The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-10

moned no jury but made out ma yerdlct,
s Ssfter goiag through the dead mans pock:
els and, asking how mrch he owed his land
hdy. IT, &
II is believed by Professor Lepsius. the
eminent archaologist, that meteoric iron must
have been used by the ancient Egyptians in
drsssing the blocks for The Pyramids and the
9 sotker rude structures Of Egypt. This he in
) ! Ifers from the late date at which smelling Of
i iron was made useof and from the fact that
!; when IRON is mentioned in the earliest records
.sit has sa affx aignifying ..from the Heavens"
Z attached 10 it. IS. SO.
-Geo.ge Augustus Sala Is the man who got
theslondon Te eIegraph into its libel scrape.
he wrote up the trial OF Risk Allah from local
{ newspapers and his own internal onsciousness,
without putting himself to the unnecessary
4 ro1ble OF visiting the court. AS consequence
hts paper is mnlcted eome 5000. If justice
were as swift in this country, Washington COZ
respondents would find tb,.f occupation gone.
- Speak Barsf Haussmann,s improve
ma6fs Cd Paris, q correspondent says: Every
96odyis com mplaining;; and it has been discover
ed that fpmthe perpetual pulling down and
/ the ceaseIess mixing Of bags Of dust with water
for the pmposs; Of building up, the air is SO
impTegnated with lime that. We breathe, eat,
drink and inhals il; at every pore. II we drank
the same liquor which Falstaff did, there cer-
5tainIy would now be lime in that sack - y s
xperiments were lately made in London
5 with 8 new omnibus having ten wheels and
drawn BY three horses. The inside OF the car
riagei is fourteen feet long, FIVE feet wide and
and al islf feet high, and the whole is calcu-
listed To- cary sixteen passengers inside and
twenty outside, II is claimed by the inventor,
Il. .Mr. HarYey, that three horses willmoye this
. vehicle thus loaded With asrfect ease, and that
: it Is in every respect superior to the old-fash-
toned hind. sl:.s -
Two colored boys, aged fourteen and six
eteen years, gotinto fight in Memphis, Tenn,
ON the 10th instant, in the course of which one
fired s pistol pointed -directly at the head OF
the other The would murderer nl ted, While
81 the wounded boy ;fell as u dead. Upon e1ami-
nation il was found thatsth ball had entered
s the forehead, but was diverted from a straight
course by the skull, and ploughed its way over
{ the head BE soon revived and LETT Tor home.
Another Wild man has been found, this
time on the hIanitou Islands in Lake Michigan.
He is eight feet tall, covered with hair, has q
beard hanging down to his waist, and an '.in-
q tellectual brow. There is a story that some
twenty years ago woman lost q child OF four
: years on the i1iand, and this is supposed to be
< the boygrownup Those who have seen him
care anxious to catch him in time.to get in his
Yotefor Grant and Colfa1. Z, = So -
The neat little New York Sun, which, al
though Radical in IFS. politics, seems always
willing TO treat fairly and courteously. al its
Opponents, says Of the National Convention /:
sssIt ia noticeable that the delegates ara OF
higher order than usual. Weobserye large
proportion Of men Of solid character, old men
gof grave and reverend aspect, men who have
mo- made politics trade, but who have, on
tbs occasion. come from the retreats OF pri-
yate life under the impulse of public duty.
There is little, indeed almost none, OF the
noisy and hurrah- boys element so common in
auch conventions. During the: preliminary
organization Of Saturday, there was the most
respectful attention on all sides; the various
ssta.e delegations with single ezception)