The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-10-06
Fresh Gleanings,

- Gen. Rousseau was elected to
Congress from Louisville on the 18th.
- New Haven horses are dying
with mysterious throat disease.
- Twenty years ago it was a
criminal offense in Connecticut to play
billiards. The world moves.
- A negro can vote in the State
of New York if he has real estate Of
the assessed value of $3.50.
~ The State of Ohio has 81 ,OOO,-
100000 of property. personal and real
upon the tax duplicate.
- Coal is selling at s75 per ton
at Salt Lake City, and it is believed
the price will be increased to 800
before the coming winter is past.
- The Huntsville Gala. J Advocate
says that the corn crop in that country
is short, and another year of scarcity
is before them.
- Seven horses were shipped re-
Gently at Cincinnati for New York.
whose value in the bill of lading is put
at 100000.
- The late heavy rains in Lower
Canada, destroyed all hopes of saving
the hay and grain crops. Much suffer-
ing is anticipated the coming winter.
- Two hundred Norwegians, en-
gagged to work on the Southwest branch
of the Pacific Railroad, passed through
St. Louis the other day.
- The "Grand Army of the Re-
public" a political society of men
who have served in the army, has 30,
600 members in Illinois.
A very large horse, twenty
hands high, weighing over two thou
sand pounds. of BELGIAN blood. is on
exhibition of Newtown, N J.
- The Chicago Times thinks
Illinois will send eight, and perhaps
nine, representatives to the next Con-
gress who support the Presidents
policy.
- Butler, Burnside, Bolts and
Brownlow are the busy BIS who pro-
pose TO improve the shining hours in
the Radical hive this fall.
- It is said that according to re-
ports from the Freedmen's Bureau
there are only $500 dependent negroes
in the State of North Carolina.
Judge sharkey, of Mississippi,
has consented to canvass the State of
Pennsylvania in behalf of the Conser-
vative party.
- It seems that Rome, the Eternal
city, is increasing its population, now
numbering 10000. This is an in
crease of $4,000 in the last FIVE years. |
- The London Sunday Gazette
says that "when the additional rein
forcements reach Canada the British
army in that quarter will amount to
l6, 5000 men,"
- Adolphe Bernard, of Memphis, |
ticket agent of the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad, disappeared on
the 18th, and $1,000 disappeared with
him.
- Capt. Moses Libby, of Scar
borough. Me-, ninety-fve years of
age' attended town meeting and voted |
1T the election the other day. He cast
MS first vote for George Washington
for President.
- Information is received from |
California that the Panama Railroad |
has been sold to an English company, |
and the act is regarded as preiudicial
% the interests of the citizens Of the
United States crossing the Isthmus.
- The New York Herald con-
'inues its daily column of advice to the
President to fall into line with Con-
gress, help adopt the Constitutional |
amendment, and kick Mephistopheles
seward out Of the Cabinet.
- The tobacco harvest in Con-
lecticut has commenced. The Hart
ord Times says, taken together, the
,rop of 1866 will be rather under than
'ver the average in quantity, but in
quality equal to any ever grown in