The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-07-21
Miscellaneous Items.

, The valley Of Virginia will yield five million bushel
& of wheat this season.
The negroes ia Maryland more defiant insulting
and riotous than those Of any other State,
A farmer near Griffin, Ga, has just thrashed fifty
I eight bushels to the acre out OF bis wheat crop.
The people in Texas complain that the only peace
Gen. Grant has yet let them have, is Fieidpieces.
The petition to abolish or demolish Hels Half Acre
portion Of Memphis, has received very large mum
of subscrbers-all colored-and will be presented
to the board at the next regular meeting.
: A gang Of desperadoes. at Granville, Washington
county, Arkansas killing persons promscuousy in
that neighborhood particularly those who assisted in
arrestng few of their number not long since. 1t is
called the Fisher gang.
JuaPER.-A man in Paris circus leaps from a
height Of eighty feet and then leaps back again Pretty
hard story, know, but then be IS fastened to an
elastic cord
Many American ladies are nov excluded from society
in London but appears to know for what cause
- Exchange
We SHOULD Judge because they had made fools Of
themselves
I A New York boarding school keeper says that for
cash be has been offered West Point nominations by
authorised agents of Congressman. Exchange.
/ 0, my country!
/ TENNEssEE-The courthouse of Decatur county was
recently entirely destroyed by fire. Loss estimated
at 100000. The lawyers, whose offices were in the
building lost their libraries and valuable papers In
the office of the County Clerk there $50 900 in
currency.
/ New ORLEANs--The number Of deaths in the city
during the week ending the 10th, twenty less
than the preceding week That does not look at all
| like yellow fever.
FLOUR ExpoRr.--A New Orleans paper says there
we're four thousand barrels Of -four at the elevator
ready for shipment to Europe. Pretty good for one
days business.
1t is in contemplation to shortly establish paper in
Washington in place of the Intelligencer. It will be
under the management of Edmund Burke.
Coal OIL.-The New Orleans Republican says hun
dreds of people resuming the of candies-dis
carding coal oil from fear Of explosions.
Senator Drake of Missouri, publishes letter to the
Radical party of that State, in which he takes strong
ground against the enranchisement of the rebels until
after the ballot is given to negroes and states that he
believes this to be the position of nnetenths of the
party in the State outside of St. Louis.
The Mobile Tribune says: The Register is slightly
mistaken in saying that Yerger is regarded mar
tyr the Lost Cause. 1t happens that he abandoned
the cause before it was quite lost and sought refuge
with the Yankees in Vicksburg. We feel sorry for
any in Yerger's present unhappy condition. but
it is our duty to the South say that he is not of
| her representative men,"
When the Prince of Wales visited Palestine the
subterranean ruins explored and the ancient
water-conrse described in Chronicles discovered. A
hundred feet below the surface Of the EARTH bridges
were discovered
Repeatedly in public meetings held in England to
aid the freedmen, the statement has been made that
the vote in the British Cabinet to recognise the South
lost by the negative of man, Sir George Corn
| wall Lewis.
+, The New York World of June 80, gives Gen. Dan
Sickles splendid send off on his Spanish mission by
reproducing his blood-sained history, and quoting
largely from papers published in every section of the
Union, prove that he is unworthy the ordinary
spect of any decent or honest man. When translated
in the Madrid journals the expose will shut the doors
of every honorable Castan his bastard face-that
is unless the Government declines to receive him,
eventuaIity by no unlikely N. 0. Times.
Disraeli on evening dress has recently been quoted
as an authority. Here is what the Premier says
the subject: " Evening dress is style of costume
sanctioned by society for enabling ladies to display
their natural beauties with proiuson worthy of
Grecian statue. Have you seen much Of Her Lady.
shp?' inquired De smyth6eds SWELL, yes an
swered the Duke; i saw pretty good deal of her
the last time met-she was in evening Dress"
German astronomer has written u pamphlet to
| prove that to have second moon, and
that it will be the earth than the present
Exchange.
| There's another lunatic.
SHREwD-It is said that since the election there is
not negro in Virginia who voted the Wells ticket
every son of gun of them claims have been con-
| sentative " ab anitio
1t is said when Russian husband neglects to beat
his wife for month or she begins to get alarmed
at his Indifference.
| Washington dispatches say that Boutwell, has al
| ready been named the successor of Grant in the
Presidency.
From GREENLAND's IcY MousrA1Ns."- We are
ne rho yboj,
of the Ice Company here is in the daily habit of sing
ing this fayorite old hymn from the roof of the ice
house, about II O'Clock, and bareheaded.
| The Brownsville, (Tenn.) Bee says: "L T. Hart
| living 81 miles from Brownsville, on the Key Corner
road, has on his farm rather remarkable COW. She
has horns on her back all the way from the whers to
the lons The horns four and half to FIVE inches
long, very each other and turned down on each
! side to make complete roof to the spinal
column" z..
reward of $1,000 is offered for the capture dead
or alive of Sam Hildebrand, the Missouri Desperate
An armed posse has been organised under procama.
ton of the Governor of that State to search for and
arrest him. He has killed over eighty men and boasts
that he will yield until he has made it an even
/ hundred
Cardinal Bonaparte is universally regarded in Europe
the coming at the Vatican in the event of the
death of Pho Mono. This would do more to invest
the French dynasty with the divine right than the
succession of haladozen generations, and no doubt,
| enters largely into Napoeons policy.
Brigham Youngts daughters wiring the apostolic
heart by their devotion to chignons and paniers.
The marriage of Lord Ryrons only granddaughter,
Lady Anne Isabella Noel King Noel, has just taken
place, and she is now Lady Anne Blunt. Her mother
Lord Byron's only daughter the Ada he loved SO
passonately- ...=.
"Ada, the daughter of my house and heart
and Of whom be wrote so charmingy. The subject OF
the present marriage is spoken of very attractive
and accomplished lady.
"Man," says the anatomist changes entirely every
seven years." Therefore, says JONES' my tailor
should not ask me for the bill contracted in 1862.
am not the same person; hence owe him nothing
1t is not an uncommon complaint against news
paper that it hasn't life enough. But brother editor
reports this odd objection, made his paper by gos-
sip-oving old lady: 81 like your paper very much
| have only objection to lit hasn't deaths
enough"
A California lawyer recently, after stating propo-
sition, said May it please your Honor-Pll bet
hundred dollars and stake the money that what say
is law" The attorney the other side declined
bet, and the argument admitted by the court to be
unanswerable.
It has been proposed consolidate all the principal
insurance companies of the West and Southwest with
central office at St Louis and branch offices and
Boards of Directors at various central points in the
Mississippi Valley.
The first cargo of ice brought to New Orleans was
gravey ordered to be thrown overheard in obedience
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