The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-22
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and steady. Sales o5U Dales at zo3c.
AT Liverpool the staple closed quiet. Sales
12,0OO bales; uplands 10td
"A steam fire engine has just exploded in
Portland, Maine.
-Mapleson is not coming, and New York
viii have no Italian opera this winter. All for
want Of tenor.
The latest Savannah nuisance is an cpl
denic Of sings, with which small boys smash
the street lamps. -
California has produced most excellent
counterfeit Of the silver half dollar; but it will
not trouble us here.
Some one. in the interior Of New York
claims to have captured the champion mos
quito. 1t is four and three Gig hths inches in
length. Twelve dollars has been refused for it.
Clara Louise Kellogg has made four
years engagement. with Max Strakosch. three
years to be spent in Europe and one in this
country. 90 .-.-
-Psrson Kallock, who was driven from his
parish in Massachusetts on account OF infa-
NOUS conduct, heads the Grant electoral ticket
in Kansas. iay.: SO h-s
by the eideath Of Mr.. Douglas Cook MIR.
Philip Harwood becomes editor of the London
Saturday Review. Mr. Harwood was formerly
an Unitarian preacher.
-Mrs. Fanny Kemble recently astonisheds q
Massachusetts railroad conductor by purohas-
-ing four tickets for her party Of three, because
sne wanted to occupy two seats for the sake OF
comfort.
Oxford University, with all its opportuni-
ties and privileges, is now open to any student
upon the payment of the entrance fee of five
pounds. and the yearly payment of three pounds
ten shilhngs.
Lord Amberley thinks the population is in
'creasing too fast in England, and wantS law
to limit the number OF children in each family
to three. His own family, however, has already
exceeded this standard
"A Republican aud Democratic Club peace
ably occupy the same room in San Francisco.
The transparency is also in common, one side
bearing the name of Seymour and Blair, and
the other tiose Of the Radical nominees.
-AWashington dispatch to the New York Sun
says: Now that Mr.. Evarts has returned to his
duty, it is expected that preparations will oe
made for the trial of JEFF. Davis, which is fixed
: NOV6uO6ls IL 10 tEOuSno no WILL W WA0A
this time, or the case viii be dismissed.
A new Paris brooch is an enamelled branch
Of fg leaves bearing fruit. Each 6g is
stumpy, pear-shaped pearl. A thick serpent
of precious stones coils in the centre, but in
stead OF splitting out venom it holds large
diamond out on its forkedtongue.
The Democratic Committee Of Pennsylva-
mia have sent out congratulatory address
upon the result OF the Maine election. Let the
: vote Of the two parties in Pennsylvania be in
creased proportionally as they were in Maine,
and the Keystone State will give Democratic
majority Of forty five thousand.
"A carpet-bag ger in the Louisiana Legisla-
turethought to speculate in cotton lands: He
was bitten, his plantation turning out worth
less; and so, bein 6 intensely loyal, procured
the removal Of the parish seat to fictitious
town, which he locates right in the centre Of
his lands. Nothing pays like patriotism, after
all.
Suit has been entered in the Federal Court
OF Nashville against Gen. George a. Thomas
and others for fraudulently coming into pos
session OF 5000 acres Of land in Middle Ten
nessee. belonging to Archibald swope. 1t is
alleged that military intimidation on the part
:, OF General Thomas was brought to bear in
forcing Swope to give mp his land.
"A veteran Of the Paris stage says that
Nile. Taglioni never appeared before the foot
lights without drinking some cold beef soup.
Nine. Sontag drank the gravy Of very rare
mutton chop before she went on. Mime. Alboni
always took glass Of Bordeaux. Fanny
EIlsler drank little sherry. Nine. Bosio in
vsriably took q glass Of orgeat Malibran took
good draughts Of champagne.
"A New York letter Of Friday says: ga SEN
sstion was crested among the uptown people
this morning, by the discovery Of the perfect
remains of a human foot and leg embedded in
some granite, which the quarrymen are blast
ing at tip corner Of Tenth Avenue and Forty
second-sIeet. The granite is pale color, and
the hum an remains are perfectly black. The
questions for the philosophers and the ethnol-
ogists now are-are these the relics Of some
primeyal man, and was this primeval man
black?"
Bishop Bailey, the Catholic Bishop Of
Newark, in his recent pastoral let .er, says that
education, in its modern sense, ''is a mere
cultivation of The intellectual faculties, and
even this is done in the most superficial man
ner, by cramming the mind with facts, instead
:, OF making it reflect the reason; that clergy
men are only preaching politics and parents
and ministers are only training up boys to be
sharp men, cunning and unscrupulous poll
ticians, without religion or m orality."
Now the King OF Prussia hasadded his
pacific assurances to those that are daily re-
peated by the EN- peror Napoleon; but at the
same time the King told the Professors Of
Kiel that his army and navy would mot shun
the combat, and If compelled to enter into 3
conflict they will fight it out" If Napoleon
should now reply in language little stronger
than this. and the King should retort in Ian
gusge little stronger than thai, it would not
then be very hard to find a cas,ts bell.
Queen Isabella, of Spain, weighs two hur-
dred and twenty-five pounds. She has become
very homely, and when she appears in public
with her two eldest daughters, both of whom
are very handsome girls. the contrast is most
striking. The Queens. husband is the very
embodiment Of stupidity; he looks in his gor-
,igeous uniform like an idiot wondering why
they have dressed him up so nicely. He is
slwsys head overears ID debt, and the Queen