The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-07-17
Minorities.

Ouh naCAOnai game as played ID
Congress-Base Bawl.
The fnitten that never fits--thA
one you get from q lady.
Paper petticoats sell in Londoh
at six-pence each.
The Wisconsin Democratic Stat.
convention will be held early n
August.
Query-Can Blow blow awav
the web of difficulties Webb has
woven in Brazilg
The Iowa Republican State Con.
vention has renominated Gov
Merrill.
immigration to Kansas contip.
ues large, and crops are in a fair
condition.
A great mans intellect is like
glass-it admits light as wen a.
reflects it.
He who is conspiring against
the peace OF another necessarily
loses his own.
Education, till now, has tended
largely to divorce mind from Ia
Dor.
Keokuk, Iowa, claims a popula-
ton of IL, 754, a gain of 1900 im
two years.
The expenses OF the New York
police force for the past year were
$3,000,0OO.
A Catholic priest has married
in Circleville, Ohio. He was.
promptly communicated.
The Cretan Instruction cost
Turkey S25, OW,OO0 in money and
10000 men.
First class fare from New York
to San Francisco, SITS IS. cur.
rency. Time, S days.
Wade Hampton has been buy.
ing a 1000 mules for use on his
lands in the South. It wOuld
break us just to buy the mules.
To allay nervous excitements
and sleeplessness, the New York
physicians now prescribe one Of
Greely's articles on political econ.
omy at an anodyne.
Secondhand svelOcipedes sell at
$40 to SIS in New York and lots
in market. This looks as If the
fool thing had run its race.
A man who lately died in Ger
many confessed, on his death bed
to having poisoned sixteen mem
bors of his own family in order to
inherit their property.
The emancipated peasantry in
Russia are industriously cnltiva.
ting the ground, now that thew
have a greater personal interest in
the proceeds.
Ex-Goy. Seymour, of New York,
has lately recovered property
amounting to the value Of one
dollars, in a lawsuit.
The New York Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
has received requests to the
amount of $500, 900 to aid IN car
rying out its object.
The American Institute of Ho-
m9opathy has decided by a
strong vote ia to 32) to admi1
women to practice as hom@opa-
thetic doctors.
Dispatches from Omaha report
that cavalry are scourging the
country afrer Indians, and troops
are guarding the the Union Pa
cific Railroad.
The bill in the Florida House to
equalize accommodations for
whites and negroes on all steam
boats and railroads, was killed by
o tie vote.
The Hudson river steamboat
Mary Powell made IS miles in 3h.
4Om. on Friday, including six
landings. This is the fastest IS
miles on record.
Gen. Sherman had the audacity
to speak of the great Peace Jubi-
lee as that drumming match.r-
He must be ''the man that hath
no music in himself"
Switzerland has about 25O,000
acres of mountain pasture, feed
ing 100000 head of cattle, which
yield an annual income of over
50, 100000.
OF every 10000 inhabitants
there are blind, in France, III;
Great Britain, 10; Saxony, z; Han
over, Z; Bavaria, 5; Prussia, 4;
United States, 4.
The Peace Jubilee at Boston
was a fortunate thing for dealers
in beef cattle. The price went up
two cents per pound. For New
feeders it was a jubilee
indeed.
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