Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-05-16


 1 -Coloncl Michael Harmon, of Stanton, purchased the Virginia natur- al bridge at auction, week ago, for S9,300.
 - Three women in New ' ork have formed partnership as designers and en- gravers on wood, and advertise for busi- ness.
 -There ia a oentleman in paris who appears at his club Tn pair Of white pantaloons on ihe 2lst of every March, and he calls that inaugurating spring.
 --A Chicago girl of swee. nineteen now sports her fifth husband His four predecessors enjoyed married life for six months to q year each
 --A tarmer in Maine fell on pitch fork recently. The thine passed through his neck between the windpipe and the jugular vein, but injuring neither.
 "A child aged three years stabbed his brother, aged eight years, at district school in West Scituate, Massachusetts, one day last week inficting wound that will probably prove fatal.
 -A rupture between the President and Secretary McCulloch is reported by Washington correspondents, who say he will resign on Monday, or just as soon as the vote is taken on impeachment, whether the President is convicted on not.
 "A party from Louisiana has arrived in Washington, to ask the passage of a law ordering a new elec- ton in that State, on account of frauds i'll New Orleans and a Democratic ma iorty in the State Senate, which will obstruct the ratification of the four tecnth article.
 -Thc London Times of the 20th says It is stated on competent author- ity that at this moment at least 10000 workingmcn, colliers, iron workers, and others, are "at play that is on strike, doing nothing or perhaps worse than nothing. because they and their employers cannot agree as-to the wa ges which in the present condition of trade ought to be paid for work.
 One by one the European resi- dests in Japan are searching out the little pecularities of the Japanese, and airing them for our benefit. We learn that Japanese scissors are in the shape of our sugar tongs-of steel--and sever articles freely as the blades approxi- mate by pressure. Their looking glasses are highly burnished steel. They use a very elastic, transparent silk paper in window frames instead of glass; and more firm opaque sub stance of the same. stretched on frames as partitions inside their dwellings.
 The People of Texas have pretty generally abandoned the culture of cotton, and gone to stock raising. | This year hides form the principal ar ticle of commerce, and i'll order to keep | the supply equal to the demand they | are killing cattle ou the prairies for the hides alone. for which they obtain | l2lac per pound, in specie. There is a | total absence of "greenbacks' in the | interior. Mexican specie is the circu- | lating medium. On the coast currency is taken at 30 cents on dollar, but in ! the interior it is refused.
 "A gentleman living near Ports mouth, Ohio, has identified a ghost. | His family had been often annoyed by | ghostly visitations during his absence. He concluded to "'possum" absence, but watch at home for the spook. The says; About midnight his ghostship appeared and commenced his spiritual manifestations The watcher with revolver in hand. slyly ! slipped 10 the door, opened it sudden ly, and laid violent hands upon his vistant Bringing him into the house, a light was struck, the winding sheetF torn of. and there stood revealed, to his astonished gaze, the form of one of his neighbors, who had long been anxi- ous to purchase the haunted house, and had taken this course to depreciate its value. He went down upon his Knees aud begged his captor not to cx- pose him, and he, after judicious ap- plication of COW hide, turned the rascal put. The house has not been haunted, 'ince