The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1870-05-04
Edwin Booth has quit playing until fall.


Hays City, Kansas, has elected lad
constable.
The attempt to introduce Spanish bul
nights into Eng gland as an amusement ha
proved a failure
Cincinnati sees Chicaso'S 1000 opiuD
eaters. AMI goes her 1000 arsenic cater
better.
General Braxton Bragg has been removed
from the control of the water works at New
Orleans.
The question is. whether the Pacific Rail
road Company or the Indians own that thor
"ughfare.
Monogram fans, tas,efully designed il
wood are taking the place of all othe
styles.
Richmond. Virginia, has a lady. who. fo
severa! years has eaten nothing and thrive.
on it.
1t costs forty-five dollars per year TO ligh
each of the street lamps in Jacksonville
| Florida.
A sab'e doctreSs in Florida, cures rbeu.
thatism by doses of pine knots grated and
boiled. The mortality has been Iarre since
she opened her office.
a colored hundred year older REGISTERED
tt San Francisco the other day.
Almost all the rum made in the Untod
States is distilled in Massachusetts.
A young Westerner lately committed sui
cue so as to occupy a new cemetery to
which he had taken fancy.
1t is estimated that there are 10000 col
ored Baptists in Tennessee.
a kentucky preacher has been ousted
ior saving S6O0 per year ont of salary of
F'oV' lie deserves to go to Congress.
The subterranean cable between Bombay
Alden and Sucz is finished
"DIed from elongation of the tonsils,- is
Tue western ephamism for hanging.
Two Detroit BrotherS-in law fought in =
street car for several blocks the other dov.
""''e the conductor looked on approvinelv.
Mr. Hoshill, of Peabody, Massachusetts,
an." hiuIself as the champion egg
eater, anu challenges any man to .ompeie
with HIM for fifty dollars or upward.
The ladies' are all rebelIing against the
io"S walking dresses, and some of them
propose the formation of Il '.Short WALKING
Dress Society" 7
ihe Northern paper makers are combining
to Keep up prices by preventing an over,
i"e HhSnsh Government will shortly Law
uo"n an exclusive cable telegraph wire for
t"o uans,'iissioh OF American messages from
notwithstanding the large number of ne
groes who left Virginia and North Carol;n,
'A4s ssassr stsss j. 70 -'"i. scf sr = ss firmly
against gumned envelopes. and seal enera.
vers look for a return of patronage and pros
perity.
A rich English Jewess ordered in her
VIII that her corpse be taken to Jeruselem
by twelve Israelites, and each receive c4OO
for his services
frussIan authorities are very uneasy about
'ne immense immigration from heir country.
which has most serious effect on their con
An OH" woman has cuughed up a fish
bone which she has had in he: throat forty |
two years. 1t restored her v..icc, and her
husband wants divorce.
London and Paris have at present about
Twice the number Of inhabitants DIS in JS:H |
while Berlin has more than doubled lis pop
aiation in the past thirty eight years
Many OF the Boston bccgais asking for
work take themselves away at double quick
time when employment is offered then, like
saving wood Or digging garden
The leaves OF the coffee plant are now of |
tered us substitute for tea. in Suumatra
the natives cultivate the plant almost entire |
ly for the leaves.
A contributor of TIE Pill Mall Gazette |
says that five in twenty soldiers in India are |
killed by the liquor "arak.' He proposes !
to substitute Malt wiiskey.
A young lady of Boston. went, recently. |
to see Hackett in the merry Wives of
and during the play she asked |
her escort 10 point out Mr.. Windsor. as she |
did not see his name on the bill.
j. n. Grant. of Brooklyn. Maine, has a |
last years lamb whose head is put on ex-
actly upside down. 1t can turn i: abou,
half way tt und. When it feeds it travels
backward. 1t appears IN perfect health and
has fine fleece of wool.