The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-13
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

mistaken notion or 'duty"-the new tariff.
London is getting hard up for soft water.
Liberal successes in Mexico are literally re-
ported.
J. @. Breckenridge is living at Niagara, Canada
West. ..'
house for working girls is to be built in Chi
eago. .s.
The London ladies are getting up little clubs OF
their own. -.
The cotton worm is after the plant in Western
Texas.
A child OF three years died in Halifax from the
effects Of rum drinking, taught it by its mother.
Tho ladies of st. Louis are to hold great
Southern Relief Fair in September. -,
The annual expenses of the city of Paris amount
to over s40,0 900.
child in Brooklyn fatally shot it's grandmother
while playing with a revolver.
Prince Alfred has been lunching with the Lon
don grocers.
A horse thief just arrested in Indiana proves to
be a woman.
DR.. Mary Walker predicts female suffrage and
office holding within ten years.
An acre and three-quarters of land in Pennsyl-
vania yielded 5000 worth Of strawberries thi sea-
son.
Four scoundrels recently tarred and feathered
a woman in Illinois.
Twenty war correspondents have left London
for the Continent
A Cincinnati girl put her father, widower, in
A Nashville ordinance directs the arrest OF all
males over 16 found in the streets with frail wo-
men.
There is no cholera apparently in New York;
but heat makes every one eholeric.-tEx.
Washington letters say there is a rare bit of
scandal afoat in that city, but give no particulars.
New York imported a million and half OF dry
goods last week.
An improved Shakspearian Reading for JuIy-
"Oh that this too, too solid flesh uouldnt meltIn
-tEx.
woman in Iowa obtained q divorce ON account
widow, and the wretch married the widow the
same day.
Two sisters lately met in Baltimore after 4s
years separation. They talked Sc hours, and
were still doing 80 at last accounts.
A Texas judge fined party $50 for trying to
feed Juror who was holding out in case in
which said party was interested.
A reneontre recently took place in Charleston,
Miss, between r. E. Lee and Capt. J. r. Smith,
which resulted fatally to both parties. Cause OF
quarrel-unimportan gossip or school girls.
Paterfamilias made his daughter very angry by
suggesting that they "move into the back attic
and shut of the water and gas instead Of going
to saratoga-that it would be quite as we'll"
The oldest Jewish cantor in America, Rev. Ben.
Kantrowit2, died lately In Columbus, Ind, aged
ninety-three. He sang before the Kings of Prus-
sia, Holland and other countries by express inyi.
tation, and, as au accomplished master, &C uuired
d WoTlu-Wlue TepuGhLlOu.
A Vienna letter mentions that Prince Lichtep-
stein, commandant OF the Austrian cavalry, has
suddenly become insane, and that the calamity ia
! attributed to yexation at Marshal Benedek being
appointed commRnder-in-chief instead OF himseii
The New York Independent says ssone great
days' work, we'll done, will save the country and
blow the President forever out OF the way, like
fine dust" The Independent has generally de-
pended upon wind for effect.
The New York Tribune concludes that the man.
| tie Of independence and lberality bequeathed to
Antioch College by Horace Mann, has been worn m
out, and cloak of tims-serying substituted, be-
cause Mrs. Dodds was not allowed to read thesie
| on the platform in bloomer dress.
A Boonville (Indiana) paper says: ga couple
from the rural districts came to town the other
day for the purpose of being made one The
groom drove up TO the court house square, tied
his horses, helped his lady out Of the wagon, and
told her to git on the steps while he went after
the permit He got the permit and secured
tne services OF magistrate, after which the OBJ
1ect OF his ahections was called in and the twain
made one. After the ceremony was over, and
magistrate, the bride and groom vent back to
their team, which they fed, aud then seated Them
selves under tree In few moments the bride
drew from her spacious pocket q handkerchief
containing their dinner, and thus did they eat the
first square meal Of their welded life."
|
! WALK OF EraHTY.Two THOUSAND Mu,Es-A
! wonderfui old man, named Thomas Bartrom.
eighty.two years Of age (siugular coincidence, re-
siding IN the village OF Harome, in the North OF
England, has, for twenty -four years, been wood.
man on Lord Feversham ANA estate and, during the
whole OF that period, has walked to and from his
work, an average of ten miles per day, in addition
to his full work as woodman. He still wields Tho
Axe and continues his double march tnfoht and
morning), and is somewhat proud OF his nearing