The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-08
NEWS SUMMARY.


Gold closed at New York yesterday at 1887, and
Cotton at SO cents.
The Tennessee Legislature has passed the Uni
versal Suffrage Bill.
A spirited debate on Mr.. STEVENS Southern Mill
tary Reconstruction Bill will be found in our tele-
graphic column this morning.
Tee newest skating novelty in Chicago is that OF
Russian who skates on stills.
The programme for private balls and concerts
in New York high life are now printed on snan
fans, exqusitely perfumed
The first shad of The season were offered for
sale in the First Market, in Richmond, few days
ago, for 81 per pair.
Miss Gus11sA BARTLETT died at Bartletts Island,
mouth Of Ellsworth River, Maine, on the 18th uft.,
AGED Is. She was Of enormous size and weighed
about 400 pounds. ss's .
Alabama has named one Of her new Counties
Hale, in honor OF STEPHEN F. Hale, who COM
manded one Of her regiments, and died from
wounds received in one Of the battles around Ridh-
mond.
"A ledge Of rocks has been discovered ct Ridge
way, Conn, from which the ordinary stone-ware,
used for household utensils, can be made OF q
quality much superior to that of the imported ar
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ticle. -
In Spain one suicide is committed for every one
hundred thousand inhabitants; in France, eleven;
and in Denmark, twenty. Seventy one per cent. OF
the suicides committed in Spain are by mon; the
greatest number occur in June and July.
"A correspondent Of the New Albany Ledger says
that the skins from the leaf lard In the hog WILL
! prove a sure cure for frozen feet, bunions and
chilblains, if worn over the part affected and IN
side the stocking for q week or ten days.
Tuesday was one of the coldest days Of the sea-
: son in the Northwest The thermometer in Chi
oago went down to eighteen degrees below zero;
at ST.: Paul, Minnesota, % degrees below, and at
Madison, Wisconsin. fifteen degrees below.
Before the Republican party came into power,
the Treasury Department Of the United States had
416 clerks. Now it has 2300 The difference 1a
suggestive, in simple arithmetiol proportion; as
2s0S a.e to 416, so has been the expense Of the
Government under Republican rule.
M. WIN. MoCoRD has discovered on his farm
about four miles from Charlotte, N. c., rich vein
: az gold. At depth OF thirteen feet he found
nugget weighing thirty penny nyweights The ore
ia said to be worth one hundred dollars per busheL
The Detroit Post calculates that in the great
storm 40, ,oOo, 900 tons Of snow fell, or more
than ten times as much in Weight as all the wheat
crown il tie territory Of the United States since
) The, discovery Of the Continent by CoIpaBUs. ~
The New York Consolidated Paper Manutactur
{ INC Company are about to erect an establishment
lSSBdnalo, for manufacturing printing aud manillt
= papers and Abfes from g1aases, by means OF q re-
cent invention called the "Meech Processs where
by, it is said, good prir6ng paper can be made a
cost OF four cents per pound 8 se: s.zf
so far as is known there are but two mines q
emery in the world, one at Chester, in Hampder
County, Massachusetts and the other in the classic
little Island Of Na1os, in the AEGEAN Sea. The lat
: ter has been controlled By an Engliah house, ant
they have always charged Ih eir own prices. Some
time ago the Chester Iron Company's property
was found to contain emery, which was examined
and reported on fayorsbly.
The Turkish Pavilion Company has recently
been Organized in New York city for the purpose
of:placing glass payiions at the corners OF the
streets, Inc panes Of glass OF which they are made
bearing the cards Of tbs advertisers. The idea is
borrowed from Paris, where q similar enterprise
Yields return Of $500 0oo in gold per annun The
price ct apane OF glass for one year is So
Panama correspondence reports the operations
st that place Of a company recently organized BY
wealthy capitalists IN New York, called the Pacific
Pearl Company. The company: intends to operate
at the Pearl 1elands, about thirty miles from
Panama. "a Submarine boat has arrived, capable
OF carryiug ten OF twelve men at one time, who
can work under tie water formnny hours.
Most OF our readers Lave. seen the smagic photo
ersphs,r which we're produced by simply dipping
prepared slips OF paper; into water. A French
nhotoerspher has introduced magic segar holder,
upon which apbotograph app srs liter the s:gar
has been smoked for time. Now let some one
bi:pg out procsss that VIII develop BY air, nd 9
seriss produced by fire., air and water viii be COM
plete. - -,
"a H:e st Fan 4s1 G, a., Va., last week, coneumed
s bloc;t Of five buildings. It's further spread was
preyentod; IN the absence Of engines, by the eiti-
zens throw ing snow balls. An old gentleman aom
TIA oountry, who happered To- come IN just after
the t1re, asked the first he met, Are they gone
ssWho gone o. was the answer: .SsWhy, the Yam
kees--I see they've been In again and burnt some
! thing. e; 9, :ss
since 5MoaR1ssEy has been elected to CONGRESS-,
gambling has become both fashionable and re-
spectacle in New York. In the Herdd Of the 22d
ult. appears the following adTertisem emit LFor
rent, an elegant Brite Of par.or on st floor on
Broadway, between Eighth and Tenth streets,
suitable for q Faro Bank. Address G. B., Box =:
Postof6ce." :.=s -. s. -
a. cubic yard Of gold isworth, in round num-
bers, 600, and at this estimate. all the gold
in the world, it. melted into ingots, might be con-
tanned in cellar twenty four feet square, and six
teen feet high. AL the boosted wealth already OBJ
tanned from California and Australia would go:
into an iron safe nine feet square and nino feet
high,
The sLynchblrg Vuginian says that Mr. RICH
AID Po1LRD, Of that city, will receive, about the
first Of March, . cargo Of merchandise imported
by him direct from China, Of which country he
WAS resident for several years. The whole, or o
part Of. the articles, Will be brought to Lynchburg
for sale, consisting Of green and black teas, floor
mating, preserved ginger, chowchow, DO. These,
We suppose, are the first direct importation from
China to Virginia. ta; sss.:;. So. 80,
One or the most remarkable springs in the whole
Pacific Coast is that about fourteen miles this
side the summit Of one Of the highest peaks Of the
Sierra Nevada. The water is elected from asingle
ereyice IN q rock, and issues ztherefom kissing
and foamins With powerful eaervescence, Like
soda from fountain, but subsidies Immediately