The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-24
NEWS sU MI M A r Y.


Yesterday was Sss. Cotton was firm at 17}c.
IN Liverpool yesterday cotton was active
and advanced 1-16d. Sales $4,000 bales; Up
lands 7sa72d.
Prentice wants somebody to keep tally o1
the reconstruction laws.
Dickens puts his tickets up to three dol.
lars in Washington.
Another victim to the free use OF ohloro-
form for relieving toothache has just been
buried st Colinsvile, Conn.
Iowa has one hundred and forty-three
newspapers, but not one specially devoted TO
religious matters.
1t is proposed in New York city to give all
the old Christmas trees to the birds in the pub
Lie squares to make nests Of.
They have five aot burlesque on the
aBlack Crook" in Cincinnati called "Five hun
dred thousand Devils"
The cattle plague hes suddenly appeared
in twenty-five villages Q Upper silesia, Prus'
sia.
MIR. George Washington Moon is about to
publish volume which, with singular frank
ness, he calls "Bad English"
The aggregate valuation of real estate for
taxstion purposes in New York is s691, ,497, $50,
an increase o; $75 7S7, ,79s over last years val
ustion.
Another LiIputian marriage is announced,
that OF Commodore Mutt and Miss Minnie
Warren. The combined fortunes Of the pair
amount to S25O,OOO.
An aronaut went up from the City Of Mexico
on Christmas morning in hot air balloon. DE
struck cold current, which chilled his appa-
ratus ana sent him down rapidly and broke his
bones.
Under It's present constitution Michigan
pays no salary higher than one thousand dol
lars to any officer, except judicial and they are
prohibited from receiving any fees or perqui-
sites whatever.
The English are terribly afraid Of the Fe-
mans. Pilot engines are sent in advance OF
some Of the English mail trains, in conse-
ousnce Of information that mischief has been
threatened by the brotherhood.
At recent execution sale in Lincoln coun-
ty. Tennessee, sixteen bales Of good cotton
sold at six cents per pound, and sixty barrels
Of corn In pens brought only sixteen cents per
:t-sfst
bushel.
Judge Puixnd 10 O Senatorial wit. Some
body told him that he was talked Of for the
next Vice Presidency. 'sWell,' he made an
s7er, ethe party might do worse; and 1t prob
ably will"
Coral iewelry, which has Of late been very
fashionable, is said to be, to great extent,
counterfeit. Much Of it is prepared artificial
" from marble dust made into paste, by using
sihcats of potash and little isinglass, and
colored by Chinese vermillon.
The New York fashion auth critics an
nounce that "white cravats for full dress,
thoughosten worn, are no longer en- regaie In
this country. Gentlemen who are in tho mode
slwsys wear dark cravats, generally black.
white having been surrendered to servants"
1t is stated that Mr.. Clark, Of the Treasury
Department, offers to supply to the govern
,nent paper made in the Treasury Department,
Mt eight cents per pound, such as has been
awarded to Washington firm at fifteen cents.
The statement creates sensation in some cir
cles. 1
Father Babaz, a French savant, has been
studying the habits Of spiders, and asserts
that they can fly and swim in the air. He
says they perform this feat by turning their
backs to the ground and keeping their legs
closely folded up on their bodies, and that in
this posture they sail about with perfect ease.
The "turning to Rome" Of several Angi-
can sisters and olergymen in England, re-
Gently ohronialed, has been followed by the
profession of the Roman Catholic religion by
three members Of the Irish aristocracy, Lords
Louth and Granard, and the Countess Of Por-
darlington. These events have caused much
comment in religious circles in Great Britain.
% 2@sThiB il the age Of paper. Almost every
thing is made OF paper, from money to hats
and shirt collars, and even water pipes. The
latest adaptation Of the article has been dis
covered in Maine, where q local paper adver-
tises, for the benefit Of the ladies, the produc-
tions Of the "Paper Pantalette Company"
"A gossiping writer in Macmillan's Maga-
zine tells Of the demeanor Of leading English
statesman recently, while being bulGed by the
opposition in the House Of Commons. he con-
trolled his face, even his mouth, to an express
sion Of perfect placidity, but no could not
manage his hands and fingers, which shook
with agitation, and on which the veins stood
out in strong relief.
In arresting Mr.. Train, the British Gov
ernment has caught an elephant. Already he
makes the event text, and numerous lively ora
tions may be expected during the next six
months. In dispatch to the World Mr.. Train
says: "Have told the Derby Cabinet that the
American ultimatum is: Payment Of Alabama
claims and release Of American citizens, or
war!"
"A New York reporter has been to see MIR.
A. T. Stewart, and describes him as Ga mild
faced man, quite human in his easy recogni-
ton of us, with placid manner and soft voice,
but with vital temperament that tells Of re-
served force somewhere, and pleasant twinkle
in each blue eye not at all platonic or sphynx-
ine." But the reporter does not explain what
he means.
The "White Fawn" burst brilliantly upon
New York. Niblo's was densely crowded.
The papers say the dance of the "Fire Flies"
is q ballet Of striking originality; the fairy
creatures caper about with torches on their
heads, and there is march Of little fishes
and an adaptation Of the principal effect Of a
London pantomime called sThe Houseitha