The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-09
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FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 9, 1885,
VARIOUS ITEMS.

VARIOUS ITEMS.
Great agitation prevailsin Athens.
Southern Kansas is growing cotton with success.
Two shilling bank notes are to be issued at
Rome.
A New York court decides that cash means
specie.
A wealthy planter Of Mississippi is at New York
urging emigrants to go South instead OF West
Twenty rabbits introduced into Australia in 1884,
have yielded SO, 900 head for consumption.
f},1ha, has purchased two monitors of the United
States for 100000.
Victoria has fitted up an elegant smoking room
ior her servants, g.
since the close Of the war marriages have in
treasad at the rate Of 55 y cent.
man in Port mi, who had fourteen stores
burned at the late fire, has eleven of them rebuilt
Fashionable marriages in New York keep Brown,
ahe dandy sexton Of Grace Church, as busy as a
Three-tourths of the Philadelphia Ledger is
e,7nad by brokers in that city.
The merchants of New York are to extend relief
10 the sufferers at Quebec.
A little item of three miles Of solid rock yet OBJ
esIucts the HoQsac tunnel.
Matilda Heron stoepel has contributed $5OOO
worth Of very old lace to the st. Louis Soutnefn
Naudini,s salary at the Paris opera is 1000
francs.
:. Michigan is blessed with fooks of wild turkeys
Il teren be war along the whole line next month.
In the iail of Rennssalaer County there are five
erisoners charged with murder.
The widow Of cold John Brown" is receiving aid
from England-not New England.
The Bishop of Pennsylvania says that England
is not only the mother OF nations but also OF
churches.
The Lewiston, Me-, Journal-an enterprising,
s13arkling paper-publshes births as well as mar
s5ages and deaths.
a distinguished London physician has been
living for twenty years on one meal DAY, ana en-
Joys The best of health.
An impudent writer classifes Americanbrldes IS
.aentimental; speculative, anxious, accommodate
iug, unresisting and inquisitive
General Neal Dow got into hot water when he
toid The English working men that they were very
different from the worhngmen Of America.
The New Bedford Mercury mercurially inquiries
what effect the death Of the Tycoon will have upon
Japan blaoking.
4 hopeful young lawyer says that any young
lay who possesses one Thousand acres OF land pre-
sents sufficient grounds for attachment.
One Of the Manchester steam fire engines is going
to the Great Exhibition, accompanied by brass
hand.
A Paris doctor ian American by birth) with an
income of 500 600 per annum, is continually en-
barrassed on account Of the extrayagance Of his
family.
Anew Orleans lady lately received by the same
mail q letter from the summit of the Rocky Noun
9ains and another from New Zealand.
AZ the present moment the language and litera-
ture Of one-third Of the human race (the Chinesel
s,ossesB an expositor in but one university, and
lsllat Of recent creation
The Toledo Blade thinks the real noldiers Of the
4>of%o
II the New York Seventh-any old regiment that
esw three years service would do it.
Fourteen Governments in the centre Of Russia,
with population OF as 600 900 inhabitants, are a.
naost without food for man or heastraaplt OF idle
uess and drunkenness.
The Paris Siec,e silinka that further opposition
enthe part OF President Johnson TO the progress
Of American reconstruction under the constitn-
tional amendment would be s'unwiBe and big with
Che must deplorable sequences y e
Il Is estimated at the Treasury Department that
About one-third Of the entire number of Assessors
and Collectors Of Internal Revenue have been re-
moved since the adiournmtnt OF Congress.
Wehave received from the American News 90.
Vol Of sThe Life Of Simon Bolivar, Iberator
Of Colombia and Peru Father and Founder OF
Bolivia, carefully written from authentic and un-
published documents, by Dr.. Larrazabal, with
two accurate portraits on steel" It is COPYRIGHT
cd in New York. and forms on octave Of close but
legible print. It takes wide survey Of South
American Independence, and is written in 9 some-
what enthusiastic and interjectional vein, 1T is
difficult task to compendiate the lives OF heroes,
much more that prodigy among mortals-simon
Bolivari How enclose in limits, vastness2 How
anslyze II the erucible 80 many virtues, refined
from the spirit Of God, who had deSaned that ge-
nius for the redemption Of world? To write the
life of bolivar honorable undertaking -arduous
achievement" So begins the work. and the author
has little respect for his predecessors in the writ
ing of this one life; N. e. Monglaue, who fur
nished life for the French Conversational Lexi-
CON- being sorely taken to task for his derelicons.
The present volume begins with Bolivars birth in
1888 taking in one chapter however, retrospect
i've view OF the colonial vassalage OF the South
American States), and comes down to the creation
Of Colombia in 1919. The author writes with
Southern fervor, and ia impressed with the digni-
~ OF his subject, and he seems to have made ex-
tended preparations for his encompassing the his
torical limits Of his theme. Tho portrait Of Boil
var facing the title represents not very pleasing
face above the bespangled uniform OF general.
Poland.
1t is difficult to tell, at this distance what is the
actual condition Of affairs in Poland There is
very little reliance to be placed in the statements
received through Russian sources, and it is very
difficult to know whether or not the accounts given
by Polish sympathizers are or are not overdrawn.
One thing only is certain and that is that the Rus
sian oppression is intolerable and The sufferngs Of
the Poles extreme. The Courier des Et0ts U'ais
published some extracts from La Presse, portion
Of which we give: .,.#