The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-01-05
Miscellaneous Items.

The lives of some of the citizens of St. Louis ar
pretty heavily insured as follows:
\ W. N. Switzer is insured for 1910, 900; John How
for $500 900; Francis Whitaker for 5000 900; Clar
Whittier for $4,000; E. G. Obear for $40 0OO ?
Beardsee for Sl35 0OO D. A. January for 1920, 600
and very large number of them from $50, 900 t.
100000.
A California paper tells how an old lady residing il
San Francisco had occasion to spank her little boy
He had been playing about the wharves, and bad sa
on leaky can of nitro glycerine the consequence
which that the first smack the oS lady admins
tered caused explosion, which sent them flying il
different directions and broke all the glass in the room
The Boston Traveller tells US that Horace Greeley
has charming daughter, who is as much distinguished
for taste in dress her father is for the want of it
The same paper says 3. F. Buffers daughter Blanche
is the handsomest woman in Washington.
Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., who has delighted so many Led
ger readers with his longspun love Stories is now con
fined in the Boston Inebriate Asylum as a hopeless
drnnkard. So says the Springfield Massachusetts
Republican.
The receipts from the exhibition of President Grants
OK, at the late fair at st. Louis amounted to nearly
$1,000 which goes to the benefit of the Soldiers Or
phans' Home.
Mark Twain says To be hanged in New Hampshire
Is happlness-it leaves an honored name behind man
aud introduces him at into the best New Hamp-
shire society in the other world.
The sails for the Spanish gunboats cost $50 900.
They were made in Mystic Conn, and the contract was
the largest of the kind ever filled in this country They
are made OF the best imported Scotch linen duck
The Superintendent of the Boston city schools en-
coNages parents IN their growing practice of keeping
ttfr children out Of school until they are six or seven
years old.
Vanderbilt, before his marriage was afflicted with
palpltation of the heart. The application of another
Papang heart has proved the soundness of the doe
trlne that like cures like.
The New York World says there are six reasons wbv
Dan Sckles should not be confirmed as Minister to
Spain, viz: Adultery, robbery, fraud, mutiny theft
and murder"
They say that the Marquis of Butte is going to build
Roman Catholic cathedral on the site of the old Sta
Inn at Oxford. Butte is the young English nobeman
who has more money than he wants.
As an evidence Of the liberality of the citizens of
Shreveport, informed by Mr. Burnside that his
cash sales, during the last ten days for Christmas
presents amounted to S12S2.
Bonners horses valued at two hundred thousand
dollars Dexter cost him thirty thousand of the
amount.
physician Boosting that be cured his own hams
one of his guests remarked: "Wel, doctor, would
sooner be your ham than your patient"
In the last ballot for United States Senator in the
Kentucky Legislature, John C. Breckenridge got one
vote
The Government seized the 80 Spanish gunboats
and the Government released them. Which was the
bunder? asks Prentice.
negro boy in Tallahassee stole can of powder,
and thinking it contained something good to eat set
1t on the stove to warmth eat him.
tits currently reported and generally believed oftbe
female sex that they do not scrupe to hook each
others frocks.
Nitro-glycernc is said to be sure cure for indo
fla aplp bari, -t.i
smart. TDetroit Free prnss
Large droves of Texas cattle are arriving on the
Pacific coast. Stock growers express fears of the
cattle plague.
Game is very abundant in Nevada The prineinsl
varieties are seven-up poker faro keno and prairie
chicken. So says exchange
The Conservative counties in Mississippi pre Ham
cock, Co7ington, Tippah, Rankin Neshoba, Carroll,
and Newton.
Perplexed pedestrian" Bub, which is the Quickest
way Tor me to get to the depot?" Accommodating
boy" RUM
western reporter has interviewed magnetic
wave no" on its way from the sun, and says proposs
to knock the earth to pieces
, PoNERoY's PApER-A Washington dispatch says
he report in the Western papers that Pomeroy,s Dem
'crat would suspend, is automatically denied
The Esquimaux say: -" A man who has three wives
TINS world Is sure OF heaven in the next" He ought
o find peace somewhere.
The belle OF CoVington, Ind, wears number Fights
nd is passionately fond of bear meat.
Louisville claims one hundred and fifty thousand in
abitants
Louisville has negro child with ten fingers on each
and
Mrs. Mcfarland Sag -Richardson is quietly domi.
lied at her fathers house, in Charlestown, Mass
-Four armed ruffans guard the entrance to Mr. Jas
isk, Jr. :, private office in the Opera House
An English lady leaves Jefferson Davis ten thousand
pillars.
Connecticut reports 500 divorces this year. with ser
al counties to hear from. :