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The Bossier banner., 1891-10-08

Among the delegates appointed
b. Gov. Nichols to represent this
State at the Western Waterways
@nvention to be held in Evansville,
Indiana, on the 14th and 18th inst,
are Messrs. W. G. Vance, Fl. W.
Ogden aud E. s. Dortch of this par
.;.b
The Bossier banner., 1891-10-08
Notice.
TO THE PUBLIC!

nor store will he closed Monday,
Idober 18th, on account of Holiday.
BODENHEIMER BROS.
Shreveport, La.
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pital, where all attempts to revive
him failed. Several fire engines, in
response to alarms sent out FASTENED to
lord RomilIy's house, about which an
excited crowd gathered. The firemen,
on entering, found Blanche Griffin. a
housemaid, and Emma Lowell. the cook,
in the same state of insensibility in
which their employer was discovered.
They were also removed to the hospital,
where it was found that both were al
ready dead. Another female servant and
the butler had succeeded in escaping
from the house. George Byrne, a fire.
man, received serious injuries while en-
gagged in rescuing the unconscious in
mates of the house. The fire. which was
not extensive. was soon eXtinguished.
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BIG INSULT TO ENGLAND
THE BRITISH COLORS HAULED
DOWN IN AFRICA.

War in the Dark Continent Between Por-
tuguese and British Colonists-Eng1ish
Steamers Seized-A Number Killed in
an Attack on Commissioner Johnston.s
Expedition.
A dispatch received at London from
Lourenzo MARQUEE, a Portuguese town
of Africa, on the north side of Delagoa
Bay, says that the British twin screw
torpedo cruiser Brick, six guns, Com
mander Alfred Winsloe, has arrived
there and reports that serious conflict
has taken place between the British and
Portuguese colonsts. Commander Wins
loe says that the troops stationed at the
Portuguese military post on the river
Pungwe have attacked the British South
Africa Company's expedition. COM
manded by Commissioner III. III. John
ston Seven Portuguese were killed,
but the British loss is unknown.
The British twin screw cruiser Magi-
cienne, six guns, Captain j. 2. Ripon.
and the British composite gunboat Pig
con. six guns, Commander Henry X.
p Floyd, have arrived at Beira, Mash
Onaland, a Portuguese settlement in
South Africa. 1t was at Beira that in
April the Portuguese authorities seized
British mail sacks and refused to allow
them to be carried to their destination.
These mails. were intended for the Brit
ish colonists in Mashonaland. The Brit
ish colonists were indignant at this high
handed proceeding on the part of the
Portuguese, and complained to the Brit sh
Government about it. Then Colonel
Willoughby applied for permission to pro-
coed to the Pungwe River in order to pay
the prescribed duties. but, receiving no
answer after forty-eight hours, he started
without permission, and the Portuguese
opened fire upon his expedition, and
seized the two steamers which composed
it. The Portuguese also seized the mails
and provisions and imprisoned sixteen
members of the expedition.
Colonel Willoughby endeavored to se-
cure the release of his vessels by pay
ment of the usual customs duties, but
the Portuguese officials who seized the
boats refused to accept this payment,
and ordering the British flag hauled
down, hoisted the Portuguese flag in its
place. The Portuguese declare that the
British are excluded from the Pungwe
River, which Colonel Willoughby's boats
were navigating when seized.
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way up he grew worse, an he said to
me if he could only live to get home an,
see his ma, he would be satisfied He
KEEP getting weaker an weaker, but he
held on till | got him home. His ma
tried to muse him back to life, but he
KEEP on running down. He called me up
to his bed one night bout shutdown, an
said, SEE he: Pa, | wanter be buried up
in town (meanin' here in Ingianoplis),
AN l want you to keep my grave
green"
Here the old farmer wiped the tears
from his cheeks with his big brown hand,
and then brought it down on my. shout
der in a determined manner, and ex-
claimed, "Ah, mister. I'm a-goin to keep
that grave green if have to- paint it,"
i WltitcOnlb Rileu.
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IN MEMORY or FALLEN BRAVES
BY SOL r. SMITH.

