The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-05-23
State News.
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The Times quotes cotton: Ordin
airy, 8; Good Ordinary, 81; Low
Middling, 81; Middling, 10; Good
Middling. 1OB.
River, 10 feet 5 inches above low
water mark. Falling.
The Shreveport Standard says
some of the colored people are talk
ing about going to Liberia, and ad-
vises them to stay where they are.
A colored man named William
ThurmOnd was arrested at Cash's
plantation for shooting at Flandis
Butler and Noah Campbell. He gave
bonds in both cases.
Two darkies on Mr.. C0nnelps
Woodiawn plantation, had diff
Guilty, in which one cut another in
the side with an ak. The wounded
man will probably die. The Grim
inal escaped.
Congressman Elan has appointed
Clarence, son of Col. D. B. Martin,
Shreveport, cadet to the q. s. Naval
Academy, at Annapolis, Maryland.
s. B. McCutchen has been appointed
School Director in place of Judge
Seay, resigned.
ORLEANS.
The Assistant Attorney General
will soon file several thousand suits
for the collection of taxes due in
1872, 1873, and 1874, and license
taxes due in 1877.
Mr.. j. w. Arthur, one of the old
est grocery merchants, of New Or
leans, recently died, aged 70.
Applications for positions in the
Customhouse average $50 day.
M s. Roxana Packard, mother of
the ex Marshal, is dead, aged 70.
EAST BATON ROUGE.
Mr.. Gusmar, Kansas plapter, is
prospecting for Louisiana lands.
Irish potato crop large.
WEST BATON ROUGE.
A colored man named Jones was
shot five times and killed by ano-
ther freedman, who escaped. Cause,
a woman, as usual.
ASCENSION.
The editor of the Donaldsonville
Chief was defeated for town Coun-
Gilman. Bro. Bentley, remember
poor Caesars fate, and cast away
ambition!
POINTE COUPE.
Farmers will raise enough of ce
reals and will ship a large surplus,
says the Pelican.
UNION.
Jessie Walker, a freedman, will
be hanged at Farmerville, May 90,
for killing Violet Simmons, a col
Ored woman.
ST. MARY's.
The Register says the people of
Morgan City held a meeting to test
the cOnstitutionality of the Sunday
Law, but nothing definite was done.
ST. LANDRY.
| The Courier suggests that the
criminals in the OpelOusas Jail be
worked on the proposed branch
road connecting that town with the
New Orleans Pacific Road.
| Major Harrod, Chief State En-
gineer, will survey bayou Teche.
i CLAIBORNE.
/ A dancing school is being organ
lied at Homer. All hands swing
corners, and turn the gal you love
the most!
! w. G. Martin and John H. Chap
pelle are out for the Legislature.
/ WEBSTER.
4 The Democrat says the cold night,
have injured the crops considerably
Il Sheriff W. N. Collins arrested il
Claiborne parish the four men VIII,
. recently maltreated Abe Shelton
cOlored, near Minden. An accoun
OF which was printed in the last is
sue of the BANNER. Ball was given
i LAFOURCHE.
Atchafalaya Bay and the Rigo
let's has quarantined vessels from
yellow fever ports.
SABINE.
, The Southron says V. A. Mont
gomery, formerly Sheriff Of Sabine
was lately killed near Homer, Texas
OUACHITA.
The Telegraph says the river ha,
risen two feet within a week.
; The residence of D. Steinau wa
7 burned Monday night, 18th inst. 4
col0red nurse was burned to death
Corn has been replanted three o
four times, in many places, in cor
. sequence of the cut worm.