The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-06-14
GENERAL BREVITIES.

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with cross. When the tie rots, the
new one put in its place is marked with
a cross by the workmen. /
New BRITAIN, in Florida, is owned /
by farmers from New Britain, Conneeu-
cut. and is described as g a slice OF New /
England out of its latitude About two |
wears ago fourteen families bought two
hundred acres of Government land on
Halifax River, and four hundred IN a
dense forest near by. Now there Is
row of pretty cottages fronting the river,
the land being divided into strips run
ming back from the stream. The forest
is being cleared away, and orange trees
have been planted.
A LARGE party of Texas buffalo-hunt-
ers, who lately tried to recover some
stolen horses from the Indians and pun
ish the thieves, found the rascals in
trenched in singular and perfectly inn
pregnable natural fertilization. This
Indian lair is canyon about 40 miles
long and wide in proportion. 1t is dense
" covered with Spanish cactus; only
one'place of entrance is known, and the
redskins occupy that place. In the
midst are peaks, from which they can
overlook the country for miles.
AFTER all, canary birds cost some
thing. 1t is a mistaken idea that they
give free concerts. Canary seed is I'M
ported into this country from Asiatic
Turkey, the Barbary States, Sicily,
Spain and Holland, and during the first
four months of the present year our i'm
portations of canary seed footed up over
two million pounds. The Eastern war
has /" bulled " the price of canary seed,
which is now held at So 80 and 400 per
bushel-an advance of over 20 per cent.
within few weeks.
Mr.. CHARLES, M. ECKERT, a young
man who recently died in Philadelphia
at the age of 10. made a request of his
mother before his decease that the sum
of $50 900 from his estate should be dis
tributed after his death to such charita-
BILE institutions as might seem most suit
able. The mother has complied with
her sons request, and has accordingly
designated sixty charities in Philadel-
phia as suitable benefciaries of this fund.
The largest amount given to any one is
$4,000.
THE water supply of San Francisco is
running alarmingly short. In view of
calamity so serious, the water compa-
ny has imported 5000 meters, and it
proposes as check on eXtravagant
waste to charge hereafter so much a
gallon The calculation is that this pol
icy will save fully so per cent. of water
usually consumed. The price of water
in San Francisco is three times as much
rs in New York. The metric check will
greatly increase the bills, while it de-
creases the quantity to the house and the
factory.
Nor long since love affair of a some
what romantic character took place in
the royal family of Seryia. The wild
owed Lady Won Blaznavatsch, niece OF
Prince Milan, fell in love with her rela-
tive, Michael Bogitjewitsch, cousin Of
the Princes. Such marriage was not
permissible in orthodox Servia, so they
crossed into Hungary, and were mar.
ried by the Roman Catholic priest al
Wcisskirchen. So much feeling was
caused, however, in Servia by their mar.
riage that they have since left that coun-
try forever.
All SIN, "the child-like and bland,'
has been detected in Systematically sup
plying the celestials of San Francisco
with the necessary staple of opium, free
of customs duties, and seizure of sew
eral thousand dollars worth has JUS
been made. The drug was packed il
tin cans precisely similar to those uset
in the importation of nut oil from
China, and to complete the deception
all the cans were besmeared with The
oil, giving the impression that they were
filed with that commodity.
MARY COLE, the seventh daughter
of 4" Snake Mary" a notorious fortune
teller who has been preying on the cred
ulous colored folks of Brooklyn, was ar
rested for theft from one of her dupes
A sick girl, whom she had promised tx
magically cure, was ordered to cove
her head and remain perfectly still
meantime the seventh daughter o
"Snake Mary" appropriated all tn,
valuables in the room and decamped
warning the anxiues mother as she pass
ed out that if her daughter was disturbed
the spell would be broken and she woule
die horrible death.
A NEW restaurant has been dlScov
cred in Paris where meals are served III
for six cents, and which is chiefly patron
lied by rag-pickers, thieves, and poo
artists and litterateurs who have not We
learned to make money. The bill o
fare consists of ragout in the morning
and soup in the evening, which is eater
with iron spoons chained to the rougI
tables. The six cents are paid on en-
trance, and credit is unknown, and tn
master owns two houses in town and hi
wife has valuable diamonds.