The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-05
The 1ailg Nems.
NEWS SUM MARY.
Cotton closed in New York at II cents lower
Midding UPnuds 20.

Peaches twelve inches in circumference wers ex-
hibitcd at fair in Illinois last wcck.
An American paper, called tho 7sro Repnbfirs,
is published in the City OF Mexico.
There aro flny or more agricultural fairs now
going ON iu Now York and tho neighboring cities.
BlARnrTz at present is crowded with SpaTiards,
most OF thom exiIod, and all Of thom moro or less
opposed 10 tt. existing oris- OF things.
A foreign journal announces that tho railway
from Paris TO Strasburg las now threo-story cars,
for first, second and third-olass passengers.
Tho only fruit which grows in ovory climate is
tho strawberry. 1t is tho only fruit which aomo-
whero OH tho earth il picked eyory day tho year
round.
Two stock brokers iii Paris havo mado bot, il
is snid, of 500, ,000 that Gonoral GRANT will, or
will not be Emperor of tho United States within
five years.
They havo queer idea Of prohibition" in Vi
cnnn Tho police recently threatened lager buer
seller to fine him heavily if no did not increase tho
size of his glassee
A New York company has purchased ono hun-
dred and forty thousand acrcs OF land in North
Carolina, and going into n wool-growing
speculation Oh Ii.
New Orleans papers complain that tho city
cemeteries arc emitting noisomo and doletorious
odora, and ndviso that thoy should be frequentcd
no moro t:an is necessary.
On the occasion of tho visit of the Emperor Ma
PoLEos TO Amiens, the Bishop gaYo permits
eion to mako uso OF animal food though It was
Friday. This is considered very remarkable de-
parturo from tho rule.
Tho Yiceroy has bought all immense number Of
ladies' costumes TO go TO Egypt. Thoy wore mado
IN az r-n~nh in1ins' aa----. n.I .;tL. tho ri.u-
roy's beauties arc worry accommodating or Fronch
figures will accompany the dresses.
Tho captain OF tho littlo vessel Red, White and
Blue, which crossed the Atlantic last year. has
been figuring recently In Court OF Justice in
Paris, the cause being a misunderstanding with
NJ. GmARD, with whom tho owner had made an
agreement to place tho vessel on exhibition.
Tho Cincinnati Commercial Republican paper,
romnrks: "Tho Antietam poet managed to ring
in ample list of officers who participated in that
battle, but by singular omission no novcr 80
much aB limited tho name OF MCCLELLAN the go1l-
eral commanding tho army which won the hard
fought field.
Somo Hindoo thiovos determined to rob train
in MADRAS. Thoy accordingly blocked tho track
with treo tops The engineer stopped his train,
the thieves swarmed into tho cars, the engine was
rerorsed and run back with all possible speed md
oil the robbers wero lodged in Jail, o1oept
those who were killed by jumping from the train
1t ie reported from Berlin TINT Count BIsMARcE
will soon resign his portfolio Minister for For
eign Affairs, in order TO devote himself moro OK
elusiveIy to his duties as Chancellor OF tho Bund
he will retain his scat rs President OF the Cabinet
Herr roE SAyIaHr and Herr Won WKRTHKR are
spoken Of as his successors in the foreign ofIloe.
Female clerks, it is reported by foreign cor.
respondent Of the Now York RnickerJockcr, arc
extensively employed in Europe. He snys the
women do nearly all tho trading in Ireland, and
tho samo cuetom prevails in Grent Britain and
Franco. Ho praises their general attention and
tho caro- they always found to exhibit for their
employers interests.
The way they sprinkle tho streets in Vienna is
odd and decidedly slow. An immense hogshead is
mounted on four wheels, fillod With water, and
drawn by pair of horses. To the rear end Of
the hogshcad is attached leather hose provided
with common rose sprinkler AS tho cart moves
slowly along man WALKING bohind shnkos tho
sprinkler to the right and left by means Of cord
attached 10 it.
At recent meeting of the California Accademy
OF Natural Sciences, Dir. MYsTRoM road paper on
the Formation of Table Mountain. He maintained
that it was tho product OF an pronaut coming in
contact with the earth. little haltformcd planet
soft inside, had fallen down there aud lattened
out, like an egg falling upon the floor. This new
theory excited considerable remark and some
amusement among those present.
The marino losses of American ycssais during
septomber, By fire, wrock, collision and .unilnr
disasters, were g. of which woro ships, 4 barxs
briggs, and IL achooucrs. Tho aggregate value
Of those vcaacls 1881 600. Tho total losses BIZ
marino disasters, for tho nine months OF 1867 that
have passed, havo been 1888 vessels, valued at
Sl6,276. 100, as compared with $50 vcssos, valued
at $40, 6s2, 800, during tho poriod last year.
The Warrenton Sentinel says that Major JOHN
SCOTT, OF Fauquor, now in Europe, has just writ
fan snfNr l. In Ers
War Minister, Count BISMARCK, has orderod a
government translation of his late work, '.Parti-
san Life with MoHby," for tho purpose of adopting
In tho PrussRn service tho aystom dcyeloped by
Colonel MosDY during the late war; regarding it as
entirely original md effective. Also that tho Rms
sian War Minister and his Royal Highnoss. Crown
Prince OF Russia, have written him letters in high
commcndstlon OF Colonel MospY,s newIy deyel-
oped system OF warfare.
An English lettcr-writer, at Borlin sketches tho
peraonal appearance OF the King of swodon as fol-
lows: "The King of Sweden ia man of imposing
presence. His stature evcn exceeds that OF King
William His physiognomy resembles rather that
OF Southern Frenchman than that Of native OF
Northern Europe. A long, full black beard sur
rounds IN oval face OF handsome and expressive
features and dark complexion. Tho eagle nose
and vivacious eye impart to the oountenance an
expression fully corresponding to the head, which
is said to rovolve aspiring and ambitious schomes
His short hair is hero and there stroaked with
grey.
Tho Wilmington Journal says: "After all tho
rain which has fallon during tho summer it would
seom that our creeks and rivera should not soon
show m insuficonoy of wator, yet we hear il COM
plainod by tho Captains Of tho livor boats md
others that the water in the Cape Fear at present
ts getting very iow In fact, II is said that in some
OF tho shallowcst placos the boats have struck
once or twice already. It is very raro thing,
however, in tho Fnll or Winter season for the
water to get 30 low as to interrupt tho regular
trips Of tho bonts. In this fact We have assurance
against their stoppage. It is strange though after
all tho water that has fallen, tho river should TINS
esrly thereafter become low.
Tho New Orleans Times, OF tho 25th ult., states
that attaches Of tho press in that city hayo been
the Victims OF disease in unusual number at ths
distressing time in Now Orleans. Threo members
OF tho Pfcdyune corps wcro Ill, one with symptoms
OF cholera, and another with uomc sort of fovor
andn third with yellow foyer. All three. however
--Messrs. BAcoN, DUTsoN md CoSpoS-Uero re-
ported conyalcscent. Major RoDn1soN, CT tho Re-
publican, was down with yolow fover, but with n
good prospect of recovery. Ono of tho editors OF
the Tribune WAS down with tho aamo dsoaso. Mr.
CATLN, OF the Crescent, was reported slowly bu
surely recovering. Six mombcrs of tho Now Or
leans editorial corps is n pretty largo proportion
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