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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03
Life.

The shepherd, with no apparatus
besides his thread and beads, has
lain on his back, on the starry night,
mapped the heavens, and uncon-
sciously become distinguished as
tronomer. The peasant boy, with no
tools but his rude knife, and visit
now and then to the neighboring
town, has begun his scientific educa-
ton by producing watch that would
mark the time. The blind man,
trampling upon impossibilities, has
explored the economy OF the beehive,
and more wondrous still, lectured on
the laws of light. The tinid stam-
merer, with pebbles in his mouth, and
the roar of the sea-surge in his ear,
has attained correctest elocution, and
swayed as one man the changeful
tides of the mighty masses Of the
Athenian democracy. All these were
erpedients. It is thus in the life re-
ligious. No man ever trod exactly
the path that others trod before him.
There is no exact chart laid down for
the voyage. The rocks and quick
sands are shifting. He who enters
upon the ocean of existence arches
his sails to an untried breeze. He is
ssthe first that ever burst into that
lonely sea-" Every life is ase,o life.
Every day is neso day-like nothing
that ever went before, or can evel
follow after. No books, systems, nc
forecast set Of rules can provide fol
all cases; every case is new case.-
And just as in any earthly enterprise
the conduct of campaign, or the
building Of bridge, unforeseen diff
culties and unexpected disasters mus
| be met by that inexhaustibIe fertilit,
of invention which belongs to thos,
who do not live to God second hand
| We must live to God frst-hand. !
we are in earnest, as Zaccheus was
we must invent peculiar means o
! getting over peculiar difficulties. II
! W. Robertson.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

The Southern Presbyterians now
have 2,10O churches, about 1850
ministers and 138, 900 communicates.
The report on foreign missions which
was read before the General Assem-
bly, recently in session at Augusta,
Georgia, shows that the Southern
branch of the Presbyterian church
now sends missionaries to Europe,
Asia, South America and other coun-
tries, and is making the gospel known
to tens of thousands. The receipts
Jor missionary purposes from all
sources during the past year were
$73,17O ~. This sum is slightly
larger than of last year. Churches and
individuals gave S49,628 81; Sunday
schools $,487 and ladies' missionary
societies $16,653 80.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

The General Methodist Conference
at Richmond, adjourned on the 25th
ult. The Conference fixed upon the
first Wednesday.in May, 1890, as the
time for the meeting of the next Gen
eral conference. The report of the
committee on divorce was adopted.
It provides that no minister of the
church shall solemnize the rite of
marriage between parties when one
or both are divorced from a wife OF
husband still living; provided that
the inhibition shall not apply to a
divorce obtained on scriptural
grounds.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03
The Recent Strikes.

Careful calculations made show
that the aggregate losses due directly
to the recent strikes amount to the
enormous sum of $50, 800, 900. It is
probable that these figures are below
rather than above the truth In three
weeks $50, 900 strikes sacrificed 3d.
600, 600 in wages. Employers through
Interruptions to their business lost
So, 100000. For deferred or cancel
ed miscellaneous and industrial con-
tracts 81, 400, 900 was lost, and $780,
400, 900 was lost in ten of the princi.
pal cities of the country through the
cancellation and postponement Of
business contracts.
There is hardly branch of bust
ness that has not suffered to some
extent on account of the strikes, and
some branches in number of locali-
ties have been almost, if not wholly,
ruined. just before the strikes be-
gan it was believed that the country
was about to enter upon. period of
great business prosperity. The strikes
disappointed all expectations in that
direction. 1t may be, however, that
the period of prosperity was only
postponed for little while, and that
later on in the present year there will
be very decided revival in business.
The strikes are subsiding. There
were 250,00 strikers on May IA,
$4,000 on May II and $4,000 on May
q. The eight.hour movement proved
a failure, and although there will be,
| doubtless, some further difficulty
about it in some localities, it is pretty
safe to assert that, in a few weeks,
workmen throughout the country will
be working ten hours a day for ten
hours pay.
| In looking over the field it doesn't
appear that the strikers gained great
deal. In some localities they got ar
advance in wages, but there is no Ger.
tainty that this advance will continue
to be paid. Taken as whole, how
ever, workmen were great losers by
the strikes. While, doubtless, il
some instances the strikes were base6
on just demands, nearly all of them
perhaps, were hastily ordered, anl
that, too, before attempts to secure
harmony between employer and EN-
ploye by arbitration had been made
One of the lessons which the recen
strikes teach is, that these strikes ar
: disastrous to workmen as well as t,
capitalists, and that the best interest,"
of workmen require that they shall
never be resorted to except in tn
!. most extreme ases.--SaU0nn0h Neacs
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

