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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-03-28
PuNeENr PARAGRAPHS.

A survivor OF the famous AlSHt
Brigade" is now plumber in Indiana
polls. He still knows how to charge
Terre Haute Express.
-Beaver-''H ''Harkins is man who
always holds fast to the truth. " Clever
ly-''Yes; / notice he never lets it es-
cape him. ."-Drake's Magazine.
Doctor (who has large idea of his
own skil) 'Indeed, L have never heard
complaint from one of my patients. p"
Hostess-'T don't doubt it. doctor.
The errors of physicians are generally
buried with their patients. "
.-Spelter- -"What a woman you are
to run on when you get started! /
can't get in word edgewise." Mrs.
S.-''Notwithstanding that your Ian
guage is so exceedingly thin. 1t is
funny; that's a fact. Boston Tran
script.
-''Will the coming woman run for
a political office?" asks an exchange.
She may, she may, but she ought to
know how to run for Il horse car first.
When she has mastered that art, she
might stand some show of running for
an Office and getting there.
-Bauble (severely:) Miss Sharp
son, understand you say that my at
tempts at wit are simply iaughable. "
'.Miss Sharpson with much humility
my dear Mr.. Bauble, / withdraw
my words. To call your jokes laugha-
BILE is to grossly misrepresent them,
assure you. Accident News.
Two New York swells quarreled,
and one expressed himself thus:
'Why, do you mean to call me liarPn
''No, sir,'' said the other, 81 should
not like to call you a liar, or any gen.
tleman liar. At the same time, if
met you walking with Ananias and
Sapphira, should say you were in the
bosom of your family"
-Winks-''M ''Must leave early to-day.
1 met lady who was an old school
mate of mine, and she was so anxiou;
to see my family that / invited her tt
accompany me home to tea. Minks-
"My gracious! Your wife will raise the
roof :" 20, no! My wife is quite pretty
and this lady is exceedingly plain. y
Philadelphia Record.
Mrs. Sneer-'.No, I can never tel
when my husband has indulged to'
much at the club Mrs. Queer.
can." Mrs. Sneer-"How? MRS. Quee
-"When he is tight he asks for kiss
and I never knew him to do so if b
was sober" Mrs. Sneer-"P Perhaps h,
drinks to screw up his courage for tn
caress." There is now war between
both their houses. )-Town Topics.
-''When a man dies suddenly, with
out having been attended by doctor,
says popular guide to the law, 9Th
coroner has to be called in and an in
quest held to ascertain the cause c
death. But adds tho writer, ''whe
he dies after having been attended b
doctor, everybody knows why h
died, and an inquest is not necessary.
N. Y. Ledger.
The End of the Honeymoon
Young Wife-'How the world move:
There's Bessie Gray, an old chum {
mine, a graduate of the normal schoo
has just entered medical college
She will soon be able to write M. [
after her name. Women are comm
to the front, I tell you. Formerl
girls were taught nothing but house
keeping" Young husband - "Ye
and now they're taught every thing bl
housekeeping. Boston Courier.
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coolest ever endured by white men
travelling, for that day we moved camp
ten or twelve miles further on. Our
fish were now rapidly disappearing,
and coupled with the intense cold and
hard work our poor dogs were faring
badly. At the time we left the river
we hal lost one fine dog. We were
stripped of all but nineteen when we
reached Hudson's Bay. Worst of all
our fatty food was entirely gone.
With a goodly amount of this
person or an animal can re-
sist bitter cold; but the lean and
blue reindeer meat gave but little
sustenance to the poor brutes doing
such hard work in such severe weather.
There was none too much to give them,
either, so short were the days-but
two or three hours long-in which our
Eskimo could hunt them. All this told
terribly. Hardly a day past that we
did not lose dog or two.
They were through all this horrible
time perfect respectors of their human
allies, and the little children used to
go among them and play with them by
pelting them over the back with their
toy whips; and yet the same dogs were
starving and should one of them die
his comrades would eat him. | notice
this particularly as some sensational
writer's have tried to make their readers
believe that the Eskimo dogs are liable
to become dangerous fellows even to a
powerfully built man, when simply
hungry, and to be worse than wild
beasts when ravenous. 1t is true that
so wild are they for food after long de-
privation that their actions might be
taken by people with timorous natures
for intentions to devour a person; but
any onslaught of Eskimo dogs is un-
known among the northern natives
where l travelled. 1t was pitiable in
the extreme to see their sufferings
as they SO devotedly helped us
along, many of them up to the
very minute they had to be taken from
the harness and abandoned on the
road. Our Eskimo hunters made
heroic efforts at hunting, but the
Arctic day was so short and reindeer
aud musk-oxen so scarce that in order
to give the poor dogs any we often had
to reduce our own food-supply which
we cheerfully did.
As they dropped out along the way
we harnessed ourselves in their places
to the sledge traces, and it was only
thus we were not compelled to aban
don important parts of our load.
About the middle of February, tht
wolves began to trouble us, and al
though they killed four of our nearl.
famished dogs at the very doors of ou
snow-houses, we rather welcomed tn
sight of them as we knew their pres
ence indicated our nearness to th
Misunderstanding grounds of the Hud
son Bay Eskimo, and that we wer
therefore nearly home. and might fal
in with natives we knew at any time
In fact, the latter part of February W
saw a Kinnepetoo Eskimo, and from
him got help to reach our old hom
with our nineteen dogs, all that wa
left of sixty, about two-thirds of tina
loss being purely from starvation
; Frederick Schwatka, in Wild
Awake.
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THE suANETIANs.
A Peculiar People Inhabiting Portion of
the Caucasus Country.

