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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21
RUFUS SANDERS.
The Sage Of Rocky Greek on tho
Wishy-W ashy Man.
TIL. .aa,nest- Trouble with Drury Grimm
Captain Bunting OF the Long Creek
Horse Gaards--Throueh the
Dark Valley
CopyrigAt ises..

In every eondition-in religion and
In politics-it will pay man to choose
aides and pick his flag and then stand
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

TIE pyramids themselves, doting with
age, have forgotten the names OF their
founders.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

WOULD they could sell US experience,
though at diamond prices, but then no oae
would use the article second-hand.-Bal-
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

AN ALrpr-"Where were you when the as
sault occurred p' asked the judge OF the VIC
tim. "Sure'n Oh dun no., yer honor he.
hit nue. SO hard OH couldn't say."-Harpers
Razar
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

If Solomon lived in these days the bright
young men would ridicule him unmerciful-
iy.-Atchison Globe.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

A RICH st. Louis girl is about to marry an
Indian. Fortune seems to favor the brave.
Texas Siftings.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

Ii you want to learn just where man
stands, follow him into crowded street
car.-Texas Siftings.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

LITERARY men are good deal like hens.
The author lays plot and then the editor
sits on it.-Texas Siftings.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

Circus men turn everything to their own
advantage-even handspring.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

Glass houses are usually held TO-
gsthsv b ths beAus = ons's eva -
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

HE-~"1've good mind to kiss you" She
-ssYou'd better mind what you're about. |"
Boston Transcript
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

RHEUMATIC Pains are greatly relieved by
Clenr's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

II CONCLUDE that's fly" said a young
trout you are right, my dear, /" said It's
mother, '.but never jump at conclusions"
Household Words.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21
robacco stInkinr breath.

WE speak OF some men as all wool, prob
ably because they shrink at nothing.-Bos-
ton Trar script
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

A MEDICAL writer says children need
more wraps than adults. They generally
get more.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

n tho year 1890 iron mining was car.
ried On Tor commercial purposes IN
tNentT- eirht states s
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

REVISED VERsIoS.-W hatsoever man
seweth, that shall he also rip. ale Record.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21
LEAVES IT'S rlARK

every one of the painful irregularities
and weaknesses that prey upon women.
They fade the face, waste the figure, ruin
the temper, wither you up, make you old
before your time.
Get we'll: That's the way to look well.
Cure the disorders and ailments that beset
you, with DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton.
1t regulates and promotes all the womanly
functions, improves digestion, enriches the
blood, dispels aches and pains, melancholy
and nervousness, brings refreshing sleep.
and restores health and strength.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

A LOVING heart incloses within itself an
unfailing aud eternal Eden.-Richter.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

MEN are born with two eyes, but WIN
one tongue. in order that they snouio 90
tWice as much as they say.-Coiton.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

ALBERrA-ssI do wish it were not the Gus
tom to wear the engagement ring only on
The third An GER of ones left hand" Alethea
ESQ do /. l can't get more than half my
rings on at one time, now
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

''DID you 60 to church yesterdayr' mo,
but did the same thing. took nap
Life.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

THE success OF church-choir singer il
after all, matter of chants.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21
Through the Dark valley.

The news come through Aunt Nancy
Newton from Panther Creek one day
last week to the extent that old man
Dabny Grayson was dead. 1t want to
say IN no ways surprisin to me to hear
that old man Dabny had passed on
through the dark valley, you under
stand, but it put me in mind of what
Blew Scroggins loves to say-"solne
folks have sense, whilst otherS have
fits
Old man Dabny had been stir1er
from base, and stirrer from his youth
up. By hard work ond clost 6guratton
he had managed so as to git ahead OF
the hounds and buy good farm and
raise up a fine crop of children and save
some money. Raley nobody couldn't
blame old man Dabny-accordin to the
hard fight he had to make-but he was
famous as the clostest and most stin-
giest man in all that region of county.
Two or three years ago a strang er
from somewheres up North went down
through the Panther Creek settleme at
and tarried over for a few days. 1y-
and-by he put in and bought forty &C, es
of land from old man Dabny- in
woods and hills and hollows over on
the creek for hundred dollars. In
tellin me about it old man Dabny vfas
braggin powerful on the trade.
THAT land amt good for nothin, Eu-
fus, except to hold the world together,
says he. 1.-THE timber is scrubby and
whilst there are some big springs over
there, even to the water amt fitten to
drink. Blamed if the water don't jest
naturally stink. and it smells like rot
ten eggs"
But the stranger from somewheres
up North want gone nowheres. you nm
derstand. He soon give it out that he
had found the bulliest sort of sulphur
water on his land. Then he went of
and worked up a boom, and come ba ils
| and sold out to crowd of town mo q
for two thousand dollars, which they
are now fixin to build big hotel owe !
there aud take summer boarders.
| And that was what allied old ma
Dabny Grayson- he got the news and
couldn't keep from thinkin about thu
big things he had missed. Up to tina,
| time he was hale and hearty. but after
that he moped and moaned till the las,
shower como and he had to take ont
and quit.
RuFus SAsDEas.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

