The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-04-10
News Items.

Mrs. Jefferson Davis is visit to Charleston, the
guest of Geo. A. Trenholm.
The Macon Journal says A. II. Stephens favors
mastery inactivity"
One thousand barrels of molAsses sold daily in
New York for distillaton into spirits.
An overbearing woman in Detroit has presented her
husband with four children at a birth.
An Australian paper notices the capture Of the first
white bear found in that colony Its eyes are light
blue.
Bad cold-when q person has such cold in his
head that he can't wash his face without freezing the
water
The Galveston Bulletin says there is average Of
FIVE bridal parties per week at the Washington House.
in that city.
The Memphis Appeal says Jefferson Davis mpris
onment is more detrimental to the United States THAI
the Southern armies were.
The death of Cardinal Villecourt makes fourteen
cardinals hats vacant An American cardinal is dis
cussed in the cabinet Of his holiness.
After session of sixty days the Legislature of
Louisiana djourned Thursday night, the 2Sh ult.,
side de- by constitutional limitation
The Democratic members Of the Wisconsin Legs~
ature have nominated Lucien P. Wetherby for Asso-
ciate Justice Of the Supreme Court
The lower house of the Missouri legislature lately
passed bill to amend the constitution so as to allow
negroes to vote. Ayes 56; noes As.
gentleman in Boston, who prefers that his name
should not be known, has given 100000 to found
theological school Episcopa) at Cambridge.
The ladies in New York are accommodated with
LIQUOR at the thread and needle stores. The business
is carried on SO adroitly as to defy the police.
The report of the committee of the Virginia Legis-
laure recently sent to Washington speaks tavorably
of the reception they met with from the members Of
Congress.
1t has been calculated that in Britain salmon rep
resents a value equivalent to that of good-sized
sheep without imposing any one the trouble Of
housing and feeding.
The Governor of Illinois has signed the bill makiag
eight hours legal days work in the State in absence
of contracts to the contrary It goes into effect i'm
mediately
Arrivals from the Rocky Mountains report the
actually forty feet deep at points along the road.
About Brdger Pass the stages pass this immense
depth with ease.
Gen. Schofeld, in command Of the First Military
District, has issued order disbanding all militia Or
ganisations in the States comprised within his ursdlc
tion unless the shall be authorised by Congress-
Rev Lorenzo Lea an old citizen Of Jackson, Tenn,
and Lieut.. Blackburn, who lost in the Con :
federate army at Shiloh have opened school for
colored persons at Jackson. The Wing thinks this is
an indication of good feeling towards the negroes
WHICH? "A teacher at Z national school at Whit
tlesey, England recently asked boy which was the
highest digntary of the church. After looking up
and looking down, north, east, south and west the
boy innocently replied: " The weather cock"
According 10 q report Vi tiie NefLal cilSltlL ST.
cety 272S of the 5695 enligrans who landed in New
York in February were Germans. Last year the num-
Der of Germans arriving during the same period was
1929 while the corresponding period of the year
previous it was only Dat.
The Register, of the 2lst announces the death of
DR.. John W. Woodcock, of the oldest and most
eminent citizens of Mobile. Dr.. Woodcock leaves a
family of three sons and three daughters, all grown
to manhood or womanhood, and some of them at a
distance from their native place. He died calmly and
without pain, of disease Of the heart, complicated
with general debility and infrmity.
The Democrats have carried the charter election at
lewiston Pa, fer the second time in Is years Harr
man, the Republican Governor elect of New Hamp-
shire has majority of 1886 against Smyths majority
of 4657 last year-showing net Democratic gain Of
1921. 1t is 2,24t larger than the vote of last
year. The aggregate vote Of the State is 6s,602.
The Democrats make gain of about twenty members
of the House.