The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-05-04
Miscellaneous Items

for 4 month, owing to difficulty about receipts
Agricultural reports from all parts of Tennessee
are very encouraging.
manufacturing company of Columbus, Ga, turns
out 1000 stoves per year.
One thousand Swiss emgrants are en- route from
Hamburg to Water Valley Mississippi.
New York paper says that not one pound in ten
OF the honey sold in that city ever knew bee.
4 lady in Indiana with hair ten feet long, receives
SO per week for merely sitting in a hair dressers
shop show.
The New York Conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church voted in favor of lay delegations by 145
to 50.
The Nashville papers announce that they will here
after charge many citizens whenever they call upon
an as9irant for office.
After wedding it was formerly custom to drink
honey dissolved in water, for thirty days-a moons
age. Hence the origin Of the honeymoon
An old soaker replied to a temperance lecturer by
the following poser 1t water rots the soles of your
boots, what effect must it have on the coat of your
stomach? "
A Connecticut man has worn the same hat to Church
for forty years 1t has been in style times dur
ing that period.
In Africa, if any comes before king without a
full dress cosume-that is a straw hat and ring in
the n0sehis head goes into the waste basket before
he can wink twice.
A colored preacher, commenting on the passage,
BE ye therefore wise serpents and harmless as
doves" said that the mixture should be made in the
proportion OF pound 81" dove to an of serpent
affbeft Rast's life was insured in the Carolina
Company of Memphis, Tenn, for $4,000. He had
paid the second annual premium about month be-
fore bis death.
The Chinese of Hong Kong, in a recent ford ad-
dress to Prince Arthur, assured him that he was as
fair the plumes of the phoenix that sits in the Grim
son nest and graceful as the unicorn" After that
the Prince no doubt, took a horn. N. 0. Times.
The Free Masons of New York are about to build
asylum for aged members and orphans to cost $780,
600
The Boston Post Gays Revels charms visitors by his
negromancy.
An exchange says: "The reason why the womens
Fighters don't take kindly to agriculture has been
discoVered-they object to swinging the cradle"
And yet they experts at handling the fail.
8" who'd maliciously set fire to barn." said
good old Elder POdsoD and burn up stable full of
horses and cows ought to be kicked to death by
ackass, and I'd like to be the one to do it."
Darboy, the Archbishop of Paris, has recently pub
I5hed breVe in which occurs the following curious
passage; " great many ecclesiastcs panta-
looms under their cassocks This garment is generally
PRONOUNCED not to be very compatible with the
sock. We request the priests of diocese to dis
card it,
The following is special dispatch to the New Or
leans Times under date, Cairo, April %:
The Grand Era is here, filling out. James Kerr, Jr.
her clerk has been heard of since the night before
the boat left St. Louis. 1t is feared he has been
drowned or murdered. He was last seen going to
the boat from the theatre. He had very little money
or his person.
The other day wealthy French countryman whose
studying law in Paris, paid visit to his pope
full scion at the capital. After dinner father and
took stroll through the Streets looking at the various
fine buildings. Finally they stood still in front of
very remarkable and characteristic building. "What
building is this, my son :" :" don't know, papa"
replied the son. "but will ask the Sergeant de Vile,
| who is standing behind u.s." The Sergeant de Vile
informed them that it the Law School, where the
young man was believed to have attended lectures for
a year past.
The United States Treasurer few days ago,
ceTed letter from S. L. Carpenter of Kansas City,
Mo, enclosing dreadfuy battered twenty five cent
| note for exchange. But having some conscientious
scrupes to the genuneness of the rag, the writer
begged the Treasurer not to brand counterfeit.
He said he poor boy, to whom twenty-five cents
matter Of great Importance, and if the enclosed
should prove to be bogus, he woud like to have it
/ turned, as he knew place where he could spend it
| for lager beer
There is generally to be found little good in all
| evils. Even thieves sometimes drop plumber by the
]
the Radical Congress, in its arbitrary legislation is
dissimilar. Having arranged method to rush bills
through Congress without discussion, the West made
flank movement on the East the other day, and 'ho-
cussed the representation so that New England will
lose and the West gain several representatives. It is
pleasing to the great Northern bully thus woundng
himself; to watch the birth and growth upon the pral
res of the West Of that spirit Of resistance to OppreS
sion to which alone look for the restoration of
the old raternal feelings and community of interest,"
without which the Union only be an arbitrary
name. New Orleans Times.
HEAVY DAuAGEs.-The following paragraph from
an exchange is given in further explanation of
ticIe We recently published touching verdict rendered
against the Nashville and Louisville Railroad:
In the spring of 1865, man named Jacobs was
killed while crossing the track of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, near the line of Hardin county,
Ky. Suit was brought by his father in the Hardin
county court claiming 900 damages. An afida-
Wit being filed that full Justice could not be done a
/ change OF venue was granted to Lawrence county.
The case has just been concluded after occupying sew
eal days. The jury after much deliberations rendered
a verdict for plaintiff giving the amount of damages
at $50000. The case will be carried to the Court of
Appeals
CONTINUED IMPRISONMENT OF Mrs W1cKLIFFE, So |
CALLED.-Mary Phillips, known as Mrs. Wickliffe,
wife or mistress of the absconded Auditor who has
been arrested, yesterday brought before the Re-
c0rdcr and remanded for further imprisonment at the
solicitation of Captain CAIN Superintendent of the
Police who had a bundle of suspicious to open as to
tile knowledge the young woman has of the crimes
committed by Wcklfe and so forth. After letting
the knave slip through their fingers in best
known to themselves, the police are throwing
dust in the eyes of the public by getting up sensational
stories about the antecedents of the woman, who, in
all probability knows nothing Of Wicklies swindling
transactions.
The story that he brought her to this city is fabr
cation. Until within two or three years. when he first
had relations with her, assured by those who
know her we'll, she Industrious seamsress, in
fair repue, living plainly by hard work at her needle
She said nothing whatever during the proceeding be-
fore the Recorder. n. 0. Bulletin 18th.
We are under the necessity of noticing an unpleas-
ant affair, which occurred last week. ten miles
from this place. 1t appears that two young men by
the name OF Hicklln pursued by posse of eiti
zens for horse stealing and their refusal to
der were fired upon, killing one Of them. The other
arrested and lodged in the stockade at this place
We forbear comment until lawful disclosure Of the
case is made. Sulphur Springs Gazette, 10TH
Verify, the way of the horse thief in Texas is hard
and beset with many dangers. Why a man should not
prefer to make equally honest and far less precari
Gus livelihood by ploughng, is very strange Though,
perhaps, the poor fellows have horses to plough
and adopt this means Of supplying their wants-who
knows? Much better that they should confue their
agri cultural operations to the hoe