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Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-21
JUDGMENT.
$500 so

Mrs. s. V. Cook, wife, 9Th Dist. Court.
VS. No 1888 Parish OF RIc'.iand.
a. J. Cook, hus 1and. State OF Louisiana
This case heiIg at issue and fixed for
trial a d the law and the evidence being ia
favor Of We pIan,iiT !, is is ordered, ad-
Judged and decreed that The community OF
acqu. : and gairs heretofore existing be'ween
Mrs. SAIL v. Cook and her husband A. j.
Cook, one AMI the same is hereby dissolved
apd ne wife is author .ze'l to administer heI
own affairs as a frnm'c sole.
Read and signed III open corh this 29tl
OF Nov, 1887.
R P WILLIAMS,
'uoge 27th D:,f.
ne copy Of the figinai now on tile and
Of record in my office.
This 9Th day If December, A. u. SS7.
no. :. UNMf.RLiN,
DIS. Beds, Clerk 27h Dist Court.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-21

Rrgniar commentaries of r. F. Mcclure
Loa"- No 900, F. Il A. Masons, third
SATURDAY ir esch mou,h-J. 5. Summeriin
W ". w. T. Oliver. Secretary.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-21
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Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-21

81 s BEAZLEY, O6ers his P'oies-
..., ,.rvices u the ci'ixe0s OF ksys"s'
will also p'ae'ic: IN toe coI n,n. .,o,. :,
sound duri 8 the day a' The Drug ~; ;,~iv
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Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-21
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
.......-----.----
For District Attorney.
ANNOUNCEMENT.

Tstke ro.er. Of Riehiand:-l announce
..s..,f a. q candidate for the office Of D's'r'c
Attorney for til. 9th Judicial D'''r'H'' s0''ee'
b ~ the ve,,on of the Democratic patty.
Respectfully, Ed e:
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-21
BLACK EAGLE.

Tri. large Jacks services can be obtained
en- 'he folio wing t.ims
in Dolisr= iSl0."'j per season to produce
one ina fn,n re JIl Of December 10 the
i5r' .. Frh'ua'y each yeu not counted
No ANNA served uni-ss III season or at tho
reIu-S' oi ne owne'.
Mare aud colt start pledged for fee
Al fees due December IT of each season.
lhi. verJ large Jack. tie will be kept
a, Glisri
I'm, JACK j. u hands high.
This My lJ,h, lNsi.
l2.n JAU. u. McCORKLE.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-21

We ere authorized TO an"ooce we name ~. %
w. Ivy, .. candidate Tor .'e't =" "'
s7,h Di,,s.cs Court Of Rschland raf'"'
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-21

{ P. Fa!Jour Lodge No. ~, Knights o
PyiA,s n Gets every alternative Tuesday
night. LEM SCOTT, L. e.; I. N. Rhymes
X. Of RMS.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-21
For sheriff of Richland Parish

We are authorised I, annoonpe tne n-, s'.
orjOHN n. ABRAUGh' a. ca"o'as'' w
Sh.,;d of Richland Parish.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-21

We are authorized 70 announce 'ne 49,.
.CuAuiES BALFOUk, a. candidate
@, 81. rib of Richlshd Parish.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-21

Hon. E. G. Montgomery came
over on Thursdays train.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-21
Personal MENTION.

On Sunday evening several OF the
delegates arrived. ]. W. Simms
and Inc, ". GULL came in and Geo.
G., Purvis on Monday.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09
State Press Comment.

There will be enough life in the
State campaign to keep Democratic
voters from going to sleep.-Morning
Chronicle.
We read, every day, articles in the
late McEnery papers that never
should have been written; and in the
Nichols papers we find sarcastic al
lusions that are wanting in generosi-
ty and discretion.-Arcadia Record.
Is it not time that all factions and
factional contentious in the Demo-
cratic party should cease and the
ranks closed up and a solid, unbrok-
en- front presented to the common
enemy which now confronts the
party Louisiana Journal.
It is the duty of every Democratic
journalist in the State, now that the
choice of the party is known, to de-
vote himself to every honorable
means of Strengthening the ticket
and insuring its success at the April
election.-Raston Caligraph.
Warmoth and Kellogg and their
party could not win in 1876 backed
as they we're by the support of the
Federal government-the most pow
erful government on earth. How
absurd then is it for them to talk of
success now.-DeneOcr0tic Reviesc.
The mere announcement of the
action of the Republican Convention
will assemble the Democratic factions
like the call of a bugle-all differences
and discussions engendered during
the late canvass, will disappear and
Democrats will move forward shout
der to shoulder for the preservation
of Democratic principles and the
perpetuation of the supremacy of
Democratic government.-Neao Or
leans Times Democrat.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

