The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-14
Yhg Aai1M NeMs,
NEWS SUMMARY.
Cotton closed in New York yesterday at 2sl.
iold closed In Now York yrstcr,loy MI 1iOY.

Cotton closed III New York yesterday at 2al
Gold closed In Now York yesterday ut 1i07.
Cotton closch in Liverpool firm, at l0sd
Mnlamo I.E VERT, tho Southern nuthorcss and
hor two daughters, nro spending tho summer at
Niagara Falls.
red cedar post is standing in Sharon, N. J.,
which is not at alI dccaycd, though it was put in
its prosent position in 17i0-116 years ago.
Radical Mayor in Massachusetts has rofuscd
to lccnBo theatrical company to play Tho "l}lack
Crook" Ho wanted them to call il tho colo,cd
crook.
At Lovcttsvilq, Va, few days since, colorcl
man aged ono hundred and eight yenrs was regis
tored. Twelve others beyond seventy years Of age
wore registered there, and Mt Hillsboro Isna,
Camp, aged ninoty yoars, camo forward and regis
terod.
boy named JOHNSON is amusing himself and
tho people Of South Paris, Mfninc by DIonin.l like
foats on telegraph wiro Oyor lilo river, twenty
live foot nbovo tho water. Ho crossos IL with lis
head in sack, carries out o stove and fuel and
cooks on tho wiro.
lilo Tallahassee Sentinel announces tho death
OF Madame MunAT, which occurred ut her p!anta-
ton, Ill Jefferson County, Fla. She had attained
tho advanced ngo Of aeyonty years. Her demise
Will bo sincerely lancnod by large crclo OF ac-
quaintanccs:
A correspondent of tho London Times says that
tho crops In Northumberland and Durham and
gonerally in tho North OF England aud in many
parts OF Scotland, arc ronpud entirely by women,
oxcopt whom Irish harvest laborcrs nro procurablo
ns assistants, and whore tho use of n rcaping ma
chino hos boon ioptod.
Considerable interest hns' been oxcitcd in Dencal
by tho death or SUMLoaATn PUSprT, the only na-
two yet found worthy of a sont on tho bench of an
Indinn high court. Tho Judge was of Cashmere
origin; Ills family never intcrmnrricd with Bcn-
galeso, and ho kept auuf from al Bongalce usagos
He began lifo on E2i year aa u clurli, aud tlen
went to tho natvo bar.
Tho Popo propoacs to rc-csablish tho Roman
Catholic hoirarchy in Scotland by giving torrito-
rial Jurisdiction to the Wears apostolic aud by the
appointment Of other bishops. There will bo NJ,
Archbishop OF Glasgow, with Dix suflragans who
will tako their respective titles from Edinburgh,
Aberdeen, Porth, Inyernoss, Stirling and Kilmar-
mock.
Foreigners nrc evidently getting n beltor opn.
ion OF their American visitors than they used to
have. A lato French paper says: ''Pnris is Hooded
with now yisitors-nayal cadets belonging to nm
American training ship i'll Chcrbourg roads. Tho
young fellows aro a favorable specimen of our
American cousins, being stout, tall, wcbuilt lads,
and thoir quiet, gentlomen-ko tlemcanor has matlo
very favorable impression"
A morbid individual wanted 30 badly to SEQ tho
execution OF JERRY 0'BREN, Now York, that ho
appeared before ono Of tho police justices and
begged TO bo committed to tho Toombs for ton
days as drunkard. Tho commitment WAS mado
out, but tho pseudo drunkard was intensely dis
gusted TO find TINT his destination was Blackwcll's
Island, whore ho is now working out his ton days
torn.
There ia another famine in Connomara, Irc-
land. Tho poor people have not boon ablo to COW
thoir land m Otv;p t,
tnuRnco OF frost and snow, tho poor gnro the
seod destined for their land to food cattlo an af-
ter all their efforts to them, 1900 died of star
vation in Clifden md 1890 in Roundstone, 30 any
mnn having horse or COW, lost his all trying t.
presorye tho lifc OF thc"c aninnls. Tho Sisters of
Charity arc foediog GOO persons.
The journal des DAats, of Paris, rt ,orls an in
stance OF remarkable liberality OF feeling md of
action toward tho Christian Church. Six bells,
carried OF by tho Turks from tho towns OF Croto,
we're offered for sale in Smyrna. They wero pur-
chased by tho jewish residents Of Tint town and
presented to the Archbishop of the Crock Church,
accompanied by letter, which is ono OF tho most
touching developments of religious scnsioility and
kindness that VIC remember to have met with in
these latter days.
"Unions" seem tho order of the day through
out the world. Tho United States Of Australia
paper; representatives from Queensland. Now
South Wales, Tasmania, South Australia and Now
Zn"N~-a l--:----t a ~ '' -Ho meet
ing was ostcnsibly for the purpose of having tho
mail service arranged to tho advantage of tho colo
nies but tho Congress- looked beyond this, and it's
dobates indicated that confederation OF all tho
Australian Colonies was in contemplation.
The farmers OF Long Island nre suffering this
season from tho potato rot. The losses from dis
lQBt rn n
larger scale. In some places fields embracing
many acres are wholly blasted. Tho Mcrcer va
rioty appears to be the most infected. To sayo
themselves as much posi- bic, farmers arc
haatening the cropinto market, though it not un-
frequently happens that potatoes looking yory fair
whom dug, shows distinct signs OF disease before
night.
Mr.. MAcsHEEnY, proprietor OF tho Union, of
Paris, died in that city tho 25th of last month";
at tho age OF oighty-four years. As his name in
dicates. ho was Of Irish origin. His family c.mo
into France with JAMES L., when that soyercen
'left his country for" sc. Marshal IMAGINATION is
connected with this family. Mr.. MAcSuEEnY was
wounded at tho batto Of Leipsic, md earned his
grade OF Leutenant-colonel at Wagram. At the
time OF his death ho was chovaler OF st. Louis
and officer Of the Legion of honor.
now propeller has been invented, designed 10
eteer hs we'll as drive O vessel. Thrco neatly
squared blades arc attached by arms 10 pcrpou.
dicular shaft, and by mechanical arrangement.
are made to exert propelling power through, tho
entire circuit. Tho position OF these blades can
be changed from tho deck by means OF n wheel
similar to tho present ruddor wheel Ono man by
properly adjusting this Wheel can start, stop, back
water turn to the right or left, or oven cause tho
vessel to reyolve on it's confer
y Tho Pope has civil lBt Of about 500 900 ycar
Ont OF this sum ho keeps Papal nuncios In foreign
courts and pays s44e0 year to each of tho cardi-
nalB who reside in Rome. Out OF this, too, ho
Keeps up tho Vatican, which contains no less than
four thousand rooms, and requires largo staff of
domcstics. The Pope also pays tho Palatne guard
and the Noble guard; keeps up tho Ponti6cal
chapel, pays the camerlcres his household, etc.
All this III administered with regularity and
economy. i
TheIo aro two institutions In Hull, England, for
tho support md education OF sailors' orphan
children, via: Tho soamon's Orphan Asylum, and
tho Sailors Orphan Homo. Mr. TITUS SALT has
offered to give tho, latter institution tic sum OF
f5oOo, on condition that tho building ia enlarged
30 as to be able to accommodate like tho sistor in
shtution, ono hundred children, and that the
school is enlarged TO receive ono hundred town
orphans (chldron Of sailors), in addition to the
ono hundred maintained in tho institution. Tho
gilt will probably bo accepted on thcso torms.
The Nashville Union and Dispatch says tint n