The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-22
Fresh Gleanings,
- Some Parisians are organizing
to colonize the Holy Land.

- New York papers tell Of the
pleasant hum of business there.
- Melons and cucumbers are not
allowed to be sold in st. Louis.
- The ball proof jacket invented
in Paris weighs only two pounds.
THE Catholics are making head
way in Salt Lake City.
- The Kings of Dahomey and
Ashantee are squaring away for fight
- The Amazons in Africa are to
be armed with the needle gun.
A speculator in butter COM
mitted suicide in Lexington, 0. The
price was fatal to him.
The citizens of Elizabeth, Ky,
ducked a citizen in horse pond for
beating; his wife.
- Stuart Mill On. P.) believes in
female suffrage. He thinks if women
are fit to be rulers they are fit to voss.
The Vermont State election
has resulted in the reelection of Mr..
Dillingham; as Governor by an inoreas-
ed majority.
- In Ssndusky, beautiful and
wealthy young lady has died from mix
ing strychnine with love. She took
the former to cure the latter. 1t did it
- The United States bonds held
by Treasurer Spinner, in trust for Ma
tional Banks, amount in the total to
5000, 5O7 200.
- Gov. Brownlow says he shall
not be candidate for reelection. He
stood as much chance of it as for
Heaven.
- While Mary Dougherty was
making her masters bed in Charleston
pistol under the pillow exploded and
shot her dead.
- In speech at Athens. Tenn,
Horace Maynard said he had always
been an abolitionist, and predicted the
speedy social equality of the black
with the white man, intermarriage, etc.
- The foreign papers are talking
of the betrothal of the Prince Impe-
rial of France to the Konprinyessen
of Prussia. The former is twelve and
the latter is four years ofage.
- To the victors belong the spoils.
Prussia will acquire over seven mill
lions of people and over forty thous-
and square miles of land, by the war.
- The Pacific slope is beginning
to yield large surplus of grain. 1t is
not improbable that this year Califor-
MIA will have 100000 bushels Of
wheat to spare for expectation.
- Swarms of squirrels are pass
ing through Michigan, southwark
bound, stripping the country of what
ever serves them for food. Cold wea-
| Their coming.
- Mr.. Jas. r. Randall, one of the
most brilliant Southern poets, is con-
nected editorially with the Augusta,
(Ga.,) ConstltutionaIist. He is on q
visit just now to his old home in Mary
land.
| - The negro population of Mo
bile has increased 6000 in the last si1
| years, and now amounts to $4,000
The total population lacks only SO o.
| $4,000.
- Cotton has been grown will
marked success in Southern Kansas
There is no doubt but that it might b,
made very productive crop. TIL
soil and climate are well adapted to it
growth and culture.
- The total number Of death
from cholera in the city and county o
New York, since its first appearance
on the lst of May, is 829; of thes
486 occurred in the public institution
on Wards, Blackwell's and Randall
Islands.
So The secret distribution of arm
: to Radicals by Gov. Fletcher, Of Mo
is still going on. They are sent t
counties on the border, and it is be
t lieved at. ST. Louis that he is armin
his partisans for the November electio
as they can hope to carry it in no othe
way than by force.
- Young ladies must be scarce
Illinois. A youth of twenty-five, res
ding in Cambridge, recently led to Ii
) matrimonial altar blushing dame
eighty-fve summers. The event WI
!. duly celebrated by the young men I
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