The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-06-23


Russia. will start for st. Petersburg o,
June 18th.
Two hundred of the fashionable ladies O
New York have formed Maternal Associa
tion, and agree to nurse their own children
Summerville, Ga. was recently startled
out of its quiet and and repose by an earth
quake.
Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minister, and
staff, have engaged cottages at the Virginia
White Sulphur for the entire season, COM
mencing June 1st.
A fire in Woonsocket, II. l., Tuesday, de-
stroyed Elliott's mills and a number of
workshops. Loss 100000, with two hun
dred persons deprived of employment.
During 1865 the Kentucky State teasury
disbursed the following sums: For red foxes,
So,Oe5 50; for gray foxes, $1,000; for
wolves, $25; for wild cats S1,6l2.
| The great Australian nugget of gold,
''Welcome Stranger" found by the des-
pairing miners of Donolly, netted the find
ers $4,000.
France has u population of 81 .OOO. 600,
and its real estate is owned by 5000, 900 of
its population.
| Mrs. Adkins, wife of the Georgia Senator
lately murdered, has been arrested for COM
plicity in the assassination.
| The Ballard Star says that hailstone
twenty feet in length, twenty feet in
breadth, and twenty inches in thickness has
fallen near that place.
Jacob Belser, the former negro pressman
of the Montgomery Mail, is candidate for
Congress in Alabama.
Charles Lever says that Americans are
shalI., u :: T. le6cient in dignity, their only idea
OF 1t being intense prOsiness.
A Berlin inventor has patented bur
glars machine for opening safes, and has
been sent to Jail for his pains.
Since the operation on his eyes in Ger
many, Milburn, the blind preacher, begins
to see men as trees walking.
A Mr.. Ford, recently of kentucky, has
mysteriously disappeared from McMinn-
vile, Tennessee, with all his worldly affairs
except his wife. who is solicitous to learn of
his whereabouts.
! Patti Caux submitted, a few DAYS ago, to
| an operation performed by Dr. Nelson, con-
sisting of the removal of a small wen from
the side of her head. The eminent surgeon
declined taking any fee, stating he was al
ready debtor to ''la Diva" for innumerable
notes.
! A junior student at the Cornell Cniver-
sity, in rendering an account to his father
of his last terms expenses, entered as an
item, ''Charity S3.' His father wrote back,
hof nnn tn L. 4
SINS
James Webb, Sr., of Portland, Maine.
working before the war for FIVE dollars and
half per week. saved regularly one dollar
of that sum. Five years ago he bought a
shoe shop and tools with one hundred and
fifty dollars of his earnings. He is now
making twenty thousand ladies' shoes per
year.
The will of the late DIR. James Rusl
Philadelphia, disr,sos of a million
and the estate, aiser providing fQEs1 II:
moderate legacies, goes to the Pkilada>
Library Company, to purchase lots, y
erect building to be called "The RID Ia
way Branch Of the Philadelphia Library"
Bradford, the New York artist. is organ
izing large expedition Of artists to the
polar seas this summer. and has secured an
iron steamship at st. Johns, N. F., for the
purpose. He will follow up DR.. Kane's
route and will visit the winter quarters Of
Sir John Franklin.
Madame Ristori has arrived in Paris from
the Hague. She will leave for South Amer
lea with her company after resting fort
night. She will give representations in Rio,
Baenos Ayres, Montivedeo and Conceptiou.
Susan .lnthony says she has made a lee
turel tour through several of the Western
States. without kissing one son of Adam
who was more than two years old. Now,
will Susan ten US whether the fault xrs
vi course; she two: Year chaps couldn't helm
themselves; but those who had arrived at
the years OF discretion may be supposed to
have reasons.
The grand jury of the Superior Court at
Savannah, Ga, OH the 24th ult., indicted
Mrs. Catherine A. Patterson, q lady whose
extreme beauty, graceful manners and intel. |
ligence have been the theme and admiration
OF all VIII" have met with her, for the mur- !
der OF her reputed husband, DIR. James n. |
Patterson. in May, 1868.
A: NJ: Cllapp. Congressional Printer. vial.
Sou OuHoaO soSs week, ana having diannfa |
with ID. s. Bennett, member of Coneress
from that district, closed the argument bv |
knocking the honorable B. down.
Forrest, the actor, is now clear financially
and every other way, from his divorced
wife. 1t cost him nearly a 800, 900 mot
long ago to settle the matter
Jas. w. Campbell, of Covington, has
made affidavit that he swore falsely before
The Grand Jury last December, in order to
procure the indictment Of tobacco manufac-
'urers ON charge of violating the revenue
avs. - -
The San Antonio Herald, of the 29th nit
'ays that during the last thirty days there
$ positive evidence that the indians. Sa'
'ides killing several persons, have destroy.
ID and stolen more property than dur;nr
my similar period since the settlement of
Texas. VI ,
james =; Rank, formerly If San Antonio. !
row DONG Gus',s.s in Mason county. IN i
orms the Herald that the o."'y, M-
rampage in that part Of the State. e1o On 'ne