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

Mr.. George w. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger
not long ago presented to peraOHs employed reapon
sbe positions in the Ledger Office life insurance pol
cies amounting in the aggregate to s4o,HN0, under
taking at the sane time pay the premium, abou
$4,000 per annum for ten years at the expiration 0
which time the policies become, by their terms self
paying. Mr. Childs goe, to Europe next month with
his wife Oh a tour in search Of rest and health.
SUDDEN DEATH OF 4 SINGULAR PERsos.-Miss Mary
Uurlburt was found dead in her bed September II
This the eccentric Miss IIuglburt from whose per
son DR.. Sumner, at Rochester, extracted, about
ten years since, such incredible number OF needles
aud pns-moru than three hundred in number She
would never give any account Of the in which
they were introduced whether she swallowed them
thrust them directly into her flesh nor did her
friends by watching her find out. They were
found at different times working the surface of al
most every part of the body but chiefly Oh the limbs.
lady, who refused believe the stories about their
removal states that she vent to satisfy herself, and
DR.. Sumner extract nearly fifty from arm.
Tie girl seemed to be very little affected by the opera
ton. SusQuehauna {N.f independent
PENNSYLVANIA THE DECISIVE TEST The Maine
election points the election of Gen. Grant by ma
iority something like Lincon's majority Of the eecto-
raj in 1854 The October State elections in Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Indiana will settle the question:
From all the developments before us Ohio and Indi-
already back again in the channel of the
paign of S64 but have nothing very definite as
vet of the drift of public opinion in PENNSYLVANIA al
though it will doubtless be carried by the general pop
ular pressure Last year, vote which fell short
of the vote OF 1866 some sixty thousand the Demo
carried the State by nine hundred majority. In
1866, full vote, the Republicans elected their
Governor by seventeen thousand.< The same issues
being up again now, the result may follow in the
coming October election, and if go the Presidential
election will be settled and tie general election of
November will be reduced a mere formalitT.
IF we may believe sad story fair relative Of the
Governor of New York State has had a renal kable
career Louisa J. Fenton was her eight years
ago, when she maiden beauty OF seventeen She
found her fate in the person of young Of good
family, whom she loved altogether too WELL but who
finally married her under legal advice. She had been
wife hardly year, when the conduct Of her husband
in the way of nfdeity enabled her to get divorce.
When free she came to Boston, fascinated gentleman
of means in this city, and married. Going to
New Tor, year after, she fell in with her former
husband, the old love came back and she soon gave
her her new husband ample cause for securing d.
vorce, which he did. As soon the decree was en-
tered she remarked to her first love. This time
they held together until some six months ago, when
the old trouble caused new divorce and now the
handsome thrice divorced woman is engaged to rich
and prominent New Y orler. Boston Post.