The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-05-12
Miscellaneous Items.


- There is but one horse in the British caFalr
y that was in the charge at Balakava.
of Tie alabama treaty rejected on the anniVersar
II of the attack on Fort Sumter.
n Senator says he called out of bed three time
j! in one night by office seekers in Washington.
5 Miss Van Lew, Of Richmond, has decided that he
d official title is postmaster, and not postmisress.
> Paris writer estimates the number OF person
killed in battle between 1854 and 1853, at 136 40l
+ Not one-tenth OF those who die and leave propert
r in Indiana leave will. The law makes for them bet
ter Will than they would be apt to make for themselves
r The latest novelty in the Chicago divorce court
the case Of woman asking separation from nus
band who that he never married her.
Garearor the wcalthiest merchant in Moscow, ii
the grandson of serf, and his father was poor shoe
maker.
OF the United States Consuls abroad during the last
administration II were Germans, Hungarlans, =
Swiss and Dane by birth.
Colonel Philip H. Forney, son Of Colonel John W.
Forney will 60 St. Petersburg with Gov. Curtin, as
Secretary Of Legation at that court
The Boston Post says: "Boutwell will need some
hair before long Fifty female clerks have
Just been discharged from the Treasury.
Senator Sprague is said to all of Rhode Island
excepting the Providence Journal and Senator An
| thony owns that.
In China one obge great many beggars with
but small outlay. They have coin fifteen Of which
| equal one cent.
4 Texas exchange says "The Southern Enterprise
comes to Office wrapped in $50 coupons attached
to 81 900 Confederate bonds, due in 1862
The Union Pacific railroad company have COM
menced the erection of large number of cottages at
Laramie, intended for summer residences.
1t takes fftvseven paymastcrs from Brigadier Cen
cral down, TODD nothing i'll the world but to pay off
the prPsent standing army of the United States
Geographic velocipede is mentioned, that shall run
On a wire from New Orleans to New York in an hour
and half
1t lately stated that Gen. Grant is Unversalist
but this is denied lie believes that all the Grants
and Dents will be saved, but not the whole human
The street lamps of New Yorl, are to be lighted by
electricity; the lamp commissioner will saw let there
be light" and the instant all Gotham will be made
bright as day.
Pennsylvania farmer writes to his county paper
that he cured his daughter of the Grecan ben by
pouring water her and holding her out in the sun
until she warped back again
paper in Southern Illinois notes the passage of
Virginia family, route for the far West consisting
of the old man, the old woman fourteen children and
eleven dogs.
'SNed Buntine it is said has abandoned temperance,
drinks to excess and is the owner of faro bank at
White Pine All of which may be called serious |
backsiding.
Lady directress of picnic" Have you got the
champaign"
Stewardess-"O we didn't need any, bless you,
maam! There ain't,auy newspaper men invited"
Baron Rothsohd's fortune was scattered over the
world, and the amount of it has just been ascertaned
1t reached the figures of thousand seven hundred
millions francs Or three hundred and forty millions
dollars.
MoRMoNs-ln London alone the Mormons have
eight branches, and there 1O4 elders 50 priests
% teachers and 80 deacons always hard at work One
hundred and two members have been cut off ii. e.
the past year but 9l5 of the faith
III remain.
Don't WANT THEM TO VorE-An exchange SAYS:
Leading Democratic influences in New York have uni
ted in supporting substantially Mr.. Pendetons recon-
mendation to the people of Virginia, Mississippi and
Texas, to refuse participate in the reconstruction
elections to be ordered by President Grant.
Secretary Boutwell,, in his first recorded decision,
links that exceptional qualifications in sheep-wool are
lot to override " the rule OF classification by race or
blood" But when it comes to Ashantee wool, the
Secretary thinks otherwise Here few glib mulat-
toes and ocoroons to hide the monstrous folly Of
admitting three quarters of a million mbruted blacks
as the balance of power in the American body polite
n. Y. World.
TIE CABINET TAKES STocK-We copy as follows
rom the New Orleans Times of the Ist
A letter received yesterday by the Louisiana
State Lottery Company, from one of the members of
Cabinet, ordering ten whole tickets in the next draw
ng, to fill it is said, the conditions of bet. OF the ma
ure of this little sporting wager the proceeds of
which have been judciousy placed in lottery tickets
instead of cash. probably nothing further will transprc
DROPPED THE NEGRo.-Beecler in bis speech last
Monday night before the Brooklyn Free Trade League
S reported by the Herald, sal d.:
He had been called to speak On very important top
cs. His name would doubtless be familiar as CON
,toI tlc1,, D,,tl h., l.: ~
lack man. Government had already put. him on
is feet and when once put upon his feet Just
5 he them could not stand he must fall. (Cheers)
Let Beecher stick to that.