The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-19
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NEWS SUMMARY.

1900 bales.
Gold closed at A.
Cotton closed in Liverpool, at P. NJ, firm and
active. Prices unchanged. Sales $4,000 bales.
The railroad in India, from Heurah to Delhi,
is over 1000 miles in length.
The sugar crop of the Sandwich Islands for
1868 is estimated at 20 900, 900 pounds.
There are men in London who make a business
OF fixing ND partly decayed fish so that it can be
sold in market.
The Monotaur, belonging to the British chan-
mel squadron, is the largest vessel anoat except
the Great Eastern.
TT ia said that the iron work Of the Paris expo
sition building has been sold, Id will be brought
to the United States.
The estimate crop OF sugar in Louisiana this
year is about 100 900 hogsheads- s-about one-fourth
of the crop before the war.
The Maine papers report an astonishing fall in
the price Of pork, hogs bringing only and 10 cts.
in most of the markets in that Stats.
A professor who dives hom height OF 2oo
feet into water only ten feet deep is the last Lon
don sensation Probably for divers reasons.
"A letter from Canada, referring to the ap-
proachine session of Parliament, says that among
the earliest measures to be introduced will be one
n re-establish If possible the Reciprocity Treaty
with the United States.
During the last three months 81, us emgrants
have left Liverpool; an increase over last year OF
s157. Last month thirty-two ships cleared for
this country, carrying 756 cabin passengers and
1856 in the steerage.
BY q recent act Of the British Parliament, He
brews who close their factories and workshops ON
Saturday till sunset, are permitted to open from
sunset till o'clock ''for females and young per-
sons" to work till that hour.
According to recent census Rome contains
21b573 inhabitants and the total for the Pontfcal
States is stated at 692,112 London, 2,SOO,Ooo;
Paris, 1,64S,OO0; Constantinople, 715,OOO Berhn'
525, ,1OO st. Petersburg, $4,000.
"A millionaire wedding took place at Pougn-
kspie, N. Y, recently. The local Jenkins says:
eTbs articles of gold and silver and diamonds
were thick as blackberries on mountains, While
one Of the wedding gifts was deed OF a beautiful
country seat valued at SCI, ,OOO."
"A Despatch states that General Fitzpatrick,
Minister to Chill, has sent in his resignation Of
his position in the army, which is that of captain
msior-general This is the third time he has ten
dered it, and it will no ' be accepted.
There has already been an incident accom-
panied by the loss Of life on the railroad over
Mount Cenis The engineer put on steam on going
round a curve, instead Of shutting it off, and the
whole train disappeared in the depths Of horrible
abyss. Fortunately there were only three persons
on the train.
"A correspondent Of the Iuka Gazette urges
the culture of Strawberries in Tishomingo county.
he saws the profits of one acre of strawberries,
;udiciously cultivated will exceed the net profits
OF twenty acres in cotton, and that the Soil and
climate OF Tishomiugo are admirably adapted to
the strawberry.
The London Daily News, in review OF busl-
ness affairs in England says it is the fact that for
many years past the trading profits have rarely
been lower than they are now. Many, even Of the
highest mercantile firms, Of first-class standing
and long established repute, are as it were, living
from hand to mouth.
Theodore Tilton, in lecture at Lewiston, Me-,
said that the first two-hirds Of the present centu
nv will be noted in history for the negro question;
and the last third for the woman question. He
believed the only marvel Of the next century
would be that the present could ever have denied
woman her full political rights
The Baton Rouge (La.) Ledger, Of the 2Sth
ultimo, ssys: "The accounts we have from the
country about the crops are distressing. Some
say they will make half crop, some two-thirds,
others third, some q fourth, and some say they
are totally ruined. However, we hope the results
NAV not prove so gloomy as anticipated"
An experiment was made in Whitehall street,
New York, with the electric light recently in-
xrif vhi ha c1ai ms
to be able to light up the city with single
lamp more completely than gas companies can
do. The light on exhibitier was so brigh as to
be painful to the naked eye, and cast bright CLEANS
al over the bay. !
letter. received in New York from prominent
Democratic politicians IN Ohio, state that while a
few friends Of yallandigham win press his claims
for the Senate, Mr.. Pendleton will be elected by
the almost unanimous vote Of his party, and viii
be put forward by the Democracy of the North
west as their candidate for the Presidency. The
same letters say the negro suffrage amendment is
lost by &c, 900 votes.
The Cheyenne Leader is a neat little neSspar
Der juat started by Mr.. A. Baker at Cheyenne
Dakota, one Of those spontaneous cities thai
spring I'D in advance Of the great overland rail
road. Sixty days ago Cheyenne was bowling
Wilderness; nov it has Mayor and Common Coun-
Gil, publishes ordinances regulating city life, and
has q newspaper, rum shops, and various other
incidents Of civilization.
The Lake City Press has fallen under the ban
Of General Pope's subordinates. 1t has been dis
covered by those astute individuals that it opposes
reconstruction under the military rule, and it is
therefore, ordered that no official advertisements
win be published in that paper. The Press is the
first of the Florida papers to feel the heel of des
potism, but the editor wields tronchant pen and
replies to the imputaton in becoming manner. |
1t is reported that reduction Of ten per cent
in the wages Of some Of the Hartford (Connecti-
cut) factory employees has been rendered ueces-
ssry BY the dullness of business. Similar dullness
in trade ls reported from Great Britain, and it is
stated that no less than twenty to thirty thousand
men connected with the iron trade on the Clyde
have been thrown out Of employment owing to the
successful competition of foreign with the home
manufacture Of the British Isles.
1T has been found, says the English Mechanic,
that the addition Of glycerine to gelatine mparts
to it new, curious and useful properties. Mixed
with glycerine gslatine soldifes on cooling, with
out losing its ductiity, and answers well for her
metically sealing bottles. For this purpose it is
merely necessary to plunge the neck of the bottle,
after it has been corked into the heated mixture,
and, after allowing it to cool, repeating the dipping
until sufficiently thick coating is obtained.
The Journal Of Mining says 'Mr. C. W. Ste
man has patented in England a process for pro-
ducng csststeel and iron directly from the ore by
exposing the ore, in finely divided state. to the
surface action Of intense heat, while currents Of
rich hydrocarbons percolate through the mass OF
ore in transverse direction towards the heated
surface. By the passage of the gases the ore is
reduced and carbonized, and the melting surface
Of the mass being enveloped in an atmosphere OF
reducing gas or fame the reo1ydntion of the re-
duced metal is prevented"
jay Cooke, the great banker, owns an island
;a aa1Iod Isl., Gihraltar and To