The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-02
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Cotton in New York was frmer, but not
very active. Sales 1900 bales at 26sc.
AT Liverpool cotton closed frmer. up
lads 1Old. Sales Il, 600 bales.
Napoleon is said to be experimenting wltn
petroleum for gunt owder.
Five Democrats, while attending churon
and in the act OF devotion, and surrounded D5
women and children, we're shot, and three ol
them instantly killed, by gang OF Radicals
in Carroll County, Arkansas. on the l2th Of
September.
1t has Just been discovered in Rondout
New York, that one of the hotels has for twelve
years been stealing its gas from the gas COM
pany. The proprietor long ago erected works
as if to manufacture his own gas, and then ran
pipe under ground and tarped the main pipe
which supplied customers Of the company.
The street robbers, with which London is
infested just now, have hit upon a new DODGE
r.fSan stoops down, as if in the act of tying
bootlace, and then suddenly bouncing up
brtts his head violently into the stomach OF
pedestrian who is passing by, and sends him
head over heels. Confederates then pounce
unon their victim, fleece hun Of his money,
and bolt"
DIR. Nelaton physician to the French En-
peror) will quit the practice Of medicine. DE
is now s!xty-two and has private income OF
200 600 francs. He is passionate sportsman,
to which he deyotes his Sundays, on his splen-
did property. Greek uthors ere almost the
on;y books he reads. Every morning his pri-
yate secretary retails to him as succinctly as
possible, over their chocolate, al that is going
on in arts, science, politics and literature.
-Oa one Of the English lines OF railway
theatre has been established. Five cars are
Joined together, means are taken to exclude
noise, and stage is erected at one end, on
which dramas are represented Next We sup
pose there will be pastors for Sunday trains
with preaching in church cars, and there seems
to be no re ason why, on through trains to the
Pacific, there should not be printing Offices
and he publication Of daily paper for the
benefit OF travellers.
On the last passage of the French steamer
ST. Laurent the Berlioz electric light was used
at the masthead at night and found to work
admirably. It Is thought that the general
adoption OF it would be tho means Of prevent
ing MANY collisions, while it is Us easy to work
ship thus provided at night as in the day.
The ship is now lighted every night in the har-
bor of New York to show. the advantages OF
the system. s>'fil
Count de Sartiges, the late French Minis
Ter at the Papal Court, recommended, by COM
mand Of Che Emperor, that the annual deficit
in the Papal revenue should be covered by
subyention from nil tho Catholic Powers. Car
d;nsl Antoneli replied that the Pope could not
accept the Emperor's proposition. as such
subsidy would compromise his independence,
and alienste from him the Catholic laity. The
Cardinal stated that his Holiness receives
great assistance from devout Catholics, who
voluntarily send him large offerings nom every
part Of the world, and he would rather trust
to this spontaneous bornty than appear be-
fore Christendom; as pensioner OF its govern
ments.
The enforcement Of the eight-hour Law,
passed by The last Congress, is occasioning
much trouble in the government service
throughout the country. The War Department
construed the IaW as meaning that eight hours
ia government employ should conHtitute legal
DAVIS work, but thnt it was intended that only
q pro rata amount of pay should be given. The
various laborers in government workshops and
other branches Of the public service contend
that the intention Of the law was to give them
the same pay, but that eight hours service
should only be demanded. The latest trouble
arising from this cause is the strike Of the en-
gineer workmen employed at Fort Stevens,
Oregon. The strike is considered very unior-
tunste at this time, owing to the scarcity Of
mechanics and skilled laborers, and the impor-
sance Of the work upon which the strikers are
engaged.
"A new plan of overcoming the difficulties
that have. hitherto prevented the adoption oi
steam as a propelling power on canals, which
is likely to reyolurionize hepresent system Of
inland navigation, was tried successfully at
New York few days since. The invention COZ
sists Of an ordinary screw fixed in protecting
frame, but attached, not to the shaft, but to a
knuckle Of iron between the end of the shn,t
and the screw blades. By this arrangement the
screw is made to serve as q rudder and re-
spends readily to the movement of the wheel
The boat made several complete turns In heI
own length, during the trip, and caused nc
greater disturbance in the water aft than would
an ordinary sailing vessel, and far less than 8
canal boat fitted with large unwieldy rudders
As 8 test of the value Of the invention FOL
steering purposes the experiment was per.
fectly successful, and proved that the chief OBJ
lection to the int cd lotion Of steam on ca
nals-the washing and wearing of the banks
could no longer apply. Tho Philadelphia Trans.
portation and Freight Company is building Q
number OF canal boats to be fitted with this
invention and run by steam between the Goa
regions and Washington, and Washington and
New York. The boats will be one hundred feel
long by seventeen feet wide. and will carry one
hundred and seventy tons Of freight.
In communication addressed to The
Paris Academy of Sciences, NJ. Flammario1
gives an account Of the phenomena heS OBJ
served during late scientific ascent in an ali
balloon. AS regards sound, he states that it.
inte sity is propagated to considerable
height in the atmosphere. Thus, he heart
the whistle IF o steam engine at an alti