The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-28
The lal1n News.
NEWS SUMMARY.

Middlng Uplands.
Cotton closed in Liverpool at Sid. for Middling
Cplands Private dispatches quote it as low as SID.
Mr. RonERT BUCHANAN is writing life of AUDI
RON from materials furnished by his widow.
OTFENrAcH is experimenting rehearsals OF his
new opera Robinson Crusoe," in Paris.
daily paper in Paris is wholly made up OF tho
bills of fare of all the restaurdteurs in the city.
It is said that meeting of curates has Deen
held in London, preparatory to strike ior iis
pay.
A sritnalistic" marriage lately took place IN
London church. The ceremony occupleo tniee
hours.
A rich Somersetshire farmer has been sent to
iail for q month for having sent bad meat TO
London
DICKENS says of his health that he combines
his usual sedentery powers with the training Of
prize fighter"
Queen VICTORIA plays well on the piano and har-
monium, but since Prince ALBERr's death has
played only sacred music.
The story is told that two manufacturers OF Dus-
seldorf who sent nothing to the Paris exhibition
received bronze medals for excellence OF their
wares.
an invention BY Frenchman to measure the IN
tensity Of light which, 1t is expected Will "nohy
supersede the photometer.
Some new phrase for what is impossible must
be substituted for Catching white blackbird.' >
Such an anomaly has actually been caught and
Gagged in Cecil county, Maryland.
A French scientific observer says that the con-
centric zones in the trunks of trees eptical IL
form, and the major axis has an east and west d.
rection. This he attributes to the rotation OF the
earth.
A volunteer rilsman Of Canada recently fred 12t
shots at target ut distances Of 500 to 1000 yards
and missed but Eve times, although no sighting
shots were fired. He would be dangerous man
for the Fenians
1t has been discovered that petroleum is as oic
as the MAcoABEEs. This passage nv bo founc
in the second book: "Ani NEHEMIAH called this
thing naphthar. which is as much as to say
cleansing"
France will teach Yankees new way OF adver-
tising. 1t is proposed to erect along the Boule-
wards number Of lay figures upon which clothierf
Of all kinds can display their wares, paying for the
privilege by the week.
Paris letter states that the latest fashion II
wells is to wear them so as to shade the chignon
The face is exposed to the sun to let the face ac-
quire the fashionable color of the brunette, and
the dye Of the chignon is preserved.
An usher in an English school, seeing one Of the
boys with thick lump in one of his cheeks, asked
Gould est hoe ?" to which the lad, spattcring out
large piece of chewing tobacco, eplied, Hoo est
quid, for which repartee the master forgave him.
magistrate of burgh in Scotland being Of
Tended at a reporter who had described several
scenes in council, threatened to throw him out OF
the window if he came again. The magistrate was
fined for the offence, and the dignity of the press
was vindicated
All the recent session of the British Association
q paper was read upon anasthetics. Chloroform,
it WIS said, caused death by arresting nervous ac-
ton, and not by action on the heart Nitrate Of
me.hyi and bichloride Of methylen were recon-
melded as the best an@sthetics.
Senator HOWARD has written letter to the De-
trois Tribune in which he asserts that military
preparations are being made in Maryland and
other Border States to protect President JOHNSON
from impeachment, but that Congress will do its
duty in spite Of these military preparations.
DR.. HERMANN KoHN, of Breslau, has examined
the eyes Of TO- 800 school children and found that
mora than one in six were short-sighted. There
are four times as many short-sighted children in
the town as in the country and the evil increases
lust in proportion to the amount of study exacted
from the children.
There will soon appear book written by a Rich
nond lady, describing life in the rebel capital dur
ing the war. So says the Boston Daily Advertiser.
The lady in question, VIC presume, is Miss VANN
lNo.~ oaI
times; but the difficulty, if we are correctly inform
cd, has been that she cannot find publisher.
The death Of the editor Of the Day Book, X. G..
HORTON ESQ.,, is announced. He died at Dobb's
Ferry, Sunday, from congestion of the lungs. His
age was forty. Mr.. HORTON is not only well known
as editor OF the Day Book Of this city, but as an
industrious, energetic Democrat, strong in the
faith Of State Rights, and firm pupil Of the
school of politics established by THOMAS JEFFER-
so,t. Both his personal and political friends will
deeply regret his early death.
The National Intetiiqencer Of September 25th
says: Information was officially presented to the
President and laid before the Cabinet yesterday
that Dr. BLACKBURN, notorious during the war for
his effort to introduce the smallpox into the
Northern States by means Of infected clothing,
at Toronto to be admitted to the benefits Of the
recent amnesty proclamation Of the President. 1t
was decided that he was not entitled to such bene
ft, because the foul crime with which he is charged
has rendered him amenable to a criminal prosecu-
tica; and further that he NGs during the war an
agent Of the rebel Government in a foreign coun-
try"
The Charlotte Netos says: "In the Aexandrian
settlement Of this county, valuable vein Of
quartz ore has been lately discovered upon the
farm Of our friend, ALEXANDER HOLIDAY. We
ere informed that the gold-bearing ore of this
vein is about one and half feo vide, and its
yield, tested very imperfecty by the pan, is quite
handsome. We understand that DIR. HAYS whose
farm adjoins Mr.. HoLLIDAY's, Ared by gold visions
has left the cotton patch and gone to digging,
with fattering prospects Of similar discovery"
We hope that the foregoing may prove both true
and profitable to Mr.. H., for better man, or one
more worthy of the good gifts of fortune, We have
nsver known.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York tribune says The President has not yet de-
cided to grant General S1oKIEs request for
Court Of Inquiry. The probability is that SrcKLEs
will be mustered out of service MaiorGeneral in
the volunteer service and assigned to the COM
Inand Of his regiment as Colonel in the regular
srmy. It has just come to light here that last
spring, when SMYTHE was in the middle of his
troubles, the Collectorship Of New York was offer
ed to General S1ckLEs, with permission to name
the naval officer and all the other officers. General
S1cx1Es declined the appointment. This was look
ed upon at the time as brbe of JOHNSON to buy
up ,1cKLKs to support his policy.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says: cat the meet
ing of the Committee on Finance, as reported yes
terday it was stated that an additional appropria-
ticn Of s15O,OOO would be required for the year
1858 for the expenses of lighting the city. The
appropriation OF last year for that purpose was
$42s, ,1225O and, according to the estimate of ap-
preparation OF the Gas Department, the amount
required for the coming year would be s578 522.5O,