these reforms"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-02-04
improvement Of Rough River,

4 petition Is being circulated in
the city asking our Representative in
Congress. Hon. John J. kleiner, Ia
Use his influence in securing an APP
preparation for the improvement of
Rough creek in Kentucky.
y Rough creek, or Rough river,
more properly stating it-for the
stream is navigable for small boats
even at this time-is an important
tributary of Green river, and the
citizens along its banks have large
trade relations with this city, and
are anxious for increased trade facil-
tiles with our merchants and manu-
facturers. Should the general gov
eminent purchase the franchise of
the Green and Barren river Naviga-
tion company and open up Green
and Barren rivers TO full navigation,
the advantages To this city cannot
fairly be estimated. The Green
river section Is properly tributary 10
this city. and if our citizens exert
themselves a. they should in helping
our neighbors in Kentucky in secur-
ing the necessary government aid la
open up free river communication
with this CITY the immense trade and
commerce of that section will
naturally come b. III.
Our fellow citizen, +. G.. Ragon,
Esq. is actively pushing this matter,
and it l. hoped his efforts will be
seconded bv all our merchants and
manufacturers.
Brownsville Journal.
The above is move in the right
direction. We need and must have
Rough river made navigable, and
every possible effort should be made
to secure it. We should at once send
an able man to Washington to pres
the matter through. We nominal,
Judge 4. b. Baird as the proper
man. to be sent at once TO Washing
ton to aid in securing the necessar,
appropriation and we hereby start ;
subscription to defray his expenses
heading il with $500. Who vii
second the motion and follow suit
Let Us strike while the iron is hot
take the tide at the food. and secur,
the glorious results of easy and cheal
transportation.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-02-04

John Wolfe, who was serving ten
year sentence for forgery, and who
was the leader of the cunvicts who at
tempted To escape last August, died in
the penilentiary last Friday from the
wounds received on that occasion.
The M,fL0diSf Standard formerly
published at Owensboro, has been
moved Ia Princeton, and is being pub
lished 10y Rev. J. :. Scobee, presiding
elder and Rev. B. Denton, formerly ed
itor of the Butler county NerS.
John Smith aged ~ years, says the
Messenger, was drowned in Rhodes
creek, near Birk City. ON Monday oI
last week while skating. Smith was n
step. son of John Wimmes.
The Bowling Green Times says the
oldest person in Warren county is Mrs,
/ Lucy Romans, who lives in the vicinity
of Hadley. She is 81 years of age, in good
health, is sprightly and can see as well
a. most persons AT sixty. Her young
est child is ~ years Of age.
A chestnut fence rail made by Ahra
ham Lincoln in 1894, in Hardin county
has been sent To the New Orleans Tx
position. Ii will be placed 10y the side
of the blue coat made 10y Andy John
sol when he Was tailor, which wa
recently sent Ia New Orleans from
| Tennessee.
There is now living in Marion count,
an old woman named Charlotte OarC
Lsnpkin Shuck, who WAS born Marcl
18th, 1850, and il therefore in the ~
year Of her age There il a genealogical
record now in possession of Nr. james
Iampkin, who is over ~ years old an'
TO whose great grandfather, Gard
Charlotte originally belonged.
Ben Green. living in the Pickaway
neighborhood, says the Messenger, was
killed last Thursday 10y falling tree.
Mrs. Jennie z. Cary, wife Of Clip T
Cary, of Calhoon, died IN Sunday night
of last week.
The Frankfort capital say: The MAJ
who boasts that he has never lost al
hours sleep on account ola woman
who swesrs he never sent valentine
or penned love letter; spent "a months
salary in 'scorting his sweetheart, %
made AN eternal fool out of himself gen
orally on account of a pair of eyes %
pretty mouth, is the chap who ~oul'
steal his mothers wedding ring an'
pawn il for the purpose of lending on
money on usury.