The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-26
Yhe lall9 Ne%s.
NEWS SUMMARY.
old closed in Now York yesterday at l4ss.

Cotton Qecllneu, CIOseu III 4'9" AoAA ISS'NA1H'
at 2sc for Middling Uplands
Cotton closed in Liverpool yesterday at farther
decline of td.-Middling Uplands being quoted at
9fd.
? throw Of 314 feet.
The Lynchburg Radical Record is to be COM
menced September 2Sth.
JERoMR's race-horse Kentucky is to be immortal
lied in bronze by MACDONALD, the sculptor.
The TO Republics is the title of an American
newspaper published in the City of Mexico.
The. Milwaukee pork packer, who put up salt
and sand so nicely; has been packed Oh to the
State prison for three years.
In Trieste, if cholera patient ooes not call ID
medical attendance he is imprisoned for siz
months. in case he lives so long.
The lawyers of Troy have challenged all the edi-
tors and printers to dispute the question OF cham
pionship at game of base ball.
Phillips Bar is sregarded the worst on the Mlssis-
sippi River in retarding navigation. 1t is situated
between Memphis and Cairo, with scarce - lee'
Of water on it.
1t is the opinion of the Norfolk Journals that
large majority of the white voters OF Virginia nave
made up their minds to get back into the union
by the shortest road.
England uses eight hundred and fifty millions
postage stamps annually. France four hundred
and fifty millions, and the United States three
hundred and fifty mill ons.
Awitness spoke of particular person as having
seen him partially clad" "Was he not quite
nude?" asked the examining counsel. ''No," re,
piled the witness, she wore pair of spectacles"
We learn Fl ON Richmond paper that Stone
wall Brigade ilan says he marched So, 243! miles
during the war. This would be somewhere in the
neighborhood of twenty miles day. The frac'
tion comphcates the calculation.
Aman driving an ox-cart in New London, Conn.,
fell under the wheel, which passed over him. He
lay on the ground and shouted ''whoa" to SO much
purpose that the oxen not only stopped but oa'A-
ed the cart over HIM again
In some Of the Scotch fisheries it is announced
steam fishing boats have been introduced. Inc
object of the promoters of this new plan is tc
send deep sea fish to the markets Of the day du'
ring which they are taken.
The Governor elect of California was not wal
Democrat, as alleged. He was Republican, but
left the party during the war and joined the De
mocracy, because of his detestation OF the man
ner in which the war was conducted.
DION and NELMs are to play billiards at Mon
treal on the 25th for the championship OF the do
1ninion. In practice game with his brother the
otner night DION made, besides run OF four nun
dred, three consecutive runs of 296, 1Q1, and 3o4
sI say, sambo, does you know what makes dc
corn grow so fast when you put de manure on 1t z
mo. don't, hardly" 'sNow, I'll just tell ye.
When de corn begins to smell de manure, it don't
like de 'fumery so it hurries out OF de ground"
GEO. PHELPS, who, while riding out with his
"intended recently, was assaulted by three
roughs near Tariffville, Ct who attempted vo'
lence upon the person Of the lady, has settled with
the guilty parties on the payment Of twelve dol.
Lars.
A northern man, says the Valley Firginidn,
who recently emigrated to Jefferson county, In the
lower Valley, made 1900 pounds Of honey from
fifty bee stands last Summer which he sold fo1
$3.50. Our farmers should profit by this Yankees
example.
They insure everything in Hartford, from your
own life to that Of your dog, or the steam boiler
that heats your house. Appropos Of the recent
rainy season, one Of the Insurance Presidents
was asked, ''Why don't you start company to in
suro against deluge?" ''That was the first
The relations Of Prussia and Italy, which were
supposed short time since TO be Of very deli
cate character, are said to have assumed a. new
aspect Count BISMARCK is represented to have
offered large advances Of money to the Italian
Government, and promised to assist ths latter II
it should think fit to make a cdsus beM OF the po-
sition taken by France in Rome.
The investigations before Justice of Hanover
Cpunry establishes the fact that there Is In that
county an organization known as the kissing Sons
OF Liberty" the members Of which have been in
the habit Of drilling with arms. The evidence OF
the witnesses, of whom there we're fifty, white and
black, has been reduced to writing. and will be
furnished to General Schofeld.
Dates from Australasia to the 9Th Of August are
received. General LATHoUR, the new American
Consul ut Melbourne, had arrived. Eight persons
we're drowned on a prize fight excursion near Dro-
mona on the 10th Of July. The New South Wales
Parliament assembled on the I'd Of June. Pre-
psrstions Nere being made for the reception OF
Prince ALFRED. At Sydney Heads even men were
drowned while trying toreach ship which wanted
pinot.
The registration Of voters at San Francisco, up
to August 80, was 81 1854 Names viz: H. 1926 native
born, and 10, ,639 foreign. The home distribution
showed 1889 natives Of the New England States,
1854 natives Of New York, 991 of Pennsylvania,
1889 Of other Northern States, 1914 of Southern
States, 13 natives Of California, and Of Oregon.
To the foreign element, Ireland furnished $3.50,
England and Scotland 1866. Germany S0S2, France
166, Mexico 5, China 2.
The 81, Louis Republican says that the wages OF
employees are now generally going down. as will
be witnessed by the following schedule, furnished
by well known and deeply interested parties 1t
says: Captain, per month, $780, pilots each, $500;
clerks, $50 and s75; engineers $3.50; mates, 500
and $50; watchman, $40; steward, s75; cook house,
$125; cabin boys, SIG to s25; carpenter, SIS This
will be noticed as most remarkable falling of
from the wages paid but short time since.
A violent harangue was delivered at the Taber-
nacle in Salt Lake, on the 9th instant. Brother
Sloan editor Of tho Oeseret Neaos declared him
self polygamist, and he would remain 80. He
had violated, and he would continue to violate, the
laws Of Congress prohibiting polygamy. He de-
nounced the government as tyrannical and unjust
and ss having no right to make laws for the saints
Elder Kr4sAIL followed, approving the sentiments
uttered by SLOAN. He had seventy children, and
calcu@seo sn"' Az An'y sVoAe eno @AAHDAA-A A"-'
would outnumoer the present aggregate of saints
The Hartford Post relates curious incident
near that city. Mrs. ELLA BARNsLEY young war
widow, had been courted and won by young law
YER from Providence, who spent his vacation in
that neighborhood. The day for the marriage was
fixed and all the arrangements made, but at the
appointed hour the bridegroom came not. He had
zone from the town In an early train. The bride
was dsconsolate, the friends outraged. Worse
than all, the dinner was spoiled by waiting See
ing this state of affairs, one of tho invited guests,
amiddle-aged farmer, who had been secret ad-
,nirer Of Mrs. BARSsIEy, and whom she had en-
couraeed before the lawyers advent, stepped up,
offered to take the groom's place, and was ac-
cepted. They we're married, ate their dinner, and
.:.. L. ,,onka q hanny cnrnla.