A waterspout struck the residence
of David Whitaker, on Casper creek,
Washington county, Virginia, on the
Oath ultimo, destroying the dwell
ing and tobacco barn, and drowning
Miss Jennie Mongle, who had just
stepped in out of the rain. Whitta
ker had his jaw-bone broken by fall
ing timbers. Two horses and three
mules were drowned, The body of
the young lady was found half a mile
below the house the next day.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03
Our Vice Presidents.

A Washington special to the New
Orleans States says: The report of
the select committee Of the House on
the Constitutional amendment pro-
viding for the election Of a second
Vice President gives some historical
facts, which are qnite interesting
grouped as they are in the report
Out of eighteen persons elected to
the Presidential Office, four have died
before filing out their respective
terms as President. three of them
during the first year of their term,
and the other during the second year.
Out of twenty-five different persons
elected as Vice Presidents five died
during their terms of Office, one of
them resigned his Office, and four
became President. At the close of
the present Presidential term there
will have been one hundred years of
government under the Constitution,
and during that period there will
have been twenty-five years, eight
months and four days lover one
fourth of the time) when the country
has had no Vice President, and this
without counting the short period in
1889, at the beginning of our con-
stitutional history, when we were
without Vice President until John
Adams assumed the duties of that
Office in that year, and in the last for
ty years of the period named the
Office of President has been vacant
eighteen years, five months and five
days, or nearly one-half of the time.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Lucius G. Owsley, a Louisville
drummer, shot and killed his step
son, Dewitt Taylor, near Bradford
vile, Ky, on Saturday night. Fam
lily differences are said to have beer
the cause. Taylor was pursuing
Owsley, when the later turned ano
shot him.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Gladstone, the 'sgrand old man" of
English politics, is storming Europe
with his home rule scheme for Ire
land. Before his eloquence, his
statesmanlike sagacity and his in
domitable will power the seclusive
walls of titled nobility are crumbling.
He will yet carry the measure pro-
posed and leave in it an enduring
monument to his earthly fame-be-
cause it is right; because the eternal
principles of justice underlie it.
America can well afford to rejoice,
because it lisa progressive movement
in accord with republican ideas Of
government.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

There should be a hesitancy about
making the eagle scream in the fish
cry controversy until it is entirely
certain that the Yankees are altogeth-
er right and the Blue Noses altogeth-
er wrong in the dispute. If that
should be determined aen the old
bird should scream in his most ap.
proved style.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

New Orleans States; 1.-THE Bir-
mingham (Ala. boom is on. Thomas,
an iron master from Pennsylvania,
has advertised for men and material
to build his first furnace. Finding
that he can turn out iron in Ala
bama at $11.50 per ton, instead of
at SIT in Pennsylvania, he thinks
there's money in it. Other iron mas
ters ere coming to the same conclu-
SION"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Ethical culture, the new substitute
for religion, had big send off at a
meeting Of the advanced moralists of
New York the other day. Although
Rev. O. R. rockingham was quite
positive that Christianity was played
out, there is alarge majority who will
not agree with him, and there is not
much likelihood of ethical culture be-
ing accepted in its place.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

The fact that the workingmen of
Philadelphia are coming out strong
for tariff revision is alarming to the
protectionists. While it may be true
that these people do not favor genu-
inc tariff reform, those who fatten
financially by means Of protection
are afraid Of anything in the nature
Of WHIST they call sstinkering VIII the
tariff Verify it seems that the tariff
question win not down at anybody's
bidding.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

i" The Greeks" says the Harrisburg
Pa riot, eswere never noted for ad-
herring closely to the truth, their
reputation in that respect being Of
the Eli Perkins order"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

A Baton Rouge special to the
Shreveport Journal of yesterday says:
The country parishes are deluging
the legislature with petitions for a
Sunday law.
The Senate in executive session
confirmed the nomination of L. B.
Watkins as Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, and all appointments
in the parishes of Bossier, Bienville
and DeSoto.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Pension Examiner Aver, of Lowell,
under indictment for corruption, &c,
in Office, having fed to Montana, his
bail was declared forfeited Thursday
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

