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BELLEVUE. La. OcT. II. 1886.

session. Present: e. s. D0ftch,
President; W. NJ. Abney, Thomas
Lyles and w. B. Boggs, members.
John A. BolIs was then allowed
the following claims on bridge fund,
viz: S11O0 for bridge over Cypress
Bayou, in four separate accounts
three of $500, and one of S10O, S12O
for bridge over the slough, and $40
80 for lumber furnished.
The following salaries were then
allowed for the quarter ending Sept.
80, 1885: B. A. Kelly, Treasurer,
S75; w. Fl. Scanland, Printer, S62
30; j. A. W. Lowry, Attorney, $25;
j. H. Keyser, Clerk, $40.
D. e. Nicholson was then allowed
$1,000 for work done on st. Charles
Bayou leyee, as per contract.
| A. R. Thompson was allowed an
itemizea account of $88, and $500
for bringing up the State and United
States land entries to date, per con-
tract.
The following commissioners and
clerks of election, August %, 1885,
were allowed % each, viz: Z. z.
Barnett, s. 81. Cochran, j. d. Boggs,
J. B. Crawford, w. N. Doles, j. e.
Cavett, A. H. Harrison and W. NJ.
Abney.
| j. A. ". Lowry, District Attor-
ney, was then allowed, for convic-
tions at August Term Of District
Court: Columbus Bemery, $15;
Mitchell Davis, S15s Beauregard
Hardin, s15; and Wm. Smith, on
fine s1s; total, s63.
The following witness certificates
we're then approved: w. NJ. Abaey,
S3 IS; Jesse Esten, Ben Esten and
Jake Esten 90 25 each; Catharine
! Cox, s6 %; Willis Sewer, o. rs;
Maria Tisdom, s6 25; Jesse Eston,
90 12a; Eddie Tisdom, 1926; Henry
Jennings, s3 80. Jury warrant ap
, proyed-Ben Taylor s7. Witness
scrip approved-Catharia Con and
Jack Miles 81 25 each.
When the following return Of the
election held August 20, 1856, was
submitted and ordered spread upor
! the minutes:
STATE OF LOUISIANA, !
Parish of Bossier. {
I hereby make to your Honorable
body nay official return of the cleo
tion held on Saturday, 29th August
1885, on the question of the remova
, Of the Court House of this Parish
Total vote against approval of Ae
, No. I22 removing the Parish Sea-
of Bossisr Parish, and against re
moval of Parish Seat from Bellevu,
! to Bossier City and disapproval o
q Ordinance Of Police Jury relating
= thereto, one thoussnd and nineteel
a (1O19). And for approval of act No
= 122 removing the Parish Seat o
Bossier Parish and for approval O
the ordinance of the Police Jury 0
. Bossier PARISH removing the Parisl
Seat from Bellevue to Bossier City
nine hundred and one t901). Ma
jority against removal, one hundre'
and eighteen (11S).
Respectfully submitted.
Il VIM. TIMBERLAKEy
RetaEning Officer, Bossier Par.
August 81, 1885.
! J. A. Heron, J. p, was then al
lowed costs in criminal eases, @11.75
Il Witness certificates approved
Bill Foxworth s6 12a; Thos. Wi
liams, Clara Thomas and Bob Chspe
% each;, Bruce Mccoy S6.
4 The following resolution was the
. submitted and adopted,
a Be 10 Resolved by the Police Jaf
y Of Booster parish, Thas the Stat
Board Of Engineers are hereby re
l quested, in accordance with act Nc
l. z, Of the session of the Genepal -
3 nnx,ahfx, ~ kh0 Gkoka NJ Tousasf.sn
The Bossier banner., 1885-10-15

The reward for Indian sealps in
Arizona has been increased to- $500
each.
The Bossier banner., 1885-10-15

A $500, 600 Touring mill ia under
course of construction at Montgom-
cry, Ala
The Bossier banner., 1885-10-15

Texas will raise the quarantine
against Mexico to-day.
The Bossier banner., 1885-10-15
BELLEVUE, IAw
EEuRSDAY,::::::::oCT CToRER Wt 1886.

North Carolina reioiees In a great
peanut crop.
The Bossier banner., 1885-10-15

Rev. ]. l.. M Curry Of Virginia,
has been appointed minister to Spain.
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n 9 w ID eap a r. t u II e
AT MAUGHTON.

