The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-05-13

carrots, twenty bushels of turnps, tiree bushels of
onions, forty cabbage heads, busfel beans after
nsing all he needed for his family lot of peas and
fifteen bushels Of sugar beets. All these were the
product of one acre!
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin says there is
nolFlivIng, within short distance Of that city the
only surviving nephew of the illustfiosls patriot
Mad anthony Wayne. He is likewise the chly sur,
wing left of the Dartmoor prisoners VINO were
captured by the British feet in the war Of I8l2'l4
and n now at the advanced age of rs wears
Tie ew York Evening Post learns that project
~ ontpot tor new evening newspaper in that city,
tc bscalled the New York American. 1t has CAPT
III MT Wv ,OOo-s owned by association-s to ad-
vocate the principles and the union of The American
party, and is to be edited by F. II. Ruggies, esq
It's said the French government is preparing a
gigantic scheme of socialist Overwhelmingly
taking the business of insurance in their wl hands
(recompensng, of course, the existing offices which
wpuId be abollshed) and m king insurance eompul-
soFy on all Frenchmen and all residents IN france
By so doing It would, it calculates gain large ac-
cession TO public revenue, and at the same time be
ableIo make compensation to all sufferers whatever
from hre, hail, Lightning lnundaton, or any other
disaster.
SAYS the Boston Atlas:--"In the mupic;na1 cour+
John a. Frazier, who was on trial for gareeny of
mackerel, was discharged on the ground Of haw in
shelndlctment; was charged with stealing certain
1aEreis Of maekerel When the testimony showed they
were half barrels. Mr. Brewster contended that the
term barrel was proper, but Judge Nash thbughtdf
ferently, and ordered discharge
ne needle gun" late invention by MrtC D
oEhuDarth, OF Connecticut can be loaded and fred
lnAtx seconds by the watch. The hunter ones in the
woods, the warrior to battle untrammelet end IN
paFdened with flask, horn, shot bullet Tag caps
perensslons and wadding His cartridges Include
ail ana can be adjusted III moment, ready fer use
ills loaded at the breech the powder is Limited at
thetop OF the cartridge. consequently CONSUMING all
and generating the full explosive power without
waste Of powder gas.
Itmay not be generally known that any sum can
b multiplied by 25by simply adding two cpEers to
the multicand, sum to be multiplied, anG then bv
dividing by L. Take, for example 6S, and multiply
Il w %; two cphers being added make $780, which
sum being divided by s. gives the quotiert, or an
sWer, 100. The reason why the amount is thts OBJ
tanned is as follows two ciphers being added to IS
hare exactly the same effect that as fit were
muInped by 100, and that sum multiplied, being
divided by 4, gives the fourth part, or smount due
to15. Any sum may also be multiplied by rs by
thessame rule in the following manner:-Fo the sum
% BE- multiplied, say 90, add two cipEers, which
makes $500; divide by d. which gives 1900 or one
fourth part and the ZOO, or fourth part, oeing sub
stracted from the aforesaid $500, leaves The remain
ing three-fourths, or amount due to IS. s%
Acelebrated drinking club, in large iowa III the
west of Scotland, which had formerly great ih1u-
at the local elections, is broken up Two IF its
members Were sent to lunatic asylum oqe jumped
from window and killed himself; one walke d or
fell into the water at night and drowned; one
wasfound dead in public house; one died of deli
rum tremens; upwards of ten became bankrupt; four
died ere they had lived half their days. Ohe who
was baile when connected with the club is at the
present time keeping low public house. Such are
lev facts, well known to those living.in the To-
caIity.
The Rhode Island Legislature has pas Jed BILL
which is now law, requiring .. S. senators to be
elected by viva yoce VOTE instead of by.baoT, as
heretofore.
