The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-12-17


: AN Oss1F1ED MAN--In quiet little village
J on the Western Reserve, in Ohio, says the Pres
: colt Transcript there lives man who, physio-
logically considered, is certainly one Oft the Won
/, ders of the world. His joints are completely
, osshed, turned to bone, and he is not capable
OF making the slightest movement, except al
ternately opening and shutting two fingers of his
right hand. His body is as rigid as iron and it
couldn't be bent withour breaking some of his
bones. This singular process of ossi6cation has
been going on in hissystem for more than twenty
: years. lie is now about As years old, and has
not had the use of his limbs so thathe could walk
since he was nineteen. Ossifcaten commenced
first in his ankle joints, gradually extending it
self through his system until he was entirely
helpless; since that time he has been wholly un
der his mothers care, and she watches over
him with an anxiety only mother can feel
When about twenty years old, he became
entirely blind from some unknown cause, and
J, has remained so ever since. At about thirty,
he suffered greatly from toothache, and finally
had them all extracted. A year or two after
wards, his finger and toe nails came off, and
were supplied by others growing out from his
fingers and toes at light angles, and presenting
the appearance OF horns. What is still more
singular in regard to his nails, if the end Of the
nail is cut off, it will bleed freely. Such is the
condition of this remarkable man at the present
time. He has been visited by great number
of scientific men from all parts of the world, but
all have failed to give any plausible reason of
the. cause of his transformation from flesh to
bone. Singular as it may appear, although his
jaw-b bone is firmly set in his head, he not only
talks freely, but fuently conyerses with his
s. l- 3l -l,o,
topics of the day, and he shows himself well in
formed, and ofgood mind. He is always cheer
full, appears contented and happy, and it seems
probable that he will live many years to come.
TURKEY.-A Constantinople correspondent
of the New York Tribune thus writes: ~"
"Slnce the conclusion of the war commerce
is completely staonated at Constantinople; the
harbor is almost entirely deserted OCCASION
ally vessels are seen passing down through the
straits from the ports of the Danube, the sea Of
AzoH and the Black Sea, destined to the MedI-
| terianean and Atlantic coasts. While, during
Fthe past two years or more, the Golden Horn
never was without eig ght or ten American ships
Of the very finest order, now not one is in it.
The autumnal storms have fairly set in, ac-
companied by gusts of rain and fearful blasts
fspm the Euxine; the sky around the horizon is
Black and threatening, and approaching winter
thus warns them to prepare for it. .sT .
You will have learned the extraordinary del
uge which some time since occurred at Varna,
not two hundred miles from this place. From
the accounts published here it must have been
a frIghtful descent of rain; and it is passing
strange that not drop fell here, though the
wind was also from the northward.
"The anerold barometer shows more the
winds than the weather at Constantinope. A
southerly wind however, clear and free from
any appearance of rain, 'depresses it to 27 go,
while with northery breeze it as suddenly
rises to 80. To-day, with the most lowering
appearances, it stands firm at 'lain,'' and will
probably do so, even should it rain in torrents.'
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IMPORTED W1SEs.-Cette is great manu-
featuring place. and what they manufacture
there is neither cotton nor wool, Perigord pies
! nor Rheims biscuits, but vino. s'Iei, viii Il
Cetse industrial write with the greatest cool
ness over his door, 'Ici on fabrique des vins.''
! All the wines in the world indeed are made in
Cette. You have only to g i've an order for Jo
Harrisburg, or Tokay, sherry, port, Madeira;
nay, for all | know, for the Falernian of the Ro
mans or the Nectar of the GODS and the Cette
manufacturer will promptly supply you. They
are great chemists, these gentlemen, and have
| brought the art of adulteration to perfection.
But the great trade of the place consists not so
much in the adulteration Of wine as in the con-
cocting Of it. Cette is well situated for this
manufacture.
The wines of southern Spain are by coasters
| brought from Barcelona and Valencia. The in-
feror Bordeaux growth comes pouring from
Garonne by the Canal du Midi, and the fiery
Rhone wines are f1oated along the chain of
etangs and canals from Beaucaire. With all
these raw materials, and, of course, chemical
laboratory to boot, it would be hard if the clever
folks of Cette could not turn out a very good
imitation of any wine in demand They will
doctor you up Bordeaux with violet powders
and rough cider, colorit with cochineal, and out
swear creation that it is precious Chateau Mar
gaux-vintage of '95. Champagne, of course,
they make by hogsheads. Do you wish sweet
wines from Italy and the Levant? The people
will mngle old Rhonc wines with boiled sweet
wines from the neighborhood Of Lunel, and
charge you any price per bottle. Port, sherry,
and Madeira, Of course, are fabricated in abun-
dance with any sort of bad, cheap wine and
! brandy for stock and with connections in a
druggists shop for seasoning.
Cette, in fact, is the very capital and empo-
| rum OF the tricks and deceptlons OF the wine
trade, and it supplies almost all the Brazlls and
great portion of the northern European nations
with their after dinner drinks. The old French
/ West India colonies also patronse their ingeni-
Gus countrymen Of Cette, and Russian magnates
drink Chambertin and Romance, made of low
Rhone and low Burgundy brewages, favored
i by the contents of the graduated vial.
The following is extract from private
letter received by the George Law, which we
clip from the New York Herald: "On the morn
ing of the 9th of October we stopped at Kings
ton, Jamaica, and remained until ten o'clock
P. NJ, giving us time to visit that curious, di
lapidated town. Since the emancipation busi-
ness has been almost abandoned by the whites,
and some Of the finest plantations and estates in
the world are left without sale. to be occupied
by worthless manumitted blacks; the city looks
like place that had been besieged and sacked,
and was in the hands of the debris of the be-