The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-14
NEWS SUMMARY.

in the Senate yesterday.
-One lady lost million OF dollars by the failure
OF the Bark of Liverpool.
A man in Detroit has agreed TO walk three days
without sleep for $1,000.
"A aidow in New Haven, Conn.,, has been sueo
for 81 ,00N fJr breach o. promise.
The Quaker City SPECTATORS lost $40, 600 by
their venture
The Illinois State University is to be sold to
pay Its debts,
John Browns son has been taken to an Ohio
Innate asyium afflicted with the hereditary talnt.
- he New York Herald, speaking OF Jefferson
Davis, says: His capture was one OF the plumbers
OF the war."
-CMcago 3 frantic ON the subject OF ventilla-
ton, and rer scaool-houses are to be heated by
indirec: 10 iiliion, instead of steam.
AT Porto Re daily shocks OF earthquake oc-
our, and the people are living in open fields,
having abandoned their houses.
A. UNFRAMED young man" in Michigan has
accomplished walk Of twenty miles in three
hours and fly eight minutes fol- wager.
-Oae of lie Congressi nal lobbyists in Wssh-
ingtop is described as one Of the lovelest women
on eartn, and Is said to dress like an empress"
DR. Shurteff, the Democratic Mayor eecu Of Bos-
ton is hysician OF good reputation, and distln-
guished as an antiquarian and historical student
The proprietors of the uail mills at Wheeling
announce that on and after Monday next reduc'
ton o. one dollar per ton will be made in the
wages Of boilers, nalers and roll men.
Mrs. Margaret A. Johnston died in st. Louis
on MonIay. few hours after the demise OF hel
husband, William Edward Johnston, a brother o.
Genera Joseph E. Johuston.
Tho New York Herald has withdrew its notice
of withdrawal from the New York Associated Press
on January 1st, and reassumed, in every respect
its former relations with the Association.
The line to Steinway Hall, in New York, where
the Oh. is are so d for Dickens second week was
formed Mt 12 midnight, and at II A. NJ. Tuesday.
extended along three sides of the ertire block.
The New York Times is poking fun at Charles
Sumner for taking sides against an African mon
arch" in the late faroioal debate, in the Senate,
about the Abysslnian expedition.
"A Boston paper ventures the opinion that beet
sugar is as good as cine sugar, because the differ
ence betweel beating and Gaming is merely NOM
inal.
In reply to the boast Of an Englishman before
somo cana Ian Indians that the Gun never sets on
made apt reply "Ihat is because Heaven Is AFRAID
to trust Englisnmen in the dark"
Texas is now the only State in which no re-
construction election has been held. The regis .
tration, however, is completed, an. shows Sc 66s
whites and Il, 4SO bllcks. In 1850 the State cast
about 6S, 600 votes.
The wonderful Yo Semitic Valley, in California,
is said to have rival in the Hatchhatchi Valley,
situated on the Toulome River. The falls in the
Hatchhatchi are sevent en- hundred feet In height,
and are very picturesque.
From Paris it is reported that many thousand
obec:s If art have boon purchased at the Paris Ex-
hibitioa ny English collectors. The world for ten
years to come Will probably be overaowed by Curl
osities from the Exposition.
There is q story aAoat that The late Chancel-
lor Walworth lost $4,000 sec, 900 BY the rebel
lion, be having that amount in two banks at
Charleston at the opening OF the war;" This item
we find in the New York papers. We know
nothing Of its truth.
-Tne fact that Jas. Blackmore, Democrat, was
elected Mayor OF Pittsburg, Pa, on Tuesday,
shows N extraordinary revolution in politics, more
30 than in Boston, Mass., which has just elected q
Democratic Mayor. All the Radical papers OF
Pitlsburg are apparently astounded at the result.
That Ritualism leads 70 Rome is eyinced By
the tact that during one week recently in England.
the conversion to Catholicism was announced OF
an Anglican cur~te in the West Of England OF q
sLady Superior" OF an Anglican Sisterhood," and
OF al Oxford IN nlocgraduate preparing for orders,
All these were R.tualists.
-rhe Lyno4burg News says that the amount OF
tobacco at present in the warehouses in that city
ls very large and that it has never known so much
tobacco put upon the market this season. and it Is
occasionlng great loss to the planters, the prices
obtained now, it Thinks being far less than would
be ob aimed next Spring. when tho factories will be
at work.
old Guizo! is very hearty cater, drinks bot
tie OF claret fJr elmer and walks every afternoon
five or SIX miles. Old Auber, the composer, oa the
contrary, Is exec dn giy temperate, and drinks
nothing but water, but he rides good deal %
horseback. Both Gu zot and Auber work at least
eight noars . LAY, notwithstanding tAer eighty
odd yeas.
Dickens has realized $40 600 from his fou'
readings in Boston, and it is estimated that dur
ing his stay il this county his entire profits vii
reacn s2U0,000 He devotes himself closely to his
work, and has three new papers in preparation
one OF which is to bs published il the Atlantic.
He will read mis- Christmas Caro-" at Boston on
Christmas eve, af er returning from New York.
"A Japanese Prince, by advertisement in a New
York paper, warns the people OF this country
against trusting cer,ain japanese officers, now ab-
sent without lsave, and supposed to be in the
Unl'ed States. 1t states that no debts incurred
by any Of the following wanderers will be paid by
tie japanese G. Jvernment: Tarri Motto Nero, No
mura Iclutzke, Taxi Uchl Kenso. Mori Kakutzo
None Kango, Huro Iuso.
-Switz .rland is reported to be arming, and it is
announced that commission of staff officers is
hard at work on a scheme FOR increasing the efici-
ency Of ths army, and another commission has
been charged with the duty Of selecting the sites
OF new fortlfcatlops to be erected on the frontier
All this will involve an enormous outlay Of money,
and Switzerland will find that whilst an armed
peace is q very costly operation for the great
nations Of Europe 1t will be positively ruin for the
little ones.
Frau Schwartz, German Literary lady, who
has long Deen conspicuous as frien and active
supporter o: Garibaldi, writes to the Berlin Na-
tional Zeitung undor date Spczzia, November 16
to lntorm the public Of his doinss in prison. Sine
found the General on recent visit, accessible
only through suite Of FIVE rooms each under lock
and key He was IN perfect health, in the best Of
spirits and assured her he had nothing to COM
pl4in Of as regarded tr; atment.
st. Louis is ag sin alarmed at the danger OF be-
coming an leland town. A careful examination
by tie city officials, the other day, revealed the
facs that the Missouri River, which discharges
into the 81. sssipfi some twenty miles above,
sends its voIL.ls OF wafer at right angles across
with such force against the illinois shore as to
have worn it ava nearly mile. There is some
danger Of the river Oaklng cnanncl through the
American bottom, so as to leave st. Louis two
miles from tho stream. 1t is proposed to river the