The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-05
STEW 8 sU M M A r Y,

NEW 8 SU M M A r. Z.
Gold closed yesterday at New York Al.
Cotton at New York was less active and
lower; sales 1900 bales at 19c.
Ohio is going thoroughly through all the
laws Of the State, inserting the word white
in it's statutes.
Montana has become demoralized. Muir
dars are Of alarming frequency, and yet the
courts fail to convict the guilty.
George Francis Train remarks, In letter
written at sea: "Shipboard is the place to read
character; all there Is in man pops out when
he is seasick."
4. The widow Of General Miramon has, with
her children. taken up her residence at Vienna.
She is TO receive pension from the Austrian
Government.
The marriage Of the Grand Duke of Tus-
osny. with Princess Alice Of Parma, was cei'
ebrsted on the 18th, in the chapel Ct Frods-
dorf. The ceremony was performed oy the
APOSTOLIC Nunoio at the Court Of Vienna.
The Inverness Courier hears that the Duke
L of Northumberland is about taking into hls
ovn hands ali his salmon fshings Of the Tyne,
Coouet and Ain rivers, also the sea coast be-
longing thereto, with view to their general
improvement
The statistics Of travel between France
and England in 1867 are interesting; 1870
persons went to and fro; 2O2, ,1SS by Calais,
.162,ss1 by Boulogne, 1924 by Dieppe, and
1880 by Havre. Only 19.707 crossed between
England and Belgium, by the way Of Ostend.
The Tribune said the other day: "They
have been hanging Of late years pretty vigor-
ously in Pennsylvania. We do not know
State in which the halter has had fairer
svinp.D The Boston Post replied: ''That is
the reason the Democrats have gained
majority in Pennsylvania, we suppose"
The giant specimen Of the Dracena Draco,
or Dragon Tree, growing at 0rotava, In the
island Of. Tenerife, was destroyed during the
autumn of 1857 by gale OF wind. 1t was first
brought into general notice by Humboldt some
sixty years ago, and was computed by him to
be ak thousand years old.
One hundred and sixty-four persons were
killed outright by horses or carriages last year
in London, and it is presumed that no less
than 1476 were more or less injured. This,
SAWS the Review, would bring the slain and
wounded up to respectable figure for pitch
ed battle. ....
The Methodists Of the North and West
have proved their claims to enlarged Chris
tain iiberality by raising within ahmited peri
cd the amount Of 1921, 900, which is known
.a the Methodist Centenary collections, and is
devoted to the establishment Of churches in
destitute sections and to the srpread Of educa-
ton.
The Agricultural College Of New Jersey is
spoken Of with much favor. The report IN the
legislature says the object is $50 to combine
the theory and practice that the students
ahall 90 forth fully prepared to comprehend
and no set the demands Of their vocation; be-
comi.., in each r,dnty the centres OF new and
intelligent clans and efforts for the develop
ment Of tho great resources of the State.
Eighteen msn engaged in cutting wood In
the forest Of Rothwald, in Austria, recently
mat in a hut to take breakfast, when suddenly
tbav were overwhelmed by an avalanche OF
snow and were swept away, hut and all.
Three days elapsed before they were missed and
when q search was made for them eleven we're
extricatsd from the snow, seven Of whom we're
dssd. and the other four 80 exhausted by cold
and hunger that they are not expected to i've.
The other seven have not been found.
An alarming accident occurred in January
at the Theatre de La Monnaie, in Brussels.
During the ballet In the fourth act OF Romeo
and Juliet" Mile. Jaoquetti, danseuse, ap-
prosohed too near the footirhts, when ne:
gause skirts took fire. NJ. janet, who was
playing Friar Lawrence, rushed forward to
stife the flames in his long robe, but the lady
had already, with great presence OF mind,
seized the burning dress in her hand, and had,
by squeezing il, extinguished the flames. Mile.
Jacouetti retired for few moments, and then
returned to finish her performance.
The large slate quarries of Grands-Car-
reau1, France, have just been entirely buried
by an earthsip, and three lives lost. The
works ON the previous evening were observed
TO be in dangerous state, and all the laborers
were withdrawn. Eighteen hours later the
oyerseer, named Choinet, and two men, we're
engaged in fixing barriers to prevent any one
from approaching the entry, when the earth
sank beneath them for al extent Of two acres,
and to a depth Of two hundred feet, and
buried them in the ruins. Their bodies have
not yet been recovered. The material loss is
estimated st $4,000.
-Remarkng upon the mysterious ways in
which Mexican exiles maintain themselves in
circumstances of personal comfort, the Phila-
deIphia Ledger observes: "Nobody can point
10 An instance in which these banished men
have gone to the vulgar method OF earning
their bread and butter which are usually nee
essary with persons who have not left their
country for their country's good. There must
be q procivity among these banished Mexi-
cans to provide themselves, in advance, with
sufficient funds to keep them comfortable
abroad, while they are waiting for something
to "turn up" Marquee will probably prove to
be we'll provided"
The New York Evening Pest says: "The
lot of the Southern newspaper reporters is
hard. If, as in the South Carolina Convention
the other day, they acknowledge the authorship
of some paragraph offensive to somebody, they
are publicly beaten. II they are unable to re-
sist the temptation of calling members of