The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-12-02
Miscellaneous Items.

Brick Pomeroy has dnbbed Gen. Grant the patent
cigar holder.
Mexico IN three centuries has produced IS, 300 900
in silver bullion.
Forty Canadian girls have been imported fora Mas
sachusetts rubber factory.
Philadelphia false teeth manufacturer makes over
two millions of teeth annually.
tits said that Harriet Beecher Stowe has son in
the Binshampton 1nebrate Asylum.
The hair of james Ferguson, Of Buffalo, worker
in copper, has turned perfectly green.
Three girls joined hands and jumped off London
bridge, committing suicide in company.
In the newest style Of boot the pointed and
curve upward, elongated like Chinese slippers.
The prosecutions of President Johnson are not yet
ended Miss Ann s. Stephens is writing bis life.
The World states that Mr.. Grisworld expended $3.50
900 i'll securing 900 majority for his opponent.
Tennessee says she has had the Oldest of all cur old
men-one Of her inhabitants having died at the age Of
| 154.
Gen. Sheridan saws that he lately saw herd Of buff
falocs ninety-ive miles long and twenty-five miles
| wide.
Hon c. l. Vallandgham has severed bis connection
with the DAYTON Ledger and returned to the practice
Of the law.
A local editor Of New Ofleans paper eloped with a
| two headed woman. Bold man to risk woman with
two tongues.
-Four hundred and thirtr.ive wells we're being
put down in the entire oil field Of Pennsylvania on the
| lst of November.
| A National Convention of Woman Franz hise advo
Gates is called to meet in Washington during the first
week in December.
An English paper contains the advertisement tor
sale of A Storm at Sea with rolling waters-he whole
weighing two tuns"~
In New Hampshire cove what gets raving drunk
and beats his mother within inch OF herllie, IS
called dipsomaniac. z-.-.-,..
| The negro revival preacher who accompanies his
hymns the ba]o has Just added to his repertoire
| hallelrjah breakdown.
! 1t took two men whole day to open and burn the
letters from Office seekers that Grant found waiting his
return to Washington. a
| Dr. Abel Stevenson, the eminent Methodist h1sto-
Ran. is now engaged on History Of Mahomet-his
| Religion and Followers
Female engravers earn in New York $40 a week.
The Number of wemen employed in the work OF en-
| craving is rapidly increasing.
Two donestirs in. Lee Mass. have recently been
hereavcd of a relative, who left them S7eD0O each
with which 10 mourn his loss.
European physicians, it IS said, have successfully
used electricity to restore persons who have taken an
overdose Of laudanum or opium
Dr. Vim Hereford of Pontotac, Miss, died on the
ID inst. aged 50 years. lie of the first and
most respected settlers of the county.
The wellknown I.orillards, of New York build
ing an establishment at Loniseie for re drying to-
bacco It will employ about 100 people 49,
Paris yearly $50 pounds Of bread for each
Individual; New York only $50 pounds. La New
| York they eat less bread and more meat
Tn Australia they have fenced in 10000 acres where
osriches kept, and it is found that the feathers OF
a full grown bird will sell for 800 year.
The standing army Of the United States consist OF
49, 74l exclusive of 1910 belonging TO the engineer
corps and other special arms of the service.
An unfortunate man is the printer. AT the office
they charge him with all the pi he does fnd and
his boarding house with all the pi he don't find.
few DAYS ago Miss Anna Surrat sister Of John H..
was crowned Queen of Love and Beauty at tonrna-
ment in Virginia. John is pcrambnating the country.
About one hundred and sixty barrels Of ale we're run
off into the sewers Of Buffalo the other day, the night
| Waterman having been drowned in the vat containing
The Princess of Prussia, who is the Oldest daughter
| Of Queen Victoria has six children. The youngest is
six months old the next eighteen. She was married
! in 1857.
It's stated that the problem for moiistes now is o
garment that will permit females TO bestrde the We
locipede In opinion there will be nothing modest
about it.
In moral and Radical Massachusetts, last year, there
were upward Of thirteen thousand five hundred com
mitmcnts for crime Seventy eight of the cases were
for murder, mansang liter and rape.
! An Alabama editor in putting grocery kept by a
woman says: "IIer tomatoes are as red as her own
cheeks her indi blue as her own eyes; and her
pepper as hot as her own temper"
In Josh Billings essay qnails, find the follow
ing In sum forrin parts they nre ct for food but it
would take crate deal pepper to lokate them
in my stummuk and keep then: thare.'
/" l. this what ladies weaT around their waists?
asked country youth of friend who clerk in
dry goods store. "0f set is,' returned the
connter,jumper with miscellaneous wink
The number of letters passing through the British
Pnstofice since the transmission by rail commenced,
las been increased from 10000, 600 to 7h5 100000
and in this COUNTRY from 4O,O00,0oo to 40h,Oo0,o0o.
Gen JuGson Kiipatrick has pockeed the charges Of
Gen Forrest and now stands branded bv the latter as
| "a liar A pnltroon and a coward" He evidently pre-
fers the integrity of his skin to that of his reputation
| jaw Cooke is president Of newly formed evaneci-
cal association in New York. t.re purpose OF which Is
to intersntrse moral and religious truths among the
miscellaneous advertisements of all the leading period
! icas ~
The Ucmpstead Cnuntrvnan speaking of the uni
yersal use of specie in Texas outside OF Galveston,
saws in some in the State greenbacks are never
seen at ALL and would be great curiosity Bank
OF England notes.
new method Of preventing election frauds by the
Identification OF voters mas DePn pFopoStu ~ is
other than reqnng the deposit of photograph at the
time the voter is registered. That is what we would
call facing it through.
A farmer who lives in C IardScrnbte" Central New
York, saws that, owing the drouth and poor land
together his grass short he had to "ther it be-
fore he could it, and, when il was dry to rake II
| with fnetooih comb
| The Emperor of Austria is a hard worker He is
very systematic in his labOrs and clears Off the days
! business before he leaves it; and the way he cuts
through the red tape is astonjsher to the old grizzly
heads which surround him.
The Boston Advertiser says: 1t II said that there
are acorns enough within three miles of jefferson,
| Texas to fatten three thousand hogs" Bingham,
Batter Ashley Fitzpatrick aud Donnely ought to make
up "A party and 90 out there.
| Tie Republican politicians, both black boys and
boys in blue, failing TO obtain permission from Gen
Grant to give him blazing reception, will light their
torches to welcome the Radical Congressnen Oh the
| night Of the 7th December.
! The members of the New York fire department are
reonred to become familiar with the interiors of the
buildings in their districts, that they work to
greater advantage in case Of fire. and it is intended to
have constant patrol of french, similar to that Of
the police department.
Gen. Horace Brooks, Colonel Of the Fourth Arti
lery, who succeeds Cen Candy in command at Wash