The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

The telephone has been utilized as
religious auxiliary at Evansville, Ind.
Through the aid of one of these re-
markable instruments placed in church
pulpit and connecting with different
houses in the city, several aged and
lnfirm people were enabled to sit at home
and listen to the prayers, the preaching,
the choir, and the organ.
"A white man named Stanton, afilict-
ed with leprosy, has been taken to a
San Francisco hospital He is an
Englishman, and lived for ten years in
the leprous districts of India, came
from Calcutta to New York, and from
there went to Cleveland, o., where he
spent six years, and thence, in Septem-
Der last, to Sacramento.
"A physician at Arcata, Cal, had
for patient girl for whom he enter
tanned high regard, as she was tho
daughter OF an intimate friend. He
could not cure her, however, and she
died without the exact nature of the dis.
ease being discovered. Immediately on
hearing of her death he accused him.
self of lack of medical skill, and COM
mitted suicide. e5sss Z
| The bullet which Col. Upham, of
Meriden, formerly of the 10th Connecti-
cut Regiment, received in his shoulder
at the battle of Newbern, N. g., eighteen
years ago, and which has caused him
much trouble, worked its pay out few
days since. Col. Upham has under.
gone several surgical operations for the
removal of the bullet, but it was i'm
bedded so deeply that it could not be
found.
William Scott resolved to kill his
disobedient son Charlie, at DELAY ware, o. i
and took him home from neighbours
house for that purpose. The boy rode
along quietly, listening without reply to
the fathers arguments in favor of the
death penalty, ana making no objection
to the proposed means of MURDERS
bullet from rifle. On alighting to open
the gate, however, he drew an unsus.
pected pistol, took careful aim at his
fathers head, and shot him dead.
Shortly after the death of A. r
Stewart OF New York City, Alexander
Stewart of Cavendish, VT, went to that
city to contest the will made by de-
ceased. After cong absence he re-
turned home, having, as he averred,
obtained promise that he should htve
Sl00,OOO in money, farm and other
property. He now claims that the
terms OF the contract have not been
complied with, and on Tuesday last he
attached all the A. L. Stewart property
In Woodstock Village, VT, consisting OF
mills, boarding houses, tenement houses,
and residence.
"A San Diego, Cal, man caught a
fine specimen of the California vulture.
and gave it to the proprietor of a small
menagerie to keep for him. In the mem
agerie was pet coon, and the vulture
was placed in tree above the box in
which the coon was kept. In the morn
ing fur and feathers marked the SPOT.
the vulture lay on his back, claws up.
stiff in death, and the coon lay on his
side, still alive, but in very dilapidated
condition. The expression of his face
suggested the remark attributed to the
parrot after somewhat similar expe-
rience with a monkey.
"A lady has been giving in Paris
marvellous performances with four
birds, trained in such high degree of
docilty that they select from q series of
cards replies to almost any question
from the audience. These are inyari- Il
ably appropriate, and their originality
Is often striking. Altogether the enter
tainment, which has met with the an
proval of five crowned heads of Europe.
maintains its character as an exhibition
of perfect training, and the apparently
disinterested manner in which tho
birds are secretly directed by the
artist herself is as amusing as their in
telligence.
The rapidity with which JOURNEYS
may now be made is strikingly exempli-
fled in the quick transits of the French
engineer, De Lesseps. 1t was only a
short time ago that he was presiding at
the Canal Congress held in Paris. Then
he was heard of on the Isthmus of Pam
anna. Next he is in New York, the re-
cipieHt of lavish hospitality, and hardly
is he heard before Committee Of Gem
gress than the newspapers contain the
statement that he has crossed the con-
tinent and is the guest of San Francis
co. Time flies, but so does the motor
impelled by steam.
London Truth says: Mr.. James B.
Keene's thirteen race horses are on
their way to Europe. The two .old Z.
horses, American Spendthrift and Lord
have each of them cost about
G3, 600. Lord Murphy's career on the
British turf will be watched with inter-
est, as he is a purely American-bred -
horse. Spendthrift is the son of an i'm
ported Australian, who is himself the
son of West Australian. All the other
horses are 2-year-olds, bred in Kentucky.
When Mr.. Keene's horses arrive at New
market there will be about 15O foreign
horses in training there
Miss Jennie Horn was just going to
"run across the way and so stepped
out bareheaded and with apron on. But
instead of going across the way Miss
Horn slipped round to the Moravian
Church. which she entered by the back
door. Her lover, William Collier, and
Rev. Mr.. Clewe1 were there before her.
The knot was soon tied. Mrs. Jennie
flew back home, and with blush chas-
ing its shadow among her dimples,
baked the bread for dinner. This was
in the town of Uhrichsville, o., where