The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-14
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oo,ton closed in New York yesterday at 2ss.
eold closed in New York yesterday at 14O2.
Cotton cloeed in Liverpool firm, at 10id.
Madame LIE YEaT, the Southern authoress, ans
her two daughters, are spending the summer q
Niagara Falls. Il 5 -
A red cedar post is standing in Sharon, N. j..
which is not at all decayed. though it was put il
its present positions in 1749-11s years ago.
A Radical Mayor in Massachusetts, has refused
toRcense theatrical company to play the "Blaci
Crook He wanted them to call it tho cosoret
crook. :,,tg u
At AtLovettsvi1le, Va, few days since, colored
man aged one hundred and eight years was regis
tered. Twelve others beyond seventy years OF as'
we're registered there, and at Hilsboro. Isaa;
Camp, aged ninety yesrs, came forward and regis
tered. ..s,..,. .. ...
A boy named JOHNSON is amusing himself ant
the people of South Paris, Maine, by Blondin-ik'
fsats ON telegraph wire over the river, twenty
Ave feet above the water. BE crosses it with hi
head in assck, carries out stove and fuel, ant
cooks ON the wire.
The tallahassee Sentinel announces the deatl
Ok m1UUIlc mO6AT, WkuCu OCOuIOu OF ho3 PAoleo
ton, in Jefferson County, Fla. She had attained
the advanced age Of seventy years. Her demise
will be sincerely lamented by large circle Of &C
quaintances.
Acorrespondsnt Of the London Times says tha
the crops in Northumberland and Durham, ant
generally in the North Of England and in man,
parts Of Scotland are reaped entirely by women
except when Irish harvest laborers are procurabls
as assistants, and where the use Of reaping ma
chine has been adopted
Considerable interest has been excited in Benga
by the death Of SuanoNATH PUNDT, the only ma.
tive yet found worthy of Q seat on the bench Of ar
Indian high court. The Judge was of Cashmere
origin; his family never intermarried with Ben.
galese, and he kept aloof from all Bengalee ussges
He began life on '44 year as clerk, and then
went to the native bar.
The Pope proposes to re-establish the Roman
Catholic hierarchy in Scotland by giving terrific
rial jurisdiction to the Wears apostolic and by the
appointment Of other bishops. There will be an
Archbishop Of Glasgow, with six sufragans, who
win take their respective titles from Edinburgh,
Aberdeen, Perth, Inverness, Stirling and Kilmar-
mock. $50
Foreigners are evidently getting better opin-
ion Of their American visitors than they used to
have. "A late French paper says: "Paris is flooded
with new visitors-nayal cadets belonging to an
American training ship in Cherbourg roads. The
young fellows are favorable specimen Of our
American cousins, being stout tai, well-built lads,
and their quiet, gentlemen-Gke demeanor has made
very favorable Impression"
A morbid individual wanted 30 badly to see the
execution OF JKaRy o,BR1EN, New York, that he
appeared before one Of the police justices and
begged to be committed to the Toombs for ten
days ss drunkard. The commitment was made
out, but the pseudo drunkard was intensely dis
gsstsd to find that his destination was BlsckweI's
Island, where he is nov working out his ten days
term.
There is another famine in Connemara, Ire
land. The poor people have not been able to SOW
their land as furmeriy. Owing to the long con-
tnuance Of frost and SNOW, the poor gave the
seed destined for their land to feed cattle, and az
ter al their efforts to save them 1000 died Of star
vation in Gifdsn and 1880 in Roundstone, so any
msn having horse or, COW, lost his all trying to
preserve the life Of these animals. The Sisters Of
Charity ere feeding 600 persons.
The Journal Gss De6ats, Of Paris, records an in
stance Of remarkable iberalty OF feeling and Of
action toward the Christian Church. Six bells,
carried of by the Turks from the towns Of Crete,
were offered for sale in Smyrna. They we're pur-
chasedSb Sby the Jewish residents Of that town and
presented to the Archbishop Of the Greek Church,
accompanied by letter, which is one Of the most
touching developments Of religious sensibility and
kindness that We remember to have met with in |
these latter days.
sUnions" seam the order Of the day through |
out the world. The United States Of Australia |
have met in Congress, according to an Australian
paper; representatives from Queensland, New
South Wales, Tasmsnia, South Australia and New |
Zealand, having met at Melbourne The meet |
ing YVES ostensibly Tor the: purpose Of having the
mail service arranged to- the advantage of the colo
Mes but the Congress looked beyond this, and its
debates indicated that q confederation Of all the
Australian Colonies was in contemplation.
The farmers Of Long Island are suffering this
,eason from the potato rot. The losses from dis
,ase last year are renewed this season on much
arser scale. In some places fields embracing
many acres are wholly blasted. The Mercer va
isty appears to be the most infected. To save
themselves as much as possible, farmers are
the cropinto market, though it not un-
frequently happens that potatoes looking very fair
vhen dug, shows distinct signs Of disease before
light. 3Jspoa, ''i@ja i
Mr. MAG6HKzHY, proprietor Of the
,sris died Id that city on the 25th Union, Of
{ the age Of eighty-four year of last month,
icates, he was of. Irish 4. As his name in
ato France with j. origin. His family came
len his ccup' --1zs IL, when that sovereign
onnecte' n ~ Sor, $50 Marshal MAcMAHoN is
Fo with this family. Mr.. MAoSHEEHY was
,..nded st tho battle Of Leipsic, and earned nis
Grade OF Lieutenant- Colonel at Wsgram. AT the
time Of his death he was ohevaher OF st. LOUIS
and officer Of the Legion OF Honor.
A new propeller has been invented, designed 70
.taar a well as drive vessel Three neatly
squared bladesare attached by arms to Perpen-
diculsr shaft, and by Q mechanical arrangement
are made to exert propelling power through the
entire circuit. The position OF these blades can
be changed from the deck by means ofa wheel
similar to the present rudder wheel. One man by
properly sdnstinsthis wheel can start, stop, back
wstsr, turn to the nghtor left or even cause the
vessel to revolve on its center.
rThe Pope has civil list Of about $780, 600 year.
Out Of this sum he keeps Papsl nuncios In foreign
courts, and pays $4sO year to each Of the cardi-
malls who reside in Rome.i Ont Of this, too, ne
keeps up the Vatican, which contains no less than
four thousand rooms, and requires large staff Of
domestics. The Pope also pays the Palatine guard
and the Noble guard keeps up the Pontihca
chapel, pays the caneraeres, his household etc
An this ia administered with regularity AND
economy.
There are two institutions in Hull, England fo'
the support and education Of sailors orphan
children, viz, The Seamen's Orphan Asylum, anc
thsSaiiofs Orphan Home. Mr.. TITUS SILT has
offered to give the latter institution the sum
s5Oo0, on condition thatithe building is enlarged
30 as to be able to accommodate, Like the sister IN
stitution, one hundred children, and that th'
- roco;uo ono hundred I0W1