The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-11-29
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Earthquakes at Austin, Union
vile and Virginia City, Nevada.
Item in a late invoice of fashion
able New York furniture: Ele
gantly upholstered kneeling bench
for the weary and heavy laden.
A white man was publicly
whipped by the sheriff of OwSley
county, KY, few days since, for
stealing.
y Texas farmer turns his cattle
out TO pasture in an enclosure one
hundred and fifty miles long ana
fifty miles wide.
Nine Chinese girls jumped into
the river TO avoid being married.
American girls jump in because
they can't get an offer.
We find the following conun
drum floating about: "If Il topper
and a quart of whisky We're left
together, which would be drunk
first p
Just because a young man in
Evansville coughed MP gold dol
lar recently that he had swallowed
some time ago, the citizens of that
place speak boastingly OF their
''cOughers of gOld.'
A little child in Bloomington.
ILL.,, was killed the other day by
taking aqua ammonia instead OF
aqua cinnamumum. The blunder-
ing druggist still lives to poison
other people.
a young lady shielded in Maine
a few days ago. She violated,
however, the general rule OF at
trlbutiDg the deed 10 "uneGuited
love-" and simply stated it was
''dyspepsia."
Cholera ragged to a terrible ex-
tent in Northern India in 1872.
The registered death due to it were
lGJ, 46S. Among the British sold
ierS stationed there, the deaths
were 6l5.
Freights from New Orleans are
card rates. DOwn-Cotton s. per
bale, and cattle 50 per head. From
st. Louis, flour 81 p per barrel
aud bacon and grain 75c per loo
pounds.
There is an Indian in Washing,
ton from Montana by the name OF
"The-Boy- Who Grabs He is look
ing for the Congressman Who.
Grabs" He wants to learn some,
thing of the grabbing business.
Robert ToombS says that Geor,
gia farmers give as an excuse for
buying Northern hay that grass
will not grow there, when it is
known to be fact that during the
growing season, every man woman
and child, white and black, able
to work are labOring hard to xii
grass.
1t is said a young city char
bought a farm in Steuben county
with an orchard of about 200 ap
pie trees, which he recently tapped
Tor cider. They did not run eide
very well, and he inquired OF ;
neighboT what the matter was.anC
finally gave that neighbor IA new
hat not to say anything about it.
An Iowa editor recently elopee
with the wife Of one of his sub
scribers, and was frightened hal
TO death by the appearance of til,
injured man at the hotel of
nelghbOring town, TO which h
had taken his flight. But the huSI
| and only wanted his paper stoppej
that was all.
The western bound train on til
Memphis and Louisville railrOar
t untrackcd itself 20 miles west q
. Memphis, on :he 18th inst. Thirt
Z NNIC III ul~NAt GAl
burned but none fatally. An iro
t bar was placed across the track.
The Memphis Register, of I'll
9th, says: at is a remarkable fac
t that, cut of about a hundred priI
, tiers who were up late at nigh
during the prevalence Of the We
J. low fever in this city, but two O
e three were affected with it, an
they all recovered.
An Iowa minister. in discour,
? ing to his audience few Sabbath
l ago, said: "ReligiOn in the hear
: my friends, is like four aces in b
deck; without it no man can hol
certain hand.n To some of hi
{ audience his illustration was foI
? chile. In their judgment the dec
would be a barren pack withou
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