The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-09-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Inc Ohio penitentiary, now contains LOLA
Inc Universalists of Iowa, are to hold .
7th. "'p'0"0'
When Ms. Grant used to write poetry for
PRENTICE she signed herself "Anastasia."
Caterpillars are doing much damage in the
Georgia cotton fields.
Boys fish from the pieu r CHICAGO, and
catch spotted snakes ton fest long.
A colored citizen is under arrest at Nash.
VILE, Tennessee for having nine wives.
Chinese travel monopolizes many of the
stage lines in the far Western States.
AT Long Branch, . good many stylish peo-
pie pay their expenses by picking pockets.
Hon. George Psndleton, of Cincinnati, has
been nominated for Governor by the Demo.
Gratis Of Ohio.
her TSaa sasnrs eroa round ihs sorid %. in
Those who make the world laugh often
themselves laugh least.
Four villages in Maine make two.thirds Of
the spools for the whole country.
Coates, of thread notoriety, has been
knighted by queen Victoria.
So dead is the prohibitory law in Massa-
chusetts now, that the State coustables take
their bitters regularly.
Tho last vestige Of the English corn laws
nave been abolished. Now grain and dour
arc admitted FREQ Of duty.
a fearful accident occurred on the ID inst,
IN the Burg Colliery near Dresden, by which
300 colliers lost their lives.
A Bostonian has raised this season, on q
plot Of less than two acres, twenty-five hun.
dred dollars worth Of straw berries.
The female suffrage question is to be sub.
mitted to the Vermont Constitutional Con.
vention next February.
In Massachusetts, last year one hundred and
seventy persons changed their names, not in
Guiding brides.
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1t ic estimated that there are eleven hun
dred murderers at large in Tennessee. Rents
In consequence are lower.
The London Journal says "this is the era Of
vulgarity."
Nine deaths from sun-stroke occurred in St.
Louis ON Wednesday. Six additional cases,
not fatal, are reported.
Cornelius vanderbuilt was born NAV a,
1794, and he is therefore in his seventy sixth
year. The first wife has been dead year.
"vashti; or Until Death do US PART is the
title of Mrs. st. Elmo Evans new novel.
The title is explained by the fact that the
voluminous lady is not yet through her
honeymoon.
Colbert Morris, Ose of the siguers of the
Declaration Of Independence, who managed
the national finances ability. passed the lat
ter years Of his life in Imprisonment for debt
Somebody showed California woman a
greenback, the first she had ever sseu. ''Why
you don,t call that money, do you 2" said she,
lit he label Of an oyster can"
naversd near Augusta,
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foIp of crystalized
EAuge. Some
Hoping the
Bdelphia, Last week, $4,000
bsrreB Of whiskcy were destroyed. Tho loss
is estimated at nearly three million dollars.
Fedeal and Confederate officers arc having
. reunion at Gettysburg, Pa. But few Con-
federste officers are in attendance.
tiatlons for the purchase of Cuba by the
United States.
Boston is said to be getting up flibuster-
ing expedition, destined to operate in Cub.
A Brooklyn bank has suspended operation
because tho cashier is defaulter some 1000.
A death from Asiatic cholera occurred in
New York City on Monday.
The fec of Caleb Cushing a. counsel for
Mexico before the Mexican Commission is S30-
600 in gold.
Sandwich island has Mormon plantation
OF two hundred and ninety-eight adults.
They engage in sugar culture and export it to
Salt Lake City.
Prince Arthur, of the royal family of Eng
land, will arrive in Halifax by steamer Of
the Inman line, about the 22d inst.
The drouth in the vicinity of Richmond,
Va, is so bod that tho forest trees arc dying.
On the 90th fell the first rain for seventy.
eight days.
There have been quite . number of deaths
in st. Louis during the excessive hot weather.
Major E. o. Halle, better known as "A.
IAcdu, OI0O Au hu0tlu, 1cAdS On tUC 12tQ
inst, Of consumption.
An Indiana womon advertises for her tru.
ant husband, stating that he may be idonti.
fed by q scratch along his nose.
Two rattlesnakes were lately shot in Geor.
gia, zone of them being nearly old enough to
vote" says universal suffrage paper Of that
State.
An English paper advertises for sale pew
which commands view Of nearly the whole
congregation"
The coachman who married the Glen Cove
young lady offers 70 relinquish all claims for
ten thousand dollars.
A bride Of seventeen has appeared in q
New York court, charging her sixteen year
old husband with abandonment.
Steamship China, which arrived at San
Francisco on Thursday from Hong Kong,
brought 1000 passengers, Of whom $50 were
Cinnamon.
The Car has banished the stern father
from Russian novels by declaring that no
girl shall be made to marry anybody whom
she doesn't like.
Nineteen million dollars is the sum to
which young milliner of Fort Edward 10
reported to have fallen heir
The city taxes of San Antonio for 1868.
amounted to 37O,669, of which S30,9Ol was
paid by Germans. The Americans paid Sl6-
99l; 4exicans paid @5572; Freuchmen Sl677:
Irishmsn $Nl9; Polanders $780,
A Snaniard who has vvc,, an nnn e.o.. H.