WE are now prepared to accommodate
w tRamsisnts who have HORSES to feed,
or board by the day, week or month, at prices
that viii suit all who may favor us with their
patronage Our STABLE is new, clean, com
plete and centrally located.
CARILL & BRO.
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In Effect Sunday. May Sd. 1885,.
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g.. w. SENTELL & Co,
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Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-30
GEOLOGICAL GARDENS.

Some of the happy people Of this world
who live near Central Park, New York,
object to the menagerie located there.
The odors arising from menagerie are
extremely disagreeable, but much can be
done to prevent an excess of odors. Cen
trail Park is of more value to New York
as health invigorator than all the rest
of her valuable land. One of the great
attractions in the Park is the menagerie.
1t is great source of pleasure to thou
sands and thousands of people, and the
educational value of geological garden
cannot be overestimated. Such a
garden must be Systematically ar
ranged, and in it there must be
the same attention to detail and
arrangement that there is in an
anatomical museum. 1t may not be de-
sirable to have geological garden in
Central Park, but it is highly desirable to
have one in New York. At the present
time New York is discussing the ques-
ton, and the probabilities are that the
menagerie will be removed from the Park
but that New York will have a genuine
geological garden worthy the name and
worthy of comparison with the great
geological gardens OF London and Paris.
Philadelphia takes the lead in this coun-
try in the matter of geological gardens.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-30
GONE.

Joseph McMurrin who made an assault
upon Deputy Marshal Collin about a
month since, has gone. Why he has
gone is matter of conjecture, but the
conjecture in everyone's mind will be
that he has left because he was afraid
that under the fire of cross-examina-
ton, the truth concerning his encounter
with Collin would come out. His sudden
disappearance at this time will convince
all parties that he was in the lane near
the Social Hall for the purpose of muir
dering Collin. An innocent man who
was in that lane on legitimate
business and ran against another and
struck at that other merely with his fist
because he did not like him, and who re-
ceived two bullets in his body because he
merely struck at a man, has no need to
shun an investigation or put himself in
hiding. Deputy Marshal Collin has not
run away and is on hand to meet any
charges against him, yet the man that
the press of the Mormon church termed
ga fine and stalwart young man, as
deeply respected as he is widely KNOWN"
and upon whom an attempt at murder
was made, according to their own press,
has gone SO soon as he was able to move.
What explanation will be given by this
press for this action? Men who are set
upon and shot by assassins do not leave
the country as a rule, while those who
made the attempt to assassinate them re-
main and can be seen at any time. The
Herald, which termed the assault upon
Collin a "foul murder" speaks of his dis
appearance in these terms
Whether McMurrin has disappeared, as
his friends will doubtless urge, feeling that
as affairs are at present here he could not
hope for an impartial hearing, or whether
he has flown, as his enemies will claim, from
an investigation, which he rather feared than |
desired, are matters which only the future |
can disclose.
Each will put his own construction upon
the flight of McMurrin, but certain it is |
that he is gone and certain it is also that |
'the wicked flee when no man pursueth,
while the righteous are bold as lion."
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-30
FOR WAR.

Indications are that some of the Demo
cratic party are for war on the Admins
tration. If the war comes, it will come
on account of the theories which are now
contending for supremacy in the matter
of appointment to Office. Those who are
said to be for war fight for the spoils sys-
tenn, while the President and those who
support him are for reform. That reform
in the matter of appointments to Office
will win the victory there can be no
doubt. 1t will win the victory because it
has right and the true interests of the
people on its side, and the people as dis
tinct from the office-seekers desire it. The
spoils theory of government is the theory
of the pirate and brigand applied to civil
government, and the lives of the spoils-
men should be written by Esquemaling.
Is the cry that "to the victors belong the
spoils" anything else than the war cry of
victorious army? Spoils means that
some one is to be despoiled, and all that
that means is but too well known. Are
the two great fundamental ideas as to
this Government, the ideas OF centraliza-
ton and decentralization, merely cam
paign cry for the purpose Of getting into
office, or are they great principles, the tri-
umph of the one eventually leading to
the absorption of the rights of
the people and of the States in the Gen
eral Government, while the triumph of
the other means the preservation of
the rights of the people, of the States
and Of: the General Government, guaran-
teeing peace and liberty to untold genera
tions? The great political parties of this
country were founded for the sake of
principle, and not for the purpose of
spoils. For near a century the
Democratic party has maintained it's
identity and its principles, while its oppo-
nent to-day is the party Of an hour,
whose hour and usefulness are gone.
That party is but another form and name
for the mistrust and doubt of the people
which have ever attended the theories of
the Federalists, that party which ever
preferred precedent to principle. But the
people have again declared their allie
allegiance to the party of freedom and
the rights of man. but this allegiance will
largely depend upon fulfillment of the
promises of reform given by that party.
The Administration is fighting gallantly |
the good fight of reform, and it will win.
Those who fight against this reform fight
against that which has been decreed and
will be. Let the war come, for the sooner
It comes the sooner will right and reform
triumph.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-30

