The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-11
ThP 1ai1g Nems,
NEWS SUMMARY.

NO'Non Sioseu III LiVelpooi WITH decllbe ol ~.
Middlng Uplands 9id.
There arc 228, 900 mcH,bets Of the temperance
organizations in Massachusetts.
Mrs. JULIA DEAN HArNE ia playing Juliu, in tho
liunchback, at tho Continental Theatre, Boston.
In August about 1873 oOo barrels OF Hour cuiue to
Boston by tho Western Railroad.
An average Of 500 loads of dirt por day arc lcng
removed from tho streets OF Cincinnati.
Mr.. STANTON hns Eono to st. Adams, VI, TO
spend few days with Ex-Governor SMITH,
Tho BRAZILIAN Parliament proposes to cItinguish
tho national debt by means of lotteries.
Corn soils i'll Oskaluuska Iowa, at eight ccnls Il
bushel.
census Of Dubuque gives 2l,22a population
and 81, l0i ,0l0 valuation.
1t s stated that JOHN B. uouun has been obliged
to decline four hundred invitations to lecture
during tho coming season.
General ToM THUMB has gone in his yncht,
Charles $. !SrdnoR, on fishing excursion OF
Long Island
II il asserted by tho Long Branch Press that
There have bcon nuarly 1000 visitors ut TINT fa
mons Watering place this season.
Count HENRY EsrEnH.zY, Of Hungary, bus just
married the Countess Rowu, daughter of the late
Madame SuSTAu.
ImIneIlse herds of buffalo lIavp lately been srri,
On the Upper Missouri. Tho Indians are not fur
oil.
Tho Winona and st. ieters railroad is upum To
Wascca, ono hundred and typ miles wrst Of The
Mississippi river.
Tho dog show in Paris has been very successful.
Over GOO dogs, representing overy variety have
becn on exhibition.
Prof }. ". MAlLEr, Professor uf Chemistry in
the melical department OF tho University Of New
Orleans has been elected to the clair Of Chemical
Technology in tho University of Virginia.
Tho fnrmers i'll wostoIn massachusetts arc busy
harvesting their tobacco They report only about
two-thrds crop I'll an average, though some
fields extra.
Tho fall book trade sale opened in New York on
Thursday. There was largo attendance and the
bidding wns brisk The catalogue or this sale
embraces over one million volumes, and the sale
will last nine days.
In consequence of the numerous suits brought
by Northern creditors against insolvcnt merchants
in Richmond, several Of tho latter hayo taken nd
vantage Of tho bankrupt act. Forty applications
wore fled on Friday with the register.
body of policemen from New York wcro detail.
ed by tho Superintendent, who is n Methodist, to
keep the peace at ramp meeting. Many Of
them wero converted, and forty of thcm held
prayer meeting on their account.
The Young Mems Christian Association Of Low
ell visited some of the liquor and billiard saluons
on Saturday evening, mud woro kindly received by
all but one, and allowed to Sing aud distribute
tracts.
It is stated that there was furious snow storm
on Mount Washington, Now Hampshire, on Thurs
day Of last week. Parties ascending wero driven
back. Tho thermometer fell to below tho freezing
point, and ice made on the telegraph poles an
inch thick.
The French Minister Of War officially states that
tho recent Salzburg Conference Was nothing more
than a meeting OF coincidence over the fato Of
MACMILLAN. There was Home conversation on
political affairs, but no alliances combinations
we're planned.
Farms bordering on Lake Champain arc being
greatly injured by the grasshoppers. Pasture
lands in some cases look as if fro had swept
over them, destroying every green thing. They
are not as largo III former years, but their num-
bers countless.
The city OF Montreal is undergoing great
change in tho way OF public improvements Like
Paris immense numbers of buildings arc being
demolished, and the streets widened to make them
beautiful avenues. Among streets undergoing
this change is Sotro Damo and Great st. Jamcs
Late adyices from the British Vest Indios re-
port the woatlier favorable for tho crops The
health Of tho Lslauds and Dcmerara was good,
with tho exception OF Jamaica, whore yellow foycr
had mado its appearance on tho north sido OF tho
ialRnd-a raro occurrence. Thers had boon soye-
raj fres in Dcmcrara. One in tho business stroot
destroyed $4,000 worth Of property.
Tho London Telegraph latoly remarked that "tho
bedroom in which ho--NiPoLEoN I-slept, fresh
from the triumphs of Marengo, contains tho
clock that marked the hours of his captivity at ST.
Helena, and tho bed on which ho diod." F. TUs-
49, a
in question was bought from LucIEN BoNAPARIE,
and is now in tho TussAUp collection.
II ia estimated that AMAsA SpRaouE has ex-
ponded s250,O00 In filling up Earrnganaett Park,
in Providence, Il. l. Tho gateway cost $1,000, and
tho bridge of granite for tho horse railroad to puss
over cost $4,000 1t comprises eighteen acres OF
land. aud in itB dining room, committee rooms
dressing rooms. pool room and stables, is one of
the most eItensvo parks In the country.
Roman Catholic Chapel has just boon conse-
Grated in Hoadfort County Galway, Ireland which
is designated BY its builders the sTrish. American
Church Of st. Mary" Tho money for it's erection
was supplied by lrishmen in tho United States
and it's bell bears tho inscription. Presented by
few Irish in America who love thoir misruled
country"
Tho London Times has reason to believe thu,
tho report Of tho ritual commission which tho
Archbishop OF Canterbury has announced, will
shortly be issusd, and will be decidedly adverse to
the practicea which haye been lately brought into
vogue by section Of the Clergy OF tho Church of
England. The majority Of tho commissioners
condemn these innovations as illegal or inexpe-
dient and advise that they should DO prohibited
Tho Garbaldians, anu GAnID.LpI himself have
given up all attempts against the Pope-at least
until such time as there shall be SOME chances of
success. The Gordon Of troops which the Italian
Government have drawn around tho PapaI do,niu-
ions is 10 strong that any attempt at evasion or
invasion will surely fail. We 600 no chance of
GARIBALDI getting into Romo, except in the ovent
OF European war involving Franco and Italy.
Needles wcrc first made in London by negro
from Spain, in the reign Of Queen MARY. He died
without imparting the secret Of his art Tho an
was recovered in 1865. ELIAS GaowEs fret taught
the Engliah to make needles, but the art was
again lost for nearly century, when it was again
recovered by CHRISTOPHER GREENIsa, who sottled
at Long CTcndon, in Buckinghamshire. Needles
are now chiefly made at Rcdditch, in Worcester
shire, Hnthorsagc, in Derbyshire, and in and near
Birmingham.
Tho dam OF the West Hartford reservoir. six
miles from tho city, which supplies the city with
water, Was washed away recentl ,, sweeping over
cornfiolds and pasture lands, and bearing eyery-
thing with it. For two miles tho fields were
flooded. The damage to private property is con.
siderable, and the l0es to the city will bo nbout
100000. The upper reservoir, two miles above
the city, with q partly fnishod dam aavon foo+