The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-19
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NEWS SUMMARY.

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Cotton closed in Now York at 1sa n 100. Sales
1900 bales.
Gold closed at A..
Cotton closed in Liverpool, at P. NJ, firm and
active. Prices unchanged. Sales $4,000 bales.
The railroad in India, from Heurah to Deinf,
ia over 1000 miles in length.
The sugar crop Of the Sandwich Islands for
1868 is estimated OF 40. 000, 600 pounds.
There arc mon in London who make a business
OF fixing up partly decayed fish so that it can he
sold in market.
The Monotaur, belonging to the British chan
mel squadron, is the largest vessel aHoat except
tho Great Eastern.
1T is said that the iron work Of the Paris exp
sition building has been sold, and will DO brought
to the United States.
The estimate crop of sugar in Louisiana this
year is about 100, 900 hogsheads-about one-fourth
Of the crop before the war.
The Maine papers report an astonishing fall in
the price OF pork, hogs bringing only 8 and 10 cts.
in most Of the markets in that State.
"A professor who dives from o height Of 400
feet into water only ten feet deep is the last Lon+
don sensation. Probably for divers reasons.
"A letter from Canada, referring to tho APP
preaching session Of Parliament, says that among
the earliest measures to DO introduced will be ono
to re-establish, II possible, the Reciprocity Treaty
with the United States.
During the last three months 81, 715 emigrants
have loft Liverpool; an increase over last year Of
8157. Last month thirty-two ships cleared for
this country, carrying 768 cabin passengers and
S15s in tho steerage.
-By,a recent act OF the British Parliament, He
brews who close their factories and workshops on
Saturday till sunset, are permitted to open from
sunset till 8 O'Clock ''for females and young per
sons to work till that hour. M
According to q recent census Rome contains
21B. 578 inhabitants, and tie total for the PontiAcal
States is stated at 500, 112. London, 2,80O, 900;
Paris, 1,64S, 900; Constantinople, 715, OOO; Berlin,
5,OOo; st. Petersburg, $40, 600.
"A millionaire wedding took place at Pough-
kepsie, N. Y, recently. The local Jenkins says:
'"The articles Of gold and silver and diamonds
were thick as blackberries on mountains,' while
one OF the wedding gifts was q decd OF a beautiful
country seat valued at SEQ, OOO."
"A Despatch states that General Fitzpatrick.
Minister to Chill, has sent in his resignation of
his position in the army, which ia that Of captain
in the LIST Artillery. His brevet rank is that OF
major-general. This is the third time he has ten
dered it, and it will no ' be accepted.
There has already been an incident accom-
panied by the loss Of life on the railroad over
Mount Gents. Tho engineer put on steam on going
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whole train disappeared in the depths of a horrible
abyss. Fortunately there were only three persona
on the train.
"A correspondent Of the Iuka Gazette urges
the culture Of strawberries in Tishomingo county
He says the profits Of one acre Of strawberries
judiciously cultivated, will exceed the net profits
OF twenty acres In cotton, and that the soil and
climate Of Tishomingo are admirably adapted tc
the strawberry.
The London Daily News, in a review of bust
ness affairs in England, says it 10 the fact that fo1
many years past the trading profits have rarely
been lower than they are now. Many, even Of the
highest mercantile Arms, Of Arst-clsss standing
and long established repute, are, as it were, living
from hand to mouth.
Theodore Tilton, in a lecture at Lewiston, Me-,
said that the first two-thirds Of the present centu-
.ry VIII be noted IN history for the negro question;
and the last third for the woman question. He
believed the only marvel Of the next century
would be that the present could ever have denied
woman her full political rights.
The Baton Rouge (La.) Ledger, Of the 2stb
ultimo, Says: 1.-THE accounts we have from Tie
country about the cre ps are distressing. Some
say they will make g half crop, some two-thirds
others g third. some o fourth, and some say they
are totally ruined. However, we hope the results
may not prove so gloomy as anticipated"
An experiment was made in Whitehall street.
New York, with the electric light recently In.
vented by q Frenchman, with which he claims
to be able to light up the city with q single
lamp more completely than gas companies can
do. The light on exhibitor was so brigh as to
be painful to the naked eye, and castbright CLEANS
all over the bay.
Letters received in New York from prominent
Democratic politicians in Ohio, state that while q
knwt TriAhdo NJ Vo1IoDI;O1~rr Ill ...~A ~,
for the Senate, Mr. Pendleton will be elected by
the almost unanimous vote Of his party, and win
be put forward by the Democracy of the North
west as their candidate for the Presidency. The
same letters say the negro suffrage amendment Ia
lost by &c, 600 votes. 'e'F 2
Tho Cheyenne Leader isl neat little newspa-
Per juat started by Mr.. A. Baker at Cheyenne,
Dakota, one OF those spontaneous cities tina.
spring up In advance Of the great overland rail
road. Sixty days ago Cheyenne was o bowling
wilderness; nowit has q Mayor and Common. Coun-
Gil, publishes ordinances regulating city life, and
has o newspaper, rum shops, and various other
incidents Of civilization. .a e
The Lake City Press has fallen under the ban
OF General Pope's subordinates. II has been dis
covered by those astute individuals that it opposes
reconstruction under the military rule, and it is
therefore, ordered that no official advertisements
will be published in that paper. The Press 10 the
hrst OF the Florida papers to feel the heel of deg
potism, but the editor Yields a trenchant pen and
replies to the imputation In o becoming manner.
1t 10 reported that q reduction Of ton per cent:
In the wages Of some OF tho Hartford (Connsctt-
cut) factory employees has been rendered neces-
sary by the dullness Of business. Similar duline6s
In trade 10 reported from Great Britain, and il is
stated that no less than twenty to thirty thousand
men connected with the iron trads on the Clyyde
have been thrown ont Of employment owing to the
successfnl competition Of foreign with the home
mannfsotHre Of the Brltish Isles. tElGlFI ssktt
~Ihhas haaa found, says TIE EA.gll!Ashss3 aasNsooh a;ssso,
that the addition Of ~glyoerine to gelatine imparts
TO It new, curious and useful properties. Mixed
with giycerine, gelatine solidiHes on cooling. With
out losing its ductiity, and answers wen. Tor her
medically sealing bottles. For this purpose it is
merely necessary to plunge the neck Of the bottle.
after 1t has been corked, into the heated mixture,
and, after allowing it to cool, repeating hue dipping
until Q sufficiently thick coating 10 obtained.
The Journal Of Mining says: s.Mr. G. w. Ste
man has patented in England q process for pro-
ducing c~aststesl and iron directly from the ore by
exposing the ore, in . finely divided state. TO the
surface action Of intense heat, while currents Of
ZION hydrocarbons peroolate through tho mass OF
ore In 9 transverso direction towards the heated
surface. BY the passage Of the gases the ore ia
redncod and carbonized, and the melting surfaoA
% tsss naasa being enssloped in an atmosphere 81
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