The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-09
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Belle Boyd appears Oh the New York stage
this week.
Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, In his
inaugural message, refers to General Grant
as designed by Providence for our next Presl-
dent.
Admire, Tegethoff paid, before quitting the
city of Mexico, all the claims on the late EN-
peror Macmillan, comprising those which
were notoriously overcharged.
Hon. Alexander R. Stephens, OF Georgia.
writes from Philadelphia that his physical con-
stitution is very feeble and that he is hardly
able at times to sit up in bed.
The Mobile Advertiser suggests that DICK
ems reason for not attending church here
is because he is not interested in American
politics.
Mrs. Lincoln's wardrobe is actually to be
made show, twenty-five cents admission,
very moderate price, indeed, as MIR. Brady an
nounces.
The Newbern IN. CO. Herald Of the 4th
inst. says: 'swe are credibly informed that
in our city at least three persons have died
from starvation within the last few days."
The Round Table ssys: ''No man, not even
General Grant, can prove successful cand1-
date, whose opinions on the subject OF negro
suffrage are not explicitly avowed and definite
ly understood"
The Selma (Ala.) Times states that it is
informed on good authority that large land
holders in Greene c. -uty are offering to give
the use Of their plantations for next year to
any one that will agree to pay the taxes on
them.
AT Toledo, Ohio, there are two rival sport
ing clubs, and the end Of deer's tail is ac-
cepted as proof Of the hunters capture OF the
animal. Ore of the members has recently
been detected in scalping the tails of dead
deers lying in the Toledo market.
The Winchester (Va.) News understands
that several wealthy gentlemen are negotiating
for the purchase OF a tract ofland in the vicini-
ty Of that town, with the purpose Of settling
upon it an Irish colony Of some fifty or sixty
families.
vel Known jewellers, have been swindled out
of jewelry worth s2146 by means Of q fraudu-
lent check imposed upon them with great in
genuity by two men. One of them, named
Macdonald, has been arrested.
The wife of Baron Won Beust, the Aus
.trian Prime Minister, is soliciting subscrip-
tions for the Pope. Beust is Protestant.
The Emperor and Empress Of Austria have
given ffty-five thousand francs to the Papsl
fund.
- The Grand Army of the Republic in Wash
ington, has declared for Grant, and wants
soldiers and sailors convention to anticipate
the regular Republicans in nominating him. A
Grant club, with half its officers colored, has
also been formed there.
An unbroken railwsy communication now
exists between New York and the base OF the
Rocky Mountains, a distance of over two thou
sand rr;,es. A temporary railway bridge, re-
centlr .ected across the Missouri river at
Omaha, was the last link Of this line con:
structed.
-. "A Washington correspondent states that
General Grant quietly suggested to General
Howard that he would do well to dismiss every
officer Of the Freedmen's Bureau who has pro-
cured his own nomination for a civil position
in the South. The order has been issued.
1T is announced by Wisconsin paper that
1t will hereafter be printed wholly at home. 1t
has been its custom heretofore to have one
side printed at Milwaukee, and the sheets sent
TO it's Office to receive the other impression.
This curious method is much in use in Eng
land and France.
Among the arrivals at the dead letter Office
recently, was letter containing diamond
ring, valued at fifteen hundred dollars. twas
sent to New York from England, but, not be-
ing inquired for, of course came to the dead
letter Office. Fortunately the lady subscribed
her full name, and it has been returned to her.
DIR. Amber, ,.of Fauquier. County, Va, has
been furnished with one thousand sheep by a
citizen of New York, to be grazed on the Doc
tors farm for term Of years, and then res
tored to the owner, or the like number account
ed for. The parties, in the meantime, divide
equally between themselves the wool and the
increase Of the flock.
-Colfax has yet some idea Of obtaining tho
second place on the Grant ticket. There is an
objection that both are Western men, and some
of the journals of that section are so modest as
to suggest the improperly of monopoGzing the
ticket. But Colfax is willing to be called
New Yorker, Of which State he is native, pro-
yided he can thus get on behind Grant.
"A dispatch from New York announces pos
itiyely that the Herald has been offered for
sale within day or two and that certain part
ners in the Tribune Association are negotia-
ting for the purchase. The price is UNDER
stood to be s1,0O0,00O, exclusive Of the new
building, but including the four new presses,
which cost 100000. This sale is not on ac-
count Of the trouble with the Associated Press,
but, if rumor can be believed, is caused by
certain family perplexities Of the senior editor,
which have for some time been the subject of
gossip.
The recent discovery Of some old family
papers in New York is likely to make some stir
In the social circles Of that city. 1t seems that
In altering building in d locality once more
fashionable than now, some letters and other
manuscripts, which had been secreted about
thirty years ago, between floor and ceiling
below it, were found, and that they have fallen
into the hands of persons willing to make
sinister use Of them; and as the legitimacy Of
several individuals as we'll as the possession of
considerable property is said to be involved in
the matter, the complication has become very
painful and interesting.