The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-01-18

BELLE
TIMELY TOPICS.
THE Sutro (Nevada) tunnel has pene-
trated distance of II, ,435 feet.
THE Chicago Times says the cock that
ought to be turned off is Babcock.
~ V1cE-PREsIDENT WILSON'S property
will not exceed, it is thought, $4,000 in
value. F.----s
IT is now supposed that abaut 40 per
sons were lost by the disaster to the
steamship Deutschland.
A FEARFUL colliery explosion occurred
in Yorkshire, England last week, result
ing in the loss of about two hundred
lives.
The humorous sketches of southern
backwoods character published in the
vicksburg Herald, are the productionsof
James II. Sullivan, young journalist
from Memphis.
ONE of the witnesses in the Milwau-
kee whisky ring trials has turned states
evidence. It is the st. Louis story over
again. There is, it seems, material for
the penitentiary in Milwaukee.
MOODY attributes his lack of success
inPhiladelphia to the fact that the regu-
hr church-goers crowd out the element
ie is deairous Of addressing. How would
it do for him to labor with the regular
ehurchgoers while?
THEY want the extravagant Fox river
lWis) improvement pushed through
congress-, but think aid to the Texas
Pacific railroad reckless waste of money.
The former is local improvement, and
the latter will benefit the nation.
THE pearl fisheries of the Gulf of CAL
fornia threaten to be entirely ruined,
owing to the wholesale use of submarine
armor; last year they yielded about
100000 worth Of pearls and 5000, 900
worth Of shells, while this years opera
tions will hardly pay expenses.
The twenty cent pieces have proved q
ailure in California. The San Francisco
Post says: Nobody seems to want
either, to pass or to receive them, and in
some mysterious manner tkey disappear
and 50 back to the mint, and, though
destitute Of such coin, we still reckon
in bits for all our small transactions"
The French wine product of 1875
amounts to 1000, ,000, 1000 gallons, and i
ID calculated that it would ELL canal
three and a half feet deep and three and a
half feet wide 4, 900 miles long. Supposing
yoa could drink twenty-five gallons a
minute, it would take you one hundred
and thirty-fve years and eighteen days
to drink the whole of it.
SENIOR ALBANIA, the Cuban agent in
New York, has received letter from
Camaguay, giving account Of the opera
lions Of the first and second divisions Of
the Cuban army since January last. The
insurgents have been especially success
fhl in the eastern department, and all the
enemy has been able to do is to protect
plantations at Guantanamo and Santiago
d Cuba.
The party in Canada who have favored
annexation to the United States are said
tchave abandoned that project, owing
70 the recent triumph of the reform
rzty, which has obtained control of the
suvernment and the emoluments thereof.
M annexationists now sing with much
sfvor, "God save the queen"
The following comparison Of the total
naux Of immigrants at New York in
he last FIVE years, shows how alarming
has become the decrease of transatlantic
contribution to the American labor
MARKETS.
Immigration for 1871 71............. 229, ,92s
IMMIGRATION for 1S72....... ............. 293,674