The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-06
new So M M a r Y.

at 325.
The New York cotton market was less &C
tive: sales 1900 bales, at 25s cents.
The Liverpool cotton market was STEADY
sales 5000 bales.
Scotch plaids. it is said, Will be "th'
thipen for ladies' walking suits this winter.
The average decline in grain in Chicago
during the past month has been cent oay
.EMe1ico, in three Centuries, has produced
sS, 500. .0OO. 600 in silver bullion.
Two men accused Of horse stealing Wert
taken from jail at Nicholasville, KY, last weef
.by lynchers, and hung.
There will be total eclipse OF the SUI
next year, visible in many parts OF the United
States. r1 B.
Gold is found in twenty-five, counties in
North Carolina, and the annual yield is estlma-
1edat s5oo,oOo. - -. -,
.-Canad. has young lady of twenty-three,
who is. seven feet seven inches tall, and weighs
S7Opounds.
Recently twenty-three women applied for
admission into Wabash College, Indiana, but
wore refused on account Of sex.
Great Britain raises 120, 600 bushels OF
wheat this year As. .0S0, 900 more than last
year. - - -
died dentistry five years in this country, has
returned to Liberia to practice his profession.
"A Naples dispatch Of the 14th instant, says
that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius was In
creasing in intensity; the flow oflaya was more
copius, and the action OF the cone vigorous.
John q. Surratt lately took part in q tour
fament in Virginia. A week. or two before
his sister, Anna Surratt, was crowned 'Queen
of Love and Beauty" at another tournament.
Speaker Colfax was not married on the 9th
ult., as has been reported. The event will not
occur until after the commencement Of the
session OF Congress Of November 10.
The Paris Patrie states that in conse-
uuence OF the numerous furloughs. lately
granted, the French army does not reckon at
present more than S54, 600 men under the flag.
Sir Roderick Murchison, in another Of his
periodical letters on DR.. Livingstone, an
nounces that communications have been re-
Gently received from that distinguishes travel
Ter. He is expected home befoIe Christmas.
The :" wooden wallis" once tho pride and
delight Of England, are rapidly passing away
The Agamemnon, the Queen, the nlustrious,
and the Sutlej, all famous vessels in their day,
are advertised to be sold at auction.
The tobacco crop Of Cuba for 1868, it is re-
ported, will be twenty-five per cent. less than
that OF last year, while the price will be twenty
to twenty-five per cent. higher. The quantity
of tobacco shipped from Havana since the first
OF January, 1858, ia about 4, 600, 900 pounds, OF
: which ABOUT 2,7O0.00o went to the United
States. ,' I
Mr.. John G. Sake recently met on board
steamer lively young lady to whom he made
himself agreeable. OF course he made an i'm
preston upon the damsel, who said at parting,
rs'Good-bye, Mr.. SAKE. fear you'll soon be
forgetting mo. ''Ah, MISS" replied the many
times defeated candidate for Governor of YER
mont, IF was not married man already,
you may be sure I'd be for getting YOU"
The EpiecopalDn (Low-church orsan) is
quite discouraged st the results Of the General
Convention. The High-churchmen, it says,
have had things all their own way. "Evangel-
ical men," says the editor, ''entered the place
OF trial with no confidence in men, and with no
expectation Of any. but God. He has been
pleased to grant no answer to our prayers
Not one token of His favor; no reply from His
mercy seat. He may have said in effect: L
will not hear you.' or BE may only have de-
ferred the answer until His own set time"
Virginia sports are lively and exciting. A
hunting party in Augusta County, recently
killed thirty -one deer in five days campaign,
and the following incident is communicated to
the Richmond Wing: ''When Mr. Kelly killed
the big buck, the animal fell as if dead, and he
hurfied, knife in hand, to cut his throat. No
sooner did he catch hold Of the bucks horns
than the animal, with desperate effort rose
and made lunge at him. Dropping his knife,
he seized the other horn, and was rolled with
him down the precipitous mountain side dis
tance Of fifty yards. The deer died in his
grasp and the bold huntsman sustained only a
few trifing bruises.
-On Monday the new rule for the transmits
sion Of messages ovef the cable went into opera
ton. Heretofore every FIVE letters have been
charged as word, but at present, it is stated,
each word, no matter how many letters it may
contain, forms part OF the ten, for which the
charge OF seventeen dollars and thirty-fve
cents in gold for transmission is made. This
change will effect reduction Of about one
third in the rates, and the senders Of messages
will no longer be annoyed by the trouble OF
selecting short words for their communica-
tons.
announcements of the opening of success
sive sections Of the Union Pacific Railroad sue.
ceed each other 80 rapidly that one can hardly
keen pace with them. Last year five hundred
and forty miles was the limit Of the locomo,
tiye's advance; last summer the laying OF the
seven ruudredth mile was witnessed BY party
Of Eastern editors, who told the story of the
roads. progress to their readers; September
saw eight hundred miles in operation; and the
pamphlet CT the company, then issued, made
that stage OF progress familiar to thousands o.
interested readers; but now we have another
bulletin from the end Of the track that nlne
hundred miles are completed. When anc
where will this wonderful and bewildering pro
gress stop? Evidently not until the builders
of the Union Pacific and they Of the Contra
Pacific shall meet somewhere to the west o.
Silt Lake, and wed, with iron bands, the At
lantic and Pacific. That time and ceremony
oh of