The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-05
N ewS Summary.

Gen. CADELL, who WAS captured with Gen. MAR
MADUKE during the invasion Of Missouri, is
keeping a boot and shoe store at Fort Smith, Ar
kansas.
The annual mortality OF the negro population is
eight per cent, while that Of the white is only
two, in Louisville, Kentucky.
There is a report that MIR. MOTLEY, our Minis
ter at Vienna, has been instructed to demand his
passports and como home, in Austria should
persist in allowing recruits for MAxIMIL1ANs
armies to be obtained in the Austrian Empire.
GUsrAvE DoRE has finished his illustrations,
thirty in number, for TENNYsoN's "Idylls Of the
King" They will be engraved in London and pub
1shed in Paris.
The greatest slaughter house in the world is at
Montevideo. A thousand cattle are killed before
breakfast and it furnishes most of the jerked
beef that is used
The hack writer's in Washington now charge
members Of Congress from s25 to 500 for writing
their speeches. Query: Do these hack writer's
belong to the worshipful guild Of quill driuers?
PUNCH mentions great financial reformer who
is so devoted to figures that when he has nothing
else to do he casts up his eyes.
The maple "sugaring season" being now over,
the accounts from all quarters state that the
yield has been unprecedented. The quality is
proved on, the old modes Of manufacturing the
article.
Tho BoBERTs Fenians hsve issued a stirring ap-
peal to the Fenian Sisterhood and "Sympathis-
ers" with the cause to contribute lint, 6andagcs
medicines, &C., to tho Irish SANITARY Commits
sion" as speedily as possible. s'Clear the track"
CHARLES BENHET, OF Brunswick, Me-, whipped a
nchoolboy lately, and on complaint the case was
carried into court. Thirty-eight citizens Of the
place now came forward with address, affirm
ing their great confidence in him a man and
teaoher, and presenting purse of fifty dollars for
defraying the expenses Of the trial
Such is the cupidity OF the male nurses in the
Paris hospitals, stimulated by dealers in hair, the
moment q female patient dies her whole head OF
hair is cut Off One male nurse at the Hotel Dieu
is said to have made 800 francs by selling the hair
and teeth OF dead patients in his ward for den
lists are eager purchasers Of corpses teeth as
har-dressers Of corpses' hair.
A Brittany paper announces an additional in
ducement to young girls about to marry. Two
young men, having been drawn for soldiers wish
to find two young girls each possessing 25OOf. to
buy them off, When discharged from the army,
these young men will marry their iberators and
offer them ga happy home, provided they are
handsome and have good characters"
Philadelphia lawyers are generally pretty sharp
fellows, and when they get into difficulties they
invariably find knot-hole to crawl out Of if not
more proper mode of tgress; but fellow, who
claims to be Philadelphia lawyer, who was attend
ing to some law business in Primes William coun
ty, Va, last week. has been indicted by the grant
jury Of that county for stealing hogs. 30 says tn,
Washington Union, April 2sth.
The Memphis (Tenn.l Argus reports that coli
is carrying off the mules in that section by thou
sands. The dsease Was at first confined to tn
low river country, but it now extends to the up
land farms as WE'LL and is attributed by the Argu
to the use OF Northern-grown corn.
HORACE GREELEY, at the late Tribune festival OF
the txenty-fifth anniversary OF the establishment
OF that journal, said: "HENRy j. RAYMOND (pre
sent proprietor of the New York Iin,es) was on
of my first employees; he was very useful to tn
paper in it's incipiency; he was the only man whom
I ever found it necessary to admonish that b
worked too hard"
French journal says that "Ireland furnishe
the chief portion of the false plaits worn nova
days by Partisan ladies, and if the Corps Legisati
would only bring in a bill for putting tax OH til
importation Of Irish hair into the empire, Franc
might, without damaging her budget, abolish tn
stamp duty on newspapers"
That literary American prig, Carl. BENSON, ad
to "siluer" aud "spira" Numberless replies hav
been elected, but the right ono not found We
Perhaps some OF the readers Of the NEWS woul
like to try their hands. If 80, we would forewar
them that the rhymes must be legitimate.
In reply to the directions given by Surgeo
CALEB ". HoRNER, Chief Medical Officer OF IL
Freedmen's Bureau, to the Surgeon in Chief
Mobile, Alabama that officer reports that lart
tent hospital for cholera is about being establshe
there, rather closer to the city than the old hosp
TAI. Assistant Surgeon WILL ANS WHO is to ha,
charge OF the hospital is directed to have ever
1hlng In readiness, but not to put up the ten
until the dieease has appeared in Mobile.
EDWARD MURRAY and wife, of Boston, Mas
have brought suit for $4,000 against the ply
clans OF the Boston city hospital, for making
autopsy upon the body Of their sor, who died
the hospital, without obtaining their consei
livery naughty OF the doctors to let the con d
without the consent Of his parents.l
The Centennial Of Saint Peter is to be celebr
cd at Rome on the Goth of June, and mon
ment Is to bo built in commemoration Of I
apostle. The method adopted to raise money
this object is extremely characteristics. They q
manufacturing IN Rome immense quantities
Iron watch chains, still preserved, as is elaine
in the church OF San Pistro In Vinculus. Tht
sands are wearing these chains In Italy, German
Belgium, Spain and France. Large numb
have been brought in contact with the relics
ferred to, aud have acquired miraculous prop
ties from the prison ohains. Many wonder
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