The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-06-16
Fresh Gleanings.

cent Tor every rat killed.
- Fifty-two ships were lost in
April, at cost of $2,707 500.
Four thousand liquor licenses
have been granted in New York.
- Ben. Butler has been appointed
Major General of the Massachusetts
militia.
- A farmer ploughed up a shell
near Frederick, Nd, and was killed by
its explosion.
- 1t is stated that but one-eighth
of the State of Illinois is yet under
cultivation.
- Gen. Frank Blair, it is said,
will be the next conservative candidate
for Governor of Missouri.
- More passports have been is
sued this year to pleasure travellers to
Europe than ever before.
- The "Stay Law of South Car
DINA has been declared demonstrations
al, by the Court of Errors.
- The New York Legislature
enacted that liquor selling is disgrace
unless you pay license; then it is a
virtuous occupation.
- Meridian, Miss, has increased
within twelve months from an insignif-
cant village to smart town of 500 or
1000 inhabitants.
- 1t is proposed to build at Co.
lumbus, Miss, a monument to Gen.
William Barksdale, who fell mortalIy
wounded at Gettysburg.
- New York city and county has
debt of forty-two millions of dollars,
and owns public property valued at
forty millions.
- The great suspension bridge
over the Mississippi at Cincinnati will
cost $i,750,O00. There are, 1000
perches of masonry in the work.
- The radicals in the Tennessee
Legislature voted down the application
to place Andrew Johnson's statue in
the Capitol.
- The whole business portion of
Hudson, Wisconsin, was destroyed by
fire on the 10Th ult., involving loss Of
!. $3.50, 900.
- The Iowa Democratic State
convention will be held on the 18th day
of July next, at Des Moines.
- Sixty different amendments to
the Constitution have been proposed
during the present session of Congress.
- The New York Tribune foots
up the bank swindlings and embezzle
ments far the last twelve months at
about $8,164.OO0.
- Admiral Farragut has been
elected Commander of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion,"-if any
body knows what that is.
- Lieut. General Winfield Scott
died at West Point, at IL o'clock, A.
M, on the 29th of May.
- Minnesota will export this
season 100000 bushels of wheat
Two years ago she raised none what
ever.
- The farmers about Valparaiso,
Ind, refuse to sell wheat at 80 Is per
bushel in view of the prospective fail
ufe OF the growing crop.
! - The Chicago News says that
more than forty new manufacturing
establishments will be erected in Illi-
nois during the present year.
- President Johnston will be fifty
eight years of age on the 29th day OF
December next, if he lives till that
time, having been born at Raleigh, N.
c., December %, 1903.
- A colored man at Cincinnati
recently sued the Judge at an election
for refusing his vote. He claimed
$4,000 damages, and the jury gave
him one cent.
- There are enumerated in the
State of Indiana 552,244 children be-
tween the ages of 6 and 81 years.
$2,005,743 have been appropriated for
school purposes.
- About rs, 100000 feet of logs
will be sawed up and put in market
during the coming season in Wiscon-
sin. All but about 100000 feet
will be consumed within the State.
- The defeat of the Equalization
Bounty Bill, in the Massachusetts,
Senate, is excused by promise to pay
the soldiers in praise what they are
denied in currency. Valuable to their
descendants, but rather thin diet fol-
the present.
- The Memphis Argus proposes
to inquire into the propriety of making
new State out of west Tennessee and
north Mississippi, to be called the
State of jackson, with Memphis for its
capital.
- A cotton growing association
has been organized at Jackson, Miss,
the object of which is to procure from
planters throughout the State statisti-
cal data relative to the cotton crop OF
1860, and the probable yield of 1866.
- The Memphis Post says that at
a recent meeting in Helena, Ark,
Judge t. B. Hanly declared himself
in favor of negro suffrage. Judge
HanlY was member of the Confeder-
ate Congress.
-- In the month of January and
February the excess ofpassengers west
to Chicago above those returning to
the east was estimated at $500 each
month Tn March the aYaesa Of ArovaI