The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-10-07
= News Items.

Four Radical negroes are candidates for Cos gfess
in Sonth Carolina
Missouri Radicals have distributed eighty thousand
stands OF arms throughout that State
The area over which the late earthquake IN South
America was known to extend covers 1870 miles OF
latitude by 600 oflongitude.
A sIpmaster Of Salem not yet forts five years OF
age has seen Cape Horn % times, and made, at least
five VOYAGES around the Cape Of Good Hope.
4 somnambust in st. Louis was discovered seated
on the cave of high house ready to fall at the slight
est alarm 4 dexterous fellow rescued him with a
lasso.
A man in Milwaukee, who had attempted to dispos-
sess colony of martins that had built their nests IN
der his roof was attacked and fairly driven oil the
field by the birds.
Talandigham is running for Congress against
Schench, who should spell bis name SKUNK inasmuch
bis record as man and politician emlts fouier
odors than the corpse Of Thad. Stevens.
The Northern papers hardly eyer speak of woman
now, unless is to refer to heamoun OF e@ery she
wears The latest of the kind is a New York bride
wearing hundred thousand dollars worth. -a
The negroes in the vicinity of Savannah, Ga, have
torn up the bridges leading into that city, and also
stretched ropes across the highways for the purpose
Of stopping travellers and robbing them
Horatio Seymour was never known to utter pro-
fame oath to tell vulgar story or obscene anccdote,
to be under the influence Of liquor, to enter gam
blers den, or a house Of l-fame.
$3.50 Marion Democratic Mirror.
Smoking ly ladies in Boston is the increase. An
extensive cigar dealer of that city says he sells an aV-
crage of 800 per day for adies use, and thinks 1000
per day at least putfel by the fair ones.
Iis reported that jefferson Davis will be rendered
the presidency of Randolph Macon College, at Ash
land Virginia, as soon as he is freed from the legal
embarrassment by which he Is no" ietteTed.
The success of prayer meetings in the dance house
of wickedest man in New York. has induced mis-
sionares of that city to make similar experiments IN
the offices Of jacobin newspapers there.
HEAVY on GRANT, Yesterday we asked a soldier Of
the 33d . ST. how many Grant men there were IN
lis regiment He replied, mighty few. We had one
in our company, when We were in Selma tut be de-
serted. All the rest are for Seymour
Huntsville Democrat.
The Secretaries Of the Chinese Embassy received in
Boston four thousand two hundred and s1y-seven APP
pcations for autographs Of the members. These are
mostly from ladies. Only fifteen hundred and sixty
two have been received for locks Of hair.
The Selma Times, referring to the riot at Camilla
Ga says: " 1t is the old tale. Carpetb aggers led
the negroes into violation Of the law, pushed them
into collision with the constituted authorities and then
deserted them, leaving the poor dupes to suffer the
Consequences
Brick Pomeroy puts at the head of the editorial col
lowing:
"PERsoSAL.-The editor of the Democrat lends no
money to loaors accepts no challenges from butfoons,
grants no fagors scoundrels, aud cares nothing for
the good Of i'll will of either class"
An exquisite at the White Sulphur Sulphur Springs,
Va has wardrobe carried in seven Saratoga trunks
containing sixty five full suits of clothing, twelve dozen
shirts twenty FIVE gold and diamond shirt sleeve but
TONS thirteen breasjpins, and enough rings to keep
two Of bis fingers az closely hooped all the time as
wine cask.
Two Sucker girls, driving in buggy on plank
road, were STOPPED and asked for toll. 'Uow much
is t?" For aud horsc,' replied the quite
keeper, the charge is fifty cents Well, then, git
out OF the way, for two gals and mare. Git
up, Jenny" And away they went, leaving the man
in mute asOnishment.
Gans in the votes OF both parties proportonabe to
those in the late Maine elections will give in the three
great States which bold their elections in October the
following result making the calculations upon the cleo