Bring flowers, sweet flowers, the fresh and
fair;
They have. blossomed to shed their fra
GRANGE there.
Bring hither garlands of sweet perfumes;
They are offerings meet for each hero
tomb. =
Then come with your tributes OF sweet
spring flowers,
And wreath them over these graves of ours,
For every heart holds thought for you.
OF some soldier who sleeps ii his suit OF
blue.
Come, mothers, for you have soldier boy
herei
Come, maid, to the grave, of the love who
was deari
Come. sister. and bend at the grave of the
brotheri
For dear in life did you love one another.
Come, wife of the soldier, SO gallant and
brave, q
With the laurel and ivy to Irvine on his
grave.
Come children, your father and brother
sleeps here:
fair.
Bring flowers, sweet flowers, o er the bier
to she'd,
A crown for the brow of the early dead;
For thus through its leaves hath the white
For thus in the woods was the violet nursed;
No holier offering our hand can place there
Than the tribute of flowers and song, and
the tear
That falls for the brave boys who fought in
the blue,
And who sleep meath the flowers we this
day strew.
Bring flowers! yes, pluck them from every
hill side,
And Irvine for the heroes who nobly have
diedi
Come, then, where they rest, and tread
lightly around.
For the grave of the hero is on holy ground.
Come, then, with loves tribute, these dear
graves are ours,
For the soldier "heroes" bring beautiful
flowers;
And strew them on the mound where er
they sleep,
While the angels from above their vigils
keep.
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THEY SWALLOW THE BAIT.
Stories Of Big Winnings Bringing Crowd
ts, Monte Carlo.

to Monte Carlo.
Itwas a lucky day for the managers
of the Monte Carlo Casino when, in
studying how to avoid being bled by
journalistic blackmailers, they hit upon
the plan of devoting part Of Their i'll
gotten gains to the formation of what
Prince Bismarck would have called the
reptile fund" for the purpose of sub
sdizing the purchasable press in their
interest Since that time the world has
been edited from time to time by circum-
Gus runs of luck on the part of frequent
ers of the Monte Carlo tables, and win
nings have been reported as of common
occurrence sufficient to break the bank
though it had been backed by the Roths-
childs That these ingenious bats have
been swallowed is apparent from the in
creased attendance at the salons.
The latest story of the kind was to the
effect that the Duchess of Montrose had
left Monte Carlo richer by $50. 900 francs
than when she arrived there. Follow
ing upon this announcement came rush
to the famous gambling place, the
crowds being larger than ever known
there before. The receipts of the bank
in the last month have been something
fabulous. AS one result there have been
no less than seven suicides of ruined
players since May /. The last self muir
der to be recorded is that Of Bavarian
banker. who is said 10 have lost a
million francs of his own and his Gle ats
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Marietta, Ca, 10 151, of which 1858 are
unknown; Memphis. Tenn, 1897, of
which SSH are unknown; Nashville,
Tenn, 1926. of which 4,7OO are I'M
known; Poplar Grove, Va, 6,19o, of
which 4,0o1 are. unknown; Richmond,
Va. 6,542, of which 5, 7GO are unknown;
Salisbury, n. c., II. 126, of which 1909
are unknown: Stone River, Tenn, $500,
of which 2Se are unknown; Vicksburg,
Miss, 1900, of which 12.7O4 are I'M
known; Antietam, Nd, 4,671, of which
1878 are unknown: Winchester, Va,
1859, of which 1865 are unknown.
The dust of 100000 men who fought
for the Union find guarded graves in
our national cemeteries. Two Gene
teries are devoted to the heroic souls
who passed away in the prison pens,
those fostering fields of death of the
same name Andersonville. Ga harbors
1874 and Salisbury, n. c., l., 126. OF
the Grand Army whose legions are dust
275, 900 sleep in the blood-stained ground
of the sunny South, and las. 900 Of them
fill unknown graves The total Confed-
crate loss will never be known, but esti-
mates place it at 1900 out of the
100000 men enlisted in the Southern
service. They fou2ht the war on the
defensive plan, and were acclimated,
which gave enormous advantages.
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passed, the children of wartime have
grown to manhood and womanhOod, but
the green graves of the soldiers are a
perpetual reminder of the men who gave
their lives that the Nation might live.
Long before the war had ended the
soldiers graves became marked objects
of interest from the famous cities of the
dead to the little groups in the hamlet,
or the single ones on the lonely farm,
and had been decorated with flowers at
each returning spring. The observance
Of decorating the soldiers graves came
as patriotic impulse, and while it did
not have immediate authoritative recog-
milton as a national ceremony, it was
carried on with patriotic fervor. that
showed how nearly it touched the great
heart of the people.
The second national encampment of
the Grand Army OF the Republic met in
Philadelphia on j an Is, 1858. The order
had gained amazing strength in the
meantime, and the roster showed the
existence of 2,500 posts, with member
ship believed to exceed 250 900 of the
best men of the war General John A.
Logan was elected Commander-in-chief,
and to that. gallant and typical volun-
teer soldier belongs the honor of iSsu-
ing the first order for the OBJ
servance of Memorial Day To whom
the credit should be given Of originally
suggesting the beautiful ceremony of
decorating the graves of dead comrades
is not fully settled. 1t is thought how
ever, that the first suggestion came from
q former private of the army. who adj
dressed a letter ON the sub. ect to Col n.
p Chapman. General Logan's adjutant
general The letter came from Cincin-
natl, and the writer, a native of Ger
many, spoke of the custom prevailing in
the fatherland of assembling in the
spring time and scattering flowers upon
the graves of the dead. He advised that
the Grand Army inaugnrate such an OBJ
servance in memory OF their dead. 1t
is much to be regretted that Adiutant
General Chapman failed to preserve the
letter and was unable to remember the
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The Nations Dead.

