The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-25
miscellaneous items.

-Four monitors hare left Cairo for New Orleans
two in TOW ard two propelled by their own power.
Doctor Lott shot and instantly killed J. G. barnes
at Oakland, Miss, few days since. The cause OF the
difficulty is unknown.
/ It is stated that work will be commenced on the
Cairo and Fulton railroad at Elizabeth on the lst OF
September.
From the Columbus (Ga Sun CLEAN that the Sa-
yannah and Memphis railroad has been graded fifteen
miles west from Opelika-work worth SI05, 600
There are S4326764e5931 9s53SO 5O42167O20-
426538l 9O52l6O267 more flies this year than last by
actual count.
Daring the time from the beginning of March to the
close of June thirteen firms in Detroit manufactured
more than fourteen hundred thousand pounds OF to-
bacco of all kinds and paid upon it tax of 1922
SS7 So.
New York correspondent SAYS that in recent
sermon, Henry Ward Beecher, in making the exhor-
tation his audience said " hen you are in Rome,
you must do the Romans do; and when you are in
He'll, you must do as the Hellites do! !"
Said Lord John Russell to Mr.. Hume, social
dinner What do you consider the object of egisla
TOM" 1.-The greatest good to the greatest number"
% What do you consider the greatest NUMBER" con-
tinued his lordship. I" Number one" was the CON-
moner's prompt reply. .-
r. A private telegraph company is the latest Chicago
notion. Its object is to place business in direct
communication with each other, and connect their
Offices stores warehouses, residences etc. sd that at
any moment word may be conveyed from the
place to the other 1t operates on the principle Of the
police telegraph, and is simple in its moaus operana
A country paper in New Hampshire makes an anus
ing typographical bnnder in describing Butler the
Boston Jubilee Review. He says: "When Ger. But
Ter arrived on the ground the band struck up All Hail
to the Thief" That bunder is hardly worth correct
ing. New Orleans Times.
man whose wife is womansrighter has ordered
a gravestone, which is engraved, :" Let us have
peace" He says he don't care whether it is erected
over her or him. .... Fl
1t is estimated by statisticians that the census of
1870 will demonstrate the total population of the
United States and territories to be forty millions
This would make the national debt about sixty dollars
a head. .-
An ingenious Freedman has invented a portable
freshbutter chu be used at the table. 1t is made
of cut crystal and mounted silver feet. A silver
rod revolves quickly in the cream, and presents pat
of butter every three minutes.
Mrs. St. Elmo Evans novel. The title is ex-
planned by the fact that the volumnous lady is not
yet through her honeymoon.
Robert Morris of the sgners of the Declare ton
of Independence, who managed the national finances
with signal ability passed the latter years of his life in
imprisonment for debt.
Somebody showed California woman greenback,
the first she had ever seen. "Why, you don't call
that money do you?" said She ait looks lust like the
label of an oyster can !" us
party of thirty Chicago merchants going to Cali
fornia, chartered two of Pullman's cars-a sleeping
car and commission carat 1925 day took their
own provisions and books and will live independent
of hotels and eating houses all the way The trip will
likely cost the party $4,000 EACH The fare from Chi
cago to San Francisco is S157 currency.
Miss Mary Graves has been called to take charge of
NJ D. "
lady, the Rev. Olympia Brown has accepted the unan-
imous call made for her by the Uniyersast Church at
Bridgeport, Conn.
Savannahs receipts of rice last season amounted to
$50, 1858 bushels. If the grasshoppers are not too
greedy the figures will be larger this year.