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hot spring has recently been discovered in France
under circumstances which have attracted great atten
ton A rectangular shaft had been sunk to depth
of one hundred and seventy four feet, through sra
tum of hard volcanic tufa when the heat became SO
intense that the workmen had to be relieved short
intervals. At last, removing piece of the tufa
about thirty inches in circumference, loud, runblne
noise was heard and thick column of hot water pre-
coded by violent report rose up in the air, project
ing huge stones upwards The water in falling scalded
the men severely. The jet diminished and the well
filled rapidly, the workmen succeeding, however, in
getting out in time. In the course of ten hours
the well became full, and from that time rivuet OF
thermal water has been flowing from the spot into a
neighborng river. At the river the water still retains
temperature of 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Upon anal
ysis it had been found to contain upwards of twenty
migrammes of arsenate of potash per ltre or IL G
grains per one hundred gallons, proportion unheard
of before.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-01

CHINESE ATHLETEs.-Ac company of Chinese athletes
astonished the people of San Francisco recently with
an exhibition of their agility About fifteen of them
appeared on the stage, amid the din and cangor Of
gongs and kettle drums. They first fought sham
battle with swords, cleayers, poleaxes, lances and
short knives. The fencing was very rapid and each
fighter was expert. Still one warrior stood against
host. He disarmed his antagonists as fast as they
came, hurled them about the STAGE stabbed them,
hewed them down with broadaxes hacked them with
swords, buted them with his head kicked them in the
breas. with both feet at once and found time to exc
cute handsprings and yaultng somcrsets among them
as he fought. At last he vanqushed all his foes and
the half naked rascas took to flight He pursued
Some rough tables ranged along the front of the
stage to represent hedges logs and banks which must
obstruct pursued and pursuer alike. The runners
vauted the tables turning lofty somersaults over each
and landing indiferently their feet hands, heads or
backs, as the might be, and that too on hard
STAGE covered only with few strips of mating The
victorious fighter splendid acrobat, always after
them. Several times one of his foes would turn and
face him, when he would bound high in the air, and
plugging down, plant both feet in the breast of his
adversary with such force as to send him headlong
across the stage The Alta says that if ever troupe
of these sturdy, weltrained athletes were put to
fair test OF physical activity and strength they could
handle regiment Of the lazy, lank- limbed, whisky
sodden ruffiaus and towards who make a pastime Of
stoning, beating and throwing about Cinnamon ID the
public streets of that city.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-01

The editor of the New York Star, in the following
paragraph, expresses exactly the experience of all
his brethren Of the Quill that should feel sense of
derelicon to neglect to reproduce it, and that
too, with hearty amen: "The only point worth de-
Gliding is, what makes editors make asses? Well,
printers have something to do with it, proofreaders
perhaps, we have one in our minds eye; but in the
greatest ratio We lay the blame the of Sug-
gesters Heavens! what lie one has with them
They infest the editorial rooms like flies in the sham
bes; they won't take no for answer they defer
entally decline to be choked Of; they humbiy take
their hats in their hands, and pull from their pockets
huge packets Of greasy manuscript, which they Sug-
gest would be just the thing, etc, for valuable
paper. We do fear each bush Suggestern
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-01

