The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-11-13
News Items.

One Mary Pyle has been fined $43 III at Philade
phia for being common scod.
There have been 154 farms added to the productiv
force of Mississippi during last month.
The impeachment project it is thought, will b.
abandoned.
new panel of twenty-six white jurors has bee
drawn to try Surratt
Sheridan's reception at Boston cost that city $50,
| 00O
! The Planters Banner says yellow fever is spreading
around Brashear City, and has become more yioen
| than ever.
The negro military organizations in Washington
City have been disbanded. Gen. Grant admits thei
| iIlegality
Massachusetts has gone for Bullock the Radical
dldate for Governor, by about 20, 900 majority.
John Minor Bolts is said to have received but eight
white votes, all cast by native Virginians His sue
cessfu competitor received ii negro votes
During the last Is years Ireland has decreased in
population nearly eight hundred thousand.
Pennsylvania furnishes 735 per cent. of all the Goa
produced in the United States.
The Charleston Courier announces the prospective
release of Lieut. J. G. Brane the captor of the Chesa
peake
The FIVE hundreth mile of the Union Pacific Rail
road made yesterday. Seventeen miles more will
carry the track to the eastern base of the Rocky
Mountains.
Gov Austin, of Honduras, has been removed by the
British Government for Illegally selling the crown
lands to Southern emigrants.
Rev. Miss A. J. Chaplin has been called to the pas
torate of Church at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. She is
said to be fluent preacher.
After long of incubation, the "Dead Duck''
Forney is going to hatch-a book 1t will be the first
time on record that fowl, and dead one at that
ever became an author.
Thirty Conservatives and sixty Radicals delegates
have been elected to the Virginia Convention Eigh-
teen of the latter coored Majority for Convention
as far as heard from, 20 S52.
The treaty with the Kiowas and Camanche Indian
tribes gives them about 5000 square miles between
the north fork of the Red River and Red River.
In his Philadelphia Speech Kelley said he did favor
Grant for the Presidency on account of his available
ltv, but because he in an entire harmony with
Congress and the district commanders
The N. Y. Times thinks that electing Parson Brown
low to the Tennessee Senaorshpis the best DISPOSE
ton that can be made of him. 1t says:
"He does infinite mischief as Executive of Tennes-
see; he will do as SENATOR
The municipal and judicial election passed off very
quietly in Baltimore on the 23d The entire Demo
cratic ticket for mayor and both branches of the city
council elected The vote for mayor was Robert s.
Banks, Democrat, 1889 Andrew W. Dennisan Re-
publican, 1859.
Buffers butler having secreted some teasp from
his masters cupboard at Lowell with various initials
the General reproved him sternly; when took you
for my butler, did not think that you would take me
for your New Orleans" N. Y World
The freedmen's bureau law will expire next July by
its own limit. 1t is understood that Gen. Howard will
not recommend its continuance beyond then, in case
tie stt BE accom- iiiislie
In that event he will recommend comprehensive sys-
TEN of education for colored youths South by the es
adjustment of an extensive normal school at Washing
Lon for the education of coored teachers and the or
ganzaton of normal schools for the object in the
South