The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-09-17

| '"'i1 "HooO pdGicuCo Is exhausted.
so Tar overc0nes her proverbial
nodesiy, as to enter the saloon
ana arm him home. just such a
circumstance took place in our
city on yesterday afternoon.
The total valuation of real and
personal estate in Muscogee coun-
ty is S7,595,21O. The county debt
is $4,000 and the city debt S4OO.
600. The State, county and city
tax foots up S175, 1856. lO-of which
the city tax is 100000; so says
the Columbus Enquirer.
A negro doctor named Tucker.
from Iowa, is prospecting in At
lanEa with a view of settling there.
The Dawson Journal saws all is
quiet on Kinchafoonee creek. the
scene of the late negro riot. Near
ly all the negroes, including their
leader, were from Lee county.
The revival meetings in Dawson
closed on the 4th, with 80 addi-
tons each to the Methodist and
Baptist Churches.
The Eatonton Press saws the
corn crop of Putnam is exceeding
| ly good. Cotton fields are begin
ming to look very white, and pick
ing has commenced in good ear
nest.
The Gazette says the drops iu
Gilbert county are about as good
as the lands are capable. of pro-
ducing, where they have been
properly worked. Planters will
SOW a large area in small grain
this fall.
The Waterman reports crops in
jackson county better than they
have been known in years. There
is much sickness in the county and
many death from ''bloody flux.n
Cotton bolls in Terrell county
are opening prematurely. The
prospect is that the first of Octo-
Der will find three-fourths of the
cotton open.
The Valdosta Times reports the
corn crop in Berrien county very
good. Cotton is suffering greatly
from rust.
In Lowndes county the rust is
proving very destructive. Many
fields won't make half of what
was confidently expected a few
weeks ago. The grass caterpillar
is doing great damage to the rice,
potato and sugar cane crops.
In Talbot county the drouth has
seriously affected the cotton
crop.
The West Point Shield reports
hot and dry weather, and cotton
greatly damaged by rust in that
section. The West Pointers had
their first bale of new cotton on
the Goth, and got so excited over
its sale at auction that one man
went crazy and bought it at 265
cents per pound.
The Savannah Republican re-
ports the cotton crop on the Alta
maha river as promising a very
abundant yield. After one pick
ing the staple seems scarcely
touched.
The Brunswick Seaport Appeal
of the Goth, gives this:
Business improving, steam mills
a bowling, lath and planning ma
chimes whizzing, machine shops
humming, engines whistling, ham,
mers ringing, men drinking, the
boys swimming, the ladies excur-
sioning, sand flies biting, musqui
toes singing, a few good souls
praying and the balance of the,
community SHINING. And thus we
rock along and keep moving.
The notorious negro politician,
A. Alpeoria Bradley, is out in a
card announcing himself as can
didate for Congress from the First
District.
Ihe journal says the unprece
dented fine prospects for a large
cotton crop in this section, are be-
ing seriously diminished by the
late drought that has prevailed
over Il large portion of Morgan
county.
A great deal of sickness pre-
walls in the eastern part of Morgan
bordering on the Apalachee river.
The disease is principally inter.
mittent and remittent fever. The
colored population are the great
est sufferers from it.
The Sun says of crops in Deca-
tur and other counties:
The cotton crop in this and sur
rounding counties has been seri-
ously damaged by the rust espe-
cially where guano has been used