The nations dead are buried in seven
ty-three national cemeteries, only twelve
of which are in the Northern States.
The principal ones in the North are Cy-
press Hill. With it's 3,7s6 dead; Firms
Point, N. j., with 2,644 eunknown dead;
Gettysburg, Pa, with 1867 known and
1908 unknown dead; Mound City, Ill,
with 2,5O5 known and 2,721 unknown
graves; and 'Woodlawn, Elmira, N. y,
with it's 5000 dead. In the South, near
the scenes of the fearful conflicts, are
located the largest resting places of the
nations heroic dead. Arlington, Va,
16, 264, of which 4, 319 are unknown; Chal-
mette, La, 12,511, of switch 1914 are
unknown; Chattanooga, Tenn, H.
962, of which 1868 are unknown;
Fredericksburg, Va, 1927. of
which 12,77O are unknown; Jefferson
Barracks, Mo. IL, 400, of which 1900
are unknown: Little Rock, Ark, $500,
of which 2,317 are unknown; City Point,
Va, 5,122, of which 1874 are unknown
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One If the Largest.

Margaret Mullaney, who weighed $50
pounds. died from heart disease at New
York An undertaken found it i'm
possible to put her huge body on ice,
so it was embalmed. An ordinary
coffin is sixteen inches wide and
thirteen inches high. A plain cloth
covered box thrty-seyen inches wide and
twenty inches high enclosed the corpse
1t took twelve men to carry the coffin
down-sta RS. No hearse was big enough
to accommodate the coffin, and an under
takers wagon carried the body to Cal
vary Cemetery A grave is ordinarily
dug twenty-four inches wide. Ground
had been bought for two graves, giving
width of forty-eight inches Sixteen
of the cemetery employees lowered the
coffin into the double gave.
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Lord Romi Mishap.

Lord Romilly uset paraffine lamp in
the dfawing-roem of his LONDON resi-
dence at midnight He was alone at
the time, and attempted to extinguish
the fire unasssted Shortly aft. the
butler smelled the smoke, and on max
ing hurried investigation found Lord
Romilly lying senseless in the burning
drawing-room. the nobleman having
been overcome by smoke and the fumes
arising from she burning contents of the
lamp. Lord Romilly was subsequent
ly removed to st George Hos
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SETTLED WITH BLOOD.
An Affair of Honor on the Site of tn,
Worlds Fair.

