The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-18
The 1ai19 Nema.
NEWS SUMMARY.


Cotton closed in New York at 20S for Middling
Uplauds. Gold closed at s9i.
Cotton closed I'm Liverpool at 1oId. for MsddlnE
UplandH.
II appears from statistics compiled at Milo &c
Vilo, the State Capitol that tho number Of paupors
In Georgia has increased to 1000.
Saltillo thfcxico) correspondent OF tho Texas
Rdnchero says: "MAxIM1LIAN, in his WILL eayos to
the families OF tho unfortunate MRAMoN and
MHJIA ono hundred Thousand dollars each.
Tho widow Of tho lato Earl OF Clifford, better
known Lady DUrFEn1R, anthor Of tho lcautiful
song "Ilo Lamont Of Tho Irish En,igrant," died
on tho 18th ult.
LOUIS NAroLEoN has ordcrod III. hIossrEn, .bo
tutor OF tho prince imperial, to teach him In
history only tho dates and principal facts, and
says thst he will explain to his son tho meaning
OF the evonls as no understands thom.
Tho number OF foreign residents in China and
Japan in steadily increasing. In Hong Kong, ac-
cording 10 conBus takon In 1866, there aro now
2ilS Europeans und Americans In total popua-
tion OF 115 ,09e.
Tho twenty first volume Of tho Mdpoicon Cor
respondence has appeared in Paris, with profsco
in tho form Of report TO tho Emperor, by Prince
NAPoLEoN. Tho now volume contains tho docu-
nonts relating to tho years 1910 and 1911.
second attompt has boon mado to dislodgo To-
bio Rock. Ton blasts wero mado, each containing
ono and half pounds Of powder. Tho only Of
feet produced was slight explosion on tho sur.
face. II is said that third attempt will bo mado
with 0fty pounds OF powder.
Tho Chair Of Poetry at Oxford, lately vacated by
MATTHEW ARNOLD, 10 to be filed by Sir FnAno1s
HASTINGS DOYLE, who WAS recently elected as his
successor by two hundred and ninety-four votes
majority OF ninety-one over DEAN ALEXANDRA,
and tho third claimant, DR.. KyN.sroy.
The Paris correspondent OF tho Boston Tran
script thus speakH OF tho working girls Of Paris
'Thcrc is something rotton at tho core whom the
girls in evory workman's family walk tho streots
each night in Bhamc, aftor having vorkod all day
for thirty-five sous."
low days ago, tho proprictors OF tho Bait Limo
Works, at Cithoroc, England, fired m immense
blast. Two tons OF guEpowdor were placed in tho
nlnc, and tho oxploaiou which followed resulted in
tho displacement Of about twonty thousand tons
OF stone.
Tho ground has boon broken for monument 10
Pennsylvaniana who foil in Mexico. It will DO Of
whto marble, seventy feet high crcotod OF Harris
burg, in tho Capitol grounds, betweon tho Land
Office aud tho Arsenal. Il will bo finished in carly
apring l
The Minister OF Agriculture has addressed
circular to Tho Mayors OF Franco onjoining tlcm
to punt ,h sovorely nil persons caught in tho net OF
netting, trapping, &C., small birds, whose valuable
soryices dostroyers Of insects hc sots forth do
monstrating by statistics the utility Of those hum
bic membors Of tho feathory genus.
Tho increase Of tho number OF newspapers pub
lshed in Italy since it has become FREQ State has
been very largo. New Journals aro constantly
sPringing up, aud ut Roronce thcro aro already
eloven papers which aro issued ovcry lay in tho
rl,,R R|aro
ly Woeklios
II cucumber and molon vinos are touched cnce
with feather dipped In kerosene, bugs or insects
OF any kind will not trouble thom. It will prot,ot
turnip and otlior tender plants from tho rnyagcs
OF the fly. correspondent says no has used
cnlOmel for tho last ten yoars with invaluable sue
coss. Ho sprinklos o few grains on each hill and
never loses a single plant by bugs.
The Rhonish provinces OF Prussia arc in q for
mont over a recent not Of II. B1sMAncK. In tho
interest Of tho Prusslan Treasury, tho Minister
declared the sale Of tobacco in those provinces
Government monopoly. As this would deprive
many families OF thor livelihood, great commo-
ton has been excited. It is thought that tho
Offensive measure will be promptly rescindod.
since tho scat Of government was established
on tho Potomac thoro hnvo been started and per-
ishei in the District Of Columbia no lees than ono
hundred newspapers. The namos Of the papers
now published there are as follows The Daily
Globe, the hationdf inicaigencer, Chroni ae, tho
Express tho Sur, tho Constitutional Union, tho
Times, Republican and tho Georgetown Courier.
Tho last instance OF monomanin for tho ncquisi-
tion Of curiosi6eo have heard Of is tho purchase
for collection, OF tho castoff shoes Of oelebrat-
sa ESS ~ sss turf
offered the Of Derte,. FIVE dollars, tho other
day, for tho wornout shoes the ahoer had lust
taken of that ANIMAL but Was informed that forty
dollars could bo easily obtained for thom.
Extensive deposits OF coal have been discovered
on the line OF the Union Pacific Railway, Kansas
Branch, about one hundred and seventy miles
from Pond Greek, on tho route Of Alberauoraue.
Mr. sAHDKns, tho proprietor Of the Santa Fo Stage
Line, reports tho veins from clovon to fifteen feot
thick Specimens received at st. Louis arc pro-
nonnced good quality Of bitumnous coal. At
throo feet vein has also bcen discovered, twenty
milea cast Of Fort Harker.
A hnsman OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, who was
impoverished by tho rebellion, hns forwarded TO
THoHAs K WALLACE, Of tho Treasury Department
In The city OF Washington, for sale, portrait OF
WAsnrAoToN. It purports 10 have boon painted by
GnnzRr STUART, and is said to be an admirable
lkeness, and the prioo fIod upon II is four thou
sand dollars. Thcre has also como TO light from
tho same source certain sword mentioned by
WASHINGTON in his viii; this relic ia at present In
the hands Of Francis P. DLAIn, Of Washington.
snce tho termination Of tno Conference at Lon
don, little brochure has appeared, addressed TO
the soveroigns thero represented, and containing
= singular suggestion. lis proposed that Lux
emburg be made tho aeat OF great international
university, and sort Of Hotel dea Invalides for
savans and artists that tho fortress indeed should
be refuge for all tho old and INDECENT in the vast
family OF lotters and arts. It is pity that this
valuable proposition had not been submitted to
the conference ITSELF
I. French journal gives an amusing illustration
Of the familiar truth that accounts dfror." By
cheful study OF tho Cretan dispatches il las AZ
certained that tho total loss OF the Turks during
the present insurrcction has been ono million iyo
hundred thousand meni OF tho insurgents forty
mon. A Similar computation, founded upon the
Turkish dispatches, gives Crctan loss Of threo
million mon, at tho lowest figures, against Turk
ish loss OF Ave. One does not often have to split
y widor difference than that
Advices from Southwest Missouri state that
there is groat desttuion and some actual sufrorinp
among tho mon who wero employed by tho Allan
ic aud Pacific Railroad Company and its cont &C.
tors, oceasionod by the Company not boing able to
raise money to pay their indebtedness. All their
employees havo two, and many six months pay
duo them, which they are unable to got. All tho
property belonging 10 tho Company along tho limo