The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-06-09
Fresh Gleanings.

- mere are N0U applicants TOT
divorces at the present term of the Su
preme Court of Boston.
- Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has
been elected President Of the Alabama
and Tennessee River Railroad.
- DR.. Erasmus D. Fenner. of New
Orleans, died in that city on the 4th /
ult., of Typhoid fever.
- Prominent members of Congress
express the opinion that Congress will
adjourn about the first of July.
- Negroes are now admitted to |
testify in the courts of Indiana-StstesS
laws to the contrary.
- The bill for the admission of
colorado as State has passed, butt
has not yet received the signature of
the President.
A young negress stabbed her
aunt in Jackson, on Saturday, TheS
quarrel arose about their respectivel
rights to chicken.
- The longest railroad in theI
world is the Central Railroad of illinois,
-739 miles long, and which cost $15,-
100000.
- The Supreme Court of Tennes-
see, has decided that the law requiringl
stamps on legal proceedings is uncon-|
sstitutional.
- Edward T. Parker, who was]
appointed by the President Surveyor
/ of the port of New Orleans, was con-
frmed by the Senate on the I'd inst.
- The Picayune thinks that the
negro population of New Orleans is
now three or four times larger than it,
was previous to the war.
- A company has been incorpo-
rated at Cincinnati, the object of which
1 is to manufacture and purify salt near
CORPUS Christi, on the coast of Texas.
- The,gold crop of the world will
probably reach $4,000, 900 this year.
Previous to 1880 the average annual
yield was less than $34, 100000.
- Another attempt will be made
during June and July to lay the At
lantio Telegraph Cable. 1t is now
being received on board the Great
Eastern at Southampton.
- Gov. Jenkins, of Georgia, has
commenced large purchases of corn
and provisions for the benefit of the
widows and orphans of deceased Con-
sfederate soldiers, in accordance with
Ian act of the Legislature.
- There were three fires in Louis
willie on the night of the 18th, and the
rumsred death of twelve persons
e Four negro women, one white woman
land negro boy were found burned to
death.
- The Atlanta Intelligencer is
conyinced, from information received
from various parts of Georgia, that the
@cotton crop will turn out to be an ex-
5ceedingly short one in that State.
- The trial of Mrs. Isabella Ould,
lin Richmond, Va, for shooting her
8paramour, one Mr.. Meade, has resulted
i'm her being fined one cent and impris-
aoned one hour in jail.
Il - Dr. Stone, of New Orleans,
Nsays the cholera never visits warm lat
Hitudes in the summer. Cold, damp
Hweather in the fall and early spring
Hproduces it, but the cholera dies out in
8summer.
q - The bill DISTINGUISHING all per-
sons who participated in the late war,
in the Southern armies, has passed the
n Tennessee Legislature, the Senate
Shaving sustained the action of the
8House, by vote of Is to 6.
- The Richmond Examiner, of
3 May 10, appears in mourning as mark
of respect to the memory of Stonewall
jackson who fell on that day three
syears ago. The Examiner also appeals
ato the people to suspend business on
that day.
q - The Rev. DR.. j. P. Miller, of
Elk Ridge, Maryland, has been elected
I Bishop of the Episcopal Church, for
the Diocese of Louisiana, to fill the
yacancy occasioned by the death Of
Bishop Polk.
- The Augusta Constitutionalist'
#of the 18th, mentions the arrival there
from Mexico of Col. Fl. l.. Clinch, for
smerly of the LIST La. Artillery. 1t is
his intention to return to New Orleans,
where he will take up his residence,
having abandoned the idea of emigra-
ting to Mexico.
The farmers in Upper Georgia
land North Alabama are ploughing up
their cotton crops and planting corn
instead. More than one-fourth of the
Crop cannot be counted on in those
sections. Defect in the seed and ex-
lcessive rains are the cause.
The receipts from the Internal
Revenue for the ten months ending
April 80, 1866, reaches the satisfactory
Figures of two hundred and sixty-three
million, three hundred and sixteen
Thousand, three hundred and ninety
nine dollars and ffty-seven cents!
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IL Douglas Jerrold calls women:
arms 1.-The serpents that wind around
mems necks, killing their best resolu
TONS"
That class Of serpents can just wini
around our neck as much as they
please and If any of the youno Ialie,