The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-16
NEWS SU.N.RIRY.

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"A medicll college and hospital Tor women IS 10
be established in Cleveland, Ohio.
The latest and most echerchs thing in Paris
is Gilt Holsters worn III the hair.
There Is q suspicion that the failure CT the
opera in New York was caused by the rivalry OF
the fashionable churches.
Hon. Robert ]. Walker has purchased rosi-
dence four niles from Washington, where he anu
his family now reside.
Roller skating is becoming SO popular Ii Cin-
cinnatl that one Of tho public halls is to Dc &C.
voted to it.
-sixtv-aye widows and one hundred and forty
orohans are the result OF the Ferndale (WaIes]
colliery explosion. -
Fax is SO profitable iu Canada that -four mills
.bava been turned into liren mills, and near Pres
TN twelve hundred acr>s OF fax were raised.
Professor alter Hilnan, graduate OF Brown
Uniyers ty, has been elected to the Presidency OF
the Baptist Collego at Cin.on, Mississippi.
--Ihree epochs happened in single day to q To-
ledo man. HIS wife died at nine O'Clock, he 6uleo
her at three, and married another at SIX. NO
cards.
Tho Now Orleans Picayune Of the 9th instant
complains of warm, damp weather. Many OF the
trees still retain their cen ioisge, and the roses
and lilies are ali abloom.
Serious bread riots have taken place at Belfast,
Ireland, owing to complaints Of high prices. On
November 23d on organized mob smashed the win
doSs Of the bakers shops and r.fed them'
-presidens Lincoln's stepmother, "Aunt Sally
Line In" the neighbors cal h3r, still lives neaV
Farmington, Illinois. she is nearly eighty years
c.s.
Missouri is proHting by the immigration to the
United States. 1t is estimated that ZOO OVo per-
sons have oome from abroad and settled in Mis-
souri, within a year.
-Elmin A. stevens, late President Of the Cam
den and Amboy Railroad Company, is about to
construct street railways il Paris, Ind has engag-
ed General Mcclellan as engineer.
-rhe Newbern papers give an account OF the mur-
der II CO., John Il. Netnercutt OF Jones county,
n. c.. AID horrible treatment Of his wife. Five
nezroes are the offenders, who have not been al
rested.
According to French adyces the vintage has
turned out unfavoraby. Eleven hogsheads OF
wine will 10. make more brandy than seven hogs
heads in 1855. Tie French cognao merchants WILL
not take orders Of any price for the present.
The Fenisns constantly alarm the English poo
ple. The latest mail reports that in London
number of policemen have been posted outside
the private residences OF the Earl OF Derby, Mr.
Disrael,, and Mr.. Hardy, Of tho Government as
protective measures against Fenians.
o would suppose that Scotland would be
the locnlit; lest likely to furnish volunteers to
the Papal army. Yet the first detachment Of the
volunteers from the United Kingdom to the Papal
army consisted Of fifty Hishlanders, rorty-seven
o. whom We're over six feet in height.
A Vienna letter states that the manufacture OF
breech-load ng guns is beipg carried forward IN
Austria with great activity. The Sta:e arsenals
produce about SIX hundred per- day, and officers
from ali the regiments are arriving in the capital
to learn the use of this new arm in order to serve
as instructors 10 the whole army.
The Austrian squadron in the Leyant has been
recalled in order 20 escors the body of the Emperor
Maxmiian on its arrival on the coast OF Austria.
On the passi.g thevess containing his remains,
all the forts and batteries on the coast are to give
the prescribed salutes. The body VIII be landed
at Trieste and immediately sent on to Vienna
Navigation is announced from all quarters as
closing. The New York canals are frozen; the Wei
land canal stopped. The rivers OF Maine, the Con
necticut River, the >pper Mississippi and tho up
Der part OF the Hudson also frozen over, whilst
several harbors to the eastward are already closed
by ice.
in Japan it is said there are twenty thousand
Roman Catholics descended from the ChrIstisn
converts left there two hundred years ago, at the
tune Japan was closed to foreign intercourse.
They are scattered throughout the empire, anu
there are no new converts. Nagasaki is their CEN
tgal point, where there is Roman Catholic Bishop
and several priests.
"A letter from Rome states that the Pontltcal
Government had decided upon hberating only
those of the Garibaldian prisoners who belong to
the provinces which formed no part in the Roman
territory before 1859. The French Government
appears to have interposed, and to have induced
the Papal authorities to exclude from this act OF
grace those prisoners only who are natives OF the
provinces Still subject to his Holiness.
-Hayti, which seems never to be at peace, Is
troubled with new outbreak. At present the
Hayten rebel army numbers eight thousand, and
they are bent on overtArowing Salnaye, who, on
his side, declares tina. he will blow up his capital
rather than submit. The rebels want Gefrard
back, and the same turbulent spirits that drove
him away are now said to bo clamorlng for his re-
turn,
49, s~~~
Atlantic Cable has brought the Cable Company 50
accession OF business so great as to increase Its
profits. The rate no = is one-fourth what it was
when the cable was first opened to the public, yet,
at these greatly reduced rates, the number OF mes
sages has 80 much increased that the amount OF
cash received daily is announced to be far greater
than ever before.
The Norfolk papers give all account Of the muir
der Of AIs. JohaI ma Moore, by her husband Ed
ward Moore who, after knocking his wife dowi, on
Monday night, kicked and stamped her body unit.
life was extinct. It occurred ut Newtcwn, near
Portsmouth, and caused great excitement. Moore
WIS arrested. He had, 1t is alleged, been in the
habit OF badly treatlrg his wife, who was twenty
Ave years OF age and the mother Of one child, aged
six weeks.
the New York Tribune says ''Ihe outory for
Setrenchment IN the Government expenditures is
growing louder and louder at Washington, and we
trust will lead to some important reforms. A bet
ter place for beginning could not te found than
IN the Offices Of the Secretary Of the Senate and
Clerk of the House. Both these gentlemen are
weighed down with useless subordinates who
have nothing to do, and would not do anything ii
they had it." Let them all be deoapitated at once.
The right OF women to exercise the suffrage
has received practical demonstration at the
election of Mr.. Jacob Bright as member of Par.
lament Tor Manchester, in England. woman
named Lily Maxwell, who kept shop and PAID
rates, was duly recorded on the register, by
some eYrCr, as voter. She went to the polls and
claimed tue right to vote. and her claim had to be
admitted, as the inspectors could not go behind
the register. The case excited considerable in
terost.
Steam. it appears, is at present employed quite
successfully il pulling down houses, where the
contractor cares little about preserving the mate
rials. II constructing the works for the extension
OF tie Metropolitan Railway in London, large