the Caucasus Country.
Each community is made up of sew
eral villages, originally consisting each
of members of the same family or gems,
but now including several families.
Members of the same family can not
intermarry. Women and pasturage
rights have been occasions of many
feuds and vendettas. When a woman
changed hands or husbands, the parties
concerned could not always agree on
the value in cattle-the Suanetians
had no money-of the lady exchanged.
Hence arose assaults of persons and
batteries of towers. The affairs of the
hamlet, so far as they were not settled
by appeals to arms, were regulated by
an assembly of adult males, in which
unanimity was required for valid de-
cision. The foreign relations of the
Suanetlans consisted, for the most part,
in predatory excursions into neighbor' S
pastures. They were arrant sheep
stealers and cattle-lifters. Strangers
met with no hospitality. On the con-
trary it was the custom to exact a pay
ment from them for passage, and the
custom still survives in petty demands
made for halting in a remote village.
The Suanetians may fairly be de-
scribed as reverted pagans. Some
Christian rites-fasting in Lent, and
the use of the sign of the cross-they
have doubtless preserved. But these
survivals seem to me no more to en-
title them to the name of Christian
than our own midsummer night fires
constitute US sun-worshipers.- ID. w.
Freshfield. in Popular Science Monthly.
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Working the PASSENGERS.

$50 you're working for the railroad
companies now, are you?n said pas
senger to the eolored porter whom he
used to know.
'No, boss; Use workin' the passen-
gers" answered the darkey as he
brushed all the nap off the passen-
gers hat, preliminary to going through
him for a quarter Detroit Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-03-28
-"Well, mother said the prime

-"Well, mother, said the prince,
kissing the queens hand affectionately,
'.how is Kate?'' "Kate?" queried Vic
toria, what Kate. "Abdicate, re-
torted the prince, with roar Of laugh
ter that loosened the rollers on the
throne. And her majesty wept, n.
Z. Ledger
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-03-28

The Mormons have hymn, 1--WE
are not ashamed to own our Lord. .
But the question is whether the Lord
isn't ashamed to own them
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in a machine which has come into
use in France for testing steel railway
tires, a succession of blows similar to
those delivered by means of sledge
hammer are given to the tires in place
on their wheel eenters and revolved on
rollers.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-02
The Nv Po-tnIs.

The new postal cards were sent out
yesterday and some Of them will be on
sale at the postoffice here in short time.
The new cards will be much superior in
quality to those now in use. and the pub
Tic will also be afforded better facilities
for correspondence for advertising by the
addition OF two new sizes Of cards.
Size No. l Is to measure 1916 by 4
SIS inches, and weigh five pounds and
one-hslf ounce q Thousand The cost of
this card to the government will be 81
cents q thousand.
Size No. 2 is to be Of the same dimen-
sions % by 1-2 inches) as the present
card. and weigh five pounds five ounces 3
thousand. The weigh; of the present
card is five pounds four ounces thous>
and The cost on the new contract is IS
cents a thousand. and in the old contract
was a. 7l-1OO cents.
Size No. is to measure 81 by 81
inches. and weigh nine pounds one ounce
q thousand. The contract prize is so
cents q thousand.
The estimated number Of cards to he
required during the four years Of the con-
tact term is 1900 900. 900. at cost Of
about ssOO.OOO. The reduction in cost
for four years will amount to fully $780,
600 as compared to the-prices in the old
contract The postage on the estimated
quantity of cards to be called for during
the four years will amount to $50. OO0,>
UO. The contract VIII REQUIRE near,
1000 tons Of paper, or an average Of six
tons for each working day. The use of
postal cards was first introduced into this
country in 1873, and the Issue for the
first year was about 100 900. 900 cards.
The contract prce was then 81 395 a
thousand cards, or about ihree-and-s>
half times the price paid for the new
cards
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-02
Blaine Instruct. III. Delegate.

