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

much circumstance and ceremony, in Montrose,
Pa, on Thursday evening last.
A successful cultiyator of silk in California has
sold during the past season several millions Of
eggs at ten dollars the ounce, for transportation
to France.
dentist who had an eye to business counted
ZIG sets of false teeth within the circle of the Hart
field (Mass.) camp-meeting, at one time. The re-
turns OF glass eyes and palptators not yet In.
town has been laid out at Big Shanty, on the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, just above Mariet-
ia. A sale took place on Thursday last, with very
encouraging results. The property sold brought
an average Of $s7 per acre, which is considered
very good for the times.
The distillation of pine wood is carried on in
New Orleans, realizing as reported, from cord OF
'tat" pines forty gallons of turpentine one barrel
of rosin, one barrel OF pitch, hundred gallons
OF pyroligneous acid and fifty bushels of charcoal,
the whole worth sixty dollars and costing ten dol
lars.
Head-Centre STEPHENS is living in Paris, poor
and despised. There seems to be no doubt that ne
was in the pay Of the English Government all the
time He is afraid to go TO Australia, America, or
anv place where the Irish abound, lest he should
meet with personal chastisement. He Is writing
book.
Two bales of new Cotton were received at Rome,
Georgia-the first OF the season-on Friday last
one by steamer from the plantation of J. G.
BLoUNr, down on the Coosa river-the other from
Polk county. The former was bought for Trion
Factory at Is cents and the latter sold to the trade
for 25A cents.
A. BRKHoLrz, formerly Of CoLr's factory in
Hartford, the inventor of metallic composition
resembling brass, for the manufacture Of which, q
company has been formed In Providence, R. l.,
with capital OF $500, 900, has sold his patent to
them for $40 900 Of the stock three cents duty on
every pound manufactured, and salary OF 81 GOO
for experimenting the manufacture.
Grasshoppers are plenty in Iowa. On FRIDAY
night, on the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road, so thick were the grasshoppers on the rails
OF the track that the train was one hour and ten
minutes running the ten miles The driving
wheels of the engine became perfectly clogged
with the mashed mass of grasshoppers, so much
so as to almost entirely retard their revolution.
The Oldtown Indians are in very prosperous
condition. They own one Of the large and valuable
islands in the Penobscot river above Oldtown
Maine, and their occupation by white men is abb
solutely forbidden. The dwellings, Of these privi-
legged aborigines are spacious and comfortable,
furnished with the various conveniences OF cvill-
zston, and it is predicted that in fifty years these
people and their defendants will be among the
wealthy, intelligent and respectable citizens OF the
community.
One of the savings banks of Chicago recently
offered premiums for the best plan of cottage, to
cost not more than six hundred dollars, and also
of double tenement building, not to cost over
$1,000. There have been number Of plans and
estimates sent in, and the fact has been demon
strated that such habitations can be built in Chi
cago at the sums n.med. The single tenement
building is eighteen by twentyfour feet one story
high, and the two tenement building twenty by
twenty-six feet, two stories high.
very large sale Of government clothing took
place at st. Louis recently. About two hundred
buyers from abroad, representing New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louis
ville Chicago, and other places were present. The
value Of the property offered is estimated at S.,
600, ,00O considerable moro than half of which was
sold The bulk Of goods sold, was bought by st.
Louis houses, one firm alone purchasing one hun
dred thousand overcoats and eighty-fva thousand
undershirts.
At q meeting of the Society for the Propagation
Of the Gospel, held at Maidstone, England, his
Grace, the Archbishop Of Canterbury said: "You
all know the Sultan has been here lately, the
enemy, or supposed enemy, Of Christianity. was
informed by the Prince Of Wales, few days ago,
that in answer to an entreaty to him to protect his
Christian subjects, the Sultan's answer was-and a
most remarkable one-I will not only protect my
Christian subjects, but will protect Christianity,
/ think that most remarkable answer"
Among the Princes Of Europe, the children of
VICTOR EMMANUEL, who crrry in their veins the
blood OF the old heroic race Of Savoy, are not the
least noteworthy. The visit Of Prince HUMBERT
to Paris has, as usual suggested to his polite Pa
risian hosts many "reminiscences and agreeable
anecdotes, illustrating his own character and that
Of his brothers and sisters. VICTOR EMMANUEL
has four children, CT which tho eldest, CLoTnpE,
is married to the Prince NAPOLEON, and lives IT,
Paris, at the Palais Royal Prince HUMBERT, the
second, is the heir to the throne of Italy; the
third is the Duo p'AosrE, and the youngest the
pretty Queen Of Portugal, ,.who has just finished
her visit to the Exhibition.
In the common method Of killing an animal for
market, it is bled to death. and thus much Of the
nutrtive portion Of its flesh is lost, as might be
easily inferred from the fact Of the sameness Of
composition OF flesh and blood. Meat deprived Of
blood suffers most seriously by the waste Of saline
materials, especially the salts Of soda, the car
bonateand the phosphate Of soda, and chloride OF
sodium. Iron is also drained out. The last flow
ing portions Of blood car1y of also potash salts.
scurvy depends on the withdrawal Of soluble salts
in the curing Of meat, as first demonstrated by
DR.. ALDRDaE, and hence it is thought from the
above premises there is no doubt that the us Of
meat in which the bloc is retained would prevent
scurvy.
Texas correspondent Of the Newark, IN. J.)
tion, says the papers generally oppose the Con-
gressional plan. They are edited for the most
part, by Northern renegades. The Houston Tete
graph, during the war, was edited by native Of
the nutmeg State, and still retains the bias which
he gave it. The State Gazette, (Austin) got it's
impetus from an immigrant from Hudson, N. Y.
The San Antonio Herald is now managed by one
from Oswego, N. Y, and the Galveston Netos is
under like auspices. The Texas Republican and
the Jefferson Times are managed by Mr.. LoUeH-
ERY, from some town in the valley of the Hudson.
All these urge everybody to register and then to
vote against Convention.
The people in Maine find the relaxation that is
sought in other places in a camp-meeting,
muster, or visit to watering place, in picking
blueberres, and the crop of the State yields annu-
ally about $4,000. A letter from 'sDown East
says /: 'The blueberry harvest is now at it's
height on Epping Plains, near Cherryfeld. IL is
that five hundred bushels of the bsrries,
very large and fine, are picked daily. good
land viii pick two bushels day. Families go
there from long distances, and camp out during
the blueberry season, and there are now from
thirty to forty camps on the ground. The berries
are packed in boxes holding eight quarts each,
and are thus sent to this and many other markets
along shore. At the plains they sell for four cents
q ouarf