The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-11-07
News Items.


1t is beautys privilege to kill time, but time
always kills beauty.
The industrial establishments of New York
4 employ $4,000 females.
/ new feature in racedom is a purse for the
best walking horse.
Adam and Eve lived on 'loye' apples
but they ate too many.
The value Of government property stored at
Jacksonville, Ind, is estimated at fifty millions
dollars.
Official returns from all but four counties in
Indiana, make the radical majority 1905.
Three thousand Vermont sheep are now on
their way to Virginia. travelling at the rate of
thirteen miles day.
Radicals think that war kept the southern
States in the Union, and that peace put them
out. Lou. Journal.
The London Lancet is confident that there
is nothing incompatible with prolonged life
and activity for Napoleon.
The Bsmark Foundation is the title of
an asylum for the children of killed and
wounded soldiers in Berlin.
Nine hundred dead bodies were picked up
in the streets of B4ame, India, in one morn
ing. Famine
Pour oil upon the troubled waters" cry
the radicals. Certainly, but not the oil of
vitrol.
The Tennessee papers state that there will
be an extraordinary crop Of corn in that State
this season.
The New Orleans Bee advocates the break
ing up of the large plantations of the State
into small farms for the encouragement of i'm
migration.
George Peabody has given $50, 900 to
Harvard, for the formation and maintenance of
a museum and professorship of American ar
cheoIogy and ethnology.
One Of the Oldest papers in the world the
Postzeitung, of Frankfort, established in 1916,
has just disappeared-suppressed by Bismark.
The oil well discovered accidentally at Terre
Haute, continues to flow at the rate of $50
barrels per day.
Stupid people may eat, but should not taIb
Their mouths will do well enough as banks Of
deposit but not of issue.
The Namagansett Indians, in Rhode Island,
have declined to become citizens and voters, as
they may under the civil rights bill of the
State.
On the 9Th ult., J. F. Jones was murdered
by NJ. B. BayIy at Oak Hall, Fauquer coun-
ty, Va. Jones had charged Bayly with serv-
ing the yankees during the war
Arthur Williams, his wife and two daugh-
tiers were recently murdered at Rome, Ga
Two freedmen committed the murder. and they
have been arrested.
Mrs. Cunningham, notorious in connection
with the Burdell murder, few years since, is
said to have been lost on the Evening Star.
s. D. B. DeBow, of the Review. has ac-
cepted the presidency of the great Central rail-
road Of Tennessee, chartered by recent act Of
the legislature.
Speaking of political sermons, a northern
contemporary says, the Deity always has to
take back seat when the negro is under dis
cuSsion.
A pIl-box factory in Bristol, Vt, uses up
500 cords of birch wood per annum. Elk.
And the pills create demand for as many
more cords of cotfins.
A letter from AspinwaI says the military
rather make me smile, after having seen sail
or with his fists whip five fully armed soldiers
who attempted to arrest him"
A witty doctor of divinity, whose ply sicians
had ordered him for time on purely veget-
able diet, demured, on the ground that = he
should not be able to say grace before meat. "