The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-01-03
NUMBER Al.
omniun Gatherum.
A Boston dry goods dealer ad-.
vertises Financial crash towels"

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Generally four pounds Of corn,
should make one OF pork. 'sg
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, "a few days since, for
stealing.
A Texas farmer turns his cattle
out to pasture in an enclosure one
hundred and fifty miles long and
fifty miles wide. 49,
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 a topper,
and quart OF whisky were left
together, which wonid be drunk {
first 7"
Just because a young man in
Evansville coughed up a gold dol
lar recently that he had swallowed
some tine ago, the citizens OF that
place speak bqastingly of theiri !
'.coushers of gold"
A little child in Bloomington,
ILL.,, was killed the other day by
taking aqua ammonia instead of
aqua cinnamomum. The blunder-
ing druggist still lives to poison
other people. sEa
A young lady suicided in Maine
a few days ago. She violated,
however, the general rule Of at
trlbutiDg the deed to ''unequited
love- and simply stated it was
''dy dyspepsia" so : q
| Cholera ragged to a terrible ex-
tent in Northern India in 1872.
The registerd death due to it were
i65,46S. Among the British sold
iers stationed there, the deaths
were 615. 47t,tia se;fo ia. sI4i{I
Freights from New Orleans are
card rates. Down-Cotton 90 per
bale, and cattle SJ per head. From !
st. Louis, flour 81 % per barrel.
and bacon and grain Toe per 100
pounds. aiit
There is an Indian in Washing
ton from Montana by the name Of
"The- Boy Who Grabs. He is look, \
ing for the Congressman-W Who
Crabs" 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 a fact that during the
growing season, every manwOman
and child, white and black, able
to work are laboring hard to Kill J
| grass. 4, ASST ttt,ta.
| 1t is said young city chap
bought a farm in Steuben county
with an orchard Of about 200 ap-
letrees, which he recently tapped
| for cider. They did not run cider
very well, and he inquired of a
| neighbor what the matter was,and
. finally gave that neighbor new,
hat not to say anything about it.
/ An Iowa editor recently eloped
with the wife Of one of his SUBJ
scribers, and was frightened half
TO death by the appearance Of tho
Injured man at the hotel of .
neighboring town, to which he
had taken his fight. But the husb-
and only wanted his paper stopped
that was all. itl.ss ft}.ft u ~
! The western bound train on tie,
Memphis and Louisville raiilvaal
nntracked itself 20 miles wesl of
Memphis, on :he 10Th inst. Thirty
passengers were bruised and
burned but none fatally, An iron
bar was placed across the track.
The Memphis Register, of the
: 5th, says: .'It is a remarkable fact
that, ont OF about a hundred prin.
q tiers who were up late at night
during the prevalence Of the vel
: low fever in this city, but two or
{ three we're affected with it, and
they all recovered. ae+ 80.
An Iowa minister, in discourS,
! ing to his audience a few Sabbaths
!, ago, said :i'sReligion in the heart,
, my friends, is like four aces in the
deck; without it no man can hold
8 a certain hand.n To some Of his
l audience his illustration was for
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