The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-01
CHI A RI E S TON.
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER /, 1867.
NEWS SUMMARY.


OF the three hundred thousand watches sold
in this country per annum, eighty thousand are
American.
The Washington Evening Star was sold the
ether day for SIZE, ,OOO-a good price for small
sized paper.
Trinity Church spire, which is already one OF
the most prominent in New York, is to be raised
ninety feet.
The salary OF Horace Greeley (s75OO) as Editor
in-Chief Of the Tribune is much the highest paid
in New York.
Passports are abolished in the North German
Confederation, and the entire passpor. system will
soon be obsolete.
"A fire in Memphis, Sunday morning, destroy
cd tine Bradley Block on the levee, and caused
loss OF very near $780, 900.
Jerome lost $4,000 on the race of Kentucky
against time. John Hunter won S., 900, and $780,
900 changed hands in Wall street.
Five convicts, sentenced for various crimes,
escaped from the Georgia Penitentiary ON the oath
inst. A reward is offered for each of them.
The Mercury Jacksonville, Fla.,) says that
there are good many gentlemen in town pros
pecting, with vi W to settling in Jacksonville.
The Gas Company Of Havana threatens to
stop the supply for lighting the streets, because
the city owes it $4,000. and won't pay the debt.
The Washington Marine Insurance Company
Of New York has smashed liabilities, 1855, ,O4s ;
assets, $s7,66O. Other companies are reported
shaky.
OF the political prisoners in the hands Of the
Mexican Government fty-two are imprisoned
mostly for short terms, and two hundred are re-
leased.
We begin to hear from Alaska. This is the
item 'Twenty thousand pounds Of walrus tusks
arrived in one vessel at San Francisco from
Alaska"
"A statue Of Smith OBrien has been made, and
his admirers want it put up in Dublin, but the
corporation have not yet decided whether or not
to allow it.
The Masons OF Milledgeville are making ar
rangements to establish Masonic School or Col
lege in that city, which they hope to have in ops-
ration by the first Of January.
England and Ireland, during the first eight
months of 1867, sent abroad 1,7S9 iO6 yards Of
cotton piece goods, or more than million miles,
thus giving the world something to wear"
The LONDON statue to George Peabody is
fxed fact Three thousand pounds have been
subscribed. The American sculptor Story has
been chosen. The subject is to sit in Rome, and
the work is to be Of bronze.
1t is stated that the expenditures OF the Post
Office Department for the fiscal year will be largely
in excess Of the receipts. This is said to be owing
to the opening Of large number Of routes in the
Southern States, not selfsustaining.
There were $50, 900 in the Cuba treasury when
the Government at Madrid sent requisition by
telegraph for 100000. The Cuban merchants
dubbed together and supplied the balance, and
the cash was sent out by the last mail steamer for
Spain.
Rev. ]. L. N. Curry, LII. D., Pr. .ident Of the
Howard College, Alabama, has declined the recent
call extended to him by the Free Mason Street
BAPTIST Church, Norfolk, and has been elected
Professor OF History and English Literature in the
Richmond College
-Boudro, the Delmonico Of New Orleans, is
dead. It was Of Boudro that Thackery said he
was surpassed by no Transatlantic cook His
speciality was the preparation Of fish for the table,
and his little cottage on Lake Ponchartrain was
the resort Of New Orleans fashion.
There is an institution in Tennessee called the
manual labor school. 1t is chartered by the State,
and is designed for the instruction Of colored peo-
pie in the art Of farming and manual labor. That
is good thing theoretically, and if successful
would be worth thousand bureaus.
The steamer Pizarro, which left Brazos, Texas,
for New Orleans on the 18th Of September, has not
been heard Of since leaving port The trip usually
occupied q little over two days, and it is almost
certain that the vessel went to the bottom during
the late gale in the gulf
80 large has been the reductions OF force and
the diminutions Of expenditure effected in the diff
Serent Bureau Of the War Department by Gene
raj Grant during his short period Of Office that we
understand the Treasury has already been saved
over two millions Of dollars in this way alone.
The Albany News learns that vast deal Of
cotton from Southern and Southwestern Georgia
In being rejected by Savannah buyers as mixed
packed. The slightest handful OF stained or
trashy cotton in q bale, discovered, will reduce
the price Of Middlng two to 1ve cents per pound
There appears to he ct least one place in the
South where the negroes do not believe in the
loyal league. The Natchez Courier says an at
tempt to get up league at Columbus, Miss,
proved an entire failure; the respectable portion
Of the negroes refusing to have anything to do
with the concern.
the suburban towns are an exemplary set. One OF
them, recently appointed for Jefferson City, has
two charges pending against him, one for mule
stealing, and the other for receiving stolen mule,
he vas convicted in Jefferson parish not long ago
for burglarious offence.
The Medina river in Texas divides Bexar from
Medina county. Not long since, the inhabitants
of Castroville in Bexar county, took murderer
ost OF their town jail, carried him into Medina
and left him hanging to the limb Of a tree, whore
he wss afterwards discoved, cut down, and buried
Medina county sends Bexar bill for coffin,
grave, and bottle Of whiskey-total, 50 so.
Fast time is sometimes made on American
and much faster time than passengers
viii generally feel comfortable UNDER considering
the style Of construction Of some of tho American
roads. It is reported that ten miles in eight min
utes was made between Hamburg and Buffalo the
other day by directors train on the New York
Central Railroad -seventy-eight miles an hour.
-Hi-Yah- -Tah-Kee, the leader of Japanese Jug
Cling troupe at present performing in the United
States, told his business man, American, to kill
the first one Of the troupe who gave him cross
look hereafter, and he would give him an acquit-
tai at once, as he (Hi-YahTah-Kee) was authorized
to do 80 by the laws of Japan, which he seemed to
think would be al-suf6cient among the outside
barbarians.
The editor Of the New Orleans Louisanais
was called upon recently to fight duel on account
Of typographical displacement in an article in
which the letter "B" for blanc, white) occurred |
after the name Of the colored delegate, and the
letter sc" Qor colored) after that Of the white |
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Of st. James. He received slight flesh wound in |
the calf Of his leg.
The fashion now is, at church weddings North, |
10 stretch broad white ribbon across the isle up
which the bridal party pass, above which none
but invited guests are allowed to sit. The brides
maids enter in pairs, unattended by gentlemen