The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-11-20
uoxE AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

..;chborhood of Genoa is going on. On
@.s % : about 1000 persons embarked
v ), that port, and on Oct. 5 1920.
TvxAs owes S5,20O,OOO, of which ST..
$4,000 belongs to the School Fund, and
!. !, bonds held in the State Treasury
The interest on the public debt amounts
nabout 100000 a year.
k a deed to a large tract of land
,ow on record at Santa Rosa, CAL, a
n;sake in the number of the
,ownship locates the land II miles out
in the ocean.
OVER 800, 900 roubles in paper money,
s,nuosed to be contaminated with the
asge ag poison, were recently burned in
h. Russian city of Tzaritzin. This
mouey was collected in the district
stricken by the plague.
TRAINS on South Carolina railroads
have been greatly delayed by the diff
mlty to get water along their routes.
Streams were never'so low through the
euntry at this season, and the tanks
are as dry as barren rocks in the wilder
ness.
Irisafac not generally known that
tbe Bank of England supports a rifle
corps of its own, which in time, it is in
pnded, shall do away with the necessity
d drafting a force every night from
one Of the Household regiments to
ruard the national money chest.
RECENT discovery at Pompeii was
that ola birdseller's house. The inn
bedded skeletons of numerous birds
we're dug out; also, large quantities of
carbonized millet seed, hemp seed and
sspecies Of small bean, which had been
tbe Dealers stock of bird food.
THE venerable sycamore tree, blown
down near The residence of Gov. Doug
las, Middletown, Conn, was found to
contain embedded in the trunk horse
shoe that is supposed to have been nailed
on the tree ITO years ago. The trunk
- inches in diameter, and the horse
shoe was % inches from the nearest
bark.
MONTENEGRO is an unique country in
regard to its postal business. Until
ltely the mails were not sent to any of
the cities or villages, but every citizen
haa 10 60 for his letters to the capital,
Csttinje. There has now been estab-
khed a postal department, and the mail
ssent from Cettinje to four other cities.
The mail carriers travel to these four
cities on foot three times weekly.
As proof of the economy practised
Hthe new Government of Egypt, the
Austrian journal Bona5c gives the follow
ng illustration: Criminals of a certain
grade are entitled to 100 lashes with the
bamboo cane; but superior court has
reduced the number to so, on the ground
shst the Government is obliged to spend
10 much for bamboo canes, when the
ashes are too lavishly administered.
The American Isabella grape planted
ID Nuremberg, Germany, grows with
satraordinary luxuriance, and during
ne present season, in which the Ger
man vineyards are generally in rather
poor condition, this is about the only
vne that bears abundant fruit. The
United States send cheese and beef to
England, and grapes and lager-beer to
1ermany. 1t remains now that they
sa0uld furnish wines to France.
GAsPARoNI. the brigand chief Just de-
y ssased at Abbiategrasso, near Milan, at
ne age OF 80, was the terror of the Cam
agna around Rome for 20 years. He
vas Imprisoned by Antonelli, although
" canned to be u cousin of the Car
uaal tooth We're from Sonino), until the
!! sap.are OF Rome in 1870, when he was
= ',s. Iee and allowed to promenade the
! aeets OF Rome where, as a fallen hero.
" attracted great attention.
i, sToNG evidence of tho decline of
nolssry !. in China is the fact that MANY
temples, once regarded most
.eu, are now offered for sale, and
7 asay /. IDOLS have been sold for the value
! s,'as INC metals !l OF which they are COM
n sssa. "The Altar to Heaven, +" one of
y Y, grandest of the temples at Pekin.
H. sa.sn INV was once guarded and kept in Or
y ,sa;M Ml1n the most religious care, is now
''raly iaiiing into decay from neglect.
AsovEL phase of the labor ouestion
NJ NJ wen M developed in the South Caro-
~ \ aaa eo.1on.helds. The colored people
= ~, que section held an excited meeting.
ssaasn smaalng through Saturday night and
j. aay y and adopted resolutions bind
y \; J. themselves, Y their wives and children,
y, r L III PICK cotton for less than so cents
4 Fs,a.' hundred pounds, under penalty of a
- ;s.pplng-,a member of the orpaniza-
~ y apply the lash.
Ina. a plsrATcH from Rome saws an
Is,cn Io.Nan lady and gentleman. named
i,ss rs", were attacked in a railway car
asse o. On on the Alta Italian Line, few
M M aso oy two men, one of whom
A.. revolver and the other a knife.
,slaa vi. y violent struggle the robbers sue
hmsa,an - getting possession of the gen.
apea =. purse and watch. They es-
n ,r. s jumping off foot-board when
I a'll slackened its speed.
sloaa;. taa .huasear, powerful iron-clad
atslr ns TO the Peruvian NAVY, was
IIags,,a ,s,apIured by the Chilian feet off
i lassear a,'es, h,s on the Bolivian coast. The
I'd s Wal mad mad been in many sea fights,
ayj0s;t,r sas regarded by the Pery,vians as
endene;s Some months ago the Inde-
s,nmas s,sasla' a companion war.vessel. ran
10 y sb.,,aa near lquique, having been led
Ae sna,. a.aow water in an encounter with
a;ss. sssa.emy' and in order that the Chilians
I'm. ss 1'ot get possession of her. She was