The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-09


copper anoyed so as to come under the tern
bronze, has been made hard enough to receive ana
retain an edge, so as to be used for cutting nstru
ments,, yet it is softened byi being heated ant
plunged in cold water, while iron and steel is hard
ened by precisely the same process. .4,s-z.. s.
The Rocky Mountain Netrs Of the 18th ultini.
says that the weather continues exceedingly cox
and wintry. Snow squalls come at very frequen
intervals and there is no moderation of the freez
1r6 railroad accdeaa Ha s oeslaa sSSssan5 o. R IL
Moscow line, in Russia. In turning sharp curv,
part Of the train of the rails, and eight car
riages were precpitated down an embanlmen
4 fifty feet high About thirty persons were killed
and more than one hundred received serious in
juries. # :.!ss4 5--5l y:5"1:a y
A teIegraphic dispatch states that company o.
American merchants have acquired possession o.
the entire northern portion of the great Island q
Bo1neo, and three valuable islands adjacent. and
arc making arrangements for the immediate de-
velopment of their acquisition. For this purpose
company has been organized under the name 81
the american Trading Company of Borneo"
At the recent election at Prague, a speaker in
proposing the candidate of the Bohemian Central
Committee, concluded as follows s'Now every one
OF you take blank ballot and shilling. Those
who are in favor Of B. viii put their ballots IN the
SAA1oS
ling" Result-unanimous election of B.
Some costly pictures have lately changed hands.
At recent sale in Paris italian Street Scene
by DEcAaPs, brought $500. at a sale in London
few weeks since, Cart and Liberty" by LOUIS
GAlIArT, sold for 5000 in gold; and at GoUPms
in New York, GERoA1Es f'L'A1nee" was sold for
$1,000. 'Atthe latter place the sales for the past
year are estimated at q value Of S9OO, ,OOO
1t appears from the utterances Of such men "a
Messrs CHAs: O'CoNNoR JUDGE DAILY, JAS. KELLY,
JAMES sADIE1R, CHARLES n. CONNOLLY and other
leading Lishmen in the United States, who were
present al the recent dinner in New York. to Mr.
FRANCIS MAau1RE, NJ. P: for Cork, that they are in
favor Of fighting Ireland's battles IN the British
Parliament as the only course which would bring
peace and prosperity to their native land. ;
The use Of opium among the Sandwich Islanders
is reported as fearfuly on the increase. and the
most stringent measures are taken to stop it, 1t
Honolulu, "a cooie, who was q most :wretchel.
cadaverous and helpless specimen OF the victims
OF opinm was find s100 with So 81 coste which; as
he had no means to pay, he will work out, ina 1.-The
chain gang-equal to four hundred and thirteen
and half days hard labor, at twenty.aye cents .
day. ~: -. l.55,.. I'd. .''l a'ftsr-.- N
A correspondent Of the Cincinnati GaztKe gives
an account of fatal accident which occurred in
Dayton few days ago, The result Of tight Iacinp.
young Lady much given to the practice, caused q
hook to be placed IN the wall OF her room. tn
which abe was in the iabt of fastening her corset
STRINGS so as to be able to draw them tighter The
other day ehe threw herself too heavily on the
strings and broke blood vessel, from which she
died in few hours. s'
The Russian Prince MrTRoFAN MEscHrscHERs,Kr
was recently tried at Moscow for theft. a vear
ago he WAS imprisoned for insultine policeman
and was placed in the same cell with O. drunken
woman. When she became sober and was releas-
ed, she missed three silver images The Prince
confessed that he had taken them and pavned
Them to ;a Hebrew in order to get something .to
eat he having been 30 poorly fed in prison, where
he had bean detained for forty-nine weeks,
gardener OF Vienne, (Isere, Franoe,) when
lately engaged in digging, discovered Roman
tomb, containing the skeleton Of young ladv.
partly decomposed, as wei as some curious objects
OF jewe]ry, The most remarkable is a necklace
formed Of gold wire articulated in figures Of ae,
arated from each other by six beads Of red corne-
liam, dividing the whole into seven eoual narta
with two gold beads pendant in front, Two pold
pins were also found, and fbula for attaching
the pepium at the shoulder, made Of copper o,;1t
and fnEaid with flowers in enamel There wera |
also I've hair-pins, one bronze and the reat =,
ivory. " s.-! m s:al !. ,..-~,' 80 =
The yearly celebration Of the Academia poiie-
lotta was recently celebrated at Rome; and the
scholars Of various denominations delivered nd
dresses or poems in their mother tongues Latin !
Hebrew, Chaldaic, Syriac, Persian, Turkish ca. |
tic, Kurdish, senegambia, Greek, French. Celtic
lrish, Dutch, GERMAN, Danish, English, bulgarian.
Albanian, &C., we're all used. The arabian speak.
er, who gesticnlated with hands and feet, and
whose tones varied from strong and commencing
to tender md inaploring, excited much applause.
r The Norfolk Jouync. says that the ram ate,,,:
nsac has been blcHn up q second time and With
almost as terrific craah as on the night of the
n Esmnrahle 10Th Of May. The 9Th. March benz:
very eear and beautiful for such an operation MI:
D. =. UnDzaDowN, the wrecker Of the remains of
the Ae,yfn,ac, applied che atorpedoeo whish bai
been prepared for tberuapcse, andthe great body
OF iron arnor wass thrown ont OF its bed in the,l
river and torn in hssx,dreds Of fragmenta The
explosion seen BY pers5ns II sPorts
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