The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-20
NEWS SUMMARY.

The Pittsburg glass works are thirty-hVe IN
number, with q capital Of S., SOC, 600.
There are every year in Russia three hundred
and eighty horse fairs, at which the number OF
animals sold is estimated at 26S,0OO.
Minister CaspBErL's bearer of dispatches to JuA-
REz mas performed his mission and returned to
Galveston. BE was well received, ana was prooa-
bly, successful.
man has lust died in London, who, for the
last seventeen years. had followed the profession OF
frop-catcher for the serpents in the geological
garden.
AS specimen of WnsoNfs eloquence, he re-
marked in q speech at Atlanta the other Gay,
.'"Your Governor has got maggot IN his noao
about the Supreme Court"
It ia stated that the tobacco received az feeeis-
burg Va, this season, is OF very poor quaii'y.
The heavy rains during cutting time, washed out
thaz zao; and covered the leaves with dirt. BESIDES
II has been wretchedy handled.
st. Johns Episcopal Church, Whining ton, N.
~ was consecratsd on Friday by Bishop ATk1N-
aox assisted by the clerical delegates to the Con-
,,s11torn aIlin surpIcos The Convention OF that
Tiocese WAS in session in Wilmington last week.
Tn a reeent number OF the New York Christian
Adpocote the leading organ OF tho Al. T. Churcn'
North, BRowN1ow is held up to Methodist ADM.
ration and imitation as 90. Christian gentleman"
Comment is unnecessary.
pousy.a i,as recommended his old style OF Ledger
.avertiain1. The New York Tribune OF the 9Th
contains page of what the press ssys OF BoNNER
.na tis enterprise.r At that date BONNER claimed
e. have sold S5aOeO copies Of the Ledger contain
IMP the first chapters Of fBEEcEas story.
II A party .of West Virginia sportsmen recently
xsbent day in fox hunting, and at night LETT the
dogs still running. They ran into a flock OF sheep
.nS tiIled eighty OF them. The owners Of the dogs
h.niad over nix hundred dollars and received the
carcasses OF the shesp.--
The. Richmond Examiner proposes Judgo oN-
nxawoop, Of Virginia, as candidate for PresldenS
n 1888. and BEN. BUTLER for Nce-President, as
uniting an the rascally elements OF the country.
either Of them could I'LL the bill Of vice well
: enough.
Ths first cotton mill built in the United States
v.s AZ Beverly, Mass., in 17S7; the first in Maine,
~ 4,rmsuuck in 1909 y the first in New Hampshire,
.t Nav Ipsvsich In 1904 Each Of these mills naa
600 tspindles. The number now in the United
States Isl estimated at over !, 100000.
Tie New Orleans P,cay,lne Of Wednesday, SAYS
Collector. K11Loea has announced his intention OF
Appointing negroes to several vacancies Wmcn
have occurred in tho inspectors department.. Inc
appointments we're to have been made yesterday.
There will probably be only two or three appoint
ments made for the present.
Aletter writer speaking Of the wonders OF the
Paris Exposition asys: ElxAauns the great Lon
don iewallsr, displays diamond brooch; with
1C9e yellow diamond In the centre, all the stones
Of which are so bet as TO move with . perpetual
M motion, and scntilate like the stars OF
sshsioua constellation. ..l.f ~. 40
his Lynehbufg .Hryiaian OF Friday says +:
ssYesterday waa the heaviest day in tobacco of the
season. The sales we're very heavy, and mostly
of shipping, and the prices were well sustained
ranging frOm ten to seventeen dollars per hun
ired. 4he brakes we're completed ut only two
warehouses, owing to the quantity OF tobacco IN
market"
Il appears by the last file received OF Rocky
Mountain newspapers LIST to April 6th-that
the month Of March was fearfuly cold, all the way
through, in all parts Of Montana. In many por-
lions Of the territory the thermometer marked 40
70 As below zero; and many men froze to death.
Horses and cattle were frozen to death in large
numbers.
Among the articles sent by firm OF London
1ewely manufacturers to Parisis monogram N.
Z. in rubies, sapphires and diamonds, being the
monogram Of the Emperor Of the French, the
stones 6rning thetri-color Of France, surmounted
byfhsimpetlsl crown, and the looket containing
two beauAtata executed portraits of their majesties
the Emperor and Empress.e c,.r
T6s Nsswss Orleans Picay,sne Of the 18th has q
1snE and carefully written editorial headed, "cau-
ton to Emigrants nMhich it earnestly dissuades
plluszrss and others from the Southern States,
nom emigratine to Brazil or British Honduras,
showing by irrefutable arguments that they can
not better themselves or their condition in those
countries, but, on the contrary, that they tare
doing better here. =. g. -. 49, e:
,At IN English jewellers stall at the Paris Expo
aition are some rare diamonds 80 finely cut that
by nsrs pressure the air is excluded from thesur-
face ofsthe stones in contact with tho glass, and
in this way they adhere to the under side of the
Slsss in the show although they seem to be lying
outside. a gaily dressed French woman was
caught thecother day covering them with her
handkerchief and trying to sweep them away.
The celebrated Dragon-tree Of Oratova, in tho
Canary IslSnds, which has been known and used
"a landmark by seamen OF all nations, exists no
longer. The hurricane Of tho Sth ult., which
caused considerable damage in those islands, up
rooted 1t. The tree had a very peculiar shape,
and was universally known as the Drsgo de Ora
tayo. Its age was estimated at over 1000 years.
The account Of it was given by the franciscan
Niar, Gela Antonio, who visited the Csnaries in
1257.
AZ one o'clock ON the morning of the 14th, says
the New York Herald Of the 18th, during the pre-
1slenoe Of the rain storm, the telegraph wire lead
inc into the New Jersey Central Railroad Com
psnys depot, at Plainfeld, was struck by light
ming. The electric current passed down the wire
INTO the building, setting the telegraph Office on
Ara and resulting in the complete destruction OF
tha dspot, which was one Of the largest on the
line Of this companys road. The loss is estimated
at about e, 600. This is the second depot belong
ing to this company which has been destroyed py
fire during the present month.
An sged negro appeared at the Court OF Asslze'
at Ottawa, few days ago, as witness In case
He is 1Ol years Of age, and was formerly slave IN
Upper Canada, bstore the abolition Of slavery In
the British possessions. He fought through the
American war in 1912 on the side Of the British
was at the battles Of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane,
and was wounded at saoketts Harbor. He is IN
full possession OF all his facnlties. He was born
in New York State in I76s, and was the slave Of
q. z. loyalist, who brought him over to Canada.
He was taken to Ottawa to prove the death OF
person in 1903, and another in 1914.
Some days ago We had telegraphic dispatch
from Selma, Ala, announcing the removal, by or
der OF Gen. POPE, Of the Mayor and Aldermen of
that city, and the appointment Of others in their
stead. Selma paper says: 'The new officers are
well known citizens OF Selma. With, We believe,
only one or two exceptions, they are ante-0elluns
residents Of this place. Thss most Of them are
nor, ~ nroperty and all Of Them are identified with