The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-19
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NEWS SUMMARY.

Cotton closed III New York on Saturday at c3lc.
for Middng Uplands.
Gold closed Mt 14Ds.
Cotton advanced Id. in Liverpool closing al 10Id
FOR Middling Uplnnds.
General BuTLEu has bottle hnlsolf up in his
aeaaido residence at Annisquam during tho Con-
gressiOnal vacation.
Tho dinner givon nj tho Hotel do Yillo, Paris 10
tho King of Portugal, was served in the long gal
lcry, tho number Of guests being ono hundred and
fifty. At tho conccr: which followed nbout eight
hundred persons woro present.
Tho consumption OF tobacco in Franco is in
croasing with great rapidty. In 1879 the rcyonuo
produced by tho salo was $4,000, 600, which sum in
1911 had declined 10 1G, 900 600. Since tho latter
dato, however, MI uninterrupted improvement Inns
taken place, and in 1865 Its, ,OOO, 600.
Tho Salt Lake P.dcife, Of tho 2Gth ult., SAYS tho
Colorado river had risen 30 high as to back lid ia
river, causing tho destruction OF Arizoua CITY.
Warehouses, stores, hotels and residences wore
swept away. Tho loss is estimated at threo hun
dred thousand dollars.
Tho Bavarinns think that their young King will
do great deal bottor after his marriage with ls
protty cousin. Tho latter is q very spirited and
accomplished young lady, and tho people Of Baya-
ria are generally willing to bet that she will get
tho musical crochots ont OF her logo lords hcntl
anu Hlakc senSlDle man OF Linn.
GARDINER DRAKE, OF Pennington No., woyo
last year palm loaf enough to mako 100000 hoods.
He employed 400 persons, and paid ont $4,000.
Tho business is carried on in thirteen towns.
sonc OF the young women employed By him Darn
$50 per year, and remain at homo, tho work be.
ing sont to them.
The number of porsonB returning to Franco
from Rome, by way Of Mount Conis, was 80 great
that at Susn tho dgonccs wore insufficient to
convey them all, in spite Of the efforts of tho ad-
minstration. E'rh vehiclo containing from
twelve to fifteen passengers, requires dozen
horses or muleo fer tho ascent.
reaping contest took place at Woburn, Mass -,
the other dey, betwcon JOSHUA CONVERSE, aged
ono hundred, and JEREMIAH GIBSON agod seventy
scvon. Tho contestants used tho old time sickle,
and ronped and bound their shoaves in an easy and
on-hand manner. Old Century was able to keep
up with tho youngster.
During tho lato rcjoicings in Rome the King
Of NaploB held sort OF royal court. Ho kopt open
house. and received four thousand visitors attach
ed to tho old regime. II is said that kigo num-
ber Of brgands took part in the celebration, and it
was remarked that for few days brigandage nI-
most entirely ceased.
Tho Gazette Of Cologne has heretofore been
warm admrer and advocate OF tho policy Of Count
long leader to critciso very mildly the treatment
OF tho annexed provinces. Tho Government cen.
BOT ordered tho suppression Of tho obnoxious ar
tcle. It too luto to replace it, and tho Gazette
appeared with its frat two columns blank.
At tho Paris Exhibition machine for packing
chocolate attracts attention by means Of this ap-
paratus twenty-four cakes Of chocolate arc in icas
than second wrapped up, first with silver paper,
then cnyeloped with sheet Of whito paper, and
instantly scaled with drop of melted wnx, upon
which hammer falls down and impresscs the
stamp of tho manufacturer.
A terrible earthquake occurred on tho Island OF
Java on juno 10th. It wac very destructive throw
ing down many buildings and killing many people.
The losses said to te incalculabc. Tho sugar
crop, which had just boen brought into tho barns,
is totally lost. a largo number OF Europeans md
natives pcrishod-the report sqys as many as three
hundred. It was feared also that other parts Of
Java might be visited by earthquakes.
A census of tho poor OF Paris has latoly boon
published by the general administration OF
public assistance in that city. This census, which
compriees only the poor who receive relief from
that charity, gives tho number in 1866 at 1o5,119
persons, comprising 406i4 households. This is a
greater number than was reported by either OF tho
previous statements of the administration in 1862
of Paris, 1899 $50, ono in oyory seventeen lives
upon charity.
Tho Rio Grsnde Courier of Sunday, July 2stb
publishes the following: "a prominent merchant
OF Matamoras WAS yesterday notified by tho au
thoriues to appear at certain place in the city
for the purpose of registering his name. Once
there no WAS ask ID his nationality, and responded
that no was British subject. Ho was then in
formed that he must consider himself Mexican.
and subject to oil the liabilities OF nativo otizen
and that only Americans arc to bo treated as for
eigncrs.
Lamentable accounts arc received from Algeria
Tho whole African colony ia snd to DO mcnaced
with famine Several years OF bad crops and two
nvasicns of locusts have brought the settlers and
the natives to the brink OF ruin. There is a de-
fciency Of corn in Fronch Africa, and in some
places there docs not romnin any grain in stock
Tho natives arc gradually bringing their Hocks,
thoir only fortune, to tho towns tho coast to OK
change them for somo sacks of wheat or barley
for not only nro tho inhabitants without food, but
there is also want Of fodder for the cattle.
M. GEnolR has recently been occupied in carry
ing out novel pictorial conception Of ''The Cruel
fxion." This consists in rendering with tho ut
most Of his extraordinary power the terror and
pathoB Of that awful aubcct as they were express-
cd in the features and actions OF the spectators
who soon after the event woro assembled at the
foot OF tho croes. Tho figures OF Christ and his
companions in suffering arc represented in tho
picture by shadows that fall boioro tho spectators
Tho City Of Jerusalom ia shown in tho background
OF the picture.
letter from Vichy says "Tho King of swoilon.
CHARLES XIV, livos here in tho strictest incopnito
under tho namo Of Count DE BEcKAspoo no re-
sides In the Emperors villa tho interior Of which
ID. LEFAunE, tho architect, has arranged 10 suit
his Msjehtys cony enionce. He has in attendance
his private physician, NJ. LuNpDEna, and Doctors
ALou1E and WILHELM, First and Second Inspoc-
tors OF tho Baths. Tho King ia fond Of tho theatre
and goes thero oyery evening. With that oxcep-
tion his life is singularly retired He ia said TO be
well versed in music, himself writing words to the
melodies which ho composcs."
letter from the City Of Mexico snys: "The
body OF MACMILLAN was embalmed by Dr. R1pa-
pAERmA, Medical Inspector OF the Army OF North
ern Mexico, on the staff Of General EscopEpo.
After tho cmbalmment il was taken TO the cbnpol
OF the Convent OF the Capuchin Nuns, where il Inv
fcu days ago under guard awaiting to bo
claimed by some competent and authorised por-
son. It is stated that tho doctor has CHIN upon
the corpse for $4,000 or $40, ,0Oo professional fee
for services and that II il hold for this fce" The
he1icans, thus not only murder thcir prisonors OF
war, bat sell their bodies post n1orte7n for con-
sideration. We have read Of vampires and ghouls
in the story books, but never till now could we
ro.1i1 tl,nr vic