The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-25
NEWS sU M M A r Y.

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-Gold closed IN N,w York yesterday at 4ot.
Cotton closed with an improvement OF 4ca
Ia. Sales $500 bales. Middlngs 17ls17ac.
1T is proposed in New York City to erect
temperance hotel club houses for young men.
Over ninety thousand special constables
have been sworn for duty in various parts OF
England, owing to the Fenian fright.
Miss Penniman. an American belle In Parls
Ia to be married to NJ. Romera, secretary OF
the Spanish Ambassador.
The Mexican bandits recently caught
banker named Morales, and made HIM pay
$4,000 for his life.
An English paper states equivocany tnat
.sthe Queen gained the second prize for fat
pigs at the Birmingham Seattle show
Napoleon has now thevelvet hat and sword
Of honor which the Pope was to give the prince
bsst deserving the title Of Defender OF Rome.
English Catholics are raising fund to
purchase the battlefield Of Montana and erect
a church and o convent upon it.
-Gurney, the New Yorl photographer, ana
the only one who has ''taken" Dickens. has
already cleared over $4,000 BY the enterprise.
The State Ct Iowa has the CRAFTY lug honor
, OF being entilely out Of debt, record and
glory which no other State can show.
The Niagara river below the falls is closed
hv ice and is daily crossed by large numbers
ofpeople.
"a Gail Ha milton thinks that suffrage would
be improved more by restricting it among men
than by extending it to women.
The first Of the Southern elections will sake
p,aee ON the fourth Of February in Alabama,
vben the new constitution is to be voted on
and congressman and State officers elected.
"A school teacher was put Oh the cars near
Minneapolis, Minn., on Tuesday. for refusing
to nav ten cents extra for not having ticket,
and was frozen to death.
Colonel Mahoney, Federal ofacer IN COM
mand at Danville, Va, has ordered a chain
gang TO be organized out Of the idle material
lying in the Jail Of that town.
The New York House Of Assembly, which
consists Of one hundred and twenty-eight
members, has twenty-eight assistant clerks,
seventeen messengers, and fifty pages.
Greeley says the wealthy men Of New York
endeavor to earn reputation for meanness to
protect themselves from beggars. Whereupon
sn exchange suggests that their efforts have
been crowned with brilliant success.
Ono of the peasantries Of the gas compa-
nv In Jackson, Mississippi, was cutting of the
supply Of light from the reconstruction con-
Tention, because it would not furnish security
for the payment Of the gaa bill.
Mr.. John Henry, Of Charlotte, Va, the
last survivor save one Of the childran OF Pat
rick Henry, and the owner Of the old family
sest and burial place Of the great Orator, died
on the 7th instant, in the 72d year OF his age.
Huge icioles and mountains Of solid ice,
/. Is stated, have formed at the foot OF Niagara
Falls from the constant accrotions OF spray,
forming beautiful sight. An zee bridge has
also formed below the tails, and hundreds OF
people have passed over it.
SERIOUS fears are entertained that the
'sHorse Shoe" fall in Niagara River is about to
give way. It is believed that q sublerzanean
passage for the water is undermining the great
natural dam, and that the fall will soon be only
. wild rapid.
The color Of dresses Is to be pale green,
and petticoats are TO be worn longer than last
wear. but are to be raised by numerous flock
straps, held by chains OF ebony, fastened to
the waist by steel looks. Large and heavy
brass rings are to be SUSPENDED BY chains
from the waist behind.
"A newspaper ct Martinique having received
two warnings decided to give up politics and
take to literature. Its first issue under the new
rcqsns contained La Fontaine's fable Of the
.sWolf and the Lamb" whsreupon the Govern
or Of Martinique suppressed the paper as per-
soma ly insulting 10 himself.
"A great religious demonstration is to take
plsoe in the French Cathedral at Montreal be-
fore the departure OF the Canadian corps OF
Pontidcal Zouavea, on the occasion Of blessing
their banners. All the Roman Catholic
Bishops Of Quebec and Ontario are expected to
be present.
There is an insurance company In New
York which Is said to be extremely lucky In
escaping heavy drafts for losses by fire. A
New York paper says that it's secretary at
tributes it's good luck to the feet that it always
tries to conine it's risks to pig iron in the
basement"
The New York Journal Of Commerce says
the amount of poverty in that city is very
great, and that the suffering from this cause
has not been equalled for long time. Large
numbers Of able.bodied men would cheerfully
engage to labor # promised no more than the
means Of subsistence.
The marriage between Adelina Patti and
the Marquis de Caux has been arranged.
PATHS dover is $500. 900. The Empress Eu'
genie has written congratulatory letter to
Mile. Patti, in which she has expressed the
pleasure with which she will receive the great
artist at court as Marquise de Caux.
An European savant has invented an ap-
paratus by means Of which the beatings Of the
heart are not only registered, but photo.
ersphed. The pulsations are made to act
upon the surface of bent tube containing
mercury, the fluctuations of which are noted
in the same way as those of the thermometer
and barometer are photographed.