The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-23
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NEWS SUMMARY.


terday was sOSa31 md at Liverpool 1Sld. for Mid
ding Uplands.
The Emperor NApo1 EoN favors an alliance OF
France, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland, against
Prussia.
The cholera is again reviving in various por-
lions OF Europe.
There ara twenty-seven railroad bills now before
the Michigan Legis lature.
But four members are now in the United States
Senate who were there twelve years ago.
Honolulu, the chief city of the Hawaiian ISL
ands, is about to be lighted with gas
ROBERT McKMaHT, Of Cahaba, Ala, aged 81, is
said to be the oldest printer in the United States
at Lynchburg. Va, shipping tobacco, which
Two weeks ago sold for 81 to 50, now brings sl2 to
SIS.
The tailors in st. Louis are trying to prevent
women from learning to sew. The Boston FoSt
saws: Those tailcrs should make the goose their
patron saint" .s.l, 49, -
A New York paper grayely asserts that the sale
of iIlegitimate babies in that city is large and
profitable business, and so publicly carried on as
scarcely to be clsndestine.
Among the appropriations Of the last Connectl-
out Legislature Was s4O0 for s'whiskey lemons and
sugar for the use of the Legislature" Under this
inspiration, no doubt, someof the laws of the last
session were passed.
The records OIL the Postof6ce Department show
that in the Dead Letter Bureau there have been
5000 dead letters destroyed in the last, year, In
which we're enclosed $780, 600 in drafts, which were
returned to the owners thereof.
Captain ANDERSON, OF the Great Eastern, who
has made himself famous by his successful man
agement Of, the mammoth ship whilst laying the
Atlantic Cable, was at one time compositor in
the Dumfries (seotland) Courier.
The Wheeling (va.) Register says: six thou
sand kegs Of Boston nails crossed the river at Ben
wood on Friday, en- route Vest. Scarcely day
passes without at least a Thousand kegs being
slapped. ACROSS the Ohio at that point. :"
The Great Eastern Steamship Company took
past Of it's pay for the services OF their boats N
laying the cable, in stock of the Atlantic Tee
graph. It is now to- be divided among the stock
: holders Of the Steamship Company.
Panama correspondent gives report that
Senior AHroN1o GONZALES CAR1zo, President Of the
Stste of Bolivia Vas killed by his own body guard
while travelling in the interior, and that in conse-
cusnce revolution has occurred in Car shagena.
Mexican co:respendence says, in regard to the
fate OF ORTEaA, now prisoner in the hands OF JuA-
Rn, the chances are good for his being shot as q
desertar; EthetEh he may Be tried, convicted and
psrdoned, whsnit is found how futile:his reyolu-
tonary effort, really are.
correspondent of the London Times recon-
-mends that sChinAmen be;en1istedin the English
army, for the reasons that they are hardy, strong
gocd-tempered, and can stand heat and cold; that
they make excellent soldiers and will eat anything,
ssfrom roast beef and plum pudding to rice and
rats"
The Boston Traveller says that Massachusetts
has six candidates for the presidercy SUMMER,
WILSON, BANKS, BUTLER, boutwell,, and ANDREW
-and as many more men who would not object to
the second place on the Republican ticket
ELIOT, DAWES, HoAR, BULLOCK, BlaELow, and
DEvENs." u :. ,sf-4ss-,
The Ehgs.sh Newspaper Press Directory says
there are now published in the United Kingdom
1891 newspapers, distributed as follows: Eng
3and-London, al: provincial, 724; total, 965.
Wales, 149; Scotland, 1888; Ireland, 12S; British
Isles, a. OF these there are IS dailies published
in England, in Wales, Il in Scotland, IS in Ire
land and / in the British Isles. ~ q n
In the debatein the Senate, on Saturday. on the
Supplementary construction" Bill, Mr. SUMNER
dsndnnced the States TO- be created under the
BIZ, as s.born Of the bsyonet." This xpression
seemed to be particularly obno xious to some of the
Radical Senator's as, they asserted, it would be
nsed against the party. On the question whether
Congress is committed at all to q plan Of recon-
structon by the Military Bill Of March 2, the diff
5ersnce Of opinion among the Senators was very
decided. zt----"eSs.
e 1t would not be surprising I-as cable dispatch
q states-Austria had joined Russia in advising the
Porte.to oede Crete to Greece. The present Minis
Try Of Austris has abandoned the past policy of the
Empire in the Eastern as we'll as in many other
questions. But the alliance Of France in this affair
with Russia and Austria would take the world by
surprise for the ntterances Of tbs Moaiteur have,
until recently pointed in quite different direction
It wi therefore, sRe adyisabIe to wait for confr-
nation OF the report.
The Lynchburg Republican gives the following
dream Of q friend in Bedford County: s'1n his
aleep il appeared to him that he was under bril-
liant, mocnlit, cloudless sky, in which all the stars
we're shining. Suddenly the moon changed to a
big turkey gobbler, and the stars to grains Of
corn. Then the turkey walked huriedly across
the entire heavens and deyoured TIE stars, to the
very last smallest specimen. ssOur friend awoke,
thoroughly satisfied that Congress would soon pro-
vide for the stealing of all Southern property, and
lives in daily expectation Of being sgobbled."
An official document from the War Department in
forms Congress and the public what is the annualpay
and alowancesof all kinds of the different officers of
the army, and I will give few Of them: General
grant, s1S,12O; Lieutenant General SHERMAN,
514,814; Major General HALLEcK, s7,717; Major
General MEADE, s7,717; Major General SHERIDAN,
$7,n7; Major General THOMAS, $7,7l7; Brigadier
General Mcdowell, s5,517; Brigadier General
RosEcaAss, s5,517; Colonels, $, SEQ; Lieutenant
Co!onehs, s., 1884, Majors 49, 765 Captains, s3, 049;
First Leutenants, s2,7lS, and Second Eeutenants
sass.
About o'clock, on Monday, in New York, du-
ring the st. Patrick's Day procession, riott oc-
CURED at the corner Of Grand and Pitt streets,
which resulted in tho serious wounding OF
number of policemen. A truckman, who chanced
to be in the way Of the procession, was
1nalsreated by some of the crowd, and the
policemen, who were near, went to his pro-
lection, which Of course brought on fight be-
tween procession and police and, before it ended,
some eighteen OF twenty Of the police we're seri-
ously injured. Afew arrests we're made.
During the recent freshets the Red River was
fully six feet higher than the highest known water
mark. Nearly all the stock on upper Red River is
gone. Dozens Of houses, barns, and other build
ings, are swept away. One man named HoBsoN
Was drowned and others ara perhaps lost. The
warehouse of STEPHEN BRuND1eE, in Van Buren,,
foated away, carrying $4,000 worth of goods.
Various lots Of freight were lost at diff rent points,
The bridges across the numerous creeks were
nearly all destroyed and the fences in the bottoms
are all gone, and in many places they cannot be
replaced in time for the next crop.
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