The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-06-16
Briefs.

If Grant hasn't dons big business absolutely, ne
has rsiatiasty. Prentice,
The Boston Post thinks celery and onions q surer
remedy for Heak breath than weak nerves.
| The celebrated Or. Rush, Of Philadepis died re.
| Gently at the advanced age Of eighty four
The widow Of Mr.. Colt, Of pistol fame, IaHents her
husbands death over an income Of 100000 a year.
| Poor woman.
A grandnece Of the Duchess D'AbFante Marshal
Junots wife. is now member Of the Partisan dena5-
! monde
1t is said that FIVE hundred years ago there was but
one kind of Canary Bird but the original stock has
been so mixed and adulteTatad that the varieties
/ number at least tifty
The Mayer Of Bastrop Texas, has been arrested for
stealing the gates and pckets around the grave
yard. a Texas editor thinks that Mayor ought 80 be
sent to Congress
! Ex-Lieut Go7esnor Reynolds, OF Missouri, on the
9th ut, restored the original great seal of the State
of Missouri neatly encased in box of ebony. It had
been in his possession since the inception OF the
late civil war Elk.
Butler urges The Administration to take decided
steps with England on the Alabama question. The
Government ',ss done already-took EN- all back
wards Times.
The Radical party Of Pennsylvania is said to be on
the point of q tremendous split We hope they may
split each Others heads open with an axe.
! In India the white ants have such gnawing propen
sites and such sharp teeth that they up the wooden
ties of railways and is in serious contemplation to
substitute iron lies and build iron bridges. Sharp
fellows those white ants but our black ones would
walk off with cast-iEon stove if it not red hot
/ Some so1red cid bachelor, who has, no doubt felt
prnnella many time and oft, ut!ers the following
which he thinks wit: " Don't speak i'll of old maids.
| They the true angels who have refused to make
man miserable ~ marrying him.
/ Mr.. Motley expresses himself very amiahiy TO the
British Government, from which the leading English
papers anticipate peaceful and satisfactory adjust
mant of all difficulties. They are disposed 70 snub
little Sumner We feel sorry for poor Charles do
indeed
Mexican Statesman takes the position that all the
treaties with England, Fra and Spain annulled
by their intervention in Mexico and claims that
necessary before payment of the foreign debt
can be even considered This might be called her old
way to pay old debts.
Castor oil cocktails said to be favorite bever-
/ age in Alsska,
I Our stad and sober contemporary, the Picayune, has
actually been guilty Of little pleasantly In speak
ing of the Chnaman and the California sharpers who
neither get his money get him to vote right,
and 50 disguised with him, il says: mo doubt he
has his vices and have the Others and if the pot
should call the kettle black neither should stone
ware call Chinaware by hard names"
The New Orleans Times complains of the appoint
ment of many negroes the city police. 1t says
it is sufficiently huniliatng for white be ar
rested by negro under any circumstances; but to be
arrested by negroes acting under the orders Of negroes
is scarcely to be endured.
The papers making somewhat of s TODD over
the outrages pepetrated at the Arlington cemetery by
Federal soldiers, who would not permit flowers to be
strown the graves of the Confederates We would
have only been surprised if it had been permitted.
Will Southern editors understand the character
| OF the eants?
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer makes some grave
statements in regard to the stealage Of cotton while
route 1t says buyers have to take these steal ges
| into the calculation in making purchaseg. Loss in
weight, by steaage otherwise in the cotton ship
ped from Shreveport to New Orleans takes off the
profits, or rather increases the loss very materially
In very large majority Of instances planters save
money by selling here. If theamount of money lost
by buyers III the last fifteen years could be ascerained
it would astonish the planters. OF course some sea-
sons, buyers make little, but how many have been
kept poor by the operation. who by following their
legitimate business might have earned fortunes?
| wealthy and fastdious Englstman, a conspicu
friend OF the United States, during the war" now
travelling in this country, refuses accept more than
three per cent. interest on large amount Of five
twenty bonds which he purchased three or four years
ago. He Gays six per cent gold interest is too much
He has already returned the Secretary of the Treas
| ury thousand dollar bond and coupons. and
wishes to know how the matter be arranged in the
future. The Secretary has asked him to visit Washing
ton. If he were 10 ask opinion, would strongly
advise him against SO hazardous step. He may not
know it, but that Secretary wishes trap him and show
him round through the North in crate Admission
fifty cents; children and insane persons half price.
| The Saturday Review says: women may be di.
vided broadly into those who and those who retort
when they found fault with !; which, with a side
section OF those wooden women who don't care
leaves only very small per centage deed of those
who can accept rebuke good humoredly."
| FoREIGN EMIGRATION Extraordinarily see it
stated in Of our exchanges, unnecessary to
specify which, that German lady tly gave birth
to three children at time Mynheer is soemny
preparing to take her back to Germany.
| The following, which End in the Times, is about
insidous advertisement as We have ever seen
even i'll this day Of sharp practice in the advertising
business
| PROGRESSION OF THE AGE.--When the * good time
conf comes, announcements ike the following viii
undoubtedly be frequent:
| Diea-In the thirty fifth year of his age. Mr John
Smith, husband of the Hon. Jane Smith, at her rpai-
dence in New Orleans, this morning at six o'clock Mr.
Smith was meek and quiet husband beloved for the
graces of cultivated and trained nature He exceed
in the domestic virues--as cook he was surpassed
| by few nurse he unequaIed by none-in
manly duty he was good Investing his pin money
regularly in Louisiana Lottery tickets he contributed
handsome addition to the fortunes OF his eminent
wife, with whose bereavement sincerely mourn.
The Richmond Wing, claiming to speak oy authority,
says the name Ku KIux is not of American origin,
the vhm Of wag but, like the order itself orgi-
mated in China among the merchants engaged in
| smuggling opium into that empire 1t was introduced
into America by Humphrey Marshall on his return
from the Celest,als. Marshall organised the frat
band in room 81, Brovrs Hotel, Richmond, intending
it for sort OF hilarious social club"
FEMALE SUEFRAGE.-The Board of Registration in
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