The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-16
EhR gailQ Nems.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Cotton closed in New York @ shade 6rmcr;1
balea Mt 19Mo. 81

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Cotton closed in New York q shade frmcr;1s0O
bales at 1sac. &aRs]
Gold closed at 49,.
Cotton closed in Liverpool firm.
There is q dog in London twenty six years old, /
OF the Newfoundland breed. Els black coat has
been turning gray for the past two years, and ,is
nearly white.
The book trade in Boston IL quite active, and
there 10 every prospect OF q very lively season.
The publishers have in press some rare volumes
for the fall trade.
"A train Of thirty lone six-mule teams, with forty
five thousand pounds Of wool, arrived al Kansas
from Santa Re, New Mexico, during tho latter part
Of September.
Somebody, who has the figures, says that
more cotton has been destroyed by fire and other
casualties within the last twenty-five years than it
would take to pay the national debt.
In building q new opera house in Cincin-
natl several OF the subscribers to the scheme
refused to pay the contributions they had prom
ised, but they were prosecuted and obliged to keep
thor promises.
The schoolmaster is abroad in Japan. One New
York firm has just shipped ten tons Of school
books TO the "Japs' in . single cash invoice
amounting to $4,000, irrespective of previous
ooRsignments.
Tho day IL coming, says the New, Tondon Star,
when throughout tho whole country wotnen shall
be clothed with the elective franchise. Rather o
thin costume, and hard on dry goods dealers and
hoop skirt manufactured
1t is said the largest number Of Jewels owned
by any private individual in the United States. is
possessed by Madame de 10 Grange, the prima
donna. They are valued at more than two hundred
thousand dollars.
"a man recently broke off o marriage because
the lady did not possess good conversations
powers. A wicked editor, in commenting on tho
fact says: III should have married her, and then
refused her a new bonnet, to have developed her
powers Of talk"
-sanford Conover, the individual who was for 40
long q time a source Of items, for the reportorial
corps is now learning the trade ola in
the Albany penitentiary. He varies his work with
occasionally writing o petition for his pardon ON
the sole OF q shoe.
Al applicant for an Md. at the University OF
Bonn threw a bomb-shell among the Faculty by
enunciating the opinion that the art Of the ply
sician ought not to be employed to prolong o life
Of no use to o patient or the State. How many Of
our public men would trust themselves in his
hands
-Garibaldi was naturalized when a tallow chand-
Ter on Staten Island, and when arrested his friends
proposed appealing to our minister to interfere,
on the ground Of his oitiEenship. This was not to
be thought OF, though our Representative Joined
in the request that olemency should be shown the
ilustrious prisoner.
"A young man in Southwestern Missouri has COM
mitted suicide In a manner to excite the envy Of a
P~arisian. He put himself at an angle Of eevirRinia
rail fence" and using an axe-helve as q lever, he
raised the fence, put his head under it anu caused
bis neck TO be broken by the falling weight Of fence
timber
- vOI1nr 1oau fru& 100 H. -
asked at the table IL she would have some more
cabbage, replied: "By no means; gastronomical
safety admonishes me that I have arrived at the ul-
innate culinary degitation consistent with the code
OF Esculapius." As she drew back from the table.
it was concluded that she meant she had sseeten a
heap"
Tho British War Office has given another in
stance Of it's efficiency and activity by sending
four officers to Constantinople to purchase mules
for the Abyssinian expedition. Now this would
have been very well If the Capital Of Turkey had
been q mule market, but in point OF fact there are no
mules in Constantinople, except a few old Italian
and Spanish a~nimals-nons less than fourteen
years old-left behind by the British army after
the Crimsan war. So the oficers have been left at
q ~stand-still, and have sent home for instructions.
A Mexican correspondent states that Max:mil-
ian's body was hung up at Queretaro during the
process OF embalming, bnt only for the purpose of
drying 1t after having immersed it in a chemical
bath OF reag ents. He adds that the glass eyes of
0 statue of Saint Ursula in the hospital were used |
to replace the natural ones of the deceased prince. |
The correspondent thinks that the body will not |
be able to reach Europe in a.state Of perfect pres |
~ervation. The Diario Official contradiets the re- |
port about decomposition having begun, and states
should be expected.
-VQr16QaEa6 mArhlo IL 10 onno,,noal .~,.x l.
initiated in all the rioh-colored veins for which
some species of it arc distinguished. For this
purpose q solid block Of marble, to be treated, is
nrst warmed In an oven to open its pores, after |
which the colors are applied. These consist OF an
alcoholic solution OF alkanet root, to produce q rich |
lavender, o madden Lake to make a crimson. iudiso |
to produce Q blue, verdigris green, and gamboee
yellow. They are put on according to the FANCY
and taste Of the artist, so as to form the desired
patterns, after which the marble is again warmed
to mako 1t absorb the colors.
War In Europe next year is considered almos+
france 10 arning, and til is said strategic |
studies nave been made with q view of covering
strasburg, the Emperor having made personal |
observations Of the country in that neighborhood, |
90 he returned from his recent visit to salsburg. |
The country around the town. IL being leyelled
to allow Of the establishments 81 fonr datached
forts, and an intrenched camp Of immense extent
is to be constructed, protected on one ssido by the
Rhine and by submergible lands, and on the other
by the four advanced forts, capable Of sheltering,
in the case OF need, q large number of troops.
The Boston Traveller says: 1.-THE cranberry crop
the present year is now about half picked, audit |
promises to be tho largest yield ever known in this
part OK the country. Several meadows have lust
Q state OF maturity and the crops on some
OF them are ten times as large as last year. Every
where in the eastern part of the State, as far as
heard from, the crops are larger than any previous
year, except in Harwich, where the worms have
done considerable damage, and the crops will be
light. Cranberries are now selling for from 81 to
% per bushel, and the market is dull. The, price
this fall will probably range from SO TO So per
barrel.
"A wealthy Hebrew, at San Francisco, happy
In being the father Of male triplets, has naraed
them Abraham Lincoln, Isaac Andrew Johnson.
and Jacob John CONFESS. The circumcision rfte
was performed with great pouap. September Il.
General MoDowall held Abraham, q deputy for
Governor-slect Haight hold Isaac, and Senator
Oonness held Jacob Three officiating clereymen
performed the ceremony Of circumcision. each
rabbi taking one child, ana at the altar gold
medals were hung upon tho little ones. whose
names were inscribed upon the diverse. while
the reverse Of each medal respectively called to
mind Abraham offering up Isaac, Isaac Blessing
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