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The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-03-27

SpL1NrERs- man in Victoria caugh
10000 leeches in three days. None Of then
are wanted at Washington.
Grecley's boots are described as young gun
boats.
Barnum wants to ride into Congress On the
woolly horse
The Queen of Spain has made family
party of exiles, by ostracsing her nearest, i
not dearest, relatives, such as the only sister
of the Queen, her sisters husband, the Duke
dc Montpensier, and the brother of the King
and the Queens husband. The last radiance
is the most agreeable to Her Majesty, nc
doubt.
A member of the Kansas Senate, who had
been pretty strongly advocating female suf
frage, got letter from his wife the other day
Said his tender spouse, g Sam, don't make q
fool of yourself! "
In her last letter crosse " says that eight
men out OF every dozen are very far from be.
ing entertaining, but the entertaining four are
far more dangerous than the unentertainina
eight.
Commerce street, in Montgomery, Alabama
was the scene of personal conflict one day
last week. Two politicians fired twelve shots
at each other, and wounded one-lamp post
An English writer says American mater-fa-
milias think it indelicate 10 proclaim to the
world, through the newspapers, under the
head of " Births" an addition to the family
A legal inquire in Milwaukee is: Has a
barber mechanics lien On the face of his
customer for the labor performed 2"
The gold diggers are very busy near Bel
fast, Maine. A local paper advises them to
turn their attention to claims as a better in
vesment.
The tide of German emigration to the Uni
ted States is likely to become 90 torrent" as
the spring season advances.
A Peruvian surgeon in San Francisco war
rants to very young ladies the tiniest and most
graceful foot, by means of the amputation of
the little toe of each foot.
A real Turkish bath evidently means get
ting into hot water
The Connecticut Millerites are getting
ready to ascend in June next.
Fifteen dollars is the charge in New York
for stufing pet lap dogs which have departed
this life
Horace Greeley has been telling how easy
it would be to become the owner of decent
city residence. Write a poor history of the
American conflict.
New York bellies are reviving the fashion Of
wearing bits of black court plaster upon the
face near the dimples.
An fish estate is to be bought for the
Prince of Wales, and his Royal Higbness in
tends to reside two months every year in the
Green Isle. Boston Post.
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An exchange states that among the new
devices of the day are paper pantaets for la
dies. A company has been organized at Me-
chancs Falls, Maine, to manufacture borders
to ladies' drawers and chidrens' pantalets-
an ornamental appurtenance to be buttoned
to the garment, which may be readily replaced
when soiled.
California can send her wheat and barley
more than twelve thousand miles by water to
New York and Philadelphia, and compete
with the producers who send it one thousand
miles by railroad. A cargo of wheat, which
recently arrived in Philadel phia from San
Francisco realised profit Of $4,000. Cali
fornia has gold currency.
The Southern Cultivator tells about some
Georgia planter who on being told about the
" military BILL" asked if there was anything
in it which forbid him to raise cotton? Being
answered in the negative, he added that he
was going home then to raise cotton, and
those who wanted to 60 into politics could do
So but he would let that matter alone.
SroNEwALL JAcKsoN-Ata council Of gen
erals, early in the war, one remarked that
Major - was wounded, and would not be
able to perform duty that 1t was proposed to
assign him. Wounded !! - said Jackson );
eff it really is 50, Think it must have been
by an accidental discharge Of his duty
The tar-spangled Banner" was Kissed
few nights since in Portland, Maine-prob-
ably on account Of the bad music If this
had happened in Southern city, there would
have been committee Immediately appointed
bv Conoress ia investigate the COURAGE"
Shocks was advised to get bis. life insured
"Won't doit,' said he; it would be just
my luck to live forever if should :" Well,
| wouldn't, my DEAR meekly observed Mrs.
