The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1870-05-04
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OF her marriage with wealthy Bostoniau
Young men for action; old men for conn
sci. The former don't want the latter AM
the latter are unequal to the former.
y hearty youth of %, in Maine, is mourn
ing for his fifth wife,
ihe Lydia Thompson affair promises t,
make continued Storey for the courts an,
newspapers.
n Minhesotian shot himself to prevent hi
nine wives from quarreling over him.
Impulse isn't energy. any more than the
ghaw OF dyspepsia is hunger; impulse ant
gnaw may be satisfied, but you want some
thing more substantial.
The Chinese Iaborers on the Central Rail
road do not drink water but have enc o
their number detailed to hand around tea
brigham Young is married at last. TT,
took to wife the other day, three maiden.
and two widows. in presence of the saints
all hom New England. No cards.
A st. Louis misunderstanding has beer
settled by one of the parties shooting bis on.
ponent aud then himself.
y Western editor. in response TO one q,
MS subscribers who grumbles that his paper
Is lhtoiera6'y damp. says: That's because
there's so much due on it,"
Ole Ball Bull and the Lydia Thompson
troupe are in Chicago. The bulls and the
oares seem TO go together naturally.
''Gently the dews are DER me stealing, >,
as the man said when he had five du. bills
presented 10 him at one time.
4 little girl has been poisoned to death at
Augusta. Ga. from eating the blossoms of
the yellow jessamine.
A lady in Indiana, with hair ten feet long.
receives SlOa week for merely sitting in a
hair dresser's shop as a show
A school-master in Ireland advertises that
he viii keep unday school twice week
Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Thirty years ago, couple in Illinois, at a
party. were married in joke, and found
out afterwards that t was really fixed fact,
ana they have lived together ever since.
The woman says she has found that it was
no joke having had thirteen children.
A Sunday school teacher in Auburn. New
/ ork, found good deal of difficulty in suit.
ing one of his scholars with the customary
books to carry home. He was anxious to
loln one of the lady teachers who was leay-
ing the chapel, and after having made seye-
raj journeys TO and from the library, he
lnaiiy threw down book and eiacuated,
- There, you little cuss, take that or none y,
Mrs. Victoria Woodhull. of the Wall
street brokers firm OF Woodhull, Claflin L.
Co.. is out in powerful women's right doc
lment, in which sue boldly announces her
self a candidate fer the next Presidency.
The Pecan trade is lively in western
Texas. The Victoria Advocate ba, heard
,fsess .asFeh~n' ;n-rris rorsstG" The average
'rloe paid, is three dollars specie per
,usheI.
The Boston Transcript says the fifteenth
amendment will not add one single vote to
he list in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
md Massachusetts.
A young gentleman in Fifth Avenue,
'bout five years old, of an inquring turn of
mind lately astonished his mother by ask
ug her where he was born, and on being
Old, gravely added, "Were you there,
when l was born p
A Piqua, Ohio. chap drinks over twenty
cups of coffee at meal. We are not in !
ormed of the size of the cups nor how much !
hey charge him for board.
Miss keyser. the latest lady lecturer, says
women want more money. That peculiarly
If tho sex has been noticed elsewhere
Somebody proposes an Old Mems Hea-
hen Association, as an Offset to the Young |
Mems Christian Association.
R-portcrs are often unconsciously satiri- |
,al. A morning paper says in an obituary:
Mr.. - was an estimable citizen. He
lived uprightly. He died with perfect res
gnation. He had recently been married"
The health of Poor Carlot'a." is grow
ng worse. To the menta. alienation so long
axislng, is now added intense fever which
confines the patient TO hep bed in Il state of
complete prostration.
Missouri sells wine Il; 30 cents a bottle
bottle twenty-five cents, wine the remain
Ter.
Sandwich Islanders are to erect monu-
nent to Captain Cook whom they ate.
North Carolina street car conductors carry
ady passengers over the muddy crossings.
Bliss
About one half of the city of Saginaw.
Michigan, is under water The river is still
rising rapidly, and the snow has hardly
commenced to melt. The mills and factories
IRE all stopped; houses on surrounding bills
Ire in demand, and tha people are talking
lbout building an ark. Thesdamage SO far,
8 -.L~-s $500. 600
a Philadelphia policeman nj plain clothes
arrested Il pcK-pocket the other day, who
struggled so that another officer coming up
ook the policeman in charge for fighting
md let the thief go.
a fash of lightning the other day killed
Georgia doctor. grevousIy injured the rest
'f the family, and reduced the house TO
ashes almost before the dead and suffering
,culd be removed,
General Grant, in his proclamation on the
doption of the fifteenth amendment. speaks
It the Consultation as that revered instru-
nent." Alas Could the force of irony go
ur, her.
a PhiladelpIlian who chased lady into |
awer's office, with a knife. lad the lawyer
for assault in driving him away.
Margaret Stuart. os Philadelphia, has
truck Billy Pa.tison for $l5, 900 in breach |
f promise suit.
The Siamese twins have not spoken to
aoh other for a month, owing to difficulty
bout receipts.
\ bearded woman died the other day at
toulouse. aged I0i years. She had beard
wo feet long.
Every man should. in every year of his
fe, make some addition 10 bis capital. You
ay you get but little. Never mind; spend
ass than little; the next year You will get
G. Al. i