The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-07-28
Miscellaneous Items.

The only place in the world where you can e
blind, and then see afterwards is-at the poke
table,
The negro postmaster at Macon, Ga, has been ar
rested for having hand in the abstraction OF currency
from the-Treasury Department at Washington Thai
fact had better be kept quiet he will be appointed
to foreign mission and have dinner given him in
New York. Philadelphia Age.
Sir Henry Rawlinson has found Eden. He maintains
that the Babvlonian documents in our possession will
give the whole history which is recorded in Genesis
from the time of Abraham, The Garden of Eden, he
asserts, is the prmeval name of Babylon
new monthly paper, entitled the Divorce, is about
to be started in Paris with the object of egasing d.
vorce. The prospectus states that there not fewer
than 45 900 separated men and women living in France,
that the courts have the present moment 1888 de-
mands for separation and that moreover, the number
of couples separated voluntarily is immense.
lady whose family was very much in the habit of
making conundrums, evening asked by her
husband, in an excited tone, " Why these doors
always left open?" ~ give it up" instantly replied
the wife
Prisoner you are charged with habitual drunken
ness. What defence have you to make?"
None, your honor, but habtEal thirst"
curious incident is related of theatre in Saxony.
During performance of So Hamlet" when the mean-
choly prince soiloqused:
The undiscovered country from whose bourne
No traveller returns" @
a country fellow in the gallery exclaimed, "Stupid
didn't you your fathers spirit last night9 Where
do you think he came from?"
Intelligence from San Antonio reports the Gnada-
loupe river higher than before known. The en-
tire valley is overlooked Nine-tenths Of the crop of
Gonzales county is destroyed. Comal River rose to
the third story of the cotton factory New Braunfes
and destroyed all the material and machinery. Every
Touring mill and wooden factory and every bridge
the river is swept away No lives lost at Basrop
or Webberville The Colorado is going down, but the
Brazos is still rising slowly. Galveston Dispatch.
Senator Trumbull and Brigham Young have had
little tiff The latter expressed his Intention at in
tervew, to drive some of the Federal officials out of
the Mormon territory and the former retorted the
effect that he had better not do it, Polygamy then
under discussion, with no better result Brigham had
better put good face on the matter and hold his
tongue 1t is the Gentiles turn now, and his oppos
ton to them is likely to prove prophecies. Times.
A CURE FOR WARrs-Warts are very troublesome
and disfguring. The following is perfect cure, and
even of the largest without leaving 1t is
Frenchmans prescription and has been tested by the
writer: Take small piece of raw beef, steep it all
night in vinegar cut much from it will cover the
wart and tie it on if the excresence is on the fore
head asen it with strips of sticking plaster. 1t
may be removed in the day, and put on every night.
In fortnight the wart will peal off. The same pre-
scription will cure corns.
A small darkey of Montgomery, Ala, sent out to
pick berries the other day, butoned himself up closely
in the remnant of yankee overcoat When be re-
turned, his mother observed it, and accosted him
What you dat thick coat for such hot day as
dis? ~ Cause NANNY" replied the loyal boy, " de
Yankees does it." "You're little fool said the in
dignant old nanny; do you spose de Yankees got as
much sense as we 'Mericans has?"
S1GN1F1cANT.-Gov. Pease has for some days past
been in Washington correcting the opinions
and impressions of Texas lawlessness, and Gen. Rey-
nolds has expressed willingness for early election
in this State. Jimplecute, 10th.
The New York World says that Grant is to have his
life insured in order to settle some policy.
The editor of the Trinity Advocate took trip re-
Gently through the country, and reports the crops
spotted" and sorry with strong probability of
an early invasion of the cotton fields by the army
worm.
Belle Boyd, now Mrs. Hammond, is in San Fran
cisco, very ILL., Her ex-husband, Wylde Hardnge, is
also resident of the city. He is not inclined
to quarrel with the present husband.