The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-12
CHI RI ES TON.
NEWS SUMMARY.


and Cotton at lSs l9c.
Cotton was firm at Liverpool on Friday last; the
sales were Is, 600 bales; Mlddhng Uplands SD.
Tho Pan.Angican encyollcaI is to be done into
Latin and Greek.
Louis Napoleon is accused Of losing million
Of francs in three months gambling.
The excess of births over deaths in England Is
now more than thousand day.
"A French engineer has started company to
construct an experimental model Of bridge
soross the British Channel.
Bonnet offcrs to contribute one hundred
thousand dollars in Governr--.t bonds toward
general bonfire Of those securities IN City Hall
Park.
Mr.. William Dougherty, former resident OF
Columbia, and constructor Of the stonework OF
che New State House, died in Memphis on the 9th
instsnt.
More than t'To-thirds Of - works Of AleZan-
der Dumas pre-, hare been N-itten, it is said, by
other men, whom he hired for the purpose OF eas-
Risting' him in his labor.
The demolition Of the fortress Of Luxembourg,
one of the conditions o: the peace Of last Summer
Is prosecuted with great energy, three men and
boy being the present force employed In the
work.
The internal revenue receipts of Franco for the
first nine months of the present year amount to s1S-
1885, 900 FRANCISCAN increase OF 766 900 francs over
those Of the same time last year, and 1904 900
over 1855.
"A Nashville policeman shot q negro In TIE
head. He fell, but Immediately picked himself up
and made of. Wnen secured his skull was found
uniniured, but the bullet, perfectly fat, To- ged
under the skin.
1t is getting TO be common practice In New
York for establishments, especially banks and in
surance companies, employing large NUMBER OF
clerks, to provide for them free lunch witan the
building where they work.
MIR. Mortimer Collins, brother Of Wilkie, has
assumed the editorial chair Of Echoes from the
Clubs, and Nr. vizstey, who vacateslt, is to come
to New York and edit the Fifth venue, which has
not vet been announced.
The New York Oha nber OF Life Insurance dc.
cided 10 use the Eagl.sh mortality tables until
American tables should be secured. and also ap-
pointed committee Of arbitration to settle ques-
tions of disputed claims.
AT recent meeting o. the grand jury at Cork,
Ireland, it was discovered, whom too late, that
witnesses had been sworn on q copy OF Thomas
a'Ksm yis, instead OF The Bible, and tae proceed
inga had to b repeated.
Chicago fears food wien the full head Of
water in its new works is lei on. Knavish pipe
dealers are in the habit of sci ing strong lead pipe
and ds1terously sub tituting thin and weak which
cannot and the pressure.
The New York Herald says that changes in
the Cabinet will soon be made. Collector Smythe,
OF New York, has it is said, been offered the posi-"
ton Of Posmaster- General or S cretary OF Treasu-
ry and Reverdy Johnson that Of Secretary OF
State.
The proportion summarized men in the journal
isc profession in this country is said to be larger
than in any other profession. An exchange thinks
1t is because the newspaper men "hav'nt time to
attend to such matters" which is perhaps partly
the truth.
The propeller Georgia, for the possession OF
which the Uaited States has been suing Jacob
Thompson, at Hamilton. Canada, was on Tuesday
turned over to the form,r by tho decision OF the
Court, and the bill against Thompson was dis
missed with costs.
The New Haven Palladium contrasts the RE
oeption of Miss Kellogg in London with that OF
the sister Of Mrs. Siddons in Hartford years ego.
That lady was arrested and allowed as great
kindness to leave the city without being shut up
IN jail as vagrant.
The Mormon agent in England has devised
nice plan Ter pretty young women TO em'grate 70
Utah. He tells them that when they arrive at the
Lsnd Of the Saints they can secure rich elder for
husband, making 1t condition Of marriage that
he send for MI the rest OF her family.
TO show tho fertility OF French pens, 1t Is
stated that N. Champasury has published forty
volumes, N. Capefque one hundred octave vol
umss, ". Ele Berthet fifty novels, and n. Briss
barre ssventy-eight plays. Quality, # course, is
to great extent sacrificed to quantity.
Two veteran printers-Char es McDevitt and
Thurlow Weed-met Saturday evening at New
York for the first time IN fifty years. In 1916 they
were journeYmen together. Mr. McDevltt was
compositor, and Mr. Weed pressmau upon the
drst tracts published by the American Tract So
oiety.
Turkey has projected three lines OF railway,
the first from Constantinopls to Belgrade, the
second from Enos, short distance west OF Con-
stantipople, to Varna on the Black Sea, the third
from Enos 20 Uskiup in Northern Macedonia. The
contract has been awarded, and the means will be
furnished by British, French and Belgian 2as ital-
ists.
The North German Parliament unanimously
requests the Executive to put down public
gambling. This settles the question Of reli:ens-
ing the establishments at Homburg, Ems and
Wiesbaden. It is even intimated that the Prus-
sian Government will try to persuade those already
licensed to rehnguish their contracts on the pay
ment Of certain sum.
M. dc Closmadenc has discovered in small
Desert isa ID in the Bay OF Il 1rbidan France, more
than sixty obelisks Of granite, forming regular
ci-cle OF oae huudrsd and eighty meters in o1rcum.
ference Acurious fact Is that only one-haf Of this
Cron1lech, which is issupposed to have been Druid
ical altar, is nov on drT land, owing TO the en-
eroachments OF the sea.
Our exchanges from Pensacola, Fernandins,
and other Florida towns, contain columns Of ad-
vertisoments OF the sale OF real estate to pay
taxes. Verify, real estate and landed interests
generally, in this region, have already been vir-
tually conAscated under Radical Rule. That par
ty will never be satisfied until it shall soil out, and
buy up all the whole Southern country.
The New York Times gives, through it's WASH
ineton correspondence, the following love-tap to
Colonel Forney and his two papers, both dmly ;:
..Toe hosting OF the Grant flag since the election
BY certain extreme Radica! Journals and polti-
clans, is regarded here as signal Of distress, and
there is.a feeling against taking them Oh board,
uulass they will give guarantees OF future good
bsha ior."
The Washington Chronicle says: "We have
sean three large ingots OF gold, valued ns s4oOo'
the product Of one weeks work, at the cost OF
sIloo, from the LOWS Gold Mine Of the State OF
Georgia. The yield Of gold was so large in for
mer years that tho Government established mint
at Dahloneya, which was suspended during the
war, but orders have boon recently givon for Its
se-opening.
-Archduke Heinrich, in Gratz, is gong to mar
~ little tress, Clara Hoffman. It is quito ro-
mant story. HebrouSht the pictures OF his pa
rents to the house OF the young lady, and SOLEMN
1u haHar Tn am ara "a ,aal-a ..a. h:s An