How ABOUT that Moses and Aaron bust
ness? Vide Tribune, January 10th or 1lth.
1SS5.-DEMocRAT.
so soon as we find out who wrote that
Opera House speech we will give him full
credit. There has never been a hint given
OF the author by anything published in the
DEMocRAT.-Tribnae. December 30th, 1885.
If these two young men-Messrs. Rawlins
and Young-will but be true to themselves,
they can be the Moses and Aaron to lead
this people, out of the Egyptian darkness
winch enyelops them; out into the light of
out to the plains where Hope sits smiling;
out to where the men and women of the
Union Will meet them with outstretched
hands and welcome them into full fellow
snip IN songs sweeter than Miriam sang for
the deliyerance of her people.-Tsibune Jan
nary 11th, 1885.
How are you Moses? Hello! Aaron.
Let me grasp the hand that has grasped
Sullivan's" and penned those lines.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-30

What is the cause for this "fast thinning
out?" The cause is simply continuous
enforcement of the law against polygamy
and unlawful cohabitation against all
violators of it. Make the means for en-
forcing the law much more extensively
ample and enact as law the measures
above advocated, and the time when the
whole problem would be worked out to
full and satisfactory solution would be
comparatively short. Let each hill be
climbed as it is reached.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-30
THE LOCAL QUESTION.

The frequency with which the Utah
question comes up and overtops all Other
matters of discussion shows how i'm
portant it is. This Utah matter, this
question as to the speediest and most
efficacious method of suppressing polyga.
my and making the people of Utah obey
the laws of the land, will be the CHIEF
topic for discussion for some time to come.
Those who ponder the situation here
most, most fully recognize the magnitude
OF the problem, and as they weigh and
balance the one or the other plans sug-
gested for the solution of that problem,
they feel that each and every
plan is more or less tentative,
and that perhaps the adoption of
any one of them would be but to make
more difficult the solution of an already
exceedingly difficult question. Whatever
plan may be adopted, there must be given
to such plan time in which to test it in
every respect. The strength of the law
is the stability of the law, and without
this stability no law can prove of much
avail to accomplish the object desired.
1t has been our opinion that deter
mined effort to suppress polygamy and,
unlawful cohabitation would succeed in
ridding the Territory of those practices.
This effort must not be spasmodic, but
ever persistent. In some respects it
would be well to supplement the present
Edmunds law with other legislation. The
statute of limitations should be
abolished as to these crimes
the punishment for unlawful CO.
habitation should be made co-exten-
sive with the punishment for polygamy:
there should be rigid marriage law;
there should be law requiring the regis
tration of births; but when this is done.
to make it effectual and bring about the
result aimed at, there must be an increase
OF courts and attorneys to prosecute. No |
two men who ever lived can prosecute all
the cases arising under the Edmunds
law, and to make that law do all that was
expected of it there must be much more
extensive enforcement of it, and this en-
forcement should be simultaneous. The
suppression of polygamy, and the vindi-
cation OF the law making it a crime, is
the main thing in the Utah question, and
to the final settlement of this question
the Government should address itself
earnestly and soberly, once and for all.
Capture the keep first, and if refuge is
taken in the casemates, demolish them.
Polygamy is the keep in Utah,
and some who have had
excellent opportunities and much
experience in the Utah matter saw
that the legislation We now have is suf-
ficient to settle the question, but that the
great want is more aid in the enforcement ,
Of that legislation. This is the opinion OF
Mr.. w. III. Dickson, so we are informed j
by leading Democrat of Utah and a =
gentleman who has taken leading part :
in Utah politics. Another prominent
Democrat, and a gentleman whose views !,
on the remedies necessary to be applied a
70 solve the Utah problem have been
radical, said to MS but last s
evening, in speaking of the question J
here and the suppression Of polygamy, y
How fast the thing is thinning out. . is
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-30

