The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-07-31
Minorities.
let us let Borie have peace.

mans name to q note.
A motto for a "seaF-Bring'em
Young.
A word the ladies are most fond
Of-the last one.
The yield of the Texas corn crop
is pronounced unbounded.
Mr.. Stephens is now able to
work on the second volume of his
great work. <.
Oats six feet high have been
raised in Troupe county, Ga, this
season. sa ID
Very destructive hail storms
haverecently occurred i'll Southern
Georgia.
Two dollars per day is offered in
Louisiana for hands insugar-mak
ing.
There are five cotton and one
wooden mill in Lawrence county,
Tennessee.
Memphis has saved her reputa
ton for enterprise by having an
earthquake.
Andrew johnson intends to
write a history of his administra
ton.
There were 1872 deaths, II di-
vorces and 20 marriages in June,
in st. Louis.
A soldier recently dug up 81, 800
in gold buried during the war in
Lexington, Mo.
There is another heavy alarm
from East Florida on the subject
of the cotton caterpillar.
Oats really grow, in the county
of Brooks, GA, to the height of
seven and even eight feet.
Eighty-four counties in Virginia
give Walker $4,000 majority.
More people die of rust than
wear. Regular industry length
ems life; idleness shorten it.
GAINESVILLE, Tenn, claims to
have received 14,314 hhds of to-
bacco last year, and to have sold
IL, $40 hhds.
In Chicago a severe case ofpois-
oning from wearing red stockings
has occurred.
The Democrats of Maine have
nominated Gen. Franklin Smith,
of Waterville, for Governor.
Seven deaths from drunkenness
is the daily rate in Russia.
The only survivor of 'National
Hotel disease" has gone to Europe
for his health.
Rollins, late of the whisky ring
and Revenue Bureau, is running
a life insurance Office.
Auber, now nearly ninety years
old, is about composing an opera
called "a Dream of Love-"
The only place in the world
where you can go blind, and then
see man afterwards, is-at the
poker table.
Favorable reports are received
from all sections of Georgia and
Florida regarding the cotton
crops.
General Bragg and family are
spending the summer at Chalybe-
ate springs, Meriwether county,
Georgia.
A London merchant has been
fined EGO and costs for sending
five packages of gunpowder by
rail withoutnotifying the contents
A bore, meeting Douglas Jer
rold, said: "Well. what's going Oh
to-day@ II am" exclaimed Jer
rold, darting past the inquirer.
The boll-worm has appeared il
: force in Newton county, Ga. Theil
early appearance signifies grea'
destruction to the crop this year
The whole of North Mississippi
is overrun with commercial trav
elers" seeking to sell the countr,
merchants goods from st. Louis
: Cincinnati and Louisville houses
; Over one hundred citizens @
the State of Texas are now unde
trial before military commission
; on the charge of conspiracy ant
: murder.
An exchange insists that "if a
1 human beings are but worms a
the pious folks tell us, Grant mus
be;a still worm, an Schenck a rim
l worm.
L The Chicago mortality repol
T shows one hundred deaths for th
: past week, and four hundred an
e thirty-four during the month {
p June.
The Commercial reports the g,
pher market of Pensacola dul
}, the arrival of a wagon load frol
g Geneva, Ala, having caused