The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-02
NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
During the past year seventy five new plays we're
produced in Paris.
st. Petersburg recently gave ball in aid OF the
Cretans, and the receipts were s51 ,OOO
1t Is believed that the Russian Czarowitz. with
ms young bride, will visit England next summer.
duke IN England ia entitled to six chaplains; a
marquis 70 hVe; viscount to four, and baron to
three.
Anllndlana paper says that sold Grmesn is not
dad but still lives and continues to wear his cold
gray coat buttoned down before
A church in Baltimore has the motto mon tho
outer walls: e'o the poor the gospel is preached
One morning these words were found painted nm
der it 'sNot here, though
The louisville Courier announces that Gene1 al
N. q. FORREST is now preparing, and will soon
have ready for the press, book to be entitled
''The Memoirs Of Forests Cavalry"
Since the complaints aroused BY the stripping
and dogging Of young ladies in the Massachusetts
SCHOOLS, new method Of punishment has been
adopted, which consists Of opening the child's
mouth and filing it with Cayenne pepper.
Naturaists have remarked that the squirrel is
continually chatting to his feuowsquirrels in the
woods. This, we have every reason to suppose.
notoriously one Of the greatest tail-bearers. II e
The President has signed the bill appropriatine
100000 for the payment Of invalid pensions
QUO for pensions to widows, children, moth
era. hthers brothers, and sisters Of soldiers and
1000 for navy pensions to The same class inst
mentioned. H@i .-. 5ls
The Secretary Of the Interior has furnished the
Ways and Means Committee tabulnr statement
showing that it win require $50 600 900 Of bonds to
complete the various lines Of the Pacific RAILWAYS
now IN the course OF construction. Go it, Uncle
Sam i: 3 .l ssl7S N CO.
DEAN TRENCH, in s'The Study of Words saws
Tariff is derived from Tarifa, the name Of the
fortrese OF rock Of Gibraltar, where the Moors.
during their domination in Spain, were used to
levy tax upon all ships passing through the
Straits.
Ffenchman named GusTAvE LAMBzRr proposes
TO explore the open Polar Sea, first discovered BY
Dr. KANE he has concluded to try q new route
and enter it possible, this open sheet Of water at
the North Pole from the other side, through Behr-
inR's Straits.
The. Canadian Government have decided to
place Government police at Niagara Falls to pro-
tect visitors from extorhon, and have given gene
raj hlnt to museum keepers. This police will have
no sinecure. they attempt to carry out their in
structions.l
Professor BENJAMIN PIERCE, of Harvard Uniyer-
slty, has been appointed to succeed the late Pro
lessor BAcHE as Superintendent OF the Coast Sur
vey. His appointment was recommended by a
Large number of the scientific men of the country
and the prominent officers of the Coast SURVEY
Bureau.
The e1 Grand Duke Of Tuscany has Sc sent in q
Guam 70 tns Italian Government for the restoration
OF hs personal property, which he values at about
nof1 lire - .
are three Raphaels, and great number Of exqui-
site works Of art in silver, gold and precious stones
italy has taken possession sf her first piece OF
properly in Rome. It is the Palace Of Firenze be-
longing to the e1-Duke Of Tuscany The transfer
was made By the Austrian Minister, Baron Hun
NER, and the Tuscan coat Of arms taken down
bafore daybreak in order to prevent any demonstra
tion. q N .fat5e$itg>-I
correspondent to the Hammondton IN. J.)
Republican writcs that l1e has made wide circuit
among the peach orchards, and finds the prospect
good IN most Of them, though some are much in
jured. He finds strawberries, raspberries and
blackberries in frstrate condition, and promising
well for the season. Apples and pears are also
good.
HA man named WILLIAM CoLIErT has been ar
rested IN Yorktown, Indiana, for attempting to
swindle the Merchants Union Express COMPANY.
he called st the Office and left q package said to
contain $3.50 for transmission to Cincinnati. Sns
picion was excited, the package was examined, and
found to contain two dollar bills and two sheets
of paper. Co11Err had lost $500 by gaming a
day or two before.
The Boston Transcript says: ssWhile digging
cellar. in Gloucester the workmen exhumed five
skeletons IN good degree OF preservation a
stone, rudey fashioned in the shape of mortar,
WAS also found The supposition is that the re-
mains are those Of Indians, and one Of the skele-
tons was Of exceedingly large proportions. Prob
ably the Land IL that vicinity was used as burying
ground in aboriginal times, and further excava-
Eons would doubtless tend to confirm this state
.nent" .f..E 'ss5H&E
The iron-clad contractors bill was up in the
House last Friday, and the Senate bill and amend
ments making immediate appropriations were de-
teated. One Of the amendments lfcarried through,
would have cost the treasury from SIS, ,OOO, 900 to
$20,G00,O0O The amendment Of the committee, re-
ferTing all the claims to the Navy Department. to
be adjusted. on the principle Of paying contractors
for delays or changes occasioned by the Govern
ment, and to be reported to Congress- for it's final
approval, YVES carried. s.fs a..44tf. tis.z
The celebrated trick horse Sensation. > belong
ing to the equeshienne, Miss LEO HuDsoN, and
used IN her famous representation OF. tsMazeppa,"
met with singular death in Paterson on
wednesday last By some means he got his hind
feet over the rope tied across the rear Of his stall
and then in attempting to lie down the halter got
under his neck, and being unable to raise himself
ne was In this manner choked to death. The
horse was most wonderfully trained, and was valued
at from eight to ten thousand dollars VI, Il 5
sealed bottle, picked up on the beach at Edear-
5own recently, contained q Letter dated on board
tha transport Oriental and worded as follows,
$ Whoever picks this up go to the governor Of
mass With all speed and inform him that in The
camp at reddville and look under the barrack
formerly occupied by Co. D and he win find $50.
900 OF government money which was hid there bv
paymaster he has not got il yet and the money
can be recovered Il looked for quick" The letter
was forwarded to Gov. BuLIooK.
German emigration this year to the United
States is expected to be larger than ever before
Over 10000 iemgrants are expected from Ger
many within the next 1Omonths. The causos. says
the New York Herald, influencing this immense
movement are, first, the conviction that ia eradu-
ally spreading among the masses in Germany that |
our political troubles are over aud secondly the
Tear OF consumption at home Iu Prussia thia lat
ter feeling operates to such an extent that in some
OF the villages Of the older provinces third ~
their inhabitants viii leavein the spring.
The Order Of Jesuits publish annually stat;st;cs
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