The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-09

dying request of relative, now has string thirt!
feet long. containing moro than one thousand
some Of which are worth from So to IS apiece.
: Albany, Georgia, is ahead Of US or any other 10
q caty that We have heard Of in the race for earl,
roasting ears The Ne,os, Of the I'd inst, ssy'
that it has noticed for several days past corn IL
tassel in the field of JOHN r. HILL.
During tho discussion, by the lawyers, of tht
Georgia injunction case, in tho Supreme Court OF
Friday, it is stated that Judge GRrEa slept in hii
chair for half an hour or moro. He will doubtless
concur in his opinion with tho rest OF the Bench
The skeleton Of an elephant or mastodon has
bean found on the farm of AIr. WILLIAM THUS, No
ble county, Ind. It was found four fcet under
ground, below the surface Of the marsh, in which
the ponderous follow evidently become mired, as
the elephant was standing up.
A, law suit against General MCDOWELL was re.
Gently decided in California by rendering him La
BILE to damages for arresting and imprisoning per-
Sons who expressed exultation over the assassnar
tion Of President LINCOLN, and he now finds suits
against him for similar cases all over the State.
Z In Crawfordsville, Indiana, q most remarkable
revival work has taken place. AL the churches
are engaged in the work. Five hundred persons
have confessed conversion, and nearly three hun
idred have united with the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
With regard to the comparative fertility Of Eng
land, Franco and the United States, it is stated
that France obtains fifty per cent. more wheat
from the acre than the average crop OF the United
States, and England one hundred per cent more.
The reason of this is said to be supsrior cultiya-
tiLn and mannring.
The recent improvements. in the transmission OF
news, by the completion Of the cable, has placed
China within one month Of London. News is
!, transmitted by telegraph from London to San
Francisco and thence by steamer to Hong Kong.
China now can receive advices in month from all
portions Of the civilized globe.
..,A Maine. paper says that notwithstanding the
vigilance displayed by the officials, as much liquor
is drank in that State as ever, and the effort to
more rigidly enforce the laws only causes dealers
and consumers to use more circumspeotion. The
Massachusetts Republican says: That's just
what's the matter in Massachusetts,.
2 The. Boston Post says: Looking up boys in
prison cells for playing marbles on Sunday is not
calculated to improve their morals any more than
Beating q child numerically is calculated to en-.
tighten its mind, or starving and freezing one to
purify it's religious nature. But all these expert
.1nants are tried here and in our neighborhood.
Are these the kind Of seeds Mr. PHILLIPS would
plant at the South r.
So much success has attended the Flying Dra-
goa, the only Chinese paper published in Europe,
that the proprietor has imported font Of Chinese
type. The Dragon circulates in such ports of
China, the PHILIPPINES and Japan, as England is
allowed intercourse with, and it is read not by
traders alone, but by kings and princes, for the
information it brings about European arts and
machinery. The Chinese have begun to print
from movable type.
BY State law, q peddler in Wisconsin must
nay so for license If he travels on foot, $50 if he
travels with one horse, $40 if he travels with two
horses, and $50 if he travels with more than two
horses. A fine Of s25, and imprisonment not to ex-
ceed three months are made the penalty Of evading
the law, and the goods exposed for sale are liable
to seizure to satisfy the fine and COSTS A State
agent has been appointed, whose duty it is to see
that this law is enforced.
-. MIR. NICHOLAS HAMMoND, Of New Marion, Ind,
was struck by lightning on the morning of the 4th
instant. MIR. HAMMOND was alone in meadow at
the time, and was not found for about an
hour, and when discovered was entirely divested
! Of his clothing, even to his boots, which were
either torn or burned off him ; one Of them was
found fifty or sixty yards from him. The olectr-
city entered the ground near where the boot was
found. At latest accounts, MIR. HAMMOND WAS yet
alive, but there was no prospect Of his recovery.
During the last week there were 405 deaths in
4 1,,s
in Brooklyn. The per centage in both cities, ac-
cordng to Dr. HARRIS continues to show the delete
riofis effects of the present tenement house sys-
-tonf The presence of cholera is not reported in
any Of the large cities Of Europe, and we may rea
;so1ably expect that the commercial towns in the
Mississippi valley will be tho only sources whence
pestilance can reach New York the present year.
The Gonzales (Texas) Inquirer, a few weeks ago,
said that tho Mayor Of that town had draped the
pub1ic square il, black, on account of the passage
Of the Sherman Bill, which placed tho country
under. military rule. General GRIFFIN took the
Paragraph literally, and thundered forth pronun-
ciamento assuming the fact as San evident tokon
That Gonzales County was rebellious," etc. The
4q&iSsy explains the difficulty by stating that just
abontthat tim, the Mayor had caused tho grass
to be burned off tho public square, which opera
ton LETT it quite black"
The strike in Chicago has assumed somewhat
formidable as well as alarming proportions The
employers haro positively refused to accedc to
what they deem the unjust demands of the work
ingmen, and have closed their doors and suspend
ed operations until new hands shall arrive from
Eastern cities, when;e they have been telegraphod
~ tho nfriln ia O
zatlon. 'of business, which, while it damages the
esployar, works more positive injury to tho work
1nethcn whose families must necessarily suffer for
the common necessaries of life.
A. test of the steamer took place on Monday,
ssys the lnteQigence-, and as water WINS thrown
distance of272 feet on horizontal line, the trial
.sa .af course entirely satisfactory. This SO fur
"a haarf from, is ahead Of anything Of the kind in
the Charleston, Savannah or Augusta Firo Depart
,nau.G Atrial of steamer No. and Of Tallulah
No. would have taken place, but tho severity Of
tbe rain was such that the Chief of tho Depart
roedt was induced to dismiss the parade, thus cut
ting short q very interesting partEof the days
programme. .
,.tFhe Emperer Of Austria has restored to the col
Iataral. heirs of General Kss-who was executed
an tie 9th October, 1849, at Arad, with thirteen
6ttliie4 generals Of the national army, among
rhopn xast The ever lamented Macy SANDoR, ToRoE,
and conrt YtesEY-the whole of his property, cor-
8acated to tie State during the revolution, and
panf6d ssstt fotir million fre hundred thousand
aor;ns. This act will, it is said, be followed by
,tbe,s of q similar character. As the justice OF