SAD AccIDENT-We learn from reliable gentle
man that W. G. Skinner, of Washington county, acct
dentay killed his sisterin-law Miss Margaret Hill,
few days since From what learn of the affair Mr..
Skinner was leaving his resdenCa to spend the night
with sick neghbor, when his wife asked him to put
new caps upon his pistol as she thought that she had
heard some person on the gallery the night before
He at once proceeded to comply with his wife's re-
quest, and whilst reeapping the pistol barrel acct
dentally exploded the ball entering the right side of
Miss Hill, killing her instantly The deceased was
niece of General A. P Hill, of Virginia.
TMohila Trihuna
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melancholy little incident is related of the ex-
Empress Cariotte This unfortunate princess has been
staying tor some time at Spa. The other day she in
sisted with such Vehemence playing roulette that
IL was impossible to restrain her, On approaching the
aoie she deliberately placed gold piece the num-
Der nineteen The Emperor Macmillan was shot on
June 49, The wheel turned, and, though thirty
chances were against her, she won. She smiled SADLY
look up the money, and quietly left the rcom On her
way out poor man passed by. She gave him all the
money, win the injunction that he to pray for
him." 1t is known that the Empress Carlotta navnr
pronounces the name of Macmillan.
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DESPERATE GAMING.-The Chinese, when their money
is gone, sometimes stake their fingers Oh a single
chance. During the game they keep by them vase
OF sesame oil, under which fire is kept burning :.
and between the players is placed small but sharp
Ratchet. When wins he takes the hand of the loser
places 1t on stone, and cuts off one of the fingers
with the Ratchet. The piece falls md the loser mme,
dately dips his hand into The hnt Jill which cautcr.
ises the wound This operation does not prevent the
players from beginning again. Such is the account OF
travellers who have visited China incredible as may
appear.
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The new naval monument at Baltimore is to cost
$4,000. Admiral Porter has sl4 900 of this, being
President of the Association The purpose of the
structure is to ornaments Southern city with me-
mento Of victories the South in the late war,
to perpetuate the hatreds which that engendered
to hold up the names of men carved in marble for
some to praise and to curse for some to reyile
and some to bless, and especially to show how much
glory there is to be in where the combatants
are brothers. New Orleans Times
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The SAD Havoc OF WARM Leroy Beaulieu. an
industrious Frenchman has calculated that during the
fourteen years between 1862 and 1866 no less than
one million hundred and fifty thousand soldiers
have been killed an expense to the several Govern
ments of S9,5s5,0o0o oo-that is to say, average
expenditure Of $3.50 to man. The number slain,
therefore, is equal to the whole male population Of
Holland to the combined commercial and Industrial
workmen of France, more than equal to half the en-
tire population of the city of London or the State of
Ohio. The mere money is six times as much as it
cost to build all the French railways.
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THE LATE EcLlpsE-A CORRESPONDENT Of . pb;I.daI
phia paper thus writes of prolonged stotality:
Few people trouble themselves TO think what the
effect would be il the eclipse of Saturday were TO last
any length Of time, and the SIN were botted from the
heavens Philosophy declares that not only would
horror oil darkness cover the EARTH but the moisture
OF the earth, and the temperature fall to fearful
point OF cold, nothing less than $50 degrees below
zero, Fahrenheit. The earth would be the seat OF
darkness and more than arctic desolation Nothing
could survive such freezing cold moment more than
after the cooling process began moth created would
oe awe Out ne monsters that walow in deep ocean,
ana the eyeless reptiles that make their haunts in
caves which penetrate far underground
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-01

