The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-09-21

GENERAL BREVITIES.
A GENTLEMAN Just home from the
Exposition says that glass OF wa
ter. a slice of brown bread and plate
of baked beans-three dishes-cOst one
dollar.
NORTH CAROLINA boasts the Oldest
inhabitants. Mr.. Cross, of Lincoln
County, is 12O years old; John Barnes,
of Caldwell County, is 126 years old;
Mr.. johnson, of Mitchell County, is 1O4
years old, and walks every Sunday four
miles to church; a Cherokee squaw died
lately aged 1875 years, and there is an
Indian Of the tribe living aged 1873.
DIR. GEORGE Cook, of Brigham Hall,
a private insane asylum at Canandaigua,
N. Y, visited one of the patients, an
old man named Bruson. As he entered
the room Bruson sprang at him with an
open penknife and inflicted two wounds
in the face and neck, from which the
Doctor soon died. After his death Bru-
son asked an attendant, Shave l done
my work." Eyes, you have killed the
Doctor" was the answer. Bruson re-
piled, ssI'm glad of it,
A WOMAN in Suffolk, England, lately
made an extraordinary attempt to kill
herself. First she went into the back
yard, placed half pound of gunpowder
around her and set fire to it. As this
did her no harm, she got pound can
lister, put it in bucket, and, holding
her head over It, set fire to the powder.
An clubhouse was blown to pieces, but
she was only burned about the face.
Then she stabbed herself with a shoe
makers knife, but not fatally, and then
the neighbors came and took charge OF
her.
A STRANGER DESTROYS of locating in
San Antonio endeavored to purchase a
residence from one of our leading citi-
zens, but thought the price too high.
"Too Hight" yelled the owner, "too
high, with three saloons at regular in
tervals on the road to church, a peach
orchard with a fence easy to get over
close at hand, and there hasn't been a
policeman seen in the neighborhood for
the last five years! Why, stranger, it
doesn't look to me like you was trying
to become one of us."-S0n antonio
(Ter.) Herald.
REV. JOHN O'REILLY writes to his
mother in Ireland an account of the
Fenian escape from Western Australia
Among the eight Fenians, one who acted
as constable managed by delivering
pretended orders to get the party to
gether. Outside of Freemantle, two
men were in readiness with horses, anG
the prisoners made off in the direction
of the shore, where they were seen t.
enter boat. The Government char
tered the only steamer at the station
put on board q guard, and made chase
but darkness closed upon the favored
fight, and the men got clear away t.
sea.
COUNTERFEIT s. bills are becoming
alarmingly common. The public ar
cautioned against the following: s!
bills an the First National Bank of Chi
cago; S. bills on the First Nationa
Bank of Paxton, H.; $5 bills on tn
First National Bank of Canton, Ill. s.
bills on the First National Bank of PEG
ria, ILL.,. $5 bills on the First Nationa
Bank of Aurora, H.; $5 bills on tn
First National Bank of Galena, H.; s.
bills on the Hampden National Bank o
Westield, Mass; IS bills on the Me
chanics National Bank of New Bedford
Mass. IS bills on the Traders Nation
al Bank of Chicago, Ill. ;$5 bills on tn
First National Bank of Louisville, KY.
$40 bills on the National State Bank Q
Terre Haute, Ind; $40 bills on tn
Farmers and Manufacturers Bank q
Poughkeepsie, N. T.; $40 bills on tn
National Bank of Utica, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Greutzer, of Center
vile, Iowa, were walking near that cit
one day last week, when they were az
costed by a villainous looking rasca
who presented revolver at Mr.. Greut
zer and ordered him to ssgit." Mr.. G.
being of an accommodating disposition
gat with the greatest alacrity, and the
Mrs. Greutzer, finding herself deserted
went for the man with the revolver
took his artillery away from him, b
off the end of his nose, stuck her thum
into his eye and crooked it, and finall
twining her hands in his hair, warpt
him around sapling until he ache
and smarted for twelve feet in every 4
rection. He would never have got aw,
in the world but the woman, getting
little excited and warmed up to b
work, let GO to spit on her hands al
get fresh hold. It is getting so tn
It isn't safe for tramp to tackle
Iowa man when the mans wife is alon
Four Men Killed by Nitro-glycerin
PHILADELPHIA July 4.-H. II. Buc
er, NJ. D., Edward Bucker, Berna
Klosti, and William II. Young, re-
dents of the First Ward in this cit