The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-03
F4he 1ait9 New5.
NEWS SUMMARY.

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With GRANT in tho War Department, Brrikn's
brooch h-oaliny rifle contract is likely 10 come 10
grioi.
By the latest official reports in Great Britain, it
appears that tho English race grows in those
islauds ut tho rate OF 1000 day.
Au exchange thinks tho pcwg OF somo OF tic
churches ought 10 rest pivots, 10 that the oecu
pants could eco who comes in without straininS
their nccks.
dark story goes that kegs Of old nails are
thrown into tho Saratoga Springs at night to Rc-
euro the flavor. Glue aud mackercl skins also |
limited at.
Tho Spanish Government appears to be expect |
ing revolution. Ships OF war scour Tho COASTS,
especially of Catalonia. Constant nrrcsts tako |
place ON land.
Havana has found now source of revenue.
Some 2 900 cock tights tao place thoro ovcry year,
and by imposing liconso Of slOo por day on the
fighters, noat little sum will DO obtained. rhero
is $500 900 invested i'm that business in Havana.
At q recent Saratoga hop Miss FANNY W-N, of
Boston, "Tho Exquisite" appeared in short
skirt mat!o up OF various colorod ribbons, Bcwcd
together lcngthwiso high whito waist: heavy
cherry colorcd sash; jaunty blue velvet cap OH
QUO s:do Of her head. Hair negligent.
Tho Lord Mayor OF London las determined to
apportion tho f2500, tho gift Of tho Sultan 10 the
London poor, nmong such Of tho humane inHlitu-
tions deal moro Immediately with tho homeless
and destitute poor, rather than attempt to distrb-
uto it himself among individuals.
A we'll known steamboat captain on Tho Alabama
river, who has boon rnsticating i'll the vicinity of
Montgomery, writes to friend i'll Now Orleans
crop Of z lively winter that tho largest
ono OF this year, judging by tho ivS cuS.. ~ ..e
through which ho has travelled, and which he hab
examined.
valuable collection Of living animals for the
geological Society Of London las arrived from CAL
cutta. 1t consists of two Of Tho lnrge wild Indian
cattlo called Sayns, Panolia decr two ipe Indian
Peicans, four domosclle cranes, q I1imalayan bad
ger, two black 1'ibGtan wolves and other animals,
altogether upward Of twenty in number. Most Of
them are prosonts TO the society from its corrcs-
ponding members in India.
It pays now-a-days to invent a popular toy and
to mako II sell well. Tho person who invented Tho
common 1trcct toy known as tho ''Ioiurnng ball. u
ia snid to have realized $1,000 the always
uound-up-top" realized $4,000. Tho inventor of
the "wauing doll, which wac so fashionable q
few years ago, made s75, 900 by his patent. Tho
dancing "Jim Crow" toy, introduced few years
ago, was invented by oil invalid boy and W, d
fortune.
Tho Georgetown (Teras) INdichnlan says =
'Thero nro now several thousand beeves in Vii
liamson county, full, fat and ilno. Tho samo may
bo said of this county, in fact OF every county in
Texas. Perhaps million fat bcovos could be re-
moved from this State without endpngering tho
supply for homo use, anu TO tho great benefit OF
tho range, which is beginning to DO ovcrstockod
in many couutits 8. Tho increase exceeds tho con-
sumption everywhere"
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damage in lower Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas,
the reports from tho cotton crops III Tennessee
arc favorable. Tho Nashville Banner OF the 9th
ult., Gays that tho present clop makos finer dis
play Of superior staple than that of any previous
soBson for years. Tho flno aunlty of tho cotton
ia especially spoken of, which is partly attributed
to tho agricultural skil Of tho Tennessee planter
It is probably also duo TO tho fact that tho Byacm
OF small farming ia moro prevalent in Tennessee
than in tho '' Cotton statos" proper.
method OF making use OF fowls, recently do
vised in France is said to DO Of great agricultural
chino Should DO kopt on o3cty farm wi;ci filled wi
fowls, aud Should bc transferred oycry dav 10 tho
spot wherc tho most active farming operatiops
are being carried on. The fowls would thop fol.
low tho plough and harrow clear tho land tho
roughly OF fly and worm, pick up all tho stray
grain after harvest, keep themselves high in
health, and feed themselves without cost.
a Milan letter says: Tho magnificent covered
gnllory leading from the Piazza dol Duomo to tho
Piazza dclla scaia, is to bo inauguratcd towurtl
tho ond OF the present month"; This passage s
tho largest and finest in Europe, and will, when
finished, have cost twenty-five millions Of francs
for site and construction. Tho work las boon
executed by IN English company. Tho KING will
probably bo present at tho opening, as his Macs-
ty laid the frat stone in April, 1851. Tho same
company is about to commence the reconstruc-
ton, according to a magnificent plan, or tho
entirc Pazza dol Duomo."
The number of telegraphic dispatches receiyed
at the central station in Paris has noroasel an
considerably that tho administration finding II
impossible to send them by porters in all dircc
tons TO their respective destinations, has adoptcd
q plan Tor Tho speedy trnnsmisson OF letters. A
continuous series of iron tubes sixty-fiyo mil;nu
Tes Two and 4 hnlf inches in diameter. la. Ieeu
laid down from the central Office IN tho Rne lo
drcnele st. German to the Hotel des Postos. and
back again to Tho central Office. Each cyIindcr
may contain as many as forty dispatches, and a
new one is sent of every ton minutcs.
In 1865 tue imports into tho Australian colonies
reached S5,oOo,OO0 and the exports EsO 0OO 0o0
within tho last sixteen years New South Wales
aha victoria hnro yielded S15O, 900 900 worth OF
gold, and New South Wales has produced 1000
oOo TOM OF coal. South Australia ha. aIso. within
tho last ton years, exported Go, ,ooD 900 worth OF
"copper" Tho tonnage of YosscIs which arrived At
Austraasian ports in 1865 was 1000, 900 md n
almllar amount Of tonnage left those ports during
tho samc period. Forty years ago tho number oI
horses' cattle and sheep III Australia was under
ao0,ooo; tho number is now nearly %, 900, 900.
Advices from Europe announce tho death fran
cholera, on tho 11th instant, at Albsno near Rome
OF Carhnnl LOUIS ALTIERI. The deceased was do
seconded from an anciant and princely house. and
was the brother OF tho present Prince C1pnrsr
ALTIsR1. He was born in Rome on tho 17tl of
July, 1905, and was created n cardinal pricst in
lsi5, by his Holiness Popo GnEaoRy XVI. with
the title of Santa Marin del Portco. Cardinal
ALTTEM was aso Bishop OF Albano, First Cban,
berlain OF tho Popo, President Of tho Council of
FINANCES, and Grand Chancellor Of tho Unyor.;ty
OF Homo. He wan most learned and pous
divine. f1'
dispatch from Omaha, giving further nor,icu-
lars OF tho fight at Fort Phil. Koarnoy a short
timo since, snys the Indians, after two or tbroe
attaoks in small parties, tied thor horscs 10 tbc
timber and stripped themselves naked and foncbi
on foot, surrounding tho corral, which was Io.
Tended with tho most determined bravery. MANY
OF the Indians woro killed within thirty pacos Of
the detenceH. Tho GOODNESS and skillful hapdlinc
OF their brocch-loaders tho only things which
saved the whites from complete destruction. Tho
fight ragged with intense fury for two and half
hours, when the appearance OF Colonel SMITH with