The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-08-02
This Great State.

New Orleans is the second largest
export city in the Union.
Charles M. Holden, of New Or
leans, has been granted a patent on
milk can.
Gen. Beauregard has resigned the
position of Commissioner of Public
Works of New Orleans.
Shreveport Democrat: "There
were fifty dogs killed last month
and 500 more could have been com
fortably spared"
The Dsmocrat says "there are
more buildings going up in Shreve-
port to-day than in any city of its
size in the South"
A sack of new rice, the first of
this seasons crop, was received at
New Orleans Sunday night. 1t was
shipped from st. James parish.
A.Demmler, for a number Of years
bookkeeper for the Monroe Oil Com
pany, suicided by jumping from the
railroad bridge at that place on last
Thursday.
The Times says the Shreveport
Mutual Building Association is in
" flourishing condition and doing
wonderful good in helping to build
the town."
Fully 800 farmers from all parts of
North Louisiana attended the North
Louisiana Agricultural Society,
which held its monthly meeting at
the Experiment Station at Calhoun
last Thursday.
Col. j. NJ. Hollingsworth, Chair
man of the Executive Committee of
the Fourth Congressional District,
has called meeting Of that body,
to convene in Shreveport on Mon
day, August 20.
New Orleans Chronicle: cit is
pleasant to know that more of prop
erty is changing hands than usual
at this season since the changes are
mainly in preparation for the start
ing of new industries and new lines
of business"
The steamboat Edward j. Cav
caught on fire Monday morning and
burned to the warter's edge, at the
head of First street, New Orleans.
The boat was valued at $40, 900 +;
cost nearly 100000 in 1878, and
was insured for $25, 1000.
Teche Pilot: "Mr. F. M. Welch.
the Immigration worker for this Sec
ton, returned last Saturday from a
very extensive trip through Illinois
and other States, and reports very
favorable visit. Mr.. WEIGH fells as.
sured that he will have one hundred
more Northern families located in
our section by January 1st, 1892
The "Times-Democrat" says the
shipment of birds to points in the
North, East and West furnishes re-
munerative employment to a large
number of persons in New Orleans.
A shipment made one day last week
consisted of 210O hooking birds,
$50 red birds, 165 parrots and S45
pops. The Louisiana pop has the
most beautiful plumage of any of
the Southern songsters.
The Boazman boarding house
and livery stable, on Spring street,
Shreveport, together with a dwell
ing house adjoining, owned by E.
and W. B. Jacobs, were destroyed
Thursday morning by fire. The
Boazman stable and house were in.
sured for $500 and the furniture
for $500. The dwelling, owned by
Messrs. Jacobs, was insured for
$1,000. The cause of the fire is un-
known.
A Drug and Chemical Company,
with a capital stock of 100000 in
shares Of $25 each, has been organ
lied in New Orleans, to manufacture
pharmaceutical preparations and
chemicals, to import drugs and
druggists sundries, and to do gen.
eral wholesale drug business. The
Company will at the start employ
selveral hundred people, and will
give thousands of persons work.
In an interview with a Times
Democrat reporter few days ago,
Mr.. William Bogel, President of the
Drug and Chemical Company said ::
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