The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-26
VIEWS SUMMA r z.

tenders winning the Derby.
-Aiourual advocating vegetarian principles
is printed in Germany, and circulates thou
sand copies.
1.-The Japanese, in bringing living plants to
this country, wrap their roots in a mixture OF
earth and carrots ground together.
There are $40 Smiths, 100 Schmidts, So
Schnitts, and q number of Smits, Schmlds,
schmidlins, Smitzsrs' and Smyths, in Cincin-
matt. .,-....,- ....,.,.,---
Metal for statues, being scarce in England,
thebeouss which lately stood in the form OF
statue Of Sir Robert Peel was melted down and
reeast Into statue-of Lord Palmerston.
-"Twice Refused, ;" Simple as Dove, %
.sFatal Zero" ga Woman's Errors, eNether-
ton-on.Sea," /" Found Dead and 'The Buck
hurst Volunteers" are titlesof recent Ecgiish
novels, by writer's not specially known to fame.
There is little girl, ten years old, 10 Ken
tucky, who has never spoken to her father.
She converses freely with any one else, but
vhe her father speaks she is silent. She has
BEEN whipped for her 6bstinacy, butpersists in
sayHsSiig shat shs has tried to speak TO him and
cannot. .a--Es9i- l:1H
-.Athsliahn, 10 the title OF new Jewish
noyaiwhiuh Carleton publishes in few days.
Ths scene is, laid in Palestine during the
reign of David, and the events Of this period,
with the peculiar social laws OF the Jews, offer
rich field heretofore singularIy overlooked by
romancers.
.-KptN4sS5edier IN California hssinvented
a psw method for skimming milk. He Az . fine
gsuss, sieve TO hoop Of the size Of the pan.
The milk is then poured into the pan so as to;
q little more than cover the sieve. When the.
cream has risen the hoop is lifted, and the
cream IA thus com ,letely removed. ii1
eThe great diamsnd found at, the Cape Of
Good Hope has arrived in England. Itweighs
eigKty.taree larsts and had an insurance upon
it during the. voyage OF ESQ. 600. The royalty
claims keep silent those who have discovered
other gems, but mentionis made OF one other
diamond fos which fl50e was offered aud re-
fused. The search for gold in the locality
docs not seem 70 promise very great results.
pnru6r.pnt going rne- 7rno
newspapers to: the effect that three thousand
duelscw@s fought, last year In the German
uniyersitiss,, Any one Of all acquainted with
the xayin which dueIs are fought in German
universities viii not be at all shocked at this,
or think that German students must be . very
bloodthirsty set OF fellows. The paragraph
simply means thai about three thousand stu
dents made good their social footing in the
universities, and we're worthy members OF
sschors," at to have canes and pipes "dedi-
Gated" to them.
"A steam p.ough experiment in New Jersey
lately was entirely successful. In view Of the
scarcity and changed condition Of labor in the
South, the probabilities are that eventually
farmers having large tracts OF land TO cul-
tivats there, wih triturate the soil with
ploughs driven by steain. Why should not
every very large farm have its steam eng ., the
power to be applied to, . multitude Of h,rvices
upon the placer Alittle ingenuity might make
small portable steam engine to do 30 much
general work that farm OF thousand or two
scres could be run BY q very few hands. ~
Tho agricultural Department has issued
its report tor the months O. May and June. The
returns show q high average condition Of
wheaE Ind tndlcate 8 good prospect of an
abundant crop. u no casualties occur before O.
sAsp the harvest. II should be observed, how
ever, that ths sizs and succulenos OF the stalk
hvors. lodgine or laying, which is reported as
already somewhat serioua in parts Of the South
and West. Rye, barley, and other grains are
gspegally IN fneJ condition. Mhe oorn crop is
backward. and the latest reports in regard TO
cotton 1a favorable. The yield Of small fruits
10 unusually abundant, with fne promise for
thooe oomi1s 10 latar IN the season. Peaches
viIlb eibundintin New. Jersey and Delaware,
Nlll be . fair crop iu the West, and short
supply only fA soms localities fn the Southern
States xhsre unHmely fosts preyailed.
"A new and daring experiment is no.ed by
the Pan Mall Gazette 1.-THE lnvariable failure
which has hitherto attended nautical expedi-
lions 10 the Arctio reziona has induced two
Fteaehmsus Mesaieurs Hssandier and de
Fouxisne, 70 undertaKetbe enterprise Of reaoh-
ing ~ sorth polsin Q balloon. The maoaine
in which the bold adventures are about to
embark on their perllous journey, AMI which is
appropriately named 'Ls Pole Nord,' IS now
being completed in the Champs de Mars,
which the gosepniant have placed at their
disposal for that purpose. The monster bal
loon. beside which even ths famous Geant
would seem mere toy. will contain over TO-
e)0 cubic metres Of gas, and is composed en-
tirely oil cloth manufactured from caoutchouc,
whieh'will allow OF great expansion in the
rarefed strata OF the atmosphere. The seams
uniting the different pieces FORM total length
ofthree English miles. Thacar, marvel, it
10 sail Of stzength and ligatness, Is construct
cd to carry ten passengers, four thousand
pounds ofbalEast, and provisions for . month.
We can only hope this bold enterprise may be
attended with better luck than the aerial
fight Of the Geans in 1868"
The New York Times editorial!y advocates
the immediate removal Of all political restric-
tious from the oitixsns Of Southern States. It
says: practically, the South is now Just as
clear, ,ss the North Of any purpose to organise
resistance against Federal authority. The
Suspension Of hdbeas corpus, which the North
etn people were made to feel during the var,
would be scarcely moro out Of time, il revived
now, than are those civil liabilities still vis-
tied upon the South. The rebellion has for.
ever passed. and ~istf-is should rsss forever
away fromhoth partsof ths Dmn1y the hst
gifmmering OF it's cruel necessities. II there
vas saXsazniHcance IN the Ast Presfdsatisl
e.ectisaU4 MA just this which the people Of.