The laws of Virginia require every maniwno mar
Ties give security for the support of his wife and
children. Many lovers, who find this inc nvenient
gofo Maryland to have the ceremony perfo Fmed,
The governor OF Illinois, in his recent message
expressed the belief that the revenue of the Tn0is
Central railroad will soon pay the whole expenses of
of the State government.
Nj. J. Van Buren, Ct Clarksville, Tennessee, ii an
agricultural paper, details circumstances Nihnh his
Knowledge, going to show the great value OF dead
animals nutriment for fruit trees. ANY kind of
dead animal buried near fruit tree, essays, has
an astonishing effect upon it, Young trees planted
where animals have been buried thrive prodi giouay
Dead fowls cats, dogs rats, &C., and old shoes
all become valuable for this purpose.
paragraph has been travelling the rounds till it
has become antiquity, that dentist dottor John
Burdell. of New York boiled down pound of young
Tyson from quart to pint when three drops killed
rabbit. Boiled to gill, eight drops killed cat
III Flew minutes So would catnip, sage mint, and
half dozen other harmless articles, prepared in the
same way. he experiment is proof of the
poisonous properties of tea, than that peaches are
destructive to life because they contain prussG acid,
which, concentrated, is Of the most deadly iof
poIsons but the most harmless and agreeable of fla
vorS diluted by nature in that delicious fruit.
The Sussex IN. j. Register mentions amusing |
case which recently occurred near that place. A
Young lady engaged to be married on the 4th of
Julyto sutton who had been accepted by hex father.
She preferred another, however, and communicated
the fact to friend, who arranged matters sol that the
two lovers We're furnished with carriage and alb !
sconded TO another village, where they married
leaving the sutton of her fathers choice in the lurch
and breaking up the arrangements for wedding
party.
IN a communication to the senate of New York, it
ia stated by the secretary Of state that during the
pastten years two thousand one hundred and eighty
conscs have been released from the State prisons Of
New ork previous to the expiration of the term for
which they were sentenced. The clemency of the
late governor Clark is said to have exceeded that OF
his predecessors by about one hundred cases. N.
York paper expresses the very rational opinion that
with over three thousand vagabonds allowed to run
loose without punishment, but little protection is
left for society protect which is the true intent of
criminal law.
The Michigan legislature has amended the pro-
hibitory liquor law of that State to exempt from
its provisions the sale of beer wine and cider Ao
cording to the Detroit Free Press, this done to
satisfy the German voters of the State who had sup
ported the republican ticket upon the assurance that
thelaw should be repealed. At the sametime pro-
hibition remains the apparent policy of the State,
which is also satisfactory the prohibitionists a
billto repeal the law had previously been ected
bY the legislature.
b Rich CAsE.-Memphis is decidedly great place
Iii iis way The Nashville Union says that a few
days since case pending in the common law
court of that city, in which Mr.. and Mrs. Helbng
had sued Philip R. Bohlen for breach of marriage
contract, in failing to marry Mrs. Helbing when she
was Miss Agnes Handwerker, and the jury has given
theinjured parties $3.50 damages The idea of M
Helbing suing Bohlen because he did not marry his
wife is certainly the richest thing of this fast age.
DAYS OF WoRsHlP.-By different nations, every day
il the week is set apartfo public worship, viz Sun
day by the enthusiastically. by the Grecians-
Tuesday by the Persians-Wednesday by the As
syrians-Thursday, by the Egyptians-Friday, by
the Turks, and Saturday by the Jews.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that above one hum
dred Germans, all connected with the turner assoc-
alton in that city, lefta few days ago for New Ulm
Id Minnesota, where the turner's have been forming
settlement since the election difficulties, about two
years ago
Its assumed by British statistcians that the year
" consumption of tobacco in Great Britain and Ire
land amounts $4,000 tons, about one-half of which
itissupposed is Struggled owing to the excessive
duties Upwards of 1000 per cent? levied on the ar
tlcle under the tariff system of that kingdom. The
quantity of cigars and snuff imported does not ex-
coed two or three hundred thousand weight per an
mum.
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