The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-13
NEWS SUMMARY.

Estimated colt n sales IN Liverpool 800C
bales. Uplands Ills.
Russia has wholly failed in its attempt to force
the national language upon the people of Lith-
uania.
Baron Beust is discharging the secret police
Of Austria, saving money and increasing individ-
ual liberty.
The Tomahawk has discovered that Charles
Reade stole the plot of his 'WhIte Lies" from the
French Of Auguste Maquet.
"A French gentleman. the winner OF recent
match drove his Py1rhenian pony sixty-three miles
in eight hours and twenty-seven minutes.
The heir apparent to the throne OF Siam is
dead but as he leaves sixty-two brothers and sis
ters, there is no danger that the line will become
extinct. HJ
The rise and fall Of cotton affects nearly equal
ly all parts of the clvihz ID world. In Normandy
one manufacturer has lost three million francs BY
the fall in this staple.
AT the council held a few weeks since at st.
Cloud, the question Of the price of food in France
was considered. 1t is said that the Emperor vas
especially concerned about the matter.
When the Chinese have street row, the con-
sequences a-e direful. The other day two men
had milf, aud before they were reconciled, eignt
hundred cues belonged to dead Cinnamon.
-Connec icut has the honor OF containing a
Yankee who gives notice tina his golden wedding
will take place in thirty years and that he will dis
count in advance any presents his friends intend
to give hIm on that occasion.
An exchange relates that gentleman recent
", purchased some school-books tor his son. and
directed hlm to hurry to school aud see If he could
bhoy.o hofn ha foXf-
The fable has wide application.
SIR Robert Napier has taken all the troops fol
the Abyssinian expedition from Bombay. dis
patch ss.eaks Of dissatisfaction" in Bengal and
Madras at their exclusion from the rather doubt
iul privilege of furnishing quotas.
The City Council of Tallahassee, Fla, remitted
the city tax on Dan Castelos circus, in considera-
hon of the very efficient services rendered by his
troupe in stayin, the progress Of disastrous fire
which occurred while he was performing.
--Cn takiug up the rails Of New York street
railroad few days since, the wooden sleepers
were found to have printed their exact representa-
ton on the iron. The grain, knots and curvatures
were easily detected both by the eye and by ..e
sense Of touch.
Among the many economies Of municipal ad-
ministration in Paris is the sale OF the yearly
'smud CROP ,In1s29 this yielded only $4,000. 1t
now brings $4,000, and when left for some time
in rotting tanks Is sold for manure at the increas
ed valuation OF $780, 000
The English Hou o Of Commons is not lazy
body, at all events. Its average time Of sitting
during the last session was over eight hours, two
hours of the time being after midnight. English
legislators eat late dinners, and do the best part
Of their work afterwards.
According to return make to the House of
Commons, the number Of steam vessels registered
in the United Kingdom was. on the first Of Jaau-
arS 1867, 2SOs, and the amount Of their aggregate
registered tonnage S69 500 tons, their gross ton-
mage amounting to 1910, 240 tons.
The Republican majority in Wisconsin has
been narrowed down by the recent election there
to about four Thousand FIVE hundred votes. A.
theagh thare was no Congressional election, 1t is
believed that four out Of the six election districts
have given Democratic majort' IS.
"A prominent English politician, in recent
speech at bolton, asserted s'that from twenty
seven to tHirty-four per cent. Of those married in
the parishes around London are unable to write
their names, and that there are forty thousand
children in the city Of Manchester attending no
school,
The money clerk Of the ANS Express Com
psny at Nashville hau his nose bitten through by
o rat on Monday night. The Banner says that
every hair on that rats back is familiar to the ex-
press officials. Arsenic won't poison him, and the
most ingeniously contrlved traps won't catch him.
Reis emphaticany the Black Crook Of his species.
-Thad Stevens has written FIVE column letter
on the currency. His conclusions are 1st. I'll 1t
neither principal nor interest Of the fve-twepties
is payable in com. I'd. That paper legal tender
answers all the purposes of the sold metal. Sd.
That the national debt should be paid in legal ten
der. notes, and that the coin in the Treasury
should be used in hquidating the debt.
"A dispatch from Key West reports the arrivA
there of the Colombian war steamer Colombia, in
command Of Lieutenant Reed, formerly Of the
Confederate Navy. After coalIng, the Colombia
will proceed to Havana, where she will go into dry
dock and will sail thence for .har eston soon as
her repairs arc completed. Lieutenant Reed, now
Of the Colombian Navy, is the well known leader
OF the raid on Portland Harbor during the late
war. .--,
The French, it appears, are not partial to emi-
grafton. The numbers who leave their country,
always small, seem to be steadily decreasing. Ac-
cording to returns, the number of emigrants,
which was II 600 in 1885, had decreased to $500 in
1852, to 57o0 in 1868 and to 5400 IN 1854 In the
latter year only 1900 persons, out Of population
of 40 ,O00 were found willing to transfer them
selves to Algeria, q French colony separated from
the mother country only by the width u the Medi-
terrsnean. In the same year 1867 Frenchmen emf
grated to the United States.
Attention should be given in the Southern
States to the growth Of the olive, which will thrive
anywhere from the Southern boundary Of Virgiuia
to the Gulf Of Mexico. It is as easily Dropagated
as the willow, and should be set out in limbs two
or three inches in diameter. These will Gear in
three years; but if small slips be plantedit it will
take them fifteen years to do SO. In five years
the former win yield full crop. The tree bears
biennially. It can be pruned every other year and
cuttings planted. 1t requires little attention, and
is source Of great revenue in Southern Europe. |
The advices from Central and South America |
indicate very disturbed condition OF affairs. An
unsuccessful attempt has been made to get up |
revolution in Costa Rica Nearly twelve hundred |
persons have died OF cholera in the Province of |
Lower Nicaragua. The disease was equally preva-
lent and equally fatal in other provinces OF that
little Republic. The possibility of constructing |
railway across the Isthmus Of Nicaragua is said to
be not proved by the surveys recently made. An |
other revolution has broken out In Peru, which is
said to be gaining ground. The war With Para
quay continues as desultory as ever. Lopez, it is
reported, has received heavy reinforement:.
The Echoes OF the Clubs speaks Of clever
r1ise OF the French Emperor, at which Parisians
are delighted 1t seems that soon after the Exhl.
btlon was opened, it struck the Emperor that i. !
gould be advisable as well kindness, to allow
the army every tacty for seeing it. AccordY Ylgly
he corresponded With the Commississioners. with |
. view to reduction Of the tariff of adrn mission
for al soldiers in uniform. The Comm; ssioners |
were obstinate, aud would not accede 70 the En-
perors request, The Emperor persisted in hi, |
application, but the Commissioners deterro;nod |