The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE.
N ews Summary.


official account Of the bombardment OF Vapar also.
Our literary friends and readers of taste will not
neglect reading the craique ON Y. Huao's last
work. See second page.
Merchants, planters and others will be interest
ed in the proceedings of the New York Chamber Of
Commerce, on the proposed five per cent. tax on
cotton.
The late Danish war cost Prussia q, 900 900
thalers and the end isn't yet.
A girl eleven years old Was recently married in
Detroit.
The King of Greece is booked to marry the
Grand Duchess VERA of Russia.
GusTAvE DoRE has finished thirty drawings for
TENNYsoS's Idyls of the King. They will be en-
graved in England.
Pearl gray and azure blue are the fashionable
colors For Paris ladies' stockings, and boots of
black satin, with gilt heels.
man has been sentenced in Scotland to 10
days imprisonment for trying to gain admittsnce
to a Masonic lodge, not being member Of the
order.
A new gas-burner has been introduced in Edin-
burgh. The nib is composed Of "patent adanas,"
q siliceous substance not liable to corrosion or
oxidation; and the result is that the flame is al
ways steady ana the gas thoroughly consumed.
Two negro girls, sisters named Caroline and
Susan Brown, residing in Cooper county, Mo-,
qusrroIled one day last week about who should
get the dinner. The matter decided against Su-
sans doing 80 by Caroline striking her with an
axe, and killing her. Caroline is in ja at Boons-
vile.
Prussian architects appointed by the govern
ment are to visit Paris and London for the pur-
pose Of studying the Chamber Of Deputies and the
Houses of Parliament, with view to the new
houses to be built in Berlin the site Of the
al o1oip soo}
81, 125, 600.
Grotesque scarf pins are the "rage' for gentle
men abroad. Dsndies parade the streets with q
wonderfully Ife.lke representation, in enamel,
OF a human eye and an inch or two below the
chin, or, in place thereof q lighted segar with
ruby in the head to indicate the fire, or q luciEer
match Of precious metal closely resembling the
real article.
curious family has just been established in
the Jardin des Plantes iu Paris. In an iron cage
have been placed young lioness, an Algerian
wild boar, and o little dog This last is quite the
master, the ioness generally amusing herself with
teasing the boar. When, however, the lioness
goes too far the dog interferes and reestablishes
order.
The New Orleans Picyune says that the Hon.
VIM. GwIN, formerly OF California, now confined
in prison at Fort Jackson, below that city, was
his parole to leave the country and never return
and that he Immediately declined preferring to
remain prisoner in his native land rather than
to go into banishment elsewhere.
It is observed that on Fridays the omnibus
travel of Paris dimnishes in proportion Of twenty
five per cent-so strong j, the superstitious avoid
ance Of doing anything that can be helped on that
"unlucky'' day. It is also further remarked, that
when Friday happens to fall on the 18th OF the
month, the omnibus receipts decrease at the rate
OF fifty per cent.
Killing comes natural in ireland, for half the
places begin with kill. There is Killboy (for all
Irishmen are called boys); and what is stin more
ungallant, there is Killbride; Kibaron, after the
andlords; Killbarraok after the English soldiers;
Kilcrew, for the navy; Kibritain, for the English
proprietore; Killcool for deliberate murder; Kill
more, IL that's not enough; and last, though not
least, Fitzpatrick.
An immense work is at present under way at
the entrance Of the Paris terminus Of the West
ern Railway, in the Rue st. Lazarre. It is an iron
roof constructed over the thIty one lines Of rails
which start from that point, and which was for
mer!y called the "PAcede Europe" under which
the trains passed through two stone tunnels. The
tunnels have been removed, and road will be
const: ucted over tile iron roof.
curious apparatus for propelling balloons
through the air has been devised by Mr. BUTLER,
one Of the members Of the Council of the new
Eronautical Society in London. It consists of
pair OF wings, operated from the car OF the bal
loon, whose downward blow is calculated to strike
with force exceeding forty pounds, power
equivalent to an ascensive force of one thousand
cubic feet OF carburetted hydrogen. The action
required is somewhat similar to that OF rowing.
The stables OF the st. Louis Ffth-street Rail-
road were burned on Saturday at noon. There
were one hundred and seventy head Of horses and
mules in the stahle, onlythrty OF which were res
cued. Sixteen cara and ell the harness and forage
were also burned. The fire Is supposed to be the
work of an incendiary, and man has been ar
rested on suspicion. The loss on tho building and
stock will reach s5O,o0o on which there is $40
insurance. '''.
A recent return Of the number Of Joint stock
companies registered In Calcutta during the year
1866, shows that the nominal capital invested
during that period amounted to g. 69s 900 rupees,
: divided among twenty-four. associations. Eleven
companies have been wound up. The shortest
lived speculation was the Northwest of Indfa
Cotton screwing Company" which, from its name,
could scarcely expoct any other fate than that Of
being wound up."
Louisville Is suffering from visitation OF rate,
and city ordinance Is proposed giving premium
OF o cent head for every Norway rodent that