The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-15
NEWS SUMMARY.

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Uplands. Gold closed at S62.
Massachusetts has only 140e colored voters.
A cemetery is advertised in Pittsburg paper
as So beautiful summer resort"
A game of chess for $1,000 is to be played over
the Atlantic cable by English and American
players.
The Executive mansion has been thoroughly
renovated at cost Of nearly $4,000.
Cincinnati is said to be the cheapest place to
I've in in the United States.
A hundred dollars worth Of segar stumps are
picked up daily in Paris.
Ggoaar BANCROFT, the historian, has been
nominated to the Senate, for Collector Of the Port
Of Bostcn.
The Newbern Commercial says there were few
white shad in the Newt tern Market on Friday last,
which sold at 81 each.
Ieavsnworth, which, few years since, was
small trading post, did 100000 900 worth Of busi-
ness last year.
The King of Greece has conferred the medals OF
royal order on two Parisian editors, GIRARDN
and GuERorT.
A Minnesots paper says that fars have never
been so plentiful in that State and on its northern
frontier as the present year.
Mr.. CRANE, paper maker in Saratoga County,
has invented paper which will prevent counter
feiting. Heruns minute threads Of gutta percha
through the sheet. It cannot be initiated.
Il will surprise some people to learn that the
Federal military still occupy the Executive Man
sion at Raleigh, N. &C., to the exclusion Of the
Governor Of the State.
During the last year three hundred and thirty
five members were added to DR.. CuYLER's Church
Of Brooklyn, making the present membership one
thousand .snd thirty-the largest Presbyterian
Church in the United States. e
m Is said that new method Of punishment has
been introduced into one Of the public schools OF
Holyoke, Mass. disobedient scholar is ordered
ND, it's mouth forced open, and q dose Of cayenne
pepper administered.
A Congressional Temperance Society was or
eaniDed Saturday evening, Senator HENRY WIZ
soN,. President. About sixty members were
preeent =. ~. ~. sss.5si- -
Il is asserted that crinoline manufacturer in
sarony, during the last ten years, has made $685.
lei, 900 hoop-skirt springs to go around
thsworld 1aaa times:
-AEeady some of the Paris hotels have resolved
to develop their sense Of international hospitality
by grssing their exhibition travellers with an in
crease of5e per cent. on their ordinary tariff.
The Fremont 70. !, Messenger says that wagon.
loadot wooden shoes made it's appearance in that
place stsw days ago, and good portion Of them
were sold. Prices ranged from 75 cents to 81 Is.
Tbsy,ere manufactured by machinery out Of bass
&cod. So: 81 -':.sts.i af -
aIhe Harris onburg Commonwealth publishes the
marriage Of Mr.. JOHN RHopss and Miss! ANN Mnr
LIB, hgy the Rev: Mr. IRWIN, at his front gate,
whis sitting e buggy The twain weree evident
lysin hurry to be sphced But any way, good
Lord ~. IT. *
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser states that
tha First National Bsnk Of that city, has, in a
patiod Of four years, accumulated q surplus great
er than It's original and, without impairing
this suyplus, it paid its proprietors dividend for
the past year Of 10 per cent:
a sensation was caused in Oxford street, Lon
don, just after the great show, by the appearance
OF gentleman driving q sleigh. The gannsns
we're delighted with the new vehicle, and followed
it in crowds, cheering lustly.
AT Spa, last year, ss5, ,75at were won and 1O1,-
ss0f lost by the bank at roulette, and 11s4 4s2i
won and .56o657f lost at trente-et-un. At both
games, IL will be, sean, the chances are greatly
against the player. ..-.y !. ; - .ss
The Pal NaR eng. Gazette says that il it is:
.ttueno1 as. formerly that American sea captains
are cruel; this consideration is more than counter
balanced BY better pay and better food which they
receive America beats us in the compe-
titim tr ersWa admits Of no dispute"
.Tha New Orleans Times says as regards the
messurss for raising sugar and cotton the coming
yeas,s the prospects are far nom encouraging.
Money and means, Otherwise call,d capital and
ADVANCES, ara wanting. ts5,.4. lGi,.-.
: TAe4new Governors General Of Canada, Lord
MAS is descended from branch Of the illustrious
hsuse OF gnNRIcAHDE, and consequently an Irish
peer. He is forty five years old and has not been
. mansof much. note, except as one Of the most
tireso1s speakers in the House of Commons. he
has three times been appointed Chief Secretary for
Ireland. s =: $ 81
THoMlsSW. KNox on his Russian telegraph
voyage for the New York AerdM, writes from;
Ekoutsh, Eastern Siberia the exact antpodes of
NewYork-thst he is the seventh American who
has ever iated that point. The bills Of fare at,
that fsr-awsy place VIII, be says compare favoFa-
blyyhh DuMoN1cos.
There are now az sea, nome!8aro oouna nom =!
parts q tneword an american mercant.e nee1 o1 l
four nundFed ia fesaels a' OF AM klnos' Oh W%en tWo
hnndred ana s3o are Dohne .oE SsS. .olk' Slasy-
eignt 1 tol iuAoelpna, .as
same NUMBER lor new orieans, s.A'een !or bai1-
more ana 1ne leIl1lnaef ior otner pol's Nofen ~
South. .3St sr.S
The Southern henets COMMISSION mas receiVeo
contrinutaons 70 the amount q sA lss: oders
have BEEN gwen 1or the purcaase OF loo ouanes
OF eozn'a yo Dusneis OF Wnicn Wlh 80 10 tnree
points IN Alabama; sooo Dusnels 70 tWo points m
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