The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-11-06
No.. x.
News Items.
General "Joen Hooker is in Switzerland.

General "Joen y Hooker is in Switzerland
Silver earrings, very long and attenuaed, are com
ing into fashion.
Last year less than one-quarter of the births in
Boston were of American parents; sixty per cent.
were purely foreign.
A cheap funeral is the latest French invention.
It is hearse which carries priest and mourners,
we'll as the coffin.
Speaker Cofax, in recent speech at Worcester O.,
declared himself in favor of making the President
dance air."
small boy, in Buffalo, died suddenly, and al in
quest was held when the jury decided that he died
of an overdose of vernuse
Three years ago James Carson, of Hartford, Conn,
advertised that he had lost $780, but he never received
it until last week, when it was returned to him.
Despite the gloom and duness that pervade New
Orleans, the Picayune notices all sides signs of
preparation for the fall business season. in the retting
of stores and repenishng of stocks of merchandise
A fashionable lady OF Reading Pennsylvania
found in the streets of that city recently in state of
intoxication, and uttering shocking language. gen
tleman acquaintance happened to meet her, and
Quoted her home.
Two boys robbed mans watermelon patch, in
Crawford county, Indiana, short time since The
fruit had been poisoned by the owner. One of the
boys died from the FEAST and the other is in dying
condition.
Base ball shoes have become extensive article of
commerce. manufacturer at Lynn has, this season,
made and sold thirty thousand pairs of these
fshoes They are made with canvas uppers and stout
soles and are intended more for use than ornament
OF the costly churches now being erected in Boston,
one is Catholic, one Unitarian and one Trnitarian
Congregationalst. The Unitarians erecting two
others; and the Episcopalians are about adding two
more, not specially expensive
One Charles Nathan has made contract with the
Brazilian Government by which he binds himself to
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five thousand persons in the space of eighteen months
in direct from New Orleans, Mobile and other
Southern ports of the United States.
| A Young Detroit girl Tilted youth Of 81, to whom
she was engaged, for the affections of an admrer of
the ripper age of So. The youngster thereupon shot
his rival; the girl has gone crazy, and the murderer
has prospect of being hanged A sad termination
to caprice and ungoverned passion.
Edward White, the Milwaukee pork packer, who
filled his barrels with salt and sand, has been
fenced to three years in the State Prison.
| gentleman, accompanied by his sister and another
young lady, sailed in sbif all the way from ST. Paul.
Mimi, to Galena. The distance is 400 miles, and it
was accomplished in nine days.
! One of Maximans officers, Baron de Lsc, who
escaped sentence of death in Mexico died of fever in
New York.
! There is female brass band in Decatur, Illinois,
Three years ago little girl, five years old, in Fall
River Mass, pushed button up her nose, where it
remained, and has since been a constant of
pain. A few days since, after annoying the little girl
for three years. the button of the nostril,
greatly the relief of the little girl and her parents,
who had doubted about its being there.
| Tie following conversation occurred between
graccess boy and his teacher "What does your
father do when he sits down at the table," He
asks for the brandy BOTTLE 81 don't mean that.
Well then, what does your mother do when you sit
down at the table," "She says she will wiring our
necks if we spill any grease the floor"
The Vicksburg Herald saws there is a grocer in that
city who gets rid of his rotten eggs by putting them in
a barrel near the door, and the darkes steal them
negro fred three shots at Mr. Curry of Starkville,
on the 18th ult., when the latter fired and shot him
dead. The fellow had stolen Mr, Curry's mule.
A school teacher has been arrested in Buffalo for
beating pupil with broom handle.
The national airs have lately been hssed repeatedly
in the Memphis places of amusement.
The Hartford Courant begins short article "Thc
attention of dogs is called to advertisement in an
other column"
It is understood the purpose of the visit of General
Beauregard the President and General Grant to
have restored to him certain lands which he near
Memphis, and which now occupied by Frcedmens
Bureau officers.
! Horace Greeley, in recent article in the Tribune,
says bavey that he regards the signing of the Davis
babond as one of the noblest acts Of his life and
confidently trusts that most of those who now con-
denim him therefor will live honor him fer that act
more than for any other.