The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-09-03
The States.
LOUISIANA.

the worm in cotton.
The census of Tensas parish is
completed, and showSa population
OF 2,426, against 16,O7S in 1860.
Fine peaches are abundant in
Brashear, they sell for fifteen
cents a dozen and one dollar per
peck.
Daniel bennett, editor and pro-
prletOr of the Planters Banner,
Franklin, offers the establishment
for sale. .
The crop of cane, both plant
and stuble, in Assumption, is a
full average one. Corn prospects
are very good.
| Livingstnniparish recently vo.
ted in opposition to the tax to aid
the New Orleans, Baton Rouge
and Vicksburg Railroad.
Major Cromie, an ex Federal of.
ficer and prominent Radical who
resided at Natchitoches, died in
New Orleans the other day.
Many planters of Iberia parish
express the determination to hold
back their cotton till the war is
over, hoping for better prices.
A good live parish is that of st.
Helena, which has just voted S20,.
900 in aid of the New Orleans,
Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Rail
road.
The State Conservative Press
Convention will be held in the CITY
of New Orleans, on Tuesday the
10Th day of September.
The propriety of forming new
parish on the east bank of the
river is discussed in Iberville par
ish.
The Iberville Pioneer compli,
ments the appointment of Charles
Z. Halstead as Supervisor of Reg
lstration for that parish.
The material for three-story
house has been shipped lately from
Evansville, Indiana, for Delta,
Louisiana. The freight bill was
three hundred and fifty dollars.
Hon. James Fl. Landers, ma
tive of New Hampshire, and Par
ish Judge of Concordia, died at
Vidalia on the 18th ult., after a
brief illness of cOngestive fever.
The Chattanooga Railroad Com
pany are pushing things forward
very rapidly, or as much so as
possible, and intend to have trains
running as far as Donaldsonyille
by December.
A cOlOred man in KennerviIle
formed an attachment for a dusky
beauty, to which the father of the
damsel objected. The irate swain
therefore called out the obdurate
old man and shot him.
The N. o. Republican ofthe 3Oth
says: The deaths in this city last
week we're 157, a greater mortali-
ty for several weeks There were
fifteen victims of that insatiate
disease consumption.
The census enumeration of New
Orleans is nearly finished, and,
according to the returns, the popu-
lation will appear to be little
more than 10000, including the
newly annexed territory, The
population of New Orleans alone,
in 1860, exceeding 100000.
The prospects for an excellent
sugar crop we're never better
throughout the Attakapas region.
The town Of New Iberia has en-
acted that all new buildings erect
ed within that corporation shall be
of brick.
Wyatt Wilkins and Francis
Montgomery got into a row in St.
James, during d drunken spree.
Wilkins was killed. Montgomery
is held by the court to have acted
in self defence.
Thirteen bales Of new cotton
from different localities had been
received in New Orleans, up to
the Goth ult. The first receipt
was on the 9th of July, from
Texas.
The Picayune says: SO intense
has been the heat during the past
two weeks, that on many of the
lower coast plantations Iaborers
work during the night and rest
through the day.
Gov. Warmoth has appointed
Edward Dubission Mayor and ex-
officio Justice OF the Peace for the
town of Washington, st. Landry
parish, and Thomas n. McCrory
Notary public for st. Landry par
ish.
Michael King, who resides only
| a fnw miInS from tho town IF Ono