The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-21
NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
Gold closed in New York at last Board at 1874
Cotton quoted dull at 32aaSSc. for Middling Up
lands. S
At Radical meeting at Memphis Saturday
night, negro attempted to speak, but was forced
down.
A correspondent criticising prima donna rather
deficient in physique, says 50 chest is as essential
TO singer as bureau to freedman"
Contracts have been let for eight miles moro Of
hesvy work on the Knoxville and Kentucky Rail
road. The much coveted coal fields will be reached
by next July: a.
Colonel PATRICK, Indian Agent has established
reservation four miles from Fort Laramie, and
has now eighty lodges Of Indians on it, and moro
are coming. 5.s f.-,
A Down East paper has the following local
notice '-"A child was run over by wagon three
years old, and cross-eyed, with pantloons on,
which never spoke afterwards
Ihe Montgomery Advertiser says that the or
rangements made for building the road from
Montgomery to Selma are such as to ensure it's
early completion.
The Boston Commonwealth says that such men
zas EH1Ins and STEVENS are the cream Of tbs
country PRENTICE thinks if they are, the sooner
the country is skinned the better for it.
It is now positively asserted that an interview
has taken place between several prominent Re-
publicans and President JOHNSON. This interview
took place Last Thursday, and lasted two hours
It is said that third head Of R1oHE1aEu has
been found, and more are expected. Not satisfied
with having proved him Cerebus, they are try
ing to make Hydra of him.
A Maine editor says he cannot imagine when
editors have leisure time, ssnless it is after the
7erryman carries us over Styx, and then we
have no doubt the old fellow would besiege us for
a puff on his boats"
Some OF our exchanges say that MARY HARRB,
the female sharp-shooter, &C has been committed to
the insane asylum in Washington" We know Of
no Insane asylum in Washington except the
Capitol
MIR. 0HAKLEs RrEN, Professor of Persian in Uni
versity College, and one Of the best Oriental
scholars Of the time has just been appointed
Keeper Of the Oriental Manuscripts in the British
Museum.
A haine editor says pumpkin in that State
grew so large that eight men could stand around
It; which statement was only equalled by that Of
the Hoosier who saw focK of pigeons fly SO low
that he could shake stick at them.
A cat recently got into the large cylinder Of the
Hoe press Of the North British Hal newspaper
The unfortunate puss remained quiet for two hun
dred revolutions Of the cylinder, when she fell
under it upon the forms and was distributed over
Them. Tfs -
Garroters are aogged in England previous to
being transported or imprisoned. At Leeds. two
men lately received two dozen lashes each with the
Cat npresence Of their fellow prisoners. They
screamed loudly, and seemed almost overcome
with pain.
A lot OF heavy siege guns, muskets, equipments,
and other material Of war Of like nature,
arrived at Jersey City the Erie Railroad on the
18th and 18th insts. They we're being shipped for
some foreign port supposed to be one Of the South
American republics
The Alabama Legislature has passed ssno-
fence" law for MonJgunl1.y ee>...ty The an .a.,
& SRRsH f5 Rs % Of saaY pesass neEsS, qs
for doing so. %s
Aers' SWETT, OF Kennebunk, Maine, who put
morphine into bottle Of whiskey in such quanti-
~ tiatlt hlled her husband, quack doctor, who
drank freely OF it, has been convicted Of man
hlaughter Her defence was that she intended
that the morphine should act as an emetic,
visitor to the Philadelphia market speaks Of
butter which is tfessence Of June mornings caneht
and imprisoned in glowing elobules, the fragrance
OF clever fields ripening into sweetness in the
brooding sunshine, the warm delicious flavor Of
new milk foaming in the OVERLOOKING bucket. J"
Wish We had some Of that kind to spread on our
daily bread
On the 9Th Of February, at Nassau, died the ais
ter Of Mr. Francis SPENCE, at the age Of one hun
dred and three years. She arrived in the Bahamas
with the FANsHAwE family and other sloyalists,
during the American revolution, and recollected
marching IN the baggage train, under Sir RALPH
AREnoRoMBrE, to st. Augustine, Fla, whence many
OF that party embarked for the islands.
JOIN PEzEE1Iss, Esq, Of Keene, NJ a.. is the
Oldest editor living in New England. He is in his
nineteh year, but his mind is vigorous and clear.
and 1t is but few weeks ago that he contributed
an article to the Portsmouth, Journal Mr.. PREM
TBS was editor Of the Keene Sentinel in the last
century, when JOHN ADAMS was President Of the
United States. 5&#
An Albany letter says there are now in New York.
nnder the control OF the Fenians, s6,O 900 S,7YprR
breach-loading riaes and 1OOO 900 equipments, TO-
100000 rounds Of ammunition, and 50, 600 complete
uniforms. The amount raised and placed in the
hands Of O'MAHoNy, STEPHENS & Co., was $e12 $50.
The amount Of money upon which RosEnrs started
his raid upon Canada was $126, 200.
The Scientific Ame7icun SAYS that the centro
rail, successfully used for heavy grades on the
Mount Cents Railway, is an American invention.
patented some fifteen years since by Mr. GEORGE
T. SELLERS, OF Cincinnati, and practically applied
by the Coal River improvement and Coal Comma
ny: Tor overcoming grade Of enc hundred and
fifty feet to the mile in crossing the eastern bar
Tier OF the 6hamoGn Coal Basin
At wedding in Raleigh, N. c., few evenings
SINCE tbs invited guests after the ceremony. we're
requested to pay ten dollars each to the bride who
was in such INDECENT circumstances that she had
not the means to complete her wardrobe. Each
person present promptly responded, and the snm
raised amounted to about five hundred dollars
The bride thanked her friends for their eeneros;tv
kissed them all, and went home will, her hnaho,5
in the best Of spirits. w
Since 1900 Austria has spent 100 years in thirty.
one different wars, ten of which were winged With
France; six with Turkey; Eve with Prussia. fo,,r
with Spain; one with Holland; one with Denmark
and four we're relative to the succession. One war
lasted thirty years; one sixteen one fourteen ona
thirteen; one nine, and three eight; while the |
others were from few Us to six years.
A statue OF HORACE GREELEY will soon be on az |
hbiion in New York. Mckay & Go. have nro.
duoed it by the new and curious process OF photo.
sculpture. The philosopher sands slightly bent
1or"nrd, his hands at his bre.st, his pa,,taloona
caugnt a. the top OF his boot leg = bundle Of na-
pers under his arm, and what looks 1;,xe an az
tribune exchanges obtruding from his pocket-
One hundred Thousand acres Of land rna;n,,
iy1ng IN Morgan county, Tennessee on the l;-a :,
the projected Tennessee and Pacific Roi,-a.s
nave Deem purchased for the purpose Of sett1;na
immigrants from foreign countries. Ono ,,-,oa-a
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