The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-22
NEWS SUMMARY.


Gold closed in Now York yesterday at 3Gs.
The Liverpool market is dull and declining sales
5000 bales. The quotations received by telegraph
ara doubtful.
At St. Paul, Ninnesota, the mercury was % ae-
erees below zero on Thursday morning, lotn als1.
H.,cr1,1, tho oarsman, is to row two Mules NJ
pittsbure with WALTER BRowN, OF Iortland, 1ol
$500 side.
A. the last accounts tho effects of twenty pc
troloum oil companies Of Venango County tenn
sylyania, wero sold at auction by the sheriff.
Ex-General BRADLEY T. JOHNSON has been
admitted to the bar OF tho Supreme Court OF the
Tinted States, under tho now rule resembling the
test oath.
letter from some foreign official states that the
Fmnress CAR1orrA is at Miramar, s'anong hcl
flowers, sparkling in all the brllllancy OF =lun
health
Tho newly born child Of tho Infanta MARIA
CHRISTINA DIX BOURBON has beon baptized at Ma
drid. The babe got twenty-seven names-tho first
being A1pHoNso and the last ToDos Los SANTOS
{all the Saints).
Messages are transmitted by telegraph between
London and India in twenty-one hours. M1ns
nernlexins uncertainties and blunders are occa-
sioned by the translators. Tho messages nave 70
noas throueh seven different countries
Fifteen Young ladies and gentlemen were poison
cd on Christmas night, at Stephenson, ky, by cat
inp cake, in which too much cochineal was used.
All suffered excruciatingly, and several are SUI
in very critical condition.
It is estimated that to furnish timber suthclent
TO construct single seventy gunshp requires
the matured crop of forty -four acres OF wood land
or 22OO full grown trees.
The Iouor dealers Of Loconia, N: f., have
agreed to abandon the traffic, and sell for nothing
but medicinal and mechanical purposes, and the
hotels only to actqa travelling guests, keeping no
open bars.
New York street corners are now adorned by
rlass pavilons, the panes of which are movable,
and bear the cards of advertisers. One pane coste
$40 per year. The idea is borrowed from Paris,
where $500, 900 in gold per year is realized by
similar enterprise.
The StraHord House, in Westmoroland county,
Va, with $500 acres Of land, the colonial home
eteads of the LEE family and the birthplace Of
General RoB8RT E. LEE, has been recently pur-
chased by the Southern Orphan Association.
The population Of New York State by the new
census is 1918, an increase Of sG1, ,G62 from
1885, which is almost wholly in tho commercial
and manufacturing districts, the agricultural
counties remaining nearly stationary, and seven Of
them showing an actual diminution.
A general advance has taken place in the wages
of AGRICULTURAL laborers in the Newmarket district
in England. In the parish Of Wodditton, on the
estate Of the Duke Of RUTLAND, some cottages,
fitted with every domestic convenience, have been
erected.
Gambling continues to increase in Paris, and
recently heavy losses and gains are the subject Of
much conversation. Among the witnesses is
KALI BEY, who, on Saturday evening, gained q
million of francs. A viscount lost the same even
ING one hundred and fifty thousand francs, Which
he paid Immediately.
The Richmond Times says parties from down
The river report that at City Point tho ice is solid
from shore to shore. Near jamestown there were
heavy fields Of floating ice, and that there arc
several eoal-,oaded sohooners and several oyster
boats bound to that port, waiting for navigation to
be resumed.
NAPOLEON, since his accession to the French
throne, has added 81 $50, 0,O00 to the debt Of
Trance, which now amounts to 81, ,415 000 000 sum
almost as great as the total debt Of the United
Htates NAPoLEoN's wars have cost him about
$500 0OO 900, and since 1851 tho annual deficit of
The French revenues has averaged $4,000, COO.
The youth Of London light their segars with o
new inveI tion called po,dre de- ue. Tt consists of
pyrCphorus, which is preserved in small tin case,
with narrow oridce. When small quantity of
this dark powder is poured out on The end Of the
segar, and breathed on gently, it becomes incan-
descent, and lights the pipe or segars.
The fastest time on record: mile pacing, Poca-
hontas, 2173; mile, trotting, DEXTER, 2.1s5; 2
miles, trptting, Flora Temple 4.50s; miles, trot-
ling, Dutchman, 1924; 10 miles, trotting, Prince,
$4,000; 20 miles, trctting Capt McGo,oan, So 354;;
200 miles, trottng Conqueror, s.535s;; 100 miles,
double Master Burke and Robin, 10.17.22; mile,
running, Gladiator, 1881; miles, running, Ler-
ingtoa, 7.1s3.
In snow drift at Pittsfeld, the other day, a
bag of netting was found filed with moss and
hair. A local paper adds: ss'The bundle has been
identified, and proves to be q ladys waterfall.
How it became detached from tho wearer is un-
known, but The conjecture is that tho owner was
caught in the Storm and was obliged to throw
overheard her ballast in order to make headway."
The San Francisco Tines says: "Quite crowd !
OF people we're collected in front osthe Bank of
California yesterday, watching the struggle Of
powerful team Of horses in their attempts to move
a wagon load of silver bricks. The load was 80
heavy that the wheels sunk into the cobb!e stones
nearly to the hubs. After long struggle, and the
assistance OF several of the bystanders, the team
started the load, which consisted Of about one hun,
dred large silver bricks from the State Of Nevada"
i Everywhere at the North the storm has been
severe, and the trains delayed. In Now England
several were completely showed up, and at Boston
the SNOW: drifts were in some places piled up ten
feet deep. In New York The cars on some Of the
street railroads were entirely suspended, and in
one instance, on the river, ferry boat was secure
" locked in an ice gorge for long time and was
helplessly fcated up in the flood tide, being in i'm
minent peril Of being cut through.
spain's future policy with regard to Chill and
her allies is said to be to carry on the war against
them by sending to the Pacific fleet s:rong
enough to blockade all their ports and starve them
INTO submission. Spain is endeavoring to conclude
treaties with the adjacent countries, in which the
latter will prevent the transportation through their
territories OF any article contraband OF war intend
I'd for Chill or her allies. Chill and Peru have
equipped feet to operate against Spain, the yes
'els of which are now reported to be in the neigh
,orhood Of Cape Horn.
The Milwaukee Neaos has an elaborate article on
he wheat trade Of that city, which, it seems, has
been considerably larger during the last year than
was in 1866, although the wheat crop Of Wiscon-
IN WAS partially failure last season. The wheat
eeeipts OF Milwaukee for 1896 amounted to u, ,6-
48 bushels, while those Of Chicago during the
anne time were but Il, ,95esae1 bushels, difference
n favor Of Milwaukee Of 71S,457 bushels. Mil
Tankee may, therefore, still continue to nuke her