The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-04-14
Miscellaneous Items.

South Carolina, and one OF the most successful PLANTER
in that State died at his residence at Columbus on tn
18th ult.
Forney SAYS that old Thad Stevens mantle has IA
len upon Gen Butler We wish it had been old Thad
mantle piece. Courier Journal.
A duel was fought near Augusta, Ga, on the 9th
between two coofed men named Jim Rhoues an
Nose Sullivan.
A $3.50, 900 mansion, modelled after noted Euro
pean CASTLE is being built by Mr.. Cunningham, at II
vington. New York The cellar is hewn out of tn
solid rock and tic partitions in the buildings are all o
| stone.
Hernandez, the actor, was tried in Omaha for shoot
ing three persons and was convicted of each offence
His sentence was for shooting his wife fourteen year
in prison for shooting Harry Rainforth seven years
for shooting policeman thirty days.
Miss Mary Grant, of Richmond, was married in tina
city last week to Mr.. Ford. 1t will be remembered
that they were the subject of article in the Southern
/ Opinion which resulted in the killing Of the editor O
that paper, II. Rives Pollard.
It has been discovered at the Washington observa
| tory that the is some two three millions O
miles the earth than it has been heretofore sup
posed This discovery is of much interest to the PEG
pie that intend to travel the distance.
The depth of the snow in Canada is shown by the
statement that travellers horse fatally red by
becoming cntangcd in telegraph wire twenty feet
from the ground.
III IdA"deil Heii hIfo"H vi 1hiltoio3
committed suicide the 30th, by hanging himself.
No reason is assigned for the act
The oldest and most confirmed topper "wthn the
memory of man is the Mississippi river. It has had
whole bar in its mouth ever since it discovered,
and it is notorious for being always lishtheaded.
A gentleman of the cynical school claims that he
has been looking for honest man and glass of
unauthorized liquor since the war broke ont and
has with particle of success in finding either
M IT,. ,oF, -, ,1,1
vaa public schools shows that of the 1910 occupants
Of the county jais, only 504 read well, and of the
2SG9 inmates of county poor houses, over ten years
Of age only 4l2 can read, and only 10 are good
scholars.
Tie man who paid his attentions to the Indies did not
take receipt and was accordingly called upon for
second lnstament lie discounted without hesitation
and appeared to take pleasure in it.
Horace Greeley says that the darkest day in any
mans career is that wherein he fanc;es there is
easier way of gaining dollar than by squarely
ing it.
There are at present in the State of Illinois eighty
seven wool cmding mills and one hundred and thirty
three manufactures of woolens with capital of S.,
600, 900 invested in buildings aud machinery and en-
poying 1850 operators, one-tourh Of whom are
women and consuming annually 1000 900 lbs. of the
1000 900 lbs. of wool clipped from 100000
sheep The investment of capital in manufactures is
steadily increasing.
Southern Radicals just now are rot "happy fam
Iy," and Louisiana is not the only State in which there
is Kilkenny cat fght' In Georgia, Gov Bullock
and Sam Bard, Of the Atlanta New Era, waging
war. The latter has to mourn the loss Of the guber
Material printing patronage.
Two Indies in Lancaster, Mass lately started out
with pctiti0rs one for signatures asking the Legisl
ture to give the privilege of voting; the other
praying the Legislature to allow remain in
their present sphere. The latter ran ahead twenty
six to one
Mehmet ALL by his wise foresight in planting 90 1000,
900 trees in the upper province Of Egypt and the
delta has increased the rainfall in these districts ten
fold
The Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Air. receives for his
valuable services salary OF SIS, 900 day. That's
salary AZ-z salary.
1t may interest our readers to know Just what the
Siamese twins are. A learned French naturalist Isl
dore Geotroy anlIilare puts them in the order Of
AutostaireS, as belonging to the family Noncompliance
and the tribe NiophopaSe, in his Dictionary Of
Anomalies" This will pain those who had come TO a
different conclusion.
Gen. Grants first expenditure entering the White
House, for the purchase of block and chain to
secure the main door against his olceseeking friends
Many people hk his rext will be for the purchase
Of blocks and chains for the friends themselves.
The New York Herald special cable telegram says
that the Duke OF Monpenser has been selected the
new King Of Spain. and that he will arrive in Madrid
within fortnight the duties and periis OF
royalty. Monlpcnsier is Bourbon but of the Orleans
branch, being the fifth son of Louis Philippe, the late
King OF France.
A correspondent of the Yarmouth Register says
Cape Cod is washing away. He says that thirty years
ago the salt mills along shores were where salt
water did not come. Within that time they have been |
moved mp shore once or twice, and now at high
tide the is around them, what is left of them
pf
was regular swamp mud, one-fourth OF mile
down our fats"
The widest span OF suspension bridge yet achieved,
viz: 1868 feet-has been carried over the niagara |
river almost Immediately below the great cataract and
nearly two miles above the railway suspension bridge
The length of the suspended platform 1910 feet; |
height above the water, 100 feet length of part rest
ing directly cables, 635 feet height of towers, IS
feet square; width Of roadway, 10 feet. The two Ca
oles seven inches in diameter each.
Monticello" the former residence of Thomas JEFF
crsoa, in AlbcmArc county, VE, is to be sold at
auction the 18th day of May next. The sale is by
virtue ola decree Of the Circuit Court Of Richmond.
The Charlottesville Chronicle very appropriately says
that it ought to belong to the State of Virginia. but
as that under present circumstances is impossible, we
hope that will buy it who will live there
part of the year. and keep the house and grounds
in crcdtablo order.
Victor Emanuel has ninety seven palaces. The En-
peror of Russia has sxty-two; the King Of Prussia
3eventy iour; Napoleon eleven official ones and ninety
,hrce which he might occupy Chief of the State.
Francis Joseph Of Austria has upwards OF one hundred
Isabella Of SPAIN had ftlytwo, and She bias now only
one, which formerly was private boarding house.
Speaking of the death of a celebrated Oxford boat
man. the Leader SAYS: "Our best rowcrs and athletes
almost universally die of heart disease, and die at the
very moment when the bodily system appears in ST.
perb order. Athletic science is very Mooch, whose
victims they told up would iriahten the nervous
into the opposite cxtreme-that of not undergoing
sufficient exeron to keep the physical system in good
working ordcr.'
There are l6, 900 members of tie Masonic Order in
Georgia
Miss Polk, niece of the late Confederate Bishop
General Polk, awarded the brush for fox hunting |
1t the annual fox hunt at Rome Ga, last month.
Hundreds of the soldiers of the regular army sta
Toned in Dakota married to Indian women ; and |
hese women make faithful, viruous ard aborious
wives. The soldiers rarely desert them.
letter received at Havana, from the City of Mexico
ays Gen. Rosccrans has recently had several private
interviews with President Juarez. The writer asserts
hat the American minister is urging the Mexican Gov
arnmcnt to acknowledge the French debt
Mr.. SPRAGuE'S AUToBoGRAPHY.-Mr Sprague gave
lie following singular account Of himself in his late
speech:
One word, sir, in reference to the manufacturer
He at school and work in his thirteenth year
under the guidance of santed mother and to her he
attributes all that is good in his nature His father