The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-01
Miscellaneous Items.

fishing house and type foundry at Shanghai.
The Southern negroes must be getting rich. The
take stock in every farm yard they come to.
Louisville Courier
In the last five years. in New York, fifty new stree
railroads have been built, costing s25, 0OO, OG0. 1t
| entire system cost S35, 900, 900.
1t is found that the loss of currency by and
is than sufficient to pay the expense of printing
and issuing it. The averaged life of bank note is tire
| years, and that of currency much shorter time
II there were ten thousand negro voters in Massa
chuses there eight thousand in Mississippi Their
would not be single advocate of the 9th amendmen
or Of universal suffrage in the old Bay State.
| Memphis Appeal.
| A SPEcTAcLE-The negroes in Washington arr
starving and the relief associations calling piteousl
for help while the farmers of Virginia and MARYLAND
are anxious for laborers and cannot get them. This
one of the results of Radealism the negro The,
collected together in cities and fed at the public
expense for their votes while the soil is lying idle al
around them for want of laborers to till it.
A Coon PRlcE.--The first bale OF cotton received a
Memphis this season, sold for thirty eight cents per ID
It was shipped to Boston.
There is said to be a of GOODNESS between
Bntler and Grant Butler in that spirit of Christian
forbearance so characteristic Of him. saws Grant il
"a id fool"
OHIo-Tiie most encouraging assurances of Demo
cratic at the coming election in Ohio are re
EeiVeu. FROM all parts OIL The Stale the NOMINATION
Of PeDdeton everywhere inspires the greatest enths
asm, and his election is regarded as a sure thing
A young lady, gaily promenading in Cincinnati, the
other afternoon, suddenly dropped her hoopskirt. She
picked it up and cody carried it home under her arm
Fesupius is growing again. If eruption takes
place he will be Kissed by the Neapotans Just as the
people of Venice Kissed eclipse which did not
quite come up to their expectations
The Young Prince Imperial is an amateur stoker.
He has engine and railway train, in miniature and
amuses his papa by scientifically running it.
Brick Pomeroy has turned temperance lecturer.
How a man be "red-hot" and temperate at the
same time?
1t is not because Massachusetts loves the negro,
but because Massachusetts, hates the white men of the
South that this blasting, withering crushing savage
suffrage is sought to be fastened on each Southern
State. Memphis Appeal.
The Society of California Pioneers in San Francisco
have purchased cane, valued at $1,000 for presenta-
ton 10 William Fl. Seward his return from Alaska
The head of the stick is composed of fortyone TRAN
guar pieces Of gold bearing quartz.
A young man of limited intelligence, who was re-
covering from long fit of sickness, being told by his
physician that he might now venture on little ami
NAL food" exclaimed sNo you don't doctor. I've
suffered enough on your cruel and stuff and hang me
if touch any of your hay and oats"
Mchigander having his finger crushed in cider
mill consulted himself surgicay, and resolved to am
putate the manged and useless digit He had nerve
enough to bold chise on it while a neighbor struck
the chsel with maet.
Josh Billings says: Whenever find real handsum
wonon engaged in the wimmins rights bizzness."
then going to take mi hat under mi arm and line
the procession.
A California Chinaman having been shown by his
mistress how to make pudding containing three eggs
but having seen her throw one bad egg away, contn
e., rnftn rhn H. IT,.
to four eggs, regularly breaking, examining
and throwing one away as he had seen her do.
A Chicago reporter, who attended a spring opening
of fashionable millinery, says of it: I" A cabbage
leaf, trimmed with three red peppers and dried
cherry sells for $50. 1t is called jockey; has one
great advantage-can be eaten salad when the
season changes. One composed of three signs and
bit of pnkcolored fog, considered cheap $50"
The death of the Turkish brgand, Manoli, the Bith-
ynian Fra Davolo, the terror of Asia Minor is re-
ported from Broussa. The Turks are indignant be-
cause Christian dealt the blow and claims the prize
of $4,000 offered for Manolis head. But the Ameri-
can brigand Hildebrand, still defes the sherfs and
militia of Missouri. few weeks since he and ten
men attacked sheriff. wounded deputy, and killed
his horse.
The entire South is going through the most critical
stage in its history since the rebellion with far less
trouble and bloodshed than we had supposed possible
1t may fairly be doubted whether any Northern State
aborng under equal degree Of political excitement
would behave better.
New York Journal of Commerce
Some wag has stuck on of the pillars of the por
tico of the White House, at Washington large placard
in big letters, the words; "To let for
four years to permanent tenant" The word "per-
was capitalized good hit at our horse
racing President, who is extended tramp about
the country with sporting men.
Gen. R. E. Lee, Geo. Peabody and w. w. Corco-
,l1+a ,Iol ~.
day. -.-a
pers-both daily" who has been figuring in the reye-
nue. offices at Richmond Va, has been dismissed.
Within four years the population of the nine North
western States, from which draw our chief sup
plies of food has increased at the rate of five hundred
thousand annually.
A Georgia paper makes mention of having seen
bunch of grapes upon which were at least 1000 fully
developed and perfectly ripe grapes.
Twenty clergymen of Philadelphia have Just signed
an agreement not to ociate at funerals Sunday,
less upon physicians certificate that burial on that
day is unavoidable.
It is decided that base ball clubs must pay Federal
tax. The Cabinet has in consideration the praprety
of including kite fl ying in the same list.
A reporter for Western paper calls marriage IL
eense ga preliminary way bill to be freighted the
sea of life together"
Duxbury, where the French cable was landed was
the home of John Alden, is situated in Plymouth
county, Mass, notfar from Plymouth Rock, and ad-
Joining Marshfeld which contains the home and tomb
Of Daniel Webster.
Some surveyors in the White Mountains tell good
oke of their applying for food at cottage when the
woman declared she had no food unless they could
'put up with some trout" Put up With fresh trout,
indeed
Rev Samuel B. Wilson, ID. for many years Pres
dent of the Union Theological Seminary, at Peters
burg, Virginia, died recently at the age of eghtysix
According to the Spanish journals in Cuba the fol-
owing insurgent commanders have been killed and
come to life again several times: Quesada, twice
Figueredo, Agntela Ferato, Csnoros each once
Marmo twice and Lorda three times.
Two young men in Fon du Lac got badly frs htened
the other night by what they supposed to be ghost
Close investigation proved that it fastened by pins
10 a clothes line, and was simply an under-garment
invariably by the gentler The virtuous
Young themselves very handsomely by say
ing that they had never anything Of the kind be-
fore Nice boys in Fon du Lac-yery.
SHARP PRAcTIcE-Some of the colored washerwo-
men of Montgomery exhibit unmistakable evidence of
being under carpet-bag influence. They take "wash-
ing for family on Monday morning, hire out the
lresses etc, for day two and return the clothing
and other articles washed and roned on Friday or
Saturday. Nothing like enterprise and shrewdness.
Montgomery Mail.
The New Bedford Mass Mercury reports that gen
leman of that city, whose house had beer infested
with rats, recently wrote touching note to the ami
nails requesting them special favor to himself and