SECRETARY THOMAS informs ms that We
were wrong as to the amount paid the
Tribune for printing the Commissioners
Report for 1888. He says the amount
was 5000, in place of $l,1s4. We make
the correction with pleasure. Still, the
amount is not Insignificant for the work
done, and there would be plenty of takers
at that price.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-30

No sneers can stop their work, if they are
strong enough to carry it on; no misses will
drown the truth as they have begun to speak
1t to their people. The hearts of thousands
mere are secretly yearning for some cham
pions with souls sustained enough to lead
the way out of the darkness and unrest, and
the nation wants to congratulate them.
Heaven give them the courage to persevere.
Tribune, January IL, 1885,
1t would be well for the Tribune editor
to remember this occasionally. Do you
still secretly yearn? Probably it is yarn
ing in place of yearning.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-30

. L. A. PRES, wealthy insurance ad-
juster of New York, has gone insane and
imagines that he is the son of the Mikado.
Whether there is Yum Yum in the case
is not stated.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-30

Morse. Fifteenth ward, genuine diamond collar
button; A. Campbell, engineer D. & R. G. Rail
road, l27 West Temple street, stem-winding
watch.
cash or postoffice orders, and they will be for
warded to any address in the United States.
Prices One dollar each, six cans for %,
thirteen cans for $40, twenty-seven cans for $2o.
Open from a. m. till $50 p. m.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-30
ODD FELLOWS LODGES.

(~>~------>~--~-->---~~
Utah LODGE NO. 1. !. o. q METTc
,oys! ~ every very Thursday, at 7ao p M, in odd Eel
Feilo,r. Ma H. Union Block, Salt Lake City Odd
II ruo, H. L GRAY, N. G.
AMLT LAKE LODGE NO. 2 i. o. o. F.
Eo,,ni - Meets % every Friday, at 7:so D. m, in odd
read ren9ws, v. Han, Union Block. odd Fellows in
gooo standing are invited to attend. :"
Iu VIM. H. CULMER, N. G.
oRDAN LODGE NO. g. ]. o. o. F.-MEETs
~ 1--we every WX Monday, at 7:So p. m in Odd Eel.
stona;, ;naii, Union Block. Odd Fellows in good
standlng are invited to attend 40 soou
Tow. F. F. LECUYER. NC
RIDGELY LODGE NO. 9, I. o. O. F-MEETs
ioG IL every Wednesday at 7:so p. M In Odd Ea1'
msGa 1O%s maiL, Union Block: Visiting brothers
vTe n welSome: Ga1e JOHN ]. DUKE. N. a
": ~. CLARK. Secretary -' y.
| NlIa Meets EtHScaMPMENT nc aadlE No. L o. o. F.
each month at 7:so p M in Odd FelIowss IL%esaay 81
sra in,,ick 5lock All Patriarchs in good standins
7 IIsrteo mt 10 attend. WP. ROWE q p
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-30
KNIGHTS OF PYTHiAs

[ jAnANaaE n3aS The LODGE NO. 5, K. OF P.NREG,
Ha walker opeps every HaHy. Monday ct Castle
fisiting knights madewelcome. 90 p m
e. b: Lang. K. of R. and ' '"oHIh, G. c.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-06-13

THE appointment of EX-Mayor Fox to
be Superintendent of the United States
Mint at Philadelphia, has been SO long
expected that the announcement Tues
dty could scarcely be treated as news.
The Philadelphia Times says 1t is an
eminently fit appointment. Mr.. Fox is
a citizen of the highest character and
universally esteemed. He is experienced
IN financial administration and the man
agement of important trusts as well as
in the requirements of public office. He
has the entire confidence of the business
community without regard to politics,
AMI at the same time his appointment
give quite general satisfaction within
the Democratic party. When Mr.. Fox
was Mayor civil service reform had not
been heard of and the spoils system be-
ing in full operation the patronage of his
Office was not always wisely bestowed,
His police, however, were not as bad as
the Republicans represented themsncl
nearly as partisan as the Republican TO
lice have been since, and Mr.. Fox him
self was never accused of allowing his
politics to interfere with his public duty
An emphatic Democrat, he will be q
conscientious and upright official, HC
has not, of course, the same specia
knowledge as Colonel Snowden, who re
tires after long and creditable service
but in that respect Snowden was quite
unique, and Mr.. Fox may be expected
to administer the business of the Min
intelligently and well.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-06-13

