The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-03
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* O{(O bales; uplands on the spot 115u' anoa'
12a12sd; Orleans 12d. :,
The Princess de Latour dAuvergne has
h ought the Mount Of Olives, built chapel Oh
il and given it to Napoleon.
: Two more kerosene lamp EXPLOSIONS tooh
place in New York on Friday last, resulting IL
each case III heavy losses Of property.
"A bill is before the Kansas Legislature &c
regulate fare and freights on the railroads o.
the State. 49,
Hon. Charles O'Conor, of New York, has
accepted an invitation to doliver an address
at the University Of Virginia at the next ceie-
bration-
-On the railroad line from Charlotte, N. c.,
to Gran1eyille, S. c., George E. 7. Windsor is
.nnointed an additional route agent at s1OSC
per annum.
The Lond Times thinks that the fabric
of state which Napoleon, the Emperor OF the
French. las raised, is personal government
and cannot survive its maker.
Mr.. Douglass, of the New York Yacht CLUB,
owner of the yacht Sappho, has challenged the
owner Of the British yacht Cambria TO an
ocean race alb 1ut the first of juno next.
Much excitement prevails at the Oneida
community, in New York, on account OF the
sudden disappearance Of five OF the men and
as many women, who are supposed to have
eloped together.
The census returns of st. Louis show
population of two hundred and two thousand
four hundred. Mayor Thomas claims two hum
dred and fifty thousand, and demands new
enumeration.
Sixty folio volumes are daily filed with the
accounts OF the Bal OF England, and eieht
bookbirders are CO. !aatly employed in put
ting these volumes together. The number OF
bank-notes printed daily is twenty-eight thou
sand.
General Robert L. Lee has been elected
President OF the Bible Society OF Rockbrldgo
County, Virginia, and has issued o short aa-
dress 10 tic citize-s of that county IN Delaif
of the object of the society-which is to supply
every family ia the county with copy OF the
Bible.
More than fifteen thousand persons won't
RI halls in New York last week, spent twenty
FIVE thousand dollars for carriage-hire, forty
tbonsand dollars for suppers and wines, over
one hundred and eighty thousand dollars IN
to;,ettes and dresses, and wore jewels worth IN
the aggregate eight hundred and fitS 'h0uS-
and dollars.
The nrosress of the Suez canal seems to DC
satisfactory. a schooner has recently passed
t,ronobout ITS entire length, and NJ. de Les
,ens states that in six months ships OF three
N onsand tons burden will be able TO traverse
Il either sailing or by steam. The success Oh
the enterprise will doubtless lead to q slnllaf
canal being cut through the Isthmus OF ran
anna.
There WIS meeting of the President ana
Directors OF the Augusta and Columbia hal-
m nd held in Augusta on last Saturday. Az
this meeting it wns announced that II no
further interruption be experienced oy 'ne
10Th day OF next April its track would DO LEU
IN tbe South Carolina bank of the Savannah
River. and trains run over the entire route
from Augusta to Columbia. In the meantime
preparations are being made to build hand
some and substantial bridge over that stream
to connect it with Augusta.
"A horrible and revolving outrage was per-
petrated at Mount Vernon, Alabama, day OF
two since, by negro named Mack, upon two
little white children, the eldest not more than
eleven years of age. The fendish act created
an intense excitement in tho commun.s'
which was also shared by the negroes. Inc
country was secured in eve.y direction, ann
the monster captured. After consultation the
casa was left in the hands OF an impromptu
negro Jury, who, after full hearing. SEN
fenced the prisoner to be hung, which SEN
tence was executed on the spot.
Wisconsin has Legislature OF carpet Dag
oers. or the Senate, containing thirty-th1eo
members in oil, rot oae was born IN the State.
Sixteen went from New York, three from Penn
svlyania, seven from the New England States,
three we're born in Europe, and the rest went
to Wisconsin from New Jersey, Georgia, Ohio
and Washington. The House OF Representa-
tiyes has one hundred members. OF these,
thirty-two are natives Of New York, twenty OF
New England, twenty-six Of Europe, three OF
Canada, eight of Ohio, and six Of Pennsylra-
MIA; Maryland, Kentucky and Indiana gave
birth to one each, and Wisconsin to two.
The last novel scientific idea in Europe is
that OF DR.. Poggioli, recently presented be-
fore the British Academy Of Medicine. He
thinks that by the use of electricity children
may be improved, in mind as well as in body.
He instanced child, which was phenome-
non Of deformity and stupidity. which, under
the influence OF electricity, grew three cent?
metres in single month, and has since been
always first, instead Of last, in his class. Veg
tatjon is much richer and more rapid IN its
growth when electrified than otherwise. Dr.
Pogeioi proposes, by way of experiment, that
the six last pupils of each class in lyceum
or college be subjected to this electrical treat
ment.
Five young men in Berlin lately made ar
agreement, for wager, to see who of then
could keep awake for whole week. They al
held out for about five days and hall, by
drinking largely of strong coffee. and keeping
ND constant rounu OF active exercises art
exciting amusements. At the end OF tina
time two of them yielded TO drowsiness; :
third soon fell asleep while riding, tumblet
from his saddle and broke his arm; tourl
was attacked by severe sickness, and com
pelled to retire from the list; the fifth held ou
to the end, but lost twenty-five pounds OF fest
in winning the wager Long ago, Frederick
II. L. tlnr aat