The convention to nominate two
Democratic candidates for the State
Senate from this, the 21st Senatorial
District, composed of the parishes OF
Bossier, Webster, Bienville and
Claiborne, will meet at Minden, on
Monday, April 7th. The conven-
ton to nominate candidates for
Judge and District Attorney, will
meet at Minden on Thursday, April S.
It seems Bossier was accorded IA
votes in the Senatorial Convention
and only II in the Judicial In the
Judicial District, ]. A. W. Lowry, for
District Attorney, received in this
parish, 1858 votes, which would en-
title US to fifteen votes. Mr.. A. r.
Thompson, for Clerk, and Dr.. W. J.
Mobley, for Coroner, each received
3067, which was the highest number
on the parish ticket, and would, tax
ing this a. the basis, entitle us to 15
delegates. We donot underBtand it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

The survivors of the cavalry com
mands in the Confederate army pro
pose to hold grand reunion in New
Orleans on next Monday, Feb. 18th.
At recent meeting in that city,
hundreds of letters of acceptance,
cordially approving the movement,
were read, and at present the indica-
tions point to a monster reunion,
which will awaken many historic and
glorious memories amongst the sur
vivors who followed Van Dorm, For
est, Stuart, Hampton, Fitzhugh Lee,
Morgan, Ashby, Wheeler, Shelby,
Mosby, Greene, Chalmers and many
other noted cavalry leaders in the
South.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

It is true that we have little ma
laria in Arkansas, says the Pargoud
Press, and now and then death
from its effects, but more people
have frozen to death in Minnesota
this winter than have died in Arkan-
sas from malaria in five years. And
the same can be as truthfully said of
Louisiana.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

A primary election will be held in
Webster parish On Saturday, March
3rd, for the purpose of nominating
Democratic parish ticket and eject
ing two delegates from each ward to
the Senatorial nominating conven-
ton. The judicial candidates receiv-
ing the highest vote in any ward will
have the right to select one delegate
from the ward to represent them in
the District nominating convention.
The Police Jurors and Parish Asses
sor will also be voted for, and those
receiving the highest vote will be
recommended to the Governor for
appointment.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

The first Confederate Congress of
the seeding States convened at
Montgomery, Alabama, on Monday,
February 4, 1861. Howell Cobb, of
Georgia, was elected President, and
J. J. Hooper, or Alabama, Secretary.
Louisiana was represented by the
following named Delegates: John
Perkins, Jr., Alexander Declouet,
Charles M. Conrad, Duncan F. Ken
ner, Edward Sparrow and Henry
Marshall. Their first work was to
prepare a Provisional Constitution
for the new Confederacy, which was
adopted on the 9th. On the next
day, Saturday, February 8, 1861, OF
years ago to-day they elected Jeffer-
son Davis President of the Confeder-
ate States. He was inaugurated at
Montgomery on Monday, February
Is. His inaugural address, as tele-
graphed to the New Orleans Picay-
une, was published in full in the
Bossier Banner of March s. The first
Confederate Cabinet was composed
of the following named gentlemen !:
Robert Toombs, of Georgia, Secre-
tary of State; S. r. Mallory, of Flor
ida, Secretary of the Navy; J. P.
Benjamin, of Louisiana, Attorney
General J. II. Reagan, (now United
States Senator from Texas) Postmas-
ter-General; G. G. Memminger, of
South Carolina, Secretary of the
Treasury; L. Pope Walker, of Ala
bama, Secretary of War. Of the
above named men, none are now liv-
ing but Davis and Reagan.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

Although the recent cold wave was
unusually severe in this section of the
country, we can scarcely realize the
terrible effects of the cold such as
was experienced in Nebraska, Dakota
and other western States. The suffer
ing and loss of life throughout the
west of late has been simply enor-
nous, and the awful result of the
blizzard will never be entirely known.
The immense fall of snow and intense
cold of this winter in the west is I'M
precedented, and the ravages of old
Boreas in that section will be keenly
felt for some time to come.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09
This Great State.

