The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-03

unchanged.
With GRANT in the War Department, Buffers
breech-loading rife contract is likely to come to
grief .-s.-..ss
BY the latest official reports in Great Britain 1t
Islands at the rate of 1000 day.
an exchange thinks the pews of some OF the
churches ought to rest piyots, so that the oceu
pants could see who comes in without strslhlhs
their necks.
A dark story goes that kegs Of old nails are
thrown into the Saratoga Springs at night to Sc
. cure the flavor Gluo and mackerel skins are also
limited at. Ity.
The Spanish Government appears to be expect
inc a revolution. Ships of war scour the coasts,
especially off Catalonia Constant arrests take
place on land.
Havana has found new source OF revenue.
Some q 900 cock fights take place there every year.
and by imposing license Of 500 per day on the
fighters, neat little sum will be obtained. There
is s420, 900 invested in that business in Havana.
At recent Saratoga hop Miss FANNY wv OF
Boston, "The Exquisite" appeared In q SNORT
skirt made up Of various oolored ribbons, sewed
together lenethwise high white waist; heavy
cherry colored sash; jsunty blue velvet cap on
one side of her head. Hair negligent.
The Lord Mayor Of London has determined 70
apportion the f250O, the gift Of the Sultan to the
London poor, among such Of the humane institu-
tons as deal more Immediately with the homeless
and destitute poor, rather than attempt to dstrb-
ute it himself among individuals.
A well known steamboat captain on the Alabama
river, who has been rusticating In the vicinity OF
Montgomery, writes to a friend in New Orleans
that he may expect lively winter; thst the largest
crop of cotton ever grown in that State will be the
one of this year, judging, by the five counties
through which he has travelled, and which he has
examined.
A valuable collection Of living animals for the
Geological Society Of London has arrived from Cal
cutta It consists Of two Of the large wild Indian
cattle called gayals, Panoa deer, two fine noian
Pelicans, four demoselle cranes, Hirnalayan bad
ger. two black Tbetan wolves, and other animals,
altogether upward Of twenty in number. Most OF
them are presents 70 the society from its cores
ponding members in India.
It pays nowadays to invent popular toy and
to make it sell wen. The person who invented the
common street toy known as the returning ball,
is said to have realized 100000; the ''always-
wound-up-top" realized $4,000. The inventor OF
the s'walking dol, 2 which was 80 fashionable
few years ago, made SIS, 900 by his patent. The
dancing "Jim Crow" toy, introduced few years
ago, was invented by an invalid boy, and won a
fortune. Ef
The Georgetown (TeIas) Wctchnsan says
.aThere are now several thousand beeves in Will
hanson county, full, fat and fine. The same may
be said Of this county, in fact OF every county In
Texas Perhaps million fat beevss could be re-
moved from this State without endangering tn,
supply tor home use, and sothe great benefit OF
the range, which is begin ing to be overstocked
in many counties. The increase exceeds the COZ
sumption everywhere"
While the army worm is doing incalculable
damage in lower Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas,
the reports from the cotton crops in Tennessee
are favorable. The Nashville Banner OF the 9th
nit, Gays that the present crop makes finer dis
play Of superior staple than that OF any previous
season for years. The fine quality Of the cotton
is especially spoken Of which is partly attributed
TO the AGRICULTURAL skill Of the Tennessee planters.
II is probably also due to the fact that tho system
OF small farming is more prevalent in Tennessee
than in the Cotton States" proper.
method OF making use Of fowls, recently de-
yised IN France is said to be Of great agricultural
value. An old omnibus is fitted up with nest boxes
and perches, and it is proposei that such ma
chine should be kept on every farm well filed with
fowls. and should be transferred every day to the
.not where The most active farming operations
ara being carried on. The fowls would then fol
low the plough and harrow, clear the land tho
roughly Of fy and worm, pick UP all the stray
grain after harvest, keep themselves high In
health, and feed themselves without cost.
A Milan letter says 8. The magnificent covered
GALLERY loading from the Piazza Gel Duomo to the
Piazza della Scala, is to be- inaugurated toward
the end Of the present month. This passage is
the lorgest and finest in Europe, and will, when
finished, have cost twenty five millions OF francs
for s;te and construction. The work has been
executed by an English company. The Klng viii
probably be present at the opening, as his Males
ty laid the first stone in April, 1854. The same
company is about to commence the reconstruc-
ton, according to . magnificent plan, OF the
entire Piazza del Duomo."
The number of telegraphic dispatches received
at the central station in Paris has increased sc
considerably that the administration, finding il
impossible to send them by porters in all dircc'
tons 10 their respective destinations, has adopted
a plan for the speedy transmission OF letters. A
continuous series Of iron tubes, sixty-fye millime
tres. two and half inches in diameter, has beer
laid down from the central Office in the Ruo dt
GreneIle st. German to the Hotel des Postes, and
bsck again to the central Office. Each cylinder
may contain as many as forty dispatches. and 6
new one is sent off every ten minutes.
In 1855 the imports into the Australian colonie:
reached f35 600 0cO, and the exports ESQ 1000 600
Within the last sixteen years New South Vale:
and Victoria have yielded s150, ,0O0,0 600 worth o.
gold, and New South Wales has produced 1000,
600 tons of coal South Australia has also, within
the last ten years, exported s5,0OO,0O0 worth o
copper. The tonnage Of vessels which arrived a
Australasian ports in 1865 was 100000, and {
similar amount of tonnage left those ports during
the same period. Forty years ago the number o
horses, cattle and sheep IN Australia was unde
100000; the number is now nearly s., ,00O, 900.
Adyices from Europe announce the death from
cholera on the 11th instant, at Albano, near Rome
of Cardinal LOUIS ALTIERI. The deceased wss de
scended from an ancient and princely house, ant
was the brother Of the present Prince CIENEs
AIr1zaI. BE was born in Rome ON the 18th @
Jriy, 1906, and was created cardinal priest il
lsA5, BY his Holiness Pope GREGORY XVI, wit
the title OF Santa Maria del l'ortico. Cardina
A1uszI was also Bishop Of tibano, First Cham
berlain Of the Pope, President of the Council Q
Finances, and Grand Cr,.nceicr of the Uniyersit
OF Rome. He was most learned and piou
divine.
a dispatch from cmaha, giving further particu
lsrs Of the 8ght at For1 Phil Kearney shor
time since. says the Indians, after two or thre
attacks in small parties, tisd their horses to tn
timber aud stripped themselves naked and Tough
OF foot, surrounding the corral, which was de
fenasi with the most determined bIsrery. Man
of the Indians ReEe killed within thirty PAGES Q
the fleSenees. Hhe GOODNESS and siihul hsndhn