The south-western., 1869-04-28
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
The Bank of England has advanced its rate OF dis
count from three to four per cent.
man is, chemically speaking, fortyhve pounds
carbon and other elements with nitrogen dhuset
through five and half pailfnls Of water.
4 farmer in Washington Territory brags of having
eaten bread from -four made of wheat only fou
months before
There are enough railroads projected through differ
ent districts in Mississippi to absorb in their construc
ton all the personal property in the State
It is estimated that the border States will sell in th,
cotton States this year upwards of twenty yfve mio1
of dollars worth OF mules. All that money ought tt
he kept at home Planters should raise their owl
mules.
Henry Ward Beecher in one of his dscourses, sale
that sssome men will not shave on Sunday and We
they spend all the week in shaving their fellow
and many fools think it very wicked to black thei
boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate tt
black their neighbours reputation on week days"
census roughly taken of the population of tn,
United States for the year 1868 gives aggregate
3s 422 995 persons. On the first Of July, 1861 there
were 8 l 443 32l and at that time it estimated
according to regular ratio Of increase in past decades
that in 1870 the population would reach AZ, ,32s,
The Chicago Supreme Court has decided that stree
railway companies in that city responsible for in
uries to passengers resulting from standing on plat
forms when the cars are oyeraden.
The Raleigh North Carolina) Sentinel says "Ont
of the insane in our asylum recently visited Legs
laure. Upon his return the Superintendent asked
him what he thought of it. Relapsing into brown
study for moment he looked up and said: well,
think they are branch of this establishment"
The Chattanooga railroad company to receive
900 tons of English railroad iron during the months
of June and july
GEN. BuRBRIDGE ISD1crED.-A St. Louis dispatch
of the l5h says it is reported that the Grand Jury in
the United States District Court there has indicted
Gen. Burbridge, of Kentucky, for bribery. The par
tcuars have not transpired. Gen. Burbridge was in
ST. Louis, some weeks since an agent of the Reve
nue. Department.
UNHAPPY MEx1co.-Says the Brownsville Rapchero
God loves His own and His special providence seems
to protect the faithful The miraculous destruction
of the church in Guanaua and the large number Of
lives lost therein, might indicate that the order of
Guadalupe, which created by decree from Jua-
rez, and against the church of Rome is not accept
able in the sight of our heavenly Father, some of
its friends had supposed"
General W. A. Nichols Adjutant General of the mil
itary Division of Missouri, died at St Louis the
eighth. In general order General Sheridan pays a
merited tribute to the memory of the deceased, who
entered the service in 1885, and served the north
ern frontier, in the Mexican war; during the rebellion
as Adutant General of the Department of the East
and assistant in the Adjutant Generals Office at
Washington.
This is from the Livingston Herald: Our friend,
Mr.. Evans, engaged in sinking well for railroad
purposes on the opposite bank of the Ponchatoua in
forms that at the depth of thirty feet he struck
bed of solid oyster shells, through which be has now
dug distance of over three feet. This informs US of
the condition of this country many years ago which
must have been part of the Gulf.
Tha iDtap oF tho
Supreme Court of the United States is to hold ses-
sion during the months of October, November and
December, and then adjourn over the holidays to the
lst of February when the Court will hold another
sion Of three months.
To show how our ocean commerce is dwindling
away it may be stated that in 1857 out of value of
1886 900 carried to and from domestic ports
only Sl3l ,Ooo 600 went under foreign flag, Whereas
in 1867, out of 1914 00O 600 at all the ports S577
0OO0 carried in alien vessels and last year the
proportion against us was still further increased.
Pennsylvania paper speaks as follows of the ap-
pointment of negro wench to clerkshp, in the Treas
ury department, which we have before noticed
Miss Z. J. Ketchun, of Philadelphia slightly color
ed, but good looking, was appointed clerkshp in
the Treasury department at Washington on Friday
No room at present for soldiers widows
A German doctor maintains that the human skin
When healthy does not absorb, and that baths have
effect upon it. He offers go into bath containing
the most poisonous substances provided they be not
corrosive, the truth OF his theory to pay Il fine
if he be wrong and to so to Paris and submit himself
to the disposal of the Academy of Medicine at any
time for the purpose of experiment..
oYi. O. W. Lowell, the newly appointed postmaster
OF New Orleans, arrived here yesterday from Wash
ington. He has not yet determined to accept the an
and has fixed upon no time to enter on the
performance Of these new duties
New Orleans Republican
Wo1der what our Chawles has in view now? Ev
IDENTIFY something more profitable than the New Orleans
post office.
Two hundred Polish refugees in Switzerland recently
received box filed with earth from the sacred soil
Of Poland Two hundred small silken bags were filed
with the earth and each of the enthusiastic Poles nut
one OF these bags on his heart pledging himself to
it there until his return to his native contrv