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

The Manufacturers Record, of
Baltimore, in recent article in re.
gard to the rapid growth and deyel.
opment of the South, says of the
press:
Every dollar spent In building up
a first class local paper in a town
will be returned many fold, for
even if the money thus spent in ad.
vertising should not bring a direct
profit, it would be more than repaid
by the immense good that -four.
ishing paper necessarily accom-.
plishes for the town in which it is
published. To say that a town is
judged by its papers is only to state
a truth that everybody knows.
Some may say that one paper is
naturally more pushing and enter
prising than another-very true; but
no paper can be enterprising unless
its business justifies, and the seem.
ing lack of enterprise in many coun.
try papers is often solely from the
lack of adequate financil means.
Our ideas as to dozens OF Southern
towns, that we have never seen,
are formed by their local papers,
and we imagine that, judging sim
ply by these papers, we can almost,
without a mistake, name the town
whose business men are pushing
and energetic, and then; on the
other side, name those where enter.
prise Is almost unknown.
IF the people of any Southern
town are anxious to see its popula.
ton steadily increase, the value of
their property enhanced, and all
their business interests prosperous,
the first and most important stsp to
take is to furnish their local paper
with such support as will enable its
publisher to furnish a thoroughly
live paper, and then pretty soon the
outside world will begin to hear OF
the paper, and then of the town, and
presently they will begin to make
inquiries as to what kind of @ town
it is, as place of residence or for
business, and then il the place
really has good advantages, it has
started on the road to prosperity.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

There are two classes of sins. There
are some sins by which man brushes,
wounds INDEPENDENTLY Injuries his
brother man: those sins which speak
Of Q bad, tyrannical and selfish heart.
Christ met those with denunciation.
There are other sins by which man
INJURIES himself. There Is a life of
reckless indulgence; there is career
OF yielding to ungovernable propen-
stiles, which most surely conducts to
wretchedness and ruin, bat makes a
man an object Of compassion rather
than of condemnation.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

True sorrow-sorrow to God
softens, not hardens, the soul. It
opens sympathies, for it teaches what
others suffer; it gives deeper power
Of sympathy and consolation, for
only through suffering can you win
the Godlike abiHty of feeling for
others pain; il expands affection, for
your sorrow makes you accordant with
the 'fstill, sad music" of humanity.
a true sorrow is that 'sdeep grief
which humanizss the soul.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21
Obituary..

Died, at the residence of her son, DR.. T. NJ:
Marks, in Marshall, Texas, on May 9th, 1885,
Mrs. r. L. MARKS
Mrs. Marks was born January %, 1919, in
Fairfield District, South Carolina, and remov-
ed to Bossier parish In lS4S. She was the
widow of Nicholas Marks, before the war
widely known, wealthy aud respected citizen
of this parish.
The death of this estimable lady brings sor-
row to q large circle of relatives and friends,
co whom she had endeared herself by her gen
tie ways and loving disposition. Held in very
high estimation by all who knew her, she de-
voted herself to the performance of the duties
of life in q calm christian spirit. Her faith
assured her that beyond the trials of this life
there would be rest and peace and joy for
call death is no death; it is but going
"Out of the shadow of sadness
Into the sunshine of gladness
Into the light of the blest;
Out of the land very dreary,
Out of the world of the weary,
Into the rapture of rest.
"Out Of today's sun and sorrow,
Into O blissfuf tomorrow,
Into day without gloom;
Out of land filed with signing
Land of the dead and the dying
Into land without tomb.
"Out of life of eommotiun,
Tempest-swept oft as the ocean,
Dark with the wreck drifting DER,
Into land calm and quiet;
Never storm cometh nigh it,
Never a wreck on It's shore.
"Out of land In whose bowers
Perish and fade all the flowers,
Out of the land of decay,
| Into the Eden where fairest
OF fowrets, and sweetest and rarest,
Never shall wither away.
] "0ut of the world of the wailing,
Thronged with the anguished and ailing
Out of the world of the sad,
Into the world that rejoiees-
World of bright visions and voices
Into the world of the glad"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

A life of religion is a life of faith
and faith is that strange faculty by
which man feels the presence Of the
invisible-exactly as some animals
have the power ofseeing in the dark
That is the difference between the
Christian and the world.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

u Last week burglars entered
Mr.. 9. w. McKinney's residence at
Haughton and carried a large
trunk out, and then went to the
head of the bed in which MIR. Nc.
Kinney was asleep, and got his gun
and pistol, making their escape with
the gun and pistol through a back
door as soon as Mr.. Mckinney made
q noise getting up. THIS is the sec.
ond robbery committed in Haugh.
ton recently.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

