The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-29
Fresh Gleanings.
..Ilen has been struck at Con,

dozen, in order to destroy insects.
- The Supreme Court of New
Hampshire recently granted twenty
divorces for that State.
-Dr. Hostetter, Pittsburg, manu-
facturer of bitters, returns an income of
$124,735--a monument to advertising.
49, During the last week in August
twenty-five thousand immigrants ar
rived in New York from Europe.
Lead has been discovered in
large quantities near Jacksonport,
Arkansas.
- Napoleon has sent special
messenger to Mexico to confer with
Macmillan.
- Maj. Pollock B. Lee, lawyer
of fine ability, formerly of ZolIicofer's
staff, died in Memphis few days since.
- There were thirty-six deaths
from cholera in St. Louis on the 10Th,
three in Chicago, and one in Nashville.
The epidemic is declining in Louisiana.
- Several distilleries in and near
Mobile have been seized by the collec-
tor of internal revenue for distilling
without license.
- Gen. J. ). Fullerton, late of the
Freedmen's Bureau of this State, has
gone into the practice of law at st.
Louis.
- Mrs. Samuel Hoar, of Concord,
Mass, died recently. She was the
last surviving child of Roger Sherman.
Her age was eightyrfive.
- A few week ago, in Bedford, a
billiard keeper was arrested for re-
fusing the use of one of his tables to
a negro.
- The capital stock of the Adams
express company is $10,0OO,0O0 of
which s2,OOO,OOOO is owned in Hart
ford.
- Soldiers in peace, citizens in
war! Stevens. Sumner, Brownlow,
Hamilton, Fred Douglas and the Rump
Congress
- Collector Hamlin thinks he
could get along by hanging someldozen
Southerners, if be were President.
That is mo 1erate.
- The Austin (Texas) Gazette
says at the close of the war there were
l47 convicts in the Penitentiary Of that
State. Now there are 2f4, Of whom
III are negro men and 2 negro women.
- The Mobile police made 264
arrests daring August, of which I67
were of whites, 90 of blacks. The
amount of fines imposed by the mayor,
was $685..
- The Memphis and Little Rock
Railroad is progressing rapidly the
contractors are offering 80 so per day,
and will put the work through with the
utmost vigor.
- The first public school in Chi.
cago was established in 1894. In 1856
there were AZ teachers and 2795 pupils
In 1866, they employ 268 teachers and
have 1920 pupils.
- Senator Doolittle visited hi.
home at Racine, Wis, recently, ant
was very coolly received by his ole
friends. Numbers of them refused tt
recognize him.
- is believed that the Governo
of Georgia intends to suspend the col
lection of State taxes for the presen
year, on account of the impoverished
condition of the people.
- The Abolition friends of A. ]
Hamilton are reminded by the Texa
press. that he was the President of
meeting in that State, which tendere,
a vote Of thanks to Brooks for his as
sault upon Sumner.
A young and pretty servan
girl of Montreal lately committed sui
eide, by throwing herself into dee
we'll. A trusnt lover was at the BOZ
tom-not of the well, but the poor girl
broken heart.
- tits not alone the radical Con
gress of the United States that is de
moralized. A Canadian paper accuse
its public men of gross drunkenness.
and says the legislative house on man
occasions. resembles drunken brothe
- The Democracy used to run th
Federal government for $40, 600, 600
year. The Radicals have run it up |
S56O000,00O, or about $50 to ever
man, woman and child in the Unite
| States. They have muItinIied the a,