The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-07-24
Miscellaneous Items.

miscellaneous lbGUlS.
There are 226 lodges and a6ls Masons IN Missl;
fsippi.
The Princess salmsalm was recently 4 New Tor
ballet girl.
A lodge Of colored Masons is about to be estaf
/ lshed at Lynchburg, Va.
The North Mississippian says Lee county will b
ten to one against convention.
! Judge Underwood states that the registration j
Virginia is half completed and that 100 900 have bee
| enrolled.
Hon. J. G. Breckenridge has written to friend il
Kentucky, from Paris, that lie is tired of the hubbu
of the exposition and contempates leaving for Swift
4 zerland.
militia company of eighty negroes attended a pic
mic Of eolored people near Mobile last Thursday, TIL
officers ourisng swords and wearing side arms. Thi
is in direct violation of General Popes bull
The St. Louis Republican says: Even Missouri
cursed she is with imbeee officials, and ieeced b.
all manner of rogues, is happy land of Canaan,
as compared with Tennessee.
| Mr.. Trmble, one of the Kentucky members refused
admission to his seat by the House of Representatives
was member of the last Congress, and never had hi
| loyalty impugned in that body.
There pretty serious row in Augusta, Georgia
the 4th between the soldiers and the negroes Thu
police took part with the negroes, aud two of then
were very severely beaten. The negroes fled in dis
may.
np po,;.,a.a ;,z u,,.oo,, - HI,
BRIGADE in yirpinia died IN Houston ct tho Uutcbin,
house On the 18th He was greatly endeored 10 the
mon Of the hrioaae .hropob his nnvarvna kindness
attention md skill
Dos,oh anu Vicinity were ratier hSely III cfiAlha
l,'..els o tls 4e, aeeorus W .ile papers young
Moa sas hieu ~ iurchase seteet negro nearly
hiiieu "oila, WIN Il potele, vi DehpiloSe street.
. xonng man wss l f ~ Wet Paxhnr1 ~ 'iio
=, : 4@s>S,
ane Dsloeis s.ys ,he ca.erplals nave
ihVaded Coneordia parish IN such numbers as to de-
stro 10y az prospect q cotton crop IN that parish.
, !he Dellocfat learns tnat the worms nave made
lei: appeafaice u, Tue ioMef par. OF ADAMS county
coming one month carrier than they came last year,
aitho'sh I'VE cotton IS a month later.
AN interesting OLD gentleman IN CoYngton county,
Miss, has been married three times by bis first wife
ne had three chiioren by ms second twelve and by the
thlrd eighteen. These children are all living with
Their papa, except one, killed during the war. The
OLD man Is III his seventysNth year. his wife IS forty
one, and ' the Youngest three and halt w hat Il
happy FANNY II must De
The Fort Smith Herald sars of the Cherokces We
learn from Mr. Anderson Johnson living in Flint dis
trict Cherokee naon that the census of the Chero-
kee nation has been completed and that the number
OF persons ct every race and color, including lndi-
ans not taxed, amounts to only 3D. 56 souls This
SHOWS great alihg OIL IN numbers SINCE 1885, when
the population was over 2D, 600.
Three negroes, u S. Grant, jim Richardson and
Charles Robinson have been tried in the CITY court of
Mobile for the terrible outrage committed upon the
Peters family at Dog river near Mobile and found
guilty. The jury deliberated fifteen minutes, and the
penalty they decided on is death. The court room
was densely crowded with whites and negroes the