Heavy CoNTRAcT-A contract has been entered ;nto
with Raoal, Sons i Wadley, of Amite CITY, La, to
furnish cars as follows for the road from Decatur to
Montgomery Ten frst-class passenger cars, ten sec
e class do ten mail and baggage d. two hundred
pole ears These ears will cost about $500 900. and
i perhaps of the heaviest contracts ever entered
into in the South.
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ONE OF LIFE's CoNrRAsrs.-Three years ago, while
break fasting at a mining restaurant the Oregon
line, stranger with uncombed hair, huge gray whis-
kers and tattered coat took his at the table, By
accident | relating to the landlord an incident
which had occurred years previous in Connect
cut valley. After I had left the table and walking
alone, the unshorn stranger accosted me. "You are
the first man, said he, "whom have heard mention my
native town for twenty three years, and it made my
heart come up into my mouth when you did sou
This circumstance doubtless made him unusually COM
municatiye He said he living in the mountains,
len miles from any habtatiOn subssting by hunting,
and visiting the settlements two three times year.
This statement afterward corroborated by other
evidence. What induced him to lead this hermit life
he did not see fit to explain. In his early boyhood
on the banks of the Connecticut, he and the present
Chief Justice of the United States lived on ada
cent farms, and attended the public school
What sharp contrast has marked their subsequent
lves-the having filed the most responsible sta
tons in the gift of the American people-the other
hermit unknowing aud unknown, amid the wild and
almost inaccessible Businesses of Southern Oregon.
Correspondence Boston Journal.
JOHN CHINAMAN DAMPENING CLoTHEs.-The San
Francisco correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat in
speaking Of the fact that 100 Cinnamon had left that
city to work in a laundry at Chicago, says:
They the principal laundrymen Of our city, and
believe do less harm to clothing than the average of
French or native operators Here, in San Francisco,
they sew buttons and mend dilapidaed garments,
but have always put that down to the vast prepon-
derance of bachelors In the city. One point WILL prob
ably, strike the Chicagoans unpeasanty at first the
Chinese mode OF dampening clothes before they COM
mence the ironing process. 1t is invariably done by
man. who fills his mouth with water, and then sends
it forth over the linen in an enthusiastically fine spray
through his cenched teeth. He is at it all the time
is therefore quite bad looks But have
known many San Francscans who sharply objected TO
the process!
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-01
The Sparrows Of Bessus.

BY JULIA PLEAsANTs.
From the Ohio Farmer
When the bright sun of glory leaves
Peona's fiowery Land.
Gay children their sweet sunset strains enjoy,
Nor would of them, one needless boy
An egg, Hedging frail, destroy,
Or stone the crcling band.
One nest beneath the messy thatch,
Just or theshospltable latch,
An amorous pair attends,
Where FIVE young chirpers, constant crave for food
Where, through the chill nights solitude
A tender mothers pinions brood,
Where fond father bends.
The children watch their whrring wings
Dash round and round in rapid rings,
And pierce the slant sun beams
But Bessus stands with gloomy brow, apart
And curses in his gloomer heart
The harmless birds, that round him dart
With such appalling
Not unto him. those strains seem sweet;
The same strange things, they still repeat,
Which he has heard SO oft.
And the children mark, in mute surprise,
blaze of choer in his eyes,
While from his hand biudgeon flies
Too surely aimed aoft.
Down drops the nest-the half grown birds
Beneath his feet, with rash, harsh words
The brutal murderer crushed;
While once again, the cudgel whirs on high
O'ertakes the parents as they fly,
And their sweet throats in faint cry
o. Eernally are hushed.
"oh why, oh why such cruel wrath?''
The children ask, az from the path,
They lift the liteess things
Why" echoed Bessus, whose internal fires
Shoot from his eyes in leapng spires,
/" Because they are the toulest Liars
That float downy wings.
"They sing one song on every side
Thou Parrcide! Thou Parricde'
" And it is as false as hell.
Not I-another slew my sordid sire
That dark, dark nght-so dark and dire
But rejoice, that my just ire
Such calumnies can qneli
Amaze appeared every face
The crime, so long concealed from trace,
Now met the light Of Truth.
Revengng Conscience waved her thousand swords,
And shaped the twitter of gay birds
To sound those memorable words.
And awe the guilty youth.
No sparrow had that summer built
lis nest, but preached TO him of guilt,
Wherever he might pass.
Fen when he sought in sombre shades TO hide
1t chased him by the streamlets tide
Some sparrow song: ",Thou Parricide,
Thou Parricide"-alas!
Oh, Justice, so divine thou art,
Thy recognition, every heart
Spontaneous yields at last
Not God alone but we ourselves, arraign
To meet our penential pain;
For crime Graves light, and shows her stain,
When wheeling years have past
Shreveport, La, 1869
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-01

