The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-26
ThR 9ai1g Menus.
NEWS SUMMARY.

-OOCCOn ClObeu uEHeT III NOW xOrk at ZvC,
Gold closed at All.
Utah has church property worth nine hundred
thousand dollars. at.sFA
Ninety thousand dollars worth Of Nicholson
pavement has just boon laid in Columbus, Ohio.
There Ia an immense immigration Of Mormons
into Salt Lake city just now. Many OF them are
Danes. tjt,t
M. de Lesseps states that tho new Suez Canal
loan has been subscribed, and that the water route
to India will be completed in 1870.
1T is said that the Kansas river bottoms will.
this year, produce 12 bushels of corn to the acre.
That will make mp for some OF the deficiencies else
where. ..o,c
Virginia has nine and a half millions acres OF
improved, and eleven and o quarter millions acres
Of nnimproved lands. Plenty Of room for improve
ment still.
Masonry and despotism, it seems, cannot ex-
ist quietly in the same country; and so the Spanish
authorities are trying to put down Masonry in Cuba
by suppressing Lodges.
General Harvey, now sixty-seven years old,
was formerly distinguished as an athlete. He
used to run foot-races with the swiftest Indians
on the plains and was never beaten.
Tho new Central Congre gational Church
building in Boston has cost two hundred and sew
enty thousand dollars. The pews are appraised
mt from fifty dollars to two thousand dollars each.
The Greenvillo Enterprise announces that. it
will take rags in payment for subscription and
other dues. Old clothes must be at a discount in
that section, and Mrs. Lincoln's stock could proba-
bly, be sold at par.
Several hitherto unknown instrumental COM
positions by Schubert have recently been discover
&c, and q deputation OF musioiens is engaged in
searching for o large number Of other manuscripts
known to be in existence. '-''"N "''
"A celebrated dentist says that in the United
States, in a population of thirty million, there are
twenty million Of teeth lost annually by decay-all
caused by the use Of bolted wheat, which deprives
the system OF the lime needed in the human teeth.
When the Pennessewasse base ball club re-
turned to Norway. Maine, having won the cham
pionship Of tho State, they were mot by q torch
light procession and escorted through the vii
lage amid the ringing Of bells and the firing OF
cannon.
A dispute occurred recently at Cedar Keys,
Florida, in which q Mr.. Leak was kicked by his
antagonist twiee-once in the side, which resulted
in his death. An inquest was held upon the body,
and the singular verdict was rendered Of Death
by Providential causes" ";
Since the first introduction of races. which
was inaugnrated OF Chester in the reign of Henry
VIII, the royal family Of England has always sup
ported the turf; indeed history and newspapers
tell instances where certain members OF it do 60,
"not wisely, but too well." %
An article in one Of the November magazines
upon "Our Doctors in the Rebellion, :" cites q cir
oulsr from the Surgeon-Generals Office; in which
1t 10 SAID that only los sabre wounds and 14S
bayonet wounds were reported from tho field dur
ing the first three years Of the war.
An intelligent New York merchant estimates
for us that the shrinking in the va!ue Of American
oetton for tho year, between September, 1867 and
1853, will be equal to s7o,O OO, 900 or $50, OOO, 600
ABOUT one-half OF which may be made up by bread
stuffs in the corn and wheat sent to Europe.
Tho Professors Of the University Of varsoria
Poland, have received Instructions from the Gar
OF Russia to conduct the studies Of the institution
in the Russian language. As not one Of the Pro
fessors is acquainted with the language. having
been educated as Poles, they are somewhat embar-
raised.
The remains Of tho late Sir Frederick Bruce.
British Minister at Washington, have reached
Liverpool IN the Royal mail steamer China. from
Boston. A number of the relatives Of the deceas-
cd diplomatist were present to receive the re-
mains, which were to be conveyed i'm a hearse
from the railway station to Broomhallhouse the
seat Of the Earl OF Elgin.
The Washington Chronicle says: We have seen
three large ingots OF gold, valued at $45OO. the pro-
duct OF one weeks work, at the. cost of $11OO.
from the Lewis gold mine Of tho State OF Georgia.
Inc yield OF gold was so large in former years that
'ne government established q mint at Dahlonega,
which was suspended during the war, but orders
have been recently given for it's reopening.
They are having a sparrows' concert every day
now In New York at Union Park, and a correspon-
dent writes that it takes place between half-past
three and i've IN the afternoon. Five or six hum
dred sparrows engage in this concert TO the de-
hght OF hundreds OF persons who are attracted
tnere TO hear their sweet evening song. These
daily concerts, it is said, will terminate when tho
leaves fall.
On the Pacific Railway, in Kansas, last Mon
day, between Ellsworth and Hays, an exciting en-
counter took place between o herd OF buffaloes and
q passenger train. For three miles the buffaloes
pushed along parallel with the train. Many shots
were tired, but nothing stopped the tide Of the
stampeded beasts. Finally they swept across the
track ahead OF the locomotive, fairly worsting the
iron horse by bringing him to q halt.
The Camden and Amboy IN. J.) Railroad Com
-pany, during the present season, have renewed all
the ties on the road between Trenton and New
Brunswick. When the road was originally con-
structed-only a few years ago-the Comnonv ,vos
Obliged to use sawed hemlock ties, which are very
perishable, and although they might have teen
made to answer the purpose for some time longer
sney nave all been taken mp and replacedby sound
hewed white oak and chestnut.
An ingenious contrivance for raising water ia
on exhibition in New York, and IL is said supnlie.
sne power for . Hour, mill in Virginia. The pro-
cess is to introduce steam-th exhaust OF a non.
condensing engine is suAicient-into g reservoir
q pipe with a supply OF water below.
and then, by . Jet Of water, to condense the
steam, creating q vacuum which is Instantly 11llea
with water TO be discharged into a Aurne ar
ssseEv Dir, from which It is carried 70 the w,tar
wheel. .u @ia
Tho gamblers in Paris, who, winning a large
sum'thad reduced It TO . thousand ftnacs. deter-
mined to spend that anou1t; Upon one dinner.
The prices Of expensive dinners was discusaed
but none appeared extravagant, when oil of asrd,
den an idea flashed across the mind Of one Of. the
party. which was to HAYES dish OF frogs. Al the
time OF the year in which the dinner was held was
the month Of December, the intensity Of the froat
had closed every pond, and in order to get the
1rogs' 1t was necessary to employ at least ffty
workmen to break up the ice. The result was that
o hundred frogs cost Eve hundred francs. and a
soup was made Of them which none of the marty
tasted. 80
The Austrian Government is taking great Mains
20 increase the efficiency Of it's navy. The Arch- |
duke Leopold, who has recently been ON q tour ~ /
inspection In Fola and Trieste, mas appointed a
commission composed Of naval officers and scien.
THO men at the former port to carry ont 2exppari-