Wards / and 6, in Claiborne par
ish, have "gone dry"
Morning Chronicle: The enlarge
ment of New Orleans cotton mill
is good business.
A number of immigrants from
Georgia and Alabama have recently
located IN the vicinity of Athens,
Claiborne parish.
New Orleans Chronicle: "Immi-
grants continue focking to south
western Louisiana, and to Hammond,
Tangipahoa parish"
The Capitolian-Advocate says the
city of Baton Rouge has made half
million of dollars worth of improve
ments in the last four or five years.
An Opelousas special to the Times
Democrat says colored man named
Lewis Dorsey died at that place on
the LIST instant, aged LOG years old.
New Orleans States: Louisiana
has won another land suit from the
United States arising from the swamp
land fund and involving a sum of
over $4,000"
Natchitoches Review: The fact
that there is but one prisoner confn-
ed in our Jail certainly speaks well
for the peace and order of a parish
of this size, with a population of
100000"
We learn from the Baton Rouge
Capitolian-Advocate that the State
Bureau of Agriculture has determined
to locate an experimental station at
the most eligible point in North Lou
isiana on the line of the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Pacific Railroad.
Shreveport Democrat, 4th: Give
white families arrived in this city
Thursday night en- route to Col. J..
M. Hollingsworth's Bayou Wincey
plantation. They are from Virginia,
having given up their homes in the
older State to seek better ones in the
land of promise, on the fertile soil of
Louisiana"
Hon. Isaac Stevenson, Member of
Congress from the 9th Congressional
District of Wisconsin, has purchased
$4,000 acres of pine lands within 20
miles of Alexandria, for the sum of
100000. Mr.. Stevenson, is a Re
publican, farmer, lumberman and
banker, and is native of York coun-
ty, New Brunswick, Canada.
In accordance with petition sign
ed by citizens of New Orleans, Gov.
McEnery has issued his proclamation
for an immigration convention to
meet in New Orleans on Monday,
March 5. The object of the conven-
ton is to perfect an organization
which will attract immigrants to our
State The Presidents of Police
Juries, Mayors of cities, Presidents
of Railroad Companies, Presidents
of Commercial bodies, and Presidents
of Agricultural and Mercantile As
sociations are requested to send del
aoofoc
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09
Democratic State Platform.

We, the Democracy Of the State of
Louisiana, in convention assembled,
do announce and declare:
1. Our devotion to the ime-hon-
ored principles of the Democratic
party as proclaimed by its founder,
Thomas Jefferson, believing that their
recognition and enforcement are es-
sential to the maintenance of free
institutions and popular government.
2. That we endorse the admins
tration of Grover Cleveland, and be-
lieve that the interest of the Union
will be best subserved by his re.elec-
ton. We also endorse the admins
tration of Governor Samuel Douglas
McEnery, as a recognition of the
eminent services to the State of a
faithful public servant, and we affirm
that the administration of public
affairs in Louisiana has, during the
last eleven years, brought the State
out of anarchy, developed wealth
and prosperity, and paved the way to
the high position Louisiana is entitled
to among the States, and we pledge
ourselves to its perpetuation.
8. We pledge ourselves to an
economical administration of public
affairs, to the maintenance of the
State credit by limiting appropria-
tions to the amount of the revenues
and to the liquidation of the State
debt and the prompt payment of the
interest on the same, as now adjusted
by law.
4. That the levee system of the
State is a necessity for the protection
Of the lives and property Of our citi.
zens, and we pledge ourselves to de-
velop, maintain and protect the same
to the fullest extent consistent with
the finances Of the State, as absolute
y essential to the happiness and
prosperity Of our people.
5. We pledge the Democratic
party Of this State to an earnest effort
to place the free schools of this State
upon a substantial and satisfactory
basis, and to that end the Legislature
is requested to appropriate sufficient
amount from the annual revenues of
the State to provide for the suitable
education of the children of the State.
6. That it is the duty of the State
to foster and improve all of it's great
agricultural interests by adequate
legislatien for their development and
promotion. and especially by the en-
eouragement and maintenance of the
Agricultural College and the present
and proposed State experiment sta
tions, and by all other legislation in
the special interest of agriculture.
z. We are opposed to the employ
meut Of the Penitentiary convicts of
the State in such manner as to bring
the convict labor in competition with
free labor.
8. We invite to, the fertile fields
of Louisiana immigrants from all
lands, with the assurance that they
shall find here hearty welcome and
happy homes
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09
Wanted-More People.


What Louisiana needs to-day, more
than any other thing, is more people.
We need more capital; we need more
manufactures we need better edu-
cational facilities, but each of these
needs, or all of them put together is
less than the need of more people
Each of these needs will be supplied
by large immigration to our State,
for an increase in population will
bring an increase of everything to
be desired.
There has perhaps never been in
the history of Louisiana so important
q move as that on foot now, to bring
immigration to our State. Our peo-
pie will be very negligent of their
interests if they do not give this
movement their strongest support
There is no telling what unity of &C.
ton can accomplish. Unity and
earnestness and energy, when they
are combined, are almost invincible.
When our people want anything they
will rarely fail to get it, if they work
together for it, and work well.
The South is being advertised, but
not in the best way. Our cities are
receiving all the attention. The
country presents as bright attrac-
tons, and an advertisement of these
attractions will do the State vastly
more good than the advertisement of
the advantages of particular localities.
The advertisement that the South
has been receiving, has attracted cap
ital to large corporate Investments
This is very we'll, but an ADVERTISE
ment that would attract individual
investments, would be better. The
man who would place $4,000 in one
Of our factories, might remain at his
home in northern State, and as the
interest accrued on his investment, it
would 60 to him out of the State,
and though our State would grow
Weather, our people would not.
Take, on the other hand, man
who brings $4,000 to Louisiana, to
invest in farm lands. He will settle
on the land and become one of ou1
people, and all the profits of his in
vestment go to make wealth for ou1
State and our people. His profits
stay here, instead of going North.
The great fault with our advertise
ments heretofore is that they have
been local. What we need is gen.
eral advertisement of the advantages
of our whole State, and this requires
an union of all the people of the
State in the effort. The newspapers
of Louisiana are the natural repre-
sentatives of their sections. Can
they not keep this matter before the
people till concerted and energetic
action is taken. We propose to keep
working for this end. We will dc
our best till success is hopeless, OF
Eassured.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

