The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-19
NEWS SURAAR RY.

Paris is excessively dull just now, both as re-
CARDS public events ard social life.
Richmond has c,mmsnced the distribution OF
wood among the poor.
The late storm is said to have been very dis
astrous to Slipping all along the Atlantic coast
The London Saturday Review circulates l2,0oo
copies.
A sos pearl was found in an oyster at Alexau-
dria. Va. tao other day.
"A happy Eaglishman, who has been permitted
to read vctorla's new book, says it is royalty nlce
-Ihe river rope for the new suspension bridge
at Niagara Falls weighs over $50 tons, and Is trans
ported il fifteen cars.
"A Connecticut Jennings is to enter his claim
for the great Jennings estate in England, now
ownerless.
"A Munich photographer, who invested every
thing in pictures of King Louis and his Intended
Is bankrupt by the breaking of the match
"A Chicago court has decided that young ladies'
of seventeen are too oil to ba-well, spanked was
the word used in court but it seems indehcate.
Calvary Baptist Church, at Washington, was
burned down on Saturday last 1t was erscteo
few wears ago at cost of s12O,0OO.
An association Of Chinese in San Francisco IS
about to send the Chinese beggaIs in that city
back 10 their naive land.
ole Bull arrived in New York in the steamship
Russia on Wednesday. During the last ten years
he has been playing in the great capitals Of Eu-
rope. with the same success as ID former years.
-Ex-Speaker Galusha A. Grow is said to be in
Washington looking after his chances for the next
vice-Presldency. There is strong feeling In
Congres:ional circles in his favor
The Paris Rothschi,d reduced the salaries OF
his clerks fifty confines per day each-to make
up the expense Of entertaining the Austrian Arch
duke.
A brewing pan is in process Of construction In
England that will hold, when completed, thirteen
hundred barrels Of beer, and with its contents will
weigh two hundred and twenty tons.
-Telegrams passed, on Sunday night, uia New
York aud Chicago, by one direct wire, 10 Omaha,
Salt Lake City, and San Francisco-a distance OF
over ive thousand miles.
1t is stated, in connection with the recent exc
cutiou OF Fenians at Manchester. that the sover-
eign Of England no longer signs death warrants or
exercises the pardoning power.
Nova Scotia has produced 1880 ounces OF
gold during the past year, an increase OF 500
ounces over the yield of the preceding twelve
month.
Russia has ordered CONSUMPTION Of four per
cent of the military population, in order to nj up
the ranks soon to be depleted by discharge o.
those whose terms are expiring.
France has navy Of three hundred and forty
three steam aud one hundred and sixteen SAILING
vessels. During the present year twenty-six ves-
sells have been added two OF which we're built IN
this country.
--On the departure of Bishop Selwyn for his
diocese in New Zealand, Sidney Smith, in taking
leave OF him, said: "iood-by, my dear selwyn,
hope you will not disagree with the man who eats
you'll"
in the South Pacific coasting trade, Of which
the people OF the United States shoIld enjoy the
largest share, there is not single American
steamer, and only few sailing vessels, while
England has feet of some twenty-five steamers.
There are only couple Of ferry boats buildir g
on tho New York shore Of tho East River, and
only two steamboats, and sailing vessel on the
Brooklyn side; and with some repairing, this Is all
the work which is being done.
Fourteen hundred pounds Of grapes, paosed
in sawdust, were shipped from Stockton, Califor-
mia, to New York, oia San Francisco. The Stock
ton paper thinks the fruit viii startle New YORK
with specimen of California viniculture.
There is strong reason to apprehend that
Texas will soon cease to be stock-raising State.
Every negro in the country is stated to be heavily
armed with guns and pistols, as well as with
knives, and cattle are wantonly shot down, whilst
there is no refuge whatever for hogs and poultry.
When the Duke do Caolseul, who was re-
markably lean man. came to London to negotiate
peace, h4rles Townshend, being asked whether
the Frerch Government had sent the prelmi'
naries Of treaty, answered, he did not know, but
they had sent "the outline Of an ambassador"
"A few days since, while two thousand pounds
of gunpowder were stored In a warehouse in At
Gibson, Kansas, fire caught in the room below. All
but one OF the Aremen refused to 30 into the build
ing, but this hero extinguished the flames by his
own unaided exertions.
From Brazil We learn that the Paragua yam
forces under President Lopez had attacked and
carried by storm the Brazilian camp, taking hf-
teen hundred prisoners and several pieces OF al
tiery The total loss Of tho Brazilians IN killed,
wounded and prsoners, was nearly four thousand
men.
in England, the photographers have invented
method OF printing from negative impression
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are said 10 have the quality Of paintings in being
removable by turpentine. This improvement Will
enable the artist to transfer exact outlines OF
picture without drawing.
Every year, on the Oath Of August, all the in
habitants OF Austria are theoretically driven from
their homes, and are obliged to enter upon new
tenure Of their dwellings,. The object Of this is to
exact stamp duty from every family, under the
pretence that they are entering into new con-
tract.
Letters from Spain state that the Government
at Madrid has made a formal proposition to the
American Minister to sell the Island Of Cuba to
the United States for tho SIM OF one hundred and
fifty millions in gold, fifty millions to be paid on
the transfer OF the island, fifty millions at the end
of one year thereafter and the remaining fifty at
the end of six years.
Tho Emperor Napoleon is engaged upon life
OF Augustus 10 his theory, Napoleon Bonaparte
was the julius Cesar Of modern times, and ne,
the nephew the successor who was necassitated to
commit many political crimes in his earlier days,
but who made up for them in later life by leaving
Roms marble and establishing order without lib
erty.
The English papers are making complaints
about one Of their admir~ls, who ordered two
naval steamers to go from Lisbon to Gibralta to
get stock OF coal and then return to Lisbon. One
Of them expended five hundred and fifty tons OF
coal and the other four hundred and eighty-fvs
tons, In going to Gibralta, whore they each took
on board three hundred tons. When they got back
to Lisbon one of them had two hundred and fifty
tons less, and tine other enc Hundred and eighty
Eve tons less coal on hoard than when thew start
ed, whilst the voyage cost them $3.50 in gold,
which the British Excheouer has to pay.
The rise IN the price Of bread and the partial
sackening OF work caused such ferment in Paris
that men ask what viii happen in the event of a
crash which suspends al once all the great public
works. At the ED OF tine year we shall see the new