The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-21
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NEWS SUMMARY.
Gold closed in New York st last Board at 1871.

II. NEWS, UMMLAR4. 7
Gold closed in New York st last Board at 1871
Cotton quoted dull at 32sa3Sc. for IIiildling Up
At Radical meeting at Memphis Saturday
night, negro attempted to speak, but was forced
down. NlI.l e., I ;.s,v,Hi / a.iA =
A correspondent criticising prima donna rather
deacentin physique says; "a chest is as essential
to singer as bureau to freedman"
Contracts have been let for eight miles more of
heavy work on the Knoxville and Kentucky Rail-
road. The much coveted coal fields will be reached
by next July.
Colonel PiTR1cB, Indian Agent, has established
reservation four miles from Fort Laramie and,
has now eighty lodges Of Indians on it, and more
are coming. ia .. -.
A Down East paper has the following local
notice: ssA child was run over by wagon three
years old and cross-eyed, with pantaloons on,
which never spoke afterwards"
The Montgomery Adoertiser says that the ar
rangements made for building the road from
Montgomery, to Selma are such as to ensure it's
early completion.
>. The Boston Commonwealth says that such men
as PHILLIPS and STEVENS are the cream Of tbs
country. PRENTICE thinks If they are the sooner
the country is skinned the better for it, -
It is now positively asserted that an interview
has taken place between several prominent Re-
,pubicans and President JOHNSON. This interview
took 1P,acs last Thursday, and lasted two hours.
1t is saiathat = third headfsf a. BlrHE11Eu has
been found, and more are expected. Not satisfied
with having proved him q Cerebus, they are try
ing to make al Hydra Of him. 's@' - =
A Maine editor says he cannot imagine when
editprs shaye leisure time, unless it is after the
,fe1fynan carries us over styx, and then we
have nc doubt the old fellow would besiege us for
puff OH his boats"
Some Of our exchanges say that Macy HARRIS,
the female sharp shooter, has been committed to
the insane asylum in Washington" We know Of
no insane asylum in Washington except the
Capitol. -. \ !;
Mr: cHAn1zg Rnx, Professor Of Persian in Uni
versity College, and one Of the best Oriental
scholars Of the ttime has just been appointed
Keeper Of the: Oriental Mapuscripts in the British
Museum .: Z ,s.f.i' .-@~.tS ."A,Sz
A Maine editor says a; pumpkin in that State
grew so large that eight men could stand around
it, which tement was only equalled by that Of
thesH0osier who saw a flock Of pigeons fly solow
that he could shake stick at them.
cat recently got into the large, cylinder of the
Hoe press Of the :No1M BTstssh Maa newspaper.
The unfortunate ppss remained quiet for two hun
;.dred revolutions Of the cylinder, when she fell
under it upon the forms and was distributed oTer
Garroters are fogged IN England previous to
being transported or imprisoned At Leeds, two
men lately received two dozen lashes each with the
cat in presence Of their fellow prisoners. They
screamed loudly, and seemed; almost overcome
with pain. So; .sl,th {. iaG:s...
* lot Of heavy siege gums, muskets, equipments,
and Other fdatettiaT ii war Of Lie nature,
arrived at Jersey City on the Erie Railroad on the
18th and 18th insts; They were being shipped for
some foreign port supposed to be one Of the South
American republics.
The Alabama Legislature. has passed 'sno-
fence" law:for Montgomery county. The act makes
it unlawful for the owner Of any HORSE mule, ass,
COW, hog, sheep, or goat voluntarily. to permit
such animal to goat large, aud provides a-penalty
r doing go Il. Is ss7.
Mrs. SWEET Of Kennebunk, Maine, who put
morphine into q bottle Of whiskey in such quanti-
ty that it killed her husband, quaek doctor, Who
drank freely OF it, has been convicted Of mans
slaughter. Her defence was that she intended
Mat the morphine should aet as an emetc 81 q;
a visitor to the Philadelphia market speaks of
butter WITCH is sessanoe Of June morning. caught
and Imprisoned In glowing globules, the fragrance
Of tleyeri ds2 ripsning into sweetness in the
brooding snnshine, the warm delicious flavor of
nsv milk Yoaming IN the toyerfowing bucket" !"
Wish ma hsd some ofa that lind to spread on our
dailYstread -: s:.--:- 80: !;
On the 9Th Of February, at Nassau, died the sis
tel okMr. FRAHc1s SPENCE, at the age ofone hun
dred and three years. She arrived in the Bahamas
with; the FANsHAwE family and other 'loyalists'
during the American revolution, and recollected
marching in the baggage train, under Sir RALPH
AsERoRoMpM, to st. Augustine, Fla, whence many
of that party embarked for the Islands.
joni PKESr1ss, Esq.,. Of sKeene, N. a., is the
oldest editor living IN New England. He is in his
uinstieth year. but his mind is vigorous and Clear
and: Il 81 btit aSsw weekssngot that he contributed
an article to the Portsmouth Journal Nr. PREM
71ss was editor of the Keene Sentinel in the last
century, when JoHN A9AMs was President of the
United States. ,.sg.,.
An Albany letter says there are now in New York,
nndsf n the contro Or the Fenians; So 600 sNYDER
brsaSh loading rifles, and lO0 600 equipments, TO-
OOoD0o rounds Of ammunition, and 50, 600 complete
uniforms. The amount raised and placed in the
hands Of 0MAloNY,; STEPHENS 4 Co, ,:was $S12 $780,
Tha amount Of money upon which RoBERTs started
afa Els i raid upon Canada was $126,
The Setes,sitbsc a dn,erican says that the centre
rail, successfully used for heavy grades on the
Mount Gents Railway is an american Invention,
patented some fifteen years since by MIR. GEORGE
Is. SELLERS, Of Cincinnati, and practically applied
by the Coal River Improvement and Coal Compa-
ny, for overcoming grade OF one hundred and
fifty feet to the mile in crossing the eastern bar
rier of the Snamokin Coal Basin.
At a,wedding in Raleigh, N.C.,sa few evenings
since, the invited guests after the ceremony, were
requested TO- pay ten dollars each to the bride, who
was in such INDECENT circumstances that she had
not the means to complete her wardrobe. Each
person present promptly responded and the sum
raised amounted to about five hundred dollars.
The bride thanked !cr friends for their generosity,
kissed them all, and went home with her husband
in the best Of spirits.
Since 1900, Austria has spent 160 years in thirty
one different wars, ten Of which we're waged with
France; six with Turkey; five with Prussia; four
with spain;: one with Holland; one with Denmark,
and four we're relative to the succession. One war
lasted years; one sixteen; one fourteen; one
thirteen; one nine, and three eight; while the
others Wens from few months to six years. =.
A statue Of HORACE GREELEY will soon be on ex-
hibiton in1 New Kork. MCKAY 81 90. have pro-
duced it by the new and curious process of photo
sculpture. The philosopher stands slightly bent
forward Ills hands at his breast his pantaloons
caught at thetop of his boot leg, q bqpdle Of pa
pers under his arm, and what looks like all the
Tribune exchanges obtuding from his pocket.
One hundred thousand acres of land, mainly
lying in Morgan county, Tennessee, OIL the Bne of
the projected Tennessee and Pacific Railroad,