WASHINGTON CRY, Oct Mime Of he
ten delegates on the part Of the United
States to the Three Americas congress as
senbied at the state department yesterday
morning and received their Instructions
frsn Secretary Blaine in the diplomatic
room. The absentee was T. Jefferson Cool
idge, OF Boston. The other delegates are
John b. Henderson, Of Missouri; Cornelius
\. Bliss and Charles r Flint, Of New York :
Clement Studeoaker, of Indiana; William
henry Prescott, Of South Carolina; Andrew
Carnegie, of Pennsylvania; Henry G. Davis,
Of West Virginia; Morris NJ Estse, of Cali
tornis, and John F. Hanson, of Georgia
what Mr.. Blaine had to say to the delegates
was said in secret The doors Of the diplo-
matte room were closed and no outsiders
were permitted to be present.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-02

NANToN, : D., Oct The election YES
terday resulted in a Republican victory
throughout the state Of SOuth Dakota on
the congressional, ate, ju iicial, AMI Iegis-
latlve tickets The constitution l. almost
unanimously aioptei. Minority representa-
ton is defeated The prohibition clause in
the constitute Is probably adopted, but
the margin Is small The capital location
lies hetween Sioux Falls and Pierre In
Gsnk on county the anti Prohibition ma
jority Is 40. Pierre has majority for tue
capital Boa Homme and Hutchinson coun-
ties also give majorities Tor Pierre AMI large
maJnrities against Prohibij
SIOUX FALLS. = d. Oct 2-Reports
show the heaviest vote ever polled in this
territory. The city gives a small ma jority
TOT the Republican ticket Returns from
The state are SLOW and meacer. hut the Re
publicans have carried the day The definite
result on the state capital ami Prohibition
will not BE- known for several days Prohi-
bition has certainly been carried, although
the majority is small
ABERDEEN : D. Oct . Returns are
coming in slowly. Prohibition sweeps every
thing
CHAMBERLAIN, = D., Oct. 2-Brule coun-
ty gives a ma j1rity for the constitution ami
prob bition. The Democratic state ticket l.
elected
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-02
Rock Island aou-e improvements.

The Rock Island house continues daily
to evince the psinsiaking disposition Of
the Messrs. Negus to make the hotel in
every way an ornament to the city. The
dining hall. which was lately repapered.
has been provided with handsome Brus-
sles carpet strips through the center, s. new
sidebosrd and clock. The barber shop has
been made one of the most inviting in
the CITY; the bar provided with one Of the
most improved sutomstic cash cabinets,
while the proprietors are now talking of
steam heat and an elevator, and then the
hotel will be first-closs, indeed.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-02
Cannot Down Powderly.
One Of HeaIy'. sp-eche. Condemned.

DUBLIN, Oct Canon Griffin, OF Cork,
has written letter severely condemning
the statements made by Mr.. Timothy
Healy at recent meeting of the Dublin
branch Of the National league, that renun-
citation by Balfour of the Roman Catholic
university schems was a bitter blow To
those seeking to consolidate the power OF
England at the Vatican against the Irish
Nationalists, and that the leading object Of
the mission of Aonsignor Persco 10 Ire
land was to muz,le the Irish ec,,lesiastics.
Canon Griffin says that Healy's remarks
were grossly insulting, and that should such
language reach the Vatican it must teach
the pope what to expect if men like Healy
ever get iuto power IN ireland. Canon
Griffin declares that il looks very much like
a schism in the church when Roman Cath
olics applaud such utterances as those OF
Haaly
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-02
ABBREVIATED TElEGRAMS.

