Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-06-15
NEWS ITEMS.

his New Orleans speech: "Four weeks ago entered the states lately in rebellion. l have travelled many miles, gazed into the faces of vast throngs of men, have spoken mlny times, expressed my sen timents with entire frankness and iulness I have received from all persons, at all times and on all occasions, courtesy and kindness; and l go back to my state more hopeful for the future of my coun- try than when 1 entered on the journey l. have just taken"
 Eey~ WEDDING IN NEW YoRK.-We know of q wedding to come offin this city, in the early part of June, which promises to be the largest and most brilliant which has occurred in New York for many years. We understand that twenty-five hundred invitations will be issued to the church and fifteen hundred to the house The lady is called very beautiful and the groom is Major General in the army. The dresses as usual, have been imported from Paris, and the rousseau is of the most elegant deseription.-[ Home Jour nal.
 IRON SHIP.-The Atlanta New Era gives the following:
 One of the finest iron ships that ever visited our waters, says the Savannah News and Herald of Friday, arrived here yesterday. She is British ves- sel, named the Allahabad, commanded by Capt. Stevenson, to which port she brought cargo of 450 coolies from | Nf ,rl Iiol >,, l,o passage. Her hull, masts and spars arc all iron, and her rigging is composed i of wire. She is consigned to C. Green & Son, who will load her for either Liverpool or London with cotton. l JEFFERsoN-Says the Pine Bluff Dis patch of the Sth:
 BRUTAL MURDER On Tuesday of this week, some four miles from this city, an altercation took place between Mir r. i Mahouey and negro {we did not learn the cause of the quarrel) in which the negro broke in the skull of the white man with club, from the effect of which he has since died The negro is still at large, and we do not know of any effort being made for his arrest.
 psg~ On Saturday morning of last ] week, after the lapse of an interval of more than six years, the Alexandria. Loudon and Hampshire railroad was reopened to Leesburg, and the sound of the locomotives whistle, and the i sight of long passenger and freight | train gladdened the residents of that ancient. often plundered, but still most | If N;ro,i,,io
 BsS~ Lucy Stone says, in late letter l to the New I York Post. speaking oi l those who have labored for woman s rights: During so many wears has this been done, that they who came with fair young cheeks, and offered youth, health and strength for this s.l- cred cause, to-day are crowned with gray hairs, and furrows are onall theil faces
 n-S~ Among the curiosities at q Catholic fair in Union square, New ! ! ork, are piece of the wood Of the coffin in which Nashington's body re- posed for thirty years. and a ring over one hundred years old, made from the i ferulc of his cane. A piece of the silk dress worn by Martha Washington presented 10 the fair by Mrs. Robert Minturn, is also on exhibition.
 pasS7' The city of Louisville, Ky, has been sued by resident for 25,00O dam. ages, sustained by tho death of his wife aud daughter by cholera last summer, he alleging that the epidemic was caused by an overflow, which was accustomed by the streets not being properly graded to allow 1 the water to run of.
 1 psg~ The Treasury Department in the next ten days will pay out twenty millions of currency in rtdeeming compound interest notes of thc same issue. As the latter will be destroyed l when redeemed, that amount will go toward the reduction or the public debt.
 ! rag- Ii is said that tho Nicaraueuan ! Government is about to institnte . | claim for damages done bv Walkers tillibustering expedition. The eorrcs- I pondeucc of Mr. Seward upon the Al abama question will. it is alleged, fully substantiate the legality of those claims.
 r~ Somc of the Western farmers, ] who have beea holding on to their ] grain in expectation of famine prices. ! have had their fingers badly burned.- They arc now hurrying ii to market at reduced prices.
 Bay It is announced that . Polish gentleman is now on an inspection tour in Texas. designing to select the most favorable locality for farming prepara- tory to an extensive immigration or his countrymen.
 Rsg-It is calculated that it would re- quire column of gold five miles and twelve -fourteenths of mile high. aud thirteen inches in diameter. to cancel the national debt.
 ntn. An eastern editor asked his sub scribers to pay up that he may play the same joke on his creditors. We like to see good jokes go round.
 Bay Several hundred breech loading guns were forwarded last week from New York for the Canadians, who are in rebel lion against goyernmentwhich the Turks consider ''the best the world ever saw,
 mss. A reflector is in use in q depot in Baltimore, which makes as much light by the aid of four burners as thirty burners make without 1t
 Bay How a man may be known from a fatigued dog One wears shirt, the other pants
 E~ California dispatches says the Indians are still making depredations.
 lSFALlmLE CuRE FOR fooTHAcnE.--Those of our readers who have felt the cxeruciating pangs of this disease. and who, like our selves. have experienced but little human sympathy on such occasions, will, ao doubt, be gratihed to be in possession of a remedy