The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-13
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NEWS SUMMARY.
Cotton closed lower in New York, at a7a27bc. for
Middling Uplands.
Gold quoted at 1869.
The liverpool market continued heavy; Middling
Uplands I'D.
In the new Senate of Connecticut there is but
elawyer. So OF tho Rhode Island Senate elect.
Ibe 'unfcation" Of Italy has given V1cron
EMANuEL possession of no less than fifty palaces
and royal villas. Ii
Montana paper says 'sthe mortality of Helena
Is extraordinarily good. Only seventeen men were
killed during the past two weeks"
New York Company is about to erect glass
factory on Rock River Canal, Rockbridge County,
Va The sand is worth eleven dollars barrel,
yielding ninetysiA per cent. Of silica.
The largest paper mill in the world is about to
go into operation at Greenville Conn. It will turn
out IS, 900 pounds Of printing paper per day, and
Is expected to produce decline in price.
hr. Wnr- H. BABcoCK has ceased his connection
with the Chester Standard, and Major s. P. HAM
1LroN will hereafter conduct the editorial depart
ment.
It is reported that Queen VICTORIA has deter
mined to exercise her prerogative OF clemency in
future, and that no capital execution shall ever
again occur in England.
Texas exchange asks ssWhat are the most
lasting oblgations2 and answers Obligations to
pay which the last Texas Legislature handed
down to posterity unin,paired.'
Judge BALLARD, Of the United States Supreme
Court IN Kentucky, yesterday deposed from Office
A. b. HUBBARD, United States Commissioner at
Lexington, for transcending his authority
During the month of February and March the
Freedmens Bureau restored to owners in Tenncs-
see eleven plantations, containing 240O acres
thrty-hve plantations, acres not given !; twenty
four houses and lots one grist mill one stable.
The Newbern IN. CO. Commercial says that o
whale, some forty feet long, captured Satur-
day last off Beaufort harbor, and towed into port
It is said that7 forty barrels Of oil will be got from
him.
The Treasurer Of Coshocton County, Ohio, was
some time ago found by the Shorif in the Office
: gagged and bound and s22 900 Of the county mo-
ney gone. 1t now turns out that the Treasure
and the Sheriff were the s'gang" Of thieves
watch has been manufactured in Paris which
is wound up by simply opening the case to note
the time. It only requires to be opened once a
month to keep it always going, and it is perhaps
inc nearest approach to perpetual motion yet in
vented.
The Western and Atlantic (Ga.) Railroad paid
s6OO 600 into the State Treasury for the months of
January and February last each. March did not
pay expenses, owing to the blockade. The road
under good management, is worth about half
million year to the State
The New York Times says: ssThe difference in
the death-rate between this city and BROOKLYN
during the past week, speaks volumes against the
evils OF overcrowding in our tenement houses In
Brooklyn the proportion was IVA per 1000 inhabi-
tantse and in New York it WIS 1882"
At a full meeting Of the New Orleans Assocated
prnaS hold IN 7o% OyIx o1
determined to discontinue the Monday morning
Z" edition Of the following journals of that city:
the Picdyn1e, the Crescent, the Bee and the
Times.
s.,s, $1,000 came oil today 51RY On Il
Fishers Island, between GEORGE RooKE, of Prov
dence, aud CHARLES Collins, of New York. After
lighting sixteen rounds, in IN hour and fifteen
minutes, COLLINS WIS declared the winner in con-
sequence Of q foul blow"
The American Board of Foreign Missions during
the year ending February 18th, received in dona-
lions from the people of the United States s175
sos 15. This is 4,070 50 more than the receipts
OF the previous year, but is reported to be much
less than ihe increased expenses OF the Board of
Missions demand. @ ~T
company in boring for oil on the Leesbnre
pike eighteen miles from Alexandria, Va. at q
depth of ninety feet discovered silver and at 100
1eet Oh N greater abundance than in any Pennsyl-
vania wells at that depth. They have also come
upon 9 gold vein, and they propose to bore to .
depth of 400 feet for oil.
A paper published in Manilla states that when
the hull of the Spanish iron-clad Nunsoncin was
cleaned at Otahlte, tho worknen found large
Plece OF electric wire around the screw which had
been attached to one OF the torpedoes in the har-
bor OF Callao. Had the wire performed the duty
Tor which it YVES intended, there would probably
be no Nunaanci1 in existence now.
merchant Of Boston, when in Lyons, France i
was 80 much pleased with the fountain which
stands in front Of the Hotel de Vile, that he was
induced to order its counterpart for Boston Com
mon. It is in bronze, twenty-five feet high and
exceedingly beautiful. The colossal figures at the
base are splendid specimens of art It is now on
its way.
Alta meeting Of the Palestine Exploration So
ciety, held in Oxford, England Sir HENRY Raw
LINasoN gave as his opinion that the excavations
going on and contemplated at Jerusalem would
gave knowledge Of Jewish history, from the time
of SOLOMON, down to the destruction Of the CITY
more full and perfect than we have of any period
Of Grecian or Roman history.
In the Last number of the Nation the editors an
nounce that they will not hereafter specially adyo
cate the claims OF the coored race, the rights Of
the black man having been secured by law. This
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some time. prospect Of the cessation Of Radical
agitation will have an effect nearly as beneficial On
the credit Of the country as the early resumption
OF specie payments. s:s j-s4. Il s Il: u.
We learn from the Richmond Dispatch that .
convention Of gentlemen representing the rail-
roads between Kingsville and New York, was held
in that city last week. They adopted new
schedule from New York to Kingsville, and new
tariff OF through passenger rates. These are not
published, as they do not go into operation until
next month, and may possibly be modified by a
meeting to be held in New York before that time.
Y The passengers on the Great Eastern, lust ar
rived at New York, have had a gay time, Mr.. Du
CHAn1U delivering two lectures on the voyage,
while Captain ANDERSON gave lecture on the At
lantc cable, and the night Of the great storm the
ships crew gave negro minstrel entertainment.
Two daily papers were published by the passengers
during the trip one of which was called the Ocean
Times, while the other was the Great Eastern
1 Daily Telegraph, a grand billiard match was in
dulged in between some parties Of ladies' and GEN
&lemen, in which the ladies' ca1ne off yictoriona
Besides these, games Of cricket, football hurdle
races &C., were indulged in.
I The first Sunday School in Richmond was
originated in 1916, by Miss POLLY Bo11Es. and