The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-08-03
GENERAL BREvIrIEs.

GENERAL BREvIrHs. 80
Two ALBANY medical students went
out after corpse for dissection. They
had dug open a grave, and were lifting
the coffin. when Waterman fired upon
them. The bullet hit student and
tumbled him into the grave. He AID
his companion escaped, bat without the
body.
A STRANGE custom has been preserv-
ed in Nottingham, England, from re-
mote times. One of the heads of the
family, previous to locking the street
door for the last time in the year, care
fully deposits q gold coin in close
proximity to the door, where it is al
lowed to remain until the new year has
been ushered in. This is Beloved to m
sure the supply of money for the years
necessities. e@
AYoUNG lady in New York, whose ia
Their has received Princes at his table
and is still enormously wealthy, gradu-
ated lately as a kindergarten teacher,
and is about to take position in Kim
dergarten school. She says she has no
notion of spending her time fluttering
her feathers on the sidewalk, and her
father would not make it an object for
her to become cook.
AwAG, who had wrapped piece of
cloth having the word ''Centennial' on
it around an egg, and then boiled it so
that the word appeared plainly on the
shell, sadly deceived a Connecticut
farmer, who took it out of a nest where
it had been placed, and exhibited it at
the office of a local newspaper as Won
derful manifestation of the hens init
mate knowledge of the history of the
United States. .s.-...
An Italian journal has the following
startling information in its American
news: "Miss Anna Dickinson, who a
year ago caused the condemnation of an
English colonel for improper gallantries
in railway car, went to America to
lecture, and, afterward embracing the
dramatic career, is about to make her
debut in America. -
ACCORDING to the Indianapolis Her.
aid youth of that city, who under
stands French a little better than he
pronounces it, told a young lady few
evenings ago that he intended to give
her a gosh dammer (gage d'anaour. }
Not understanding French, as he pro-
nounced it, the young lady became en-
ragged at what she considered his mex
cusable profanity, and told him he
needn't call any more.
A MANS horse baking and refusing
to move,. he adopted the ingenious
method employed once by canal cap.
tain-he built small fire under the ami.
NAL. As soon as the horse felt the heat
he moved at once. He advanced suff-
GENTLY to bring the carriage over the
flame, and there he paused, to the edi.
fication of crowd of observing citizens,
and to the great satisfaction Of himself
The fire was quenched without the aid
of the department.
The original Declaration of indie.
pendence was viewed in Philadelphia
on Monday by not less than 5000 per-
sons. Many of the signatures have
been made almost illegible by the pro-
cess of taking fac SMILES. Hancock's
name is dim, but distinct. The sigma
lures of jefferson, Franklin, Morris and
others have entirely disappeared. The
best preserved signatures are those OF
Sherman, Paine and Hopkins. It is
thought that the lost signatures might
be restored by some chemical process.
r.. BALTIMORE had sensation last week,
in the marriage of DIR. William Wat
kins and Miss Agnes Watkins, who are
double first cousins, their parents hav-
ing married sisters. Miss Watkins, a
Catholic, desired to have the ceremony
performed in the Church, but, on &C
count of the near relationship, Arch
bishop Bayley refused to grant dis.
pensation, and so they were married at
home. The parties move in the upper
classes of society, and the marriage
excites much surprise.
ONE of the citizens Of Danbury, Conn,
says the Nescs, who had Just returned
from the West, was telling, in Merrill's
grocery store, OF a narrow escape he
had from terrible death. He was
crossing long railroad bridge on foot,
when he was surprised to see locomo.
tive coming around curve, and tear.
ing toward him at terrific speed. The
bridge was too narrow to allow of ~es
cape at either side, and he did not dare
to jump into the yawning abyss below
In flash he took in the situation anl
formed his plan of action. He started
on q swift run toward the on-comins
locomotive, and when within few fee
of it he concentrated all his nerve anl
muscle into one effort, and leapet
straight up in the air. The fearful
monster shot under him, and he cam,
down on the bridge, saved from death
but seriously shaken up by the descent
There was moment Of deep silenc