Worlds Fair.
Baron Rudolph KaInoky, son Of the
Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
and another guest at the Richelieu, who
for convenience sake may be called
Jones, fought q duel in jackson Park,
Chicago, at an early hour on Sunday
They iabbed each other with rapiers,
shed their blood on the grass, and now
KalnOky is on q train with a wound
through his leg, and Jones lies at the
Richelieu under a doctors care. The
meeting was as romantic as the third act
of a modern melodrama, with the
additional distinction of being the
first duel fought in Chicago since
Pottawattamie warriors hurled stones at
each other in the days before John Went
worth and civilization landed on those
shores. A nobleman, q pretty woman,
and an irtruding rival, a bottle of wine,
an insult blow; challenge, a meeting
in the gray mists of a May morn and the
click of steel on Steel These are the in
gradients of romantic tale which must
make every honest burgher of that town
feel like a citizen of Verona stalking
through the streets with rapier bang
ing against his heels. The girl who was
the cause of the dispute is Mit5ie Ather-
ton, who wears tights and sings in the
Duff Opera Company. She is reported
as being pretty, shapely, vivacious, and
engaged to marry another man from the
dueliStS
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the army. you know.
He had to lie about
his age to get in,
but the angels IL for
give that one lie.
Lord, how he j did
fight! I've hear9t the
other soldiers tell
about it. Wall, he
went into the battle
Of t h e Wilderness
and got wounded
awful. They tele-
graphed to me, an ]
went right down.
He wanted to be
took home, an ]
fetched him. On the
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To God, thy country and thy friend be
true Vaughan
/ only regret that have but one life
to lose for my country.-N Nathan Hale.
The air is full of farewels to the dy-
ing and mourning for the dead.-Loll1-
felton,.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty
knows nothing but victory. Wendell
Phillips.
Where society is powerless to create
government government must Great
society. -TdIleyrdfsd.
Prince Won Bismarck wrote to Won
Schleinitz: Napoleon healed shrougb
fire and iron the sick nation"
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Ten Thousan Tramps.

Queens County, New York, allows
thirty cents night for each tramp
lodged and fed at the town hall, the
money to be divided as follows: Ter
cents to the town for lodging, five cents
to the ove-seer of the poor for recording
the names, and fifteen cents to the jan
itor for furnishing the meals It is now
demonstrated that 10000 tramps have
been lodged and fed in the town hall at
Jamaica during the past ten months, an
average of over thirty per nigh What
Q snap for the t.ampsl
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I'm Not Here for Fun.
observed

I was wandering up one of the princi-
pal streets of Indianapolis one Decora-
ton Day when met a rugged old farmer
from the interior who seemed to have
lost his way. AS he wandered .aimlessly
along / approached him, and asked:
"Do you enjoy the exercises of the day."
OVAL, $685." he answered; "bat | amt
here for fun. l come up to go to the
buryin' ground up there on the hill. My
hnu's hurled LID there. He was in the
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writer's name. General Logan, how
ever, warmly approved of the suggestion
and issued the now famous general order
to the fSrand Army of the Republic
commanding that the day be properly
observed.
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From Cottage tn Pa ace.

The favorite wife of the Sultan was
once a poor girl living in the coal mines
of France She was beautiful girl, and
some charitable person found her occu-
patton in famous dress making estab-
lishment in France. She was sent to
Constantinople with dresses ordered by
the Sultan's mother Nothing more was
'heard of her for many years, until a lit
tie inheritance was left her by relative,
and notices were published asking for
her whereabouts. In answer to these
notices a wond erful eQuipage, escorted
by mounted eunuchs stopped at the door
of the embassy, and the Sultan's Only
legal wife stepped down to declal her
self the once Flora Collin, and renounce
the legacy in favor of her kindred, who
are still poor.
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HEN the cadets
at Charl e S t O n
fired the first
gun on fated
Sumter early on
t h a t beautiful
April morning
in 1861, its re-
verbe CIR tin g
aob0ac cont a
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-28
A STRIKE PROBABLE.
Coal Operators Want II Reduction of Five
Cents Per Ton.

Cents Per Ton.
PITTSBURG, April %. The present rate
for mining coal in this district is seventy
nine cents per ton over a one and one
half-inch screen, The Pittsburg Coal
Operators association, at their meeting
Monday, decided TO ask the miners to
submit to a reduction of five cents per
tom making the maximum rate seventy
four cents. The miners had apparently
abandoned the cight-hour day demand,
the prospect of an immediate strike was
fading away. If, however, the miners
are confronted by this proposal for re-
duction in the scale of wages. there will
undoubtedly be a general revolt against
its acceptance.
The New York, Cleveland Gas Coal
company, one Of the largest in this dis
trict employing several hundred miners,
together with !hc Wcstmoreland Coal
company and the Pennsylvania Coal
company. have effected an arrangement
with their employees whereby for one
year the rate of wages is to be seventy
cents per ton for all coal shipped north
and sevcntyfour cents per ton for coal
shipped to western points, The other
coal operators III the district are endeav-
Oring to secure like concessions from
their employees. The mining officials say
that the concession will not he made.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-28
SOUTHERN EXHIBITION.


