The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-04
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NEWS SUMMARY.

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Gold closed in New York at Az
Cotton closed in New York easier at 26ta27c fcr
Middling Uplands.
A fig troe transplanted from Augusta (Ga.) to
Scott County (Mo.) is doing finely and bearing
fruit.
The Feliciana PatriOE says the war between the
grass worm and cotton csterpiller still continues
with undated fury. The former are reinforced BY
an army of black bugs with woolly heads, vino are
smashing caterpillars right and left.
Sixty-one trains are run daily between Lon
don and Manchester, England and one-half are
run in excess Of the requirement OF the trafhc
The excess of train miles is upwards of 2,OOO,OOO
run at cost exceeding f235, 900 year.
spicy little sheet called the Frontier Inder is
published on wheels, and follows the progress
of the northern branch Of the Union Pacific Rail
road The other day at the North Platte; now il
is gone to Julesburg and soon it will be at the foo
of the mountains.
The Congress for the suppression of cruelty tc
animals, at London, has returned thanks to the
King of Portugal for putting stop to bull
fighting. AS Portuguese bull-fghting was very
tame affair, this is truly being thankful for small
favors.
JAMES A. CUTTING, of Boston, the discoverer OF
the 'ambrotype" process, died recently at the In
sane ASYLUM at Worcester. Mr.. CUTTING made
number of ingenious inventions, and was the pro-
iector of the "Aquarial Gardens" OF Boston, the
finest establishment of the kind in the country.
Ex-Governor FoorE, while defending client in
Nashville recently, got into personal alteration
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contempt of court, and finally committed to jail
for thirty days. The fines we're afterward remit
TED and the order OF committal revoked.
The editor of the Little Rock Gazette, few
days ago, saw floating down the river raft about
twelve feet long, made of half dozen good size
logs, on which were three bales OF Cotton. The
crew consisted of pilot at each end Of the rude
freighter. This looks like return to the old
fashioned ways of transportation.
Ex-Queen MARY Of Hanover, was, year ago,
still fine looking matron with jet black hair. Her
grief at the sudden dethronement of her husband,
and the blasted hopes of her son ERNEsT, have eI-
erted such an effect upon her appearance that she
looks now like woman Of sixty, and her hair has
turned entirely white.
It has been discovered by learned chemist
that if glue or gelatine be mixed with about one
quarter Of its weight Of glycerine it loses its brit
tleness, and becomes useful for many purposes for
which it is otherwise unfit, such as dressing
leather, giving elasticity TO porcela:n parchment
or enameled paper, and for book-binding.
LOUIS NApoLEoN's stables contain three hundred
horses, of which two hundred are carriage, seventy
saddle, and thirty post horses. Hundreds OF men
ere employed in taking care OF these stables, all
ruled by quartermaster. The stalls for the
horses are made OF ca-ved oak The floor is made
of resistant bitumen, designed in lozenges, and
each stamped with spread eagle.
The negro walters ''tried on" strike last week
ut the "Chattahoochee White Sulphur Springs"
Their demands were refused, and all left. The
guests set to work and waited on themselves till
new ones could be hired. The gentlemen washed
the dishes, AMI at meals the ladies' eat first, the
gentlemen waiting on them. When they were
done, the gentlemen sat down and the ladies
served them.
By late patent, u species of nsttle. which grows
lu1uriantly and spontaneously throughout the
Mississippi valley is employed in the manufacture
of cord rope, cloth, baggng and paper. The
stalks, which grow from four to eight feet high,
are gathered in the winter, and are ready for the
bresk without any rotting process. The abre Is
said to be exceedingly fine, strong, and susceptible
of high finish by dressing.
The bakers of New Orleans have come to the
determination 10 cease baking on Sunday next If
the city ordinance concerning the weight and
price Of loaves is to be enforced They claim that
it is unreasonable to expect than to adopt the
schedule of 1851, when -four was nine and ten
n. a. ,oR,s oIoo
has risen to fifteen and sixteen dollars The price
OF labor has also more than doubled in the last five
days. ESD
In the case Of negro in Monroe, La., charged
with the theft Of watermelon, the justice sustain
cd the plea that a melon is an immoyable, being
part Of the land upon which it grew, and unless it
were pulled from the vine and then placed upon
the ground it was not OF that class Of property the
stealing of which constituted larceny. In this case
there being no proof that the negro had laid the
melon down after plucking it, the stealing was only
q trespass and the remedy civil action.
Thirty-nine marine Losses have been reported
for the month of August. OF this number there
we're two ships, two were barks, six were briggs,
twenty-seven were schooners, one was eloop,
and one was q steamer. or the above number
three were burned, two sunl after collision, one
foundered, two were abandoned, and Eve are miss
ing. The value Of the property lost is estimated
at $780, 0OO. The total losses for eight months
have been s15, ,446, 100. During the same period Of
last year they were s18O64, 800.
The New York World sayu: Lieutenant BRAINE,
who is now imprisoned at Kir gs county JAIL receiv
ed yesterday visit from Sc 'eral prominent Sout
erners, among whom werJ General GARDINER, OF
Tennessee, General LcAMG, Of Mississippi, I'D
Mr.. WILLIS, Of Charleston. 1t is stated that these
gentlemen have formed themselves into q COM
mittee to arrange for the defence Of BRAnE, and
to collect the abundant evidence that Lieutenant
BRANE was, when he captured the Chesapeake
regular commissioned officer in the Confederate
navy.
At the Paris exhibition is sprig Of lilac, all in
diamonds, that waves and trembles, every flower
bedding on its stalk as in nature. It's price is
s1,720, The ladies and INITIATED gentlemen who
look at it. and delight in its sparkle, says CORES
pondent have no idea of the difficulties which had
to be surmounted before this perfect ornament
could be finished for lady's hair. In order to
give the stalks which hold the diamond flowers the
necessary pability, or rather the exact pliaDilty
desired the jeweler found it indispensable to have
a fat gold wire drawn and twisted into spring.
By this plan real strength is combined with SEEM
ing fragihty. The sprg can be taken to pieces by
the turn Of little button, and worn as separate
sprigs in the hair.
en- DE DREYsE," the Erfurth Gazette states,
.shas invented new rife which throws grenades
or explosive bullets, and which is shortly to be
tried at spandau. It is breech loader, on the
systcm of the needle gun, and sends the missiles
to great distance and with extraordinary effect.
It's indirect fire against fixed covered targets is
affirmed to produce most surprisineresults. The
grenade, when filed and ready for use, is perfect
" safe in the pocket, and 30 delicate in its con-
struction that, once it leaves the muzzle OF the
rife, it will burst in passing through even sheet
.x ..aa. On axnlodinn the fraRmeuts produce