The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-09-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! ~-crack rife shooters usually have blue eyes.
SOUTH
Boston claims so oon travellers as resident,
of the Hub.
cotton factory will go into operation at
JetfersOnville, Texas, this fall.
Philadelphia has shipped 15,754, ,l7O gallons
of petroleum during the present year.
''What we import from Paris" An asgrc-
gate Of S1O4, ,lOO,3l2 worth of foderol.
Over tailorIs store in Kansas City APP
pears the sign, "A. Swindler.'
Swindling fruit tree dealers are imposing
Oh the Minnesota farmers.
The viceroy of Egypt was cut by the diplo-
mats in Paris
There is only one Protestant place of wor-
ship in New Mexico.
The largest tub and bucket factory ia the
United States is at Moline, Ill.
In chancery suit pending i'll Chicago
there are los defendants.
Illinois is the first Northwestern State to
employ cOlOred militia.
A st. Louis man alleges that his wife il
slovenly, and asks II divorce.
The Russian families i'll Sitka are i'll great
distress, an application is to hc made IL the
government to relieve them.
Five million wooden tooth-picks a day is
supposed to be the consumption of this great
and glorious country.
The Japanese find They can grow tea and
mulberry in California, and have sent home
for more of their friends.
( Since the Ist of january last 2o1 persons
h.lN lS..,.,, tI,.
of the city.
Miss Mary Graves has been called To take
charge of the Tnivcrsali>t Church at North
Read, Massachusetts.
! The Old Fellows degree ot the Daughters
of Rebekah numbers nearly loo, 900 Ladies.
Speaker COlfaN inauguratcd it.
The Supreme Court, of North Carolina ha,
decided that marriages between whites and
blacks is illegal.
John c. Breckinrid.c has concluded To set
tie permanently in Lexington. Ky. and Re
snirc the practice oi law.
1t is estimated that 1000 acres ot lax were
sown in Minnesota this year. One man i'll
Austin has s"wn 2oH acres.
The best clerk in the Internal Revenue De-
rartmcnt is a deaf mute. The fact speaks
volumes. if the clerk don't.
n walnut tree. eight fee, across. petried
into soapstonc. was lately discovered l15 feet
deep in an Illinois coal mine.
A negro man III Atlanta. Ga. has been fined
$50, or six months service i'll the chain gang,
for marrying a white woman.
A Western invalid complains that lie has
lost his happy tight This is temperance
complaint.
Some time in the future it look, as if u lady
contemplating marriage might order tr"ws-
instead of trousscau.
The boys of Dcs Moncs county Iowa. have
within short time captured 4,640 gophcrs.
The State offers bounty for them.
Amanda Brown. the colored woman who
murdered her three step-children, at Allesan,
Mich, q few weeks ago, has been convicted,
and sentenced to state prison for life.
. contribution Of $4,000 from the churches
for tho education Of colored preachers in the
schools Of the South.
Wear your learning Ike q watch, in pri-
vate pocket, and don't enaeavor to show it
unless you are asked what o'clock it is.
George Peabody has given $4,000 to the
tablish tho additional professorship proposed
by Gen. Lee.
South Bend, Indiana, has q champion"
laugher, "who claims that he can laugh
louSicr, longer heartirr and more scientific
csffy; rnan any Urner man, White or black, III
Indiana"
| The Chinese Empire has five hundred thou
sand temples, containing three million idols.
| The temples are valued ut 81 O00. .OOO, 900.
| The trees in Calaveras grove, Cal, must he
pretty tall, if the tall stories told about them
| be correct One writer says that the spirc on
Trinity Church (2S4 feet high, recollcct y
would be entirely lost to distant view if set
down among the trees growing in the ground
aforesaid.
Parties in Mobile, Alabama, are about to be
arrested for defrauding the government out
of nearly $3,O0O,OW of tax.
Louisiana expects to gather $1,000 bar
rels Of rice this year.
There was u great demonstration of Orange
men at Cloyne, Ireland, on the 10th, about
81, 900 people were present. The disestablish-
mcnt of the Irish church was denounced.
1t is proposed to reduce the Austrian army.
She now has 5o0, ,0" men under arms
There i, National Labor Congress in .ee-
sion in Philadelphia. Delegates are present
from most of the States of the Union. Susan
B. Anthony refused seat delegate,
Over one hundred families have left New
York lately and settled near Waterville
Kansas. About fifty more families intend
moving there soon.
Place bone i'm the earth near the root of
a grape, and the vine will send out lead
ing root directly to the bone. In its pas
sage it throws out no fbres-but when it
reaches the boue, the root will entirely
cover it with the most delicate 6bres. like
/ lace. each one seeking pore of the bone.
On this bone the vine will continue to feed
as long as nutriment remains to be extracted
Six hundred acres Of land have been pur-
chased in the vicinity of Placervillc, Cali
fornia, for Japanese colony, the members
Of which will devote themselves to the cul-
ture of tea and silk. The establishment of
such colony is one of the most Significant
signs of the times.
Out Of nearly one hundred millions ot
persons carried over the Prussian railways
I an. aine wounded. Stage-cU,-Liup is not
so safe As that.
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