The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-02-25
GENERAL BREvITIEs.

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the railroad tracks in the Sierras, and
no fears Of blockade are felt.
INDIA has not single port on the
vast sea coast line between Bombay and
Calcutta where a vessel could discharge
her cargo at pier.
A PENNSYLVANIA man named his first
three boys America, United States, and
Christopher Columbus, and a new
conner he has called Centennial.
A LETTER was received at the Nor
wich (Conn.) Post-office several days
before Christmas, addressed in child's |
hand, to "Santa Claus.'' 1t was held |
for postage.
KENTUCKY has law that all money |
won in betting on elections shall be con-
fiscated to the school fund, and the
Grand Jury at Louisville are rolling up
q fearful list of indictments.
"A WOMAN at New Haven recently
bought, at an auction sale, for few
cents, 81 500 India shaw, which had
accidentally got among some articles
sent to the auction room.
DOM PIATT-happy man-has met
somewhere in his recent travels wo-
man OF whom he says:
e. Her smile is sunlight and her laugh
~ That sunlight set to tune;
= Her lips the honey bee might quaf
And dream of buds in June.
ACCORDING to a French journal, one
dimes in England for recuperation, in
italy for the utilization of Indigenous
products, in Spain for the enjoyment of
the post-prandial cigarette, and in
France for the sake of dining-that is,
for chatting, for the enjoyment of life,
and for the exchange of social ameni-
ties.
AN NEnglish railway company has been
compelled by the decree Of an English
court to pay a tailor named Cohen fl
IS Cd damages and hotel expenses, be-
cause the train on which he travelled
failed to connect with another train, as
promised by the timetable, and he was
compelled to lay over one night at Glou-
cester.
THE building proposed to be erected
by the Centennial Photographic Com
pany will be on Belmont Avenue, and
is to contain a model studio, manufac-
tory, and art gallery combined. The
building will be 1875 feet long, 63 feet 6
s1uCu0S WluCs anu Will pC OuiIO 1AOulu
courtio garden, toward which the
glass houses will incline. The front
will include a splendid reception room
and two large art halls.
Mrs. HANNAH SLOWER, of Bowdoin-
ham, Me-, has right to be regarded as
the heroine of the Centennial year. She
was born on the Fourth of July, 1776,
at nearly the same hour when the great
bell was ringing out the news of the
Declaration from the old hall in Phila-
delphia. She is in good health, and
hopes to celebrate the hundredth anni-
yersary of the nations birthday in July
next.
ss TOO LATE.
ks Each on his own strict line we move,
And some find death ere they find love.
so far apart their lives are thrown
From the twin soul that halves their own.
And sometimes, by etill harder fate,
- The lovers meet, but meet too late.
Thy heart ID mine-True. true! ah! true
Then, love, thy hand-Ah, no! adieu!
--lMdtlgaeW arnold.
THERE is nothing like making the best
of ones opportunities. That, at least
was the view taken by William Smith,
a prisoner on trial in the Criminal Court
of Memphis. In the course of the trial
the attorneys for and against the pris
Oner entered into an argument which
progressed into an exchange of abuse
and ,calminated in rough-and-tumblt
fight This proved so interesting to the
officers that they forgot all about Viii
liam, who quietly walked out of thu
room, handouts and all, and made hi.
escape.
The Herald gives this instance of AT
rican superstition in Vicksburg. A col
ored woman on Levee Street yesterday
beheaded a turkey preparatory to plac
ing it in the dinner-pot, and held it b.
its feet while it was struggling in thu
last expiring throes of death. negro
man standing near caught her by thu
arm excitedly and cried, "Turn da
fowl loose. If you let 'em die in you
hand you gwine have the wust kint
nervousness all your life, and st. Vituse
dance, so you can't stand STILL" ct
way ,nigger," !" replied the woman, ''if d.
fowl die fore the neck. quit bleeding
dat's good luck. I knows what I'm
doin'.n s5ss %
: SPEAKING of society in Washington
and its reporters, a correspondence OF tn
Boston Globe says: ''Of late years tn
esJenkins' business has been done mostl,
by en-'lady correspondence a
they style themselves. You would b
amazed to know how these women ar
sought after by the leaders and devotee
of fashionable society, who are cage
to see their names in print and to hav