Excitement is the natural reward
of toll; but that is healthy excite
ment. Felt by the philosopher, it is
delicious, calm, and productive OF
valuable productions; but felt without
mental or physical effort, ending in
itself, and existing only for the sake
of itself, it is, by just law, self-le.
structive; just as spirits may be taken
during hard exercise, but at the per
of him who takes them in sedentary
life.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

LIFE. - Enjoyment, blessedness,
everything we long for, is wrapped
up in being. Darkness, and all that
the spirit recoils from, is contained in
this idea, not to be. It is in virtue
of this unquenchable impulse that
the world, in spite OF all the misery
that is in it, continues to struggle on.
What are war, and trade, and labor,
and professions? Are they all the
result oil struggling to be great ? No,
they are the result OF struggling to be.
The first thing that men and nations
labor for is existence. Reduce the
nation or the man to their last re-
sources and and only see what mar
velous energy of continuance the love
of being arms them with. Read
back the pauper's history at the end
of seventy years-his strange, sad
history, in which scarcely single
day could insure subsistence for the
morrow--and yet learn what he has
done these long years in the stern
struggle with impossibility to hold
his being where everything is against
him, and to keep an existence whose
only conceivable charm is this, thai
it Is existence.
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u The Grand Lodge, Knights
of Pythias, met at New Iberia on
the 9th instant, and concluded its
labors on the 9Th. Monroe was Sc
lected as the place OF meeting for
the seventh annual session, the first
Tuesday in May, 1885. Among the
omcers elected for the current year
are: ]. q. Shepherd, Grand Chan.
ceiior, Shreveport; and w. Benton
Boggs, Grand Inner Guard. Red
Land. The New Orleans Times.
democrat makes the following men.
ti0n Of these worthy gentlemen
ID. Henry Shepherd, ESQ.,. of
Shreveport, La, grand chancellor.
u wen known throughout the State
as o lawyer and journalist of sterl.
Ing intellectual and social qualities.
aua eminently qualified for the DO
s'tion rendered him.
"Mr. W. B. Boggs of Bossier
parish, grand inner guard, is identi.
hea with the order In his section
ana Is as well, q Mason of high
s'anoing. His continued advance
ment will without doubt rebound 10
the order in his district
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21
Final Account.

Succession of z. So In District Court,
Doles, deceased. Bossier Parish, La3
Notice is hereby given that Laura A. Doiess
~ Administrative of the succession Of 2. B
Doles, deceased, has this day filed In the
trict Court for Bossier Parish, La, her state
ment of debts and final account 20 sdministrs.
trix of above succession. Now, If opposition
to said account be not made within the time
prescribed by Law, il will be homol0gxted and
made the Judgment OF the Court.
Given under my official signature 9nd seal
of Office, at Bellevue, La, May 81, 1885.
A. r. THOMPSON,
Clerk Bossier District Court
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u For the size of our town we
have as good Sunday school in point
of attendance, interest, and good
accomplished, as can be found in
any parish In the State.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21
Married:

At Shreveport. on the 18th instant, by Rev
w. 5. Penick, pastor of the Baptist Church,
Mr.. Thomas Morris, of this parish, and Miss
Minnie Williams, of Shreveport.
Iu this parish, on the 18th instant, by Rev.
e. B. Foust, Mr. Richard E. Lee and Miss
E. Allen.
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SEssNas Sale.

Tgstrayed before w. n. Blsdsoe, j. r., Ward
Z 6, Bossier parish, by Banks MurH, on
May LIST, 1885, and win be sold &c Hsughton,
La, within the legal hours Of sals, ON Satur.
day, june 18th, 1886, one small brindle cow,
three years old, with . calf about two months
old. Mark: two under.bits and split In each
ear. Branded on right hip "Y So or ~ 81
calf, unmarked. Appraised ct $40.
The oW ner is requested to como forward,
prove property, pay charges, &c.
EN-. PLATT, Constable.
May 9Th, 1885.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

