The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-08-05
News Items,
SHREVEPORT

News Items. s- -ss
The Alabama House of Representatives lately passed
resolution compelling its black chaplain to cut down
the length of his prayers What "kruel treatment
How the Radicals regard the Southern States-With
niger eye ian eager eye).
Vienna letter writer tells of seeing lady in the
first circles there drink four quarts of beer at one sit
ting
It is stated that of those who become insane from
liquor eighty.seven per cent. also use tobacco. ~
Anna Dickinson maliciously declares that Grants
whisky record is not half as Infamous as his Indian
baby record in California" O. gentle Anna" what
tongue you have!
In the socalled Legislature of the Grant and Cofax
party Of South Carolina, are eighty negroes, who can
petber read nor write. Is the hall well ventilated?
The State census of Florida for 1861 shows popu-
lation Of 81, 9s4 whites, and 1866 negroes total
15s659, increase of 1926 on the census OF 1860.
In Virginia the negroes in the penitentiary let
out to vote for the carpetbaggers mongrel constitu
ton This is what Grant means by saying {" be-
lieve the negro may be made very useful"
VIII Grant live to get back from his Western trip
Doubtful, for he promised Washbure before he started
that g SO help him God he would not touch drop Of
whisky while he was gone" If God helps him this
time, it will be more than be did before.
sister of Miss Schafer the young lady of Alexan-
dra, Va, who lately burned to DEATH and whose
afanced lover committed suicide from grief has since
died in consequence of her sorrow at the double Attic
ton .. ~.
The Atlantic cable tariff is to be reduced after Sep
TENDER st to very reasonable figure, $12 so in gold
for ten words between any point in Great Britain and
New York or New England.
Mr. Burngame says the Chinese have more books,
encyclopedias, pamphlets, magazines, &C., than any
other people,. Their principal encyclopedia embraces
five thousand volumes. Have they Congressional
Printing bureau? = s.t ar. =
Mr. Pendleton opened his canvass for Seymour and
Blair by great speech, at Grafton, in West Virginia,
on the 10th. 1t is very thorough exposure of Radi
calism and resates, with distinctness his favorite
ideas on the subject of finance. es a--Z
There are 1000 Jews and six synagogues in Chicago
They pay annually $50 900 for religious purposes and
have just finished hospital at expense of 3oOO0
which sum they raised in two days They claim six
converts to the Jewish faith from Christianity.
On the California end of the Pacific railroad they
have already cut fifteen tunnels in distance of 137
1863 feet and the aggregate length of the fifteen is
would astonish the Old World engineers.
The smoke from the late excftable volcano in the
Sandwich Islands foated off in line of thousand
miles across the sea, and thick and dense was it
five hundred miles from Hawaii that Captain Stone, of
the brig Kamchameha Y, was unable to take an OBJ
serration.
The trees throughout Louisville are covered with
caterpllas, and they drop down the necks of young
ladies' dresses, causing them much Distress and put
ting young to the dsagreeabe necessity of prob
ing for the "cussed things" with their fingers 1t is
right embarrassing.