The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-10-05

acclQenG IN any way cHdfSeaolc W VIC
railroad company occurs. the company
shall pay SIS, 900 to the family of each
person Killed, 81 1000 to the family of
each person incapacitated, and SIS a
day to each injured person until recov-
cry. , s..
COLORADO drops short dresses,
And receives the warm caresses
- OF her Uncle Samuel now.
On her white and radiant brow.
ROBBED in golden vesture-grand
As any sister in the land;
Silver chaplets crown her head
As she walks with stately tread
To assume her proper place
Peer of any in the race!
-Georgeto,cn Col. Miner.
THE fifty physicians recently appoint
ed in New York to visit the tenements
and search out sick children, report that
after visiting in all $4,000 families they
found that very few children in the
tenements had cholera infantum, while
the disease was common in private
houses. Poor women nurse their own
children, while the rich employ wet
nurses or use the bottle.
THE Denverites are disguised al
ready with their new fire alarm tele-
graph. The air at that great altitude
IS so charged with electricity that the
telegraph is continually turning on
alarms and calling out the people when
there are no fires. During one day
recently about dozen Of these false
alarms occurred, and the citizens feel
that they must either abandon the alarm
system or else get rid of the lightning
in the air. sa~5s
AN old lady in California refused to
allow railroad corporation to lay
rails through her property. The track
layers took advantage of Sunday
day ON which she could not appeal to
the Courts-and put down the rails.
She was outwitted, but not defeated.
When the locomotive came along over
the branch line she took up position
on the track, and would not stir. The
locomotive backed out and left her at
her post.
An incident at murder trial in Glas-
gov is recalled by the London World.
A medical expert was asked whether
there was a poison that would kill with
out leaving trace, and he replied that
h. could mention several; but he re-
fused to name them, and the presiding
Judge sustained him. He afterward re-
ceived over a hundred letters asking for
information on the subject, some of
them, he thought, from persons who
intended to use the knowledge crimi-
nally.
LIEUT.. RUDIO, of the United States
Army, is one of the three conspirators
who attempted in 1858 to take the life
of Napoleon III. by throwing hand
grenades into his carriage. The COM
panions of Rudio were executed, being
convicted, it is said, on evidence fur
nished by him, which was at the same
time the means of saving his life. He
has come into prominence in connec-
ton with the Indian war on our Wes-
tern plains, having been separated from
his command for three days, at the i'm
minent peril Of his life, as related in the
newspapers not long ago.
The Princess Beaureau- Craon has Just
failed in fresh attempt to obtain legal
permission to shut up her stepdaughter
Isabeau in a lunatic asylum. The latter
is fabulously rich, and little peculiar.
She resides lonely and simply near Cour-
bevoie, in the environs of Paris, associ-
ating only with NJ. Stube, wheel
wright and spiritualist. Eight years
ago Isabeau's relatives, anxious to OBJ
tain the control of her money, dragged
her into court on the plea Of insanity,
but she pleaded her own case SO ration
ally and admirably that she emerged
victorious from the ordeal. She has
just repeated the feat with equal suc-
cess. She asked the Judge and the jury
whether there was vestige Of insanity
about her appearance, her words, or
her acts that justified the wicked pro-
ceedings of her friends, and the verdict
was unanimous in her favor.
MARY CLEMMER AMEs complains
that smoking is done in the Chamber
of the House Of Representatives, and
that the splitting of tobacco juice on
the .carpat. is common. The pale
blue carpet" she says, in the Independ-
ent, s. is about as soiled as stable floor.
walked through it when it was empty,
the other morning, and was astonished,
not at the number of the spittoons, but
that they had rarely been used; that
tobacco guilds stained the delicate tints
OF the carpet, and that the pilessofs de-
bris had been swept into the corners.
A nastier place would be difficult to inn
agine. Even the outside porticos and
steps are furnished with these detesta-
BILE receptacles in vain, while the entire
surface of the steps Of the great marble
wings are disgrace to the nation. The
marble reeks with tobacco excrescences
from beginning to end, and is discolor~
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