The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-26
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Gold closed in New York yesterday at ST..
Cotton closed very firm; sales 2500 bales;
middl,ng $50.
Cotton In Liverpool yesterday closed quiet;
sales IL 600 bales upIands 12ld.
Church bells were ruug in honor Of Pre-
tenders winning the Derby.
"A journal advocating vegetarian principles
is printed in Germany, and cir culates thou
sand copies.
The Japanese, in bringing living plants to
this country, wrap their roots in mixture Of
earth aud carrots ground together.
There arc $40 Smiths, 100 Schmidts, 53
Sohmitts, and number of Smits, Schmlds,
Schmidlins, Smitzers and Smyths, in Cincin-
natl.
20: Metal for statues being scarce in England,
the bronze which lately stood in the form Of a
statue Of Sir Robert Peel was melted down and
recast into statue Of Lord Palmerston. N
-"Twice Refused" Simple as Dove"
sFatal Zero," ga Woman's Errors, !" s'Nether-
ton-on-Sea," Found Dead" and "The Buck
hurst Volunteers" are titles of recent Epglish
novels, by writers not specially known to fame.
There is little girl, ten years old, in Ken
lucky, who has never spoken TO her father.
She converses freely With any one else but
when her father speaks she is silent. She has
been whipped for her obstinacy, but persists in
saying that she has tried to speak TO him and
cannot.
-"Athaliah" is the title Of new Jewish
novel which Carleton publishes in few dayp.
The scene is laid in Palestine during the
reign Of David, aud the events of this period.
with the peculiar social laws Of the Jews, offer
rich field heretofore singulafly overlooked by
romancers.
-Aprivate soldier in California has invented
a new method for skimming milk. He fl Is fine
gauze sieve to hoop OF the size OF the pan.
The mill is then poured into the pan SO as to
little more than cover the sieve. When the
cream has risen the hoop is lifted, and the
ccream is thus com oletely removed.
The great diamand found at the Cape of
Good Hope has arrived in England. It weighs
eighty-threc karats and had an insurance upon
it during the voyage Of 4SO.O0O The royalty
Claims keep silent those who have discovered
other gems, but mention is made of one other
diamond for which 415OO was offered and re-
fused. The search for goI6 in the locality
does not seem TO promise very great results.
"A paragraph is going the round Of the
newspap .rs to the effect that three thousand
duels we're fought last year in the German
universities. Any one at all acquainted with
the way in which duels ore fought in German
universities will not be at all shocked at this,
or think that German students must be q very
bloodthirsty set of fellows. The paragraph
simply means that about three thousand stu
dents made good their social footing in the
universities, and were worthy members of
o6N 10 Lo~
GATED" to them.
"A steam plough 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-
tivate there, will triturate the soil with
ploughs driven by steam. Why shou Id not
every very large farm have it's steam en- CINE, the
power to be applied to multitude Of services
upon the place? A little ingenuity might make
small portable steam engine to do SO much
general work that farm OF thousand or two
acres could be run by very few hands.
The Agricultural Department has issued
it's report tor the months of May and june. The
returns show @ high average condition OF
wheat, and indicate good prospect Of an
Nbundant crop. il no casualties occur befoYe or
after the harvest. 1t should be observed, how
ever, that the size and succulencs of the stalk
-favors lodging or laying, which is reported as
already somewhat serious in parts OF the South
and West. Rye. barley, and other grains are
generally in dne condition. The corn crop is
backward. and the latest reports in regard to
cotton are favorable. The yield Of small fruits
is unusually abundant, with q fine promise tor
those coming in later in the season. Peaches
will be abundant in New Jersey and Delaware,
will be . fair crop In the West, and short
supply only in soane localities In the Southern
States whore untimely frosts prevailed.
"A new and daring e1perimentis IL noted by
the Pail Mall Gazette 'The ,nvazisbls failure
which has hitherto attended nautical expsdi-
tions to the Arctic regions has induced two
Frenchmen. Messieurs Tissandier and de
Fouvlelle. TO undertake the enterprise Of fea5sa-
ing the north polein balloon. The machine
in which the bold adventurers are about to
embark on their per1llous journey, and whioh is
appropriately named lie Pole Nord,' ls now
being completed IN the Champs de Mars,
which the government have placed at their
disposal for tbat purpose. The monster bal
loon, beside which even thu famous Geant
would seem mere toy, will contain over 1O,-
wv cuD C metres OF 8 lS,, ana lS composed en-
tirey o. Cloth manufactured from caoutchouc,
watch will allow OF great expansion in the
rarefed strata of the atmosphere. The seams
uniting The different pieces form q total length
ofthree English miles. The car, . marvel, it
is sail, Of strength and lighsness. is construct
ed to. caxTy ten passengers, four thousand
pounds OF ballast. and provisions for . month.
We can only hope th,s bold enterprise May be
attended with better luck than the serial
flight Of the Geant in 1853" ai AtB
The New York rimes editorialty advocates
the immediate removal Of Al political restric-
tiops from the citixans Of Southern States. It
says: tt'Practicslly, the South u now Just As
clsar as the North of any purpose 10 organize
resistance against Federal authority. The
suspension OF habeas corpus, which tho North
lafn ranYlA HArA unaila to- fAei ifnrir,a IRA sar