The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1870-01-19
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! ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Sultan of Turkey. gave the Pope
5000 ring.
Faber. of pencil renowu. is too fat to walk
alone. Like his pencils, he is lead.
1t is reported that Anna Dickinson has
bought and will edit the Revolution.
Cincinnati has new literary society
called "The Byron Circle
It is whiswered that the Emperor of
Austria is frequently intoxicated.
Negro boatmen on the Mississippi are
called " Fifteenth Amendments"
The local matters ola Kansas paper are
headed flights and Things"
Savannah dogs trot the street with adver-
tisements prin ted on their blankets.
A large number of fashionable New York
girls have recently married and settled
quietly in the country.
Belle Boyd is in CaIifornia insane
aylum.
1t is now illegal for first cousins to m lrry
in New-Hampshire.
The hog cholera has made its appearance
at Cumminsville. o.
The New York Hotel was sold at auction
recently for 81 ,O95, 900.
The contributions to the Avondale Relief
Fund are more than Sl26 600.
A Family of nine persons left Oxford
Country, Me-. last week, for Utah--converts
to Mormonism.
The cattle crop in the Old Dominion is
said to bid fair to become one of its most
valuable productions.
One of the injured a: Mast Hope has OBJ
tanned a verdict Of $3O, 600 against the Erie
Railroad Company.
Tho latest wall- street swindle amounts to n
quarter of million, and the chief operator
cannot be found.
The year 1869, says the Times, has been
marked by a series of disasters curiously
various and exceptionally destructive.
OF the Gloucester (Mass). fishing fleet.
during the past season, sixteen vessels were
wrecked and ffty-six lives lost.
The Chamber of Commerce recommends
the free Importation of foreign built steam
ers and ship-building materials.
A new Exchange building is to be erected
in Cincinnati, Ohio. and $50. 200 has been
already subscribed for the purpose.
Design for a new series of postage stamps,
to take the place of those now in use, have
been adopted by the Department.
A loud call comes from California that
Congress should withhold all public lands
there from sale except to actual settlers.
The keeper of peanut stand in Wash
ington recently died. leaveing his daughter,
who still carries on the busines, $6OOOO.
The San Francisco city press urges the
formation ofa Vigilance Committee as the
only means of breaking up the political
rings.
A bill has been introduced in the Senate
favoring the establishment of steamship
line between the United States and India
via Suez.
The organ grinder Of the period has lately
appeared in South-Carolina for the first time
The rinderpest hasbroken out in London.
The Suez Canal is to be closed for new
excavations.
Secretary Seward arrived recently at the
capital Of Mexico. ...-.
The Naples journals says that another
eruption of Vesuvius is imminent.
Twenty million dollars is announcrd as
tho amount of Peters pence in the last ten
years.
Mr.. Spurgeon has been suffering from
light attack of smallpox. but is fast recov-
ering.
The Japanese. after all, seem to b. going
ahead more readily and steadily than the
Chinese.
The first Merchant-vessel that passed
through the Suez Canal was wrecked in the
Red Sea.
Several Of the suppressed Republican
journals in Madrid have been permitted to
reappear.
The Egyptian Viceroy is making extern
sivs preparations for the increase of cotton
crops.
The Spanish Bank of Havana has loauedan
additional six millions of papers to the gov
ernment.
DR.. Temple has triuwphed over his foes.
and has received his confirmation as Eishon
Of Exter.
Mr.. Burlingame has received advice of tho
Chinese ratification of bis treaty with the
United States.
The silk crop in Persid has almost en-.
tireiy failed this year. owing to disease
among the silk worms.
Chinese secret societies are said 70 os.r