The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-15
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NEWS SUMMARY.

Connecticut fishermen claim TO haro caught
250,0o0 shad this season.
St. Louis tailor has taken prizo at tho Paris
Exposition for suit Of gontloman's clothes.
s' II is assorted by tho Ban Francisco papers chat
forty tons OF silvor and ak OF gold arc sent away
froun that city evcry month.
There was q seycro hnil-storIu In southern lll-
nois n few days since, somo OF tho hail-stones
measuring seSen inches in circumference.
=. Tho now government Of Canada will cort $115,-
600 year for the salaries OF the officials alono
tho chief magistrate gotting double tho hmount
paid to tho President OF tho United Statos,
band of missionaries under Rey. Mr.. TAYLOR,
si1toen in number, hayo entered upon thoif lnbors
In tho interior OF China. Thoy adopt the native
drcss, and attract much attention.
Tho followers in the approaching millennium nro
NOW at Warehouse Point, Conn.,, anIously waiting
10 60 up. Tho understanding ia That unless tho
present attempt is successful, thoro will mot be
smother opportunity for two Thousand years.
Tho Mobile Register calls attention TO tho fact
that servant Of General BRAoos, that dpsorted
him during the Mexican wur, and Joined tho
MeIicans in fighting against the United States, is
now one OF tho registrars for Mobile County.
The Indian war assumes larger proportions.
Fighting in Colorado outrsgos in Arizona, and
murders ON tho Upper Missouri arc telegraphed.
Tho IdahoB and Crows agrco to peace. The Choy-
'ennes don't. Thoy are 10 bo whipped.
An exchange says "the Black Crook" will roach
It's three hundrodth REPRESENTATION neIt aturday.
Nearly TOO 900 persons have Witnessed this spoo-
taco Of unfang splandor, and tho rost OF tho mil.
lion throng the entrance to tho theatre nightly. .
The fvo nowspapers in Portland, Maine, which
were burned out by the great fro Of Inst year. and
snoo then hnvo occupied temporary quarters in
and out Of the city, have ut Inst found an abiding
place, and arc now housed under the snmoroof
Tho Hypcrnion, tho largcst balloon over mado
in this country, with capacity for seventy thSn-
ssnd foct OF gas son SnSof tho charge Of Professor
KISa, who took seven companions with him.
Tho winnie fishery, which was at one timo con-
siderable interest in Great Britain, has dHindled
down to small proportions. Sixty years ego
). ono hundred md sixty vossols woro engaged in
this industry, but now thoro is less than third OF
L, that number. ,sHi3 jr' y &.' 'F' "
barrel Of whiskey, one Of varnish, md ono
hundred and Afty dollars oaHh, were the ptcsentB
Lately made to preacher by his congregation; 30
reports aHestern journal. Tho anomalous char
actor OF the gifts does not soem to hnvo excited
any surprise in tho mind II tho reporter.
Tho grand prize in tho Paris lottery Of one
hundred and fifty thousand francs ESQ, ,000) wna
VOL by poor farm laborer nt Buros Morainril-
liers, In the canton Of Poissy. He had taken
unto himaelf a wife shortly before tho drawing
took place.
The Connecticut General Association reports 29S
Congrega gationn churches in tho State with 49, ,774
members, Of whom 5,2G4 are males, and 81 $40
females. Added during The year 1885, Children
In Sunday schools 44.7o7. Contributions average
from four to fye dollars hom each mcmbcr.
new and vory remunerative branch Of business
aslately been atarted in Melbourne, being that Of
the expectation OF leeches. They aro collected in
tho interior and packed in Melbourne, and sent to
tho Unitod States, London and Paris. It is es-
timated that from two three millions will be ex-
ported this season.
The report Of the Royal Commission on public
education in the colony Of Victoria reourds 1880
public and private schools in 1868, or one school
TO every 596 OF the population. Tho number Of
scholars was 70 S78, scholar to every 797 Of
the population. Tho number Of teachers waa also,
or ono teacher to overy 2s7 Of tho population.
LIZ MONDE relates an extraordinary fact tending
toprove an influence Of the cholera upon tho men
tai faculties. working man, well advanced in
yesrs, had violent attack OF cholera In 1866. Up
to this moment he had certainly never manifested
any literary ability but after his recovery he COM
monced to write poetry, and has already published
quito volume Of poems. ...
lhe rates OF tolls adopted by tho Cuba Cable
Company are as follows 70 Koy West $3.50 sor
twenty mords 81 rs for ten, and twonty osnts for
I. every word over twenty; to England, $3.50 for
twenty words s26.75 for ten, and s276 for every
word over twenty; to Ceylon, $a1 for twenty
words, and @Si.25 for ten to the aited ststns TO
any part $40 Tor twenty words, and IS for ten and
fsty cents for every word over twenty.
Z Is definitely announced that the Queen Of
Spain will leave Madrid on the 18th or 14h Of this
month. In her party will be the InIanta IsAnz11.A
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70 manage hof somewhat disturbed realm during
her ahsmce. After some weeks OF sea bathing
shs will proceed to Paris and vsit tho exhibition.
She viii then sail from Barcelona under the Escort
or the spanish fleet, to Civita yecohia, and will
pay q short visit to the Pope.
Some eooentrio person has been investigating
the subject OF decorations. He states that one
thousand eight hundred Belginns wear decorations
OF tho order Of Leopold, and that Bi1ty-four thou
sand Frenohmen wear decorations Of tho Legion
OK Honor. The proportion of the decorated to
the unlecorAtedi, /, in Belgium one to aixly-sir,
and in France one to one hundred and aixty-sir.
His concunon is that any ono who has a pehchant
fo- ribbons viii prefer Belgium to Franco as
place Of residence.
Emigration TO the West continues to flow on in
asteady and increasing stream. In thirty-thIee
days prior TO tho first OF July nearly ten Thousand
Thousand reached there in the single week ending
July 29th. But OF this latter number-Swiss,
Prussians and BohemiAns-ono-quArtar intended
Bettlins in different portions Of Ohio, already
selected; oneffth in Missouri, and the residue in
illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ne
brasks, while few go to Kentucky.
For many years Virginia has been subject to
sporadic attacks Of gold fever, and ffosh one
seems to be upon her now. A correspondent Of
J. Frederinksburg journal reports as "hghlY pro-
bable," that by tho Arst OF November seventeen
mines will be opened in the counties Of Spottsyl-
rania, Culpepper, Orange and Louisa and fur
ther. that farmsr in that region fow days ago
sold ak hundred acres OF otherwise worthless
land to Philadelphia Company, for sixteen thou
sand djdollsrs. lLs. m.
The London Tines, in descr1p,us 10 seenea az
the Late eommemoration day at OIford-a time
when the undergraduates run riot IN their mani
feataons Of respect for or dislike OF not only their
fellows and tcaohers, but mon and women in gone.
rA-ssys that the lion Of the day was, beyond
doubt, Mr.. dnonaz PEABODY, who was received
With enthusiastic applause, not only on the part
OF the undergraduates, but also of that OF tho
great body Of masters and strangers In tho nrea
and even, II We mistake not Of some Of the ladies
in the semfcircls.
a P.-!s ee--sspcnde.t writes: "Antiausrians
will learn with pleasure that psnltar onco the