The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-07-28
Fresh Gleanings.

- The cholera in Gaudaloupe
carried off $1,000 negroes.
- An asylum for colored insane is
to be bulls in Cincinnati.
- You can have man murdered
in Chicago for $l2. 81
- Mahogany telegraph poles in
South Australia at d apiece; no other
wood will stand the climate.
"A Pennsylvania drove a pair
of horses 100 miles in 81 hours, and
then refused SO, 900 for them.
A fashionable party lately ar
rived at Newport with 800 parcels of
luggage.
- America swallows 10000 bot
ties of champagne annually, or rather
their contents. ,.#
The estate of the late Col. Colt,
of Hartford, Conn.,, is undergoing dis
tribution-34 millions.
A woman in Pennsylvania was
divorced from one man and married to
another the same day.
The Connecticut divorces COM
pared with the marriages are as ! to 10.
- Fifteen thousand hardy Norwe-
gians are on their way to this country,
and will settle in the West.
Five murderers in the EAing-
ham county, ILL.,, Jail, waiting to be
hanged, became impatient and left,
a bad .'report'' comes from
master Gun of Mississippi. He "went
off, with his fathers second wife.
- George H. Pendleton is an
nounced as the Democratic candidate
for Congress in the First district of
Ohio.
- The House of Representatives
of New Hampshire has passed the Con-
stitutional Amendment by vote yeas
203, nays 10Y.
- 1t is estimated that SOC, 000, 900
will be required to pay the bounties to
colored soldiers, granted by the recent
act of Congress.
- The Town Council of Monroe
Ouachita, mas declared war upon the
swine pi-rooting around town.
- There is to be State election
in Arkansas-the first general election
since the restoration of peace-on the
9th of August.
- Out of the l ,2S5, 600, 600 people
in the world, 700, 900, 900 wear cotton
exclusively, and all but 20,OOO,0OO use
it more or less.
- A couple we're recently re-mar-
ried in New Haven who had been d.
vorced 25 years, the husband having
had a second wife in the meantime.
- A formidable force-the 0,000
Egyptian troops, with cholera in their
ranks, which Turkey has lately sent to
Danube.
- A Philadelphia exchange men
tons a case of infanticide, and says
the crime is one that ''in these days
can rarely be prosecuted to conviction.
A New York cavalry colonel
eloped with Baltimore merchants
wife and $1,000. At last dates the
lady had returned, but the cash and the
colonel had not. I'll 4.
- The negroes about Newbern
N. c., who live on Government rations
struck for white sugar instead of brown
The sympathizing Bureau agent or.
dered white Immediately.
- Philadelphia is dissatisfied be
cause none of her citizens have repre-
scented the State in the United States
for IS years, and none none have filled
the Governors chair for 20 years.
- Two Germans living in WE'LL
county, Indiana, drank each quart o
brandy on wager, which resulted il
the death of one, and all but the dealt
Of the other.
- There are 100000 acres 0
public lands in the Southern States t.
be disposed of under the new home
stead law just signed. BY the Presi
dent. ~
/ The House Committee Of Way
and Means are said to have agree,
upon an increased duty of fifty pc
cent. on imported cigars, as if cigar
were not already high enough.
Big wheat crop expected thi
year in the Northwest-drougnt, hoI
cholera, chicken cholera and choler
morbus in Southern Illinois--rinder
nast AMI Asiatie cholera anticinatnS