The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-05
NEWS SUMMARY.

Gold closed in New York at 3s2. Cotton quoteY
at S1@31Ac. for Middlng Uplands. 4
The actual vote in the Senate on the Presiddhts
veto Of the Military Bill was SO to 10.
No fewer than eight journalists are under SEN
tence Of death in Spain. 49,, i sla
Isis reported that Postmaster General RANDALL
will be rendered the Austrian mission.
Thirty Arab emigrants have arrived in New Or
leans. They will settle in that city.
Ticks destroyed more than s150,000 worth of
sheep IN Mane last year. ht
The Judiciary Committee of the House or Rep
resentatives will report IN favor OF an eight hour
law for the government works.
Havana correspondence says that the port Of
samana in st. Domingo, has actually been secured
by the United States as q coaling station.
The cell in which JOHN q. SuRnArr is confined
at Washington, is only . few rods distant from his
mothers grave.
Governor T1RrcHER has brought suit against
the st. Louis Eoening .Dsspact for defamation Of
character. The damages are laid at $1,000
Ten or twelve prominent insurance Offices
New York. contemplate going into iqaidgsSn
losses. ~
Two English lads were recently picked$Ep by
Norwegian vessel one hundred miles out'at sea, in
an open boat in which they had gone for pleasure,
but were carried off. I:s--f ;s y&
The Legislature of Illinois has abolished capi-
tai punishment They should next abolish crime
Why not2 All things are possible in this nine
teenth century. ,gStfzs.'f - '-5s2-.s
p The Richmond Examiner Gays :;ssThe brig Neyie
Mitchell is now loading in the dock with corn for
Charleston, s. c. She will carry between eO00 and
10000 bushels. ~ s+- = 'r1@''>" /, .r
One Of the Lions at Barnum's Museum escaped
from his cage recently; and fercely attacked a
visitor, wounding him seriously before the brute
was knocked down by his keeper with an iron bar.
They have a live seal on exhibition at Bangor
which was captured among the snow drifts, where
it had become bowildered and lost, after having
come out Of an cir hole on theice on MIL creek for
food. 81! p. 80 r. :ia
There al are ass Baptist clergymen in Great
Britain, Of whom s91 are without pastoral charges
and 1889 churches, the smallest OF which numbers
four members, and the largest, Mr.. spUReEoN's
1926.
The La Grange (Texas) Neo Era says: ssOn the
Brazos gentleman recently leased plantation o.
twelve hundred acres for $1,000, paying -one-hal
down. At this time the whole force amounts te
six hands, which divided cut gives one hand te
every two hundred acres" The Era puts this
down among the 'aattering prospects"
The Petersburg Inder says that esthe South vii
accept the terms extended under SHERMAN bill:
thousaha'sraws show how the current is setting
No hazard is now in the prediction that ere sixt
days hare passed, d majority of the Southern
States viii voluntarily have: :conformed to the ney
order Of things, and We make it.
Judge Thomas, Of Virginia, has decided that th
Law Of Congress-, passed during the war, authoriz
ing the sale Of real estate belonging to rebels il
payment Of the direct tes
This decision If sustained by the Supreme Cour'
-aaatror the title to an immense amount
ble excitement among the chasers. Of propert