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

partleS llVeu IN the northern part
of the county. On Mr.. Wash.
Crawford's place, near North Mt.
Pleasant, on Monday, Aug. Sth,
Tom Ray, negro shot Moses Ste
vens, negro, in the arm, inficting
a slight wound Holly Springs
Reporter.
MISSOURI.
The -four and grain merchants,
millers and shippers of st. Louis
have organized protective union
to secure low rates of freight to
the East and South. 1t costs
eighty cents to send a barrel of
flour from Chicago to New York,
but one dollar and twenty cents
to send it from st. Louis.
An Irishman named Michael
Burns was run over by train at
Mexiea, on Monday the 8th, and
his body completely severed just
below the stomach, and otherwise
mangled in a horrible manner.
He was intoxicated at the time of
the catastrophe, and lying upon
the track. .r.a
On Wednesday, the Sd, Porter
Burris shot and killed his brother,
Thomas B. Burris, in Howard
county. An old grudge had ex-
listed for sometime. Thos. Burris
/ had been to Boonsboro to the
election, and returning home call
ed at his brothers house, some
hard words passed. Thomas said
one or the other had to die, and
he intended to kill Porter. Thorn
as was under the influence of
liquor, and started off, but turned
and came back making threats.
Porter Burris in the meantime had
got his double barrelled shot gun
and told his brother to stop, but
he continued to advance, when
Porter fired twice, killing Thomas
almost instantly. Porter Burris
surrendered himself to the author.
tiles, and we learn was acquitted
as acting in self-defence.
The school house belonging to
the negroes, four miles below New
Madrid, was fired and burned last
Monday night, the 9Th. It was
burned by colored men who were
offended at the trustees for prose
cutting some parties for selling
whisky at a negro ball.
On Friday the 9th, NJ. John. r.
Evans, living two miles from
Huntsville, lighted his pipe and
started to the house of a near
neighbor, passing on the way his
barn and oats stack. He had got
about halfa mile on his road when
| he looked back and saw a great
Iightin the direction ofhome, haSti-
~ returned to the scene Of confla-
! grafton, but too late to be of SER
vice. His barn, about 100 bushels
of wheat, 200 bushels oats, and
some small articles that were in
the barn were entirely consumed.
Mr.. j. p. Thomas, of Nevada,
Grundy county, while digging a
! we'll last week, made discoveries
which puzzles the wiseacres therea-
bouts no little. At a depth of q
feet he found an old-fashioned axe,
well preserved, and two feet lower
down he found "a lot of old pillow
chains, and expects yet to find a
man blowing! At a distance of IL
feet down, a dirt composed of sand
and clay was discovered, as also
some pieces of wood. There was
no evidence of the earth having
been disturbed from the surface
downward, the different strata OF
earth seeming to be entirely natu'
raj. -.s .sat..e-.-a
The contract for grading, tieing
and bridging the Missouri and
Mississippi road from Macon City
south, towards Salisbury and Glas
gov, was let on Thursday the 10th
Col. d. G. Mckay, of Macon City,
| is the contractor.
The Black River News learn
that tits the intention of the com
pany, to locate, and commence
work on the Cairo and Fulton
railroad OF Missouri, as soon as
they locate and put to contract
the southern extension of the Iron
Mountain railroad to the State
line. 1t is the intention to run
the road from atsor near Poplar
Bluff to Bloomfield, in Stoddard
county from there to Morley OF
the Iron Mountain railroad, from
Morley to Commerce, on the Mis-
sissippi river in Scott county.