The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-06-19
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New York June Is, evening.-Gold heavy
at 1879. Stocks dull and unsettled. Cotton
active and decidlya higher, sales $500 bales
at 324 033e.
New Orleans, June l5,-Cotton active and
advanced :middling 800 03lc; sales 1850
and receipts Cos bales Gold 1871 Flour
superfine s. 62t a 8, double extra Sc IS and
treble extra SO So Corn-wlite | 90. Oats
75074c. Bran 81 Is. Hay-prime $40
Pork $34 So Bacon-shoulders Is, clear
rib 49, and clear sides l9c Lard-tierce ~
and key Ole. Sugar-common 81 q l04 and
prime d34e Molasses nominal; fermenting
30 060e. Whisky 92095e- Coffee-tair l45
U 55 and prime I6k l63c.
Liverpool, June IS, evening. Cotton
quiet, but quotations unchanged; sales TO-,
900 bales.
Liverpool, June Eight thousand emf
grants for America have left here within the
last week.
San Francisco, June 9-The japanese col
ony, recently arrived, purchased land in
Colorado county. They are pleased with To-
cation for the purpose contemplated, cult
ure of silk and tea.
Cincinnati, june 10-Fierce tornado at
Miamisburg, Ohio, destroying bridges, fen
| ces andunroOting houses
Lodi, n. j., June 9.-Five employees Of
! print shops who habitually drink vitriol and
alcohol, nistOOk arsenic for vitriol III com
pounding their beverage -Four dead and
| fifth dying.
| Chicago, June9-Incase of Amanda Craig
VS.. Sprague, for breach Of promise, verdict
| was rendered for $l00,0O0 for complainant
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
| has decided that persons engaged in the
| business of preparing pork and lard for sale
who slaughter hogs, cut up and pack
! pork, and render lard, packing the same III
barrels kegs or otherwise, are clearly EN-
| braced within the definition of nIanufae
| turer, and are required to pay a tax on their
| sales annually in excess Of 5000.
Hoar decides thatno cable can be landed
connecting the United States with foreign
| country without the special consent Of Con
! gress.
The Herald says the Attorney General is
! said to have hesitated a long time before he
would furnish his recent opinion sustaining
| Texas court martial in the trial Ola citizen
for the murder ola freedman, and that his
actual view oftha law at first suggested an
! entirely opposite decision, but that General
Butler said he would ottera resolution on
the subject in the next session il u oarl did
not make an example of these fellows, and
under this pressure the recent opinion was
| made.
London, June 11-Coal mines in Wales
exploded. Reported 10 killed Snip Great
Northern wrecked near Bombay. 10 lives
lost
Havana, June l3-Severe engagement re-
ported near Puerto Principe 700 reported
killed, including Gen Marmore Reliable
information wanting.
Havana. June l3-Heayy engagement at
Puerto Padre confirmed Spaniards admit
90 killed. Spaniards estimate the patriots
killed and wounded at 1909, including Gen.
Marnore killed. A Santiago dispatch
Spanish sOuroes) state a schooner landed
1899 fillbusters 60 miles east of Santiago.
Guide betrayed filIbusters. Sixty KILLED
and balance captured Leader shot. Cap
tives taken to Santiago for execution. Stores
of expedition captured, including two mil
lions unsigned Revolutionary currency, sew
eral hundred rifles and three or four pieces
of artillery.
Richmond June I4.-Judgg Olcott,
formerly Judge of the Supreme Court
of Louisiana, appointed Judge of
Husting' Court Of Richmond.
Cincinnati, June IA drunken
Covington auctioneer shot mortally two
women.
New Orleans, June l5.-Four mem
bers of the Metropolitan Police Board,
including Lieut.. Gov. Dunn, who is
President of the board, were imprison-
ed in the parish prison six hours to-day
and fined 500 each by the Sixth Dis.
trict Court, for contempt in disobeying
an injunction from that court The
trouble grows out of the Jefferson City
Police affairs.
= Leavenworth, June l5.--Indians
J again numbering 35 miles north Of
Solomon river. Party followed, but
! finding the Indians in force, returned
Harvey left for the scene.
WHAT TO STAMP.-An notes au(
evidences of debt. five cents on eael
800; if under Sl00 five cents; if Owe
800, five cents on each additional $l0I
+ or part thereof. All receipts for an,
D amount, without limit, over $40, tw,
2 cents; if 800 or under, nothing. Al
deeds and deeds Of trust, fifty cents o.
each $500 in value Of the property con
= veyed or the amount secured. Whel
! deed of trust is fully stamped, tn