Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-06-29
NEWS ITEMS.

Salon, Massachusetts, hrs re- fused to license the sale of fire crackers for the Fourth of July.
 -Green corn has made it's appear ance in the Mobile market at dollar and a half a dozen.
 Governor Flanders, of Louisiana, in recent speech, denounced the con- fiscation proposition.
 "A swindler in New York has been making up telegraphic reports and selling them to merchants.
 Copper distilled ice cream proves as poisonous in Selma as in Memphis. The lives of some victims arc despair ed of.
 -Lcading citizens of New Orleans pronounce the charges of speculation against Collector Kellogg false and malicious.
 Indictments have been found against William James, Collector of Internal Revenue at Richmond, for malfeasance in office.
 Nine hundred and seven persons were committed to the Boston 'Tombs' last month, 627 of them for drunken ness.
 -Elias Polk, colored, for many years body servant of President Polk is spoken of as Conservative candidate for the Legislature in Davidson county.
 A Yankee negro teacher at ThomasvilIc, Georgia, being about to leave his black sheep lately, collected from each the sum of ten cents to re- member them in his absence.
 -The Parisians are disgusted with the Ethiopian minstrels who were so popular in America and England, and regard them as vulgar and coarse.
 -The coroner's jury in the case of Roe, who was killed ill the recent duel in Charleston, rendered verdict of felonious homicide against the surviv- ing principal and seconds.
 Judge Wylie, of the District Su- preme Court at Washington, has deci- ded that combination of physicians to prescribe their own fees is illegal, and thereupon materially reduced a doctors bill in the case before him.
 MT. A. J. Winters, of Lobdell's s store, was found dead on the highroad in Hinds county, Mississippi, a few days ago, says the Baton Rouge Advo- cate. We find no cause in the Advo- cate for the catastrophe.
 In the City Court of Montgom- cry, on Saturday, Paul Taylor, a one armed negro, was found guilty and sentenced to death, for the murder of a peddler, name unknown, near Mt. Meigs, some time since.
 -J. W. Simonton, General Agent of the Associated Press, at New York, sailed for Europe by the steamer of June b, to perfect and enlarge ar engagements for receiving foreign news by cable.
 Samuel II. Randall, a Boston lawyer, expelled from the bar in 1861, lately brought suit against Judge Lin coin F. Brigham, of the Supreme l Court. {who made the order of expul- sion,) laying damages at S7,000, but lost i the case.
 In New England an entcrprisine citizen has invented and patented q knitting machine, said to be the most perfect yet brought before the public It will knit fifty pair of stockings in . day, and is so simple that a child can work 1t.
 :. At. AA. MilWiq9st8p2o tRlfNllaSwyarfs JSahesEi Secretary Seward. The hand shaking was so impressive that Mir. Seward had his finger hurt, when he perpetrated q huge P. R. goak by declaring "his was the first blood shed in Delaware" The Handsboro (Miss.) Demo. crat says that Vim. II. Henderson. a reputed lawyer and consummatc scoun. drcl, eloped from Biloxi, few week, ago, with his wife's niece, having first robbed his sick wife of all her valuable l jewelry, and left her destitute md heart broken. H
 The Chicago Times says truly 'Whether General Santa Auna, in proclaiming himself Emperor O. Mexi- | co, with the concurrence of the United 1 States, or Commander Leroy in taking i Santa Anna by the ear and ordering l him to leave Mexican waters. in the name of the United States, exhibited l the greatest amount of cool impudence it would be difficult to say" l The Clayton (Ala) Banner says | that it is distressing to hear of the number of mules that are dying from the effects of Western corn fed to them. It thinks that the injury comes l from feeding the corn in its whole and shelled state; that the stock eat it rap idly, without sufficient mastication, and 1 die of indigestion. If this be so, the remedy for this year is to grind the corn and far better remedy thereaf- ter is to have nothing to do with Wes- tern corn in any shape, but to raise corn enough at home.
 An intelligent Boston merchant who has recently returned from Eng land, states that capitalists were very cautious in lending money, because there was a general feeling among business men that many small firms and some companies, must soon fail, and that then there will be considera- ble disturbance in monetary affairs. It is this distrust, which has not only made money accumulate in the Bank of England, but has given consols the upward tendency of the past month. He says that our securities would ad- vance also, were it not for the influ- ence of the New York gold and stock gamblers, who have agents in London, Paris and Frankfort, to create distrust in them.
 Nor VALID.-After the passage of the Louisiana secession ordinance. and while the Government was unable to protect it's interests, over one million dollars were paid by the mercantile firms of the city of New Orleans to the rebel authorities as duty on goods in tho bonded warehouse there prior to secession. The records of the whole