The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-11-18
SHREVEPORT;
NOVEMBER is, 1868.
Miscellaneous Items.

Great Britain raises 10000, 600 bushels OF wheat
this years, 100000 more than last year.
The Philadelphia tax lists for 1868 contain 7, 1o2
more names than those of the previous year.
The wines and liquors belonging to the estate of the
Ax-President Buchanan sold BY auction for
$1,000.
Oregon has tremendous crop this year, but is at
loss what to do with it as 1t has no facilities for
porting it.
The value of dry goods entered at the port of New
York from abroad, during last week, amounted to
81 100000.
More than 100000 life policies are in force in the
State of New York, representing upward OF Sl,ooo-
100000 in risks.
A Young physician, asking permission of lass to
kiss her. she replied, NO. sir never like doctors
bill stuck in my face"
writer in Saturday Night says Woman is a
fact" "Facts, says ssirey Camp, "are stubborn
things not easy drove" .~s sz=
4s In lo" Vermont out of 7s 900 children, only 3d.
900 go to school. That for the heavy Radi
cal maortesup that way.
The Brazilian Government has offered a reward of
$4,000 in gold to the inventor of any mode Of
preserving beeffor expectation.
Owing to the failure Of the cereal crops in Guate-
naIa the import duty all cereals, vegetables and
lard has been abolished until 1870.
It is estimated that Missouri has gained $50 900 in
population since the war. Large bodies of immigrants
are settling in the western counties
man lately died ia Paris, who left 800, 000 to his
wife on the condition that she would pass every day.
from An. to Pm. in his tomb.
Not much Of that corn will be wasted for making
bread" says the Louisville Journal of an excellent
crop OF corn from a Bourbon county farm.
The London streets placed in single straight line,
would reach as far as from Liverpool to New York.
1t takes 100000 lamps to illuminate the city at night
The Masonic fraternity of Georgia and Florida have
established polytechnic school at cambridge, Ca,
which will add much to the educational facilities of
that section.
vessel is building at New York larger than any
other in the world, except the Great Eastern. She
will be named the America, and is designed for the
China trade.
The Greensboro (N. CO. Patriot mourns over the
exodus of the people of that section westward, and
states that thirty good citizens of that county started
fast week for Missouri. n-
Mr. Edwin Forrest signed check in New York a
few DAYS since for S65 900 in favor of Mrs Cathane
Sineair-hs former wfe-the proceeds in part of the
old divorce judgment in her favor.
There have arrived in California 1O7 900 Chinese,
of whom 5000 have died. and 40 600 have returned to
China leaving on the coast Chinese population of
81 900, exclusive Of those born here.
A REPRoAcH-At spiritualstic meeting in Green
field, at which two lawyers happened to be present,
the spirit declared himself to be the devil aud re-
Syracuse has the champion female pedestrian She
lately walked Fl fly miles in nine hours and fifty min
utes. The last twenty five miles were accomplished
in four hours weight minutes and twenty-five sec
onds.
The comets which have recently come within the
range of astronomical vision to have satisfactorily
established the fact that they both gaseous and
selflumnous, one of them consisting of volatlised
carbon.
1t being limited to barrister who wearying the
court with long and dull argument that he ought to
bring it to close he angry replied, 81 will speak
long as please!" "You have spoken longer than
you please already" said his antagonist.
Pennsylvania has greater length of railroad than
any other State The first four are: Pennsylvania
43l1 miles; Ohio, 1898 miles; New York. 3245
miles; illinois, 1924 miles. In 1860, Pennsylvania
was the fourth State, having only 259s miles.
The Baton Rouge Advocate says white man 93
years of age travelled ten miles in order to register
Port Hudson but finding the registry closed, went to
Redwood, fifteen miles further in order to register
next day. What an example to many younger men !
hospital for "women who are disguised with their
husbands has been proposed in Cleveland but
vass of the prospective candidates for admission
showed that half the buildings in the town would be
required to accommodate the patients and the project
has been abandoned for the present.
1t has just beer discovered in Rondout, New York,
that one of the hotels has for twelve years been steal
ing its gas from the gas company. The proprietor
long ago erected woks If to manufacture his gas
and then pipe under ground and tapped the
main pipe which supplied customers of the company.
For great many years the Russians have made use
of the expansive properties of freezing water in quar-
rying opera tons In they drill crevices in the
marble and fill them with water. The cold of winter
causes the water to act a wedge, and enormous
masses of marble thus detached with the smallest
expenditure Of manual labor
Twenty seven million dollars Of gold interest were
dabursed Monday, and on the first of January next
thirty millions will pass into the pockets of the
bondholders who rule the Government and pay no
taxes. Who says the greatest privilege of the people
is not the privilege OF being taxed?
"A dandy strutting about tavern, took up pair of
green specaces which lay on the table, put the mon
his nose, and turning to the looking glass said Land
lord, how do these become me?' " Don't you think
they improve my looks ?" think they do, replied
the landlord, they hide apart of your face.'
Louis Napoleon, it is stated is contemplating an i'm
undertaking in the enlargement of the canal
tending from the town of Agde, on the Mediterranean
Bordeaux, on the Gironde. The cost of the work.
1t il estimated will reach the of S9A 900 GOO and
the of the improvement will be the :" Maritime
Canal of the Two Seas"
Principles before men, says your statesman but that
is reversing the order of things. Were men made
before principles Adam six feet in his slippers
before he troubled himself with the shadow of piin-
cipe and the principal thing that troubled him after
that was vile. In the latter respect great many
since resemble Adam.
A large zinc establishment is in operation at
Mosey Creek, some twenty miles more from Knox
vile, on the line of the East Tennessee and Virginia
railr DAD, at which already than 100000 have
been expended in machinery and buildings etc, which
affords considerable amount Of tonnage for the Nr
gina and Tennessee Air Line railway.
The Anti Slavery Standard, Wendell Phillips organ
is already betayng alarm in regard to- Grant, and
presses itself fearful that he will give way to the
tolerant and conservative wing of the Radical party
1T him of tile thunders in store in Of such
expectations being realised and shows its teeth in
threat Of actual bull dog significance.
Rather neat thing that, said by Chief Justice Chase
IN late conversation on the election: The Demo-
Gratis refused to take for their candidate because
the friend Of the negro and the Republicans re-
fused to take me for their candidate because the
friend of the white man." The Chief Justice should
recolect the Biblical maxim about serving two masters
his fate will be in the future it has been in the
past-between two stools. pa i
i GREAT CAgHEDRAL-The Roman Catholics of
London about to erect cathedral that will rival
any of the cahedras Of the continent The site selected
is in Westminster, Buckingham Palace. The
building is memorial to the late Cardinal Wiseman,
,bne r}o5 5oac Arob