The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-17
NEWS SUMMARY.


Cotton was frmer; advanced &c. Sales z0Vo
bales at 15sc.
Cotton in Liverpool was nrIner Yesterday
Midding Uplands 7sd. Sales lo'UOo 0a'es'
Ohio is treading the vino press more than
ever before.
More than three hundred kinds OF hoop-sklrts
ara manufactured in New York.
San Francisco exported in October $4,000
sacks of wheat valued at 81, ,16S 00O.
Good juicy horse steak is twenty-five cents a
pound in Paris.
A Maine man has invented boot-blacklng
machine of ten ragam1fhn-power.
"A $40 600 salary is waiting the right man at
Grace Church, New York.
A New York newsboy got $50 for the first place
at the head Of the Dickens ticket-seekers.
Dickens has bssn photographed in New York,
and says he won't do it again in America.
The Prince Of Wales goes to church regularly;
but as it is an ulra-ritualistic church, the grum-
blers are still happy.
Six hundred aud fifty vagrant dogs have
been slaughtered in St. Louis during the last
month.
-Uaptsin John Farrell, we'll known as the pro-
prietor Of the hotel at Weldon, N. c., died on
Tuesday.
The Russian national debt amounts to $685.,
O0O on which the interest due this year is s46-
15o 600.
Dan Bryant has gone lack to burnt cork in
San Francisco, where he gets $50 per night for
the condescension.
Victoria has subscribed $1,000 to the fund for
relieving the sufferers by the West India hurri-
cane.
The sugar planters Of Louisiana are said to be
making about four barrels Of moasses to the acre
Of cane this season.
"A New York paper has discovered that Mr..
Dickens occupied exactly 6fty-three minutes with
his Sunday dinner.
Two correspondents had duel in Paris recent
ly. One fred anu missed, and the pistol Of his
opponent missed fire twice. That satisfied every
bodys honor.
Mark Twain, in his Sandwich Island lecture,
offers to show the audience how the C, anibals eat,
fsome lady will lend him baby.
More men are said to be out Of work in New
Haven, Conn, at present than at any other time
thsse ten years.
"A lady of more wealth than culture applied at
q bookstore in Boston, recently, for Dickens
no5el, David Copperhead."
The National Convention Of BASE an Players,
in session in Philadelphia, nished lGs labors en-
Thursday, and finally adjourned
Richmond, Indiana, has cooperative gro
Gerry successful enough to pay q quarterly divi-
dendof four per cent.
"A ridiculous election bet was paid in New
York the other day by the loser riding mule up
Broadway. Which was the mule is q conundrum.
"A ship is now making a voyage from San Fran
cisco to Liverpool, and carrying cargo Of 225O
tons Of wheat, valued at s107, ,6SS.
Eugene is to have present from the Empe-
ror of Austria. 1t is magnificent piano, the best
the first manufacturer OF Vienna can produce. 1t
is to be of rosewood elaborately carved.
Determination is made by Russian customs
officials between Americans and visitors from
France and England, our own oountrymen being
much more favored.
An elaborate dinner service, inlaid with gold,
and intended for presentation set, was finished
by New York jewelry house last week. Its cost
was $4,000.
oeen aDle 70 ouII1 'ise,-"--in-I -Ironton Ohio have
through the aid Of cooperative building associa-
tions within the past eight months.
-In central Illinois, in the great wheat-growing
counties, 1T is reported that very large breadth
OF land, more than last year, has been sown to
wheat and it is doing very fnsly.
ELIAS Howe, Jr., the inventor Of the sewing
machine, has left estate OF s61s. 900, according
to an inventory just fled in the Probate Court of
Fairfield county, Conn.
"A number Of spiritualists are boring for oil in
Pleasantville, Pa, under the direction OF 'rns-
dium, and shares Of one-sixteenth have been sold
for 5000 each.
"A large trade in beeves has sprung up between
Texas aud Kansas. The driving distance is six
hundred and fifty miles, with excellent feeling
range oil the way.
in the newly elected city government Of New
buryport, Mass, there are three ex-mayors, two
ex-presidents OF councils, and one Hebrew gentle
man-probably the first person Of his persuasion
ever elscted to Office in New England.
The fact that the negro who is supposed to |
have seen Dr. Livingstone selected his portrait
from lot Of hundred photographs, adds more |
probability to the hope that the explorer is yet |
alive.
Such change has been wrought in Oxford |
University Of late years that it now depends upon
the will Of the ladies present at the public discus
sions what subjects shall be chosen and what ar.
guments employed. The Saturday Review is in
dignant at this change.
Large congregations of the poorer and middle |
classes assemble weekly in English churches |
where the music is fine and no sermon is |
preaohed, in preference to filing houses where |
the singing is damaged" by the interruption Of |
preaching.
--Gas-making must be profitable in Cincinnati.
Tho company pays ten and three-quarter cents
per bushel for coal. After making the gas, |
bushel and half Of coke is left which is sold for
twelve cents bushel. Boys how much does the
gas cost the company
Sometime ago boy was run over by q rail
road train in Indiana and lost both legs. he sued
tho company and recovered $4,000 damages An
appeal was taken, aud, after innumerable delays,
the poor boy is glad to compromise for $3.50, and
pay his own costs.
Stoves are sold in London which consume
their own smoke, and therefore do not need
pipe. BY adding to these the American self-light-
ing screw now used in igniting gas burners, the
invention would bo entitled to be called & match
less one indeed.
-As an explanation Of the number of Golden
weddings occurring fcr two or three years past.
it is stated that the number of marriages in 1915
and the two years following just after the close of
the war was very great, and prediction is made
that similar phenomenon will occur in 1915 from
similar cause.
There is said to be more general demand for
diamonds in New York this season than has exist
ei FOR many seasons previously, and the Winter is
likely to be remarkable for the spendor ard cost
Iness Of the jewels and ornaments worn. The |
displays Of precious stones at the Broadway jewel
~ stores are exceedingly brilliant.
General Thomas has received the gold medal |
voted him by the Legislature Of Tennessee. 1t is |
about two and half inches in diameter, is a me-
dallion and is inscribed, rTo Maj.-Gen. George H.