The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-06-26
Minorities.


elles parish are i'm o Aourish;no
condition.
General Basil W. Duke is d can.
didate for the Kentucky LegisIa.
ture.
1t is rumored that the Goyernor
of Alabama viii ceAvene the Las.
islature in July.
The water power Of the Chatta
hooche, at Columbus, Ga, is said
to exceed that at Lowell. Mass
General Candy has appointed
Major A. 3. Thompson Sheriff fan
the city of Richmond.
In the Massachusetts, Senate the
woman suffrage bill was defeated
by vote of9 yeas to % NAYS.
J. Russell Jones has been an.
pointed Minister Resident in Rel
GUM, in place of Mr. Sanford, who
resigned.
Modern slang has converted thu
title of Gray's immortal master
piece into San Elegy in a country
Bone Orchard
"a prudent man." says a witty
Frenchman, is like a pin. His
head prevents him from going too
far.
"Fire," says the preverb, lis a
good servant" We would add
"Water is one shat should never
be turned Off
A widow ont West, removed
from the posB-ofice, was only
quieted by the promise Of the new
appoiDtee to marry her.
The South Carolina Legislature
promises to give lands on easy
terms to settlers, in order to at.
tract immigration.
The great bill Of $4,000 for ca
bic dispatches, charged to the
State Department at Washington.
has been paid.
Within . few days about 10000
fur seal skins, valued ut half a
million dollars, have been receiy-
at San Francisco.
Hon. W. SheTTod, OfLawrence.
has been nominated for Congress
by the democrats Of the Sixth
Alabama district.
The Mormon temple at Salt
Lake is to have the largest organ
in the country, excepting the one
at the Hub.
California contains 12O,947,S4l
acres of land, of which it is esti.
mated SO, coo, 900 can be devoted
to profitable husbandry.
j. w. johnson, Of Jefferson.
Texas, is announced as candi-
date for Lieut.. Governor on the
ticket with Jack Hamilton.
Much more cotton as well az
cane has been planted In st. Ian.
dry parish this season than at
any othsr season since the war.
The republican papers in Iowa
are generally opposed to the pro-
posed third party temperance
movement in that State.
The British Isles, with an area
of 12O,85O square miles-little
over half the area of TexSscOn
tains a population of $1,000, 900.
A new hotel, to be called TIE
Arlington, is in process of erection
at Washington ID. c., on Vermont
Avenue. It will cost $3.50, 900.
The San Antonio TEX Express
speaks of M. Kennedy's ranch of
10000 fenced in acres, with 40,-
600 head of cattle on it.
The Mississippi and it's tributa-
ries drain an area Of 1,216,6O0
square miles of territory-equalt to
thirty States large than Ohio.
Col. B. w. Florenoss, Demo.
cratic member of the Georgia Leg
islatnre, was murdered on the 8th
by a negro in his employ.
Els your house a warm one,.
landlord" asked o gentleman in
search of q house. cit ought to.
be,n was the reply, ''the painter
gave it two coats recently
The first day q little boy went
to school the teacher asked him If
he could spell7 Eyes, sir" swell,
how do you spell boyp 'tOh, just
as other folks do
Ike's last trick was to throw
Mrs. Partington's old gaiter inthe
alley, and call the old lady down
from the third floor to see an
alley gaiter.
Victoria has had to come down.
She has agreed, in order to Stopa
family quarrel, to give the Prince
OF Wales nearly 100000 year
of her spending money.
Our philosopher say that the
abolition of tha Irish Church Ia