The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-01
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NEWS SUMMARY
Gold closed in New York yesterday at 4ss.

Gold closed In New 1oIk yesseio"y Nv ]"s'
Cotton closed steady at 22c.
six thousand six hundred and hve loads OF DIRT
vere remoyed from the streets of Cincinnati
within two weeks.
The suspension Of the Bangor Times leaves but
six daily newspapers in Maine-one Democratic
and fve Republican.
Queen VICTORIA is said to be so highly ple' sed
with the Hattering notices Of her book that ~ nef
order they have been collected in huge volume.
They have q Gas Inspector at Cincinnati who
weekly reports the quality Of gas in candle power.
Last weeks report represents the gas at 15-candle
power every night.
The yellow fever has visited twenty towns in the
lower portion of the State Of Texas. So g OF
these places were never known to have case Oh
the disease before.
The fishermen plying of Mersea Island, on'the
coast OF England, have discovered about twelve
hundred casks of 6ne gunpowder floating about.
The valre is estimated at $1,000.
Professor MAX MULLER is engaged upon series
Of essays on religion, mythology, Legends ana
customs, which are to be published under the
title OF "Chips from German Workshop.
Senator PoMERor and ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
are stumping Kansas in favor OF women's rights
ard negro suffrage. The Republican State Com
mittee ignores female suffrage to their great dis
gust.
The Panama steamer which sailed from San
Francisco on the SOth instant, will take machinery
for twenty stamp and quartz mills, from foun-
dery in that city, for mine at Kings Mountain,
North Carolina.
STERLING PRICE late General in the Confederate
army, and for the past six months doing business
in St. Louis, is dangerously i'll, and was not ex-
pected to live more than day or two. He has
been unwel for some time.
It is a curious fact that news from South Ameri-
ca comes now by way Of England. Yankee enter
prise has not yet established line of steamers
with South American ports, and the British lines
bring to London the items which are conveyed
hare by the Atlantic cable.
The Roman people have been greatly excited by
an eagle alightng on the clock Of the Palazzo Ci-
torio, where it perched all night, despite the ef-
forts Of the police to drive him away 1t was re-
garded as presaging the advent of the eagles OF
the Republic
A man in Maine has invented machine for dig
ging potatoes. It consists of Q scoop made OF
boiler iron, which is driven under the potatoes
and lifts them with the earth upon hopper ON
which the earth is shaken of, and the potatoes
thrown into the furrow behind the machine.
The London Telegraph says: ''The rivalry be-
tween north and south, not only as regards race
horses, but also as regards special products, or
even literature, is rapidly disappearing. The very
dialects Of Yorkshire and Somersetshire are IN
course of assimilation to each other through the
mighty invention of STEPHENSON"
man in Round Rock, Texas, slaughtered beef,
and found in it o genuine ten dollar gold piece.
farmer lost a purse containing fifteen dollars in
gold while surveying on tbs praires in the looali-
ty, and it is supposed that the steer swallowed the
coin while @ ewing the purse. The money was
lost severslyears ago.
Birds Of passage have begun their annual migra.
ton scutdwlrd through Belgium month earlier
this year thin usual; already long lines Of storks
have taken flight; 5nstards have been killed In the
neighborhoodo of Psris, and wild ducks have passed
in such numbers that the eye cannot follow them.
All this, it is said, presages hard winter.
The drouth in Ohio still prevails, to the great In
jtfy Of the corn and potatoe crops. Farmers are
selling their stock; water is very scarce, and, in
many cases, the cattle have to be driven a great
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for the winter markets to any great extent and no
contracts are being made but those for early de-
livery,
The will OF the widow Of King FERDINAND the
First has been opened at Rome. The Queen be-
queaths to the Lguorist Fsthers "a branch Of the
Jesuits) OF Naples, three thousand crowns; in case
Of the suppression OF that community the sum is
to 90 to the Lguorists Of Sicily, and should these,
too, be suppressed, then it viii revert to the
Honse Of Hspsburg.
newspaper sooant says that there are two
kinds OF house fies-those that bite and those
that do not; and he has discovered way to tell
them apart. The Hiss that do not bite, he says,
always rest with their heads downward, and the
biting flies with their heads upward. There is an
essisr and more certain method Of distinguishing
them, namely, by the bite.
Judge P4RKKB, Of the Circuit Court Of Virginia,
has rendered q decision that the old banks making
assignments under the Act Of February, 1885, can
not give preference to any class ofreditors; thst
note-holders have no preference over depositors,
and that deposits in Confederate money are to be
treated as debts Of the bank to the extent Of their
value at the time Of the deposit
The English papers announce the death Of the
engraver, wnLIAN WALKER Among his best
works were the Passing Of the Reform Bill" the
Aberdeen Cabinet" and the 'Iiterary Party at |
Sir Joshua Reynolds" One of his latest produc-
tions, ''The Distinguished Men Of Science" the |
engraving Of which occupied him during six years,
cost him nearly $4,000 before bringing any return.
At meeting Of merchants Of San Francisco to
consider the navigation of the Colorado River, the
factg were produced to prove that goods can be
carried from that city to Collville, six hundred
Miles above the mouth Of the river, at four cents
pond AID be transported thence to Salt Lake
Cty at good profit. The passage can be made
during all seasons Of the year, in from ten to fifteen
dsys. It is proposed TO subscribe $4,000 to build
new steamer to run in connection with one al
ready on the river. Great interest is manifested |
In the project.
The Minnesota Historical Society made grand |
excursion to Lake Mnnetonka on Tuesday last. |
to investigate what were supposed to be Indian !
mounds, aom 500 to 1000 years old. Several hu-
man bones we're found and discussed, which after
ward proved to be the broken limbs of trees. A |
supposed skull elected great attention from its re-
markable chronological development, but it was
found to be mud-turtle's shell. Several mounds |
have been prepared in that vicinity, and supplied
with bones and pieces Of broken crockery for the
future investigation Of this Society.
Ina speech delivered by Sir JoHs BowRNa, at
Dundee, before the British Association, he urged
that greater attention should be paid at the public
schools to reading, writing and arithmetic. He |
stated that when he was Governor Of Hong Kong,
q highly connected young gentleman was sent ont |
to him for public employment, bringing recon- |
mendations from very influential quarters. re-
port having shortly afterward reached him of the
gentleman's ignorance, he sent for him and exam
ined him as to his proficiency in spelling. When
required to spell the word candle the highly con-
nected young gentleman spelled it "kandel"
The rage for any fanciful accessory to toile. is
not oflnlg duration with French wssnen; even
gilt ornaments, says the Queen, are already be,
ginning to bs superseded by ivory ones. Disppe
In farnona for its CARVINGS in that heantif,l