The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-25
saddle, and that in harness, Flora Temples time
has not boon equalled.


Damo Rumor reports-and the Herald publishes
INC repor-that one OF our worthy City Fathers,
who had made his pilo by successful operations
in the gold room, till said pile amounted tn tortv
thousand dollars has recently lost it all again at
an innocent little game called faro. IT, ia a,so
whispered about that a we'll known politician and
newspaper man OF this city did, on ono evenng
iast Week, engage the tiger Gagged in JOHN Mon
h1ssEYs museum, Whonce he came forth trium-
phant with sixty thousand dollars more than he
carried in.
JOHN MoRRIssEY's museum is located in TWENTY
fourth-street, opposite the Fifth Avenue Hotel ::
the room is immense, aud most magnifcentIy fur
nlshed ; the supper table, which is always spread
is supplied with game and the choicest moats and
Wlnes and here after you have lost at the little
table at the extreme end of the room, enough to
pay even for dozen such suppers you sit and
Partake, determined, at any rate, to get some
thing for your money. The apparent nonchalance
with which many OF tho players would take from
the pockets couple Of bills Of the denomination
OF hVe hundred dollars Gas though they were
shlnplssters for car ohsnge), invest thom In n
couple OF stacks OF checks-twenty in eaoh-and
then lose the checks in a most refreshingly short
space OF time, did much amaze your correspon-
dent. IF any gentleman hos an inconveniently
large supply OF greenbacks, and desires to be re-
heved thereof in q manner at once expeditions
ana stylish, he can choose better place for the
performance Of the operation than JOHN MoRa1s-
sEY's museum.
No inconsidersble degree Of alarm has been
caused by the sudden, the rapid, and the unox-
pected increase in the number OF cholera cases of
late. Yesterday eleven new cases were reported.
out Of which Blk have proved fatal. Grea5 fears
are entertained that this dread disease NAV vet
assume the form of an epidemic, and the Health
Board are actively employed in taking all possible
precautionary measures for the prevention there
of.
The Merchants' Express Company have pur-
chased TAYLoR's down town saloon for $3.50, 900,
intending to convert this famous restaurant into
an express Office. They have, however, already
regretting the offer, made propositions for q re-
lease from the purchase by the payment Of GER
tain amount.
The society for the prevention Of cruelty to ami
mails is really most humane and useful associa-
ton, and its President, Mr.. HBNRY BERaH, is un-
doubtedly a benefactor OF animal-kind. Yester-
day afternoon Mr.. BERaH entered complaint
against an inhuman driver OF one of the Seventh
Avenue Railroad oars, who was driving in a
crowded car poor lame horse, with running
sore upon one OF it's legs. warrant has been
Issued for the arrest of the bipeds beast, and it
is to be hoped that the wrongs and suffer: ngs of
the poor old horse may not pass unavenged.
During the storm which, swept over the city on
Wednesday, and which the people here insist upon
denominating Ga tornado" LOVES balloon was
high in the air. and in it were HARRY LESLIE the
gymnast and tight rope man, pretty little MAGGIE
MITCHELL, the actress, and an old lady, a relative
Of MAadIE's. When the storm arose LESLIE gave
the signal to haul in the cable and the balloon was
pulled down in safety. The tight rope man testi-
hes that no one was scared but the aged lady, and
remarks that Miss MITCHELL is trump Had the
cable parted there is no telling but that all Of
them would have proved an exception to the prin-
cip'e contained in the preamble to the child's
conundrum about the egg, that "what goes up
must como down." or at least they would have
come down in parts unknown.
Since the change in the weather the theatres
have been doing much better business; the per-
formances, however, are commo place, and so we
must bide our time and await tho appearance of
ADELAIDE RIsToN and EDWIN BoorH.
MOULTRIE.