The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-06-24
News Items.
The King of Siam has eighty-one children

i Prentice thinks Butler is squirting towards the
& Presidency.
The National Inteligencer says the New York
World is advocating Radicalism.
Kit Carson leaves fge penniless orphan children,
all under fifteen
Franklin Pierce is the only man living ever elected
i President.
Brigham Young has contract to grade the Union
Pacific Railroad from the head of Echo Canon to Salt
Lake, and has begun work.
/ Mr. Gladstone has given his consent to have his
name proposed for Chancellor of Ednburg University
The Bishop of London has put the President OF the
United States into the pray book along with the royal
family.
The New York Tribune equivocally says of Revenue
Commissioner Rollins: I" He will carry with him, III
his retirement, the thanks OF the country.
It is said the internal revenue department will fall
tbirty6ve million dollars below Mr.. Rollins estimate
Hence his resignation.
The Sugar Planter says nearly two hundred persons
have Maid their internal revenue tax i'll West Baton
Rouge. -.-."
/ A Southwestern paper states that the Radical party
CONQUERED peace" Prentice responds, AYE, con
uuered it. and against all the rules OF war; put 1t TO
| DEATH"
The Newburyport Herald thinks that Gen. Schouier
will be the conservative candidate TOR Representative
in that district against General Butler,
The congregation of the Church of tire New Jerusa
lem in Boston has voted pay to its late PASTOR the
Rev Thomas Worcester, D. D, $1,000 year during
the remainder OF his lie.
The New York evening Post Colfax Of fine
writing" like college exercise, in his letter OF &C
cepance.
casket of jewels, the property of lady of rank,
was lately sold at auction in London tor upwards u
100000.
1t is stated that Coburn and McCoce cleared $4,000
tickets They chartered the
in partnership.
| The Cincinnati Commercial says Mr.. B. F. Butler
has faculty of exciting public disgust such US few
men possess.
A ,London critic says Of Mile. CASTELAR,, the French
volinist that her violin must be the coffin in which
is buried the soul of Paganini."
The Saturday Review says: "Three women, and
three only, endowed with true poetica faculty, have
lived in England during this century. They Eiz
abeth Barrett Browning, Christina Ro2setti and Emily
| Bront6"
Hereafter no one in the French army will
white plume in the hat except marshas and generals
of division ntrusted with important commands
The Sultan of Turkey has Just ordered to be manu-
featured in Paris silver table, the price OF which will
not be less than 5000, 900 francs.
An exchange reports very natural comment on the
aeronauts action i'll throwing bottle of claret over
board tol tighten the balloon. Said Pat land why
the divil didn't they drink it?"
France and Italy have really been in diplomatic cor
resppndence about the Italian organ grinders in Paris
Some have already been sent back and the to
be dealt with in like manner.
/ A French woman once said she never loved any
thing You loved your Children, suggested friend.
"When they we're SMALL she replied. "And you
love diamonds" "When they are large" she replied.
California promises to become of the chief raj
sin-producing countries in the world The best grape
for the purpose is one of the Malaga variety Last
| f,r,r iSa1 . x
Russia is simplifying the drill os her army, devot-
ing all care to making the soldiers perfect in such
! eyoutions as may be practced in actual warfare.
An unfortunate actress in one Of the Paris theatres
recently received tribute of decaycd apples. On be-
ing condoled WITH she repNed well, Mile Patti
gets all the flowers; some one must have the fruit"
committee of the Massachusetts Legislature re-
ports that one-ha of the children engaged in the fac
tory service die before they reach the age of eighteen
in consequence of overwork and long hours.
1t is stated that it takes $4,000 worth Of gold to
gld the china made annually in England. The
trades using standard gold buy it in clipped sover
eigns at the mint.
A company has been formed, with capital of nearly
$4,000, to cultivate asparagus the of England
for the London market. Nearly million plants are
already set.
apprenticeship and the general adoption of machinery
the of the present scarcity of first class
workmen in various branches.
Butler has had Two hundred and nnetytwo tele.
grams seized at the different Offices one hundred of
which are Wooley's.
The Paris Steele says that the Chassepot rifles
having been manufactured in sufficient number for the
French arsenals, the War Department has issued or
ders for the immediate manufacture of rihed cannon"
The Rev. Dr. George R. Noyes, well known bibli-
cal scholar and for the last twenty eight years pro-
fessor in the Divinity school connected with Harvard
University, died on June Sd, i'll his list year.
The five finest soprano singers of the day-Patti,
Titens, Kellogg, Lucca, and Nilssou-are in Lon
don.
The Rev. Mr.. Punshon, being requested to address
the Methodist Conference at of their sit
tngs, said: speech is silver, silence is golden says
the proyerb. l do not happen to have any small
change about me this morning. WIFE you accept the
god?"
Goldfish weighing forty pounds, recently tell
victim to his own gluttony, al Little Harbor N. H. |
He got into well, and was helping himself to the
small fry, when he left high and dry by the tide
When opened thirtythree fish found in his sonl-
ach, none of them deeomposed
A lad about twelve years of age in Gardiner. Ne,
fell backwards from the staging of barn to the ground
distance OF twentyseven feet, striking among the
rocks, his head hitting one and chopping off d small
piece of the stone. Wonderful as it may seem the
boy escaped with slight fracture of the skull and
broden arm. He is comfortable and doing well.
The Aboriginal Australian Cricketers have PLAYED
their first match in England, and suffered disastrous
defeat. Their opponents Eleven taken from
the Surrey Club who scored 222 in one inning to 2l5
scored BY the Australians in two innings.
An English clergyman, after reaching a charity
sermon at Cantiy, went to the village fair and was
arrested as pick pocket 1t required great efforts on
the part of his friends to get him clear after several
days confinement.
drawing of one of the proposed schemes for
bridging the English Channel is on exhibition in Lon
DON 1t involves the construction of thirty-sx pillars
in the sea- at distances of half MILE tower one hun
dred feet above the water IL
The New York Sun Of recent date says: "Gen-
era Beauregard, who is stopping at the New York
Hotel says in reference to the probable course of the
Southern delegations in the Democratic National Con-
venon, that it is extremely improbable that the vote
OF single Southern State be cast for the Demo-
cratic candidates, and therefore the Southern Democ
racy have no right to advise much less insist upon the
adoption OF any special nominee by their Northern
allies. The duty of the South is this Accepting its
SITUATION 1t will do its utmost sustain whatever can
ddate shall appear most available and most likely to
secure success III the Judgment of the Northern dale