The fire losses of 1887 were in ex
cess of those of any previous year
in the history of the country, except
those of the Chicago and Boston
conhagrations.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

The store house and stock of goods
belonging to Messrs. Kronenberg &
Davidson, on Red River, in the upper
portion Of Caddo parish, was totally
destroyed by fire on last Sunday night.
The storehouse and goods we're in
sured for $4,000 90.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

Arkansas is taking hold of the i'm
migration question in way which
means business. Louisiana would
do we'll to initiate her example.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

It begins to look now as though
when the President prepared his
message to Congress on the Pacific
railroads he loaded for bear.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

Watermelons are being shipped from
Nacotee, and roasting ears have made
their appearanceat Kissimmee, Fla.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

Such weather as we have had
throughout the State for some time
makes us realize the disadvantages of
bad roads. Let us encourage the
growth of such a public sentiment as
will give us roads of reasonable excel
lence within the not distant future.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

Georgia granite is being used to
pave the streets of Cincinnati. Good
for Georgia.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

1t is now in order to go to work
for the immigration convention with
a will. We must make success of it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

The coinage at the minis during
January was $8,O98, $40, of which
$2,700,O0 were standard silver dol
lars.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

Augusta, Ga, will have an exposi-
ton from October 10 to November 1,
1883.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

The proposed immigration conven-
ton must be sustained. It is a most
lmportent work and one that must be
persisted IN to be effective. Let the
people of Louisiana sustain it,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

There is rush of emigrants te
the delta country of Mississippi.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

Arkansas will raise $4,000 to on.
courage immigration to that State.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15


The workshop where rings are made
is curious place, full of ingenious me-
chanical appliances. Gold coin is put
in small crucible with fux, and the
crucible placed inside of a covered
pot, which is subjected to the heat of
powerful flame of natural-gas. To in
crease the intensity of the heat strong
blast is produced by means of fan,
making constant, even temperature.
The gold is rolled and converted in con-
venient shape for use, precisely as iron
is worked in q rolling mill. 1t is passed
through grooved rolls of various sizes,
one after another until it is fashioned
into narrow strips of the desired width
and thickness. There are also other
rolls for converting the ingots into sheet
gold. For stamping the settings for
rings a screw press is used, dies of vari-
Gus sizes being inserted as required A
diamond ring IS thick in the center,
gradually tapering in size from the top
downward. A piece of gold, after being
rolled and cut, is laid upon metal die
and heavy hammer, working in frame
and operated by means of a rope and
pulley, is made to descend, thus giving
with one blow the desired shape to this
part of the ring. Hundreds of different
dies are necessary for the various sizes
and styles of rings.
After the drop-hammer has stamped
the gold into shape it is placed in thin
metallic plate containing hole, in which
it fits exactly, and driven through by
punch worked by hand, thus cutting
away the gold adhearing to the edges,
which is carefully saved.
All along the side of the room are
workmen seated at benches, some shap-
ing the pieces into rings and soldering
them together, others inserting and fast
ching the stone settings, and still others
performing various sorts of equally diff
ficult and delicate work, all necessary
in the making of ring. In another
part of the room is curious bit of ma
chinery which is called a lapidary lathe
and used for shaping and cutting down
stones when necessary. A round piece
of metal, shaped like a small grind
stone, is set in horizontal position and
made to revolve. To this emery is APP
piled, and the stone being held against
it is soon reduced to the proper dimen-
sions. 1t is then polished on o similar
appliance of wood coated with putty
powder. Another interesting object is
the enameling furnace. The article to
be ornamented, having previously been
engraved for the reception of the en-
nmel, is placed in little oven coated
with the enamel in the shape of pow
der. 1t is then heated until the enamel
runs, and is then removed from the fur
mace to be cooled and finished.
A peculiar process is that of gliding
or electro-plating. The article to be
gilded is first thoroughly cleaned by a
fine brush of brass wires. A piece of
gold is attached to the positive pole of an
electric battery and the article to the
negative. Both are then placed in the
same solution, and the electric current
does the work, transferring a portion of
the gold to the object to be plated
NelC York GTQDhic