The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-05-25
RETROSPECTIVE
Fifty Years Ago.

From the Banner Of May Is, 1s66-Bellevue.l
ga man in Washington Territory has
named an infant son as follows. john
Elmer Sherman-S Sheridan Nc Pherson-
Fitzpatrick Thomas Butler F arag 1T
Lyon Grant.-Exchange. If that boy
isn't notorious pickpocket by the time
he is twelve; and hung before he is
twenty one years old, there is certainly
nothing in name That's ALL"
"I believe that this Congress would
not approach the full measure Of justice
until every full grown man in the late
rebel states was provided with home
stead on the land he had been held as a
slave.' said Thad Stevens in Congress
May 9Th, while discussing the proposed
amendments to the Constitution" This
policy of Mr.. Stevens originated the
famous "Forty- acres-and- a-mule" myth
with which the negroes were for long
time deluded by the carpetbaggers.)
"Dickens declined a recent invitation
to read before Queen Victoria on the
ground that he would not go as per-
former where he was not received as a
gentleman. Charles is almost equal to
lf-government." (Charles Dickens,
the greatest of English novelists, wrote
his stories about the people he had lived
among-the poor and the middle classes.
He was never popular with the aristoc-
racy and died in 1870 without receiving
knighthood. But his books will be read,
his name will be known and his memory
honored when the royal house of Eng
land and England's nobility have been
forgotten.)
Judge Abel, of our First District
Court, has followed the decisions of the
courts in Tennessee and North Carolina,
in adjudicating the Civil Rights Bill,
passed by the present Congress, as null
and void" (Following the action OF
the courts, the Radical Republicans
added the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitu-
tion and then passed another Civil
Rights Bill, but, since carpetbag rule
in the South neither the amendments OF
the bill have been of much effect to pro-
mote the object for which they were
intended, the equalization politically
and socially of the black and white
races.)
"The professional card of DR.. J. S.
Cheshire appears in another column
(The doctor practiced above Cotton VAL
ley before the war and for time during
the war. He died some thirth-f five years
ago, leaving descendants who still live
in Bossier Parish. On account of the
blockade during the war DR.. Cheshire
made medicine from native herbs, as
did many other doctors in the South.)
"Married, Wednesday, the 23d instant
at the residence of the BRIDES mother
at Fillmore, Bossier Parish, by the Rev
S. B. Surratt, Mr.. John w. Raines tt
Miss Lou C. Connell." (Both Mr.. ant
Mrs. Raines are now dead. He died ;
quarter of century ago, and Mrs
Raines some ten or fifteen years since
but their descendants are living in Bos
sier Parish; notably, two sons, r. H
and w. C. Raines, of Atkins. She was al
asnt of w. E. Connell and T. D. Con
nell of Atkins, and also of E. R. Connel
r Ct Koran and Miss Clifford Connell 0
Haughton. Mr.. Raines was member o
, the Bossier Cavalry during the Confed
, crate war, joining from Arkansas, AM
settled in this parish after the war. H
: was a member of the Police Jury ant
= Justice OF the Peace for Ward Six. Tn
!. Councils were early pioneer settlers il
: Bossier Parish. One surviving sister O
i Mrs. Rains, Mrs. Matte G. Fort,
living in Minden. She is more thai
= eighty years of age.)