The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-10
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NEWS SUMMARY.

Pa, OH Thursday evening last
successful cMltiyntor OF silk in California Inns
rold during tho past soason several millions OF
eggs at ton dollars tho ounce, Tor transportation
to Franco.
dontist who had an oye to business counted
276 sos of faso teeth within tho circle Of tho Hart
fold (Mass.) camp-nooting, mt ono .nio. Tho
turns OF glass eyos uud pulpitators not yot in.
town haB been lnid out Mt Big Shanty, OIL tho
Western md Atlantic lailroad, just above Mariot-
to. A sale took placo Oh Thursday last, with very
encouraging results. Tho property sold brought
an average of sS7 per aero, which is considered
very good fur lilo times
Tho distillaiion or pino wood il carried on iIl
New Orleans, realizing, III ropurtud, from cord oi
'tat" pnes forty gallons of turpentinc, ono barrel
CT rosn, ono bnrrcl OF pitch. one hundred gallons
OF pyroligneouB acid and fifty bushels of charcoal,
tho whole worth sixty dollars md costing ton dol
larg.
Heal-Ceniru SFErnENs is living in Paris poor
nnd despised. There socms to be no doubt that ho
wns in the pay Of the English Government oil the
time. lie iB afrni To go 10 Australia, America, or
nny plnco where tho Irslt abound, lest lie should
meet with personal c!lastisrment. lilo is writing
book.
Two bales Of new Cation wera received nj Rome
Goorgia--thc first or The season on Friday last ;
Os
BLuuSr, down on tho Cooaa tho other from
Polk county. Tho former waH bought for Irirn
Factory al % cents and the laitcr sold 10 tho trade
for a5t cents.
A. BinKnnLrz, formerly OF Coi.rs factory in
Hartford, tho invenior Of u mclalln composition
resembling brass, tor tho manufacture pf which,
company las been formed i'll Providence, II. L.,
with capital OF sS00,O0o, hns sold his patent to
them for s40,aD0 OF tho stock thrco cunts duty on
every pound manufactured AMI n salary Of s., 900
for experimenting tho manufacture.
Grasshoppers arc plenty in Iowa. On Friday
night, on tho Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road, 60 thick we're tho grasshpppcrs OH tho rails
OF tho track that tho tran hour anu ten
minutes : ming tho ten miles Tho driving
wheels of tho engine becamo perfectly cloggcd
with the mashed mass Of grasshoppcrs, so much
30 as to almost entirely rctnrd their revolution.
Tho O!dtoWn Indians arc in very prosperous
condition. They one Of tho largo and valuable
islands in the Pcnobscot river above Oldtown,
Maine, and their occupation by white mon is alb.
aoluteiy forbidden. Tho dwellings, Of those priyi-
legged aborigines aro spacious aud comfortable,
furnished with tho various convenionces of cyili-
cation, and it Is predicted that in fifty years these
people and thuir docondants will bo among tho
wealthy, intelligent and respectable citizens Of tho
community.
One Of tho savings banks of Chicago recently
oforod premiums for tho best plan of cottage to
cost not moro than six hundred dollars, and also
of a double tonomont building, not to cost over
$1,000. There haro beon number Of plans and
estimates sent in, and tho fact has been demon
strated thnt such habitations cqn be built in Chi
cago at tho sums named. Tho aingle tenement
building is eighteen by twentyfour foot, story
high, and tho two tenement building twenty by
twonty-HiK feot, two storios high.
very largo hale Of government clothing took
place Mt st. Lohs recently. About two hundred
buyers from abroad, representing New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati Louis
vile, Chicago, and other plnccs wero present The
value Of tho property offered is estimated at So
000,OOO, considerable moro than half of which was
sold. Tho bulk OF goods sold, was bought by st.
Louis houses, ono firm nlons purchasing ono hum
dred thousand oycrcoats and oighty-fro thousand
undershirts.
AT a meeting of Tho Society for tho Propagation
OF tho Gospel, hold Mt Maidstone, England, his
Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury said: 'You
all know tho Sultan has boon here lately, tho
enemy, or supposed enemy, of Christianity. was
informed by tho Frinco Of Wales, a fow days ago,
that, in answer to enroaty to him to protect his
Christian subjccts, tho Sultans answer was-nnd o
most remarkable one-I will not only protect MY
CnEhttau buUJeclS, put VIII project CnrlStlanlty,
think that most remarkable anBwer."
Among the Princes Of Europe tho children OF
VIcTon EAMANuEL. who crrry in their veins the
blood OF tho Old heroic raco Of Savoy nro not tho
least noteworthy. Tho visit of Prince HuMBEnr
to Paris has, az usual, suggested to his polite Pa
risinn hosts many "reminiscences md agreeable
anccdotos, Illustrating his own character aud that
Of his brothcrs and sisters. yIcroR EMMANUEL.
has four children, OF which Tho eldest CLoTTLpE
id married to tho Prince NAPOLEON, and lives in
Paris, ut the Paais Royal Prince lIUMBERT, tho
second, il the heir to tho throne of Italy; tho
third iH the Due DAosrE, and the youngest the
pretty Queen Of Portugal, who has just tini0hed
her visit 10 tho Exhibition.
In the common method Of killing ali animal for
market, II is bed to i1cath and thus much of the
nutritive portion Of it's flesh is lost Ms might be
easily inforred from tho fact Of tho samonoss OF
composition Of flesh and blood. Moat deprived Of
blood suffers most seriously by tho waste of saline
materials, especially tho salts Of aodn, tho car
Donate and tho phosphate OF soda, and chloride Of
sodirn,. Iron is also drained out. Tho last flow
ing portions Of blond carry OF also potas, salts
scuryy depends on tho withdrawal OF soluble salts
in the curing Of meat,:as first demonstrated by
DIR. ALpRIDaE, and hence II is thought from the
above premises thero is no doubt that tho uso OF
meat in which tho blood Is retained would prevent
scurvy.
Texas correspondent OF tho Newark, IN. J.)
Advertiser, writing on the Reconstruction Iucs-
tion, says the papers generally oppose the Con-
gressional plan They aro edited for the most
part, by Northern reneeadcs. Tho Houston Tile
graph, during the war, WAS edited by native Of
tho nutmeg State and still retains the bias which
ho gave 1t. The State Gazette. tAustin) got its
impetus from an immigrant from Hudson, N. Y.
Tho Ban Antonio Herald is now managed by ono
from Oswego, NY and tho Galveston Ne,os is
under like auspices. Tho Texas Republican and
tho Jefferson Times are managed by Mr. LouoH-
ERY, from somo town in tho valloy Of tho Hudson.
All theso urgo everybody to rogistor and then to
yoto against Convention.
The people in Maine flnd the relaxation that is
sought in other places in q camp-meeting, o
muster, or visit to watering place, in picking
biuebeTies, and tho crop of the State yiods aunu-
ally about $4,000 A lotter from ssDown East
says Tho bluobeny harvest is now at its
height on Epping Pains,' near Cherryhold. It is
estimated that five hundred bushels OF tho bsrrics,
very largo and fine, aro picked daily. good
hand will pick two bushels day. Families 60
there from long distances, and camp out during
tho b'ueberry season, and thero ar, now from
thirty to forty camps on tho ground. The berries
arc packed in boxes holding eight quarts each,
and are thus sent to this and many other markets
along shore. At tho plains thoy sell for four cents
quart.