RALEIGH N. c., April 2S.-The per
manent exhibit which the fourteen
southern states and New Mexico and
Arizona have joined in establishing in
this city opens on the 18th of next May.
while from the LIST Of October to the 1st
of December next great southern cx-
position will be held.
Mr. John 7. Patrick, secretary of the
exposition. and one of the leaders in in
dustrial progress in the southern states,
has established his headquarters here
and is working energeticaliy to promote
and perfect the arrangements for the ex-
position. He expects Il great gathering
and remarkable exhibit of the products
and resources of the south.
One of the most interesting features of
the exposition will be an exhibit show
ing the advancement of the cOlored race.
This branch of the exposition will be
managed entirely by colored men.
Each southern state will have its special
colored commissioners, who will have
exclusive control over the exhibit from
the state 1t is expected that this exhib-
it will in itself draw thousands of peo-
pie to the capital of the old north state
to learn of the progress made by this
people, who less than generation ago
We're i'll slavery.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-28

WABASH. Ind, April 2s.-The Chi
cago and Erie Railroad company, has
notified the Pipe Line company, organ
lied to build an oil line from Lima, o.,
to Chicago. along the Chicago and Erie
track. that the oil syndicate will have to
select another route The officials of the
company claim that the stencil of the
crude petroleum seeping from joints in
tie present line has driven passenger
traffic from the road. The oil company
is now purchasing right of way from
farmers along the line in this county,
paying from forty cents to 81 per rod for
land
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Description and Cost
KILLED In COURT.
Another Chapter in the Showers-MoOre
Fcud in Kentucky.

ELIZABETH, KY, April 2S.--Another
act in the Showers-Moore tragedy took
place in the court house Monday morn
ing about $40 o'clock. Charles Moore
shot William Showers through the head
with a shotgun loaded with buckshot,
killing him instantly.
When the fatal shot was fired Show
ers had a revolver in his hand. Showers
married Moore's sister, She died with a
bullet through her head about two Years
ago, and her husband was tried undcran
Indictment for numbering her. A few
DAYS before Showers trial Moore was in
dicted for forging witness claims and
skipped the country.
When Showers was acquitted he
seemed determined to have Moore
caught and succeeded in tracing him to
Eagle Pass. Tex, where he was arrested
and brought back here i'll February.
The bad feeling between the men has
been SO intense that the tragedy was no
surprise
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From a sketch made last summer1
railroad commission. Unless it is the
result of WEAKNESS and growing deaf
ness no reason is assigned for his resig-
nation.
Mr., Reagan began to hold office fifty
two years ago and has had but few op-
portunities to taste the sweets of private
life since. He was born in Tennessee
but cmigrated to the republic of Texas
and became duputy surveyor of public
lands.
After Texas was admitted to the
Union he was member of the legisla-
ture for two years and Il district Judge
for ten or twelve years and lust prior to
the civil war he was in congress four
years. He was Il delegate to the Texas
secession convention, Il member of the
provisional congress and postmaster gem
eral, besides acting for a short time rs
secretary of the treasury.
After the war he FURNISHED up his
union harness and became delegate to
the Texas constitutional convention.
Then he came to the National house OF
representatives for twelve years, and
had served four years of a six years
term III the senate when Governor Hogg
offered, doubtless as IN inducement to
give up the other two years, place
worth $4,000 Il year, which would last
till the old gentleman should reach the
ripe age of H.
His Successor Named.
His successor by appointment of Gov
ernor Hogg is Horace Chiffon, of Tyler,
Texas.
Mr.. Chiffon is the first native Texan
ever sent to the senate, and with the ex-
ception Of William II, Grain, who was
born in Galveston, is probably the first
native Texan to be sent to either branch
of congress.
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The rinkcrton. Denounced.

NEW YORK. April 9s.-A special to
The World from Sheffield, Ala. says:
Bishop Atticus G. Haygood. of the
Southern Methodist church dcuounces
the employment OF Piukerton,s men in
PENNSYLVANIA and elsewhere. He says:
What right have these killing Pink
prtons-mere HesSians. fighting any
where and anybody for pay-to hold
mohs in check. 10 put down rioters, 10
a,i,t strikers. Thank God. these hired
ruflians have not yet been called in to
help any city or corporation in the ! ar
iarous south If any plutocrats down