The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-01-12
Fresh Gleanings.

rectly stylesiPollard's History of the
War "shoddy literature"
Hon. Herschel V. Johnson has
been reelected U. S. Senator from
Georgia.
Three hundred and fifty mil
lions of our Government bonds are |
held in Europe.
There are twenty-five thousand
prostitutes in New York. Awful!
- The Chicago Tribune says that
"the negro race IN this country is a
race of harlots and bastards." Pretty
much the melancholy truth.
- Rents in Memphis have reached
balloon prices. e3
"A man just out Of the Connecti-
cut State prison has been arrested for
stealing Bologna sausages.
The Legislature of Georgia has
repealed all laws denying foreigners
the privilege of owning real estate.
- The Freedman's bureau con-
tains two white drawers to one black
one, and they draw" freely.
- There are indications of fam
inc in Montana this winter.
- Michigan furnishes 23,a66,638
bushels Of grain this year.
1t is stated that Is, 900, 900 bush
els of wheat were destroyed by one
| insect, in New York, in one year.
The Zone insect must have been a
big-bug.
Senator Wade'says the Gonsti-
tutional amendment will be thrust
upon the South by force of arms.
a Norfolk paper says that city
continues to march forward in the
achievement of her destiny-prosper-
ing and to prosper,
! Senator Wilson is visiting the
battlefelds around Richmond. He did
not do it with his regiment.
/ - There is a young man named
Bates in. Kentucky who is seven feet
i eleven inches high.
! An Indiana soldier during the
war was discharged for disability"
His wife recently gave birth to three
children.
a Detroit Judge has decided
that babies are not personal property
Reconstructed Germany has
19l 1868 square miles and population
of 23,590,543.
- The champagne cellars a
Epernay are about four miles long ant
contain five million bottles.
- Winchester county, n. Y, il
going to hang soldier for shooting I
young lady.
- Wisconsin sold over three mil
lioi. dollars worth of butter last year
- There never has been divorc
granted in South Carolina.
- Minors are not allowed to pla.
billiards in Tennessee.
A Radical paper out West ad
vises the blowing up of Plymouth
Rock with keg of powder. O, blast il
6 A Missourian visiting Chicago
, recently, went to bed, after closing hi
windows and blowing out his gas
There was dead Missourian in be
next morning.
-A man who cannot show o
= least one scar from pistol bullet
looked upon with contempt in Pari
Ky.
- Scores of bills have been ir
troduced in the Georgia Legislator
for relieving men and women from th
# pains and penalties of bigamy.
i The literally greatest America
II politician was the late Dixon II. Levi
t; of Alabama. He weighed about Fl,
10 hundred pounds. s
: - The Italians are greater frog
n eaters than the French. al
u - Every British steamer bui
70 now is on the American model vii
IS Scotch engines.
- Tobacco planters say that III
y less there is material reduction of Il
5 tobacco tax they will grow grain.
:. - One-fortieth of the whole po
- ulation of Belgium are engaged in Il
10 manufacture of lace.
= - The Boston Post says pure SO
~ can be shoveled up by carloads
10 South western Kansas.
- Charleston, S. c., has OF
~ railroad.