The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-24


condition as to render it necessary to leave their
wagons behind. ss.f- i ~ b." -, 2
! The stagewas upset with senator Broderick who
came passenger, in crossing the mountains west of
Kansas city, If 4-r. 81 H. sill .4s 49, ,.... -,
Senator Brodericl has one rib broken and his foot
frozen. There much snow Oh the route, and the
weather was severely cold. s,- %. ......, . :,...
LOUISVILLE, Nov. l5.-The steamboat Fulton City,
irom Plttsburg for st. Louis sunk at Buffington's
| island in four minutes Fourteen lives were lost
A Philadelphia dispatch of the 9th instant, says
Ryan, the peoples candidate in the first congress
sona district to day served the legal notice on hon
T. b. Florence, contesting his right to in CON
gress. Mr.. Ryan claims the election by $50 majority
The success of Douglas in Illinois, stimulates tie
hopes OF his friends in all quarters. The Buffalo
Republican dominates him at the head of its CO.
lumns fol- president in 1860. -.= @'r.. J~
An elephant killed in Yazoo county, near
Benton, on the 4th inst. correspondent Of the
Yazoo Democrat, severely and Justly, censures the
killing, as he was invaluable to his owner, from
whom he had strayed and was perfectly harmless
curious incident occurred lately in the supreme
court of the city of New York The case of "The
American HAIR Co. vs. Charles Fogg,' was tried, &C.
cuPylng the court about two hours when the Jury
retired. After quarter Of an hour, the Jury came
IN, Ahen the foreman announced that eleven agreed ,
but the twelfth had not understood tie evidence for
he was German who did not speak English
"hereupon the council for the plaintiff offered to
take the verdict of eleven but The counsel for the
defendant refused. The then ordered the case
to be tried again 7=4..-. zs sesS.a ...4.5 ai5 ~ 4 il
During the thunder shower that passed over the
town of Petersham, Massachusetts, lately bolt of
lightning passed down rod attached to the resi-
dence of Mrs. Pierce T he lad swas sitting at the
window Immediately adjacent the rod at the time,
and was somewhat stunned. But, curious to relate
she was greatly astonished to find, on examination,
that every of her teeth had been extracted by the
shock without her knowing it, aud were laying about
loose the floor.
The Millertes are taking fresh courage from the
comet, which they are quite certain the sure
precursor of the end of the world They had quite
large meeting at Military hall, in New York, a
few days since Their ministers dwelt upon The
prophecies Of Daniel, and figured the whole thing
out as clear as mud. Spontaneous combustion may
now be looked Tor between this and next March,
From the report of the superintendent Of schools
for Alabama we learn that the aggregate number of
schools taught during last year, was 1852; humber
of pupils, e9,Ol3; average number Of months taught
Is; average number in daily attendance, SO 6e7 \
total cost of schools, S55286 II. 5S"% r. -@''
The clerk of the Washington county court, Ten
nessee. in looking some cd records, recently,
happened OH the following entry in the proceedings
of the court, May 1888: 5s -
'sAntreW Jackson, esq, came into court and pro-
duced Hcense as an attorney, with certificate 4
sufficiently attested, of his taking the oaths neces
sary to said office, and admitted to practice as
ap attorney IN this county court