Frank BurL, of Newman, Ills, while Dor
ing for water, struck a vein of natural gas
Tuesday
The annual communication of the grand
lodge of Illinois Masuns was opened in Chi =
cago Tuesday.
The grand lodge of Illinois Mas ons at Chi
eago Tuesday elected John NJ. Pearson, OF
Godfrey, grand master.
Two men rotbed the jswelry store a Will
lam Hills, at Sioux City, la, lue1day of
forty-six diamond rings
The American Institute of Mining Engin-
GERS met at Ottawa, Ont, Tuesday and was
welcomed 10y Premier Mcdonald
Estimates made at the United States lega-
tion plse. the number of Americans who
have visited the Paris exposition at 5O,0O0.
Miss Carrie Cas-, of Kansas City. Kan.
shot the man who had seduced her in the
arm TUESDAY, and an hour later married
him.
The schooner Erie Wave capsized between
Port Rowan, Dat, and Clear creek Monday
night -Four OF the crew and four lands N, n
who were aboard her were drowned
The Italian government has purchased
from the krupps SIX iron towers which are
q BE- erected on the Swiss and Preach Alpine
frontiers as adjuncts to the present system of
defense.
J II Phillips, sou OF Rev. J w Phillips,
of the Methodist church at Cairo Ills, is
under arrest for forging checks on his former
employers, the Kurz iarfer Marble company,
OF Caro-
Owing 10 a shortage Of over 81 OBJ Jacob
Z'utsmsster. treasurer of Bethlehem town
ship, Stark county, Ohio, has disappeared,
but his relatives have met all his obliya-
uonS 1t is also alleged that he is forger.
Capt J. W. LAWYER, who sailed across the
Atlantic in his little boat Neversiuk, got
into lawsuit about the ownership of the
boat aud AT Plymouth, England, Tues Law,
while trying To forcibly gain possession, shot
a sailor in ths ieg. He languishes in Brit
ish bastile now.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-02
APIsa.ant Home wedding

The home Of Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ. SIM
nett on East Moline avenue. was last
evening the scene of a very pleasant home
wedding Witnessing as it did, in the
presence Of immediate relatives. the mar
mage OF Miss julia Sinnett to Mr.. Ennis
Spsulding. Rev. II. c. Leland of the
First Baptist church, officisted. After
partaking OF fine wedding supper. Mr..
and Mrs. Spaulding started on a short
tour east. The groom is employed in
the general freight Office of the r. l. &
p road and Is highly respected in the
city which has been his home from boy
hood. The bride has been an ornament
to one Of the oldest families in Rock Isl
and. as she will prove to her new
home in Rock Island
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-02
VOTING OUT WEST.
The New States Give a Day to
Casting Ballots.
THEIR FIRST OFFICERS ELECTED.

Returns Rather SLOW Comins In. but
Enough Resolved to Indicate Who Wins
Montana Elects the Democratic As
pirants, While the Two DaLotas and
Washington Choose Republieans-The
AustraIisa system n succe>s-south Da-
kota Goes "Dry"-New York Democrats
Nominate Their Standard Bearers
HELENA. ". T., Oct 2 The election YES
serday pass a of quietly, only one arrest bs-
ing male for interference at the polls Both
parties unite in declaring the Australian
syst-m success. The law limits the voter
10 Nv minutes in the voting booths, but the
feamra was not observed, fully fifteen min
utes being r quired il some cases In soma
pre- nets the average time of voting was
eight minutes Tue general average in this
city bein, five minutes
How the Election Went
The ID mOcrats claim the election OF their
state and ngreSSional ticket, but leave the
Legislature in doubt r -puDlicans make no
figures on the legislature but claim the
election Of Carter to congress by small ma
jority, and generally conceie tue election Of
Ioo!c, Democratic candidate Tor governor,
9Th tue balance Of the state ticket in doubt
ExIGovernpr Leslie, Democrat, say: we
have got them without a doubt A dis
patch from the west side indicates large
Democratic IMPURITIES ami that the entire
ticket Is Il CITE l.
Fish, Of The Herald Republican, say:
Toole Is probably elected, but believes that
Carter will get m By a small majority, and
colsarvativ. Republicans feel that way
from toe IN locations As the polls closed
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-02
Prom the E.rr.m. oee,d.pt.

