The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

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Cotton closed in New York at o decline Of &C.;
Middling Uplands, 3O4. Gold, 34h. ,b..1
In Liverpool Cotton was quoted at 1Sld. for Mid
ding Uplands, and 1ssd for Orleans.
The rumor is gaining credence that ex-senator
FOSTER, Of Connecticut, is to be appointed minis
ter to Vienna.
bill to mako eight hours legal days work was
ordered to third reading in the New York Assem-
oly yesterday by vote of sixty to twelve
The Houston CTexas) Telegraph announces that
the Rev. JOSEPH Cnoss, formerly Of Tennessee, has
become Rector Of the Episcopal church in that
city.
The dove was the FIRST newspaper carrier, when
one morn it went out and fetched leaf for Moan.
1t contained paragraph on tho weather, notifying
him that the heavy rain had subsided.
The merchants Of staunton Va, are purchasing
no goods for tho spring trade. In view of hard
times and contingencies, the people of the Valley
are determined to rely on homesrun. / ~
soloaioN N. BERm, Of Canandaigua, New York,
who was convicted Of bribing the jury in q recent
trial against insurance companies, was sentenced
to pny fine. Of one Thousand dollars.
Los Aass!os says gcvc111sloa!t train in
the Colorado desert was destroyed by waite s-spout
on March 10TH Several lives were lost and the
wagons and stores carried eighteen miles.
The North Carolina papers say that the wheat
crop in that State is promising, but that the indi
cations are unfavorable for good fruit crop, owing
to the prevailing cold and ungenial weather,
GEO. PEABODY, WIS 72 years old on the 10th of
February, and the anniversary Of his birthday was
celebrated at South Danvers, Mass, BY banquet.
Mr. PEABODY stated that after his return from Lon
don he should take up his home at Salem Mass.
The Supreme Court Of Tennessee has unani-
mousty decided that the franchise law of 1856 and
the other statutes based upon it are constitutional
In other words that it is constitutional for negroes
but unconstitutional for white Southern men to
vote.
Don JOSE BApTIsrA BAuLo DE "a MANoHA, q
wealthy Spaniard has just left the necessary funds
for saying fourteen thousand masses, ton thousand
of which are for his ancestors, two thousand for
himself and as many for the repose OF souls in
purgatory generally. a55=
Says New York letter: Novelty upon novelty
is announced at the Ritualst Church Of st. Mbans
The newest is penitental service, every iWednes-
day evening when the lights are extinguished on
the altar, the uiserere sung, and various other
picturesque peculiarites are indulged in"
Lerd .BRouaHToN has written letter to Mr.
GLADsroNE, expressing his dissatisfaction With the
Tory Reform programme, and saying that the true
course is to give household suffrage. He proposed
1t himself in 1929, but unfortunately it made no
part OF the Reform Bill, passed soon after.
The emancipation of the Russian serfs is still far
from being completed. According to an official
return just published, there were at the beginning
Of the present year no fewer than 1866, 40 peas
ants still under obligation, while the number Of
those who had been freed from their obligations
up to that date is 5 $40, ,607.,
Professor ANDERSON, the soi-disnnL seWizard of
the North" is at present starring it in Dublin He
writes to the freeman in state Of mental dis
trees, complaining that he is pestered to death by
pnritanical distributors who deny his right
tofexist on scriptural grounds tThou shalt not
suffer q witch to ive.' n .ls -G
A railroad is projected from Cartersvillo Ga, to
Van Vert, in the same State. The route was re-
Gently surveyed by Colonel W. W. n1rE, and the
So sonnd easy. Its estimated cost, s19,6ss So
- !l.e. ihis ruad will bring the finest slate
41iy N Ine country into marlaE and rpiu rr.,
Sky po1ldlngs we're destroyed by the great fire
81 botnWen, Canada, on Monday night including
seven hotels and two printing Offices The loss is
est1nated ct one hundred thousand dollars in gold
Most or the sufferers are Americans, who were for
the most part engaged in oil, speculations. Their
property was mostly insured is-sz3
decree Of divorce has been granted in Tho
Supreme Court, New York, upon the report Of the
referee; in the case Of RoBEnr H. Newell. MS Ms.
ADAH lsAAcs MENKEN; NEWELL. The plaintiff in
TINS action is better known under the non de Dl,x,e
OF ORPHEus C.K KERR." The defendant is the well
KNOWN questrlan actress, now performing in Paris.
At recent term of the Aslland (Ohio) Common
Pleas; q case was disposed OF where q youne nan
was plalntlff, and Q former sweetheart defendant
he had, while courting her. made her presents to
the value Of about $500. She, however Tilted him
and married another. The jury returned a verdict
for the amount he had presented her and sir centa
damages. t 1,7--1 "-.-
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Another steamboat was sunk IN the Mississippi
RlVer on the 18th instant st. Louis steamboat
men boast that the Mississippi is the greatest
highway OF steam navigation in the world. AT the
rate which boats have been going down on that
stream Tor some months past. it win soon be q
qoesalon whether the amount Of steam tonnage is
greater on the Mississippi or under it. S-75
The Monheol Witness Of Thursday, saws eyery-
thing Is still ice-bourd there. The earth Is like 3
rock to the depth of several feet the rivers ara
covered with thick, solid ice, and the snow from
Two to three feet deep, with every now and then
fresh fall There is, in fact as good sleghing and
snoWaahoeing now as It is not thus IN Cana
da West where snow has almost departed, and The
ice has left the lakes and rivers. ---
The Supreme Court OF the District OF Columbia
VIII soon renders final decision in the case inyoiy
ing the Civil Rights bill that occurred in Waab;no-
ton six or eight weeks ago It Will be remembered
that Judge WILLIE, holding that the act is not ap
plicable in the District Of Columbia, returned two
negro boys to their former Maryland owner m j or
master. This extraordinary decision wi1lbe re-
versed by the Court sitting in full bench, Chief
Justice Cou1EER, and Associate Judges FpsHsR
and O1Ir uniting in opposition. N,
In Italy, ct PasiIipo, q superintendent Of public
works was detected in tho crime Of stealing
powder a party Of police paid him a visit. and
found ample proofs Of his crime. On seeing that
his frauds we're discovered. he found pretext for
entering room where about SIX quintalss. al.
powder were storad, and setting Ere thereto, blew
himself the police, and all else who were near.
into eternity. OF sizty-three persons who were
On the spot at the time, twenty were found dead.
eleven wounded, seven unhnrt, and the rest no
where only mangled fragments remained Of
them. 49, c.S..4sE s3ss,.- .gl
Eight years since, g lad named EDWARD GRu7H,
Lett his mothers house in Toronto, Canada, before
he had attained his fourteenth year, visited De
troit where he procured situation as bel-boy'
IN . hotel afterwards went to Chicago, Cincin- |
nati, St. Louis and other places, and finally find
ing his way to Memphis, obtained = place as
brakesman on the Memphis & Ohio Railroad. In |
this capacity he was Operating until Monday iaat |
when he received letter from his mother in Cana.
da, stating that his grandfather there had d;aa /
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