Succession of Millerl In District Ceurt.
Scruggs, deceased. Bossier Parrish, La.
WK7hersas, Elisa a. Scruggs, adminlstratEix.
w has this day fled statement Of debts
and final account of her administration OF
above Succession, notice is hsreby given that
any opposition TO the same must BE- fled Tn the
Clerks Office within the time prescribed By
Jaw, or the same VIII Be hOmoiogased ana
Witness my hand aud Official seal, this 2lst
day of May, 1885. o.xcso~, <r.-.
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I'm Saturday, May 30, 1886, ! win sell at shs
~ Jordan Mims places situated in Hasgiel
parish, La, property Of nin0f heiss Of JordaE
Minis estate, consisting u Is head stock eae
tie, 20 head Of sEaesbs 2mnles, hGEe&n, ward
Terms Of Eale-Cash, without the benefit u
apprsisement.
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several other articles Of jewelry, and
four or five dollars in money.
- The Avery salt mines, about
IL miles from New Iberia, is one of
the most interesting points in the
State. The island itself Is a forma-
ton of land different from its sur
roundings. It was discovered dur.
ing the war by q negro who was
digging a well. The Averys own
the island, and receive a royalty of
five cents on each sack. There are
5000 sacks of about the finest salt
in the world taken out daily. The
island is seven miles in circumfer-
ence and the salt Is inexhaustible.
The shafts are 100 feet from the
ground.
THE New Orleans Picayune
of Sunday gives this interesting in.
formation: ''The iron ore used yes.
terday is from Claiborne parish,
and near the line of the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Texas Pacific Rail
road. The boulder was picked up on
the surface Of the ground, and has
been exhibited in the Louisiana De.
partment for some time. It weighed
about $50 pounds, and after being
broken up was placed in the smelt-
ing cupola and reduced to pig iron,
yielding about 80 per cent of pure
metallic iron-the best Birmingham,
Ala, ore only yielding 80 per cent.
The ore was found to be free from
sulphur, therefore admitting of be-
ing manufactured into fine steel.0
New Iberia, parish of Iberia,
is q town situated on the Bayou
Teche, on the M. L. and Texas Rail
road, about 125 miles from New
Orleans, is a commercial centre of
the Attakapas region, and hasa pop
ulation of about 5000. The New Or.
leans Chronicle says cit is inclined
to be a manufacturing town." 1t
has three large saw mills, one cotton
seed oil mill, one ice manufacture,
two foundries and two single mills.
The people Of this section have in
terested themselves in cocoon rails.
ing and the planting of mulberry
trees. Much interest is taken in
the education Of the children; small
farmers are making homesteads in
the prairies around; the crops Of
the parish are in q fine condition and
everything presents bright appear
auce. New Iberia is a busy and en-.
terprising town, where "no one has
time to attend to any others bust.
ness" The Chronicle predicts that
sit cannot be long before the 5000
population will be increased to 5000
or 10000, as the result Of factories
and diversified industries, and a lib
eral administration of local affairs
by municipal and parochial officers
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u The shreveport Tines of
Tuesday says: "The river fell four
tenths in the last "a hours and one
foot in 4S hours ending at 4 o'clock
yesterday evening, leaving the gauge
rs feet. The river below is falling
very fast.n
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- Over sixty colored people
were baptised at Captain w. @.
Vance's plantation, on Red River,
last Sunday.
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~ When you visit Shreveport
you should not fail to call on Messrs.
Henry Dreyfuss s. Son. You will
find them agreeable, accommodate.
ing, and willing to sell you goods as
cheap as you can get them anywhere.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

n Secure some of the bargains
offered by Mr.. Julius A. Jacobs,
Shreveport. Every article in the
house is now offered at cost.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

~ The Vicksbarg, Shreveport
and Texas Railroad will sell Sunday
excersion tickets to any and all
stations at one fare for the round
trip.
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v. gmIDET,

III his old friends end patrons and -.
tbs publlc In Reuefal, that be win bes - 3
found on Market Street, In Bogels new Easld
ing, Shreveport, la, whafe he Is prspareat0
repair Watches. Jewefry, &c, promptly ang
&C moderate Prices- he also has on hssS
Watches. JsWelry, 80, for sale cheap for cash
Satisfaction guar anteed.
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.
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1.-THE ANNALS OF THE WAR" have
been one of the distinguishing features Of The
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feature by many Of the leading journals and
periodicals of the country. The best writerl
from the active participants of the great stsug
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

u 1t is now in order when one
stops to talk to friend TO step into
tho shade.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

T. 1t rained here Sunday after
noon and all day Monday, and
rained again Wednesday morning.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

~ For the past two weeks the
weather here has been unusually
cool for this season of the year.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

~ If you want to preserve your
strength, work. If you prefer to be
weak and feel tired do nothing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-21

70 The fishing season, so far, has
been one of very small profit to those
dev0ting any attention to it.
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~ Stock raising is in the near
future destined to be one of the
leading industries of Bossier parish.
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This ereat Stats.