The olsamargarine men put in the
plea in defense of their business that
if they didn't manufacture their stuff
poor people would be deprived OF
the means of spreading their bread.
This sympathy for the INDECENT citi-
zen is as bogus as the butter turned
cut by the oleomargarine factories,
which is none the less swindle be.
eanss it is the poor who are cheated
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Business failures in the United
States and Canada last week number
181, against 167 the week before
More than one-haf of the disasters
are reported from the Pacific States.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

A trapper in Pomfret, Vt, caught
2,6l0 skunks last winter. What a
malodorous individual he must have
been during the entire campaign
He couldn't have been more highly
scented if he had been engaged in
Ohio politics.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

An interesting struggle is on foot
between rival railroad pools, systems
and syndicates for the control of the
smaller New Hampshire railroads.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Most, in some particulars, is in the
superlative. As an individual, he is
Most mean, low and despicable. He
is the Most foul-mouthed braggart
and word desperate the world has
yet produced. His teachings against
law, order, morality, religion and
common sense, are Most Infamous,
and his followers Most terrible dupes.
Being Most cowardly, his schemes OF
murder, arson and robbery are never
carried out by himself personally
If there ever was veritable Tom
Walker, the being that Irving de
scribes as having enraged Satan by
being meaner than himself, that be
ing, for meanness, is transcribed by
Herr Most.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Harry Phillips, a young waiter in
Hartford restaurant, by the death
of q relative in Montreal has fallen
heir to $50, 900. He will at once en-
ter upon his estate, and will wait no
longer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Flax has been sown in eight coun-
ties of Nebraska by way of expert
ment, to see if it will not be more
profitable than wheat.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

The total number of immigrants
arriving in Canada during the past
year, including those who passed
through the Territory, was 105,096,
against 166, 596 for the previous year
1884.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

It is claimed that MIR. James G..
Blaine is . Knight of Labor. If
there is any political advantage to be
gained by an association with that
organization the Maine statesman is
just that sort Of politician to avail
himself Of it, as it is in his line Of
policy to have as many anchors to
the windward as possible. But what
Kind Of labor is he engaged in to en-.
title him to membership.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Again the flow of specie from this
country to Europe has set in, with
the indications that the golden tide
will tend thitherwards for some time
to come, unless there is marked
change in the conditions of trade.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

The Republicans in their party
platforms this year will, as usual.
declare for ssretrenchment and re.
FORM" They are only in favor of re-
trenchment and reform when they
are drafting their party platforms.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Those who urged the Pan Electric
investigation must be rather un
pleasantly impressed with the convic-
ton that the amount of ammunition
consumed was ridiculously out Of
proportion to the value of the game.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Millions of money are to be laid
out for railroads in Canada, in order
to bind the provinces together with
iron bands.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

John Fl. Deane, of New York city,
counsel for the board of managers OF
the American Baptist Missionary
Union, is short in his accounts with
the board $150,000.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

A dynamite factory at Valencia,
Spain, was destroyed on the 26th
ultimo by an explosion, which also
killed twelve men.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03
The French Cabinet has voted to
expel the Orleans Princes.
The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church South have decided
against evolution

Forty thousand Philadelphia work
ingmen have made an appeal to Con.
gree for free raw material and tariff
revision.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Holmes r. Puryear, of Prince
George county, Va, convicted of wife
murder, has been sentenced to be
hanged October 20 next.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

A recent bride in the West was
Miss Yadwiga Przbylinski, who GER
tainly had one reason, at least, for
changing her name.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

The locked-out tailors are disposed
to bring about strike of all hands
In the manufacture of clothing in
New York and nearby cities.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

"Sky-blue is never out of fashion, !"
says an exchange. No doubt of it.
The "blues" prevail quite extensively
these hard times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Philadelphia Times: CATER Con-
gress gets through doing nothing it
will take a long vacation. Then it
will do nothing again. This is a free
country"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Capt. Meade, who commanded the
Dolphin in her latest trial trip, says
she is a marine crazy quilt.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

Advices from Japan state that the
cholera in the southern part of the
country is increasing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

The city of Springfield, Mass, last
week celebrated the 25Oth universe
ry OF its settlement.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

There are 15S college graduates In
Congress.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-03

