The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-09-16
General Intelligence.

atoga this year, and he left hotel
bill of $3.50 for the landlord to
count up.
Gov. Talbot, Prohi bition candi-
date for Governor in Massachusetts,
has written a letter withdrawing
from the canvass.
A dressing of raw onions, mash
ed, has been successfully tried in
Mifflin county, Penn, for the bite
of a copperhead snake.
The San Antonio Herald is right.
It says no man with any regard for
his family should fight in a bar
room unlessshe is a paid up sub
scriber to both daily papers.
Watermelons are selling in Cleve-
land, Tenn, for S175 gross, actual
ly less than it cost to steal them.
At the Horticultural and Pomo-
logical fair recently held in Hous-
ton, there was watermelon exhib-
tied which weighed 100 pounds.
Fulton, the successful rifle shot,
was at one time foreman in the COM
posing room of the Central City
Zeal. Register.
81 have tasted Of bitter poverty"
says Hannibal Hamlin. That was
probably before he sold himself to
the American Express Company.
Ouachita Telegraph, 10th: Fifty
bales of the new crop of cotton have
been received at this point, all but
five of which were sold in this mar
ket.
Out of 800 convicts in the Geor-
gia Penitentiary only one-tenth are
white, the majority being negro
boys of ten and twelve. /.
$ A negro Justice of the Peace in
Jefferson county, Fla, passed judg-
ment sagainst his wife for stealing a
chemise, and in default of bail sent
her to Jail.
A lucrative opening for young
ladies has been made by the decis-
ion of an Indiana Court that the
fact of a girl being engaged to sew
eral gentlemen at once is no bar to
her sueing each Of them for breach
of promise.
Forty counties in Texas, says the
Kaufman Star, are now resolving
from five to ten thousand dollars
per week for wheat, and there will
be money in circulation soon.
Ouachita Telegraph, 10th: Cot
ton-picking is progressing steadily
at an average of about 175 pounds
a day to the hand. The unusual
hot weather with cool dewy morn
ings is causing more than ordinary
sickness among the pickers.
The Allegheny Mail, Republi-
can paper, says the contest in Penn
sylvania will be close, as hundreds
Of Republicans are leaving the par
ty on account of the retention OF
Delano.
Col. Geo. Hancock, who died near
!. louisville, KY, recently, was a
brother-in-law Of General Albert
Sidney Johnston, and an uncle OF
Gen. VIM. Preston.
The Republicans are talking and
circulating the Know-Nothing oath
in Maine as well as in Ohio.
It spite Of grasshoppers, MINES
sofa will be able to sell 25,OOO,OOO
bushels of grain this season.
Tennessee has been a State 7e
years, and the western section has
never produced a United States
Senator.
An official report places the loss
OF property by the recent floods in
France at $4,000. 900 france, and Of
life at $50.
The Serbs living outside of Mon.
tenegro, and numbering altogether
about eight millions, are divided
between Austria, Turkey, and Ser.
via proper, the Sultan counting
more than four millions of them
under his rule.
NJ. de Puyjalon, q descendant Of
Montcalm, has settled in Canada
and will engage in farming on q
large scale.
Milwaukee has increased he1
population from n ,44O in 1866 te
100 71k IN OK