The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-08-10
The Daily N ews.
FRIDAY MokNlhu. AUGUST 10. 1866
AItIU US 1T H ri 8.
From The BA,ton PoIi.J


tFrOm ne BA,ton POnJ
Pensacola has smallpox badly
Fish are scarce in the Bay of st. Lawrence.
Sedge grass is q successful material for paper.
Philadelphia has Female Art Club.
Chill has financial depression.
Dean Richmond had $10s 721 income last year.
Queen Emma il said to be q native Of Boston.
Three eopemeuts in one week at Kansas City.
Prussia has sent 1000 needle-guns to Italy.
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Dresses embroidered with needle-guns and pic
lures Of dying Austrians fashionable in Paris.
More Mormons passed through Springfield on
Wednesday, bound for Utah.
Cholera is more violent than ever among the
Pilgrims at Mecca.
Dispatches the Atlantic are little mud
ocean.
man who never washes himself has land
marks upon his FACET Prentice.
Bonner, Of the Ledger, has s12O, 900 invested in
six horses.
lump OF gold has been found in Montana
An Italian named Quick was drugged to death
and robbed in st. Louis negro den.
man In Troy claims to the originator of
the Atlantic telegraph enterprise
very rich gold vein has been discovered in Ne
vada County, California, by q man who WAS dig
ging cellar.
The Atlantic cable commenced where the Con-
gressional cabsl left off-in the mud.-[ Washing
ton Republican.
Nearly one hundred freedmen, who came North
to obtainswork, arrived in Portland on Wednes-
day.
A French company has been started for the OK
ploration OF the Costa Rca gold mines
No ice WAS to be had throughout the Isthmus
OF Panama.
The wife Of o naval officer recently stabbed her
husband in the streets Of the Mound City.
The Radicals are curious about the Philadelphia
scalped.
"Caleb" says there are serious obstacles in tho
way OF lightning dispatches, when they charge for
them like thunder.-N. B. Mercury.
U Why is happy husband like tho Atlantic cable?
Because he Is spliced to his Hearts Content.-N.
Y. Post
A Frenchmsn has invented frearm called the
electric-gun, which is said to beat the needle gun
by long shot.
OF getting rid OF the swarms of locusts with
which that country is at present afflicted They
eat them.
Mrs. Calvin Teep,e, of Maauoketo, Iowa, had
occasion to kill couple OF Ave feet rattlesnakes
affairs. =
duel with knives was recently fought between
two men named williams and England, near Rich
mond, Ky, in which the latter WAS killed.
Ayoung man named Starr committed suicide at
Moblesvilie, Ind, by shooting himself through
the mead. venus was his evil star.
Mrs. odel, OF New York, lately armed herself
with o rev. lver and started in quest Of her hus-
bands paramOur. She would have killed the wrong
woman, but that her pistol was not capped.
A man who was sent to Jail from Pittsfeld for
bigamy thus bewails his lot in letter to friend:
"I hav Civ up awl hoaps Of gittin out, an must dy
aloan In my sell Of q brokin hart"
The house of Mason Cobb, Of Mansfield, was
by snd twin
the bed with her sister.
Anne Harrison and Eliza Jolley he'd desper-
ate fight in New York lately, during which the
Harrison termagant seized ali iee-pick and plung-
ed it five times into the breast Of her adversary,
producing fatal wounds.
Some New York burglars attempted to cart off
Grand street stock Of fancy goods the other night
but the speculation WAS failure. Policemen were
watching their operations, and nabbed them.
A lady in indianapolis the other day commenced
tickling her daughter, a girl fourteen years old.
She continued this amusement until the girl be-
came completely exhausted, and finally, in strug-
Cling to free herself, burst blood-vessel, and
Euphrates Lake, of Oswego, N. Y, a Seventh
Day Baptist, recently need up two whips in fog
ging hia aon, lad 70 years old, because he would
third when the % neighbors nterfered and s rsescued
the boy. The inhuman parent lately turned his
daughter out of doors for the samo reason.
John B. Sherwood, the inventor of process for
reducing straw to pulp for paper went into an
Albany barber shop during recent insane fit and
wanted his head taken off Next he wanted his
hair cut, braided and decorated with ribbons, in
which he was accommodated. He afterwards in
dulged in pronlaouous pistol practice, and was
arrested.
An amusing spectacle was recently witnessed at
Long Branch. There we're HOO guests at the
-: Continental, and all the being filed, the
proprietor spread about fifty beds and hammocks
In the dining hall. About midnioht the occupants
Of these extemporized resting places arose, and
each having a sheet wrapped around him, fled
out in solemn procession, fret to the bar for q
drink and thence into the yard and elsewhere.
The appearance Of this spectral file OF speechess
beings attracted much attentiony causing gene
ral ''wake up" all over the place, and ocoasioning
much merriment. NA
The Cincinnati Times has received the following
in answer to matrimonial advertisement; it is
from Spring Hill, Tennessee
s'Estella wants husband who is not farmer.
In me she can find one Of many trades and pro-
fessions I left the plow and bade adeu to farm
ing in boyhoud. Since then have been lawyer,
artist, shoemaker, peddler, printer, phrenologist
merchant and auotioneer. have been employed
in various other pursuits incident to wild adyen-
ture, not calculated to win Estellas hand am
q bachelor Of forty blk winters, Rstella have
me, selecting from my trades and professions
which shall follow for her support I have
nearly starved at them all"
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A RAILWAY "SLEEpRR "-The Senonas relates a
singular accident On the Lyons Railway, neil
Mormant (Yonne). A watchman named Prestat
.d 4< b;o ohnnt in fho