The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-14
NEWS SUMMARY.


t4old closed in.New York yesterday at 1867.
The Cotton quotations for the Liverpool market,
on the 18th, were IA I'D. for Middling Uplands.
= From 5000 to 10000 canary birds, valued at
$8O, 900, were imported during last year.
In Detroit they fined and imprisoned returned
soldier for having fits in the streets.
The expenses OF running an oil well is from SIS
to $50 day.
Scotland consumes twice as much milk as Eng
land and Ireland together.
The eity Of Moscow was lighted with gas for the
first time on December 9th.
A gay Duke in Paris, recently deceased, was
noted as the possessor of 27OO waistcoats.
Queen VICTORIA now weighs one hundred and
seventy pounds, it is said, and threatens to be
colossal.
Mechanics have worked six hundred years on
the spire of the strasburg cathedral.
Ahorse thief who avowed himself to have been
member Of QUANTREIL's band, was hung by a
mob in Kansas.
In Paris the city taxes amount to ten francs, or
about two dollars for every head Of its popula-
ton.
The Cincinnati Gazette, Radical, quotes, approx
inely the Columbia Caro1tnian in favor Of univer-
al suffrage.
A man in Memphis has lodged formal COM
plant before magistrate that his wife is in the
daily habit Of cowhiding him.
It is stated that the fare for the round trip to
Paris and back on the Great Eastern, during the
Exhibition, will be about s150 in gold.
The biggest snow storm that ever occurred in
New England was, one hundred and fifty years
ago,-February % and 81, 17H. The snow then
fell from eight to ten fest on level.
Itis stated ,thst recently one steamer carried
from France the enormous number Of twenty-six
thousand geese for the London market.
About So, 600 900 were expended in st. Louis last
year in the construction of buildings, which is q
larger amount than ever before in the same length
Of time.
The Portland Argus says an iron fence for the
new park in that city is to be imported from Eng
land at cost of about s1200O, which is less than
it can be built for in this country.
The Tycoon Of Japan, finding that some Of the
officials Of his palace had been dishonest in admin
istering his financial affairs, ordered hari-kar for
all Of them before breakfast.
The New Orleans Times says the sugar crop Of
Louisiana this year will reach SO, 900 hogsheads,
against 16, 600 last year. and that only e1traordi
nary, obstacles will prevent production Of 100 600
next year. 50 .
Mr.. MEcm, Of Tiptree Hall, in q letter in the
Times Of 18th Of December, says: "The last cheap
thing heard OF purchased land in Lombard street
was over q 800 coo sterling per acre, OF s7O per
square foot Of area"
The ltHd-ieutensat Of Ireland keeps up the state
due to his viceregal position, the marchioness
never going out, even when. shopping, without
four horses to the carriage, and two outriders.
The aggregate amount OF claims for supplies
furnished the army by saoyslmen" is said to reach
$4,000, ,000.f It is suspected, however, that many
Of the claims either forged grossly exagger-
ated.
The Galveston Neaos, of the 3lst ult, SAYS !:
fThere arrived by the steamer Morgan, yesterday,
about two hundred negroes and six large white
families, consisting Of some thirty persons in all,
all from Mecklenburg and Union counties, North
Carolina. They are all going to Washington
county. s--,i 80
A large number OF workmen are busy in their
efforts to raise the frgate Brandy,oine, which WAS
destroyed by fire about thr> years ago, just oppo
Elizabeth River, Va. All the appliances that mod
ern skill has produced for such purpose are in
requistion. and the prospect of success is almost
beyond doubt.
There is in New York, destined for the PARIS Ex-
position, cooking stove which cost $1,000. The
boiler, tank and pot closet are Of German silver,
and the whole is as splendid as piano. OF course
it embraces the latest improvements. In cooking,
current OF air passes through the oven, and
bread is baked in sbriok oven. 49,
General GRANT, in a circular just issued, says
that hereafter boys under the age Of twenty-one
will not be enlisted, except for the purpose Of
learning music, and then only under authority
from the Superintendent Of the Recruiting Service
Of the Adtutant General Of the Army, after the
written consent of the parent guardian, or master
has been obtained, and when that cannot be had
boys will not be received.
A firm in Brandon, Vt, use two thousand cords
of wood year, and employ sixty men, women and
children, in making pill boxes and spools. The
factory turns out five hundred gross of boxes per
day-7a0OO boxes daily, or a, 600 per years
work OF three hundred days. Surely this country
is sdeath on pills.
Under the bounty equalization bill Of last July
about liz, 900 applicants for the bounty Of white
and colored deceased soldiers have been made at
the Second Auditors Office, and about 100,0 of
living white soldiers at the Paymaster- Generals
Office. Applications are still coming in at the rate
OF about 1000 per day.
The manager Of the New York Clearing House
has just madeup the quarterly statement of the
associate banks Of that city. he reports their a-
bilites at $685. sT ,S05. month since they were
over 81, 900, ,0OO more than this sum.
In Canada there are thirteen railway companies
two closed and eleven in operation independent
OF each other. The joint earnings Of the eleven
reads in operation in 1885, as shown by an official
statement recently published, were, from pas
sengers, $4,000 TIC: from freight, ss 221 lOS; and
from Eails and sundries, s457,079. Total earnings
in 1885, 10,96s 1853, against slQ 7s3, 1878 in 1860
A company has been formed by men in New
York and Meriden, Ct for the manufacture of
hats by machine which weaves them whole
To perfect the machine and buy up the different
patents, cost SIC, ,0O0. It weaves perfect crown
and brim. The hats may be either made Of horse
hair, linen thread, panama, kind of grass that
grows in warm climates.
The Jackson Clarion says that few days ago
the Governor of Mississippi received letter from
Peoria, Illinois, informing him that the writer had
in his possession the sword presented by the State
of Mississippi to Gen. VAN DoKN, and which stolen
property he proposed to restore to the State for
the sum Of five hundred dollars. He also informed
the Governor that this price could be obtained
from other parties, but that he preferred giving
the first chance to the State
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