The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-21
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NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
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Cotton closed in New York lower, at 28a2sac. for
Middhng Uplands.
Liverpool quotations unchanged.
The State Department has just abolished the
secret cyphas systsm, which it has used since the
foundation Of the Government, and ls getting up
new one, which can be used over the cable for
conveying long communications in brief space.
Major CoRNEL1us BOYLE, we'll known as Confed-
crate Provost Marshal at Manassas, has returned
hom Mexico to settle his business, and will make
that country his future home. He owns there
grant of 800 600 acres OF hand.
The Baton Rouge Comet doesn't care whether or
not the statements furnished by planters in the
neighborhood are believed-but the cotton worm
is at the work Of destruction in different parts OF
the parish Of West Baton Rouge.
The RoesEs have lost their power in the Chero-
kee nation. At recent election for chief, Lewiso
Dourning full blood, with Christian name,
was elected by large majority over WILLIAM P.
Ross,
Fifteen hundred thousands persons are said to
have died in the Orissa district and other parts OF
India by the famine last year. The most horrible
scenes Of suffering are reported, hungry mothers
having been found eating the bodies Of their dead
children. + 49,
The extsnt Of laEd under potato cultivation In
France Is 040 S64 acres; in Austria it is l,SOS
acres; in Ireland 1850 41s acres; in Bavaria, 64s
7S5 scres in Great Britain 49s S4S scres in Belgi-
um, 869,s5O acres; in Sweden, SS4, 600 acres; IN
Holland, 265,ss7 acres; in Nuremberg, 1S7, ,sB
acres; and in Denmark proper, 6s,17s acres.
The consumption Of homemade segars ID Aus
tris amounted in 1896 to very nearly 1000 mil
hons, while Of imported segars less than 1900 900
were consumed. The consumption Of snuff was
10000 pounds, and of tobacco $1,000 cwt, the re-
ceipts Of the Government for all this amounting to
5a,0Oo0O0 forins.
A new annsthetic has come into fashion OF late.
It is qusdrich1oride OF carbon, which possesses an
agreeable, smell Of ounces, and can produce
insennbiity in less than minute. This insensi-
b.'.ty may be maintained with or without loss OF
consciousness; its effects cease speedily when
desired, and are not followed by vomiting. 1t has
also been successfully used for obstinste headache.
President so1xAvE, Of Hsyti, has submitted his
report ON the condition Of the country to the con-
stituent assembly. Peace and order reigned every
where, except in one district, where brigands are
in force. The Government has taken steps to es-
tablish an exchange ~ chamber Of commerce in
each open port in the republic. The coffee crop
will probably be the largest ever known in Hsyi.
There is rat catcher in Philsdalphia who has
eleven hundred and twenty-five pairs OF ferrets.
He undertakes to clear premises Of ratty vermin
1t the rate Of twenty cents head, and il any re-
turn after the first clearing out they are to be cap
tnred freeof charge. BE caught four hundred
large rata In the cellar Of small grocery store
few nights ago. r
Adyiceo from Nicaragus state that the rsvsges
Of the cholers have been distressing. Seven hum
tred and ninety-four deaths are reported in the
district of Leon. Whole villages on the north
coast were swept away. Cases along the transit
route seem to be sporadic, but even this alarming
epidemic had passed into Costa Rics, where two
hundred ranches among the Mosquito Indians
we're stripped Of inhabitants.
There is IN immigration society at Wayerly,
Walker County, Texas, for the purpose Of inducing
the rigfstng Of Polish laborers into the State.
Those already employed are found to be faithful
and Industrious, and thoroughly satisfied with the
country, and the society are desirous Of securing
q lssRe number, to inset the demands Of labor in
that section, and recommend them "a good labor.
ers to the country. ~
DR.. Roaxas, in his snsw: book concerning Scot
land, tells story Of yRosEar .Busss never before
published : @BuRNs, at public entertainment,
vas seated opposite foppish young robleman,
Who, TO eyiiSce his oontampt Tor one whom he re-
garded a. j literary upstars, aIipped scms Of his
wine in the direction OF the young poet. We do
much better in onr country said the bard, as he
raised his slass and threw the entire contents in
the face Of the sggressor." !" i
Tho Baltimore iasn states that the patent held
by Messrs. WATT & BuHeHss for making paper out
Of wood and other. vegetable matter expires ON
Monday next, and those gentlemen have made ap-
pticstion to have the same renewed for seven
years. The extansion3 thssame h being opposed
BY large number cf printers and publishers, on
the ground that it Will serve TO keep up the price
Of papsr, and that tha petitioners have hsda fsir
for their patent drrinS the past four
teen years, The case has been fully argued before
Commissioners TMAKxn, who win deliver his opin-
lon ON Monday naorning. a., .E9.y H.
Last Friday, ssss the warenton (Gs.) Clipper,
the hopseDof Mr. B. r. Hu1EsT Of that county,.
was struck by lightning and badly shattered.
Strange to say, out Of several persons in the house
st the time, NO one was hurt. One OF the ladies
was saved by her waterfall; shegss leaning back
against the wan IN chair, her waterfall pressing
against the wall; the lightning passed between the
wstsrfAD and her head. Mr.. HuHxSr says his
clock vas shattered into pieces not larger than his
hand, and the brass wheels Of the machinery
melted. All the crockeryware in the house was
It4@h S'-ai
The New Orleans Pscoy.ne says: 'we have been
handed specimen Of the growing crop Of rice In
Pafish. which Me-, JOHN L. TITUS
,ends rs, and which ds hir sSpeeimen Of the
growth Of the breadth Of four thousand acres in
hat parish. These stalks show well filed heads,
md comparatively little stalk, good progress to-
Rard maturitys and grains plump and full. We
M. T. on the rice prospects. By the
way, there is upland rice which can be grown all
over the State, and this lowlaud or swamp rice
can be made wherever there is 8 swamp which
may be irrigated. Why should not our rice crop
squal the wheat crop Of Ohior' f-.. GAGS
The Quaker missionaries who lately Left Eng
land for Madagascar, arrived ,st Antannarivo, the
capital Of the country, on the Sd Of June last.
They visited Msuritius on their way, which island
they state contains population rof $40 600,
Of whom ~ East Indians, and sfe either Hindods
or Mohammedans. Ignorance, superstition and
immortality abound, say the missionaries, among
these people. Themissionxries left Port Louis,
in Msuritius, for Tamataye, in Madagascar, dis
tsnce Of four hundred and fifty miles, in French
bullock ship. They were invited BY the native
Governor Of Tamatsye 10 meet him, and they des-
ciibe him ss man Of ability and Of digniAed and
pleasing manners.
The Baltimore Sun says ga petition now before
the Governor Of the State, from highly respect
able old gentleman, asking the pardon hom the
penitsntiary Of an unfortunate grandson, states
th.. he, the petitioner, q Marylandsr by birth
that he served In the defence of Baltimore in the
war OF 1si2; that he is now in his ssth year, and
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