The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-09
NEW s sU M M A r Y

103d; Orleans 105d.
New Orleans papers speak of unusual ac-
tivity in building in that city.
The leading newspaper OF San Francisco
the Alta, made $1S, 600 last year.
The Queen of Spain, according to the
latest ann ouncement, has become carpet
-bagger."
An erterprising Yankee, to profit by the
earthquake, is engaged in sending Dunolng
materials to Peru and Ecuador.
Right Rev. a. D. Juncker, Roman Catholic
Bishop OF illinois, died at Alton, H., on Fri
day.
The Adventists in Boston predicted the
winding up of mundane affairs on Thursday
last, but it didn't come off. .4
An exchange sarcastically suggests sea
gram" as suitable substitute fol- the clrcu'n-
Iocutory ..dispatoh by the atlantic cable"
st. Paups (CathoIic) Church at Ports
month. Va. was dedicated last Sunday. Bishop
McGill preached on the occasion.
Ostrich feathers are in great demand IN
consequence of their use on the new cavalier
hats worn by the ladies.
"A letter is published addressed to General
Grant by General schofeld last May, congratu-
latipe the former on his nomination by the
Chicago Convention.
Bishop Whitehouse, of Illinois, is In quar-
rel with his diocese about little matter OF
episcopal back-pay, amounting to nearly eigh-
teen thousand dollars.
"A New York paper reports four cases at
,ouarantine-"two OF cholera morbos and TWO
of Grecian bend. The same remedies are ap-
plicable for all"
John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts,, ad-
dressed large assemblage Of the Democracy
of Philadelphia, at the Academy Of Music, on
Monday evening.
1T is said that the queen Of boufe actresses,
Schneider, has very pretty face, but her
figure is such as to deter any American I'm
pressario from engaging her.
The milk of Lowell, Massachusetts,, hav-
ing gone up cent quart, the papers are
discussing whether the cause il scarcity OF
water.
Paris is now connected with the Mediter-
ranean by direct line Of railway, the final
section. from Nice to Monaco, being opened
lately.
They have ifer in Boston who has been
!. seventy years in the United States army,
/. and has fourteen stripes Of honor on his
.coat.
:. 1t is rumored, says Punch, that Calcraft,
the hangman, is engaged in compiling histo-
nv of hanging down to the date OF the abolition
.of public executions. he intends to call it
20 The Decline of the British Hem.pire"
A correspondent Of the Pail Mall Gazette
writes from Rome: s'Rumors are ahoat about
the Pope's health, which some represent TO be
extremely good, while others speak Of it dole
fuliy. and declare that he viii see De-
cember. I believe he is not 30 well as he ap-
pears to be-"
The campaign artillery Of the French army
consists Of twelve hundred cannon, the trains
and horses of which are all complete and ready
for any emergency, according to statement
.-of Marshal Mel, Minister Of War. One hun
>dred and fifty batteries are stationed at Sesan-
con. near the Rhine, which have lately been in
spected by M,rshaI Bazaine.
The German cigar manufacturers and to-
bacconists Of New York and Brooklyn held
meeting on Monday. to protest against the
operation OF the new obacco tax law. COM
mittee was appointed for the purpose Of urg-
ing union Of tobacconists throughout the
country wit a view to influencing Congress to
effect change in the law.
=. --yews has been received from Abyssinia to
the effect that the Wagshum Gobazye has at
length triumphed over all competitors, and
has seated himself upon the throne Of Abys-
sinia, is not unexpected. he was the strong
est and perhaps the most able Of the con-
;tending parties, and it is well that such
dangerous dignity should be secured by the
potentste best able to support it. Gobazye
has long intrigued for the sovereignty Of
Abyssinia. He and Prince Kassai, the ally OF
the EngHsh, are on good terms.
The last revolution in the little Republic Of
Aniora, in the Pyrenean mountains, resulted
i the sudden overthrow Of the late municipal
government, which had been foolish enough to
grant contract to company for the estac-
Aiishment Of gambling saloon. The whole
population, greatly asitated, rose as one man,
and demanded the abdication OF their magis-
-trates, who at once yielded. Others, opposed
to the schemes Of the foreign invaders, were
appointed in their stead. All this passed with
out the shedding Of one drop Of blood.
An important decision was rendered in the
Circuit Court at Chicago on Friday to the eff
feet that two persons cohabiting us pian and
wife, after an agreement to marry, and tho
marital relation being recognized in the soci-
ETY. in which they move, is common law mar
risge, even if no matrimonial service, accord
ing to law, is performed, and is bound to be
respected by the courts, under which the wo-
man can claim dover, but cannot recover for
services as housekeeper. The decision is said
to have created something of breeze amongst
the considerable number Of Chicagoans who
have brevet wives.
"A newly invented armor plating was re-
Gently the subject Of interesting experiments
in the presence Of the Emperor Napoleon III.
This substitute for steel plates is made Of felt,
vegetable fbres and o woven fabric, and. is
compressed by the action Of powerful machine
~ until it becomes as solid as cast metal. At
the trial it was tested both as coating for
ships and as breast-plate. The Chassepot
gun, it is stated, could not penetrate the felt,
and revolver discharged close to the surface