The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-08
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Gold closed in New York yesterday dull at
2st.:
Cotton closed In Liverpool easier; uplands
-1OSd@10sd; Orleans 11d@11td-
Cotton closed in New York heavy and 3@lc.
lower; sales 1900 bales, at 26@26sc.
-Oblong and three-cornered envelopes are
again coming in style.
Queen Victoria is said to be the inst Eng
.lish sovereign who ever saw Switzerland.
The Pope is the only European s"Tefeign
who does not smoke.
Charles Dickens is to receive $4,000 for
his series of one hundred farewell readings In
England.
"A citizen Of Nebraska has invented pat
ent hens nest" whilst citizen Of Connecticut
has 'spatent carpet-bag."
; Already the Union Pacific Railroad is de-
.spatching snow plotghs to several POINTS on
Athe.line to fight the storms in the mountains.
The brig ands of southern Italy are teach
ing rich men the worth Of life. They have DOW
one prisoner whose existence they value at
$500 :,
MIR. Sullivan, editor Of the ''Irish People,
has sued Brick Pomeroy for libel, claiming
So. 600 damages. Pomeroy had intimated that
Sullivan had changed his politics for bribe.
An individual in Buffalo publishes card to
the effect that the wages received by his young
son for marching in political professions sup
plies the family with butter.
There is q steam engine in New York that
runs one hundred and twenty-five presses,
prints fifty different newspapers, makes hoop
skirts, bin ds books, and runs mile OF shaft
ing.
Tho Adiutant-G General Of North Carolina
has ordered the militia Of the State to be en-
rolled st the same time the voters are register
ed. The white and oolored soldiers are to be
enrolled separately.
I'm the approaching Peace Congress at
Berne, Switzerland, women will be admitted on
the same terms as men, and will be invited to
propose questions and take part in the discus
sions.
The New Orleans Pieayune says: "That on
many plantations in Louisiana there will be
raised afsy bushels OF corn to tho aoro this
wear, besides the other crops. This ls an no
usually large yield, as hitherto twenty-five to
thirty bushels was about the average. 1t has
only been a short time since our sugar and cot
ton planters bought all their corn at the West.
We trust the practice will never be resumed.
They will now have corn to SELL"
A brilliant meteor was seen in Batavia,
New York, about 10 o'clock on Friday evening
last. It's co urse was from southeast to north
west, and its color, upon first appearance, was
a bright blue, but gradually changed to deep
green ere it faded from sight. 1t was OF great
, bril,ian6y, Illuminating the whole heavens, and
causing tire es, houses, and other objects to
cast strong but transient shade.
The New York Evening Post objects to
General Butler on account ofhis ''violent tenn
per- SPLITTER hatred" ''eztremepolitical opln-
ions," and because she represents no cause, no
principle, no policy but the now obsolete poll
-cy Of veng eance.n"-Ehis - Is the devil rebuking
: sin. No paper exhibits more bitter hatred or
violent temper, or wages more vehemently
-ssthe policy of vengeance" !" than this same Eve
ming Post.
During the last few years Spaniard is
said to have realized handsome fortune In
the City Of Mequinez, Morocco, by making de-
icious me at patties, large quantities OF which
mere sent to all parts. Something having 90
CURED to excite the suspicious Of the police,
they made descent upon his bakery, and
found the body of q woman cut up in real
butcher etyle, and in the cellar they discover
ed large quantity Of skulls. The Sultan SEN
fenced him to be dragged through the streets
and then cut 70 pieces while alive.
The fires in the woods of Oregon are des-
cribed as producing ths most terrific scenes.
At Yakima Bay ashes and cinders fill the air,
which at MONDAY is as black as midnight.
Children were lost at short distance from
their homes, and their mothers we're wander
ing around in search Of their infants. In the
Wallamet Valley. the sun in the morning and
evening was Of murky red, changing as the
.day advanced to crimson and violet. TIE
stage drivers could not distinguish the road
beneath the wheels of the coaches, nor could
the pilots on the steamboats, see the opposite
banks Of the river.
The pa ssion for bull fighting is by no
means ON the decline in Spain. Statistics
show that the art is fourishing, if not actually
on tho increase. In 1866 there were one hum
dred and one bull rings, Of which thirty-six
belonged to the capital towns Of provinces, and
the remaining sixty-fye to places Of less
importance. The finest bull ring in Spain is
that of Valencia, which possesses 16, ,816 seats;
next comes that Of Barcelona, which has II ,972
seats; and then the chief bull ring OF Madrid,
which has 9766 seats. Although this last ring
is not the first in size in Spain, it is the first
dn Importance, because therein the bull fights
are more numerous and better than elsewhere
in the country. Every Sunday afternoon in
Madrid, during the season, the bull ring is, as
a matter of course, crowded. The total num-
Der of bull fights which were held in Spain in
1851 was two hundred and forty-6ye, while in
1866 the number increased to three hundred
and thirty. But in addition to these, every
town in the land has its 'nouiRos' or fights
with young bulls at the end OF harvest time,
and in all the principal cities there exist clubs
Of amateur bull fighters.
The New York Times, in noticing the new
electric clock now on exhibition in that city,
says: "These clocks are driven by the current
of an earth battery; they require no winding
up; they keep exact time continuously; and a
dozen or hundred clocks in differentr rooms or
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