The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-10
Yhe lal1g Nems,
NEWS SUMMARY.

fold closed in New York yesterday at 14Sl.
cotton closed in New York yesteday at l9sc.
for Midding Upands.
Cotton closed in Liverpool yesterday at Sled.
California holds her Judicial Election on We'd
nesday, the 10th inst.
King Theodores life is to furnish drama for
the omnivorous London public.
"A beegar at st. Louis, with s65. 900, though
legless, is on pretty good footing.
The Montgomery Mail says that at the eec-
ton there numbers OF negroes called for forty
acres and mule" after they had put the thing
in the box"
The Richmond Dispatch, of Tuesday, says: Ma
jorGeneral J. L. Kemper, late c. S.A., is stopping
at the Ballard Hotel. General Beauregard leaves
early this morning.
Dawson the great German tragedian, who
played in this country last year, had morbid
fancy for playing parts which included dehneations
OF lunacy. He is now an inmate of lunatic asylum
IN Germany.
The Payma ,ter General it is understood, has
received an order from the Secretary Of War to
reduce the clerical force Of his department 1t is
estimated that about 400 clerks have been ds-
missed by similar recent orders.
The receipts OF the Paris Exhibition from April
lst to September 10th were just sSeO,OOO.
further sum of EGO 900 will BE- required to cover ex-
penses. 1t is supposed that this will be forthcom-
ing during the seven weeks that remain.
"A feature OF the Partisan fruit market is the
abundance Of strawberries rather their long du-
ration. A very fragrant, nice kind OF strawberry,
which is said to be simply the wild strawberry oi
the woods and mountains domesticated and i'm
proved is now selling in every fruit shop, and is
on the carte Of all the restaurants.
The earnings of the California Central Pacific
Railroad for September were s4OO 900 in god, and
its operating expenses $685. 762, leaving net profit
Of $161, ,63s. This was with the track open for
business to the summit Of the Sierra Nevada.
During this month thirtv-fve miles will be added
to the running portion, which will bring it fairly
into the Salt Lake basin, and materially add to its
revenues.
M. Grandidier has presented to the French
Academy an egg Of the rsmarkable extinct bird,
the Epiornis, of Madagascar. Having lately re-
turned from the island he says the eggs OF Epior-
mis- are found on plain at side OF the island,
and at 3 height of several metres above tb> sea-
level. Strange that though numerous eggs have
been discovered, the bones OF this creature are
rarely found. From what NJ. Grandder has learnt
from the natives there seems little doubt that the
Epiornis is extinct
During the last homeward trip Of the -
from Aspinwall, the steerage passengers were so
numerous as to make them uncomfortable. AS
for sleeping accommodations it was aptly describ-
ed by Californian who approached the Captain
and said: 81 should like to have sleeping berth,
if you please" ''Why, where have you been
sleeping these last two nights since We eftf"
'Wa'al I've been sleeping atop of sick man;
but he's got better now, and won't stand it no
longerl"
On some of the plantations in Louisiana the
grinding season will commence about the 18th
instant. The crops in st. Bernard Parish are very
promising. The total crop of twenty-four parish
es in the State before the war 1861-2) was 459 10
hogsheads, or about 1900 to parish. The crop
for the year 1894 one OF the worst seasons
known in Louisiana, was CESS. The New Orleans
Commercial Bulletin remarks thst parties capable
Of judging estimates the crop OF the coming year
as high as III, GOD hogsheads.
The annual return relating to treasure trove
shows that the principal articles claimed by the
Solicitor to the Treasury, on behalf OF the Crown,
in the past year were 2940 silver coins found at
Stamford. Their estimated value ls EOS So. They
had not been disposed Of when the return was
made. In December last 1897 silver coins and
some fragments, found in Chancton, Sussex, were
also claimed on behalf Of the Crown. Their value
was f44 1ss. Cd. Two hundred and ninety-eight of
them were given to the farmer on whose land the
coins were found, to the rector, and to local mu-
seulns; the remainder were sold to the British
tba ado 10 fba
troye account"
The New York Atlassays: 'The extraordir ,ry
phenomenon Of man marrying man occurred
in North Carolina a few days ago. A gentleman
wooed and won the hand of a young lady-the day
for the nuptials WAS appointed, enc the groom
came to time, as did, apparently, the bride But
it seems she had juvenile brother resembling
her so closely, that, when dressed in calico, nOne
but the most practiced eye could discover the diff
ference between them. He presented himself,
was saluted with q kiss, and Sc authorized pre-
late of the magisterial persuasion wsnt through
the cercmsny Of making the twain one. Music
and dancing filled the hour, and all went on charm
ingly until-the cat was uncoaked.
"A curious work has been published at Breslau
giving the result OF an examination of the eyes of
portion Of short sighted children was Ill per
cent, or seventeen hundred and thirty among ten
thousand and sixty. No village children were
found to be short-sighted until thay had been
fome time at school-at least half yesr There
were, in proportion, four times as many sSort-
sighted children in the town (Breslau) as in the
country, and short-sightedness increased general
y with the demands made upon the children. Tne
author OF the work attributes the evil in great
measure to the bad construction Of school bench
es, which force the children to read with their
books close before their eyes, and with their heads
held downward.
The New Orleans Times gives the following
figures Of the Louisiana registry: "There we're
in all registered 1858, of which number 81, 1865,
or nearly two-thirds, were colored. As all the ne
groes were registered, the colored population of
the State must have decreased since 1860, for then
the number Of colored males over twenty-one years
OF age was 81, ,OOO Be that it may it is certain
that the colored registered voters had clear ms
jority Of more than 10000 over the Conservative
whites who had been permitted to register, for the
A,72s Of registered whites embrace not only the
Conservative whites, but the Radical whites as
well, which would leave only about 10000 Conser
vatiyes in all. Being thus fraudulently deprived
Of their strength by Radical tactics what induce
ment had the Conservative whites to join in the
election?"
"A Melbourne paper announces the arrival in
that city Of MIR. Christian Friedrich Schafer,
German traveller, who came overland from sgd
ney, the greater part Of the way on foot Mr.
schafer 10 Of dwarish stature, from the effects Of
an injury to the spine received in youth, but in
spite of this physical drawback he has, during the
last fifteen years. travelled over great part of the
surface Of the world, mostly as pedestrian. He
has passed through every country in Europe,
through Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, North Africa,
and across the width OF North America from the