The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-28
: MONDAY, OCTOBER 2s, 1879.
NEWS OF II

-@s1iHtfrcrhbishop Manning, Of England, ha
prohibited the employment Of women singers
In the Roman Catholic places Of worship With
inohis diocese. 41eg @ IL ar.uHpa
int the course Of an address the other day
;xfeSbisnop Manning laid down emphaticall.
that the only cure for the love of drink Wa
totsfssabstneHce..
I-The cultivation Of the banana In tn
southern part Of Florida is largely increasing
midi the fruit WIN, It Is expected, become al
Important article of trade In that State.
THE, floods on the banks Of the river Pc
in.Isaly, caused by the overflow of the waters
Of that stream, have not yet absted. Many
personsq have been drowned, and q vas'
amount Of property .destroyed.
NvVinam Fuller, paying teller of the State
Bank Of Virginia, at Richmond, has dlsap
psased. He left the keys, with letter inii
mating suicide. An examination Of his banh
account develops frauds In transactions te
the extent o; probably $4,000.
The anime In. Persia, according to a Ma.
drss journal, mas destroyed ih.ee hundred
thousand persons in Teheran, the capital, and
throughout the country:it - stated that not
less than three millions Of, human beings have
fallen victims tothe famine and pestilence.
Norfolk, ;YaSs|ls.b reported, is doing a
large busiiess To- shipping oysters from the
Chesapeake Bsyto England and France. One
firm Is forwarding twelve hundred barrels q
month to ;Nagre, n danother firm is sending
one thousand barrels q month to Liverpool.
Atpsessnt the ~consigaments are sent to New
Ynrk,.snd thence by steamer to their destina-
trS9hIpbulaing Ia reported to be very active
inNew England, and during the coming win
taritsffs believed there will be more business
In this line than has been known for several
YEAR, past. In the seaport towns OF Maine
the Shipyards are beginning to assume busy
sspect, and in Boston aud Vicinity the keels
ofseverals fine ships have recently been laid.
Tie prospects Of the trade are, upon the
whole, quite encouraging, and, 1t is antici-
.pated, will Improve az the season advances.
sssNms the famous German resort for gam
bistS, has een deprived of lis attractions for
thtg eises Of visitors, the establishment"
having been closed by the government. The
1prr6ohSp Of the bank during the past season
'ainSnnled tothree hundred and twenty-five
sthootn.and dollars. The establishments" or
leEalized gambling.houses at. Baden-Baden
and Mannheim will be closed on October 81;
those at WIesbaden and Hombourg upon De-
cambarssL
Tho scientific and exploring expedition 10
tbs copper lands. of Northwestern Texas, con-
Quoted By Colonel ". O. McCarty, Of Texas,
report vast copper and coal beds-the coal
resembling the anthracite of Eastern PENN
styAhia,a and the copper assaylng 'eighty-four
petSshE, with q valuable trace Of silver. The
expedition located thirty.hve thousand acres
tost The Texas Land and Copper Company
close corporation, with 40 stock for sale. The
oosladiscoyery is regarded as the most i'm.
gportsnf; Is the Southern Pacific Railroad pas
~sesttrough this. region.
!atAnfmprovement on station indicators for
railway cars has just been perfected. The
invsnttonS consists of q band Of ribbon Of
.snnitsbts material, having the names Of sue
cssaYs stations upon It, stretched across the
centre Of the dome Of the car, or In other con-
veaient places, and coiled on drums, which
ego connected by vertical shafts with gearing
-bensRlh the sar, operated at proper perlods!by
a~dtiving-wheel coming in contact with short
sectional rails located at suitable points be-
tween the stations, 80 as to indicate the name
of the place as the cars arrive.
AZ Fort Vancouver, Washington Terrific
n, 4 draiamer boy, belonging to the Twenty
frSt, Regiment, United States Infantry, was
recently confined In the guard room for hav-
Ing returned to the barracks in q state Of In
toxicatlon. The boy attemptedto escape, dIsre-
safd.ng the commend OF the sentry to halt,
uhefonPofthe latter fired uponthe escaping
prisoner killing him on the spot. The
sheriff attempted to arrest the sentry on a
6kafRSot murder; but General Candy, com.
mandIng. the district, has declared that the
civfr courts have no Jurisdiction In the matter,
idfne sentry is to be tried by military court
martial.
A New York letter says "The English
aoysllstsY Yates 10 not 80 highly paid for his
lectu.irg tour after all His terms are a hum
d~redtdellars per lecture, aud he has engage
ments Tor between sixty and seventy lectures
: OUGlQR
sbesHeen six and seven thousand dollars TOR
his tour. He has also engaged to write a
story for q story paper, which will give him
twenty.dve hundred dollars, and ashe gets an
American copyright OF some Of his works, the
ssle or which will be- largely Increased by bis
tour; we may suppose 1t will enrich him TO
the extent Of ten Thousand dollars-besides
glory. at the first lecture OF Froude there
were." fourteen hundred dollars In the hall,
and, during the course Of five lectures the
managers viii take In, over fourteen thousand
dollars, but 1t has not been told what proper
ton aflthis Froude himself is 10 get. His tour
thropRhrthec ountry 10 also expected to be
very profitable"
The Vienna Exposition building will be
much larger than any structure ever erected