The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-08-12
News Items.

Pr!Vate adTlces from Florida say tho worm s doing
! great damage to cotton.
Three chickens hatchcd by the heat of the sun
at Evansville, Ind, a few days ago.
| There is talk Of running Humphrey Marshall for
Congress from his district in Kentucky.
Gen. Grant has issued an order fixing eight hours as
days work for mechanics and lahorers employed by
the army. Sly old dog
! The Menken recently drank coteric Of Partsan
critics under the table, and the exertion was too much
for her to play the next night.
Queen Victoria will visit Switzerland after tba
prorogstion of Parliament. Her Majesty will travel
| 'Acoguto, and will pass through Paris.
Meade returns l6089 African voters in Florida. The
State census of 1857 shows only Is lo4 negro maes
OF FL and oTer. Queer, izE'ci it2 N. 7. World.
Anna Dickinson is !ccturing in the West On " Ch;i.
dFen and Marriage" which induces inpertineus Jour-
nas to Inquire if the has no. been pu. before the
horse.
Some pleasant hammered scoundrels in New York.
stopped street car and attempted to set fire TO the
dresses Of crowd Of women coming home from
pic mic.
The New York Sun denies that Grant once said he
vas Democrat The Boston Post says it is pity his
friends won't allow him the credit Of one respectable
sentiment.
The Lynchburg Republican says ahaandsome girl, Of
good and wealthy family, has gone to work under tho
auspices of the freedmens bureau as teacher OF the
Senegambian mind.
Capt. Morgan, we'll known citizen and local inspec.
tor OF the port of ST. Louis, blew his brains out with
pistol in that city the morning Of the cath instant
No cause assigned for the raah act
A gentleman who saw Hon. John Bell 4 few davs
ago, reports that Mr. Bell is partially psralysed but
is in fair health He expressed hope see Mr. Sey-
mour elected and to die q free man.
The Boston Pest is responsible for the following
Taxation without representation u6ed to be thought
bad enough, but in the Southern legislatures we now
have representation without taxation.
remarkable alteration Of the needle gun, render.
ing it capable of firing thirteen shots minute, instead
of eight, and costing only seven cents has been IN.
vented by Lieut.. Miersch, Saxon officer.
The editor Of the Rome Courier is assured BY those
who have tried it. that rats may be etfectiay driven
from any building BY sprnklng their places Of resort
With yel!o" ochTe, cheap paint to be found in any
srug store.
Uneasness is expressed at Washington about Mrs,
Lncoins visit to London under the escort of Minister
johnson, lest when she reaches the court circle she
will propose hucksterng her old clothes to the crowned
heads Of Europe.
The Co-intl Miss. News, heretofore of Radical
procivities, has hoisted the Of Seymour and
Blair at its bead. This is fair indication Of the
political tide in that part Of the downtroddeu South.
Roll on the bali.
1t ia commonly said that between nine hundred and
a thousand millions Of United States bonds are now
held III Europe. This is probably exaggeraton
but the amount cannot be less than $3.50 600 all
OF it exported within six years.
Hon. Joshua Hill, of Georgia, fails to appreciate
Gov Bullock's pleasure in Informing him that his
q disabilities" lave been removed by act of Congress
Having twice guped down the test OATH be refuses to
acknowledge that he is disabled"
A Mississippi sheriff, while bathing in the Talla-
atche river recently, discovered small iron safe
containing three thousand dollars in gold twelve hun
dred Mexican dollars aud four thousand dollars In
Confederate money. There were no papers in the
safe to show Its ownership.
An entcrprising lady in Paris hires babies, which
she rents out, handsomely dressed up to members Of
he demi monde it being fashionable for the latter to
drive out on the Bois de Bouogne with their little
ones. Twenty francs an hour charged for the
poor worms thus rented out. 5.g5 "a q
Baron Cuyier states that if the progeny Of pair ef
aerrings went on increasing and multiplying without
noesation Or destruction of the osa in twenty years
would require all the in the world to contain
he herrings that would result If only half the spawn
,ame to life, and half the young fish lived, boat
could not move In the sea.
The police, to the number of twenty, bad desper-
ste hand-to-hand conflict with large body of negroes
n Memphis the evening of the 9 t.l. The neg-oes
attempted to O! their number who had been
arrested for drunkenness and disordcry conduct.
They were finally put to rou and the ring leaders
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