The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-11
Fresh Gleanings.

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a Cleveland Judge has decided
that shaving On Sunday morning be-
fore church is work of necessity"
Near Ellsworth, Maine, there
are FIVE houses standing side by side,
occupied by Eve brothers, who married
Eve sisters.
- There are IS Wholesale houses
in Chicago, whose sales for 1865 ex-
ceeded one million dollars each.
- Immigration statistics show
that during the month of June 50 YES
sells brought to New York $3.50 emil
grants.
Four hundred and twenty-five
cases of sunstroke occurred in New
York city during the week ending the
21st inst.
- Japan is buying Blakely guns
for the reception of John Bull when
he next essays to burn a Japanese city.
- The first newspaper in Ken
lucky, the Kentucky Gazette" was
issued by John Bradford, in 1887, 70
years ago.
Gov. Worth is candidate for
reelection at the election to be held
on the third Thursday in October, in
North Carolina.
- An invoice of brandy just
landed in San Francisco, cost in
France only s429, yet the import du-
ties upon it amount to $3.50.
"A Company, with capital of
800, 900, is being organized, at Gin
cinnati, to supply the city with vegita-
bles. They are to hava a garden of
one thousand acres.
- One of the recent appropria-
tons made by Congress, was that OF
one hundred thousand dollars for de-
tecting and furnishing counterfeiters
of United States currency.
A prize of $500 is offered for
the best essay on the physical signs
and other indications of longevity in
man." by the American Popular In
surance Company of New York. The
essay may be written in any language
- The Portage Lake mich.
Mining Gazette says that plumbago o
superior quality has recently been
discovered at South Range, in thai
State.
VIM. B. Astor returns an in
come this year of s1,154,059. HI
ought to be happy man, but he has t.
work so hard in looking after his mon
ey that he probably doesn't enjoy him
self much.
- An organization of counterfeit
srs. reaching from the st. Lawrence t.
the Rocky Mountains. has been dis
covered by the arrest of parties in Kan
sas, which is said to have issued spu
rious bills to the amount of one and |
quarter millions of dollars.
- Georgia paper report very ia
vorably as to the wheat crop just har
vested, and say enough will be mad
for home consumption. In the Yves
and North the crop is represented t.
be about on an average with that o
proceeding years.
a horse thief sold Kentuck,
German a stolen horse, and ran ava,
with his wife the next day.
- An iron railroad bridge of Eng
lish make is to be placed across tn
BRACES river at Richmond, Texas.
- Throckmorton, the newly cleo
ted Governor Of Texas, was Briga
der General in the Confederate army
- Colorado reckons on 1850, 00(
bushels of wheat this year--40, 00
acres at thirty bushels per acre.
A negro fell from a third stor
window in Troy, striking his head upo
the pavement and very much injurin
the bricks.
- The income of DR.. Aver, {
Lowell, for 1865 was s31, s6l-so niue
for advertising. Gen. Buffers wa
S2s,552.
- The population Of st. Loui:
according to census just published
. is 204,327. This is an increase sine
1856 of 1925.
- Il is estimated that the sing
article of incense burnt in the Chimes
: Empire in the worship of their lido
oosts .rnrniiv ohon4 aAsfl nnn nftn