The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-15
The Daily N ews.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY Is, 1866.
VARIOUS ITEMS.

thRloOS IIEn1Ss
Bavarian Israelite, writing to tho Lsrae,aes
Indeed, has statement upon tho process Of the
restoration Of tho Jews to Palestine, which is
worthy OF note Ho says: ..si
'The re-gathering OF the jews is now. beginning
to take place. Not only many single famllles emf
CRATE to Palestine, but there have been formed a
number Of societies in almost every land on this
continent, to prepare an emigration on large
SCALE provided with all possible means, money,
the cultivation of tho long desolated land at once,
and with the utmost vigor. There are men of
considerable wealth among them, and not one
without some means; enough at least to defray
the expenses of the journey, and to purchase
plot IF ground. am happy to- state that am
ono of the leading members Of society forming
here in Bavaria, which numbers already over nine
hundred heads of families, besides u number of
young people who would not form alliance with
the other Sex until settled in the Holy Laud, upon
tho soil Of their rightfui heritage" He also adds
s'Tho Gentiles hereabout-thst is, the petty Ger.
man Protestant Kingdoms and priucpaltiesA G..
even more aatir about Palestine than the Jews"
VINO FIRST SETTLED MARYLAND Tho Church
Review for April has al article of considerable
length to prove that Maryland was neither Irish
nor Roman Catholi" in it's first settlement The
earliest settlers i'll Kent county Of the Church
of England. The second company at st. Marys
them Roman Catholics. BY 1642 there were three
English churches, and only ono Romish chapel
In fngle's rebellion in 1915, almost all tho Roman
Protestant was made Acknowledgements, and in
1649 he introduced five hundred fresh colonsts
of whom cne hundred were Puritsns, and the rest
were OF the Cuuroh Of England. BY 1904 there
were ten counties formed, five on the eastern and
five On the western shore, and only two out OF the
ten had any R9man Catholic population, and these
two were only ROmish in part. ...:'A "a
Thus the Protestants were always majority in
the colony. Andit appears by the original char
ter given to Lord Baltimore by Kin. Charles L.
that 80 far from his receiving any power which he
could use against the church, it was expressly
provided "that all churches ohapels and orato-
ries be dedicated and consecrated according to
VOLCANIC IsLANDs.-An essay on the new vol
eanc island in the Grecian Archipelago is given
in a French scientific journal, from which 1t ap-
pears that the group of islands Of which this is
one has been subject to earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions since the beginning Of the Christian
era. The latest serious eruption took place about
one hundred and fifty five years ago, and did CON-
siderable damage. The present one was predicted
years ago by Won Buch aud other geologists.
The "L1rrLE. Co." The result of the recent
'Little- Go" at Cambridge was that out of about
three hundred and fifty men, one hundred and
sixty and upwards were either scratched" or
"plucked." This proportion, says the Pail Mall
Gazette, is enormous when one considers that in
the two triposes none were disapproved for the
mathematical, and only about Ave for the class
ical. The Greek Testament appears to have been
fruitful source Of failure.
NoTRE DAME OF PAn1s-The restoration of the
Church of Notre" Dame in Paris is rapidly
approaching it's termination. All tho stained
glass windows have been completed, and placed
in the ogive windows; the northern portioo is
finished, as are the chapels surrounding the nave
BY the end Of this year the building will onco more
appear in it's original beauty.
ROMAN REMAINS IN PARIs.-In digging the foun-
dation of the new Hotel Dieu in Paris, a Roman
wall has boen discovered, made OF cut stones
measuring from one metre to one metre fifty
centimetres in size. several columns have also
been discovered, one of which is surmounted By a
capital of leaves Of the size and dimensions of
crypt Of Notre Dame. -
CONTENTS OF A Cows STomAcH.-A COW died re-
gently in Hardwick, Mass, from some mysterious
cause. On examination her stomach was found
to contain fifteen iron nails, fourteen pieces of
stone of different sizes five pieces OF glass, part
of an earthen pitcher, besides large quantity of
smaller articles, weighing nearly pound.
PATENTS AND SEAI.INo.-The London Quarterly
Review states that the quantity Of wax now re-
quired for one years consumption in England, in
sealing patents for inventions alone, il upwards
of a ton and two hundred weights.
NEITHER ONE THING NOR THE OTHEn.-A new po-
1itcal club is talked OF in London It il to be lib
ralrconservative, and to take the name OF the
Clarendon: Its members propose to fuse the con-
AMERICANS ABRoAp.-The number Of Americans
visiting Europe liz shown by the amount of pass
ports issued by the Department of State to be
largely increasing. More have been issued in
1866 than in any previous year, sometimes as
many as forty in a single day.
PIsoAToRY.-The value OF the fresh fish sold
annually at the various French seaports is est-
mated at f1, 400 0OO but, by the timo it has paid
the octroi and other duties, it's cost to the con-
sumer is moro than qnldruped.
GERMAN EMIoRATIoN.-Germany, which is not