The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-08
CHI A r L E S TON.
NEWS SUMMARY.

A normal school for the freedmen is to be es-
tablished at Jacksonville, Fla.
Cotton ,ic1ng is reported to be quite behind"
hand on the Mississippi plantations.
Land is offered to settlers near Jacksonville
Flor da, for fity cents an acre. This is dirt
cheap.
"A new theatre vas opened at GALVESTON, Tex
as, last week. 1t is lighted with gas and quite
handsome.
-ot American prima donnas singing in Europe,
beside Patti and Miss Kellogg, there are MISS
Jenny Van Zandt and Miss Laura Harris.
The Cincinnati Gazette estimates the popu-
lation Of that city at 275 600, against ISL .0H in
$780, beng an increase in seven years of 11S s56.
Tho first case Of toreign-born citizen taking
out naturalization papers in Mobile for years, oc-
CURED there last week. The land Of his birth is
not given.
The Chinese have se1t over for specimens OF
fractional currency shields. They are about put
ting out loan, and want to see how il is done
over here.
The Pail Mall Gazette says the Servian Gov.
ernment has refused to grant the use of wire for
the oireot telsSraphic service between Constanti-
nople aud Vienna.
'-Mexlco is now mora scourged by banditti than
ever. They are now so numerous and powerful
that they d uos confne themselves to r bling on
tbs highway, but even attack garrIsoned towns.
"A submarine telegraph from San Francisco
to Japan and China is suggested and tie opening
trade Of the new line OF steamships holds OuL
strong encouragement for undertaking the eater
prise.
--Tne Atlantic Telegraph Company have agreed
t. come down with Their charges to aoout SIS IN
gold for message Of ten words, and to allow
twenty-five letters for the addresses of sender and
receiver.
-Ristori wears seven dresses, worth $4,000, IN
playing Marie Antolnetto. About half her audien-
ces are more interested in her dresses than IL
the ply, which is natural, as they know more
about them.
Ernest Hunter, Of Mosby's command, was
shot and instantly kils in Fau4uer 'unty Vr-
ginia one da, last week, by deserter from the
Confederate service named Fletcher. The muir
derer Is now in jail awaiting his trial.
IA new Democratic paper, the Telegraph, is to
be started in New York by leading financial men
and institutions, which fur-see ruin in further
indulgence OF Radical rule. The joint capital IN
vested is 100000, with readiness TO increase to
any amount.
The Freedmea's Bureau, Of Vioksburg, has
practical way OF settling questions Of ownership.
They are first allowed to be regularly tried, anu
then the gallant cnief reverses the decision, anu
adjudicates the prop Jrty to the first black man
who applies for it.
--ihe Richmond iva.) correspondent Of the Bos-
ton Journal speaks o. demorauzaton among tue
younger classss OF the negro population as tear
fully increasing. The habit Of Incidence, every
where prevalent, breeds thievishness, intemper-
aaes and icentiousness. The jails are all filled.
The English papers state that the personal
beauty OF Prince Arthur will not be Impaired by
the attack Of small pox from which he has just re-
covered. The application Of chlorodyne to the
vesiclss on his f4Oe during the eruption, is the
cause OF this immunity from the usual conse-
quences OF the disease.
"A well-to-do English lady, ffty-two years old
recently killed herself by lsaping out of window.
She balones to the Glosste Sect and said q little
before her DEATH it had been revea.ed to her that
the judgement day was close at hand, that the
last trump would soon sound, and she would be
caught up to heaven alive.
Horrible stories are told Of the treatment Of
orphans al the Gnard College in Philadel 'hia, and
ct the State Orphan Asylum in Orangevile. At
the former institution the most cruol and severe
punishments are said to be imposed upon the
helpless boys, and the most disgusting stories are
told of the filthy state OF the accommodations.
Tine North German Parliament has unani-
mously requested the executive to rut down pub
Lie gambling throughout the confederation. This
makes it certain tat tho establishments ct Wies
baden, Homburg Ems and Nunheim will not be
relicensed. Possibly the Prussian government
will offer some compensation to induce the lessees
to annul their contract.
"A private letter from Glasgow says that, al
though the prioe OF cotton is nearly as low as 1t
was before the war, there is no demand for goods,
and the manufacturers axe as badly of fer orders
sad the operators for work, as they were in 1857.
he adds: There is more starvation In Glasgow
and its neighborhood just now than ct any time
for ter years past"
The "Paris Guide for 1887 oonta:ns essays by
Victor Hugo and ther literary lights Of the day.
~ Leo does the Americans. He is no, compll-
mentary, thinks We only come to Paris to air oui
srstocracy, says that We leave our liberty, our
institutions and everything else good behind. BE
moreover cites it as an 'incontestable fact that
woman is super. or to man in the New World"
-Ihs steam roller has peen adopted by the Liver
pool corporation for the paving and levelling o.
streets. When frs. tested it was found that the
unusual apparltion Of steam engine in the
streets frightened some Of the omnibus and cab
horses, c.using one or two accidents. 1t Is un-
derstood therefore, that the achine will be en-
ployed for the most part at night very early IL
the morning,
The Guardian says Dr.. Newman has long wished
to found branch OF the Crstory In Oxford. The
Pope, however, has at last definitely dsapproved
Of the p.an THIS result Is manly due 70 the per
sistent opposition Of the English Roman Catholic
hshops Who arc Of Opinion that Dr.. Newman
wpuld take w'th him too large following Of the
Roman Catholic young men, to whose souls it
would be perilous 10 bring them into contact with
Anglican. education"
An instrum sat has bsen invented by Father
secchi who is probably an Italian, called meteoEO-
gr4ph. It is an automatic register Of changes IL
the weather OF all kinds, aud the sheets upon
which the record is thus made, bound into vol
umes vii add greltly to the material on which
the science Of meteUrography is based. It Will
also render 1t easier to make observations inc els
the number Ct stations, and ID every way ad ance
this to little known science.
The rector Of st. Alban's Church, Birmine-
ham, lately exconmunlcated a young lady, Hel
friends wishing to test his right TO do SO il
court OF sw, have incitsd her to go to the COM
munion In order that the priest might he COM
PEELED 20 eject her pub.icly. Her first attempt Ice
to riot. Her second was to be made on st. |
Luke's day, but the parish authorities learning it,
did not open the church. 1t was expected that |
she would present herself on the following Sun
day, end precautions had been taken to ensure |
quiet.
Holland is always building now csrals, and her
people are interchangeable in taking advantage OF
every natural gift in their country. The latest
work is gigantic project known as the Amster.