The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-09
NEWS SUMMARY.
ne1ica has so,oe niles .. telegraph lines

during the wnr Register of the Confederate Treas
ury at Riohmond-is now engaged In the practice
Of Flaw in Montgomery, Ala.
In Berlin horse meat has found 80 much favor
that the number Of horses slaughtered in year
has already reached two thousand six hundred,
aud is constantly increasing. A
The Charlottesville, Va, Chronicle says that in
Nelson the farmers get hands cheaper than in
Albemarle. We learn that the price for good
hands has ranged from $65 to $50.
The friends OF SIMON CAMERON arc urging his
election as United States Senator in preference to
THADDEus STEVENS, on the ground that the latter
is 30 o1a-that he might die before the completion
Of his Senatorial term. They forget that only good
boys die young. So says the New York World.
The largest estates in the county Of Sohmalkal-
dam IN Hesse, which the King Of Prussia has lately
made present OF to the Duke Of Coburg- -Gotha,
In acknowledgment Of his friendly policy, are esti-
mated ut 1850 900. The yearly revenue is
Sweden, some time since provided each Of their
vehicles with q water reservoir, from which the
passengers can quench their thirst. They have
now extended their courtesy by providing each
traveller with newspaper giving the latest intel
Hgence, and which he can read while in the onni-
bus. YE
Advices from Morocco state that the pilgrims
have not yet returned from Mecca. The losses,
suferings, difficulties Of the voyage, and the ap-
prehension Of the cholera, which was raging in
Arabia at the period Of departure for the ceebra-
tion Of their religious fees, have so diminished
the numbers that only seventy three embarked at
Mogador, where they ordinarily collect by hun
dreds and somei ces By thousands.
The Journal Of Commerce, Of the 9th, says We
are informed that the telegraph lines were worked
direct from Harris Content N. E., to New Orleans.
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Thursday evering. Conversation was carried on
with as much rapidty and ease as over short dis
tances. Yesterday morning London kilograms Of
that date were received In New York at $40 AM
: Richmond has number OF convicts in her
prison, and wanted to make them work for their
living. To this end the authorities instituted q
chain gang, and set the prisoners to work in the
streets Early one morning they were sent out, but
one Of their number, finding that there was no law
to compel them to work, fatty refused to bear q
hand, an example which was followed by all the
others. So the investment is failure.
RRYnoLDs, the painter, whose colora once SO
brilliant have sadly faded with age was mortally
afraid lest the secret Of his mixing his colors
should be made public. The inmates Of his own
house did not know it, for he sent one relation to
one shop to buy some Of his ingredients, snd
another person to aecond shop to buy other
colors, and kept the mixing Of them great secret
smart mot Of French bishops Is reported by
the Partisan journals. An abbe, editor Of re-
igious paper, was indicted for having discussed
political questions in the columns Of the journal
under his direction The bishopof his diocese,
who was in court during the trial, was invited by
the Procureur- General to take seat on the
bench. 'sNo," replied he, .sthe post of honor to-
day is BY the side Of the:accused." The abbe WAS
acquitted.
The New York Euesang Cypress SAYS: ssUpwards
OF two Thousand immigrants from Europe arrived
at this port on New Years day-nearly all OF them
IN steamers. The passage money, in the aggre-
gate, must bea handsome sum; but it all goes into
the Golfers Of the foreign steamship line-Radical
high tariff legislation, FOR the benefit Of THAp.
STEVENS and other IRON mongers compelled the
withdrawal Of al competition ON the part Of the
steamers carrying the United States flag"
The Montreal GazeNe notices the first bloom
made in that part Of the world with pure peat fuel
and pronounces it Of tho very highest quality
equal to the best Swedish ircn. The bar was bent
cold BY vice, and doubled up close at right an
gles:with an edge, without crack or flaw appear
ing, the outer corners remaining smooth and
sharp-a test which, it is said, no coal iron made
in Canada will stand. The faot is OF great i'm,
Porance, not only to Canada, in view OF her large
supplies Of peat and iron, but to the whole North
American continent. st..:
The Baltimore San, Of Saturday, Gays: ssrhe
steamship Falcon, Capt. REED, OF the Baltimore
and Charleston Steamship and Railroa. Line. came
into port shortly before noon yesterday, having
made q remarkably quick rn from Charleston.
She brings fair cargo, included in which are 140
bales cotton, mostly intended 5r Liverpool by the
next steamer. Capt. REED reports that at two
o'clock yesterday morning, of Sandy Point he
passed the steamship Liberty, for Havana, and
Somerset for Liverpool going down in fae style.n
On the 29th Of November, horse was missed
from the stable Of Judge THOMAS PERRY, in Cum
berland, Md, and search made for him in every
direction, it being supposed he had besn stolen.
Twenty days after he was discovered in an ice
house on the premises, having fallen through
An aperature about three fest square, During
this period he subsisted solely upon small ouan-
tty Of straw lying in the ice-house, ana without
water. he had q shoat for e companion, which
bad also fallen through the opening. He was, at
parently but little the worse for his long feet.
THOMAS PorE, at Missouri City Junction. Iii.
nots got married, rented q house, bought fur1li.
ture and went to housekeeping. Ten days after
the marriage Mrs. PoPE ran away, came back. bpt
Mr. POPE wouldn't receive her., She went away
again, and again came back, and this time wa. re-
ceived In she-t time she again eloped, but in a
few days, after. sc1zae preliminary arrangements
through agents. she visited her husband in com.
pany with her paramour, q Mr. MURRAY Mr.. MN. |
aAH proposed 70 Mr.. PORE to buy his wife furni.
sure, etc. POPE agreed fifteen dollars was paid
by MURRAY, and all was we'll
magnificent blocks Of cryHtallized sulphur, dug
It Hidvena, have arrived at Paris from Bagdad for
me exhibition, with speci lens Of essence Ct Pc
Eroleum, Of rearls, Of pit coal, and Of broidered
nfcf4a. From Mnna1,J o,,ao;a,