The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-22
NEW S g U M M A r Y.
OFFICE No. 1s HAYNE-sTREEE

1T takes two men one hour to wind up tne
clock in Trinity Church, New York.
1T is stated that Bierstadt is to paint pic
ture Of the eruption of vesuvius.
Two newspapers in New York recently
chose their editors by stockholders votes.
The New York Herald nominates the new
lvinyented steam man for tho ne1t Presidency.
LAGRANGE wore s1sO, ,000 worth Of diamonds
on her first appearance at Pixies Opera Houee.
Santa Anna, it is suspected, is getting up
new intrieues in Cuba against Mexico.
There is dispute as to how Chicago snan
be paved. Prentice darkly suggests, "whJ
not pave it with good intentions9'
"A suit has been entered at Bufthlo against
Blind Tom, the negro, for negroes who had
nu-ohased tickets for his performances.
Utah is becoming manufacturing region.
Announcements are made OF the erection Oh
two woolen factories there.
"A Massachusetts railroad has recently built
along it's line several miles Of high board fence
to prevent the drifting Of snow upon it's track
In winter.
"A Detroit couple went through a mock
marriage for joke, only to find themselves &C.
tuslly welded at its close. They are now after
divorce.
The Saturday Review says that large
class Of Englshmen value Christmas only as
zone Of the most accepted occasions for get
ting drunk"
The clubs Of New York city are said to be
gradually becoming less select than formerly,
and complaints are heard from members OF
some Of them respecting candidates proposed.
General Grant is said to be very fond OF
horses. Just at present he appears to be try
ing to ride two at time, a feat which requires
something more than caution. 1t remains to
be seen whether he will escape the not unusual
catastrophe.
From Ireland it is announced that the Irish
in America are again sending remittanoes to
their friends in that country. During the war
IL ia eaid that remittances were to great ex-
tent suspended, but they now nearly equal the
amount sent in former times.
The system Of education established by
the new Alabama State Constitution, it is said,
will absorb one-ffth OF all the revenue col
lected from tie people besides the poll-sa1,
the proceeds OF public lands, OF estates OF per-
sons without will or heir, fines, and some other
miscellaneous sources of revenue.
The total number Of emigrants that sailed
from the Mersey to all parts OF the United
States, British North America, the Australian
colonies, South America, &o., for the year just
closed, amounted to one hundred and fifteen
thousand six hundred and eighty-one, and for
the previous year one hundred and twenty
three thousand three hundred and eighty
three, showing decrease as compared with
1888 Of seven thousand seven hundred and
two.
Captain Osborn, Of England, the we'll
known explorer, has heard of the reported dis
covery OF a new continent somewhere toward
the north pole, and proposes, through an Eng
lish newspaper, to start of on an expedition.
The London Times, thinking that the Abyssi-
nian business is quite enough to have on hand
at one time, remarks, somewhat unkindly, that
Captain Osborn 'wants to go to the north
pole, because he doesn't see where else to
20, and he can't endure to be staying at
home"
The smallest practicable railway curve, it
is said, is an arc Of circle whose radius is
seven hundred and twenty feet. Consequent
" q railroad would have to be nine-elevenths
Of mile long in order to make complete
circle. A railroad embankment must be three
times as thick al the base as its perpendicular
height. In other words, the slope must be
about thirty degrees from horizontal. The
highest embankment in the world is on one Of
our Western railroads, it's height being two
hundred and forty feet, and its base seven hun
dred and thirty feet thick.
The New York Tribune says: "The next
esrd may be impeachment. MIR. johnson
might as well understand this before he forces
upon Congress the necessity. We trust wis
dom will prevail. But il the President makes
himself an 'timpediment," he must be swept
awsy. This is the Logic Of the Hour. An is.
sue has been forced upon the President which
hemust answer. II he admits the right OF
Congress to restore Mr. Stanton, then he ad-
mits everything. II he denies it then he
places himselfin antagonism to the law, and
is guilty Of misdemeanor."
The authors adaptation Of "No Thor
oughfare," which was produced at Christmas
in London, occupied FIVE hours in it's first rep
resentation, but was nevertheless successful,
according to the critic of the Times, who more
over says of it, "the play in some parts de-
parts from the story so widely as to be entitled
to rank as an entirely original production" !"
Among other changes the clock-lock is placed
in the monastery Of st. Bernard, instead Of in
the house Of q notary, as il the tale, the pre-
cious store of papers being supposed to con-
sist Of documents found on the bodies of lost
travellers. This, ono would think, would
hardly make the clock-lock business any less
improbable.
The Round Table says: sTrhe National
Convention Of the victims of arbitrary arrest
during the wsr, which the Hon. "Jim" Wall, Of
New Jersey, has summoned to meet on the
22d OF February, in the city Of New York, is
worthy OF better inspiration. There can be
no doubt whatever in any but the blindest par
tisan mind that the power OF arrest and the
plea Of military necessity were both stretched
to the utmost, and the sacred rights of per-
sonal liberty in many instances fsgrantly vio-
lated. MIR. Stewards famous and infamous
boast to Lord Lyons Of the efficacy Of his little
bel is blot on the history Of DIr. Lincon's ad-
ministration. And perhaps the cruelty Of
Southern prisons, over which Radical papers
have waxed 30 loudly and righteouslv
indignant, has not been entirely unparalleled