WHAT is there that Is illustrious that !
not also attended by labori-Cicero.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

If you would shine in tho world, be
bootblack.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

In nine cases out of ten the man who has
riches paid too much for them Rams
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

Tns language of fiowers-s, ., :, :, g.
Puck.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

ALBERrA-.sI do wish it were not the Gus
tom to wear the engagement ring only on
the third finger of ones lett hand" A,e'ne ne
engagement rings on at one time, now
Life
MEN are born with two eyes, but WIN
one toueue in order that they snouid 90
twice as much rs they y.-coltcn.
rr you would shine in the world, be
bootblack.
WHAT is there that Is illustrious that Is
not also attended by lab0ri-Cicero.
THE success OF a church-choir singer Is
after all, matter Of chants.
"DID you go to church yesterday mo,
but did the same thing. took nap
Life.
A LOVING heart incloses within itself an
unfailing aud eternal Eden.-Richter.
A MEDICAL writer says children need
more wraps than adults. They generally
get more.
Ii you want to learn just where man
stands, follow him into q crowded street
car.-Texas Siftings.
II CONCLUDE that's fly" said q young
trout. You are right, my dear, said Ito
mother, "but never jump at conclusions"
Household Words.
Circus men turn everything to their own
advantage-even q handspring.
LIBERTY is principle; its community 10
its security xclusiveness Is its DOOM
Kossu th.
A RICH st. Louis girl is about to marry an
Indian. Fortune seems to favor the brave.
Texas Siftings.
HE-"1,ve good mind to kiss you" She
-ssYou'd better mind what you're about"
Boston Transcript.
LITERARY men are good deal like hens.
The author lays plot and then the editor
sits on it.-Texas Siftings.
If Solomon lived in these days the bright
young men would ridicule him unmerciful-
w. Atchison Globe.
WOULD they could sell US experience,
though at diamond prices, but then no o1e
would use the article second-hand.--Bal-
| FAC.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21

HsIvs Catarrh Cure
Is Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-12-18
New Trial for the Lunenburg Murderers

The Supreme Court of Appeals last
Thursday granted new trials to Pokey
Barnes, Mary Alternately and Solomon
Marable, the three negroes convicted
of the murder of Mrs. Pollard, in Lun-
enburg county. The opinion was
written by Judge Buchanan. The
decision is based upon the case of
Pokey Barnes. The motion of the
encouragement to postpone the con
sideration of the case until the county
court could have time to amend the
record was overruled. The court over
rules this motion on the ground that
tbs trial judge may amend the record
during the term, but he cannot do go
after that time. The next assignment
of error, that the trial jury was not
selected In accordance with the law,
is speedily disposed of. The court
holds that the claim that the accused
were indicted jointly and tried sepa-
rately, not removing the case to
another county, and that the accused
did not have counsel, are none of them
sufficient grounds to secure new trial.
The error which saved Marable and
his alleged female confederates from
their impending doom, was that which
shows the record of the trial court fails
to show that the jury were adjourned
from one day to another; it ought also
to shoW that upon such adjournment
that they were committed to the
custody of the proper officer, with
instructions not to speak to them him
self nor to allow any one else to speak
to them touching the trial of the case
in which they are engaged. AS the
record in this case fails to show this, g.
new trial is granted. The same order
is also entered in the cases of Mary
Alternately and Solomon Marable.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-12-18
PERKINS, Comet.

PERKINS, Comet which has been visi
BILE through telescopes for some time
is now visible to the naked eye though
unfavorably situated for observation
in the Northern hemisphere. On Mon
day last it crossed the sun about Z de
grees to the South. On Tuesday il
attained it's greatest brightness as seer
from the earth, being at that time 81
times as bright as at it's discovery.
To-day Wednesday - it is at its
dearest approach to the sun, its dis.
tance to-day being 100000 miles. AT
this time it is an evening object South
of West-a week ago it was morning
object. About December ~ it will be
farthest east from the sun, at a distance
of about thirteen degrees, when it will
again approach the sun, passing eight
degrees to the north, on Jan. II, when
it again will become morning object.
Its tail is composed of one long stream
er and several short ones. The princi-
pal streamer is much curved and bent,
and shows somewhat similar to the
phenomena which has. been photo
graphed of several of the brighter
comets in recent years.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-12-18