This Great State.
- Webster crop prospects are
very favorable.
- Rapides crops are booming,
and prospects are bright.
- Morgan City has q popula-
ton of over 1900 inhabitants.
The Era says work has com.
menced on the Methodist church at
Gibsland.
- The Shreveport Times says
the financial condition of Caddo is
flattering.
- The Richland Beacon says
corn along the ", 8. s.. P. railroad
looks fine.
- The Masons of Abbeville
intend building a handsome hall at
that place.
The Colfax Chronicle says
the Judge of that District sis a ter.
ror to pistol rowdies."
- Iberville parish hosts that
her people have nearly wiped out
their tax roll of 1884.
Ed. M. Austin was reelected
chief of police by the city council of
Shreveport last Thursday night.
Terrebonne has IL white
schools, with 57S children, and Ii
colored schools, with 673 pupils.
~ The Sentinel says a great por.
ton Of Winn parish, southwest of
Winfield, is without mail facilities.
- In some portions of Vermil-
ion parish, the Meridional says the
corn crop has been worked out and
laid By.
The Bienville New Era says
crops are very promising. Farmers
are mp with their work and the
crops clean.
- East Baton Rouge proposes
to scale her debt 30 per cent. The
parish debt, after scaling, would
amount to about $4,000.
- Within the past six weeks
burglaries have occurred nightly in
Shreveport, aud SO far the operators
have evaded detection and arrest.
The Governor has appointed
Geo. FL. Sutherlin clerk of the Dis.
trict Court for DeSoto parish, vice
WIN. G. Reynolds, who died on the
18th inst.
-- The Gazette says since the
roller skating craze has struck Far
merville two of the skaters have
had their arms in Q sling and one
has q bruised nose.
The Marksvihs Bulletin says
the corn crop of Avoyelles is mag
nificent. Eighty criminal cases are
booked for May term of District
Court. The population of the parish
is over 10000.
Hogs, sheep, goats and geese
are prohibited by an ordance Of the
Police Jury of Vermilion from run.
ming within the parish limits, and
when found depredating upon crops
may be killed.
The q. 8. Court at Monroe
adjourned sine die Saturday. r. L.
Jones was sentenced to Eve years iu
the Chester (Illinois) penitentiary
for the Lake Providence mail rob
berry. Paul Jones and Eugene Var
borough were acquitted on the same
charge.
Recently a murder was com.
mitted at a colOred church near Mt
Lebanon. The church has since
been burned. Four negroes were
arrested on suspicion, who waived
an examination and gave bond fol
their appearance at the next term O
Bienville District Court.
| "A terrible hail storm occurred
last Thursday morning in the parish
of st. John the Baptist, lasting bal
an hour and spreading terror t.
1
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1885.
The philadelphia TSaascs

A inns to cover the whole field of progressive
N journalism. No subject is toe gfsas for
it to discuss intelIigently and without bias,
and none go insignificant as to escape its mo-
and everywhere its agents may be found,
alert to gather the particulars Of all passing
events and send them by telegraph up TO the
last moment Of going to press. IL is o brief
and abstract chronicle OF the time and con
tains sll that is worth knowing in the history
of the world for the past twenty.tour hours.
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- The rains of Sunday and
Monday did all vegetation good.
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~ The blackberry crop promises
to be large this year.
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- Mr.. B. A. Kelly is happy. Its
O girl, and was a week old yesterday.
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r. Fruit bids fair to be abundant.

- The crop prospects are fat.
tering.
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M. ROOBs

He'd River Saloon
Attractive, Handsome, New.
Has the best and coolest Bser, the best
N Wines, the best Liquors, the bess
Cigars, Foreign and Domeatic.
Don't fCfgsf the HeA River Saloon, Texas
Street, near Spring Street, Shreveport, La.
n. ROOS, Proprietor.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-09-23

int 4 no other ways than. a.. ttll,is i7
were prisoners with Us, and Therefore
did then, aud yet do judge them not
legal evidence against their felIewpris-
oners. And I being something hard OF
hearing, and full of grief, none, inform
ing me how the court took up my
words, and Therefore had no, oppor-
tunity to declare what L intended
when Isaid they were Of our company. ~
But neither her explanation or. the
reprieve of the governor withdrawn
under clamor of her accusers) were Of
any avail to save her from the gallows.
1t is likely that the unwilling of this
monument will give an opportunity
for the popular filings at New England
and Puritanism, but it's as. a friend
of mine said, these deplorable
events at Salem were but asmall eddy
i'll the great whirlpool of excitement
over witchcraft, and were nothing to
the tragedies which occurred in Eng
land. They have no more connection
with Puritanism than With the old
astrology.