The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-06-30
Fresh Gleanings.

have had no rain in three weeks.
The new West Point Academy
bill, now a law, empowers the President
to appoint fifty cadets instead of ten as
heretofore.
- The Senate Finance Commit
tee have decided to make no change in
the tax bill, so far as distilled spirits
are concerned, but will modify the tax
on cigars.
! - The Appropriation bill passed
by Congress allows 81, $4,000 for i'm
provements in Western rivers and har-
bors.
a man in Indiana bit off another
mans ear. The court adjudged that
he should pay $l45 for the ear-atic per-
Torrance.
The hog cholera andarmy worm
are troubling the farmers insome parts
of Illinois, andgthe potafoe bug is
making havec4n some sections of Iowa
aud western Illinois.
- Johnson's Island, Lake Erie,
the abiding place of many unfortunate
Confederates during the war, has been
finally abandoned by the military, and
all the appurtenances of war removed.
- The New Haven, Connecticut,
Board of Education have voted to ex-
clude colored children from the public
schools of that city.
When coffin, shipped from
Parkersburgh to GAINESVILLE, O., was
opened, the occupant, a lady, was
found with her hands up to her head
her hair tangled. and her lips bitter
through. She had been buried alive
- St. Thomas Episcopal Church
one of the oldest places of worship II
New York, is in ruins, to give place Il
large dry goods establishment. The
church was built in 1925, on the corner
of Broadway and Houston streets.
- George w. Sumner is the Con.
sentative candidate for governor o
1.-The forty eight counties designated a.
Western Virginia" filched wrongfully
from Virginia proper.
- Another order, stopping the
pay of several hundred army officers
most of them belonging to Western
regiments, until they render to tht
Quartermaster Generals office the re,
turns required by law, has been issued
- Strawberries sold in Cincinnati
/ fIu ut haY t.N
per quart A pretty sure indication
that the crop will prove to be large
one.
- The Postmaster G eneral posi-
lively refuses to increase the pay o
New England railroads for carrying
the mails, iriasmach- as she considers
that they are now paying all that tn,
service will warrant, while such enor
nous sums are lost in carrying tn,
mails over the South.
-" Sodium Amalgam' is tn,
name of new explosive compound o
California origin. The explosive pow
er Of one ounce of this material is sail
to be equal to that of twenty-five
pounds OF gunpowder.
- The Chicago Journal (Republi
can) sarcastically observes that ri
may be positively stated that there ar
almost dozen members of Congress
who have not yet offered an amendmen
to the Constitution of the Unite
States"
- The Missouri Republican, Q
the I'd, states that in response to
letter from Hon, John Hogan, Senate
johnson, of Maryland, has written
letter stating that the U. s. Suprem
Court has decided the Missouri ties
oath unconstitutional.
- 1t is stated that the transac
tions of the Treasury Department, i
the buying and selling of bonds. com
pound interest notes, seven-th irtie
aud legal tenders, during tn
months of February, March, April an
May, cost the government in the wa
of commissions upwards of $35, 900 pc
month.
- The New York Grand Lodg
of Free Masons, representing 5000
active Masons in that State, have
project on hand for rearing in the cit
New York an asylum for the aged, til
INDECENT and the orphans of member
Of that order. The building is to cos
$500, 900, and to be located in centrs
position.
| - At recent me ,ting of the eli
liens of Pine Bluff county, Arkansas
Gen. Yell offered resolutions decIarin
that they wished to be relieved frol
morbid feelings and insane ideas; the
States have no right to secede; thu
negroes should be allowed all civ
rights; that stay law should be pass
ed; that immigration should be favore,
- A letter has been addressed |
Gov. Brownlow, signed by forty men
bers of Congress, asking him TO cor
vene the Legislature for the ratifcatio
of the Constitutional amendment ju
passed by Congress. 1t is believed
this is done the Congressional deleg'
ton from that State will be admitte
ere the adjournment of the presel
session of Congress.
A dispatch from the commal
dant of the Spanish squadron in Il
South Pacific Seas, which announc,
the bombardment of Valparaiso to Il
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