The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-01-19
Fresh Gleanings.

AeooAStAt "a @NNS
tious over woman suffrage.
- Tea raised in Georgia is pro-
nounced equal to the best Japan.
- The legal rate of interest in
South Carolina is 2 per cent.
- Rev. Mason Gallagher asserts
there are 10000 inebriate women in
Brooklyn.
- One hundred miles West of
Fort Riley is the center of the United
States. <e..s5
- Our devil says life is too short
to drink poor whisky or to make love
to ugly women.
The Boston Post says Cincin-
natl clergyman has preached twenty
seven barrels of sermons.
- The California end of the Pa
ci6c Railroad will be higher than the
passes of the Alps.
49, A lady i'll Detroit lately pre-
sented her husband with four children
at one birth. 81
- Egypt has this year produced
cotton crop estimated at 100000
600. s.
- Statistics show that most of
the talented men of France reach a
mature age.
- The mouth of the Amazon is
large enough to take in the States of
Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
- A Cincinnati paper recommends
modasty to Thad. Ste7ens. That is an
article he knows nothing about.
The estimated expenses Of the
city government of Philadelphia for
1867 are $7.13s,7 08.
- Broad Street, in Philadelphia,
is ten miles long, with a width of ll3
feet, and straight as an arrow.
| 49, The Chicago Tribune dominates
Greeley for President. Greeley is toe
modest to decline. ~
-. South Carolina has rejected the
Constitutional amendment by vote Of
95t TOT.
An exchange says the Radicals
think eternal vigilance committees the
price of liberty. r.
| - The State debt of North Caro-.
lima, all told. does not amount to NOR,
| than thirteen millions of dollars.
- Amarried lady died in New
York recently, of sugar of lead ant
jealousy.
i - One thousand arrests wer,
made by the police Of New York OF
! New Years day.
A Southern paper speaks o
Radical revenge as ''grotesqne anach
ronism.''
- An exchange says marriag'
changes the current of mans feel
ings. It also changes his currency.
49, The finances of Maryland ar
in a most beautiful condition, there be
ing over $4.000.0oo surplus in tn
State treasury.
i 49, Within the last ten years a ma
jority of the State penitensiaries hav,
nearly doubled the number of thei
inmates.
- A crazy fellow in Illinois pro
claims that he has been commissions,
by heaven to kill eli the women an
children.
3 A Wisconsin physician is o
!, trial for having administered SPANS
flies to a young lady and then outrag
ing her.
Il - An English judge has decides
! that the blowing of tobacco smoke i
the face of a fellow passenger is q
! assault. 1t ought to be so considered
Two-thirds of the thirty thou
sand women in New York who are d.
: pendent ON daily labor for support al
s now out of employment.
I - A boiler exploded at Memphi
. the other day, blowing the engineer OF
70 of sight. He will receive Sl5 da
|. from a life insurance company until |
q comes down.
o The editor of the Alexandr
e Democrat lately saw full-grown Lo
isianian sitting cross-legged, playir
q seven-up with little negro for t.
), cents game in postage stamps.
ID A Windham county, Ct, jud
y recently refused to divorce coup
> after only q fortnight Of married Iii
al on the ground that they hadn't Civ
0. matrimony fair trial.