The Weekly Review of Henry Clews
& Co.. the New Y ork brokers, Dec. 18th,
has this to say with regard to the pros
poets of trade:-
1.-THE market receives support from
the general improvement in the cur
rent gross earnings of the railroads.
The general condition of trade in this
city and the interior has also ten
dency to encourage confidence. The
business outlook has many favorable
symptoms. x = At the West and
in many points of the East, the retail
branches of trade show a marked i'm
provement, which must soon stimulate
the primary markets. The
lateness of the cotton movement may
have somewhat checked Southern
trade, but the better prices realized
and the fact that cotton must soon
move more freely has encouraged con-
fidence in the South little inferior to
that prevailing in the Northwest
Contrasted with a year ago, there is a
remarkable change in the business
temper, which has not yet had full op-
portunity of expressing itself; and
there is no hazard in saying that, if
Congress gives any fair promise of do
ing its clear duty on the currency
question, the Spring of 1896 will de-
velop large and genuine improve
ment."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-12-18

The PARITY OF GOLD AND SILVER.
AS the Norfolk Landmark saye,
there is no law which says that the
greenbacks shall be redeemed in gold
but when the free-silver advocates call
attention to this undisputed fact and
attempt to use it as an argument for
the measures they favor, they simply
betray their misapprehension of finan
cial sequence. What the law does say
is that the Government shall maintain
the parity of the gold and silver dol
lars. and in order to do this it must be
prepared to discharge ITS obligations
accordingly. At time of financial
agitation such as the present, the fail
ure of the Government to redeem its
notes in gold would destroy confidence
and dcrange the entire monetary sys-
TEN. A widespread panic and bank
ruptcy would be the inevitable result
The President puts the situation very
clearly in his message.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-12-18
Republican Embarrassment.

A change has come over the spirit
of the Republican Congressman, who,
as the Norfolk Landmark says, started
in with a great deal of bluster-before
Congress opened. Now, however, they
are beginning to show clearly that
they are afraid to enact any decisive
legislation, and they are adopting
pathos as screen for their fear. Their
puerile complaint is that the Presi-
dents message, in recommending the
retirement of the greenbacks and in
making no mention of depleted con-
dition of the treasury puts them in an
awkward position" inasmuch as the
Republican party does not indorse
Mr.. Cleveland's views on the currency
question and is too coy to pass any
revenue laws when he has not suggest
ed that there is need for them. Truly.
Mr.. Reed and his associates are posing
in a strange role. They announce
themselves as the champions of econ
omy and the opponents OF chivalrous
delicacy in treating the feelings OF a
Democratic executive. 1t was not
thus of yOre
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-12-18
Some Good Sense.

General Francis A. Walker was an
eminent Republican soldier in the
war, and at one time had the luck of
being captured by the Confederates
and confined for sometime inLibby pris-
on. He is now president of the Massa-
chusett Institute of Technology, and
in a recent address to the students of
his sophomore class on the effect of
the civil war upon American life, is re-
ported by the Hartford Times as ex-
pressing the "opinion that the i'm
mediate granting of suffrage to the
| freed men after the war WIS ill-advis-
| ed. as he believed there should have
been both property and an educa-
| tiOnal qualification exacted. He said
one of the most unjust measures OF
reconstruction was to force the white
people of the South to educate Their
former slaves. Many of the Southern
ers had been reduced by their four
years struggle from affluence to
poverty, and to place upon these mer
such tremendous burden was great
wrong. 1t was clearly the duty of the
federal government. Another re
markable statement made by Genera
Walker was that there were no mer
more unjustly maligned than til.
| pOOT Wultof, VI tIic OOuIn. lie mac
seen much of them during the war
and challenged anyone who coule
observe the fortitude with which they
endured severest privations, thel
cheerfulness on long, forced marches
} and their sublime courage in battle tx
say they were not men of surprisins
strength of character Since the wa
these same people have become thu
lnainstay of the South. He pointe.
!, out that since the close of the war tn
} Southerners have undergone a mos
marked and welcome change of feeling
and as they were then the bitteres
foes of the union, SO they are now tn
most ardent and enthusiastic sur
porters. To the South we must loo
rather than to the North for our grea
patriots"
These views coming from Republ
!. can soldier and a regular New Ems
: lander will no doubt CRATE harshl
y upon the ears of many of his peopl,
But really what General Walker say
is the naked truth, as candid peopl
j must admit. Had negro suffrage bee
a based upon an educational or propert
9 qualification when he was first mad
free, it would have been great bles
i ing to the negro and to the people
:. the whole country without regard t
# sectional or party domination.
Lyq1chbatrg NeaCS.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-12-18
Will There be Warp

