The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-04
Miscellanen5is Items.

w hat ancient sage was Inc inventor oi aanciHg
Playtoe
One dollar is the price which fearless youth 10 Mi
souri, asks for biting off rattlesnake's head
D. According to the Cincinnati Times, the railroad
Louisville will bind the two cities together like
pair of cats tied by the tails"
Mount Whitney, in California IL, 900 feet high,
said to be the highest peak in the United States.
A magistrate asked prisoner if he was married
"No," replied the man. g Then, replied his worship
amid peals of laughter : it is good thing for you
wife,
Goldsmith must have been thinking of the "Grt
clan bend when he wrote: When lovely woma
stoops to folly"
An experienced old gentleman says all that is necet
sary for the enjoyment of love sausages is cont
, dence.
Noah built his ark with gopher wood, but how ia
he had go for wood to build with the Scriptures
not inform us.
The Protestant population in the Austrian Enpir
amounts LAC, $3.50, of whom ,220 oss are Luther
ans, and l,sl2,247 are Of the reformed faith.
The French Court Of Cessation has just decided tha
two men, who died in the galleys fifteen years ago
were innocent Of the crimes of which they were con
victed.
In consequence of religious VOW, young girl il
Aversion, England, abstaned from eating any fooG
from October last to the 10th of May. During. the
whole OF this time she took solid food land for six
teen weeks she did not even mosten her lips.
The New York Evening Post, Radical, begs its
friends not to make the issue of approving con
demning Grants administration question in the fall
election in that State But why shouldn't the Radi.
cal party be willing to be responsible for the men il
has inflicted upon the country? And why shouldn't
it be held responsible for them whether willing or
not? iPicayune
Don PIATr.-This vigorous but interruptions writer,
has lately poured his blingsgate upon Southern
| " chiVafryo and Soufharn
Have you ever paid your French creditors Don
Piatt? Do you remember that day in Paris when you
folded your tent like the Arabs
And silently stole away9
Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist.
Government contractor in Paris sent To- 900 francs
gift to the police for their services in the riots and
the following night every window in his palatal resi-
denee was smashed.
wealthy merchant, who had become bankrupt,
was met, some time after his misfortune by friend
who asked how be was going { Pretty well" said
he, +" Pm on my legs again" g How already y
" Yes; have been obliged to part with nv carriage
and horses, and now must walk"
"YoU Know" AND "sAYs HE."-Of all the abomi
nabe verbal nuisances in the whole catalogue there
are none so disgusting as you know and says he"
which some people repeat thousand times whenever
they tell an anecdote narrate facts. Let such read
the following lines, and judge Of the fitness Of such
verbal extras:
The Turk lay dreaming of the hour-you know
When Greece her knee il suppance bent-you know
Should trembe at his power-you know
Strike till the last armed foe expres-says he,
Strike for your affairs and your fres-says he
Strike for the green graves of your sires-says be-
God and your native land says he!
Inc chief OF the Cherokees is Presbyterian
preacher he of the Choctaws Baptist preacher and
he OF the Greeks Methodist preacher.
Nor FIFER.-A big, fat Dutchman up town, lost
bis case before one of Justices Of the Peace and
was served with bill Of COSTS among the other items
of which was this, 'F. Fa., (6eri faciasl 50 SO"
What, said he, as the bill was read out to him.
ifer, three dollars and half! Ineyer saw ffer
there at all. saw drummer, but never fer Three
dollars and half! can get ffer any day for four
bits"
# took long time for him to find out that f. ia.
meanta writ of execution. His exclamation was then
" Sob fought it was a Teller mid de fife"
New Orleans Times
The Catholic priest in Macinac, Michigan, declares
that marriage BY Justice Of the Peace is no mar
rage at all that parties SO married guilty Of aduL
terry; and that he will not allow them to come inside
OF his church. He has said to his congregation: 81
will put them out with the dogs where they belong
aud again: marriage outside of the Church of
Rome ID spurious, and such parties are living in open
adultery"
File, ye millions of couples throughout the socalled
civilised world Are ye not ashamed Of yourselves
In answer to the question to what the rtualists
are going to do, the Rev. Mr.. Mackonochie, of St.
Adams, replies: "We going to fight as long as
we have breath in us for the full acceptance in the
Church Of England Of the Catholic teaching which she
has received through her foreathers in tradition of
eighteen centuries, from Our Lord himsefn
&C can that p-ppup-parrot t-tertalk ?" asked
suffering fellow Of an Italian the other day.
Suppose be no can talk moche better as dat wat
Tou talk, chop he dam head off" was the reply.
No act of munifcence on the part of Mr.. Geo. Pea
body surprises anybody, for doing good by wholesale
the ordinary business of his life BE has just doubled
lis splendid gift for the of education in the
SOUTH so that the fund now amounts to less than
wo millions Of dollars, yielding annual interest of
$4,000. This income will be ample to supply all
he present needs of the charity which has been estab
lshed by our distinguished countrymans donation
nd will give each Of the Southern States, when the
apital comes to be divided, some time hence, gen
rous allowance to be invested for its future needs
Exchange. !
NEGRO soLD.-Last Monday morning, according to
office posted by the mayor, negro was sold at
ubc out-cry to the highest bidder for six months
he city of Glasgow was the purchaser at Ss and the
egro had been fined the sum of $ls by the city, and
eng unable to pay the same, was declared vagrant
nd thus disposed Of. [Glasgow (Mo.) Times, 9th.
The Rev Moses Campit an eccentric preacher was !
gliding forth in Santa Clara Valley, California !
Dung man rose to 60 out, when the preacher said,
Aouh5 Mau, u you FdLHeF 20 10 nell tlan near me
reach, you may" The sinner stopped and reflected !
moment, and then, saying respectfully, g Well, be-
eve would, went on. r
The Chattanooga Railroad Company, west of the b
issssippi, have reached the neighborhood Of Don
dsonvilie with their lines and surveys It is thought
at few miles above that town will be their point of
vergence westward. Thence their course will be in
direct line to Vermhonvie and on to San Antonio ii
Gus they expect to reach the Texas line by route
ary thirty miles shorter than the contemplated ex-
nsion OF the Opelousas railroad n o. Times N
The eloquent Mullins, ex-M. G., of Tennessee, eu-
yosing friend who had to an untimely end, u
claimed, "He sank to death in the soliloquy of his
'n blood we shall view him no more till the chaotic
rich of Gabriel wakes to living consciousness the
iyersal DOME and we shall see ourselves as others
e us in that bourne whence no traveller returns
In reference to the of black vomit already pub
bed, and from which Pierre Labasse died on the o.
th, the Board Of Health have decided that the de.
ased contracted the seeds of disease previous to leav
Havana, and that the mistake made at quarantine le
IS in not OBTAINING the St. Nazare thirteen days in G
lad OF ten. Orders have now been transmitted to -
e Quarantine Station to detain all vessels from sus-
cted ports from thirteen fifteen days. or as long y
the authorities there may deem necessary to protect 81
> health of the city. or
In this connection it deserves to be stated that the -
cent death had been preceded by excuses and
eat exposure. The house at No. III Ursuline o