The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-26
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NEWS SUMMARY.
Cotton closed firmer in New York at 2Oc.

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Ninety thousand dollars worth o. Nicholson
pavement has just been laid in Columbus, Ohio.
There is an immense immigration Of Mormons
into Salt Lake city just now. Many of them are
Danes.
M. de Lesseps states that tho new Suez Canal
loan has been subscribed and that the water route
60 India will be completed in 1870.
1t is said that the Kansas river bottoms will,
this year. produce 112 bushels of to the acre.
That will make up for some Of the deficiencies else
where.
Virginia has nine and half millions acres OF
improved, and eleven and quarter millions acres
of unimproyed lands. Plenty of room for improve
mont still
Masonry and despotism, it seems cannot ex-
st quietly in the came country; and so the Spanish
authorities are trying to put down Masonry in Cuba
by suppressing Lodges.
General Harvey, now sixty-seven years old
was formerly distinguished as an athlete. He
used to run foot-races with the swiftest Indians
on the plains and was never beaten.
Tho new Central Conert gational Church
building in Boston has cost two hundred and sew
enty thousand dollars. The pews are appraised
at fro,u fifty dollars to two thousand dollars each
The Greenvile Enterprise announces that ii
will take rags in payment for subscription and
other dues. Old clothes must be at discount in
that section, and Mrs. Iincolns stock could proba
bly, be sold at par.
Several hitherto unknown instrumental com
positions by Schubert have recently been discover
ed and deputation OF musicians is engaged il
searching for 3 large number OF other manuscripts
known to be in existence.
A celebrated dentist says that in the United
States, in population Of thirty Million there are
twenty million OF teeth lost annually by decay-al
caused by the use Of bolted wheat which deprives
the system O, the lime needed in the human teeth.
When the Pennessewasse base ball club re-
turned to Norway, Maine, having won the cham
pionship OF the State, they were met by torch
light procession and escorted through the vii
hge amid the ringing OF bells and the firing OF
cannon.
A dispute occurred recently at Cedar Keys,
Florida, in which Mr.. Leak was kicked by his
antagonist twice-once in the side, which resulted
in his death. An inquest was held upon the body,
and the singular verdict WAS rendered Of "Dcath
by Providential causes"
--Sincs the first Introduction Of races, which
was insugurated at Chester in the reign OF Henry
VIII, the royal family Of England has always sup
ported the turf; indeed history and newspapers
tell instances where certain members OF it do 30,
mot wisely, bat too WELL"
An article in one of the November magazines
upon "Oy,r Doctors in the Rebellion" cites cir
cular from the Sdrseon-Generals Office, in which
it is said that only 105 sabre wounds and 14S
bayonet wounds were reported from the field dur
ing the first three years Of the war.
An intelligent New York merchant estimates
fof Us that the shrinking in the value Of American
cotton for the year, between September, 1867 and
1868, will be equal to s7O 900 or $50 900 600
about one-haf Of which may be made up by bread
stufs il the corn and wheat sent to Europe.
Tho Professors Of the University Of varzoria,
Poland, have received instructions from the Gear
Of Russia to conduct the studies Of the institution
in the Russian language As not one Of the Pro-
fessors is acquainted with the language, having
been educated rs Poles, they are somewhat embar-
rassed
The remains of the late Sir Frederick Bruce,
British Minister at Washington, have reached
Liverpool in the Royal mail steamer China, from
Boston. A number Of the relatives Of the deceas-
ed diplomatist were present to receive the re-
mains, which were to be conveyed in q hearse
FROM the railway station to Broomhallhouse, the
seat of the Earl Of Elgin.
The Washington Chronicle says: We have seen
three large ngots OF gold, valued at $45OO the pro-
duct of one weeks work, at the cost Of s110O,
from the Lewis gold mine Of the State OF Georgia.
The yield of gold largo in former years that
the Government established mint at Dahlonega,
{ba h,,t
have been recently given for its reopening.
They are HAVING sparrows' concert every day
now in New York at Union Park, and correspon-
dent writes that it takes place between half-past
three and five in the afternoon. Five or six hum
dred sparrows engage in this concert to the de-
light OF hundreds of persons who arc attracted
there 70 hear their sweet evening song. These
daily concerts, it is said, will terminate when the
leaves fall.
On the Pacific Railway, in Kansas last Mon
dag, between Ellsworth and Hays, an exciting en-
counter took place between herd of buffaloes and
passanger train. For three miles the buffaloes
pushed along parallel with the train. ldany shots
were fired, but nothing stopped the tide Of the
stampeded beasts Finally thev swept across the
track ahead Of the locomotive iairly worsting the
iron horse by bringing him to halt.
The Camden and Amboy IN. J.) Railroad Com
pany, during the present season. have renewed all
the ties on the road between Trenton and New
Brunswick. When the road was originally con-
structed-only few years ago-the Company was
obliged to use sawed hemlock ties, which are very
perishable and although they might have teen
made TO answer the purpose for some time longer,
they have all been taken up and replaced by sound
hewed white oak and chestnut.
An ingenious contrivance for raising water is
on exhibition in New York, and it is said supplies
the power for q -four mill in Virginia. The pro-
cess is to introduce steam-the exhaust of q nom
condensing engine is sufioient-into q reservoir
connected bys pipe with supply Of water below,
and then, by jet Of water, to condense the
steam, creating vacuum which is instantly filed
with water 10 be discharged into a fume or
reserv >ir, from which it is carried 10 the water
wheel.
The gamblers in Paris, who, winning large
sum, had reduced it to q thousand francs, deter
mined to spend that amount upon one dinner.
The prices Of expensive dinners was discussed,
but nons appeared extrsvagant, when all Of sud-
den an idea flashed across the mind of one OF the
party, which was to have dish Of frogs. AS the
time Of the year in which the dinner was held was
the month OF December, the intensity of the frost
had closed every pond, and in order to get the
frogs, it was necessary to employ at least fifty
workmen to break up the Ice. The result was that
q hundred frogs cost five hundred francs, and
soup was made of them which none Of the party
tasted.
IN Austrian Government is taking great pains
to increase the efficiency Of its navy. The Arch
duke Leopold, who has recently been on tour Of
inspection in Pola and Trieste, has appointed a
commission composed Of naval officers and scien-
tifc men at the former port to carry out expert
ments in naval warfare, and Rear Admiral Won
PETE, who greatly distinguished himself at the
battle of Eissa, and has since filed the post Of D-