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

%AS IANh va thC blcHuhm Dr1rRh
road has been laid to within tro
miles OF Burton Station, and the,
the cars will be running To tha.
place in a few days. Work boS S
been going on above Burton Ala
and the probabilities are that tIs
cars will be running to within
forty or fifty miles of Austin ~
fore the next sitting of the LeQis..
lature.
The suljoined railroad items,
are from the San Antonia Herald
We learn that the bill for ax
tending the Buffalo Bayou rail.
road from Columbus to this eitv,,.
was signed by the Governor ana
OF course, is law. AS we under
stand the matter, this ia all rtha,
company asked to set about ,the
extension of the road. llA5 ~
We learn with great satisfsc.
ton that the Morgan and Mo.
Comb bill, consolidating the Ia.
dianola and Lavaca roads, ana
providing for the extension OF thu
road to this city, received the sig.
nature of Gov. Davis. and ID. Of
course, a law. s5e 81 = tGAX
The Galveston News says:, A \
gentleman who has Just returned
from trip through a large Dor.
ton OF the State, reports the crons
in splendid condition everywhere
and says it is estimated that 800.
600 persons have settled in Texas
during the last year, and that the
present population will not fall
far short of / 200, 900. a8 ~
The Waxahachie Argus saws.
We learn from the census taker
that there are in this county thir.
ty pair of twins, one triplet and
one quadruple. We win back
Ellis county against any other in
the State for larger babies and
more OF. them.
The number of cattle that have
been registered at Fort Cohcho on
their way west this season
amounts to sixty thousand head.
These cattle were exclusive OF
those driven to Kansas, which
did not pass through Concho, but
through Fort Richardson.
All the coast towns continue
very healthy.
The Weatherford Times says a
body of Indians, after killing tjve
white men and stealing ninety
government mules, in the vicinity
of Fort Sill, Indian Territory, re-
ceutly went to the fort and de-
manded "raticns.n Those were Mt
first refused, until the stolen
mules should he returned and the
murdererS delivered up; bnt after.
wards the Government authori.
ties, being intimidated by the In-
dianS, complied with their de-
mand without insisting on the
conditions. The same paper sayn
the Indians have been raieling
very disastrously to the settlers III
DEsTRUCTIVRFIR IN JEFFER- !.
soN.-The following is a special
dispatch to the Southwestern!
Jefferson, Texas, Aug. 26.--A
fire broke out in the establishment
of A. ID. Tullis, this morning about
two o'clock. The following estab.
lishment were burned out: Tow
ers & Usery; Hebron; Benners;
Pitcher; Russell & Co: Nichols;
Bloomingdale; Tullis; Nichols 81
Co.; Birge; LowenthaE Watch
holder & Jacobs; Ney & Bro;
Britt & Motley; Stemleir; Eldridge
& Bro; Dodd and several small
shops, watchmakers, &c. Loss
two hundred thousand dollars, in.
sured for one hundred and TWEEN
ty-six thousand dollars; mostly by
cotton Bros. Steam fire engine
did noble seryiee-the city would
have been burnt to tho ground
but for the same. Russell's build.
ing was occupied by Pitcher; Dodd
and Nichols & Co. Five or six
large new brick buildings burned.
Paio Pinto county lately.
Gen Reynolds has been in-
structed by the War Department
to prohibit the organization of
the State regiment for frontier (
defence. Gov. Davis writes an
emphatic protest against this de-
cisiOn. Meantime we have such
encouraging accounts as the
above. 49, ettsaA l'tE
GEORGIA.
Census returns give CoYington
population of 2100.
One Of Bullock's official Justices
of the peace in Savannah 4 is y