The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-24
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NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
Cotton closed in New York at 2sc. for Middling
Uplands.
Gold closed at 141.
An editor, referring to patent metallic air-tght
cofns, says: mo person having once tried one OF
these cofans will ever use any other"
The famine in India last year destroyed 1,5OO,ooo
lives, and forced the Hindoos, who will not eat
dogs or cats or COWS, to dine off their own chill
dren.
A fastidious Chicagoan finds fault with the
practice of smoking at funerals although ne does
not object so strongly to chewing il conducted In
an unobtrusive way.
Two freedmen had pistol fight in church
in Carrolton, No., some two weeks ago. aoou'
who should walk at the head OF an emanci-
patton procession.
RuLY TouvEE, seventy years old, ran seven
miles against time on the Union course, at Viii
liamsburg, few days since. He made it in 5S
minutes, 10 seconds.
A dispatch from Galveston says "An order has
been issued forbidding distinction by railroads
and other chartered companies, which arc COIL
mon carriers, in relation to passengers, ON ac-
count Of color, race or previous condition..
A convict in Auburn prison had himself oo1eo
cd as a case of brogans, and but for an unlucky
mistake in marking the box would have been e1-
nressed away to freedom. As it happened, his
attempt, like the box, was bootless.
In 1858 the Russian army consisted OF 5S0,OOO
men,. At the present time it consists Of 100000
men. The number could be easily increased to
1900, 900, besides 100000 irregular troops. The
Gear has, therefore, total military force Of near
ly ], ,500, 900 men.
A suspicious clink was heard from the garments
of suspicious female at recent picnic near
Gotham, and, on investigation by blushing Fe-
nian, it was found that she had been stealing
lager bser glasses. She had strung them around
her garters.
The Nation is right in saying that 'tif Me1icans
would put EsooBEpo to hard labor in macadamz-
ing roads, hang her brigands, collect her taxes
and establish tolersble courts OF justice, We war
rant there will be little talk anywhere about re-
generating her from the outside.
The Chiians are greatly alarmed at the expect
ed return Of the Spanish squadron. The Govern
ment freely express their opinion that the Span
isrds will very shortly make their appearance.
Some preparations have been made for the defence
of Valparaiso but it is feared that they are insult
fcient, and that the city may be burned.
As scalping Is . somewhat rare experience, MIR.
THonpsoN's sensations are Of considerable interest
He ssys that when, after saving and hacking
about his head for half an hour, and giving hn-
shins cut over his left temple, the scalper gave it
sjerk because it stuck little, it Just felt as tne
whole head was taken right of"
The Augusta Constitutionaiist Of yesterday says:
STEPHEN D. HEARD, Esq, received at his ware
house the first new bale Of cotton that has come
t the city this season. It is classed good style
of Strict Middlng, weighs five hundred and fifty
nounds was raised in Chamber County, Alabama,
and purchased by Mr.. d. F. RUSSELL at 80 cents
per pound.
Panama correspondence to August II states that
General SANTOS GUTIERREZ, the actual President OF
Columbia, arrived on the 7th instant and was re-
ceived with grand demonstrations. He was await
ing vessel to convey him to Carthagena. Shoals
Of humpbacked whales have been discovered just
beyond the entrance to the bay, and several cap
tnres had been made. The health Of the Isthmus
was good.
The Kingston (Jamaica) Journal says me-
mortal was in course OF signature to the Govern
ment ON behalf OF the new scheme Of American
immigration, and the plan was receiving the
hearty support Of the community. Upwards OF
hundred Jamaica colonists, however, left King
ston in the steamer Aontezunea, for Colon; and
there would have been many more If accommoda- |
tions could be provided for them.
The New Bedford Mercury tells of husband IN |
New York whose wife died before her dentist had
ssut home an expensive set Of false teeth which
he was manufacturing for her. The afflicted hus-
band fastened to say that they would not be
needed but as the job was completed, he had to
agree upon compromise for ten dollars. By way |
of making the matter satisfactory all round, the
vidower begged the use Of the teeth for the fu- |
neral, promising to return them the next day.
We have files from British Honduras, dated at |
Belize on the 7th OF August. The Commercial Aa- |
ue,tiser of that day remarks: ga party OF seven |
teen or eighteen gentlemen, with their families, |
have returned to Belize from spanish Honduras, |
perfectly disguised with the soil, climate and
government Of that republic" The same paper, |
in financial and commercial report, gives the
following quotations as prevailing in Belize: Bate
OF exchange Of bills on England, $500 per f10o
sterling. Flour, $14@16p per bbl rice, 1907 per 100
lbs: corn, 81 25@2 so per bbl.; yams, 81 25@2 so
Der 100 Ibs; beef, s22@26 per bbl.; butter, s7s@
800. per lb; lard, 14@15c. per Ib pork. $2025 per
bbl.; mahogany, $50@s0 per 1000 feet, pitch pine
$s5@5O per 1000 feet.
Letters have been received from Peru dated at |
Lima and Callao on the 2sth Of July. Congress
was still in session. Laws had been passed pro- |
hibiting the President from sending away any |
more gu.no ON consignment, and authorizing him
to sell at Lima. All spaniards who have not be- |
come citizens will now be required to leave the |
country. The anniversary Of Peruvian indepen- |
dence was appropriately celebrated. General
HovxY, the American Minister, had gone to Chile,
It was supposed to facilitate terms Of peace with
Spain, and MIR. VARNHAeEH, the Brazilian Minis |
ter, had gone to Ecuador, probably on account OF
misundersta nding with the authorities in Peru.
News had been received Of the appearance OF three
spanish men-of-war at Montevideo, but no confr- |
nation Of it had arrived.
On Saturday last, says the Augusta Constitution
chss . white woman in Hamburg requested q
oolored woman, the vile Of an old colored man in
the employ Of the South Carolina Railroad, to take
care Of an infant for her for few hours, stating
that she wished to 60 down the road and would
return on the evening train. The colored woman
took the child and has it yet, the white woman
having failed to return. The woman is described
IS "good looking" and about twenty-three or
twenty -four years of age. The child is fine boy,
about four weeks old. Col. JAMES W. MEREDITH
has the little stranger in charge for the present
He thinks the mother should come for her child or
send him some clothes, as the little fellow was
nearly naked when left in charge Of the old colored
woman.
The New York Herald has letters from Chile, |
dated at Santiago, July l6 and Valparaiso, July H.
The return Of the Spaniards to the Pacific was re-
sarded as certain, and work on the Notifications
at Valparaiso was being pushed rapidly forward. |
Il was rumored that Peru had ordered her squad |
ron to leave the waters Of Chile and return TO Cal
,.o and ba ri feelinos had been revived in conae