The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-20
The States.
LOUISIANA.

Mansfield is to have an ice man
ufactory. 8TU
Charlton is still prevailing in
Pointe Coupee Parish.
Tree companies of militia are
formed in Assumption parish.
Too much rain for cotton in
Pointe Coupee, but just the thing
for cane.
Seven schools have besn estab-
lished i'm the Fourth Ward of st.
Mary's parish.
Congestion and fever are rife
in Carroll parish, induced by the
intense heat. 84@ ~
More than an average crop of
cane, cotton and corHlare promis-
ed in Iberia parish.
Louisiana, 1t is said, win soon
outstrip South Carolina in the
amount OF its rice crop.
The people OF. Naschitoches are
iubilant over the excellent crop
prospects. No sign of the cotton
worm.
Corn in Carroll promises to
weld an abundant crop; and the
only thing the cotton planters
have now, to fear is the worm:
The Terrebonne Patriot has
been suspended for the present,
In the language of the editorial
announcing that fact, it has "bust-
ed.n s r.ssv
The Radical State Convention
nominated James Graham for
State Auditor, and Antoine Dubu
clet, the present monument for
State Treasurer.
More ram has fallen In some
parts of Iberyille than was want
ed. Cane is suffering from a worm
which devours the leaves. Moth
ing of the cotton worm.
The Monroe Telegraph says that
the running time between New
Orleans and that place by rail via
Jackson and Vicksburg is q
hours to New Orleans, and q
hours from New Orleans to Mon
roe.
The Assumption Chronicle says
of the sugar crop, that the crop of
cane and stubble is an average
one; tile corn crop has never been
surpassed, the cotton crop, of
which there are only isolated
patches here and there, promises
an ample harvest.
The health of our parish is not
as good as We. wish it was. Ply
sicians are constantly in the saddle
or By the bedside, endeavoring to
alleviate the suffering ofthe sick.
We are happy TO besable to state,
however, that the sickness, gener-
aily speaking. is of mild form and
not very fatal MANSFIELD Report
or, LIZA.
New Orleans is remarkably
healthy for the season OF the year,
I'M proof of which statement we
have only to refer to the official
anortnary report. showing that
there were only one hundred and
eighteen interments last week.
Noother city in the United States,
is as healthy this summer as New
Orleans.-IN. O. Republicans, Ind.
The first bale of new cotton was
received at this port per steamer
]. G. Harris. It was grown in
Texas, by I'll. Il. Woodhouse, not
far from Brownsville, and will be
shipped to New York per steam
er Mississippi on Saturday. The
sample is what we suppose the
cotton broker would call ''fair cot
TOM being of good color and free
from dirt. The same house is in
receipt of another bale grown by
John McAllen, in the same neigh
.borhood, which they will sell in
this market. Last year the first
bale of new cotton arrived in New
Orleans on August 3d.-IN. 0.
Bee, July 29th.
MISSISSIPPI.
Hon. Thos. L. Swami, late Aud
itor of Public Accounts, died re-
Gently.
Gov. Aleorn Of Mississippi has
vetoed the judicial printing bill
passed by the Legislature.
The line of the Mobile and New
Orleans railroad runs within I of
q mile of the town of Handsboro,
New Albany, Miss, is to be the
seat of justice Of the new county
of Union, formed out of Tippah
and PontotOc.
A prairie planter informs the
Aberdeen Examiner that he finds