The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-02
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Two English inventors recently exhibited in
Paris musical locomotive, which was ran back
ward and forward to the air of ''The Tannhauser
March"
lobster was recently caught st Jonesport, Me-
measuring three feet five inches in length and
nineteen and half inches around the body, and
weighing twenty-seven pounds. The largest claw
weighed eight pounds fourteen ounces.
On Saturday next the editor and compositors
of the Cleveland Herald and Leader are to play
match game of base ball. The challenge emanated
from the attaches of the Leader. The two 'nines
are to be composed entirely OF those who know
nothing about the game.
The Registrar-General Ct Ireland records the
death at Magherafelt OF a nan aged eighty-6ve
years. He had an immerse pendulous tun
growing from tho side OF his neck, which was
computed By several modical men who saw it to
weigh from thirty to fifty pounds. 1t was Of e.
yoars' growth, and lay over the front OF the right
side of the chest and arms.
VICTOR HUao's "devil fish" is no myth, as this
item from an Italian paper shows: ga few days
back person bathing between Cornigiano and
Sestri, in the Gulf of Genoa, was seized by large
polypus and the creature so interlaced its numer-
ous tentacles round him that he was unable, in
spite of oil his efforts, to free himself and was
dragged under water and was drowned. None OF
the other bsthers ventured to go to Lis assist
ance."
The increase Of coast steam inesi is adding much
to the business Of San Francisco. We see by the
papers OF July Is that in one preceding day steam
ships left ioraOregon, Monterey, Victoria and San
Pedro, and that another line was established for
Pomales while the Asiatic line was in operation,
and the fleet Of sailing yersels along the coast has
greatly increased. Not less than fifty new vessels,
of from fifty to two hundred tons burden, have
been built along the coast during the year, and all
find abundance to do.
The Northern papers contain an account OF the
recent interview between the President and John
NJ. Langston, colored lawyer from Ohio, wherein
it is represented that the President sent for Lang
ston and rendered him the commissonership OF
the Freedmens Bureau. This is mistake. Lang
ston sought the interview and applied for the po-
sitiop. and when informed that there was no va
cancy, and no probability Of one very soon, he
asked for the appointment of minister resident at
Hayti. To this the President made similar re-
sponse and thus the interview terminated.
A letter from Paris states that n. ALEXANDER
DUMAS is engaged on new novel, the scene OF
which is laid In America, the time being that of
the civil war. 1t is understood that many Of the
details and incidents have been furnished by the
eccentric equessrienne, ADAH IsAAcs MENKKN HEE-
NAN, or whatever else the lady's name may be.
Miss MENKEN is not without literary proclivities-
of certain order-and is reported to have kept
journal, in which are amassed many remarkable
occurrences, which are to be worked up" in the
new romance after NJ. DUMAS own Incompatible
manner.
The Board of Brokers Of New York city have an
apparatus in their building for ventilating and
cooling the room in which the gold board hold
their daily meetings. The room is fifty-five feet
square and twenty feet in height. fan blower,
worked by small steam engine. is placed in ono
of the upper rooms, and drawing its supply from
The external air near the top Of the building,
forces continuous current into tho room below,
changing the air every six minutes. During very
hot weather the inAowng air is forced through
chambers packed with ice. In winter heaters are
substituted for the ice chambers.
In the Episcopal Diocesan Convention, held in
Chicago last week, resolution was adopted in
structing the deputies Of the diocese in the next
general convention "to procure by general COM
mon law, with suitable qualifications prohibition
Of the use of the marriage service Of the church IN
cases where either party contemplating marriage
shall have been previously divorced by the civil
law, on grounds other than that Of adultery
The deputies are also instructed to procure rule
Of duty to be followed by clergymen, whose SER
vices are thus applied for in aseertlnng the facts
bearing on such prohibition.
How to get rich-stick to your business. There
is man in New York city who has chicken-stall
at one of the markets. He is now reported to be
worth two millions Of dollars. He lives in large
brown-stone palace on Brooklyn Heights, the furni
ture for which cost $4,000. He attends to the |
sale Of his own chickens, never taking breakfast at
homo, but coming over to the market every morn |
ing between the hours Of four and five o'clock. |
he can be seen every day, standing behind
marble counter, with white apron on. In tho
afternoon he drives out, with his wife and family
or a few friends, in an elegant carriage.
1t is reported by the cable dispatch that the
Spanish insurgents have taken possession Of Sara
gossa the capital OF the rich province Of the for
mer Kingdom Of Arragon, and so famous in the
wars Of Goths and Mo0rs, as well as Of the French
with Spain. General PRM, who made an unsuc- |
eessful attempt at revolution about year and a
half ago, and was driven from the country, is the
leader OF the present movement which, il the re-
ported capture Of Sarsgossa be true, is Of for
midable character. Its success would involve
change Of ministry, and triumph Of those ite-
raj ideas in the Government, Of which General
PR1M is the acknowledged exponent.
The Pr asident, under date Of the Goth August,
directed that Peninsula Island in the Bay Of San
Francisco, California, be reserved for military pur
poses The island lies just west Of Angel Island,
and is reported as having an important bearing
on the defence Of Raccoon Strait, the harbor and
Bay OF San Francisco. On the same date the Pres-
dent directed that reservation for military pur
poses be made at Camp Goodwin, in Arizona Ter
ritory. This reservation is situated in the north
western part of Pima County, on the Gila River,
embracing an area Of thirty-six square miles, or
about 29, ,04O acres. Commissioner WILSON, Of the
General Land Office, has just issued the necessary
instructions to the SurveyorsG General Of Califor
mia and Arizona, at San Francisco to cause the
foregoing reservations TO be respected.
There is serious difficulty existing between
the Pope and the Gear in regard to the restric-
tions imposed upon Catholics in Russia. Both the
Pope and the Czsr insist on maintaining their re-
spective prerogatives, and neither Of them will
yield to the other The Car, however, being abb
solute in mis- own dominions is master Of the stu
alton Taking into consideration the fact that
Catholics must at all times find it necessary to
communicate with their spiritual Chief the Gear
has consented to allow them to write whatever
they may think proper; but only ON condition
that all such communications shall first be sub
mitted to tho inspection Of the Russian Minister
Of the Interior, who is clothed with authority to
pass them, or to return them to the writer's with
his veto. This is putting the Catholics in Russia
under a system of espionage, against which the
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