The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-02
NEWS SUMMARY.


ding Uplands. Gold closed at By.
Cotton Closed in Liverpool unchanged but dull.
Mddling Uplands 1sd.; Orleans 13sd.
There we're seventy-two fires in New York city
during February.
Boston is going to build i've thousand ton
ocean steamer.
The London Punch has a circulation in the
United States Of q, 900 copies weekly.
Memphis is going to put down seven miles OF
wood pavement this season.
An infant with $1,000 note pinned to it's dress
was recently left in London railway station.
The Paris washerwomen are charging franc a
shirt, all on account Of the Exposition.
The premises Of OvERESD, GURNEY & Co., No.
65 Lombard street, have been sold for 429,500.
B. G. PORTER, Mayor Of Apalachicola and an
old and esteemed merchant, died at that place last
Saturday afternoon.
Public attention in France is occupied with the
donation of 400, ,OOOk of the national money to NJ
DE LAaARTNE-
Aman in Evansville gave his daughter terri
BILE whipping for 'shingling" her hair and refusing
to lead in prayer.
The Springfield Republican says General Brit
1zR is bottling himself up politically as tight as
hadid in his military career.
AsAN1As WILLIAM JAMES ANDREW JACKSON JONES
is a registered acolored voter in Washington. He
ought to vote.
SuMNER is ambitious to prescribe the length OF
orthodox coat tails and the style Of collar man
shall wear.
Germany will send clock to Paris that will show
the time at twenty six different points in all parts
Of the world.
It is equivocally stated that the Princess OF
Wales attack of rheumatism was the result Of e1-
posure while indulging in her favorite amusement
Of sketching.
A fashionable young man in San Francisco, who
had lived on his wits. shot himself dead in despair
at the zmallness Of his capital
Acorrespondent says the English department OF
the Paris Exhibition will be sugly, disorderly and
untastafulD The French viii smile maiciously.
The provisions Of the Supplementary Recon-
struction Bill are not the kind Of provisions the
starving portion Of the Southern States expected
There is quite drtter among the ladies' on ac-
cunt Of q report that the State Constable intends
to mevant the sale Of hair OIL that article contain
ingMore or less alcohol. ID 80 -
The Mobile papers have description Of jeremy
Diddler who has been swindling the people IN
Michigan, representing himself as wealthy
Mobi1ian.
An sEmigrant Aid Association" Of o very conn
plete character has been Gomed in San Francisco
The Chamber Of Commerce has also appointed
emisrant agents at Hamburg and Liverpool
Two-story cure are growingin in favor onthe Euro
pean railways The lower story has compartments
in the English style, and the upper is on the
,.oto ;rlf foff 1o car ia
about fourteen feet -. -. 80,
The 1,i5ane says very forcibly: eve cannot be
far wrong in saying that more blood was shed in
one street. in New York on st. Patrick's Day than
has been expended during all the Fenian insurrec-
ton Of which any account has yet reached us.
The Delaware Legislature, at its recent session,
prssed Bill equalizing punishments without re-
gard the color Of the criminals; refused to raty
the Constitutional Amendment, and passed an
a1la1datory schoollaw.
In Philadelphia as q Lady with a,sman child in
her arms was getting out Of one OF the passenger
cars, the conductor pulled the strap before she
had time o.get off the platform, and the platform
guard catching in the lady's crinoline she was
dragged about twenty feet on the track.
The Norfolk papers protest against the throwing
Of slops and dishwater from high windows on the
public pavement OF that city. sslocal" complains
ofhaving had his now spring suit doused al over
with an amalgam Of coffee grounds, suds and the
debris Of q breakfast. IA,
The Newbslrys Herald SAYS "A finer prospect
thus Ear for. bountlfI yield Of wheat we have
never seem in this State. The breadth is very
large and the stands good. This we observed
everywhere. Parties who have travelled extern
siyaly ssy the same. So be it.
"A statue of HENRY CLAY viii be inaugurated in
the Court House at Louisville on the 18th OF April,
when an address will be delivered by the Hon.
RoBERT G. WINTHROP, Of Massachusetts. Messrs.
Mu1ARD Fn1MoRE and A. d. STEVENS are also e1-
pe9ted to be present. .hoa
The people Of Maine understand the proper way
to keep infants out Of places Of amusement. A
town in that State recently had q festival, and on
it's ahow bills the public were informed that the
terms Of admission were twenty ty-fiye cents; TOR
children under fourteen years, fifteen cents; but
under four years, one dollar ,:,a,. 80.
Massachusetts does not recognize greenbacks or
National currenoysin the payment of interest on
her public debt. She pays, and has all along paid
Specie en- her State bonds.a The Consequence is
her five per cents. are above par. There are some
good fruits after all in the old Bay State, and we
readily recognize and give her due credit for them.
The Helena Clarion says the planters on the up
lands Of Arkansas have made little or no prepare
tion for seeding, in consequence Of the continued
rains and the work OF those on the river lowlands
has been indefinitely suspended by the overflow.
The flood had abated an inch or two, but the Mis-
sissippi was threatening still higher water.
The new dining-room Of tho Leek House, at San
Francisco, is said to be the finest in the United
States. It is an immense ootagon, with arched
ceilings, thirtty-two feet high, splendidy orna-
mented-tke floor being composed Of colored
woods inlaid and polished equal to mosaic table.
The room is in the new addition 70 the house, and
is ssid to have cost $40 900 in the way Of ornamen-
tstion alone. - = - -. - -
Thereis said to be- 8 hitch in the BEEcHER novel
in the Ledger The novel halts the; gifted author
finds It tibficult work and delays handing in the
manuscript. A friend lately asked why the delay,
when Mr.. BEEcHER candidly told him that he
Thought .noyel writing was not his forte, and
added naiYely, giving his friend poke In the ribs,
shut il fail, all they can say is, that BEEoHER
can't write novel, and he laughed heartily at his
idea.
Princeton College has accepted the JEROME glft
Of five Thousand dollars, and the interest will be
expended annually in the purchase Of prizes for
gentlemanly conduct on the part of the students.
The senior class and the literary societies will each
furnish one candidate The collegians will make
the first choice, subject, however, to the final do
cision Of the faculty. In year OF so, therefore,
we shall know whether it is as easy to raise gentle:
men, as prize turnips..
The Hartford tCoun.) Times says The famous
Gen. PrEz1N, who is travelling through Connecti-
cut as 80 Southern patriot" who barely escaped
with his life, turns out to be o young man who
lived not long ago in East Hartford-who was
wont to appear and perform upon the stage among