The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01
Fresh Gleanings.
A Field of promise-Cyrus w.
A wig that won't stay in place

have been swindled by bogus lottery
concern in Detroit, Mich.
- A young girl was put up at
rahe in Rome. The tickets were all
taken but the police interferred.
- One of the latest arrivals at
Saratoga was lady with 80 dresses
and SO bonuets.
"A project for tunneling the
British Channel between Dover and
Calais is again under consideration.
- The price of wife in Egypt
varies from five shillings to fifteen
hundred dollars.
- An armless shoemaker in Gin
cinnati does the finest quality of sewed
work with his toes.
Congress has appropriated $17,-
GOO for ventilation. Avery small sum
considering the impurity of the session.
The Mobile Register says that
Gen. Lee was not whipped, but "smoth-
cred to death by a quarter of million
of Irish and Dutch"
- tits said on the march to Prague
the Prussians captured 100000
pounds of tobacco and 100000
cigars.
- Gen. Walker. late of Texas,
has commenced business in Lenden-
hall street, London, as commission
merchant.
- A divorce case was lately tried
in Paris, the parties which were sever
ally aged eighty years. and had not
seen each other for over fifty years.
a physician in England recent
ly was killed by experimenting on
himself, in testing the effect Of chloro-
form combined with hydrocyanic acid,
- 1t is said the Partisan leaders of
fashion now show decided inclina
ton to allow the judiciously elegant to
replace the merely expensive
- A wicked and disloyal Missou-
rian says. there is no fear that preach
ers will be arrested for preaching the
gospel in Illinois, for they never do it.
Queen Victoria manifested her
royal Indignation at lady for appear
ing at court in very low necked dress,
by ordering her never to present her.
self again.
- According to an English ply
stefan, two children to each married
couple is now the average in all large
cities. That average won't do for
this country.
- Bismark, the great Prussian, on
whom all European eyes are now CEN
tered, rejoices in the name of Charles
Otto Won Bismark auf Schonhansen
and Kniephof. That's all.
A Columbus (Miss.) colored
woman recently gave birth to four
boys, whom she has named respective
ly Abraham Lincoln, VIM. H. Seward,
Henry Ward Beecher and Horace
Greeley.
- According to an old law of
Pennsylvania, any person arresting a
horse thief is entitled to a bounty of
$50 and mileage for conveying the
prisoner to the Jail of the county in
which the thief was committed.
The wife of William Couch
(colored) of Redding, Conn.,, became
the mother of pair of twins on the
18th of July, making twenty -four
children she has borne in the last TWEEN
ty years, Eight of them were twins.
- One hundred and twelve thou
sand dollars were realized at Savannah,
Ca, not long since, on lot of shot
and shell, broken cannon, field and
seige pieces, collected from Georgia
battle-fields.
- A woman who keeps fruit
stand in Jersey City, N. j., was re-
quested to hold a young child while
the mother went for forgotten carpet
bag. The forgetful woman not re-
turning, baby was consigned to the
almshouse.
- The French Minister of War
receives: as Minister, $26, 900 year !;
as Senator, 5000; as French Marshal,
$4,000; IS Grand Cross of the Legion