The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-02-08
Items of Interest.

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The peanut crop of Tennessee is
100000 bushels.
The crop of Virginia tobacco is
estimated at $4,000 to 10000 hhds.
The Massachusetts fishermen took
out 223,713 barrels of mackerel last
year.
North Carolina owes 81, 900, 900.
n. o. should stand for mo credit"
there.
The corn crop of Kansas last year,
at 90 cents bushel, wonld be worth
S20,OOO,000.
A man that feeds his stock in
mud knee deep, will generally find
himself knee deep in debt.
The Minnesota Legislature thinks
II per cent. a sufficient rate of inter
est to satisfy the law.
New York and Pennsylvania i'm
ported from Halifax over sixty thou
sand bushels ofpotatoes last season.
There are thousands of bushels of
corn in Wabash county not yet
gathered from the fields.
One hundred millions of dollars is
paid Government a year in duties
on whiskey, beer and tobacco.
1t is estimated that not less than
100000 trees have been set out in
Minnesota during the past year.
John D. Gillette, Logan county.
Illinois, owns farm of $1,000 acres,
has 5000 high grade Short-horn cat
tie, and keeps 80 teams and 100
hired men.
The total losses to the fishing
fleet from Gloucester, Mass, the
past year foot up 212 lives and 81
vessels; the latter valued at $780,.
600, and insured for $4,000.
There is kind of grass in Mon
golia with the same intoxicating
qualities as the "drunk grass" of
South Africa. Horses are often dis
abled by it, and the Mongolians use
vinegar as an antidote.
Boston covers an area of thirty
one and half square miles, has 1854
miles of streets, aud its population
is $4,000. In 1860 the population
was 17S,OOO, the city covered four
and three fourths square miles, and
had 1O2 miles of streets.
Railroad building has not been on
a very extended scale the past year,
though the new mileage foots up
2442 miles of which Texas has 1888,
California $50, Ohio 27O, and Color
ado 155. About a quarter of the
new roads were narrowgauge.
An official survey has determined
that there is at least twenty feet OF
water for width of 200 feet through
out the whole length of the jetties
of the Mississippi, and on this Eads
bases his claim for his first install
ment of 100000.
Java isn't an enchanting place to
live in If it is true that every veal
about three hundred people are
eaten by carnivora, two hundred by
the crocodiles, one hundred killed
by the rhinoceros, five hundred kill
ed by lightning, while one hundred
, die by snake bites, and a varying
number by earthquakes and volcan
ic action.
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t which cures Throat and Lung dis
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Louis.
The total amount of railway bull
in the United States in 1876 is 2,
> 354 miles against 1860 in 1876
1 2,O25 in 1874; 3,SS3 in 1873 and Z,
p $40 in 1872. This shows a gain il
1876 over the previous year of 794
miles, or 50 per cent. and 16 per
s cent over 1874. 1t increases tn,
total mileage about 3 per cent.
amounting now to 1860 miles-o
: about mile of road to every 6O(
. inhabitants.
: cit is a long lane that has M
!. turn" and Mat Wells has escap