Shocks
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H. IVY ON THE BRA1N.-The Daily Wis
cor Wished at Milwaukee, gives publicity
10 a remarkable case in which bullet passed
into the brain Of a man who yet lives in ap-
parently good health. 1t appears that Ole
Etersen, a Norwegian, about 10 years of age,
private of company X, ed Wisconsin Inian-
try, was wounded in the head by rifle ball
on the 2lst of July, 1861, just as he was en-
tering the battle of Bull Run. He was taken
prisoner and carried to Richmond, and there
attended by Dr. James NJ. Lewis, the surgeon
of his regiment, who had also been captured
DR.. Lewis and several rebel doctors decided
that any attempt to remove the ball, which
had plainly lodged in the brain, would end
fatally, and therefore contented themselves
with dressing the wound, which soon healed
up, although it would open at intervals, and
discharge a good deal of offensive matter
After years Imprisonment, the man was ex-
changed went home and to work on farm,
where he seemed to get entirely well. A year
afterward he reenlisted, served during the re-
mainder of the war, and is to-day on his farm,
hale and hearty, with every prospect of a
long life before him, and feeling no further i'll
effects from the bullet in his brain than an oc
casonal headache.
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COPS PLAN OF YoUn L1FE.-Never COM
plain of your birth, your training, your en-
ployment, your hardships; never fancy that
YOU could be something, if only you had a
different lot assigned you. God understands
his own plan, and He understands what you
want great deal better than you do. The
very things that you most deprecate as fatal
limitations and distractions, are probably
what you most want. What you call him
ORANGES, obstacles, discouragements, are prob
ably Gods opportunities; and it is nothing
new that the patient should dislike his medi
cines, or any certain proof that they are poi.
sons. MOI A truce to all such Impotence
Choke that devish envy which gnaws your
heart because you are not in the same lot with
others; bring down your soul, or rather,
bring it up to receive Gods will, and do His
work in your lot, in your sphere, under your
cloud of obscurity, against your temptations. !;
and then you shall find that your condition is
never opposed to your good, but really consis-
tent with it. DR.. Bushnell.
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A CHINESE FUNERAL.-The Alta Califor-
MA of January 2lst, contains the following :
In death all men are equal. This fact was
strikingly illustrated by grand Chinese fune-
raj which took place in this city yesterday.
The time was when the funeral of a wealthy
Chinaman in San Francisco presented the in
congruous sight of heather customs performed
in the public streets of a Christian city-the
noise of most unearthly music played to keep
the devil away" and the mockery of grief
by score or two of Chinese prostitutes dressed
in white, disheveled hair, and wagons loaded
with the materials for the So feast of the dead, -
the corpse covered with red cloth, and
drawn by iob-wagon, and similar uncouth
sights, formed the pageantry of such funeral.
That which occurred yesterday was quite a
different affair, and showed how rapidly the
Chinese are adopting our civilization. The
corpse was placed in an elegant rosewood cas-
ket, with silver mountings, and was drawn in
one of the finest hearses in the city. The
mourners and friends of the deceased rode in
carriages the same as other people. The only
indication of its being Chinaman's funeral
was one of the race seated alongside the drl-
yer of the hearse,, scattering square pieces of
paper, on each of which was small patch of
Silver foil punched into six holes. These sin
gular shreds and patches of. .@eare supposed
to have some power in appeaslng the wrath OF
grim death-the great leveler. The Chinese
have more excuse for clinging tor the superstl-
ton than many who sheer at their strange
customs.
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A DREADFUL FATE.-Much sympathy is
expressed in the Lyons county papers for the
fate of Il young and rising musician, who at
the last French CONSUMPTION was unfortunate
enough to draw mauyais numero, and he was
sent out to join a regiment at Vera Cruz. He
was at once employed in the band. In con-
sequence of his good conduct Benoit Denis
succeeded in obtaining the colonel's permits
sion to perform at private balls and concerts,
and thus gain certain independence. On the
fifth last December be, after executing fan
TASTE on the cornet-a- piston at the house Of a
wealthy American merchant residing near
Vera Cruz, quilted the heated concert room to
refresh himself in the beautiful pleasure
grounds and enjoy the cool evening air.
Feeling thirsty, he took up an alcaraza, which
he happened to see near a fountain, filled it
with fresh water, and put it to his lips. Fright
full screams instantly attracted the company
to the spot. Denis was lying on the earth I,
his hair on end his features livid, the body
and tail of monster scolopender { mile pieds)
protrudng from his gaping mouth. The rep
tile, whose bite is more venomous than that
of a scorpion, had taken shelter from the heat
in the cool porcelain beaker. AS Benois ap-
preached the vase to his lips the scolopenaer
had sprung at his open throat In vain was
the reptiles body cut away. When once its
fangs close on their prey it is impossible to
tear them open. A surgeon who CHANGED to
be among the guests proceeded to cut them
out of the flesh, piece by piece; but by the
time the operation was over the poison had
produced its fatal results, and after three hours
ofagonising commissions the unfortunate young
artist expired.
