The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-17
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Boston Post.1

ALL SO1SIS OF PARAGRAPHS,
From The Boston Postl
Bell Boyd is acting badly in England-playact-
ing.
Turnps are now made into paper.
Oil has been struck in Overton County, Tenn.
Horses arc brushed by steam in England.
Lindsey, tho murderer Of his child, the Roches-
ter Union says, has been very ardent Radical.
Bunches OF white currants for the cars and cher
ry earrings are in vogue in Paris.
jeff. Davis health is said not to be 80 good as
usual.
Mt. Washington was crowned with enow last
Friday.
The best motive for leaving the city-the loco
motive.
A dark cloud, financially speaking, is one that
has no silver lining.
There niHo hundred steam railroad corpora
tions in the United States.
Memphis lady recently renounced her re-
ligion and married Hebrew in the synagogde.
The st. Joseph Union speaks of q curiosity in
the shape Of chicken with four legs and five
wings.
A young man was eaten by sharks while bath
ing in Mobile.
The New Workers are beg ginning to agitate the
question of q free public library.
New Orleans has three or four times as many
negroes as it had before the war.
Governor Patton, of Alabama, is in Illinois,
ing contributions of for the suffering
people OF his State.
A hump-back whale, IA feet in length, visited
the Portsmouth IN. H. navy yard last week, and
was captured.
A man in Philadelphia attempted to mediate in
| a quarrel between man and wife, and had his
head split open for his pains.
u,, The Cheyennes are again on the war path
bathing in tho Little Blue River.
| A brother-in-law of the Sultan has presented
him with gold lnkstand ornamonted with dia-
monds. 1t cost $4,000.
Robert Dale Owen favors giving help to Mex
of tho Mexicans will be OWN to their own exer-
| tions.
=. Swimming is one Of the regular branches of q
Hnm-oar3i he;netar.eJas ss"ho", ""'noe It t""""f-1
ball was held in German beer saloon at
New Richmond, Ohio, few nights since, and the
children.
Brigham Young recently got into a passion in
regard TO Uncle Sans proposed mode OF selecti e
whip his Uncle.
The house of Mrs. Warner, in Newark, N. J.,
was entered by robber, and on the lady refusing
to surrender her money, she Was choked, chloro.
."Terrible weather, this !" said Quilp, wipng
his brow. "Never saw any weather too hot for
me-" Was the derisive reply. "Good for YOU"
said Quilp; 81 congratulate you on being prepar-
ed for your ultimate destiny |" rp"-
The new style Of bonnet in Paris is called the
Catalane. 1tis described "long aud SQUARE :"
the shape OF the pocket handkerchief the Italian
women wear on their heads. Another sweet THING
is the Bolero viste. o
The Chaplain Of the House of Representatives
mas TINS session prayed hard for the party OF the
,m!aJority OF the House, AMI they have increased
MS salary from $1,000 to $500. He has gained
this s3oO extra by praying on the strong side.
The Cincinnati Commercial (Republicapl tbints
the Convention called by Randall, Dooiittie,
delphia on the 18th Of August is likely to assume
tho proportions OF political event OF frst-oiass
Importance.
balloonst in Rome, New York, undertook to
make an ascension on the 4th with rarihed air
balloon. 1he concern took FIRE and foated over
tho town, dropping burning fragments among
the buildings, two OF which were destroyed.
Mobile paper says the Austrian Ambassador
tederate officers all Of whom have accepted posi-
tons in the Austrian army, Large numbers of
Mobiians would accompany him on his return to
Europe, both as officers and priyates.
apiritualstic paper in williamsburph, NY.
publishes some verses purporting to have been
written IN ''the seventh sphere" by the assassin
OF Mr. Lincoln, commencing, "oh God, what fiery
waves OF he'll across my burdened conscience
roll and ending, ''Ye hoary age ye thong sless
youth, avoid the fate OF John Wilkes Booth" !" '''''
=. A largo party Of Usage Indians are on a visit to
Louis, exhipltlng their War paint and costumes
dancing war dances i'll tho streets, imbibine fire
water, and collecting pennies.
;: There are living near La Crosse, in one school
n, n,strlet, hve brothers, who, in two years, were
married to five women who have had hefore
eleven husbands, eight OF whom are still alive.
, Robert Bruce Blackburn, OF Blackburusboro,
scotland, one OF the weaithest manufacturers in
Europe, died few months since, leaving an
estate estimated at over 81, ,000 OOO The heira.at
10" are said to reside in Georgia and Arkansas
., If it was a striking example of poIiteness IN
Sharles the Second, when, on his death-bed, he
Degged pardon OF the ,mpany in attendance DIOR
being such an unconsconably long time in diving y
III WAS Certainly 1 an instance OF good manners
man VINO, at the funeral OF his baby. apofopized
to the audience for presenting so small a coffin to
man, you may be sure. eoA''0'
Two men in Covngton Ohio, Peter Mprnbv
and ana Henry H.rria,an, recently fought across
table with revolvers. Nine sliots We're ired bv
both parties, but without fatal result to either
Murphy had good looking wife and Hartman
had boarded In tho family, and the former
thought the attentions Of the latter were rather r
too marked, and accordingly he made a mark OF
Hartman. ~ Va