The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-04-28
Miscellaneous Items.

dollars for the franchise OF the Broadway rahroad
Swearing is so prevalent at Summit, Miss that th
. authorities have commenced furnishing the ofense
n There sc, 300 ministers of all denominations
ts Great Britain, with 81, 700 churches and cfapes
The Boston Post obviously says: "Pbiladelphi
feels nice because Mrs Grants piano came from there
: There were no less than nine dead bodies found las
= week in the streets of New York and around its docks
Nearly all are mysterious murders"
Il Col Lucen B. Moore, one Of the first settlers an
# most valued citizens of Aberdeen, Miss, died in tina
city on the Both ut, in the 68th year of his age.
The Rome ga Courier says it is believed that al
the peaches in that section killed by the late
J frosts. Itsays apples were not injured.
The clear profits of the stockholders of the Ham
burg gambling hell in the year lS6S were eighty-tw'
per cent. dividend and twelve per cent interest.
There are now only four ex-Governors of Georgia
living, viz: G. W. Crawford, Herschel V. Johnson
Joseph E. Brown and Charles jenkins.
Calcaseu parish has 5000 square miles and is sale
to be larger than the two States of Delaware and Rhode
Island. 1t is paradise of frutluness and health
1t is one of the minor duties of the poces of Lon
don to kick from the sidewalks the pieces of orange
peel that careessy thrown down by orange eaters
OF the 10000 shopmen in Paris, not more than a
hundred earn $1,000 year, though they work from
twelve to seventeen hours day.
A thousand sparrows. imported from Europe, are to
be let loose in Philadelphia parks, to destroy insects
and worms
OF the 5SO7 deaths in Chicago in the year ending
April l. 1873 were caused by accidents, suicide and
maasaughter.
A musical dog in New Albany, Ind plays on the
piano, and howls. So does young lady living next
| door, Exchange.
Manchester n r., authorities allow no one on Sun
day to smoke pipe cigar upon the public pave
within one mile of the City Hail.
The Washington Inteigencer says that villains go
about that city night malicously cutting costly plate
glass windows.
What lady in the Bazaar runs the greatest risk of
being thrashed? The that keeps the table where
the men will go to liquor
1t has been legally decided in Cincinnati that is is
impossible to steal umbrella and that possession is
in all cases an evidence of ownership.
The father Of cash boy in Louisville dry goods
store has brought action against salesman for slap
ping the urcbin, laying damages at $4,000.
Of the 1000 literati now living in Paris, only 400
able to support themselves by the proceeds of their
library labors.
A very small foot-a foot shall never see the last
ola foot without soul-and foot that wants boot
ing-Henry S. Footp. N. 0. Times
President Grant did not receive visitors yesterday
Cause-headache. Cause of headache not stated
[Courier-Journal.
Admiral Borie saws that his d" little man is getting
along very nicely He does everything that tell him
to do" Borie repndiates 'afand alf-he won't have
anything but Porter.
Miss Dorothy L. Dix, who has interested herself for
many years in the treatment of the insane Is about
visiting California to labor for their better care in that
State
One New Haven editor calls another "moraI |
hyena, whose foul and fostering tongue drps with |
gall and aquafortis." They've just had an election in
that part of the country. /
1t is predicted that the cutting of the Suez Canal
will have the effect of changing the Desert of Sahara
into fertile soil. The of Europe consider this
to be beyond a doubt.
. Three epicures who dine every day at the famous
Partisan restaurant, Les Freres Proveneaux" pay
hundred and sevcnty-fve fratcs for every meal they
eat.
As the rope Of the French cable is being manufac-
tured at the rate Of 900 miles week the contract is
well in hand, and will be ready by the first week in
June.
The chief crer at the Paris Bourse, an officer who
receives salary of fifteen thousand francs year
served short time officer in the Confederate
army. He lived formerly in New Orleans.
IMPORTANCE OF A LETTER.--A Mississippi exchange
makes geographical mistake we presume of a &C"
for an h in the following:
locomotive a COW and cut 1t into calves
We are Informed that the planting prospects on the
Ouachita very encouraging. The weather is balmy
rising little. Ouachita Telegraph, 81.
In negging boots by steam. twenty cases, or $40
pairs Of boots, usual days work. One man in
fopkinton Moss. has pegged eghty-thrce cases. 1882
boots, in two days
Andrew and Elizabeth Walsh are under arrest in
Pttsburg for beating bound girl with poker,
running it down her mouth and knocking out her
teeth Gentle creatures
A great many business men have adopted rule
n rrya nr1.p Tow, IT,
Esq" or Mr." believing that they useless mean
ngess and in all respects played out
Beecher is evidently better business man than
preacher. His latest dodge is recommending secular
at his church. He thinks the building
uglt to be made to pay for other purposes besides
preaching. " Thrift, thrift, Horato."
1t is proposed to establish bank in New York for
foreign exchange business exclusively
'he capital is to be four five million dollars. and
Ion. Freeman Clark is named in connection with the
Presidency {
Virgil A. krenps, the young man who attempted to
i'll Miss Cassie King, in BROOKLYN New York in Feb
uary last, was sentenced in the Brooklyn Court, of
essons to eight years and seven months Imprisonment
n Sing Sing. ..'.u- i
Cleveland has woman who has been married seven
ines in eight years. Two of her husbands dead.
he other five, from four of whom she was divorced
till live. Her daughter, seventeen has been {
vice married and twice divorced.
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce has passed .
esolution to unite with the New Orleans Chamber of
commerce in petition to Congress to provide naviga- :
on for the largest vessels from New Orleans to the
ulf.
The husbandmen of the United States rejoice in the r
wnershp of 5000 900 horses, 600 900 cattle il
100000 sheep, $4,000, 900 swine. and 500 0GO 8
Jules, AT low estimate we may reckon them worth s
coo, 100000 Il
AN UNK1sD CuT.--A London correspondent of the C
oSton Traveller says that the English House of Com II
IONS "behaves almost bad Congress in Wash
gon often does and stands no higheras legislative
ody"
1t is said that the twenty three remaining veterans tt
the war Of 1912 residing in New York, the Young n
It OF whom is seventy-two years old, Ii re in earrets
and in the cabin of an old canal boat ST
atject want. 1t
On Thursday, the 18th of March, three young white 81
dies were outraged by negro Chambershurp III
u the following Thursday the Legislature of Penn OF
lgania ratified tile fifteenth amendment placing ne "a
oes on political equality with the whites al
The New York World says that the "Grecian bend" :
Is tasled the numerous predictions made with re- "
rd to its speedy disappearance. In fact RACES more
ronsly than The protuberant part of the ar s.
ngement is attached belt so that it can be ~
nrn rot, to suit circumstances .,
Two needles, swallowed fifteen years aro nv two T
dies 10 lronton, Ohio have recently made their exit
thin few days Of each other one coming ont at the u
east and the other at the shoulder blade Both "
dies have suffered from consumpye symptoms during re