CRANES METALLIC BURIAL CAsK ETs.
TIME undersigned, having purchased the exclusive
Burial Baskets in Shreveport and Caddo parish has
just received and will keep hand very large assort
ment, embracing every size ard style, which will be
sold at very low prices.
All orders promptly attended to- The Baskets are
ready for delivery shipment at a moments notice
j. s.. Kendall
au1 1yI former Of Texas and Mcneil streets
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-01

A GERMAN CUsroM.-A letter from Weimar saws
they have two very pretty customs there connected
with the erection of houses One is that Young child
always drives the first nail into of the mbers and
al INSCRIPTION Is made upon the wood bearing the name
and age of the child, date of erection, etc. Then,
when the house is raised, few panks are laid for
noorlng in an upper story, when the master builder,
Ills "orkmen, and all welldsposed friends assemble to
sing song of praise to God for the safe accomplish
Insnt thus far of their undertaking. Then band of
music plays numerous bottles of wine drank and
there are speeches. toass and huzzas from stenoran
German tlroats
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-01

THE DEcADENcE or ouR WATERING PLAcEs.-The
New York Herald puts it proposition that the pom
uarty of watering places is the decline Aside
from the cold and late season. the Herald assigns as
for this decadence TIL. fact that summer sea
son at the watering places is found to be very expen-
sve luxury for people of family, and that hotel life in
the country is regarded by many bore, and not
much conducive to comfort. Hence, great number
Of people prefer TO visit Europe during the summer
finding upon close calculation that it does not cost any
more money to see the Old World, while the variety is
Infinitely greater, and the results thousand times
more satisfactory. We think the Herald is about
right.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-01

THE GREAT CHICAGO BREACH PROMISE CASE
From the present appearances Miss Amanda Craig,
of Newport, KY, does not stand much chance of get
ting her 100000, as will be seen by the following
from the Chicago Post Mr.. S. Rowe, who is general
ticket agent in the Adams House. writes to the Chicago
Tribune that the property Lake street, Chicago,
which the sheriff is about to sell TO satisfy Judgment
against Elisha sprague, in favor of Amanda J. Craig
belongs to him. having beenpurchased of Mr. sprague,
March ., 1868. He thinks that Amanda will get little
relief Tor her broken heart, if all of Mr.. spragues
property is as fictitious as this Il would be inter.
esting to know how much Mr. Rowe paid for this yalu
able property. and how after the breach of prom
ise suit commenced he bought it.
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Some wag has stuck of the pillars of the por-
tco of the White House, at Washington large plaeard
containing, in big letters, the words; To let for
four years to permanent tenant" The word per-
manent" was capitalized A good hit at our horse
racing President, who is extended tramp about
the country with sporting men. ..
Gen. R. f. Lee, Geo. Peabody and W. w. Corco
ran, Esqs, were photographed in group the other
The Portland daily press., 1869-12-03
Ogdensburg v. Rutland.

To the Editor Of the Press:
The feasibility of the Portland and Ogdens.
burg railroad as compared with the Portland
and Rochester road and its value to Portland
as q thoroughfare to the Great West, has
been discussed by Mr.. Poor at considera-
BILE length in the Press and 1 ask your indul-
gence while state few facts in reference to
the two roads o far as relates to the Vermont
portion of each: From Swanton (the west
ern terminus of the Lamoille Valley road
eastward, the line is nearly straight for several
miles, and of very easy grade, following the
Missisquoi river and Sheldon creek through
the most fertile and level portion of the State,
noted as the greatest butter and cheese pro-
ducing region OF Franklin county, and that
is the best, or one of the best in Vermont
and the grade continues easy as we pass INC
divide from the source of Sheldon creeh cree 70
the Lamoille river at Cambridge, we aio
now in I,amoille Valley. and the soil Tor agri-
cultural purposes is not excelled N .ne ola.e.
The meadows bordering upon 'no W 81.
broad. and the upland IS roinhg, hoS Pleclpi-
TONS and under q good state OF CULTIVATION
T, NUS am auu .uns are covered with spruce and
t,ai- and occasional rapids furnish water
,onar to an almost unlimited extent. AT
RTnrr;svile we are within eght miles OF tue
Mansfield Mountain House. which furnishes
Accommodations equal W 'ho oese IL NC"
England for five hundred guests and is full OF
visitors to the summit of Old Mansfield Nose
and Chin every season.
From Morrisville, east, we are passing near
the iron mines of Elmore, Wolcot springs,
Wolcot hone quarry, where the Wolcot Hone
and Box Co., are manufacturing homes, boxes
and clothes pins with capital OF 1000
with orders from all over the world and more
than they can fill. Still going east we pass
through Hardwck, fine farming town; here
we shall find perhaps the best butter dairies of
the county and possibly Of the State. Now we
reach the bend, as it is called, in Greensboro,
where the line curves with radius of eleven
the river Lamoille with a grade of 65 feet to
the mile and reaches the summit at Lyford's
Pond in Walden with this grade, and from
Swanton to West Danville (these places being
the western and eastern terminus OF the La
moille Valley road). There is but very little
The Portland daily press., 1869-12-03
Terms $500 per a,,nuns, in adruace.

