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

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Cotton closed in New York yesterday at zoe.
FOR Middling Uplands. Gold closed at 14sf.
Cotton in Liverpool, at noon yesterday, was
frmer. and quoted OF SD. for Middling Uplands.
Austria has had no bullion currency since
1s4s.
Nearly two-thirds of the tobacco crop in Ken
lucky 10 already cut and housed.
An English fe-boat association has saved over
sixteen thousand lives since it started O few years
ago.
A nautical exchange thinks the only use Of o
chignon is as q Delaying block for a hat hawser
The World, in answer TO q correspondent ask
ing whether "Ouida" is q man or woman, says
"Ouida know"
An ear Of corn with nine hundred and ninety
nine kernels is On achievement Of Minnesota. It
is twelve inches long.
The Boston Advertiser gives the following
news () wv. Gilmore Sims is to edit a new pa
per in South Carolina"
1t is proposed to drain the Red Sea to recover
tho valuables lost by Pharoah and his host when
they were drowned.
A work ON the Interference Theory of Govern
ment. by Charles Aston Bristed (Carl Bensen), is
to be published next week.
Newport Ia gloomily contemplating the de-
struction OF ono Of its fine hotels and the sale Of
the fragments for dwelling houses.
"A new brick machine, which has made over
100, 600 bricks in three working days, is on exhibit
ton in Chicago, where it was invented.
Tho author Of the '.Black Crook has made
SOC, 900 or 1000 by its success. He deserves it
as little rs if he had won it in a lottery.
The number of students in the Michigan Uni
versity is larger than that of any similar institu-
ton In the country. There are Ave hundred in the
Law School alone.
Advantages are claimed for a new explosive
material called haloxylin, on the ground that '1t
neither ignites by percussion nor friction" How
is the explosion obtained?
The Jews constitute 30 lal ge 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. A Cleveland pa
per says that, ON hearing the news Of the election,
he went into a hole, pulled the hole in after him,
and has not been seen since.
-Pittsburg is to have o skating rink, with a sur
face Of 1000 square feet. The association has
been organized, funds ($4O, O0O) subscribed, a lot
secured and q contract awarded for the building.
Already our merchants are discussing tho fea.
sibility Of q submarine cable between California
and China. Doubtless it will coon be laid, and the
newspapers can publish early morning news every
hour in the day. a't
The proprietorao OF o hop garden in England, in
which q child was recently murdered, have been
compelled to pick the hops when only half ripe, to
save the crop from being carried of entirely by
relic-hunters.
-Four hundred bushels Of potatoes to the acre
are said to be an average crop this season in OK
ford County, Maine. A starch mill in Andover has
ground twenty-five thousand bushels Of them into
starch already this year. f
Returns from thirty-eight counties OF Ohio,
which gave Hayes . majority of 1894, show maio-
rity Of 16, 7A against the amendment to the Con-
e~titution. This indicates a majority against it in
the whole State Of $3.50.
The Director OF the Bureau of Statistics at
Washington, estimates the crop Of cotton Of Flor
ida the present year at 81, IT'S bales, against &C, 1853
bales in 1860. There 119,665 acres under ~cultiva-
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 has unmar-
ried more persons than the clergy have married.
The Helena (Arkansas) Clarion says that It
win not be many months till thousands OF COO
lies will be introduced into the State. New cot
Ton is being brought to the Helena market by
every steamer from White and Arkansas Rivers.
At the s'silver wedding of Mr.. asnd Mr..
Shannon, at East Haven, Connecticut, a few days
2BOS U very lhIko AuQ uRuO6Om0 loaf or cake WAS
Ornamented will a border OF silver half dollars.
and In the centre Of the cake was O shining silver
dollar.
The Albany Argus published q recent cable
dispatch thus ''Garibaldi has named his son Me-
motif. General Issimo, Of the revolutionary forces,
is engaged In the movement on Rome" The
Argus adds that General Issimo is q great military
ohiefl 4,
M Dohn, editor Of the Berlin KIadderadatsch.
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 q most uely
squinS, and was extremely inquisitive. Upon ono
occasion he asked Taneyrand, Comment won't les
amaares, Prince 2" CONNIE vous voyez, General:
tout de travers." Glow are matters with you,
Prince 2" AS you see, General, all asksw."
"A day or two since . peculiar odor was noticed
sides ct Sandwich, which none OF the family could
account for. On inspection it was found that the
house cat 70 huge Maltese) had been shutt up In an
oven, where she had concealed herself. and was
literally roasted alive. - AL
The rocks which 0bstruct Boston harbor are
being removed by Elberhardt's safety POWDER
Prussiai invsntion. One hundred and city tons
of rock have been removed in biz. days by eighte
pounds Of this powder, while but twenty tohs we're
removed by over Eve hundred pounds,of ordinary,
powder and thirty-nine days labor.
In Baltimore 9 city ice boat is almost finished.
The planks are covered with iron, and the bow is
modelled like the bowl Of q spoon, soF that it will
run on the top Of and crush the ice. The New
York papers are beginning anxiously to inquire
about the ice boat for that Sity, as they fear their
harbor may be closed up as 1t was last year.
"A large amount OF wheat ID being shipped from
Lake Michigan ports to Montreal and other Cana
dian ports, whence it goes BY the st. Lawrence to
Europe. Eight cargoest 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. 50 81
The Memphis Post says: eThe low price of
cotton Is having o very depressing effect upon
planters as we'll o. upon trade generally. WeIearna
that along the Mississippi and Tennessee Railrosa4
cotton bales are accommodating At MI tbs stations..
the planters not being disposed TO send to market
At present prices any more cotton than their neces-
sities conapel them tor
-Thei sAfpntgorpsTy Advertiser Of tbs 18thl
learns 'tfas The Alabama State notes liz AassagsfFiyys
sought aftsr. But few OF the notes are being pra.
sented for redemption in greenbacks. The notes.
are perfectly good, and their circulation 4 win aid
In giving life and animation to business, and in