The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-05
NEW S So M MI A X

sales 1900 bales.
Cotton closed in Liverpool higher. No quo
tations; sales 10000 bales.
Christian G. Gunther, one of the Oldest
merchants in New York, died on Saturday.
William Cullen Bryant has been chosen
President of the National Copyright Associa-
ton.
The Pacific Railroad is employing an army
of fence builders; fences being necessary to
keep the animals off the tracks.
The Indiana farmers are selling their corn
in the field at fifty cents bushel, to be fed to
hogs, which sell for eight cents pound.
"A French company has rented FOR SIXTY
years the right to plant fruit trees on The slope
of frailway embankments.
Peat is used in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin,
as common fuel in stoves provided with CRATES,
and is giving satisfaction 80 far as heard from.
The citizens of New York have contributed
$4,000 for the relief Of the sufferers by the late
earthquake in South America.
Five thousand dollars insurance was paid
last week bya Hartford company on single
sheep which died in Middlebury, Vermont.
Last weeks snow storm was quite severe
in Canada. Steamers and trains we're delayed
in some cases more than twelve hours.
1t is calculated that there are now about
sixty-two thousand Cinnamon settled in Cali
fornia, nearly all being natives of the province
of Canton.
The champion drinker of lager beer in
Cleveland has accomplished one hundred and
six glasses in one day, and invites any one to
beat it.
The London streets, placed in single
straight line, would reach as far as from Liver
pool to New York. It takes 100000 street
lamps to illumine the city at night.
1t is calculated that If human being could
make as much noise in proportion to his size
as locust, he could be heard to sing from
London to st. Petersburg. 1t is merciful
provision of nature that he cannot.
The railroad bridge over the Hudson River
is to be constructed in order to connect the
New England States with the Pennsylvania
coal fields. Four millions Of tons Of coal, it
is estimated, are consumed east of the Hud-
son River, and have to be conveyed by cir: :uit-
GUS routes
The foreign scientific journals report that,
recently, large and most important discover
les Of coal have been made in Russia. The
mines Of one district alone are, according to
the st. Petersburg Journal, Coles, capable of
supplying annually four hundred thousand
tons for one hundred and fifty to two hundred
years.
An English shipmaster and mate are on
trial for setting off on the ice, twelve miles
from the shore Of Newfoundland, six stow
away boys, who we're found concealed in their
vessel on an Atlantic voyage. Two of the boys,
eleven years old only, died before. reaching
land; and the officers are charged with wilful
murder.
For great many years the Russians have
made use of the expansive properties OF freez-
ing water in ,quarrying operations. In sum-
mer they drill crevices in the marble and fill
them with water. The cold of winter causes
the water to act as wedge, and enormous
masses Of marble are thus detached with the
smallest expenditure Of manual labor.
The Partisan velocipede has taken new
form, and become aquatic. This latest idea
consists of two canoes connected by an open
framework, upon which is placed the seat OF
the individual bold enough to risk himselfupon
this apparatus. His feet repose upon two ped
ais, to which are attached movable folts;
these close as the foot is drawn forward, and
open on it's being pushed back against the
water. Waterproof boots are the indispensa-
BILE accessories to an excursion upon one Of
these inventions.
The island of Hawaii is sinking, especially
towards the southeast. The subsidence has
been observed at various points and amounts
to from eight inches at Hilo, to six or seven
feet between Kapaho and Kalae. Trees which
Of course grew on dry land now stand in sever
al feet Of water, and rocky inlets which once
stood five feet out Of water are now submerged.
The cause of this is supposed to be the recent
earthquake. Quite extensive measurements OF
the present extent Of this subsistence of the
island and the rate of its progress are now
making.
Switzerland is afflicted with horrible cpl
demic disease, cretinisn, which is a state OF
idiocy, accompanied with an enormous goitre.
According to careful census, recently takeu
in the nineteen cantons, there were found 34S1
cases Of cretinism and 625S cases of insanity.
AS the population Of the country amounts to
2OS2,119 inhabitants, it follows that these
1O,O4S persons of weak mind give the enormous
proportion of one mentally diseased person in
two hundred and two inhabitants, and even
this is believed to be below the truth.
The ordnance manufactured BY the cele-
brated steel workers, the Krupps, has lately
been modified so as to produce much more
formidable results. The improvement, it is
stated, consists in the enlarging Of the charc-
ber in which the Cartridge is lodged. The
charge is to be double what it was, while the
ball remains at its former weight of two hun
dred pounds. When tried side by side with
the nine-inch Armstrong, having ball of two
hundred and twenty seven pounds, the Krupp
gun, it is alleged, proved greatly the superior.
The ex-King of Portugal is considered the
happiest man in Europe. he voluntarily laid
down the crown, and has never for moment
regretted it. He is of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, a
kusman Of Leopold, and very much like him,
except in ambition. He married the Queen of
Portugal, and on the majority of his son, he
surrendered tho throne to him. He is very
much devoted to the fine arts, and has spa