The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-02-23
Fresh Gleanings.
- Minnesota owns S2f. $50, 7O4

lowers of Stevens are called Thadicals.
Massachusetts, war debt sums
up s50.0OO,0O0.
- There were over FIVE thousand
arrests in Mobile last year.
- The beard of the Burgomaster
Hans Steininger was nine feet long.
- There are now wanting only
$50 miles of wire to connect New
York with Pekin, in China.
"A Missouri Judge is called on
to decide whether the game of pool
is game of chance.
- The Maryland Legislature has
passed an enfranchising act restoring
Confederates.
A gentleman returned from
Mexico says things are nearly as bad
there as in the United States"
- There will be four eclipses this
year--two of the sun and two of the
moon.
- The State of Mississippi has
rejected the Constitutional Amend
ment.
49, 1t takes more money to run the
Freedmen's Bureau than it did the
whole Government under jefferson.
A Canadian paper says Canada
can never prosper as purely agricul-
tural country.
The Louisville Democrat thinks
Missouri to be the best State in the
Union to live outside of just now.
- The population of the United
States at present, is estimated at 35,-
500, 900.
A woman in Michigan, asked
for divorce from her husband because
he refused to wear mustaohe.
In England there are five peo-
pie to one porker. In the United
States it is the reverse.
- The railroads in this country
employ 100000 men, and at least one
million of men, women and children
for support upon the railroad interest.
Virginia is making splendid
ice crop, and is bound to take things
coolly next summer, whether she is ad-
United to the Union or not.
Massachusetts,, says the New
York Herald, has three negroes in the
Legislature and three hundred and
fifty-four in her State prison.
The statistics of Pennsylvania
show that but one citizen of every
thousand arrives at the age Of sixty
years.
- 1t is estimated upon good au-
thority that the number of lives lost,
when the steamer Fashion was burned,
will reach three hundred.
- A Chicago paper says "St.
Louis is IA collection of houses on the
vest bank of thee Mississippi" Very
likely
- The United States Supreme
Court has decided that government
tax, or license, does not authorize a
business forbidden by State laws.
Some New Workers are turning
It over in their mind about another
ilibustering expedition to Cuba. The
revolution will take place only in their
minds.
- One factory in Augusta, Ca.
las turned out during the year 6,4lO,- |
JOG yards of cloth. and paid dividend |
'r clear profit of s6ll. 900 to the stock
holders.
- The Boston Post thinks Con-
sress spends too much time in mourn
ag over the slices of bread and butter
hat the President has handed TO his
friends.
Gov. Chamberlain says that
Maine has lost 10000 men in the war,
md had $4,000 of her sons hopelessly
disabled from disease or wounds re
,eived in battle.
- Since Cameron has been elect
ID to Congress it is said that Morrissey
links of resignIng on the ground that
EVIL communications corrupt good
norals.'
- The Selma Times has seen a
nan who confessed that he was quar-,
ermaster during the war. The Times
Doesn't attempt to disguise its aston
shment.