The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-18
rhe 1al19 Mems
NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
rho rs,o.t stvle of chignon is called the Bis
marck.
General sheridans reception in Boston cost
that city $4,000.
The total receipts of the st. Louis fair last
week were over 100000.
Boston derives yearly revenue of $50, $50 from
Quincy and Faneul Hall markets.
leo formed quarter Of an inch thick near
fredericksburg, Va, Wednesday.
Robert Lincoln son Of the late President, mas
Just been admitted to the bar in Chicago.
The s ris of the blue grass region OF hentucAy
are said to be the handsomest in the country.
Some fifty ladies in Linn county, Kansas, nave
,d,pted short skirts. which fall about to the
koee.
There have been heavy frosts in several OF the
counties in the Virginia Valley and some damage
done to the corn.
-Pttsburg proposes to buy sll its bridges for a
million and half Of dollars, and to open them tc
the public without toll.
"A number of farms in the Virginia Valley have
lately been sold to purchasers from Pennsylvania
and other Northern States.
Rev. Miss A. J. Chaplin has been called to the
pastorate of church at Mount Pleasant lo"a'
She is said to be fluent preacher.
Crosses are erected, candles are kept Dufh'
ing, and flowers are daily strewed, on the spot ~
oueretaro where Macmillan was executed.
Bishop Kip Of California, has issued pasto-
raj latter urging his clergy to use their best ef
FORTS 10 bring about better observance OF the
Sabbath.
The Kansas and Pacific Rsilway is completed
ss far as Hayes City. The stage company and ex
press line to Denver will make this point then
terminus for the Winter.
1t is said that the common squash bug Is
deadly enemy to the cotton worm, and that gen
eral planting Of squashes in Texas now going OF
will afford an opportunity to test the truth.
The business men cf Memphis are much dis
couraged. Hard times are predicted for tint
people OF the South. The price OF cotton vii
not pay the cost of production, and many OF the
people are obliged to sell at the present ruinoui
price.
General Mcclellan has taken passages fol-
himself and family, and proposes to sail non
Liverpool for this country in the steamship Persis
on the 10th OF November. He may be expected
therefore, to arrive here about the 9th OF tina
month. =,
The Memphis Avalanche tells Of German
who settlsd in West Tennessee in 1853 upon
capital of $500 and good health, hired farm
$500 rent, cleared $1,000 the first year, bought tn
farm at s10,C00, and now has become wealth!
land Proprietor. s
A decision has Just been made by the Court
Appeals in New York, in case in which the pa
pers wore served by Judge Cheever in the veal
1877. The case involved the right of dover, anc
the property in debate increased twenty-five
times its value at the commencement OF the htga
ton.
The Charlotte Democrat says: "We saw lump
Of gold last week weighing six pounds, which was
found in branch near the Austin Mine in Unio1
county. Judge Kelley was not far from right wher
hs talked about the vast wealth Of this region o.
the earth The gun never shone on better Sec
tion OF country than this and all that is necessary
is for our Northern rulers to let US alone.
"A Paris coachman having lost his tongue BY
amputation- considered necessary because OF
csnoer thereon surgeon Of the Hotel Dieu re-
placed it With one made of India rubber. Although
like old dog Tray, che cannot speak, he tastes
and smokes hia pipe with apparent enjoyment.
After eating he takes cut his tongue cleans it, and
carefully lays it away in his pocket until it is again
called into requisition. go
We have heard on carrying base ball matters
to extremes, but the following is q little the
''basestn we have yet discovered: Speaking Of
home runs-that was an earnest prayer offered by
young deacon, who, fresh from game Of base
ball, stepped into the weekly prayer meeting. He
was called upon to pray, and in winding up his in
vocation, said: "Ohl Lord, ss We start for home
run to glory, don't let us be caught out by the
Devil on sy." s7s - -,
-Rembrnndt was dining one day with friend,
whom IL was discovered that there was no mustard,
and the servant wes sent for some. Rembrandt,
having little confidence in the servants effort to
make haste, laid q wager that he could etch the
view from the dining room window before the SER
want returned. He took up plate, tried his
etching-point upon it, sketohed the view and won
his bet.5 The engraving Is a very rars one, and 9
spgls copy Of it recently sold for nearly hundred
dolars.''I 20 a91 h'.s s.' 80 ,rs..
IAN ex-U Union officer OF high standing, lately sr-
rived in Washington from Galveston, gives figures
which show the rayages OF yellow fever to be unr
precedsnfed At the time. Of General Grifin,s
funeral, out swenty yseven efieers and four hun
dred and thirty-seven men on the rolls Of the bat
talon stationed there, only four officers sud TWEEN
ty-four men could be obtained for escort duty.
The fatality among old citizens has been very
great, some Of those carried of having lived
through seventeen seasons o. epidemics. e.
Who requires the more porter after fatigue
q married man or o single man Here is fine,
new point for debating societies to discuss. If
anybody doubts whether there be an,Fthing in the
aueg ion we shall refer him to the late review Of
the British troops at Chatham by q. B. Il. the
Duke Of Cambridge, at She conclusion Of which
q pint Of porter was issued to each man engaged,
.'and an additional pint to each married man"
Such are the advantages or at least the set-o, Of
matrimony in England, and particularly in the
English service.
The profits Of wheat growing in the Northwest
appear froDi o single statement from the Milwau-
kea correspondent Of the Philadelphia Inquirer, as
follows Wheat can be made to pay fair profit 20
the fsrner IN al the Northwestern region, at the
rate Of one dollar bushel. .Itis now bringing in
this market from one dollar and seventyfve cents
to two dollars. One farmer has employed ffty-two
men the present season, with fifteen reapers. He
ri D..
sold his wheat at one dollar and ninety cents a
bushs and has actually cleared nearly forty thou
sand dollars on his years crop. This American
farmer is well known in this quarter, and the
figures are capable Of demonstration.
M. Geyelin, manager Of the French National
Poultry Company, says that turkey cocks are en-
ployed largely 70 hatch and rear chickens, as they
can incubatea q much larger number of eggs than
hens. The way in which they. are induced to take
to the hens eggs is as follows; glass or two of
strong vine is poured down a turkeys throat, and
whilst IN state Of inebriation the feathers are
plucked ohis breast and he is placed on large sit
ting Of eggs, On coming to his senses nextmorn-
ing he feels that sudden change has come over
him, and as the denuded and nTitated part of his
body is kept warn and soothsd by crouching down
ON the smooth eggs, he wisely accepts his new po-