The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-20
EWs sUMMAR ARY.

In Liverpool cotton closed active, with
uplands at 1891; snles 40 900 bales.
"A Mrs. Clifford, living In Mnrion County,
Iowa, died Saturday from the effects of fright,
ocoasioned by tho solar eclipse on the Saturday
proyious.
The storeotyped report that tho Harvard
Boat Club. is 'muoh improved" comes again
through the cab!e. but with i; is the announce
mont that betting is in favor of the O1onians
five to one. Monday. It was three to one.
The 'dearth OF good titles for novels is
having strange rosnlts in England Tho last
book out is called tho $40. Y. H., or Bo1 Mr.
Blake Became un M. r. a." Several thousand
stories can be named on this systom without
using tho same title twice. 1H
-Commissioner Deano decides that per-
son whose business it is to negotiate pur-
chasos or sales OF stock Is a banker. IL he has
q place Of business. where he receives from
others tho stocks whose sale he neeotiates,
or where money is advanced or loaned on
stocks. ri, aH ~
Tho daughter OF Mr. Thompaon resid-
ing hear Front Royal Virginia. was intercept
ed on her way home, on Monday by two ne
grocs. who foullv outraged her person. The
brutes were afterwards arrested, and vt is
believed that they have been appropriately
Iynched.
Prince Arthur, Qneen yictoria's third son.
lsEt England on Saturday for Halifax Nova
Scotia, on tour through tho New Dominion.
he is to proceed from Nova-scotia to New
Brunswick; thence he ITill 90 to Canada, and
from Can .da it is expected he will come on to
the United States. go -
The statistics Of insurance prove that the
losses of property from the use OF kerosene oil
are greater than those from any other cause
save incendiarism. A New York paper recent
ly devoted o column to the explosion OF the
iden that kerosene ia non-explo osive. and pre-.
sented an array OF facts which would discour-
age al prudent persons from using It in their
dwellings,. =. Vst' y ~ -
The idea OF constructing ship canal
across the Isthmns OF Darien and thus uniting
the Atlantic and Pacific Ocsans. hos received
now impetus in tho fact that Reqr Admiral
Charles n. DAVIS, recently returned to the
United statesiu the steamer Guerrero from
the commond OF the sonth Atlantic fleet has
beon ordered to make arrangements for
eur~eJ or tho IohliI,u1. III viuer 70 ascertain
the practicability Of cutting the canal.
Tho Chinese question is thus explained in
oo~vArsation between two co,ored citizens OF
San Francisco, well Jim I suppose you like
try and Going do sn South and working the old
plantations 2" I'M. sar; no. ear; dat an, too
bad. Bad enuf. sar. when white carpot-bag-
gers como. Now dey going to 6ll mp do coun-
try wid yellow carpet-bsggers from Ontma to
keep do whito ,carDotbaggers in ofaoe-causo
our folks was a throwing of on de new white
traeh.n' ,s Ia cars.
The New York EXPRESS says: "Last spring
it was roughly calculated that the shipments
OF cotton. allowing for all overland drains to
Eastern ports and for all other drawbacks,
would net the planter s25 600 900. Thore was
some inoredu'itv OF THIS estimate. What are
the real figures To last Friday the nverace
resepts ut Mobile may be set dowa Mt 227 900
bales at an inside estimate. The price has
averaged fraction over tw w,nty-thrce conis.
giving q gross return Of about $27 600 600.
Thus tho unfinished season has largely n
eeeded the spripg estimate OF the whole"
The DOOR children of Philade phia are large
ly Interested in the p,ach kernol trade. They
extract the kernels from tho 'stone" put
them upon strings, or threads, in punches
numbering from ono to five hundred. and sell
them TO the druggists. The price is one cont
hundred, and on Industrious cleaner might.
possibly, collect. crack and string Eve hun
trade aro not likely to be called on to pay in
come tax. The kernels are used principally
for making alcoholic ''bifters." and are chiefly
valuable for the hydrocianio acid TO be procur-
ed from them.
The riualistic war has broken out in Mas
sachueetts. Tho Rev. Mr.. Fisse OF Christ
Church, Plymouth. being OF St. Albanian pro.
cliviiies has excited tho indignation Of Bishop
Roat nfh hnoo oot,-
fcally Ia not Of 81. Albanian proclivitles but
wbo regards caidlcs crossings. intonng and.
Genufexions mads to the altar with old -fash-
ioncd New England horror; so the offending
Mr. Fisse ha- received no'Ioe irom his spiritual
father TINT no must moi oalcIate in any Protos-
tant Episcopal Church in Massachusetts. Per-
haps MIR. Fssc thinks that Bishop Eas' burn
hims ELF Is rather hlgh." OF east IN his notions
Of Episcopal prerogatire.
Tho railway sirife to secure tho Western
freighiing businers from New York continues
undated. Coniracis wcro msG, for freight
tra"s or'ation over ihe Erie Railway on sat-r-
day ct ns low figure as twelve ef1es per hun
dred. and an agreement was made for the car
rying OF fivc bundled thousand bnshe1s of
wheat from Buffalo to New York At e!svon and
. haf cents per bnslne' During che freight
competition between the Central and Eric, a
year ago. the lowest price reao!. ed was ten
cents and tits very probable that this rate Will
be re'ched agnin before the qu,rrsl is settled,
The efSoot Of these Remarkably cheap iarffs
upon the railrond stooks in Wall and Br5sd
streets is depressing, as the roads canno. be
made to paw at the price. The Erie line sent
West on Saturday aud SUNDAY FIVE hundred
cars fully loaded with goods and mcrohan-
disc. rho Central Road Is Also crowded with
goods. end ot,ra trains are running night and
day. bns she freight. accumulates very rapidly.
On Saturday all tho available cars were allied.
Seven long extrl trains wero sent out on Mon.
day. The Eric Canal is or will be yirtualIv