The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-07-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST

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An American school has been cstabliSbe,
in Sitka. ''''''"''
iwo large cooperative laundries ar,
ABOUT 10 be established in Troy, New Y ork
The free lovers will shortly hold a con
vention at Indianapolis.
Ionnyson is not a type setter, as half tb
papers IN the land are asserting.
Napoleon will finish his Life of Caesar be
fore tho end of the year. ~
Donald G. Mitchell receives s5OOO
year for editing the Hearth and Home.
Memphis ships five hundred barrels
fruit North every day.
lhe army worm is becoming very trouble
some IN some parts of Missouri.
The valley of Virginia will yield five mil
lion bushels Of wheat this season.
,E1-Governor Sharkey, of Mississinpi
'a'ks OF removing to Washington.
Keverdy johnson has resumed tho nra
t'ce OF his profession in Baltimore.
The Ohio Democratic Convention has
nominated Gen. w. s. Rosencraus for Gov
ernOr ~
1t is officially denied that the new Secre.
tary OF the Navy is descendant of Robin.
son Crusoe.
Carlotta Patti. wont to Madrid to sing at
lhe ietes IN honor of tho PRONUNCIATION of the
new Spanish constitution.
The negroes of Maryland are moro def
ant insulting and riotous than those of anv
other State.
:. a potato OF tho exact shape and propor-
,ions OF a small Teal duck astonishes CO.
lumbus, (Ga.) editor.
The Minneapolis Tribune is Tins mali
clous. 1t says: "New York is still afflicted
with the smallpox and Grceley's ESSAYS On
political economy"
Tho Great Eastern had yesterday sue
Gessfuily laid seventeen hundred miles Of
the new French cable.
The hotels. saloons and barrooms in Bos-
ton were closed July 1st, in accordance
with the prohibitory liquor law.
Tho earthquake felt in st. Louis Thurs
day night last, startled tho people all along
tilo Mlssissippi~alley nearly US far South as
General Hill has been mado Vice Prosi-
dcnt lor North Carolina Of the Southern His
torical Society.
Inc prohibitory liquor law is being enforc-
CD with great strictness in Boston. Among
News from" mn"1f$SSFfday f$SFffd was sl,2GO worth Of
Indians continue deprcdations IN ,r"u -
Water country.
A young lady Has been awarded juds
mcnt for SiO,OOO at Mount Pleasant, Iowa
as a balm for her wounded affections.
=g,y rior;tiu legislature sat only tirc'
weeks in'ts late extra session. Tho mem
bers have yearly salary, and not per dien
pay.
Extensive fires arc raging in ashingtoi
Territory, bctwecn Montendcz and Hum
phrcy destroying several miles of telegraph
1f'"e, with bridges and other property.
Ex-President johnson was serenaded il
Washington on tie evening of tho 1st, ant
responded by lengthy speech, which was
received with applause by an immense
throng Of people.
/ The Gettysburg Monument was dedicated
on the lsf; an immense number of people
being present Gen. Meade delivered tn
Grafton, and Bayard Taylor read the poem
T In ten days from the 23d of June, twenty
three persons were sentenced to the peni
tentiary from Memphis, Tenn, for the az
gregate term Of one hundred years. A
but two were negroes.
The Irish Radical Convention met at Chi
cago on Monday, and, as a result of a tw
days session, declared by resolution il
! favor of universal suffrage without regar
to race, color, creed or SEX" and agains
free trade.
/ Oakley Hall is Mayor of New York. II
has invented a monogram for himself, whic
is formed of the letter o, encirclinS golds
key. which, b ing laid across two awl
forms the letter Ii.
Brick Pomeroy's newspaper oxperimen
in New York City have proven diaastro'
failures.
The Great Eastern is laying the Fren
Allan ic cable successfully. The cat
was cut during gale; but afterwards
was recovered and communication re-e
+, tablishcd.
c The grasshoppers are rapidly vanishi
. | Toui IdIlo CouuIJs -MO's OcAuS u0SsAOy
d by tho little red bug found under tn
y wings. They have damaged the VIII
crop but little in Platte.
d Tho deur m0tes layo established del
IF ting society, named in honor of DR.. Wal
II who, i'll the reign of Charles II, invent
e the systcnlof signs at present employod
If the deaf.
7. An ambitious Radical in Connectic
- lust returned from an unsuccessful carp
u bag excursion South, appeals, over his 0
- signature, TOO the mekanicsSand labor
men of my nativ toun. will roprizent J
y in the Stait assemmbleo irrespectif of pol
- tics, rcljion or cd1icaslun."
e Great damage has been done in NoE
Is west Missouri by recent heavy raj
is Bridges, fencing, aud crops have lees
stroycd, and many streams arc higher u
10 they were ever known before.
70 Ono of tho leading articles Of export Il
re- San francisco to China is tho dead bot
nd of the former residents Of tho 'tlow
#. Kingdom" They are packed up. emoa
es ed or put in spirits and returned % thc'r
n two soil, tho only place where they bell
their bones can rest in peace.
III The latest returns from the vote on
y y Delegation in the Methodist Episco
- Church dcvclOpc moro serious opposit
le. to the movement than basbae0 herctoi
's. exhibited. Tho returns now shoW twou
'ca seven thousand for Lay Delegation to-
ha against it.
1t has been said that the Mormon WOE
in are generally very unhappy. or at least
aps pear to be so; but Gentle, who has b
ror in Salt Lake City some time, informs
ty. that although it is no uncommon thin
go .a< Al,n aud of A6o