The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-09
gke' 1ai1g News
NEWS SUMMARY.


Gold closed at 145.
Cotton closed in Liverpool steady.
Colonel Charles B. Tebbs, well known c''l-
ssn of Loudon County, Virginia, is dead.
A Nomens Christian Association Is u 10
established In Chicago. ,,o
General Lee has GOO students at his ''''e
nsnoro, schsnc,, !. Wades competitor for the
Ohio Ssnatorship. 20 c,,r,ostsr
Place, Portland Square, LONDON. nc Il p-"'''e
law. ard will not return to America 80.
N.ar,v "A 600 acres of public lands were dispos-
ed Of at tho land Offices at san FRANCISCO anu
Stockton, California. during August.
1T is said that one-eighth of the iron and steel
NOW made in the United States is from the iron
ores CT Lake Superior.
The reciprocity treaty with the United States
has passed the Sandwich Islands Legislature, and
received the Kings approval.
The cultivation of sorghum, which was quite
extensive in Wisconsin in 1885, has nearly ceased
the season proving too short for ripening it,
The new hotel at Glen Cottage and North Glen
House. on the White Mountains, New Hampshire,
was burned on Wednesday night.
The important announcement has been mad
in Paris that short dresses will in future only be
worn by young girls.
Friday, being regarded as an unlucky day i'll
Paris, $4,000 persons less than usual ride on the
omnibusses in that city on that day.
The thirteenth section of thirty miles OF the
Union Pacific Railroad has been accepted. This
saction completes the road ASS miles West from
Omaha Nebraska.
hoe han, h isha
Turin. in which he declares that he will never en-
ter into any relations with Russia, 'the execution
or of Hungary and Poland, and the eternal enemy
of freedom"
Prussia furnishes every non-commlssioned
officer in her army with French grammar,
Frencb and German dictionary, and atypographl'
On, man of the North and East of France. This Is
considered significant.
IT is g. somewhat curious fact that the author
of the Bankrupt Bill, the Hon. Thomas Jenckes
of Rhode Island, was one of the first applicants
for its benefit in his State. The failure is heavy
and said to be disastrous.
Its stated that the commanding officer Al
Camden, Arkansas, has proposed to compromise
with the proprietors Of the Eagle by reftting the
Office and paying all damages, the proceedings tt
-Auber, now eighty-fve years old, has writer
and is experimenting rehearsals OF new opers
entitled "Un Jour 6e Bonheatr," which he say:
will be his last He rises and goes to work sat five
o'clock in the morning." and drives span OF very
fast borses in the afternoon.
Sir Moses Montefore has returned to England
from his philanthropic errand to Roumania, after
an absence Of eight weeks, during which time &c
has been entirely successful in the merciful object
of his iourneythe mitigation OF the prosecutions
OF the Jews in Roumania
Mr.. George Y. Edes, proprietor Of the Pscata-
ouis Observer, printed at Dover, Maine, Is ovef
seventy years Of age. but works at the case, set
tire the finest type without the ase OF spectanles
His editorials frat assume form in his 'stick,
and are thus composed simultaneously in two
senses.
The Wilmington Star mentions the case OF
a gentleman living in that vicinity who made
sa5eOO off his crop Of ground peas last year, and
another who will make from Is, 600 to 5000 BUSH
els this year, at prices varying from two to four
deilars per bushel. Why don't some OF our PLAN
se.s 20 into this business?
Two cars of iron, for the Galveston Road, al
rived at Lawrence Kansas, on the 25th of septem-
Der. Twenty car loads Of iron were at Leayen-
worth, and the transportation Of three hundred
oar loads has been contracted for with the Hanni-
bal and St. Joseph Railroad, enough to buildabout
twenty-five miles.
They have way of renovatng old or deceas-
cd figs in New York. The figs are soaked for
time in common whiskey, which being absorbed
by them, causes them to swell and become quite
nesh-looking. They are then carefully pressed or
packed into the neat new boxes, and exposed tor
sale as new figs on the st-eet corners.
The Richmond Dispatch in speaking OF the
registration in Virginia, says below We give
numbers of votes registered in each city and
county Of the State at the first registration under
the reconstruction law. 1t was received too late
to make out an accurate footing up OF the totals.
The aggregate is in the neighborhood OF 2l6,OOO
votes. We have prepared q table OF major1tles,
from which it appears that the whites have ma
jority Of 12,65e in the State"
When the English houses OF Parliament were
building, Sir Charles Barry, the architect, wished
to make the hall OF the House Of Commons large
enough to accommodate all the members, but he
was oyerruled on the consideration that as the
sttendance-in the House Of Commons seldom OK
ceeded two hundred, it was thought better to
endure an occasional crush than to be daily expos
ed to the permanent annoyance Of comparatively
vacant house with empty benches
-Oneof the reports to be laid before Congress at
the next session by the War Department, says the
Washington correspondent of the New York Times,
October 4, viii be tha t showing what rehefwas ex-
tended 20 the people Of the South under the acts
passed in the closing days of last March, sfter a
long and sharp fight in the House. 1t is under
stood that about half million of dollars were
expended, Of which nearly one hundred and
TWENTY-FIVE thousand went to Georgia, and some
thing over one hundred thousand to South Caro-
lima. Operations under this act closed in the
latter part OF August.
We learn that the University Of Virginia
opened with between 400 and 500 students on the
grounds. The prospects are very good for GOO or
more. In the academic schoois greater proper
ton Of the students will be in the higher classes
than during the two preceding sessions. This
arises from the fact that Washington College,
Hampden Sidney, Richmond, and Randolph
Macon, as well as the numerous university schools
Of the State, and the revived institutions of the
gulf and border States, are beginning again to
send their quotas of well prepared students to the
University. Tho school of Engineering and Ap-
piled Science has attracted thther q considerable
number Of students.
The bronze statue Of Edward Everett, executed
by William ". Story, has arrived at the 'hub."
The Boston Transcript says the representation is
admirable, and the attitude selected is most feci-
tous, exhibiting the orator in one of his most
graceful gestures. The statue is about nine feet
high, and with its upraised hand must prove con-
tinua, remainder OF the original 1t is to be placed
in the northern part Of the public garden, about
midway between Charles and Arlington streets
opposite the northern entrance 10 the garden from
Beacon street. No day he's yet been designated
for the Inauguration Of the statue, but the most