The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-02
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NEWS SUMMARY.
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Chief Justice CHASE expresses himself senguine
of Radical victory in the coming Ohio election,
The Bosphorus is TO be bridged. Inc wnolo
distance is 1850 feet and there are to be but three
arches.
cavern and subterranean lake, whose depths
cannot be fathomed, have been found in Wyandot
county, Ohio.
An illinois editor has seen corn field OF sew
enty-fve acres in that State, in which the stalks
averaged thirteen feet and haI in height.
The friends Of Speaker CoLFAx deny that he
favors impeachment, despite the sentiments ex-
pressed in his late Worcester, Ohio, speech.
The Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania has
determined to open its doors to women, provided
q sufficient number offer to make it desirable as
test Of Its benefits.
The Times says the streets Of Mobile were un-
usually quiet on Wednesday afternoon, tho unru'y
newsboys having gone forth to play game Oh
base ball.
Two voune bloods were spilled out OF buggy
on the Mobile Bay shell road on Wednesday night,
bv trimming against recumbent COW. No damage
to COW or calves.
citizen of Connecticut has invented printing
press which he claims will strike off four thousand
hundred copies of newspaper per minute.
The Macon Telegraph says that General CANBY's
order that no one shall bs Juror in his district
who has not paid his taxes for the current year,
will make the number Of negro jurors small in
deed.
The Bangor Wing is informed that in making
the survey of the channel of Penobscot River the
men employed bored through beds Of saw dust in
some places ten and in others fourteen feet in
thickness.
The fastest timo in American rairoading was
that Of directors train on the New York Central
Railroad, the other day, from Hamburg to Buffalo,
ten miles in eight minutes, or the rate Of seventy
eight miles an hour.
It is officially announced, through the Christian
Adrocate, that the centenary contributions Of the
Methodist Episcopal church, so far reported, ex-
ceed 81 900 000 and it is estimated that when the
Western conferences are heard from the aggregate
will probably reach s6,50O,0D0.
The pedestrian statues Of Gen. ANDREW LEWIS
and Gov. THOMAS NELSON have been placed in po-
sition on the monument at Richmond, Va. These
complete the six, viz: PATRICK HENRY, THOMAS
JEFFERSON, GEORGE MASON JOHN MARSHALL, An
DREW LEWIS and THOMAS NELSON. These men
were giants in their days.
The Herald has Havana correspondence dated
September 21. The cable telegraph was flooded
with business, although very few return messages
from New York were received. The question of
free and slave labor is again agitated, and actual
observation shows that the production e. slave
labor, everything else being equal, is not much,
by one-half as the production of free labor.
The Greenfield church, in the Presbytery of Chll-
icothe, Ohio, having suspended member for join
ing the masonic order, an appeal was taken to the
PresbyteIy. This body, by vote OF fifteen to ten,
sustained the appeal, and restored the + yap-
pealing to the communion Of the hureh. a reso-
luton was also adopted that the Presbytery, in so
doing, did not wish to express appreciation of the
order Of masons or any other secret society.
dispatch from Oregon states that Lieutenant
SMALL, Of the First United States Cavalry, had
fought and defeated band Of Snake Indians.
The same band had lately defeated Gen. Crooks
friendly Indians. After the first charge the Snakes
made for the swamps, but the troops dismounted
and fought them waist deep in the water. Twenty
six warriors, with their chief, were killed, and
fifteen taken prisoners. Mono Of the soldiers were
hurt.
Intelligence from Hayti is to the 9Th ult. The
country was in an extraordinary state Of agitation
and its affairs were in lamentable condition.
Gold was fabulousy high, and provisions were
scarce. Flour was twenty dollars barrel in gold,
and thirty-four Haytien paper dollars were only
worth one dollar OF Spanish silver. The Cacos,
body of men opposed to Salnaye's administration,
were still in arms, and had pillaged Delmarie,1 u
town in the South.
The musical part of Paris is greatly excited at
present over the advent of four sisters from
Sweden. In describing the voices Of the young
ladies' whose family name is GRoEN1ERG, the critics
are unusually eulogistic Their dress also EFFORTS
good deal Of admiration, and one enthusiastic
gentleman thinks their style of head-dress rssem-
bles that of the Sphynx. They speak German very
well, but not French. The greatest success is pre-
dicted for them whenever they appear in public.
The Macon Georgia Telegraph says: We are
satisfed from well authenticated facts from every
portion Of our cotton growing region, that the
crop will not exceed two-thirds, tdoes one-half
the reasonable calculations on the promising ap-
pearsnces in the month Of July. The destruction
has been immense throughout tho most produc-
tive sections and in very many places the planters
AOpSiooos
any amount Of good weather between this and
frost nedeem the cropirom its heavy losses. The
letters which we publish this morning from Brooks
and Baker counties. in this State, accord with our
own accounts from Southern Georgia, Florida,
Alabanna and Mississippi.
A Paris paper announces the appearance of
second DEJAzEr She is very young woman,
brunette, rather stout than slender, and Of good
taste, and sings in the little theatre of Asnieres.
Her name is ALERT. A story is told which Illus
tratea her erergy. One evening the members of
the orchestra were detained, and the audience be-
came impatient. The manager was abent to go
before the curtain and beg their indulgence, when
Madame albert said: Nonsense, we can do with
out the orchestra" And she did do without it,
playing "Henriette ct Chariot, vaudeville full of
couplet. Her only accompanist, says the critic
who was present and tells the anecdote, was the
unanimous braso of the audience.
The exhibition Of the Royal Agricultural So
oiety Of Ireland this gear was great success the.
greater because the sh- was omitted last year ON
account Of therinderpest. Two hundred and fifty
prizes were offered varying in value from one pound
to one hundred end fifty pounds. The most strik-
ing feature was tie show of horses The famous
Irish horse Of tradition had become sorry object
when the society took him in hand, but he is COM
ingu again very fast. There were no less than
two hundred and ffty-eight entries. The entries
Of shorthorn cattle were eighty-fve. Of Hcrefords
fourteen, Of other breeds about one hundred; of
sheep one hundred apd forty-fve, and Of swine
twenty-eight. The show Of machinery and farm
ing implements was very large.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has received
notification from the executors of the last will and
testament OF Captain RALPH s. FRE7z, late of San
Francisco, that said estator has left to the United
States the sum Of twenty thousand dollars, in
trust to be applied toward caneelling the national
debt. The executors express tie hope that ''this
legacy may be but the forerunner Of numerous
similar exhibitions of patriotism by other men,"
The Captain says in his will that he has been
gT6QtlY blessed. ihot ha boe on ,1r,drinu oh