The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-28
CHARLES ON
NEWS SUMMARY.

1t has been decided in the United States Court
at New York that chickens are not live stock.
The Tennessee Senate has passed bill ap-
propriating s., ,5OO 900 in aid OF Slate railroads.
England makes fifty thousand tons of cheese
annually and imports thirty thousand tons more
from America.
The Governor of Virginia has pardoned Mrs.
Anne f. Kirby, convicted of killing her husband,
and sent her to the penitentiary for seven years.
Tennessee owes s92, ,562, 1923, and has not the
means to pay it. Taxes are already go high that
thew are driving capital and business from the
State.
The United States Yice-Consul at Havana con-
firms the reports of cholera at that place. but says
the disease is almost wholly confined to the poorer
localities.
AT Roubaix, in France, 10000 cotton weavers
and spinners, who do hard work, get 2s francs
day, while 5000, who do moderate work, receive q
francs a day.
The Virginia Immigration Society have opened
books in Lynchburg and other cities to receive do
nations of land for the purpose of encouraging
colonization.
Dresden turns out 60O0 reams of albumenized
paper yearly-enough for one hundred and twenty
million photographs. Two million eggs are used
i'll this manufacture.
DIR. NJ. E. Swinney, City Hospital Physician of
Augusta, was severely wounded in the arm on
Saturday, near that city, by the accidental dis
charge Of his gun.
-Brigader-Genera Buchanan has been assigned
to the command of the Department Of Louisiana,
u,ce General Mower. Colonel Buchanan is a Ma
rylander by birth, and an old soldier.
The average fall Of the Ohio river, from Pitts
burg TO Cincinnati is six inches per mile, and the
distance, as measured by the recent Government
survey is six hundred and sixty-six miles, giving
total fall of thrty-three feet in that distance.
1t is designed to convert inio negro high
school the building in Richmond, which was occu-
pied by Mr.. Davis as private residence during
the war. The building is the property Of the city
of Richmond, bought and paid for with its money.
Out of one hundred negroes ON Buckhorn
plantation near Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, FIVE
sixths have died within the past ten days Of
cholera. The disease is said to have been brought
ON by eating fish taken from low muddy
streams.
MIR. James Cox, Secretary of the Loyal League
at Prattvi.le Ala, was arrested in Montgomery,
on Saturday, for forgery. The Mail says the State
Convention tried to raise bond to get him out Of
jail, but the names Of the combined concern were
not good.
"A New York correspondent says A. T. Stewart
has lost this season $4,000 II. CaAin ditto.
The same correspondent says Stewards rumored
outlay for the poor is all bosh. The newspapers
are trying to force him out of his emphatic stingi
ness-thats all.
France produces annually 1855 millions
gallons Of wine. From the champagne country
10000 900 of bottles are sold annually, and there
is always supply for eight years on hand in the
cellars. Thess cellars are excavated in chalk.
Those Of NJ. Jackson, at Chalons-sur-Marne, can
be traversed for nearly nine miles, so extensive
they.
The ravages Of man. eating tigers in Central
India are so serious that elephants have been
placed at the disposal of the district officers to
enable them to destroy them. Ordinary tigers do
harm only to the CATTLE and the reward of 5Ors. is
sufficient to incte native hunters to pursue them.
But with man-eaters the case is different. One
such brute kills it's scores Of human beings in
year, and no ordinary native sportsman dare at
tack it.
The European Conference on the Roman oues-
ton has been fully agreed upon, the Holy Father
having withdrawn his opposition to it. 1t will be
held ct Munich, and as regards The number OF
States represented at it, will be the largest assem-
by of this kind since 1916. The improbable state
ment heretofore made that General Dix, our Min
lister to France, had indicated desire the part
of our Government to participate is now denied,
as was reasonable to expect it would be. 1t is
doubtful whether the conference will be able to de-
termine the Roman question.
Two hundred and fifty wells aro now being
sunk in the oil regions of Pennsylvania, about
two-thirds of WHICH are on territory which has
already yielded oil. The stock Of oil in the oil re-
gion on the first instant amounted to $4,000 bar
rels This amount includes all that is in iron
tanks wooden storage tanks, bulk boats and on
the hands of producers and spectators. Along
Oil Creek and Allegheny River there are 717,OOO
barrels Of iron tankage. Of this amount there are
269, 900 barrels which empty. During the last
eight months the tankage has been doubled, and
there are not less than 100000 barrels being
erected.
Secret political societies are the trouble and
perp ,xity in France at this time, and the police Of
Paris are beginning 10 unearth these secret organ
izations. Immense numbers of men are out Of
employment, and riots are beginning to show
themselves All these are straws, and they indi-
cate what is coming, or what may come, unless
there be work and bread for the people. Just such
a state of things preceded the old revolutions Of
France and there may come change of govern
ment, if not Of dynasty. Louis Napoleon is be-
coming an old man, and the Prince Imperial, his
son. is in feeble health and popular discomfort is
everywhere apparent.
The colliery explosion at Ferndale, Wales, of
which the cable brought the announcement was
even more terrible than at first told. The coliery
employs about 800 laborers, who work at their |
dangerous calling 900 feet below the surface of the
earth population Of S0O mostly families Of the |
laborers reside in the village near the pit. At the
time of the accident ITO hands were at work be-
low, all of whom, with two exceptions, will never
see the light again. Some are taken up burned to
death by the fearful heat OF the exploding gas,
clothing hair, and even flesh scorched from their
bodies, and scarcely recognizable by wife and
children. Others, suffocated by the choke damp.
are unmutilated, with features calm as in sleep.
Terrible desolation is in the homes from which
fathers and sons went forth to their daily labor.
Whole families have been swept of. One house
contains the dead bodies of father and four sons
in another family of six, only has been brought
home alive, and he crippled for life. Some are so
poor as to be destitute of the means necessary for
laying out the bodies, and the corpses rest upon
the stone floors of the cabins in ali their ghastly
Disagreement. They were brought up from the |
fata! pit twelve or fifteen at time but the work
of extrication is one of weeks, so shattered and |
obstructed was the mine by the explosion. One |
distracted woman watched by the pits mouth all |
one day and all night, with an infant in her arms
but the poor comfort OF s,eing her husbands |
body could not be hers for lays The explosion |
was doubtless caused by reckless exposure OF
open lights in the danger us gases with which tn.