The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-12
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NEWS SUMMARY


NEWS
Cotton declined in Now York l q L.; sales 1000
bales at 18c. for Uplands.
a Gold closed at 432.
phil. Sheridan" says a loyal exchange,
'stood sixty.fourth in the list of captains when the
war broke out"
"A statististcisn estimates that every married
couple may calculate upon 4,19a,8 04 descendants
tn shout 500 years.
The white and blue uniform OF the Austrian
troops is about to be replaced by gray blouses and
loose red trousers, with gray cap.
Major John Esten Cooke was married to Miss
Frances Page, daughter Of the late DR.. Robert
Page, at Saratoga, Clark County, Va, on tho 18th
ult.
"A man named Bolivar was arrested in Chicago
Saturday for various forgeries. He had succeeded
in making a perfect tac simite Of Treasurer Spin
ner's signature.
Full many a gem OF purest ray serene, tho
dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear" A lady
brushed a $500 diamond breastpin overheard from
her bosom between Norfolk and New York the
other day.
General Sterling Prices life was insured for
ten thousand dollars. The hearse that WAS used
ct his funeral in st. Louis was the same ON
ployed to convey tho remains OF Mr.. Lincoln to
Springfield.
Tho patriotic General Logan, whose loyalty at
the commencement OF the rebellion was unques-
toned and undisputed, only charges six thousand
dollars for stamping Ohio for the Radicals. There
is q love Of country for you.
Weston, the Portland (Me.) pedestrian, has
found the distance from that city to Chicago
twenty-six miles greater than he thought when he
made his match to walk it for q 81, 900 wager, but
agrees to undertake it IL he can start two days
earlier.
"A new feature in the cattle trade in Virginia
has been inaugurated by Mr.. Benjamin Owen, of
Fauquier County, who recently purchased in Texas
and hexico eight hundred head Of cattle. These
cattle are intended for stock purposes, and are
represented to be superior to the animals raised
in Virginia, especially in size.
Farmers report the apple Drop Of Massachus-
etts better in quality and larger in quantity this
year than for five years past. The canker worm
has inj ured the trees less than usual, and, with
the liberal receipts from New York and the West,
it is expected that the market will be we'll sup
piled with this fruit and prices must recede.
-Brattleboro,, VT, good as it is to live in, must
be O better place to die and be buried in. They
have an undertaken there OF whom the local paper
says: 'sBy his kind demeanor at funerals, the ex-
cellence of hs work, and the .~promptness with
which he attends to It. he is fast gaining q reputa-
ton among us which must be very gratifying to
him.
Senator Sumner has started on his Western
l~ecturing tour, having nearly thirty engagements
to I'LL before the assembling Of Congress. His
lecture is entitled, A we q Nation ?" and is in
opposition to State Rights, and in favor Of negro
suffrage. He will make five or six thousand dol
lars by tie lectures, to say nothing Of 'sHring the
hearts" Of the people.
The East Florida Banner says that since 1913
the water courses Of this State have not been 40
high as within the past week. The result may be
briefly summed up in this sentences: The fiat
woods and swamps are under water, -wharves,
bridges and causeways washed away, many farms
hidden and crops drowned, and general ruin stag
ing some OF the proprietors.
An English statist reports that in 1866 the
chief mineral producing countries of tho world
yielded 659 ,587 pounds Of gold, and four million
pounds Of silver. OF gold, California and the adj
joining mineral districts produced 21O, 600 pounds;
Australia and New Zealand, 191, 900; Russia, SO,
600; South America, $4,000; Southern Asia, 25. 900.
OF silver, Mexico produced !, ZOO, 900 pounds; the
United States, 1000, 600; Peru and Chill, 500, 900;
and the rest OF Europe, including the British Isles,
$4,000. Estimating the value Of these metals at
present market values, tie yield of gold for the
year was not far from s125, 900, 900, and of silver
s75,000,O O0.
Timle@s Of the tns la st. "% ta1ea n w fsa% a d TN 81 s. m dSajs
ing for st. Louis, the funeral obsequies Of Major
General Sterling Price and his daughter-in-law.
Celeste, wife OF Captain CELSIUS Price, being OBJ
served at the First Methodist Episcopal Church
South, corner Of Washington avenue and Eighth
street. The General died on Sunday morning, at
fifteen minutes past two O'Clock, Of Mexican dys-
EMERY; and the daughter OF General Thomas T..
Price. OF Jefferson City, and wife of Captain Gel
sus Price. Son Of General Sterling Price. followed
him at midnight of Sunday, from complications
resulting from childbirth. Thus, within the brief
space of one day, was Captain Price bereft of a
father, wife and child. ~
-Few persons understand the magnitude Of the
egg trade of New York. The receipts for nine
months OF this year have averaged at least one
thousand barrels a day. Each barrel contains
about eighty dozen, or nine hundred and sixty
eggs. The aggregation, therefore, would be in
one day nearly q million. The bulk OF arrivals are
from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. New Jersey and
Long laland furnish about equal quantities to this
market, and these supplies. are considered fresher,
and command better prices than those from the
West. Like cotton aud corn they are considered
q cash article, and can be sold immediately, New
England and New York State have a large demand
in every neighborhood at home, and ship very little
to this city.
In the first volume Of DE-. Bshm's esaeoeraphi-
cal Annual, " lately published Mt Gotha, there ia nm
interesting article on tho population Of the earth.
Tnis wss estimated by Busching, in 1857, at 1000
$4,000, by Fabri and Stein, In 1900, at 900, OO0, 900:
by H-orschelmann, in 1883, at $40, 600, 600; by Die
teirid. in 1856, ct / ,2s8. COG, 900; and by Kolo. in
1886, at 1,22O, 000, 900. DR.. Bohm estimates It at
1850, DOC, 600. thus distributed Europe, 2S5. O00y-
GOO; Asia, 1856 0 900; Australia and Polynesia,
$685. Africa, Q ,Ooo.O 900, and America, 74,5oo.-
600. At the same time he acknowledges that It IL
impossible to arrive at anything more than an ap-
proxirnate notion OF, the population In Asia ana
Africa, there being no census Of other accurate
means of ascertaining the number of inhabitants
In those continents. t,B
The Petersburg (Va.) Index says that Captain
Waddel, of the Confederate steamer shenan-
doah, has been spending flew days With his rela-
tives In this city. He leaves this morning for his
home in North Carolina. The Wilmington Jour.
nal comments On this news as follows: saThis in
formation OF the movements Of this gallant sailor
Will DO received with pleasure by his many friends
and relatives in this section. We welcome Car
tain Waddelrs return to his natiye State with feel
ingsos gratitude, not unmingIed with pride inia
poplss son or orr common mother, Who manfully
struggled. while the strife iasted, in behalf or hia
dear native State and her allied sistsre. and now
thst the issus 10 declared against her, has retrrn.
edto share In her vicisaitudea, and ola her har u
her eaosts to maintain Q poaition In The NAV
sphere in which she 10 destined TO shine.