Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-12-11
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NEWS ITEMS.


Ex-Governor FooTE has called a meeting
in Nashville for the reorganization OF the
Democratic party.
TT is claimed that new printing press, in
vented at Norwalk, Connecticut, win print.
$4,000 papers per hours or 833 per minute.
In the recent Manhood Suffrage election
in Georgia, negro in Savannah voted hotel
bill of fare.
THE Mississippi election presents The same
distinguished feature as that of Georgia-noI
whites at the polls.
PRENTICE says: Brownlow is elected Sem
ator In this world he goes to the upper
house; In the next he viii go to the lower
THE Chicago papers say that many Of the
hackmen Of that city are thieves and murder
ers. who kill and rob their passengers, especial
~ at night
THE Montgomery (Ala.) Mail says that at
the election there numbers Of negroes called
for "forty acres and a mule, after they had
put "the thing in the box
AN Anti-Secret Society Convention, held in
Aurora Ill., declares that the spirit OF the Sc
eret Societies spreading over the country IS
hostile to the religion of Christ"
In papers from many parts Of the Gulf States
we find the opinion expressed that cotton + lant-
ing will be abandoned to great extent next
year.
PRENTICE says that the difference between
the Democratic party and the Radical party at.
this time is the difference between ha !. ma q
and boo-hoo.
Ben WADE somewhat profanely says that he
won't back damned inch on the negro SUI
frage question, and that hell's full of such Rad
icals as feel weak kneed about it.
A WOMAN of respectable standing in New
London, Conn.,, cowhided her son in the public
streets of that city, lately, because he refused
to marry to suit her wishes.
In the town Of Jackson, Ohio, there were,
in the late election, 400 votes cast, every one
being Democratic-not single Mongrel vote
in the town. Healthy and happy town!
A RED-HAIRED negro baby recently created
great sensation in Lafayette Ind, but.beforea
it was three days old white woman gave
birth to negro baby, and the bright head was
ecHpsed.
On their programmes the managers of the
Boston theatres request the ladies and gentle
men of the audience to report any one they
may see in the act Of stealing original plays BY
shorthand
THE Boston Post says: The women and
children i'd our streets are in danger Of death
at the hands of State constable if crazy
fellow strikes a prohibitory guardian Have a
care, chickens. while the jackass dances.
Mrs. LINCOLN, in Sept. 1866, received 49,
COZ from Rhode Island, the amount collected
by one dollar subscriptions fol- the widow of
the murdered President Parties in that State
hold Mrs LiDcoln's receipt for the money.
WENDELL. PHILLIPS has hit it exactly. In
one of his late manifestoes in the Anti-slavery
Standard he says: Congress represents the
Republican party" Wendell is right, Con-
gress don't represent anything else.
FIVE Mirnesotians were recently kept all
night flat on their backs and motionless, feign-
ing death, by q feroeiOus animal which they
supposed to be bear, but which the morning
light showed as large Newfoundland dog
THE Supreme Court Of Missouri, in the case
Of Shields VS.. Smith, has just decided that
"the word biennial is derived from the Latin
words, bis, twice, and onnaS, year, meaning
the happening or taking place Of anything once
in two years
A LETTER from the interior Of Soth Carroll
ma says that the most abundant corn crop is
ROW harvesting which has been known for
many years. 1t is selling at fifty cents bushel,
but there is little call for it, as but few have
money to purchase.
THE Charlottesville (Ya) Chronicle says
9 Drilled like an army, unanswered like body
of disciplined troops, obeying an order from
the Central League like sign from Marshal's
baton, the negroes have delivered their vote
Xix a concentrated broadside'
A Boston clergyman describes a collation.
as "a dinner at which there is nothing to eat =
They don't .'yeow-leg- chicken" their preach
ers at the "hub,' it seems Perhaps if they
were better fed they wouldn't preach such
savage sermons
At Hartford, Vermont, there is wealthy
and miserly farmer who quarreled with his
wife fifteen years ago, and though they live in
the same house and eat at the same table, they |
have not spoken to each other since. Two
daughters, well along Gin their thirties,' COM
pete this "happy family"
THE New Orleaus police have discovered
that large amount Of bogus gold coin has
been received in that city to be passed upon
ignorant negroes. Sambo is rapidly being
made to feel that his Radical white friends /
have found him out, and intend, most CON-
pletely, to take him in.
JUDGE SAWYER, of the Fourth District
Court, San Francisco, has made an important
decision, viz: that the Legislative Act of 1862,
imposing a tax on every person departing from
that State by sea, is unconstitutional and void
that no such tax can be LEVIED by State; that