The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-02
NEWS SUMMARY.

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Cotton closed in New York dull at soa for Mid
ding Uplands. Gold closed at 34A.
Cotton c:osed in Liverpool unchanged but dull
Middling Uplands 1sd.; Orle ans 1s3d.
There were seventy-two 6res in New York city
during February.
Boston is going to build Eve thousand ton
ocean steamer.
The London Punch has circulation in the
United States Of $1,000 copies weekly.
Memphis is going to put down seven miles Of
wood pavement this season.
An infant with $1,000 note pinned to it's dress
was recently left In a London railway station.
The Paris washerwomen charging franc
shirt, all on account of the Exposition.
The premises Of OvEREND, GURNEY g. Co., No.
65Lombard street, have been sold for s2e, 500
R. G. PORTER, Mayor of Apalachicola and an
old and esteemed merchant, died at that place last
Saturday afternoon. -
Public attention in France is occupied with the
donation Of 400,000r. Of the national money to NJ
DE LAHART1NE.
A man in Evansville gave his daughter terri
BILE whipping for ''shinglng" her hair and refusing
to lead in prayer. ~
The Springfield Republican says General BUT
1ER is bottling himself up politically as tight as
he did in his military career.
ANAN1As WILLIAM JAMES ANDREW JACKSON Io,rno
is registered colored votor III Washington. He
ought to vote. 4
o---4,.n ls ambitious to prescribe the length OF
orthodox coat tails and the STYLE OF collar a man
shall wear.
Germany will send clock to Paris that will show
the time attwenty y-six different points in all parts
Of the world -
It is equivocaly stated that the Princess of
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poaure while indulging in her favoritc amusement
Of sketching.
fashionable young man in San Francisco, who
had lived on his wits. shot himself dead in despair
at the smallness of his capital.
= correspondent says the English department Of
the Paris Exhibition viii be tsugly disorderly and
untas seful" The French will smile malicorsly
The provisions Of the Supplementary Recon-
aTuction Bill are not the kind Of provisions the
starving portion Of the Southern States expected
There is quite futter among the ladies' on &C
count q report that the State Constable intends
to prevent the sale Of hair OIL that article contain
ing more or less alcohol
The Mobile papers have description Of Jeremy
Dddler who has been swindling the people in
Michigan, representing himself as wealthy
Mobilian.
An "Emigrant Aid Association" of very COM
SAAHsAoSVSA
The Chamber Of Commerce has also appointed
emigrant agents at Hamburg and Liverpool
Two-story care are growing in favor on the Euro
pean railways. The lower story has compartments
in the English style, and the upper is on the
American plan. The whole height of the car is
about fourteen feet r#5
The Tribune says very forciby: ssNe cannot be
Tar wrong in saying that more blood was shed in
one street in New York on st. Patricks Day than
has been expended during all the Fenian insurrec-
ton Of which any account has yet reached u.s.
The Delaware Legislature, at its recent session,
prssed a Bill equalizing punishments without re-
gard to the color of the criminals; refused to rafy
the Constitutional Amendment, and passed an
amendatory school Law.
In Philadelphia rs a lady with small child in
her arms was getting out Of one Of the passenger
g., Los..rvrn, ana Jne platform
guard catching in the lady's crinoline she was
dragged about twenty feet on the track
The Norfolk Iapers protest against the throwing
OF slops and dishwater from high windows on the
public pavement Of that city. A sslocal" complains
OF having had his new spring suit doused all over
with an amalgam Of cofeegrounds, suds and the
debris Of q breakfast
The NeWberry Herald says: "a finer prospect
thus far for bountiful yield Of wheat we have
never seen in this State. The breadth is yery.
large and the stands good. This we observed
everywhere. Parties who have travelled exten-
sively say the same. So be it,
statue OF HENRY CLAY will be inaugrrated in
the Court House at Louisville on the 10Th OF April
when an address will be delivered by the Hon.
RoRERT G. WINTHROP, Of Massachusetts, Messrs.
MnLARD FILLMORE and A. n. STEVENS are also ex-
pected to be present.
Ihe people OF Maine understand the proper way
+o1 :S>ro-
town IN that State recently had festival, and on
its show bills the public were informed that the
terms of admission were twenty-five cents; for
children under fourteen years, fifteen cents; but
under four years, one dollar.
Massachusetts doss not recognize greanhacks or
National currency in the payment Of interest on
her public debt She pays, and has all along paid
specie on her State bonds. The consequence is
her five per cents. are above par. There are some
good fruits after all in the old Bay State, and we
readily recognize and give her due credit for them
Ihe Helena Clarion says the planters on the up-
lands OF Arkansas have made little or no prepara-
non Tor seeding, in consequence Of the continued
rains, and the work Of those on the river lowlands
mas been indefinitely; suspended by the overflow.
The Hood had abated an inch or two, but the Mis-
sissippi was threatening still higher water.
The new dining room Of the Leek House, at San
francisco, Is said to be the finest in the United
States It is an immense octagon, with arohed
ceilings, thirty-two feet high, splendidly orna-
mented-the floor being composed Of colored
woods, inlad and I,olished equal to mosaic table,
The room is in the new addition to the house, and
s said to have cost 1000 in the way Of ornanen-
tation alone. ia N
. There is said to be q hitch in the BEEcHER novel
in the Ledger. The novel halts-the gifted author
finds it difficult work and delays handing in the
manuscript. friend lately asked why the delay.
when Mr.. BEEcHER candidly told LIN that he
thought novel writing was not his forte and
added naivey, giving his friend poke in the ribs,
sebut It fail, all they can say is, that BEEouEa
can't write novel, and he laughed heartily at his
idea. .
Princeton College has accepted the JEROME gift
OF five thousand dollars, and the interest will be
expended annually in the purchase Of prizes for
gentlemanly conduct on the part Of the students.
Ihe senior class and the literary societies will each
furnish one candidate. The collegians will make
the first choice, subject however to the final de-
cision OF the faculty. In year or SO, therefore,
we shan know whether it is as easy to raise gentle
men, as prize turnips. I
The Hartford (Conn.) Times Gays Tho famous
Gen. P1TK1N, who Is travelling through Connecti-
EuE a ga SNnEher5, -