The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-07-10
Minorities.

one-fourth are illegitimate.
New Iberia is about organizing
parish fair association.
Napoleon has set the style Of .
one-buttoned vest.
A Chicago clergyman calls sin
"moral measels."
Motto for an Gold Bachn-Be
lust, and fear knot.
Augusta, Georgia, is shipping
ripe peaches to New York.
| Song of the Siamese Twins-We
were Boys Together.
Many horses are made vicious
by cruel usage.
| Wendell Philips declines as Phi
Beta Kappa orator at Harvard.
Burlingame's two balls in Paris
costthe -clawed dragon $4,000.
Reverdy Johnson, in having
been abroad, may be said to have
dined out.
Thirty trunks are said to con-
tain the wardrobe of our new
Minister to England.
The Germansof Pittsburg wanted
to celebratethe Fourth on Sunday,
and there was an outcry against
them.
Sell when you get fair price,
and do not store for rats and spec
ulatOrs.
A few years ago we began to
ship wheat to England, then
cheese, now hay.
j It is thought that the grain
yield in California will be less than
last year.
1t is estimated that the Valley
of Virginia will yield, this year,
100000 bushels of wheat.
Nothing excites the human race
more than a horse race; any thing
racy is popular.
The wheat harvest has COM
menced in Southern Illinois. The
grain is good and the yield large.
Beecher is to deliver the ad.
dress to the graduating class at
West Point this year.
Victor Hugo ought to be the
man who laughs. He gets 81 80
, cents a line for his last story.
The income of Senator Chand-
Ter, of Michigan, for 1868, is re.
, ported at S44,771.
An ice-house lab0rer being kill
!, ed by lump of ice falling, on his
head, the verdict was, ''Died OF
hard drink"
A New York jury has decided
, that lager beer is not Intoxicating
whether after practical test is
not stated.
In Illinois, recently, a farmer
, set fire to the grass on his prairie
, land and burned up his two chill
dren who were out at play.
American silver cannot be taken
into the Dominion of Canada in
larger sums than S5 without pay
, ment Of duty.
The London Times says that
the House of Peers must yield to
, the Commons on the Irish Church
bill.
First mortgage bonds Of the
Opelousas Railroad command in
market from sixty to sixty-fve
: cents per dollar.
Somebody wants to know il An
ma Dickinson, when she aspires
to be an NJ. c., wants it to mean
Mother of Children. N
Dry rot has seized upon the
} Cabinet, and the republican party
4 is falling to pieces, says the n. Y.
r Herald.
ia dentist and a chiropodist
: should engage in an alteration,
! could they be said to be Eat it
tooth and nailg"
Geo. Hudson, the once famous
: railway king and millionaire, is
. dying from want in Paris gar
ret.
D A movement has been set on
4 foot for the reduction of postage
! on letters to one cent each. Such
. q reduction at no distant day is
i thought quite probable.
I A note was found in the pocket
! of recent suicide in England,
saying: "Dear friends, don't be-
lieve my wife if she says she has
! not money to pay for my cofIin.p
= Ofall the many frauds ever per-
: petrated on the American public
, by its so-called representatives,
a the Pacific Railroad is the most
i stupendous, thinks the N. Y. Inn
: perialist.
= The Methodist church in Texas
! embraces FIVE conferences, 21O
7 travelling and AGO local preachers,
0DI 90 IN x,na.,, torc inqIT7N1rYWs