The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-02-16
Fresh Gleanings.

y
-H Hon. Philip johnson, of Penn
sylvania, is dead.
The number of convicts in the
Wisconsin State prison is only 1863.
Minnesota has 700, 900 acres of
land under cultivation.
Cabarras county, N. c., yielded
the first gold found in the United
States, in 1903.
The Wytheville Iva. J Dispatch
expresses regret that Gov. Brownlow
was born in that county.
M. p. Willis, the well known
poet, critic and journalist, died re-
Gently in the sixtieth year of his age.
It is said Senator Wade has
the Presidency on the brain-a COM
mon complaint among politicians.
- The revenue stamps on mort
gage filed at Platte City amount to
$4,000.
49, Alexander Smith, the English
poet, died recently in the 36th year of
his age.
1t is said that our people have
not one thousand dollars worth of COM
unerce with Hayti annually.
- The rice lands in Carolina are
said to have been almost entirely aban-
doned by the negroes.
The attempt to grow apples in
Minnesota is failure. The ..apple of
discord," however, Vegetables in. exu-
berance.
49, An exchange says dinner was
recently given near Paris, of which the
principal dishes were shark, horse,
dog and rat.
- An editor of Missouri paper
| undertook to count the drunken men
in his town until one man staggered so
freely that he had to abandon the job.
The number Of persons who
have existed on our globe since the
beginning of time amounts to 35,627,-
843, 273075, 256-more or less.
-The Danish Government has
offered the United States Government
the island of st. Thomas for Eve mil
lions in gold.
Gov. Orr jocularly thinks ter
liberalization would be welcomed by
the Southern States as an economical
measure.
- Mr.. Summers hemisphere and
adjacent islands" reminds a cotempo-
rary Of .'ail the world and the rest Of
mankind"
2
- The Richmond Wing says that
q woman, named Caroline James, re-
Gently died in that city. aged, aged 100
years. She left thirty-fve children.
A 5000 monument to the Con-
federate dead of Amite county, Miss. ;,
is to be inuagurated on Washington
birthday.
An oil we'll in Uniontown, Pa,
recently commenced throwing up
stones and water to the height Of more
than hundred feet. ]
| -- The Charlotte Democrat thinks
That the North Carolina Supreme Court
will decide stay laws to be unconstitu-
tional.
| - Brownlow astonishes and graft.
fies Tennessee by the announcement
that he viii retire from public life al
the close of his term as Governor.
a Chicago, caterer has pu
cooking ranges into the sleeping car
that run out of that city SO that pas
sengers may have q warm hreakfast
without leaving the cars.
i Gov. Geary, Of Pennsylvania
accuses President Lincoln and Gen
Grant of morbid clemency and cen
surable forbearanee" toward the South
- A radical exchange says, ga
length it seems that we are to hav
soma practical Legislation from Con
gress." I'VE are to have some" NOR
Christmas too. Is
- The Ibervills Pioneer, Of tn
18th ult., has been credibly informe
that the Morganza and Chinn levee
have been finally and effectively com
pleted.
The trial of the thirty ladies a
Greenfield, Ohio, for the mobbing q
, liquor dealers, was concluded on til
25th, the Jury returning a verdict 4