The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-07
NEWS SUMMARY.

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Dr. j. p. 3. WILMER will be consecrated as
Bishop of Louisiana to-day, in place of the lament
cd PoIN.
Wo learn by tho cable that the American vessel
General Sherman got ashore ON the Corca and 40
persons on board we're murdered by the natives:
Cotton closed in Liverpool yesterday at 15id. for
Kidding Uplands.
Tho State Department has official information OF
the departure Of MAMMALIAN from Mexico.
Rev. sYLvANus CoBp the wel-known Universalist
clergyman, died Wednesday, aged 6S years.
Ono hundred and fifteen persons in Franco have
been medaled by NAPOLEON for saving lives during
July last.
GEORGE OLSON, lamp trimmer in the navy, has |
recently fallen heir to three hundred thousand dol
lars and Hungarian title of nobility.
Count THUN, of Austria; Baron MAoosTEE, Of
Germany and GEORGE SHAW LEFEvRE, NJ. p, Of
England, arc in New York.
The notorious spiritualist medium, Cora HATCH
DAVIS s a candidate for the illinois State Legisla-
ture from tho City Of Chicago.
Tho Navy Department states that no monitors
have boon sold by the United States Government
10 foreign powers.
The Mobile Conference contemplates erecting
Methodist College at some convenient place on the
ian are making efforts to have it established at
that point.
JAMES OnR, Of Springfield, Illinois, has just
shipped from Lisbon, st. Lawrence county, N. Y,
5000 trees of evergreen varetes for the purpose Of
Identifying the grounds nnd avenues which sur
round the grave of ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Ameohanic at Albany, N. Y, has invented new
cotton gin, with the great merit of being portable.
A larger per centage of cotton it is also claimed
is saved by this gin than by the one now in
use, while the length Of the staple is preserved.
We learn from tho Savannah papers that the
Central Railroad Company has reduced the fare
from Savannah to Augusta to six dollars and o
half The distance is 1872 miles, and the fare be-
fore the war about five dollars.
The Duo DALENooN, son of the Duo DE NEMoURs,
arrived in Yokohama, Japan, on the 1st of August.
He intends to make or two excursions in the
neighborhood Of tho city, after which he will pay
visit to Yeddo, where the building of the British
Legation will bo placed at his disposal.
We learn from tho Memphis Appeal that Gen
THoKAs JORDAN, late editor Of that paper, and Col
JoHN P. PRYon, Of Memphis, are engaged in pre-.
pairing for publication life Of Gen FonREsr, ono
that thoy will havo tready for the press couple
Of months.
foreign paper relates that when passing
through Badon Baden, on his way to Biarritz, ,Coun
KARoLY1, the Austrian diplomatist, went int
the gambling rooms and placed some money q
random on o number Of the roulette Presently
no was informed that he had won 5000 lorins.
In 1850 Massachusetts had 157, Rhode Island 139
Now York 81 and Ponnsylvania 62 inhabitants b
the square milo, which rates applied to the Unite
States would giyo 472, ,400, ,2i6 inhabitants. Wer
tho United States as densey populated as England
we should have OBJ, 900 900 people.
The Griffin. (in rf tho sava that 9avel
al largo trains have passed through Griffin recent
y, on ther way Wost. We saw train last weel
from Union District 8. c., on it's way to Louisiana
accompanied by dozen or more able-bodied, vel
clad, and apparently happy freedmen.
SINCE the formation Of the italian kingdom, br
hle" years ago, her rulers haye contracted no let
than slxteen different loans, the first being date
oetober II, 1859, and tho last July 23, 1866. I'll
total Italian dobt at present is $780, 900 in gol
bearing TN annual interest Of s32, ,500 000 ON ave
age rate OF noariy four per cent.
messrs. IHIEns, GUIzoT, VICTOR HUGO, LAMA
tue, COUSIN, GEORGE SANDS and other illustrio
writer's, are actually engaged in writing bo
upon rams, In which each Of them arc to contri
nte chapter' Tho book will appear at the Fren
Expoaiuon as fresh monument Of French geni
and talent.
Tho Paris correspondent of the New York @
says that grounds around the Great Exhibit
Building arc being laid out in walks and driv
poraered With treeS Which cost forty dollars eae
Inc ostoht OF the avenues. alleys, and gard
walks, inside and ont of tho building, ia to
something fabulous, and will, at tho lowest es
mate, exceed sixty miles.
Inc neWs from Mexico ia uia Now Orleans III,
the city OF flexico to tho 2Oth ultimo favor
corps OF MAXMIILAHs had royolted, and, of
murdorlng it's oiIitcrs had Joined tho Liborl
The Austrian banl, vnich had boon I'm tho habit
playing national airs in the plaza, had beon stor
by tho populaco MAx1A1IAN no longer appoa,
in public cANAIEs was ot in possession Of NJ
amoras.
mandatory for making printors typo Of v
canized India rubber, had boon started at Dalst
England. This now kind Of type is said to ba f.,
equal In quality and durability to tho comm
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