The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-12-07
Fresh Gleanings
The State of Virginia has 19s
freedmen's schOls.

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freedmen's schols.
Gen. Wise recommends young
| Virginians to go to farming.
A woman in France has pro-
duced four children at a birth.
The executioner of Robespierre
has just deid at Noyet, France.
The fortune of Jay Cooke is set
down at $16,000,O0O.
Italy supplies large quantities
of cattle to France. : -.
The champagne grapes are a
quarter crop this season.
In England, when two vehicles
meet, the drivers pull to the left.
The Ohio is lower than any time
since 1856. So are the spirits of
the Ohio Radicals.
There is an irresistible conflict
between the Cinnamon and the
anti-coolies in San Francisco.
A Wisconsin paper notes the
death in that State of a Mrs. Som
ers, aged 10S.
Competition has placed the fare
from New York to Albany, 100
miles, at fifty cents.
A negro woman in Huntsville,
Ala, buried her newborn child
alive.
Frank Leslie is the publisher of
ten papers, magazines and alma
macs. " as#
In Texas Gen. Reynolds has
forbidden the forced collection of
taxes for years due prior for 1867.
Expenses of reconstruction in
Virginia already exceeds S5,OO0,-
700.
Coal, iron, lead and alum have
been recently discovered in Ten
nessee. a .a la4
There is stone coal enough, thir-
ty miles from San Antonio, to
supply that city for years.
Kansas is ungaIIant enough to
repudiate negro and women suf-
frage together.
Mr.. Quilp says the rise in the
price of frogs is in consequence of
the preparations to toady Dickens.
There are more wrecks in the
Black Sea at the North end than
in most other seas on the face of
the globe.
The money of the negro Repub-
lie of Hayti is reaching a sublime
attitude-one Spanish dollar is
worth forty Haytien dollars.
Magazine writer's in New York
and Boston get from five to thirty
dollars a page. The Atlantic pays
the highest prices.
The young ladies of this day
and generation appear anxious to
| emulate the fate of Cleopatra-by
putting ladders to their bosoms.
| Hon. Henry Wilcoxon, Senator
for the parishes of st. Martin and
VermilliOn, died in Abbeville on
| the 4th instant.
A French botanist thinks by
the year 1900 all the plants of the
earth will be classified according g
to genera.
An Illinoisan, who was stabbed
in the back some twelve years
since, recently coughed up an inch
and a half of knife blade.
Virginia has nine and a hall
million acres of improved, and
eleven and a quarter million acres
of unimproved lands.
The Roman Catholic Bishop OF
Liverpool has set all that city
quarrelling by preaching against
low-neck" dresses.
A Rocky Mountain ranger says
the cheapest way to conquer the
Indians would be to exterminate
the buffalo.
| An old man in Southern Ohio
was entombed while in a trance
kicked open his coffin, and return
ed to the upper world only to b.
shot as ghost.
| The New York Herald proposes
to pay the national debt by 1
great bonfire of government bonds
and expresses willingness to de
. vote one hundred thousand dol
lars thereof to the flames.
Indian girls are generally en-
gagged or married at ten or clever
years of age. They arrive at tn
ape of Duberty at about twelve