The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-17
Gbe CHARLESTON 4ews.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER II, 1879.


NEWS OF THE DAH.
-senss and; sentlment-Mrs. and M. !oa-
quin. Miller. a.t;ls
-You can. always find a sheet of water on
the bed Of the ocean.
-1trMann, heather, has raised forty acres
Of excellent cotton In Arkansas.
Florida Is manufacturing feather owe
from the plumage Of the white heron.
Il vigilance committee to enforce VAGINA
HON. ia one Of the wants felt in Chicago.
The practice of selling Chinese women
n,evails IN British Columbia. A good speci-
men sold recently at BarkerViile for seven
hundred dollars
-siRner Mario, according to g french
napsr. recently sold the Villa salviata. near
Florence. for six hundred and ninety thous-
and francs, Baron Hagermann,a rlch Dane,
being the purchaser.
Mack Twain Is o~bjurgalng his English
rublishers sor giving his book to the world
withesuch alterations as he might choose to
make. and IN additional half chapser OF nis
OWL
"A new style Of ear-drop screws into the
lobe of the tortured member, 30 that the pearl
or dismonda rests upon the ear as If With no
support. In fact, very few are able 70 sup
porstk 80.
England allows its paupers swo shiiines
and! slxpence (sixty-two cenls) Q week TO live
upon. OF rather die upon. A short time since,
Mss Fanny Edlnborongh, who had been IN
receipt of this muniaoent sum from 1.-THE
parish, p was found dead In her bed. The tes.
tImony taken before the coroner's Jury showed
thss4sne had Gdied from starvation. For
montness she had not eaten any meat; bread
and tea was eli she hoped for, and avery little
OF these No food was found In her stomach
after death, and the facts were that she died
Of alew ssaryation. One Of the jurymen on
the s!eeownsr,s quest" said 1t was q disgrace
to that people should be allowed to
die of slow starvation on two shillings and
si1penoe week II
1.-The Chicago papers all give an extended
history orthe CIT 'between the great fire and
Its nrst anniversary October Z, 8 and 9. From
the Inter.Ocean we condense some of the
leading facts: 1.-THE total cost Of buildings
HQlQui sp00aS ~ -
"a $ls .65S, 20I. Thirteen new hotels have been
completed or are now in course Of oonstruc-
ton. Six Chicago elevators, having an aS-
ereeate.capaclty OF 2.475,0oO bushels Of grain,
and containing l,55s,ss5 bushels Of grain,
were destroyed blythe IRE. Four have already
arisen In place Of the old, and the ffth Will be
ready By November /. The storage room In
Chicago elevators in the fall of 1871 was H..
$4,000 bushels. Not only has this been re.
gained, but It has been absolutely increased
within the twelve months by fully 1000, 900
bushels.
The soldiers under the command Of the
Emperors Of Austria, Germany and Russia,
who recently held q conference 10 Berlin,
comprise considerably more than half OF the
entire military force of Europe. Thus, Aus
nfa hos an. effective army of 96S 05l men,
1s2! s7s horses and l4A guns; Germany has
1,o67, sos men. 2se. sl4 horses and 2O22 guns,
and Russia has 1,s62,4sI men, S24,7s horses
and 1904 guns.= Thetotal o the forces of these
three empires comprises s,S7s. OIL men, 6s6. 3s7
horses and $3.50 guns. The aggregate forces
ofall the other European States amount to
2,lks,6ls men, s2O,ss7 horses and 1872 guns.
Thus, France has on q war footing SOC, 637
mem. lis, 1883 horses and ss4 guns; Italy has
60l,s77 men. 4s,472 horses and 720 guns; Great
Britain has 40, ITO men, ss,e42 horses and 1856
guns. Belgium, Holland, Denmark Turkey
and Spain have an aggregate Of sSl, s4 men,
l29, 3oA horses and 1852 guns.
III the account which come to us from
Maine be oorrect-.snd there Is no reason to
think otherwlse-the people of Great Britain
and Ireland are not to be the only sufferers
from potato blight. The Presique Isle Sum-
riss les,ns, on what 1t claims to be good au.
thority, that potatoes are rotting very rapidly
this year. When dug they look quite healthy,
bull If allowed to remain q week or more with
out being used, the rot SETS In and destroys
them. The experience of one farmer is par
ticnlarly discoursging. He had his entire
crop placed upon a dry cellar floor, expecting
that the supply would last him until next sea-
son. In q couple Of weeks, more than half
thsnumbsr of bushels stored away had to be
removed, the potatoes having rotted 30 as to
be tfnft even for hogs. II the crop In the
other States be similarly affected the prices
win be largely increased this winter. so that
consumers In cities will have either to pay the
advance, or content themselves altogether
With sweet potatoes.
-Arteslan wells are multiplying In Chicago,
twenty-one Of them having already been
bored, and In no Instance has q failure to OBJ
tain q plentiful supply Of water occurred.
The well at Kenwood, Just south of Chicago,
1856 feet deep and i've and a halt inches in
diameter 1t the bottom, yields $50 gallons per
minute. It cost about $1,000. Another well In
the business centre OF Chicago 10 1900 feet
deeps yields 625 gallons per minute, and cost
$1,000. The usual depth of the wells Is from
1890 to 1900 feet, and the average cost is $4,000
fct q Eve and q half inch we'll 1000 feet deep, |
m f$SooO for a four and . half inch bore to the
same depth. The Durface pressure of the
water varies from twenty-five to thirty-hve
pounds to the square inch, and the latter
pressure Is sufficient to throw a stream to the
height OF one hundred feet. The. deepest well
in chicago is In the South Park, where the