The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-22
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NEWS SUMMARY.

Cotton IN 1lNerpooi, dt Hoon SooV0ioas' wac
frmer, and quoted at Ssd for Midaling Upands
Austria has had no bullion currenry since
1913.
Nearly two-thirds Of the tobacco crop in Ken
lucky is already cut and housed.
An English life-boat association has saved over
sixteen thousand lives since it started few years
ago.
A nautical exchange thinks the only use OF
chignon is as Delaying block for hat bawser
The World. in answer to correspondent ask
ing whether 'Ouida" is q man or woman, says
"Ouida know"
An ear Of corn with nine hundred aud ninety
nine kernels is an achievement of Minnesota. 1t
is twelve inches long.
Tie Boston Advertiser gives the following
news C?) ''W. Gilmore Sims is to edit new pa
per in South Carolina
1t is proposed to drain the Red Sea to recover
the valuables lost by Pharoah and his host when
they were drowned
"A work ON the Interference Theory of Govern
ment, by Charles Astor Bristed (Carl bensoh)' Is
to be published next week.
Newport is gloomily contemplating the de-
struction Of one Of its fine hotels and the sale oil
the fragments for dwelling houses.
A new brick machine, which has made over
100 600 bricks in three working days, is on exhib-
ton in Chicago, where it was invented.
The author Of the "Black Crook" has made
100000 or $4,000 by its success. He deserves it
as little as if he had won it in lottery.
The number Of students in the Michigan Uni
versity is larger than that OF any similar insttu-
ton in the country. There are FIVE hundred in the
Law School alone.
o1a,ra oil Gov
material called haloxylin, on the ground that ut
neither ignites by percussion nor friction" How
is the explosion obtained?
The Jews constitute so large and influential an
element at San Francisco that school holidays and
vacations are coming to be governed BY the Jew
ish holidays and festivals.
Wade has been heard from. Cleveland pa
per SAYS that, ON hearing the news Of the election
he went into hole, pulled the hole in after him.
and has not been seen since.
-Pittsburg is to have a skating rink, with sur
face Of 1900 square feet The association has
been organized, funds (s4OOOO) subscribed, lot
secured and q contract awarded for tho building
Already our merchants are discussing the fea-
sibility of submarine cable between California
and China Doubtless it will soon be laid, and the
newspapers can publish early morning news every
hour in the day.
The propr;etors OF hop garden in England, in
which child was recently murdered, have been
compelled to pick the hops when only half ripe' to
ssve tbe crop from being carried off entirely by
reho-hunters.
-Four hundred bushels of potatoes 70 the acre
are said to be an average crop this season in Ok
ford County, Maine. starch mill in Andover has
ground twenty five thousand bushels of them into
starch already this year.
Returns nom thirty-eight counties OF Ohio
which gave Hayes majority Of 1894, show msjo-
rity of IA against the amendment to the Con-
stitution This indicates majority ae ainst it in
the whole State Of $780,
The Director Of the Bureau Of Statistics at
Washington, estimates the crop Of cotton OF Flor
ida the present year at ST IT'S bales, against S. 15S
bales in 1860 There 119, 665 acres under cIltiva-
ton in cotton in that State the present year.
The New Haven papers say that the matrimo-
nal business has been unusually lively in that city
for the past few days, but that there isn't much
encouragement, as the Superior Court hae unmar-
ried more persons than the clergy have married.
The Helena (Arkansas) Clarion says that it
will not be many months till thousands Of COO
ton is being brought to the Helena market by
every steamer from White and Arkansas Rivers.
At the 'silver wedding" of Mr.. asnd Mr..
Shannon, at East Haven, Connecticut, few days
ago, very large and handsome loaf OF cake was
ornamented with a border OF silver half dollars,
and in the centre Of the cake was shining silver
dollar.
The Albany Argus published recent cable
dispatch thus "Garibaldi has named his son Me-
motif. General Issimo, Of the revolutionary forces,
il engaged in the movement on Eome." The
Argus adds that General Issimo is great military
chiefl fog
M. Dohn, editor Of the Berlin Kladderadatsch,
has been condemned to fifteen days imprisonment
for having said that twenty-five statues OF saints
will be sent from Rome to the Universal Exhibi-
ton The phrase was interpreted as an attack on
the Church.
General Count de Girardin had most ugly
squint, and was extremely inquistive. Upon one
occasion he asked Talleyrand, Comment won't les
sffaires. Prince 2" Comme vous voyez, General: |
tout de travers." "How are matters with you,
Prince 2" Gas you see General, all ,sksw."
"A day or two since peculiar odor was noticed
in and about the house of q gentleman who re-
aides ct Sandwich, which none OF the family could
account for. On inspection ID was found that the
house cat "a huge Maltese) had been shut up in an
oven, where she had conceslsd hersef, and was |
literally roasted alive. 500
The rocks which obstruct Boston harbor are
being removed by Eberhardt's safety powder, a
Prussian invention. One hundred and fifty tons
of rock have been removed in six days by eight
pounds of this powder, while but twenty tons were
removed by over Eve hundred pounds of ordinary
powder and thirty-nine days. labor.
I'm Baltimore city ice boat is almost finished.
The planks are covered with iron, and the bow is
modelled like the bowl Of spoon, SO that it will
run ON the top Of and crush the ice. The New
York papers are beginning anxiously to inquire |
shout the ice boat for that city, they fear their
harbor may be closed up as it was last year.
A large amount Of wheat is being shipped from
Lake Michigan ports to Montreal and other Cana |
dian ports whence it goes by the st. Lawrence to
Europe. Eight cargoes were shipped for Mon |
treal last week from the single port Of Milwaukee
One-fourth OF the Eastward movement Of wheat |
for the week is destined for Canadian ports for |
export.
The Memphis Post says: "The low price OF |
cotton is having very depressing effect upon |
planters as well as upon trade generally We learn
THAT along the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad |
cotton bales are accumulating at all the stations.
the planters not being disposed to send to market
st present prices any more cotton than their neces
yi6es compel them to-"
The Montgomery Advertiser of the 18th
learns that the Alabama State notes are eagerly
sought after But few OF the notes are being pre-
ssnted for redemption in greenbacks. The notes
are perfectly good, and their circulation will aid
in giving Life and animation to business, and in
crease facilities Of the people for paying their /
taxes.
Seven hundred feet Of the celebrated Whit /
latch JInion mines Montana have been sold to |