The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-05-29
Miscellaneous Items.


ton mlliner cost $1,000.
Rossini described the steinWay piano at the Expo
siton as nightingale cooling in thunderstorm.
i Asa Hartz says without intending it, that there
was no lacking at the Fair Grounds the other day.
Tie Chicago Egg Preserving Company, With capi-
tai stock Of $4,000, have signed articles Of assoca
/ ton
The American Society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals are out in favor Of the Nicholson pave.
D ont.
Bayard Taylor writes that the climate of the United
States is better than that of Germany, or even of
| Belgium.
The New York Times says Summers project for re
constructing the North BY congressional action is wild
and mschievous.
In recent lecture at Brooklyn, Judge Edmonds
stated that there more than 600 600 Spiri-
| tualists in the United States.
The Albany Journal and Springfield (Mass) Repub-
lcan engaged in crusade against Union Leagues,
| and call for their disbandment.
| David P. Rhodes, for twenty-six years connected
with the New York Tribune, has accepted the presi-
dency Of the New York news company.
| More corn and wheat have been planted in Northern
| Georgia than for years before. The production of
cotton is considered as of secondary moment.
All London is pacarded by the ritualiss, with huge
crosses emblazoned on them, calling on shopkeepers
| and others to keep Good Friday pain of endless
| Eoe.
George Frances Train telegraphs from Platte Valley,
in the far West that he is shooting at antelopes and
wolves from a car window, going at forty miles an
hour"
/ An exchange thinks the pews Of some of the
churches ought to pivos that the occupants
could see who comes in without strainng their
| necks.
| The ladies of the Richmond Bazaar express their
thanks to the Southern Express Company, for their
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sent.
The first chimes of bells in America was presented
to Christ Church. Salem street, Boston, zone hundred
and twentythree years ago. The bells exist in good
state of preservation.
The New York Herald says Judge Underwood's late
charge, with all its angry and ridiculous rhetoric, is
the strangest mixture of driyel and furious nonsense
that ever disgraced the bench
The Loriard tobacco factory in New York is it is
said, the largest in the world. 1t pays more than
100000 per year in taxes to the Government and
spends $1,000 per month for printing labels
The everlasting question whether freshmen may
wear tall hats and carry canes has been settled at last
at Amherst College The faculty sustained the fresh
men in their rights and the sophomores yielded to
the decision without bringing or loss of selfrespect.
The precautions adopted in Prussia to prevent the
introduction of the cattle disease are so minute that
cages of carrier pigeons not allowed to cross the
tronties to leave the country from the fear that in
returning home they may bring the infection with
them.
The scholars of one of the Catholic Sunday schools
in Philadelphia have organized mutual benefit socie
ty. They number about five hundred and are to pay
fifteen cents month each for fund for those who
may be taken sick meet with accident whose par
ents are poor.
Owing to the high winds in the Adriatic, Venice |
has been inundated to extent which has never been
equaled within the memory of any of the inhabitants.
The piazza of San Mark flooded that boats and
gondoas passed over it. and the space had the appear
ance of vast lake.
In the New York Assembly, bill has been intro
duced regulate the scale Of rents of dwelling houses
in the metropolitan district. The Express moves an
amendment that all live rent free, and that all land
lords opposed thereto shall be guilty of msdemeanor
andpunshed accordingly.
The shells collected by the late Augustus Gould, of
Boston, consisting of 10000 kinds, American, Euro
pean, marine, fresh water and land, have been sent
from Boston to the State Geological Rooms Albany
N Y. 1t is one of the finest collections in the coun-
try, and cost its present owners S6000
A Cincinnati saloon keeper lost an eye recently by
the explosion of bottle of mineral water that he wa
about to OPEN fragment of the BOTTLE flying wi tn
the velocity of a bullet, entered the left pepper"
and so completely" bunged it up that ,e strongest
&c eye-openers have not the least effect.
minister recently prayed in the pulpit that Z" the
Lord would bless the congregation assembled and that
portion of it which on its way, and those who were
at home getting ready to come and that, in his infinite
patience he would grant the benedction those who
reached the house Of God in time for that"
An exchange says there are eight or nine of tire
Lnde heirs in st. Louis, worth about million EACH
Since the loss of the hotel which bears their name
heir real estate in the vicinity has declined in value
more than the cost of the hotel They offer to rebuild
t if the citizens will raise $780, 900 towards it,
There five hundred persons employed in and
bout the New York postoffice. The boxes for the
ecepsion of letters number $685. and require the at
ention Of fortytwo clerks This department is kept
operation day and night and delivers daily 100 900
etters, received by mail and from the city letter
rops.
A six-nch fish was discovered swimming in the tank
pon the fourth floor of the Tribune building, in New
[ rk He had passed through the large and small
mains all the way from Croton River to Printing House
square, and had been pumped up to the tank by the
ngine in the basement. When discovered, he was |
IS lively as if he had not just emerged from forty
nile subterraneous passage. :
The Boston and Main and Eastern railroads. rival
ines between Boston and Portland, have settled their
competition in lew fares by compromise The con-
royersy was brought to sudden close by the reduc-
ion of through fares to Portland by the Boston and
faine road. Many persons however, have taken ad-
antage Of the temporary reduction, and have secured
arge numbers of tickets. One man in Newburyport
as thousend.
AT the late performance of Elizabeth, by the !
.istori troupe in Springfield, one of the audience,
fter listening to the first few scenes in the first act
the play inquired of his neighbor: "What's this a
1ey're talking?" "Itaian," was the reply. care
icy going to talk this all the evening"" Yes" was
nswered whereupon the Guestoner took his hat and
1T the seat for which he had paid three dollars, and
lie theater remarking "Hang it, it wont be worth
lucks."
What we would like to discussed is the FEAST
ty of court of last resort consisting of different
,ctions for the disposal of different classes of cases.
Ike the Court of Cessation in France 1t is easy ii
loughto conceive that the business might be divided,
though it would require consumae skill to draw the
mes. 70 make meaning ineligible, we will sup
ose, in rough way, that might have court of
,peas consisting of two sections, of which should
atermine say all cases connected with the sale and
IT, &c