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DEATH OF BISHOP SoULE.-The New Or
leans Christian Advocate announces the death
of the venerable senior Bishop Of the Metho-
dist Church, and, with one exception, the old
est Methodist preacher in the world. He
died March 6, 1867, at Nashville, Tennessee.
The Advocate says:
His was character of grand proportions,
without infrmities, and with few, if any, en-
rors. In history it will rise clearly and sharply,
in its outlines and proportions, with pflncely
eminence. He was for sixty-eight years
preacher and forty-three years Bishop. lie
was born in the State Of Maine, in 1881, en-
tered the ministry in 1899, ordained deacon in
1901, elder in 1908, and made Bishop in
1924. Bishop Soule was in his seth year at
the time of his death. With American Meth
odism he has been identified for this long Pc
Rod, during the entire growth and develop
ment of the Church from the beginning. In
the division of the church, in 1914, the Bishop
firmly adhered to the South, and his counsels
and influence have been tower of strength
to our Southern Church. His labors have ex-
tended over every part of the continent, and
his name is familiar as "household words !"
throughout the bounds of our country.
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Col. O. Conner, who is represented as the
leader of the Fenian insurgents in the county
Kerry, ireland, is.represented to be native
of that county, about twenty three years OF
age, and of 1.-THE, active build. He fought
in the Army of the Potomac, in the service OF
the Irish brigade. He is said to be the beau
ideal of soldier, well yersed in military tao
tics, of considerable education, and daring to
fault. His name is already a household
word among The Irish.
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If aladdie meets lassie walking in the
street; if the lassie wears " tilter shows
an ankle neat; if the wind in rudely blowing,
lifts her skirts too high, and ladde sees the
ankle, need lassie cry !? Every lassie wears
" tilter'' and ".hinderpest, and metal
"palpitator on her snowy breast. 1t when
married to the lassie these false charms he spy
if he says I'm SOLD, by jingo!" need lad
die cry ?
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Interesting Facts about Fruit.

In his second lecture on the Amazon, de-
livered recently at New York, Prof, Agassiz
called attention 10 the curious fact that all the
world over the plants which prodtce fruit be-
longed to particular families. There is most
striking contrast between the fruit trees and
fruits of the tropical and temperate regions.
Most of the fruits of this country belong to one
and the same natural family of the vegetable
klngdom-and that is the rose family. Cher
rles, peaches, plums, apricots, apples, and
pears in fact the choicest of our fruits belong
to that family. 1t is only a few other kinds
of native fruits that belong to other families,
such as the walnut, and then the grape vines,
of which we have SO great variety among
the native, while in the old world there is one
kind only.
In the valley of the Amazon the principal
fruits belong to the myrtle family, in which
there is as great variety as in the rose The
guava is one of the most common trees all
over that region. There the magnolia, or a
family akin to it, produces a great variety of
luscious fruits. The guararia is extensively
cultivated chiefly for a cooling beverage of
which the Brazilians are very fond The CO.
Goa plant produces fruit somewhat like the
cucumber, but larger from the seed of which
cur chocolate is made. The India rubber
tree is very different from any in this country,
but may be compared with the mulberry,
though it grows taller and does not spread So
much. Thus far, the Professor said, India
rubber has only been collected accidentally;
nowhere is it cultivated, and it is one of the
mlserles of the country that all the natural
productions are still in their wild condition,
and have nowhere received the attention which
their Importance demands. Il is estimated
that annually at least ten millions of dollars
worth Of Ama1onian products rotted on the
ground from want of hands to collect them
But the great staples Of the country are the
dyestutts and variety Of medicinal drugs
the sarsaparllla, the pecas, and the palm which
are so extensively used in the manufacture of
quinine.
Tire first requisite for the developement of
the country is settled population of the right
sort. The present inhabitants are indolent, ir-
regular in their mode of life and sickly.