A ttorneys at Law. Minden La. W,un,..
Webster parishes. , va and
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-02

THE house committee on territories
has made no progress with the bill to
admit Dakota to statehood. The dem.
ocratic members of the committee are
opposed to the bill passed by the sen-
ate which would admit Dakota immedi-
ately upon the passage of the act, and
have therefore given il no considera-
ton. If, therefore, the committee should
agree to bill il is likely to be in the
form of an enabling act which viii pro-
vide for the holding of a convention
and the adoption of constitution at
the time and in the manner prescribed
IN the act. The Indications are, how
ever, that nothing will be done at the
present session.
One of the two Dakota bills introduced
in the house last week is the Butler bill
providing for admission. The other is
to divide the territory ON a line about
six miles south of the forty-sixth paral-
lei. so as not to divide any of the conn-
ties. The bill does not provide for the
admission of either of the territories.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-02

Has attained standard of excellence which
admits of no superior.
Itcontains every Improvement that mvcntiye
genius, skill and money can produce
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-02

STRIKES this spring are assuming
grayer proportions than ever before
and threaten TO extend to every branch
OF industry; indeed it is darkly limited
that general strike Of al Knights OF
Labor is about to be inaugurafed, Such
condition of affairs is much to be de-
plored, the more so that we have yet
to learn OF a strike resulting in any per.
manent benefit to the strikers. We
firmly believe in the right OF men to
combine for their protection and to use
every lawful means to amcliorate their
condition, and have for years belonged
to labur organization, but we must
say that the employers are not
alone to blame in many of the issues
now pending between them and their
employees. 1t is a pretty fine point when
your hired men tell yoa shall do thus
and so and shall not do this or that on
your own farm, for instance, and the
manner in which objections are raised
are not always in the least objectionable
manner. Neither can it be said that the
Knights of Labor have entirely lived
up to the professed principles of their
order, which declare thai in arbitration
must they seek 10 right their wrongs and
that strike is to be resorted 70 only II,
the very last extremity. Ii would ap-
pear that this spring the order Of things
has been reversed in many instances.
But it would not be so bad if the evil
effects of these strikes We're confined 10
the parties directly at variance. The
general public must bear the brunt of
the Inconvenience and the loss and are
made to suffer for the sins of both
parties while guiltless of any fault ex-
cept to be engaged IN other branches
of business, which, by the way, has be
gun to be regarded as an objectionable
sin. Like all other things which over
step the bounds of reason. however, the
evil will in the course of time correct it.
self Every unjust thing is its own pun
ishment, whether indulged in by the
rich or the poor, and neither the EN-
ployer nor the employed can hope to
lake nuJust advantage or the otner Ior
any considerable length of time.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-02
One BusheI Secures the Crop.

Safe insurance-no deduction for
planting or harvesting no members
ship fees-no policy fee-no deduction
for poor crops or low prices mo scaling
down for unpaid assessments prompt
adjustments--full pay for full loss able
home arrangements insurance at cost
is what the farmer wants. He can gel
all this and more too, by placing his
crop insurance with the Dakota Mutual
Insurance Company. DO not be de
ceived by rustlers for other companies
bat learn the full particulars by writing
to Augustine Davis, Secretary, Huron
Dakota, or applying to ID. Men Naughton
agent.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-02

"WML Sparks resigns" No, not much.
Nothing less than club will make a
man of his calibre take u tumble, " and
nothing less than forcible election will
ever get him out of the position he now
disgraces. Even with these remedies
applied he would secretly chuckle over
his astuteness and consider himself a
martyr to the great cause of reform.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-02

A telegram from Huron says that
the directors of the Northwestern have
ordered their line extended this year
west from Redtield, so as to pass be-
tween Lafoona and Faulkton, then west.
and stop in the west part OF Potter
county, ten miles east of the town Of
Gettysburg 1t will not go to the Mis-
souri, river this year. An extension is
also ordered north from Columbia to
connect with the jamestown and la
Moure branch of the Northern Pacific,
One report is that the Northwestern
will build to La Moure, and another that
there is an agreement between the
Northwestern, the Milwaukee & ST.
Paul and the Northern Pacihc that
neither Of them shall build across the
forty-sixth parallel. AT any rate the
Northwestern will. by the extension
from Columbia, connect with the
Northern Pacific this year.