The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-01-16
News Tf:nnne

From May to November, 1866, the exports of Chi
ca5o amounted to nearly two millions Of dollars
The gold mines on the Potomac river, not far above
Washington, are being worked with fair profit
There are 202 daily tri-weekly and weekly D9Ders
published on the Pacific coast at this time.
There are now scventyeight manufactures of cot
ton, calico and wooden goods in Georgia.
The cotton crop of Egypt this year is estimated At
! $780, 900 in value
VIM. Frost Of Norway, Maine, raised 24O bushels
corn III the ear upon single the past season.
Wool eight and half inches long has been taken
/ roma CotSwo!d lamb in Lyndon, Vermont
Albert Pike, it is said has become associated with
the editorial department of the Memphis Appeal,
The sugar in the cellars Of the sugar house At Port
land, Maine, destroyed by fire last July is still burn
| ing. This is candid fact
| Miss Gregg of South Carolina, sister of the late
rebe! General Aa1ey Gregg, has gone to Liberia as
missionary.
Z, SG""'@n wE1er has come out with an apology for
Judas lscariot. He thinks Judas has been mi:eon.
celVed and misrepresented.
1t is estimated that 1000 houses have been bn1, IN
Cleveland Ohio in 1865 and yet there are no houses
to rent. 49, -" "0''10o
The grand jury of Madison county, Mississippi, has
coinpHMented Major General Wood for i,rparto]itv
Bureau
John Smith, of Pleasant Mills, n J., is III years
Old has been blind seventeen years. but is otherwise
unimpaTed in mental and physical faculties.
A Radical paper says it will tax the wisdom Of Con-
gress heavily to undo the mischief done BY the pres
dent But the wisdom Of Congress can't bear a heavy
tax, retorts Mr. Prentice.
When Lynch received Roberts ~ regret to inform,
you do not think you to be hanged" he is re-
ported to have said, mo moose is good news"
The worlds product of pig iron for 1865 was as fol-
lows: England 100000 pounds; France 3O1 600
United States l,l00,000; Belgium S0,OO9; Sweden
and Norway 526,GO0; other countries 500, OGO: total
100000, ''
1t appeared in evidence in,a PHOTOGRAPH case no.
fore the Circuit court hiigton last Friday that
$1,000 cartes de visite Of General Robert L. Lee were
sold in Washington immediately after that comman-
ders surrender.
\ resident Of Bncyrus, Ohio is about s,ipnino to
tn Governor OF Georgia, for the poor of that State
SIX car loads Of wheat six Of corn and six barros
each Of pork and beef. j.
The census of Illinois, taken last year and lust DuI
hshed, shows population Of 2l4l $40 as follows.
" hlte males 1903, III; white females lO3lO59
Total white population 2,024, 10. Coored males
9ll2, colored females, 1928 Total 1870.
The Boston Courier, in speaking of the tour Of Rad
zeal Congressman to New Orleans, SAYS: Isn't this
convincing evidence of the pacifcation Of the South
lhey would have hardly gone there in time Of war
The Evansville Journal chronicles the death Of "a.
va Aiken, at the age OF 50 years. who walked from,
Ne" Orleans on with the first steamboat that
ever up the river to his place in Warrjc conn.,
Y, beating the boat two days
Why there so few convicts in the Mich;ran oo, c
Tertiary this year. asked Sans friend A d,v ar ta>
ince. 'Why," said Sam, 'thcy send them bv the 9
'ontine railroad, and their time expires before thav
yet here