Speaking Of the decree opening the Anna
zon, the Professor said it was produced by
every serious considerations" The case is
simple. The whole valley of the Amazon has
not yet been peopled. The whole tract of
that country, which is as large as many en-
pires of the first rank in the old world, does
not nourish at this moment $50 900 individu-
ais, including the Indians; " and no doubt the
Government Of Brazil has thought that the
only way of settling that rich country was to
offer its treasures to all natiOns''
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WHAT SHoDDY Is-ITs -Shoddy
has become hackneyed word. 1t is used in
sheer ignorance of what the commodity really
is. What has been the extent of its use dur
ing the last thirty years? Where was its use
originated Who encouraged its use at this
time, and who are the consumers, and the per-
sons benefited Or injured by its use? It's ia
ken for granted by many that a manufacturer
of shoddy is a cheat and a swinder; that
goods made in part Of shoddy, be the proper
ton more OF less, are also a cheat-a means
of cheating-in short, an imposition on the
consumer and the public. 1t is also regarded
as an American or Yankee device, and used
as a substitute for wool, and deceitfully and
wickedly palmed off upon the customer.
Twenty years ago, WOODEN rags were
worth { in England J about twenty dollars per
ton, and were used only as manure They
are now worth two hundred dollars per ton,
to be converted again into cloth. 1t is esti-
mated that in the neighborhood of Leeds
5000, 900 to 100000 yards of cloth, to the
value of 5l5,OOO,0O0, are annually manufac-
tured from this material and that if the sup
ply of shoddv were stopped, it would close
one-third of the WOODEN mills in the United
Kingdom, and bring distress upon the West
Riding of Yorkshire, as great as that lately
suffered in Lancashire from the want of cotton.
1t was disclosed in the London Exhibition of
1862, that s., 100000 pounds of shoddy are
annually consumed in England, a greater
quantity than the whole product in the United
States, estimated at sc, 264,91 pounds by the
census of / $50.
It is one of the advantages of depending
upon foreign importation for our goods, that
we are in bissful ignorance Of their origin,
and are not shocked with the consciousness of
being clad in the cast-off hablliments of Po-
lish Jew or an Italian beggar B
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PAPER MADE FROM SWAMP CANE.-The Me-
ridian Messenger says:
An old friend who has gone to the river
swamp, where cane abounds, writes us that
he has a process for making material for the
manufacture of paper from the common cane.
He thus describes it:
1.-The machinery is simple and not very
&costly. 1t consists of about a ten horse power
engine and steam boiler complete, and a cyl
inder boiler thirty feet long, fortynine inches
in diameter, with one head permanently Sc
cured, the other head to work upon hinges
and fastened with latch so it can be opened
by means of "a lever.
"Fil the cylinder boiler with green cane
just cut from the forest, and when full shut
the boiler up and fasen the head, SO it will
not open until it is wanted to be, then let in
red hot steam for thirty minutes, or more if
necessary. The hot steam will fill every pore
and cavity in the cane, and when charged full
then thrown off by means Of the lever, and
when the cane comes in contact with the cold
air from outside. each and every cane ex-
podes, and leaves the whole mass about
the consistency of oakum, which is then ready
for the paper mills.
Material procured from cane makes SUI
perior paper to that of common rags"
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. A watch, without hands, that shows on its
face no figures but those which tell the hour
and minute looked for, has recently been pa
tented, in London, by Mr.. P, Barlow. The
figures are displayed as they are wanted, and
no others appear on the watch face.
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The Frankfort German] police have for
hidden the sale of the fabric known as green
taratan, as it is dyed by colors composed ID
grea. part OF arsenical preparations, and con-
sequently very injurious to health
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The BENEFITS OF ADvERr1s1NG.-A gen
tleman recently gave $4,000 printing press
to the London Telegraph, and sent with the
gift letter, in which he said t" In your pa
per, by judicious advertising, | have amassed
the fortune which enables me to offer this tes-
timony of regard and good WILL This, says
the Philadelphia Bulletin, is not an unusual
circumstance. At least the making of for
tunes by "judicious advertising" is not unu-
sua, although the giving of twenty-five thou
sand dollar acknowledged therefor is con-
fessedly not quite so common. There are
very many colossal fortunes that would not
now be in the possession of their present hold
ers, were it not for ''judicious Advertising"
The lucky owners of these comfortable sums
deserve to enjoy them for their exercise of en-
terprise, tact, energy and nerve, and so they
have paid their advertising bills fully and fair
ly, the printer has no further claims upon them.
