The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-04-23
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Liverpool, April 10, noon.-Cot.
ton quiet; uplands Ill and Or.
leans 11s0113d. A later dispatch
from Bombay announces the shin.
ments since the. report of the 9th
ult., $4,000 bales.
New York, April 10, noon.--.
Gold 1881.
/ New Orleans, April 19.-Flour
dull, 81 2505 O005 rs. Bran Al
3501 40. Hay $40 30. Pork fir.
mer, $3O020 %. Bacon 12a0l6A
Ollie; hams 184O19c. Lard fir.
mer; tierce 163017 and keg 1870
1916. Sugar easier, prime 1i0
life. Molasses, prime 67a072c.
Whisky 925c0@I %. Coffee un.
changed. Cotton steady, but I'm.
changed; sales 1000, receipts 1929
and exports to Liverpool 2407
bales. Gold 1884.
New York, April 10, evening
Gold steady at 11340113a. Cot
ton quiet but steady; sales 1900
bales.
Liverpool, April 10, evening"
Cotton quiet but steady; uplands
liz and Orleans 11aOd5d.; sales
10000 bales, of which for specula-
and export 1000.
Washington, April 12.-TRe
members of Congress from the
Gulf States met tonight to con
slider the Southern Pacific Rail.
road. They agreed to support the
charter making the Eastern ter
minus at Marshall, Texas. with
the right of other roads to con-
meet at or west OF Marshall. Con-
Meeting roads shall carry freight
and passengers nnde arrangements
mutually beneficial to the guage
of the trunk, and connecting lines
to be five feet. The Gulf delega-
ton will unanimously support the
company most likely to build the
road from Marshall to San Diego.
A committee was appointed, com.
posed Of Sheldon, Sherrod, Pierce
and Clark, to take charge Of the
matter. z.. u. 49,
San Francisco, April lin
porters of this city are discussing
the question of entering New York
customhouse goods from Europe
to San Francisco. A committee
was appointed to investigate the
matter. esess s.r
| st. Louis, April 13Heayy
freshet in the Mississippi river.
Opposite Quincy, Illinois, the riy-
er is eight miles wide. West
Quincy entirely submerged. The
water is over the Hannibal and
st. Joseph Railroad for five miles,
and should the river rise a foot
mere the track between Quincy
and Palmyra will be submerged.
The river is still rising. "
Albany, N. Y, April 13.-The
Democrats elected nine, and the
Republicans seven supervisors.
IThayer's majority is 1900. The
vote was the largest ever cast, be.
ling about $4,000. The Democrats
have a. majority in the Board of
Aldermen Of seven. 3 2
| Washington, April b. House :
The House is now consideriHgthe
cablefrom San Francisco via Sand
wich Islands to China. -
San Francisco, April I3.--The
Attorney General OF California de-
cides the Fifteenth Amendment in
ert as against Estate laws, until
Congress legislates for its enforce
ment.
New York, April 13.-AnexpIO-
sion at Sing Sing killed three con-
victs. -
! The propeller Wells, in towing
coal barges exploded her boilers,
i. killing three. The Staten Islam
ders thought it was an earthquake.
Pittsburg, Pa, April LEX
change Hotel destroyed. Loss
$4,000.
New York, April i4.-This fore
noon q mob OF two hundred men,
employed on the sewers in Bergen
and Hudson City, N. J. struck
and came to Jersey City, where
one hundred and thirty men were
at work on a similar sewer, and
, attempted to induce them to quit
WORK. Perceiying that their eff
forts were useless they tried vio-
lence, when force Of one hundred
and twenty i've police came up
and arrested the leaders and dis
. persed tue meb. Further trouble
lapprehended. r~
J Ottawa, April, A. Scott, a del
egate from Red River was arrest
! ed last night, and charged with
the murder of Thomas Scott .at