The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-05-29
News Items.

News Items.
d The Atlantic cable receipts are about Ave tbo,..,
seven bundled and fifty dollars daily esasa
The Queen Of Spain sold almost all her iavra, =
London. single diamond watch chain bron,f -
s24 600 s"e
John Bell, now IS years old and much deb;t,.a,
is living near his Cumberland iron works rot far frn
Nashville. 'to'n
John Gray, probably the last survivor Of tbo r..
utionary Army is living in Noble county Ohio and
in his 10th year.
4 Washington specials say that two Of the Ricbn,on,
papers, supposed be the Examiner and Times asa
| indicted for melting treason and rebellion ~
Madame Jdarez expects to be summoned to Tho o;,n
Of the Montezumas soon, to occupy the apartments y
tastefuy fitted up BY the Empress Carlotta
~ stand upon the soil Of freedom, cried Radio,
stump orator. 8 No., cried his shoemaker won SAND
in pair Of shoes that have never been paid for"
Hon Elijah Hise, Of Kentucky, who committed
suicide short time ago. was resident Of Io,
isiana and practiced law at Alexandria in 1886 and ~
Tennessee now contains thirteen cotton factories
embracing capital of nearly ST 900 900, and emploS
ing over 900 operators
small expedition is to be dispatched to Africa tn
learn the fate of Dr. Livingstone small iron steamer
has been taken for the navigation of lake Nybasa.
/ In Prussia than forty Austrian brouze can
mons are to be coined into medals, to be distributed
! TO the soldiers, at cost of 200, 900 thalers.
1t is estimated by the Baton Rouge Advocate that
the total vote of Louisiana, if all registered
would be fory.seven thousand white and twenty-five
thousand blacks.
The Mobile Tribune says Judge Kelley took good
care to shelter himself from the storm he had raised
at the meeting on Tuesday night, by diving under the
furniture the stand when the first pistol shot rang
in his ears.
Mr. A. T. Stewart has sent in the plans of his new
store to the superintendent of buildings. 1t is esti
mated that the alterations will cost 81 SOC, 600 Three
hundred aud fifty thousand dollars to be spent in
internal fittings.
Rhode Island has the greatest population to the
square mile of any State in the Union, and greater
than any country in Europe except France. The labor
in the State shows annual product of S60 for ey
cry man. woman and child
Nearly one hundred thousand people recently at
tended reform meeting in London although the
government forbid the assembage. At one Of the
stands lady spoke in favor of women suffrage at
another religion was the topic Of discussion the most
applause given to the most revolutionary Ian
guage. There no disorder.
The English papers report that Archbishop Manning
has obtained of the Pope indulgence of one year
all who shall devoutly recte the Gloria Patria and
Ave Maria, with the intention Of obtaining from God
the perfect conversion of the English nation to the
obedience of the faith and reconciliation to the chair
of ST. Peter
Prussia sends the most powerful in exs-
tence to the Paris Exposition. 1t is Krupps riRed
breechloader of II inches BORE constructed wholly
of cast steel, and weighs 1000 cwt. 1t requires q
charge of 100 pounds of POWDER and projects shot
weighing 1000 pounds. Its carriage weights 500
cwt.
The Union and Dispatch of the 9Th instant SAYS
A gentleman who witness, informs US that on
Monday last train of cars the Louisville and
Nashville railroad was brought to stand opposite the
Doxey farm, about ten miles from this city by the
han n hal 10 1t
track The train could not pass until they swept
off
Prof Brenngiesser, of Berlin has, by feeding poul-
try certain preparations succeeded in making hens
lay eggs the shells of which of any required thick
ness, and SO strongly impregnated with iron as to
if cast from that metal A number are ex.
hbiting at the Paris Exposition
THE MOBILE RIer.-Speaking of the infammaorv
nature of Judge Kelleys remarks at radical meeting
in Mobile, few nights ago, the Register says: eve
submit to all honorable and generous men at the
North to the Government of the United States and to
their Generals in command at the South if this not
cruel outrage upon the peace of communities who
living under military law and SUCH being DOW
eress to protect themselves, under the protection
fthe Government -
PErfT1oNINa TO PREVENT C1FIL WAR IN TENNESSEE
This comes from Washington under date Of the 1Gth
The President is being petitioned by citizens Of
Tennessee to dsarm the militia of that State by d.
recting that the ten thousand stand of furnished
by resolution of Congress be placed in arsenas in
lieu of being kept in what they term actual service
Uuless this is done, it is declared that there will be
civil war in that State.
SINGULAR DEMoNsTRATIoN.-An extraordinary sight
was witnessed in the principal London streets recently
Rather more than thousand of the most miserable
wretches that ever the garb of humanity formed
a procession and marched in silence from the neigh
borhood Of Mapping and Whitechapel to the aristo
cratic quarters of st. James and Belgrava Every
m was in nd nd Tho
unmistakabe marks of privation and distress. A ban
ner or two told their character and wants. There are
10000 OF these starving people in London.
THE INJUNCTION CAsEs.-No Written Opinion at
THIS 1sn.-A special Washington dispatch of the Sth
to the Western press says:
The Supreme Court has decided not to render
written opinion at this of the court on the Geo
gla and Mississippi injunction cases. but to defer it
until the next term. The decision, however, which
has been determined on will be made public on Mon
day next. This was the case with the famous Bowles
and Milgan cases, the written opinion being delayed
Tor several months after the decision was given.
Superintendent Schuyler says that he has daily
report of the progress of track-laying the Union
Pacific road, and that the average is two and one
quarter miles each day. On the 9th, twenty-eght
and a half miles were laid before o'clock. Track
laying was commenced on the first of May, but work
was suspended several days by the food The az
gregate to the present time is fourteen miles; whole
aggregate three hundred and nineteen miles base of
two hundred and one miles distant beyond
rail- The road is carrying average for over
week past, eighty thousand pounds of ST. Louis freight
daily.
Tie FIDELITY OF Mr.. DAVIS SERvANTs-Married
on Tuesday night, May eth, at Fortress Monroe Car
roll Hail. by the Rev. O. S. Barten, rector of Christ
Church, Norfolk, Frederick McGnris to Ellen Barnes
The above deserves more thap passing notice It
is not often, in these days. that we witness such faith
fulness and devotion on the part of servants Both
parties belonged to Mr.. Davis household, and have
shared with him and his family their long and pro
tracted imprisonment They were his Servants il
and have remained true and devoted to
him through good and evil report When after the
evacuation OF Richmond the family were compelled to
move Southwark, ellen could not be persuaded to
leave them, but faithfully shared with them the toll
and suffering of these fearful days