pealing clauses into separate sections of
. general appropriation bill is q proceed
ing that is beneath contempt. The
manly thing to have done if the salaries
were not large enough to pay the en-
ployes of the two bodies composing the
Legislature was to pass a new salary law
which. wotlld not be In defiance of the
Constitution. While not applying to
present incumbents, such a law would
have provided for the future, and the
present employees knew what they were
legally entitled to when they accepted
their positions.
"Thc worst feature of this very objec-
tionable bill, however, is that which at
tempts to transfer to the pockets of Iii
brarian Delaney the sum of $4,000 for
services for which the law provides only
$500. A more barefaced and shameless
piece of legislative robbery was never
perpetraAed, and the Governor e0Iti,s not
possibly give it his sanction without be-
coming partieeps cpiminis in contempt.
iblc steal. That the House should have
passed the disapproved items over tho
vetoes only insehsifies the disgrace OF
the whole proceeding, and should con
sign the members who made such indie
cent baste to show their utter disregard
of all constitutional requirements to pri
yate life for the future. 1t is to be hoped
there are honest men enough in thu
Senate to prevent the consummation o
this steal"
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-06-13

written and every page a separate men
ton, the half could not be told, specify
ing the illimitable wonders of this mann
moth show. Neither pen nor brush,
writer nor artist, ever has, or ever can
do them complete justice, nor praise too
eXtravagantly the combined attractions
of this hitherto unequalled exhibition,
which never has been equalled, and for
a century to come is not likely to be sur
passed, Efforts are being made, with
every prospect of success, to reopen 1t
next fall, and all who have visited it
trust that this viii be done. In the new
organization, as directors will be includ-
ed n number of prominent and popular
gentlemen from different sections of the
country, which will give a greater ua-
tional character to the Exposition.
Among these are included Col. G. l..
| Shoup, Idaho, Col. Frank NJ. Murphy.
Arizona, Hon. Frank Bacon, Kansas.
Judge Sebring, Florida, Gen. Meade
Vermont. and Gov. Furness, Nebraska,
now United States Commissioners for
their respective States and Territories,
| With this new "bloodn infused into the
management, and with increased facili-
ties and additional attractions added,
there is every reason to believe that mil
lions of people who have not yet visited
the magnificent Fair, will be induced to
come, and that its lessons and influence
may be more widespread and made per-
petual In the history of our great coun-
try. This being the close of a long series
of letters to your readers, the writer, who
has endeavored in a humble way to in.
terest them trusts that he may again
have the pleasure of communicating will
them at the reopening,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-06-13
THE SAME OLD TRICK.

N. Y. Sun; When Congress comes
together, we may see the Republicans
sitting up nights to devise ways and
means for the discontinue of Cleveland
and the Democrats and the gloriication
Of the grand old party, Heedful note
will be given to every act of the Presi-
dent, and the lucky Senator or Repre-
sentative who can detect him in the
most mistakes or make the windiest
diatribe against the Democracy, viii be
envied by his Republican fellows, lsuded
by faithful organs, and go up step
higher in the estimation OF his support
ers. If the President happens not to
have made and not to make many mis-
takes, he and his party will have to be
buffeted just the same, The ccrements
will be shredded from long-dead issue S,
old outrages will be inveighod against,
old massacres reenacted, and the poor,
hard-working, well-meaning South
snubbed and chidden and told again
and again that she used to be no better
than she should be.
1t is true that there is no great curios-
ity or desire In the North to see the
South shaken up again by the ebullient
patriots of the Republican party; but
unless something else turns up, the old
trick will have 10 be dealt again. When
ever a Republican statesman is in doubt
he abuses the South; and the Republi'
cans are very much in doubt at present
and a solution of their doubt seems as
yet far away The hiss of steam escap
ing while Republican denunciation il
directed at the South is already heard II
the land, and next winter, we suppose
all the stopcocks of wrath will be turned
open.
One easily gets little tired of thi
sort thing, and yet to the student o
American humor the Intermittent mora
ague, which Republican leaders ALLOW
themselves to catch from chronic con
temptation of the wickedness of thu
Democrats IN the South, remains yer,
hilarious phenomenon.