The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-07-14
Fresh Gleanings.

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- Women are now forbidden by
aw to serve in drinking saloons in
New York.
- Gen. Robe E. Lee will spend
the summer vacation from his collegiate
abors in the vicinity of Crab Orchard,
Ky.
- Tho mother of Senator Charles
Sumner died at her residence in Boston,
On the 18th ult., at the advanced age
Of eighty-one years.
- Prof. Powell, of Covington,
KY, dying, bequeathed his head to a
Cincinnati lady, to be used for scientific
purposes, and it was sent to her.
- A lady in New York refused to
walk out with James Marshall, and
James blew out his brains. Not
heavy loss.
Alta criminal trial in New Or
leans the prisoner was acquitted, while
the counsel on both sides were sent to
Jail for contempt of Court.
- The Boston Post states that
man in that State obtained q divorce
from his wife on the ground that she
had absented herself twenty three days.
- It is now violation of the laws
of Wisconsin for minors to enter bill
lizard rooms or places where liquors are
sold.
- What boots it whether Prussia
whip Austria or Austria Prussia, so
Italy gets Venetia. Chalk your cue,
Bismarck.
-- Philadelphia is excited at the
horsewhipping of merchant in his
counting room by a lady whose matri-
monial intentions be had frustrated.
- A Liverpool paper says that
city Continues to maintain the posi-
ton which she has long held as the
most unhealthy town in the kingdom"
- A jury just empannelled in New
York represents seventy.6ve millions
of dollars. Belmont, Astor, Stewart,
and others, compose it.
- A man in Indiana applied for q
divorce because his wife went skating
against his wishes, and he wanted to
let her slide.
-- The Constitution of the State
of North Carolina requires property
qualification of 81, 500. and residence
of FIVE years, to make person eligible
to the Office of Governor.
- The approaching war in Ger
many is bringing the Germans off from
their fatherland, and it is estimated
that 100000 of them will leave for this
country during the summer.
- A London paper says there will
be scarcity of ivory. the demand fol
Sheffield alone requiring 10000 ele
plants per year, and the race is dying
or rather being killed out.
- Francis A. Boyd, negro, OPP
piled to the U. S. Court at Louisyill,
for copyright on book, a poem il
three parts, entitled ITO Columbians,
and dedicated to Lincoln, Grant ant
Butler.
- The work upon street railroad
in Savannah has been suspended b,
military orders. Sanitary reasons ar
given for the order, the authorities fear
: ing the upturned soil would endange
the health of the city.
-- George Simpson, one of th,
! cholera victims in New York, had bee
drinking all day, ate couple of pig
feet in the evening, went home drunk
r and smoked for an hour before goin
to bed. Tnder such preparation, b
q made splendid subject.
. - They have tho gold fever
Georgia. A letter from Dalton say
one company took out enough one da
recently to make over ten thousan
dollars. The mines in Forsyth an
Carroll counties are being worked vic
orously.
y - Thaddeus Stevens proposes
;, tax the people Of the United State
: twenty millions Of dollars to put dow
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clares our own civil war is not ende
Would it not be better for the phys
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= - Great inquiries are being mat
" for Tennessee lands for colonizing pu
70 poses. Ninety-four thousand acr,
" were sold on the 18th ult., to Ne
n York parties, who propose to settle
J. With immigrants this fall. The lant
u purchased lie in Scott, Morgan al