The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-31
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE.
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE CITY.
News Summary.

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As candidates for the next Governorship Of
Tennessee, Judge TRIaa, THos A. r. NELSON and
SAM P. WALKER have been mentioned.
The recent yieit of Governor SHARKEY to Wash
ington is stated to have been at the invitation OF
the President, who contemplated giving him Sec.
retsry sTANToN's position.
The Cincinnati Union says they have shoe
maker in that city, returned soldier, who having
lost both of his arms in battle, does the finest
quality Of sewed work with his toes.
Some miscreant entered physician's Office in
Newbern, N. O., recently, took from his shelves all
his medicines, and deliberately blended them into
an awful conglomerate.
chemical investigation has failed to throw
any light on the ice cream poisoning ct Island
Grove, Arlington, Mass, on the Fourth Of July.
One more death is reported, a young lady of
Quincy the other sufferers are recovering.
A clerk in drug store in Geneva N. Y, while
busting upper shelf, knocked off jar Of nitric
acid, splling it over his body, and burning his
flesh 80 badly that for several days his life was
despsired of.
The people Of Honolulu are exercised about
their forest trees. It is feared that the islands
will be stripped OF their trees to supply the de-
mand for fuel. neither coal nor peat having been
found there.
The Germans in Louisville, Ky., have had
great Sdenge,Jest; delep ations were present from
Chicago, Cincinnati, st. Louis and other cities Of
the West. The exercises wore on a splendid scale.
The affair passed off with great eclat.
The first election this fall takes place in Ken
lucky, but not for members Of Congress. YER
mont and Maine follow in the early part Of
September, with Pennsylvania, Ohio and other
Western States in October the elections ending
with Maryland, New York and Massachusetts in
November.
A Ruby City (Idaho) dispatch says much ex.
oitement was created there by intelligence that
Capt. JENNINGS and party, fifty miles distant,
surrounded by Indians Two hundred volunteers
went to the rescue, but on their arrival the In
dians had disappeared. The besieged part y fought
two a~Js wit hnut food Tiny iiiioa Indian1
and lost but one man.
The Radicals assert that Arkansas will soon &C.
cept the terms OF admission. They expect at the
next session to admit representatives from Ar
kansas. Then they will wait year or two to see
whether they can obtain the assent of the requi-
site three -fourths of the number Of States to the
conditions now offered They do not yet claim
North Carolina or Louisiana.
Among the imports at New York this week, we
quote the following delectable items Jewelry,
$29,942; patent leather, s2988; perfumery, sS2s9;
fancy goods, s666sO toys, s71O7; segars, s22 6s7;
ale, 1921; brandy, s4279; porter, s7996; whiskey,
$40SS; wines, sC6, ,593; champagne, $4,000. (The
dry goods bill foots up s2,s7s,s15; add general
merchandise, s. 875, ,199-grand total, S. 1853 994)
The death in New York last week reached the
appalling number Of thirteen hundred and up
ward One hundred and eighty Of these were from
sunstroke, and about fifty resulted from the in.
tense heat. Deducting these, there still remains
q nj a1 ~ hon nd
eases, the greater portion Of which occurred
among children under five years Of age.
The Detroit Post says: "Mrs. CoRA L. Y. HATCH
DANIELS the celebrated trance speaker, will speak
before the Society Of Spiritualsts in this city on
Sunday next, morning and evening. She is widely
known a most eloquent speaker on both politi-
cal and religious SUBJECTS She Is accompanied
by her husband, Colonel DANIELS, Of Louisiana
and they return to this city from their home in
the South"
The correspondent Of the New York Herald, who
has been travelling with Gems. STEEDMAN and
FULLERTON, comes to the sensible conclusion tha.
all legal or military regulation of contracts be-
tween the whites and the blacks Of the South is
nischievous; that the true policy is to leave
capital and labor to adjust themselves according
to the laws OF supply and demand, and that the
negro can get along much better without govern
ment nursing than with it.
We are pleased to see that arrangements are
being made between the Central Executive Com
mittee OF Washington and the railroad companies
Of the United States to transport all tho delegates
to and from the Philadolphis Convention at hall
the current rates OF fare. President White, OF
the Macon and Western, has written o letter as
senting to the proposition, and no doubt all the
Bouthern roads will follow suit. As money is
scarce In the South, this arrangement will prove
great convenience, and induce many to attend
the Convention who otherwise would not feel able
to incur the expense.
The following piece Of international courtesy
we find in the Detroit Post-"A party Of officers
Of the British service, consisting Of Lieutenant
HERON, commander Of the Michigan and Captain
O'CoNNoR, accompanied by Hon. Mr.. PRINoE, paid
o formal visit to Mayor MILLS yesterday. They
bore communications addressed to the Governor
Of The Rtatc and the Mayor, making the anaendt
Ho,.orabe for the arrest Of JOHN CAMPBELL de.
serter from the Britlsh service on United Slater