The Bossier banner., 1891-02-12
This Great State.


Acadia parish cultivated 46,769
acres last year.
The police jury of Jackson parish
has contracted for $1,000 jail.
News from the sugar parishes is
to the effect that au increased area
is being planted.
Hon. G. M. BedforiB, member of
the Legislature from Madison, died
recently at Vicksburg.
A darkey in Rapides drank a
bottle of carbolic acid, thinking it
was whisky. He recovered.
1t is estimated that Natchitoches
parish purchases $4,000 worth of
mules every year, instead of raising
them at home.
The Supreme Court, says the Trir-
ity Herald, has recognized the con-
stituti0nality of the act creating the
parish of Troy.
An artesian well at Monroe. on
the Houston, Central Arkansas and
Northern Railroad property, is $50
feet deep and flows $40 gallons of
water day.
The City Council of Opelousas
has contracted for $4,000 well in
the Court house square, With the
guarantee of flow of 10000 gallons
of water per day.
Walter Armstrong, colored pol
itlcian in Assumption parish, is in
Jail for passing a $40 Confederate
bill on drug clerk, receiving SIS
in change.
Alexandria has donated 80 acres
of land on Bayou Rapides to the
Houston, Central Arkansas and
Texas Railroad Company for depot
and terminal purposes.
Col. James Oscar Nixon, aged SO
years, prominent in Louisiana Jour
nalism years ago and proprietor of
the New Orleans Crescent, died at
New Orleans on the 7th inst.
Northern capitalists are in Baton
Rouge prospecting for the site for
cotton factory; also, an ice factory.
A college and an Industrial school
for colored youths will soon be built.
Claiborne Guardian-Jo Journal: How
a prisoner in Jail come to be walk
ing arsenal is something which
good many people hcreabouts would
like to hear explained.
The Claiborne Guardian-J Journal
says: "When the law has been tried
and failed it is not strange that
people sometimes loose patience and
resort to something elSe."
Claiborne Guardian journal: IF
there is a parish in which dogs are
not numerous enough to be NUS
ance it is yet to be heard from. IF
the breed can be thinned out BY
taxation it will be blessing.
Webster Signal, 9th: John Wag-
oner's family, consisting of himself,
wife and Mrs. Cuff Patton and chit
dren passed through town Thursday
on their way to Texas, where they
expect to take up their residence.
The police jury of jackson parish
has offered 5000 reward for the
"a NNANOhNAS Va CuG ldlS 0HcElu h. H.
Jones; Mrs. Jones, the widow, has
offered S400; Gov. Jones, of Ala
bama, has offered S40O, and the cit
lzens of Jackson will increase the
amount.
Ruston Age: One day last week,
during the trial of case in Court,
there were Is men in the Court
house named Colvin. We came TO
Lincoln parish in December, 1876,
and found % Colyins, the heads of
families, listed on the tax-rolls. 1t
would take a we'll paid census emu
merator to count the number of
Coivlns in this parish now.
Claiborne Guardian-Journal: For
the past few years crime and law.
lessness have prevailed in this
parish to such an alarming extent
that the parish has acquired an
unrivaled reputation abroad. Until
recently Claiborne has been known
as the banner parish. 1t is high
time for the law abiding element of
the parish to assert themselves and
make themselves felt.