The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-11-10

A negro man at Atlanta, Georgia, the
other day had his son put in the caloboose
because he wouldn't work.
Victor Hugo is likely to be again a can
didate for Legislative honors. as also Ledru
Rollin.
The Mormons are shout to memoriaIize
Congress to be admitted as State. The
new State should be known as the State of
Matrimony.
Another man has been hung by the Indi-
anaregulators. The only moose that doesn't
hang well in Indiana is the matrimonial one.
1t is said that in real estate, as in the I'M
real estate of wedIock, Chicago contains Il
good many bad lots requiring Improvement.
Tye Kim, a Chinese traveller, started
around the world sevenyears ago and has
got As far as Omaha.
DR.. Livingstone. the great African travel
or, has at last been found. He is at Lake
Tanganyike. Tho only difficulty now is to
fnd the lake.
The Paris Steele says, in substance, that
the report that the Empress Eugene and the
Prince Imperial are coming to this country
on visits absurd.
A few days ago citizen of Limington,
Me-, while blowing piece Of land. found Il
gold chain which he had all along supposed TO
have been stolen in 1887.
John Morfisscy has given five hundred
dollars for the relief of the poor families of
Mechanicsvillc, New York, who sustained
losses BY the recent storm. -,...-
Mr.. j. O'Connell writes a letter, TO the
London Daily News to say that he thinks he
has found in the British Museum an unpub-
lished sonnet by Shakespeare.
Mis- Agatha States, the prima donna. is a
successful secessioDist. She has been di-
vorced from her husband, and is therefore no
longer one of the united States.
Father Hyacinthe, it is said. YVES as poor
as church mouse five years ago, and in con-
sequence of his poverty came very near
abandoning France and goingto South Amer
ica.
The Chicago Post says when Mark Twain
wrote his first article, California Publisher
told him that he hadn't brains enough to
keep mule going stright ahead in a ten acre
lot.
A very valuable jewel is just now without
an owner in Connecticut 1t is Mrs. Piny
Jewell, whose husband died recently, leaving
! her q fortune of some four hundred thousand
dollars.
A Connecticut traveller recently took tea
with a Mormon elder, at whose table six
wives presided, and twenty seven children
clamored for more molasses OH their bread.
The Janssville Gazette says there is Il
cave in the vicinity of Indian Ford, Rock
County. Wis, filled with carbonc acid gas.
tits so poisonous as to extinguish light or
life instantly.
INDUSTRIAL RECONsTRUCTION.-A cotton
factoryis proposed in Demopolis, Alabama,
and strightway several public spirited gentle
men subscribed ten bales Of cotton to the
cause. There is an example for US of Green
vile to apply to our Colleges and Railroads.
! South Alabamian.
Those who study human nature Alright,
will discover that noble spirit carries
enterprise, as the flint carries fire.
| If man does not make new friends as he
goes along through life, he will soon find him
self alone. He should keep his friendship
in good repair.
There are two Difficulties with eoa.e men:
they are disposed to spend more taan they
can afford. and to indulge moro than they
can endure.