of rock cut, and but very few deep earth cuts,
or heavy fills. 1t is said by the engineers to
oe the best lire they ever surveyed, L mean
sne " 9S "a Siast 20 build. From West Danville TO
80 S.. oohnsbury the line passes through a fine
=; u. region. Fairbanks scale ma1uflctory
zoo 49, '3nnsbury, giving employment to
Ooo lnen' from thence to the Connecticut
Tne entire length of the erazing countEyf
and Ogdensburg Road s. sftiont passes
vsloped by railroad facilities, except a few
miles east and west Of st. Johnsbury, and yet
it is the better portion of the State, and the
people on the whole line are thoroughly awake
to their interests in the enterprise, as has been
shown by the stock taken by the line, There
Is IS an immense trade that Portland will secure
tion t1oitng to Boston, and hence the oppo3-
Burlington ValRplse from Sn the fatand Gnmdc and
aud Passumpsic River roSnu Oon"Oooou
owned in Boston "ch are main'y
NOW a few words relating to the Portland,
Rochester, Rutland and Osweoo road: and
hrSt there is no possible line for A road from
Woodstock across the Green Mountain range
to Rutland. The mountains at this noiht o,e
preeiptous, as all who have crossed the moLu
tain on the old turnpike will testify. Second,
nobody who can do anything towards building
it wants road there. Woodstock is building
branch road from the Vermont Central to
their village, six miles, which burdens the town
to the extent of their liability, for their road
will never pay running expenses Bridgwa.
ter, Sherburn and Mendon are sparsely popu-
lated, the population of all three being less than
twenty-five hundred, and poor at that, while
Rutland, with population of eight thousand
and valuation of S4,0409 900, has recent b,, ~
ed by a large majority to refuse toe that ,hi
ing the road. Thus we cffom becinsino ns to
whole scheme is gang head off the P. & o.
gni Pni Jus whole % 9eGaai 9jGa at Portland have sood
shnrISoo - shoulder with us in the Lamoie
wy through the thickest of the flight, ano
you have our thanks, and when the.road is
built, our trade
The local business OF Lamoille Valley road
and also that OF the Essex County road which
is that part of the road from Essex to St
Johnsbury to the Connecticut river will make
the roads paying roads. This taken with the
through business must make the p x o road
the best paying road in New England.
Ex-Governor Washburn in his speech to the
people OF the valley year ago last August,
challenged us to be at the Connecticut river as
soon as you are. We accept the challenge
The land damages on the line of theLamoille
Valley r. r., from West Danvlle to Hard
wick are nearly all settled at an average OF
thirty dollars per acre. On one farm the line
runs one mile, damage settled for fifteen dol
lars per acre. the line runs through Forests
saw mill in Walden, damage settled for TWEEN
ty-five dollars, thus you see the people want
rail road, and are willing to suffer any iucon-
convenience to get it. B.