The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-08
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NEWS SUMMARY.

49,
Gold closed in New York at 1851.
Cotton closed in New York steady at 20cents Tor
Midding Uplands.
Cotton closed in Liverpool unchanged; Uplands
sad.
Real estate has doubled in value at Nantucket
on account Of tho recent success Of the fisheries.
They have a giant IN Missouri who is seven
feet seven and o half inohesbigh. he served in
the Confederate army.
-Pekin, China, has discovered q petroleum
bearing region three hundred miles square near
by, and propos 8 to have the oil fever.
"A German paper tells Of one Christian Segi-
mayer, who Is father to ffty-etght children, and
remarks, "the man has never been sick"
"A New York florist lamonts $500 worth of
flowers which On admirer threw at the feet-or au-
kes-of Black Crook beauties, but never paid for.
Prussia is swallowing oil the small German
States. Ratzeburg, situated in the middle of o
lake, with 1900 Inhabitants, has asked for deglutl-
ton.
There is a dog in London twenty six years old,
Of the Newfoundland breed. His black coat has
been turning gray for the past two years, and is
now nearly white.
-Forney talks about the President as tho Ger
vant who wastes the public property at Washing
ton. How about tho senatorial penknives and
shears, you Treasury leech2
The public teao4ets Of Prussia have addressed
TO their Government a petition asking for q ya-
form in tho organization OF primary instruction,
and requesting a larger income.
Some ingenious Jerseymen have boon caught
floating innocently up and down tho Delaware in a
canal boat, and Disabling molasses whiskoy in Sc
curity from molesting revenue officers.
-Farragut went to the fair at Mini Novgorod
and was there dinod.. After dinner there were
Sn0eOhea. In whirh Cvar az Ynopu ro;pfo ~ .;,,;
larity were found between Russia and America.
"A man in Hendricks County, Indiana, named
James Adams. ate thirty-two peaches, q couple Of
~muskmelons, and ono raw sweet potato, and drank
two gallons of buttermilk u~,--'os" WIDOW.
-runy organized Congregationalism is but fiji
teen years old in Ohio, yot there are now ninety
four churches with acting pastors, thirty-three
with pastors, sixteen vacant, and twelve uncon-
nected.
The great objection to smart children is that
when they commence having whiskers they leave
off having brains. BY forcing children you get so
much into their heads that they become cracked
in order to hold it.
"A silver mine has been discovered in the farm
OF Mr. John j. Larew, ten miles southwest of
staunton, Va. Surface specimens Of the ore have
been analysed, which, are said to be very rica and
to promise a fine yield upon-going deeper.
"A diamond in the rough state was found at
Camden, Mississippi, during the war, but at the
time was considered Of no value. Since then it has
been examined, and in the opinion Of intelligent
men it is worth $50, 900. It is in the possession OF
DIR. Tom Cotton, Of Camden.
"A French writer says that Garibaldi's inno-
cence exceeds all belief. ga few years ago he
said to o friend You are aware that I gave
notes to NJ. Alexander Dumas to write nv me-
moirs from. Would you believe that he has added
to them a number of things Of his own invention2"
The Dubuque (1owa) Times says "We have
here an unexplored mining field nearly seventy
miles square,, which has been merely scratched on
The surface Of q few points, and over $50, 600, 900
value of lead has been raised. The wonder is that
our lead region docs not attract greater attention
romthe mining adventurer.
Greeley has written to o friend in England, o
note explanatory OF his Inconsistency in opposing
female suffrage. He sapiently says that he gives
the negro a vote because he wants it, and denies
1t to woman because she does not want it. He also
thinks female suffrage would lead to uuarrels in
families. Peaceful Horace
-Iho Rockingham Register says emigrants from
the more desirable class Of Northern society are
Hooking all through the Valley. All express them-
selves as delighted, and many of them have de-
sermined TO locate among us. We welcome all
f MSo e sqRss to f8A ant agvdad dbbaie 6@ae8arnoo t4Fp dh asdfafrrtac
sources.
"A sailing carriage, designed for crossing the
plains, has been made in st. Louis. It's wheels
are ten feet high; it has two upright lib sails, and
q sail on each spoke OF the two wheels on one side
OF the wagon. The steering gear acts Oh the
forward wheels. The body is shaped like a boat,
and hung low, and will be used as q boat in cross.
ing streams.
From the Winston NC, Sentinel we learn that
the fruit trade has about closed in that section. In
WinafOn and Qa1aro &oookho - - o,oka7l..
ly 5000. The shipments Of one house in Salem
amounted to $50, 900. It is estimated that the en-
tire shipments Of Forsythe County will amount to
100000. This immense revenue to the country
Ia produced almost exclusively by women and
children.
"A letter from Niagara, in the New York Ga
BETTE, gives the following proof that all the fash
ionable .exquisites have not left the Falls. While
on Goat Island an deliberately dressed woman.
looking ct the Horse Shoe Fall, seemed to have no
eye for any thing but the delicate green Of the
Stumbling water. what a delicate shads 70 she
said. "How becoming it would be to q light
blonde, like me, Emma" doubtless her oondpan,
ton). when I return to New York, I intend to
have Q dress just like 1t. Ian't it sweet, Emma?
] think it will be splendid" :
General Wilcox, at Lynchburg, received q tel
e8ram from Marion, smythe County, o few days
ago, Stating that an officer, lately arrived nom
New Orleans, had been attacked with yellow fever.
The resident physician, under contract to practice
on the sick OF the garrison at Marion, had refused
TO attend the patient. General Wilcox applied to
Dr. M. 2. Christian, Of Lypchburg, who has had
experience Of the yellow fever, while attached to
the navy, and the Doctor accordingly left for
Marion. The patient, who was First Lieutenant
Clifford strickney, Of the Twentieth United States
Infantry, Regular Army, died.
"A very ingenious piece OF mechanism for the
detection and extraction Of bullets in wounds has
been devised by NH. sylvan do Wilde. The nroba
consisting OF two steel wires insulated from eaon
other, Is connected with an electric horseshoe
magnet and q bell, and when introduced into a
wound, 1t touches the bullet, the circle is COM
pleted, and the bell rings. The forceps act on the
same principle, and ere intended, first to detect,
then to seize the bullet. They have curved points,
and not pallets or spoons. The points OF the
probe are kept sheathed on introduction to q
wound, and not uncovered until the supposed bull
Lett L. felt. This is effected by means OF a sliding
Sabse Mr.. De Wilde's probe lis a sensitive arti2-
DIAL finger, which enters deeply into the tissues,
and gives the signal at once when it detects the
hidden source of mischief below.
An Eastern rmy is q popuious affair. That
detailed for the invasion OF Abyssinia is made up
of1l,o0o troops, chiefly Punjaubees, and a proper
Hon OF cavalry. With these there will 90 the
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