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D0X LIQUORS.

poX LIQUORS.
500 boxes Wines, Whisky, Brandy and Cocktails
40 baskets Champagne, Krug and Heidseck
30 boxes Scheidam Schnaps
90 casks Porter and Ale pints and quarts.
20 - Champagne Cider.
so - Btters, Boxer, Goula, Hostetter, brakes
Plantation Stoughton, Gray Jacket, Helps and East
India. Sole agents for Red Jacket Bitters Curacoa
Anisette, Absinth and Peppermint. For sale by
o3 If E. & B. JACOBS.
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TRY GOODS,

DRY GOODS
1900 pieces Prints, assorted, English, French and
American.
40 bales Brown Domestic.
A full variety of bleached Domestic.
Lowels and Spun Yarns.
Kcrseys and Linseys.
Ticking, Checks, Hickory Stripes.
Denims, Brown and Beached Drilling
Broadcloth, Cassimeres.
leans, Tweeds, &C, &C., &C.
223 Boots and Shoes, all descriptions
400 dozen Mems, Boys and Children's Hats, of all
qualities.
Shelf Goods of all descriptions.
For sale BY [o3tf EkB.JACOBS.
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REMARKABLE INTELI1GENoE.-The following
instance of remarkable intelligence was rela-
ted to us a few days since. We might posi-
bly, believe it were the person who figured in
the transaction any other than cotton mer-
chant in this city. Said merchant owned
lot of cotton down in North Carolina which he
went out to look after short time ago. Ar
irving on the spot, he inquired of gentleman
what he would gin the cotton for. The reply
was that be would gin itfor the usual toll of
one-twelfth. "Too high responded the
merchant, Il can get it ginned at Eafeld for
one-eighth." conc eighth !" spoke up a
third party who had evidently been an inter-
ested listener to the colloquy-" Why I'll do
it for one-sixth." Report says the offer of the
last bidder was accepted without ceremony
The value of fractions does not, as would ap-
pear from this little incident, seem to be uni
versally understood. Petersburg Express.
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TOBACCO

T'oBAcco-
800 boxes Chewing Tobacco, all brands.
so - Cigars
full assortment of Smoking Tobacco.
For sale by los If E. & B. JACOBS.
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SUNDR1Es-
TEA, Black and Imperial.
CANDY, assorted Rock and Fancy, Gum Drops.
Rasins.
Oysters Sardines, HOLSTERS.
Snuff. all kinds.
Bar, Toilet and CASTLE Soap.
Pepper and Worcestershire Sauces, Catchup.
Pickles, Candles.
Stove Pipes.
Bottles and Flasks.
Tumblers and Window Glass
Paints and Oils.
$40 painted Buckets, Brass Buckets.
Tubs, Churns, Selves, Brooms, Washboards DC.
For sale By o3 If f. 4 B. JACOBS.
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QUEsrroN1NG.-'' say, old fellow, what are
your politics ?" said one friend, quizzing an
other. " Conservative my father was con-
servative." 'tAnd what is your religion .
continued the other. Protestant; my fat..er
was Protestant" was the answer " And
why are you bachelor 2" said the other.
Because my father vas a-oh! confound it,
don't bother me with your stupid questions. !"
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DRs. HOTCHkISS & GRAIN

TIT AFING this day associated themselvesin the prac
dE tice of Medicine offer their services to the ct-
zens of Shreveport and vicinity.
DR.. otchkiss residence on Market street. ext to tho
Methodist church, formerly DR.. W. Balls residence.
For the present. of the parties at all hours
Shreveport, October 10. 1866. LIZ
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Ban STORES
Bar Furniture, of every description.
Billiard Tables On hand and for sale BY
3tf E. & B. JACOBS
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HARno'"ARE-
200 tons assorted Iron Steel.
Blacksmiths, Carpenters Shoemaker and Tan
ners' Tools
Castings and Hollow-ware.
Table and Pocket Cutlery.
Spoons.
Locks of all kinds.
800 kegs Nails, Scissors.
Crockery and Queensware,
Glassware, Tnware, &c, &c.
For sale by [o3 If E. / B. JACOBS.