ST. PAUL MINI, Oct. AT midnight
the returns to the Globe lDemocraD indi-
Gated that Washington has elected Repub-
lcan governor and congressman BY 1000
ami the lee stature by fifteen ma ority.
CHICAGO. Oct. = A Herall dispatch from
Seattle says that the Republican majority
in Washington Will h. less than anticipated
The Democrats, while admitting the defeat
Of Semple for governor and Grifiiths for
congress, claim three Of the supreme JUS
tees and a majority Of five in the legisla
ture. The Prohibition and woman suffrage
p!aDss Of the constitution were showed I'M
der Only ninety women voted IN Walla
Walls. ami the votes were deposited in sep
arate boxes.
PORTLAND, Ore. Oct "A heavy storm
Is prevailing in Washington territory. and
wires are down. Returns will be very late.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-02
500 Reward 400.

The readers of the DAILY ARGUS will
be pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able cure in all its stages. and that
is catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the
only positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Cstarrh being q
constitutional disease, requires a consti-
tutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure
is taken Internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucus surfaces of the sys-
TEN, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease. and giving the patient
strength. by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work.
The proprietors have so much faith in its
curative powers. that they Offer one hun
dred dollars for any case that 1t fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials. AID.
dres. F. j. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-02
SAILED FOR HAYTI.
A "Nigger" in the U. S. Naval
Woodpile.
HE sORMY vEXEs THE OFFICERS

Great Dimcuity In Finding rransporta-
tion for a United States Munster Be
cause He Il Not white-Monthiy State
ment OF the National Finances-Debt
Reduced s13, less. OOo-Miiier Not Of
fered the Supreme Court Position-The
Au-American Delegates
WASHINGTON CITY, Oct 2-The change
In the commanders of the kearsarge on the
ave of her departure for Hayti with Minister
Douglass on board, coming SO quickly on top
Of the other incidents in connection with the
Douglass affair, caused some gossip at the
navy department yesterday morning The
first Of these incidents was the fact that Mr..
Douglass although a citizen Of the United
States, native born, and an officer Of the
government could not have Travelled upon
any of the American steamers sailing 10
Hayd on the same footing as any
other citizen For this reason il
was determined to send him by
man-of-war. But shortly after the Os-
ipes was selected her commander was re-
ieved Then her boiler was found to be in
need of repairs; and so the Kearsarge was
ordered to carry the minister and his wife
10 ndNtL Dcnldls were uuiN mtue iudt MI
Douglass had anything 10 do with the d iifi-
culties, and s cretsry Tracy has made a de-
NAL Of the report that Commander Shepard
was relieved from the Kearsarge because he
refused 10 sail in the vessel if Mr.. Douglass
went on her. THIS would render him liable
to be courtmartiaiei Further than this
the secretary would say nothing
Why shepard Was Relieved.
The h -sr>arge, With Commander Whiting
in charge, sailei yesterday morning. The
immediate cause OF the Diet ichment Of Com
manier Shepard was a complaint he made
by letter to the navy department on being
deprived Of the uss OF MS cabin without suf-
ficient time 10 have accomm Diations pre-
pared for himself in the ward room with
the other officers, and asking for informa
tion as 10 how he could dispose OF himself
aud his baggage Secretary Tracy con-
strued the letter To mean that the COM
mander was anxious to get rii Of his duty,
and accordingly relieved him peremptorily.
Persons who know Commander Shepard are
of the opinion that he meant no disrespect TO
Secretary Tracy or Mr.. Douglass in writing
the letter, but that he was unfortunate in
informing the department OF matter that
could have been settled at New York.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-02
IN THE TWO OAkOTAS.
Both Of Them Begin state Life in the Re
nublican Column

both ct Them BeStn state Lille IN the Re
publican Column.
BISMARCK, y. u, Ort. 2-Tbe official
count for he ci Y shows an average majority
fr the Republican ticket of los Private
kilograms from twenty-five legislative dis
tricts show the election Of % members
OF the legislature favorable to Gilbert A
Pierce for Tire United States senate. -Four
more arr known To be for Pierce in safe
Republican counties, giving him IL votes
sure Eleven county precincts and the city
Of Bismarck give a ajority Of 44s against
prohibition The constitution carried al
most solidly.
HuLSBoRO, y. D.. Oct. . Trail county
will 60 Republican strong. tut prohibition
is very doubtful Full returns could not be
hal last night Indications are a light vote
has teen pollel
DEVILS LAKE, y. d, Oct Ramsey
county goes prohibition The state ticket Is
badly split
GRAFTON, Y. n, Oct walsh county
will give JOl majority against the cousti tu-
ton. Prohibition wins by a small ma jOr ity.
Vote li-ht