The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

Gold was quoted firm at SSsaSS5.
Cotton closed in New York frmer; sales 22OO
bales at ~15}a15sc.
Cotton in Liverpool was unchanged; sales To-
900 bales.
The English rituaists have introduced the
''wafer" in the sacrament.
Tho Augusta, Ca, street railroad promises
the citizens free rides on New Years day.
The San Franciscans propose to tunnel the
bay so as to bring the terminus Of the Pacific Rail
road within their city.
The Royal Society Of Arts in Jamaica condemn
the paintings of the old masters as indicate and
highly immoral.
An American newspaper called the Continent
Al Gazette will commence publication in Paris
January LIST.
Foreign newspapers not printed in the French
language are to be allowed to circulate IN France
free of the censorship after the first of January.
A splendid cotton plantation of two thousand
acres in Franklin County, N. c., was sold lately Tor
two dollars and five cents an acre.
An Irishman in Liverpool says that the Fenlan
excitement has closed the dock and timber works
to his countrymen.
February 18th the Frcedmen's Bureau will
cease in Tennessee. Except the superintendent
of Education, all the officers will be discharged.
Prince Alfred, now in Australia, has been
asked to inaugurate a paper mill there and make
the first sheet Of paper ever manufactured In the
southern hemisphere.
-"Who owns the City Of New York to-dayP
asked Mr.. Beecher, in his sermon of last Sunday
night, and his prompt reply to his own query was,
''The devil
AT Bardstowp, KY, a week ago, a negro, guilty
of an Infamous crime, was forcibly taken from jail,
shot, and the body thrown thirty feet down a ledge
of rocks.
"A cotton gin house at Kinds, Miss, was set on
fire recently, and two hundred and eighty bales of
cotton, and faithful old negro were burned with
it. e.,
A female Kasper Hauser has teen discovered
on one Of the coal barges of the Seine. The girl,
of q high family, has been kept hidden in the hold
of the vessel for six years.
A great innovation has taken place in Turkey.
Several fashionable ladies have appeared in seats
among the audience at the opera in CONSTANT
pople.
Bears must be very plentifulin North Carolina.
It is related that a party Of gentlemen killed eight
in one days hunt recently, and a lady discovered
FIVE in her corn6eld the same week. Her son kill
ed two of them, but the other three escaped.
Parties in Bridgeport, Conn.,, are engaged in
getting out a novelty in the shape Of a wagon body.
The entire body is made Of rubber, hardened by
the addition Of tin and iron in the composition,
and is cast il a mould.
The mouth Of the Mississippi, it is reported,
has been opened by a dredging machine. and q
steamer loaded with cotton and drawing eighteen
feet OF water has passed out Of the southwest Pass
without touching en- tho bar.
The Cincinnati Commercial says: San action
to recover damages from an ex-magist1ate for i'm
p~risoning q German for refusing to speak the
English language when on the w;tness-stand, re-
suited, on Monday, in a verdict against the sex"
for $500.
The New York Tribune says its st. Thomas
correspondent writes that to the I'd December, five
hundred shocks Of earthquake had been felt ut
that island, and adds: "The man who says that
Secretary Stewards last purchase is no great
shakes is clearly mistaken"
In Paris it is an offence to do anything showing
disrespect of the Emperor. 1t is announced that
recently a number Of persons have been arrested
BY the police for tearing down the copies of the
Emperor's opening speech 10 the French Cham
bers from the ws'!s on which they we're posted.
miniature mammoth cave is the latest nov
ew York in the SPECTACULAR line of theatre
,N sements. G-oi ~ cascades. CRYSTAL