The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-03-17


Antelope" is not alone in lis glory, Tor many
one thinks the same thing.
Mobile magistrate awarded negro girl twenty
Eve dollars damages, for being put out OF street car
Rev. Warren Sparrow fell dead at his residence II
/ Owen county, Kentucky, few days age.
An exchange SAYS that Mrs Lincoln has been oieret
large salary to remain at BADEN Baden as guest 0
one of the gaming houses there, which oitaf mas peer
accepted. Thanks forthat much
/ Northwestern mercantile journals represent the hea
crop exceedingly short prices high ad 5ood pfosPec
/ for higher figures later in the year.
Carlotta writes letters to Maximisp every day
! They are said to be beautifully written
Tn Alabama, 9a2 miles of rairoadafe n operation
625 projected and IN process OF constfac.oA'
The Grenada Sentinel says there cannot be Lie ieas
doubt but that the peach crop, ii not ehtteS sAihea
has been greatly damaged By the late Gold spell.
4 catfish was recently caught in the Mississippi river
with six pound cannon ball III his staniaeii Either
it was fired down his throat during nc war or he lta
taken it incidentally, believing it 10 De hiue-miSs pill
In California there is one-fourth Of female to each
male.
Miss Mary Louise Warner, aged ourteen, is the most
popular barber in La,cing, Michigan. She Is cstao-
| lishcd in her own shop.
| There are signs, SAYS the Ptburg Dispatch, OF
great emigration southwark in tie early spring MANY
ialnilitS are tEtlitiil- 70 ita't 1t"AG 'o'
Kentucky and Georgia.
The dnst from the macadauised streets of Paris
Yields an income of $4,000 per imam to an ingenious
individual OF that city, who converts 1t INTO yei!o"
bricks for knife cleaning.
John C. Drnine is eonfnel in the county Jail IN
Brooklyn, and is week Of his former sell,
being afflicted by Disease andcompclled to 60 about on
crutch.
A thrifty scotcl,snan desaihing he eStravagances
a,l That hn hnIlp hnplt
there above half day wien "bang! went 3 SAX
pence! "
One Beamv lost $4,000 On the streets of St. Louis.
He offered $500 reward, and has received $500
through the post Office, without note Or comment
Before deciding abruptly whether the canning man
will drink wine, it might be pertinent 10 ask whether
the present man drinks wine. New ork Tribune.
Fishes eyes have been utilised. They make fine
description of gluten and attention has been turned
to their preservation.
DcSoto county, Mississippi, is now without civil Off
GERS, all the former Incgmhents having failed to take
tie oath required by Gen. Gil!emss order.
We had no idea how very water is in Texas.
The Golad Guard advertises for printer that neveF
drinks.
An Ohio aiiitcr compares the editor of rival sheet
10 an ostrich '.wh its head in a sand bank and its
prodi gious all in the air"
Many ladies in Havana Lave sold their jewels to
contribute to the PATRIOTIC army, and many planters
have given much money.
A young lady living in the country adjacent to At
anta Ga has four s,ors, aged, respectively, thirteen,
eighteen, thirty five and sixty. She is twenty-iour,
and has the four seasons to choose from.
A Boston paper says Mr.. Bnrngamc, when in this
country, said the Emperor of China would take stock
in the Daren Canal the amount of $50 0Qn 900 and
supply all the labor needed
Dr. Judson baptised the first Burman convert n
1919 and since that time than 40, 600 converts
have been baptised-Burmans, karens and Shans-
making average Of about two every day. Of these
30 900 are living, and but small portion OF the
Karen population has been even visited or their ter
rtory explored
FRANCE has an available military force of 1,02S,520
men. OF these 100000 are regulars, of whom 31S,-
$50 are at home, ID Sal are in Algeria. and 1926 in
Italy, She has 42l vessels in her navy, OF which 33l
are wooden vessels, 40 iron c!ads, 81 the
stocks, AncopDcted, ana are ESea for ira ming
schools.
A young lady, who is indignant ut THO tynograph
ca in her first published poem, expresses her
self as follows:
" wish had that editor about half IL minute;
I'd bang him to his hearts content, and with IN be-
gin it;
I'd jan bis BODY. eyes and bones and spell il with d.
Mrs. Deccher Stoves celebrated farm in Florida
is for sale. It is said to have proved anything but
Success.
"LolI" SrATE.-Twenty- one murders in ten days
in Indiana and only ten arrested For State, bar
H aeA a6vsf 1 ffo !o f32ne ds a
la.nenta5!e dearth Of high moral ideas New England
should send cut its missionaries Immediately.
New Orleans Times.
ARMY OFFICER DEAD.-Capt Irwin ". Potter, 18th
United States Infantry, died very suddenly at his quar-
tcrs in the town of Nacogdoches, on Sunday the 25ti
ult. Rusk Observer 9th.
The Spanish recipe for salad dressing is model Of
terSeaes5 and cxlctneSs A spendthrift for oil,
mser for vinegar counsellor for salt, and mailman
to stir it all up"
An engaged couple, too poor to get married, were
walking the streets Of Rockport. Maine, when they
fell into hole in The sidewalk. Each broke leg
sued the corporation for damages, recovered O00
and got married forthwith.
The only man in Washington not an applicant for
Office, is said to be old Jesse Grant.
Duty ON SALr-The New York Tribune says that
the duty on foreign salt is only eighteen cents hum
dred pounds. But salt is worth at Turks Island ten
ceuts and at Liverpool eight cents per bnscl ofeighy
five pounds SO that the duty OF only eighteen cents
per hundred pounds amounts to only 100 or no per
cent. I'D yalorem. What modest considerate crea
lures the salt mOnopoilsts arc.
New Orleans Crescent
The police of New Orleans made raid last Monday
night the keno banks, and captured fltsen of
them.
The Empress Eugenic, according to Figaro, has re-
Gently become convert to splrtualism, through the
influence of clever cairrovant Mile. Else Gu'i't
ten who calls herself the Light of the Future" The
empress has recently attended almost aiy the
of this woman, and even Louis Napoleon is said to
have consulted her. rz -zs.=
The Forty FIRST CoNGREss.-The Republicans now
have fftvsix members of the United States Senate, in
place of fifty four in the late Congress and one hun
drcd and fhiry-fo members of the House, in place
of one hundred and seventy six, with twenty TO be
elected to the latter body.
PEEsosAL.-The New Orleans Bulletin Of the llth,
pays the following compliment to the Hon. c. b. Pratt
member of the State Legislature, from Claiborne
parish
lion. e. B. PsaH-Among the Democratic men,
bers of the Legislature who have distinguished them-
selves for their steadfast opposition to the may niqui
tous measures of the last session, one is eli.
titled to the paudts of his constituents and the graft
tude of the whole people than the talented and fear
less young representative from Claiborne, the Hon. C.
B. Pratt Constant in his attendance, quick to per- |
eeve the enormities contemplated By tie Radical
orty, and always prepared to expose and denounce
thei,l lie has Justly made himself of the ablest
champions of tie white people of the State and his
services n their behalf should not and will not be
forgotten. Il leaves to-day for Ills home where he
viii receive TIE congratulations OF bis many
friends ant, lie carries with him from this city the
honor and esteem Of the community, for his bold, /
manly and upright course MAY lie live long as the |