The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-06-09
Items Of Interest

|. 1t will cost New York thrc0 millions
open Hell Gate.
There arc a.OOO,OO0 acres Of unoccupie
land in the State Of Maine.
Fred Douglass says the ''nesro wants
be let alone"
White Pine hus secured an migration
J Chinese women.
i Mr.. Sanford, Minister to Belgium. b,
sent his resignation TO Washington.
In Memphis there arc 500 regiatert
votcrs-3,6Os white and 5,Ol2 blacks.
A woman has been presented to tho gran
jury Of Owen county Oh the Charge of bcin
a witch.
A .'rebel' jury has recently con-, icted
white man upon negro evidence in Texas.
! In the last thrcc months over 1000 bale
Of cotton have been shipped from Columbus
Ga. -
! Stauntou, Va, was shocked by All earth
quake on the 10th inst.
a cotton mill with ten thousand spindle
! is soon TO be set in motion at Savannah. Ga
\ live spotted Arctic seal Was recent
caught in stream in King Williams coun
ty. Va.
Memorial day was celebrated with muc
ron'p in Charleston.
Unbranded cattle over year old arr
cverybody's property in Texas.
New Orleans is styled the Baden Badel
Of America.
Homeopathy is the orthodox medical faitl
in Brazil.
Paper was first made from liucn in 1902
The first tea was brought from China t
England in 1901.
Queen Victoria, as Sovereign, is declared
Is bc the hardest worked woman in Eng
land.
Pnlisi, lalics are raising money to i,elr
convicts TO escape from Siberia.
New York has un organ played by clcc-
tricity, aud the effect is not shocking
either.
The Impcrialist predicts The secession Of
the Pacific States on tho question Of Chinese
voting. 1t prcscribes 'thc rule of q Cesar y
\ diamond valued at G3O.OOO, ha. re-
Gently bccn found ut tho Cape of Good
Hope.
Womcn in Russia owning property have
the right to vote by proxy. Women in this
country owning husbands enjoy the same
right.
Eleven hundred pcrsous in England pay
a tax for keeping in their households more
than ten male servants.
Since the slave trade has sbecn abolished.
tho tribes iu Africa cat their prisoners. ms
they cannot sell them.
y clothes cleaner in Bay Gity. Mich, is
reputcd 10 have fallen heir t. f2JO,OOO in
Great Britain.
Tho Japanese, for money use itziboos.
cobang<- Of viii b there NM. nm -
many co0afcifeiss ~ ss..a:.. ms ,,,n,'1"
What is tho difference between school
master and an engine driver! One trains
tho mind, aud the other minds the train.
The sub committee of the judiciary hav-
ing in charge the matter Of the i'm
parchment Of Judge Bustoed, is about to
move its quarters from Washington to
Mobile.
The New York Mail says that groom.men
are going out Of fashion on account Of their
propensity to drink too much ut the recep-
tion.. So .s
The iclhroucd Queen Isabella has yet
adhercnts mud enough to attempt her resto-
ration. Two thousands Of them are repor-
ted in arms on the Spanish frontier.
Punch says Reyerly Jol,usou, as the rep
of America, has gotten all the
linncrs. aud now Motley is coming after
her..
Massachusetts has had six Ministers to
Eagland-tbe two Adams, Everett, Ban
croft. Lawrence aud Motley.
\ woman was divorced in Maine, this
week, from her husband. on the grounds
That she bad u bad temper aud was com.
mon scoli.
The New York Tribune found two hon
rst Senators in tho New York Legislature.
enough ti,cy were both Demo-
Gratis.
Petitions arc in circulation along the liue
# the Southern Puciic railroad asking Con-
;ress to nullily tho land subsidy 10 that
'oad and open the land to pre-. e.emption.
Charles Clinton has been appointed
Treasurer Of tho Branch Mint aud Assistant
United States Treasurer at New Orleans.
Tue President and Cabinet have decided
o raise the Chinese to "a lirst-class mission.
hus placing it on the same footing Of that Of
Engluud. "a. ....+
The Pckin Republican says: 1--WE give
as our honest opinion that there is far
md whisky than for bread"
The first infant born in the White Pine
mining region Of Nevada received several
housahd dollars in silver bars as presents.
Army officers appointed to Indian agen-
lies are 'bccoMing dissatisfied with their new
luties, aud asa,sy Of them contemplate re-
'ignins.zs
AsKansas paper is advocating the idea
# druinius The greut lakes ioto the Missis-
'ippi riyer.
Our word augury is fr0M the Latin augu-.
:iuno. which was the term for the consulta-
ion of birds among tho lsOa,ans, to learn
he events 0f the future.
The lIocsac Tunnel. it is asserted, will,
ShcR completed, cost the State Of Nlassa-
;husctts the largo amount Of sixteen mil
iOws 0i dollars. sss
a female Blondin walking tight rope at
Bolton, in England, fell sixty feet, but the
iall was broken partly by anoaher rope, and
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