The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-10
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NEWS SUMMARY.

GNE w SO MARY.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at. 14s2.
Cotton closed in New York yesteday at 19Sc.
for Middling Uplands.
Cotton closed in Liverpool yesterday at 8 5-1Gd.
California holds her Judicial Election on We'd
nesday, the 10th inat.
king Theodore's life is to furnish q drama for
the omnivorous London public.
"A beggar at st. Louis, with 865 900, though
legless, is on q pretty good footing.
The Montgomery Mail says that at the cleo
ton there numbers OF negroes called for sHorty
acres and q mule" after they had "put the thing
in the box"
Tho Richmond Dispatch, Of Tuesday, says: Ma
jor-General J. L. Komper, late g. S.A., is stopping
at the Ballard Hotel. General Beauregard leaves
early this morning.
Dawson, the great German tragedian, who
played in this country last year, had q morbid
fancy for playing parts which included delineations
o%flunacy. He is now an inmate Of a lunatic asylum
in Germany. 4
Tho Paymaster General, it is understood, has
received an order from the Secretary Of Wa to
reduce the clerical force Of his department. 1t is
estimated that about 400 clerks have been dis
missed by similar recent orders.
The receipts OF the Paris Exhibition from April
LIST to September 10th were Just f9OO, 900. A
further sum Of 460, 900 will be required to cover ex-
penses. 1t is supposed that this will be forthcom-
ing during the seven weeks that remain.
"A feature Of the Partisan fruit market is the
abundance Of strawberries, or rather theirlong du-
ration. A very fragrant, nice kind OF strawberry.
which is said to be simply the wild strawberry Of
the woods and mountains domesticated and inn
proved, is now selling in every fruit shop, and is
on the carte Of all the restaurants.
The earnings Of the California Central Pacific
Railroad for September were $4OO, 900 in gold, and
its operating expenses $3s, 1884,, leaving q net profit
OF $l6l,8S8. This was with the track open for
business to the summit Of the Sierra Nevada.
During this month thirty-fve miles will be added
to the running portion, which will bring it fairly
into the Salt Lake basin, and materially add to it's
revenues.
IN. Chandelier has presented to the French
Academy an egg Of the remarkable extinct bird
the Epiornis, Of Madagascar. Having lately re-
turned from the island, he says the eggs Of Epior-
MS are found on a plain at one side Of the island,
and at q height Of several metres above thu sea-
level Strange that though numerous eggs have
been discovered. the bones Of this creature are
rarely found. From what M. Grandidier has learnt
from the natives, there seems little doubt that the
Epiornis is extinct.
During the last homeward trip OF the -
from Aspinwall. the Storage passengers were 80
numerous as to make them uncomfortable. As
for sleeping accommodations it was aptly describ-
ed by a Californian who approached the Captain
and said: II should like to have a sleeping berth.
il You please" ssWhy, where have Won been
sleeping these last two nights since we left ?"
"Wa'al, I've been sleeping atop Of a sick man:
but he's got better now, and won't stand it no
longer |"
On some OF the plantations in Louisiana the
T1nHIn nno Ill
instant. The crops in st. Bernard Parish are very
promising. The total crop Of twenty-four parish
es In the State before the war (1861-2). was ASS. 40
hogsheads, OF about II, 1000 to a parish. The crop
for the year 1a8465, one Of the worst seasons
known in Louisiana, was 6668. The New Orleans
commercial Bulletin remarks that parties capable
OF Judging estimates the crop OF the coming wear
as high as 110, 600 hogsheads.
The annual return relatinhrt to treasure troye
shows that the principal articles claimed by the
Solicltor to the Treasury, on behalf Of the Grown,
In the past year were 294O silver coirs found at
Stamford. Their estimated value In f95 Ga. Thew
had not been disposed Of when the return was
made. In December last 1897 silver coins and
some fragments, found in Chsncton, Sussex. were
also claimed on behalf Of the Crown. Their value
was f4A lbs. Cd. Two hundred and ninety-eieht OF
them were given to the farmer on whose land The
>OAAS ~ ouAu W Uu0 T0CCOc, and to local NIL
seuIas; the remainder were sold to the British
Museum, and the proceeds carried to the treasure
trove account"
The New York atlas says: s"The extraordinary
phenomenon OF q man marrying a man occurred
IN North Carolina q few days ago. A gentleman
wooed and won the hand of q young lady-the day
Tor the nuptials was appointed, and the groom
came to time, as did, apparently, the bride. But
II seems she had a juvenile brother resembling
her SO closely, that when dressed in calico, none
but the most p~racticed eye could discover the diff.
ference between them. He presented himself
was saluted with . kiss, and an authorized nre.
late OF the magisterial persuasion went through
the ceremony OF making the twain one. Music
and dancing filled the hour, and all went on charm
lngly unSil-thec cat was uncloaked.
"A curious work has been published at Breslau
saVlng the result OF an examination of the eyes of
ten Thousand and sixty school children. The pro-
PORTION Of abort sighted children was III ner
cent, or seventeen hundred and thirty among ten
thousand and sixty. No village children were
found to be short-sighted until thew had bean
some time ut school-at least half q year. There
were, in proportion, four times as MANY short
sighted children in the town (Breslau) as in the
country, and short-sightedness increased general
y WIFE the demands made upon the children. The
author OF the work attributes the evil in a great
measure to the bad construction Of school bench.
es, which force the children to read with their
books close before their eyes, and with their heads
held downward. a. y.
The New Orleans Times gives the following
nSures OF the Louisiana registry ssThere were
in oil registered 1877 1858, of which number 81, s65.
or nearly two-thirds, were colored. rs all the ne.
groes were registered, the colored population OF
the State must have decreased since 1850, for then
she number OF colored males over twenty-one years /
OF age was 81 200. Be that as it may, it ia certain |
that the colored registered voters had q clear ms !
tority Of more than 10000 over the Conservative |
whites who had been permitted to register. for the |
4A,7SS OF registered whites embrace not only the |
Conservative whites, but the Radical whites as
well, which would leaye only about O.00O Conser-
NATIVES In all. Being thus fraudulently deprived
OF their strength by Radical tactics, what induce. j
ment had the Conservative whites to ioin in the |
election p
"A Melbourne paper announces The arrival in |
that city OF MIR. Christian Friedrich Schafer. a !
German traveller, who came overland from svd-
ney, tho greater part Of the way on foot. Mr..
Schafer Is Of dwarAsh stature, from the etsscts Of
an injury to the spine received In youth. but in
spite Of this physical dra wSsok he las, during sas
Last Afteen years. travelled over Q great part or the
surface OF the world, mostly as a pedestrian. he
has passed through every country in EurYoupaa.
through Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, North Africa.
and across the width Of North America. from tba
Atlantic In khN pne;Ao - A.~l .~a ,.G, 49,