The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-06
NEWS SUMMARY.

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Out Of 700 convicts in the California State
Prison, only three are females.
There is colored theological school, with thirty
scholars, in Augusta, Ga.
The tax per capita in Boston is ss44; in New York
So; in Philadelphia s11.
There is great opposition in Baltimore to the
running of the street cars on Sunday.
An old Episcopal church at Richmond, Staten
Island, was burned last Thursday. It -7as built
by Queen ANNE in 171s.
The State Treasurer Of New Hampshire receives
only 5000 salary, and is obliged to give bonds to
the amount Of 100000.
The National Democratic Convention, to meet IN
Louisville, has been postponed until the 4th or
July.
seyenty-fve new buildings twenty of them saT
mills. have been built in Pensacola, Florida, since
the war.
The total number of barrels of -four inspected In
Richmond, Va, during the quarter just ended was
1850.
JOSEPH R. HAwIEY, who wss the Republican
candidate for Governor st the recent Connecticut
election, is native Of North Carolina.
"A fine of $3.50 was imposed upon fifty -four jurors
who failed to respond to their names in the su-
perior Court, New York, on Monday.
The Augusta (Ga) Chronicle estimates the
: number Of disfranchised classes in that State at
S772.
1t is said that the Viceroy Of Egypt has just ao-
corded to England the right Of her troops carrying
arms when crossing the Isthmus.
Bonnets from the skin OF the cobra Iii capello,
and ladies' muffs made of vulture down, are among
the articles sent from the Cape of Good Hope to
the Paris Exhibition.
Mayor HoFFMAN has vetoed the resolution Of
the Aldermen appropriating money to buy file OF
The Heruld He objects to paying $4,000 for old
newspapers which would be Of no material benefit
to the city.
A trial at Canandaigua, N. Y, developed the
existence Of a s.Mutual Refreshment Club, with
500 members, who, in fifteen months, drank s32
casks of lager beer and wore out sixty packs OF
playing cards.
The New York Euening Gazette posts us up on
eentlemen's shirts: ssWedding night shirts are
made with rufles, and worked in colors. For tho
mora modest they are gotten up plain, but made
with coat sleeves. Striped and spotted linen VIII
be worn for travelling shirts" I.sas
The Cleveland City Council has passsS ordi-
nance to put down the Niche's;;Sn pavement on
Euclid Avenue; provided S.he people are satisfied
with it. They have two weeks in which to decide.
M4d1son, Indiana, is-still in darkness, the ram
paging Ohio having drowned out the gas works.
It will probably be several days before the citizens
Of that benighted locality can obtain any more
light on the subject" the flood having almost de-
stroyed the retorts in the gas houses.
It is announced, on the authority of one Of the
officers OF the Bank Of England, that Sin all it's
dealings withthe United States the bank had never
:: lost dollar by an American" The largest note
ever discounted By this bank was a sspiece of pa
per- for f500, ,COO, aoout s., 900, 600 in gold.
N. BoBsoN has introduced method Of treating
superficial wounds by q jet Of air from the COM
mon bellows, immediately forming a dried film
over the exposed flesh, beneath which healing is
greatly facilitated and other obvious advantages
secured Burns which have removed the skin may
be treated adyantageously in this way.
The Wisconsin State horticultural Society, at it's
recent meeting, offered two premiums on cultivat-
ed forest trees-one of one hundred dollars for the
best ten acres, and another Of fifty dollars for the
best FIVE acres-to be planted the coming season,
and the awards to be made at three years old, or
in 1870!
Acorrespondent of the st. Louis Republican pro-
poses simple and Uniform rule for determining
the difference in the price Of any commodity per
bushel and per GENITAL It is to multiply the price
per GENITAL by the busAel weight of the article and
cut of the two right hand figures. Thus, if 50 80
be the price Of corn per GENITAL in Atlantis
29Ox5O=162(4O. The cut off represents parts
100, making nearly 81 62s.- II IS per GENITAL be the
al .
The Emperor Of France promised to Queen
VICTORIA, the statues Of HENRY IL, RICHARD
CGUn DE LION and ELEANOR of Guienne, old pic
lures, the property Of an Abbeyan the interior OF
France. Upon the publication of the fact, there
was Immediately such storm on the part Of the
press and the clergy, that his Majesty has con-
cluded to do what must be very unpleasant under
the circumstances viz: to write to the Queen thas
he had mistaken his power. He finds that ne can
not give away what is not his.
On Monday there were several strikes among the
1sborine men Of New York. The carpenters, who
have heretofore been receiving So so q day, de-
gmanded 81. The coopers raised from - % day
t5 $s The painters at Flushing, L. L, also struck
for an increased rate and several other trades are
preparing for similar movements as soon as they
see what success their fellow-laborers may have.
The masons, for instance, will demand s. a day
after May 1st. Among the carpenters it is said
that several employers have agreed to pay the in
creased rate, but others refused it. The Aaborers'
Society Of Brooklyn also struck on Monday, and
ask So day. r.
One of the rules Of the Richmond Railway Com
pany, says the Dispatch, is that colored persons
shall not ride in the street cars except as nnrsea
but may stand on the front platform. On several
occasions recently, colored men have gotten into
the cars, but have mostly retired from them when
informed of the rules. Such, however, has not
always been the csse. On one Of the cars day
or two since, two Of them, after having got in,
were with difficulty induced to leave, but did so
under threats, and after making note OF the con-
ductor's name, and the number Of the car. We
learn that it is the intention Of the company
to put on cars for the colored people as soon as
the patronage will justify it.
The Washington correspondent ofthe New York
. Tribune states that Senator REvERDY JOHNSON
give. it as his opinion that the Supreme Court has
no original jurisdiction in the case OF the Recon-
structon Act, recently passed by Congress, and
that it must come before it on appeal from the
lower courts. This opinion is shared by FEssEN-
DIN, TRUMBU1L, STEVENS, and other prominent
Republican lawyers. Governor PATTON, OF Ala
bama, declines to be identified with it, and the
Governor Of Louisiana, it is thought, will oppose
the action. Governor ORR, also, in his recent
speech at the Board Of Trade dinner, stated that
he was not in favor Of carrying the case to the
Supreme Court. In our telegraphic columns to-
day will be found the initiative, taken yesterday be-
fore the Supreme Court by Judge sHARKEY, Of
Mississippi.
The Scientific american contains the following
account of very desirable article for every house.
hold: "a simple instrument for making artificial
ice is now manufactured in Paris, by which a
beautiful cylinder Office is produced in ten minutes,
or bottle Of wine or other article can be reduced