Referring to the difficulty. between
England and Venezuela about a dis
puted boundary between Guiana, a
British possession, and Venezuela, and
the perversion by the Jingoests of the
declaration of Monroe, the Richmond
Times says
I'VE are not so sure about what
Congress will do. 1t is our deliberate
belief that if Republican President
occupied the White House, Congress
would involve us in a war with Great
Britain, and we are not sure it will
not do SO anyhow"
During the last Presidentiae cam
paign we expressed the belief that if
Harrison should be elected, that this
country would be involved in war
during his administration, and that
opinion is unchanged, and we believe
that the greatest danger now threat
ening this country is, that the Repub-
licans will involve it in,,war, particular
ly if it shall elect the next President.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-12-18
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS


NOTICE TO THF HOLDERS OF BONDS
IN OF THE CITY OF STAUNTON, VA.
The bonds of the City of Staunton, Va. de-
scribed below, being subject to call, notice is
hereby given that they will be paid upon pre-
sentatlon at the off1ce of the Treasurer of the
City of StauntOn, Va, or at the ONCE of the
Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company OF
baltimore, Baltimore. Md, ON January l, 1895,
at which time interest on same will cease:
Six per cent. Coupon Bonds
$1,000 each, series sc" num-
bered s., e6, 81, SO, so, 81,
dated January LIST, 1876, and
payable July lst, 1905, or af
ter the expiration of 20
years from date. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS co
Six per cent. Coupon Bonds,
$500 each, series e." num-
bered from go to IS 1nclu-
sive. dated January l, 1876,
and payable July 1st, 1905,
or after the expiration of 20
years from date. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 100000
Twenty-Five per cent. COu
pom Bonds, Bonds, $500 each,
series H." numbered from
126 to TAT inclusive, dated
January 1st, 1881, and pay
able January 1st, 1908, or af
ter the expiration of Is
years from date. IL 10000
Twenty-etght per cent. Cou-
pom Bonds, $500 each, series
IS f." numbered l4S to It's
inclusive, dated January /,
1881, and payable July lst,
1910. or after the expiration
OF 15 years from date. ............... ,0O 0(
One per cent Manuscript
Bond, $500, dated January
lst 1890, and payable on de-
| manQ...... ............ 80. 49,. 3.6OOC(
ss7.eOoO
ARlSTA HOGE,
Treasurer of the City of Staunton, Va.
dec 1s2ts
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-12-18

Mr. Flanagan has introduced bill
in the State Senate to prevent lynch
ing. The bill is modelled after the rec
concentrations on this subject made
in the Governors message. 1t provides
that whenever lynching occurs in any
county, city, or town, it shall be the
duty of the supervisors, or the Council
of the city or town, as the case may be-
to lay a levy of 5000 for each 1000 in
habitants, which is to be collected al
other county taxes are collected, and
the proceeds to be paid into the public
treasury by the Treasurer of the coun.
ty, if these taxes are paid therein. The
bill defines lynching to be a riotous
punishment of person charged with
a crime
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-12-18
Ex Congressman w. A. McKeieb,

Elk Congressman W. A. McKeighan
Of Nebraska, died at his home in Hust-
ings. Neb., Sunday.
The body of ex-senator Allen G..
Thurman, who died at his home at
Columbus, Ohio. on Thursday, was
buried Saturday with simple but i'm
pressive ceremonies.
The m arriage of Adolphus Busch's
daughter, in st. Louis. Mo-, will be the
most elaborate wedding seen in the
Southwest, and will cost 100000.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-12-18
500 Reward S10O.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires a con-
stitational treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up
the constitution and assisting nature
in doing it's work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative
powers, that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address, F. J. CHENEY & Co..
Toledo, o.
~ Sold by Druggists, Zoe.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-12-18
holiday EXCURSION TO WASHINGTON
ID. C.

The B. & o. Railroad Company will inaugu-
rate series of monthly excursions to the "a
tionaliCa pital, from P ittsburg, Wheeling. Park
ersburg, Lexington, HagerstOwn and inter-
mediate points along its lines as far East as
Washington Junction, affording an excellent
opportunity for mid winter jaunt to the Ma
tfonal Capital The first excursion of the series
is announced for Thursday, December 18th
The rates are remarkably low and the time
limit ample enough to allow visitors an oppor-
tunity to visit all the Public Buildings and In
stitutions in Washington and make side trips
to points of interest in near vicinity.
We give below list of stations showing the
firna q trains and rates of fare.