The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-09
asr The Business and Publication OF.
nee OF THE DAILY NEWS has been
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Cotton was less active and dropping, Wltt
sales Of 1900, bales at S2aasS.
In liverpool cotton was quiet and steady
sales Z, ,088 bales; prices unchanged.
There is said to be dissatisfaction ant
jealousy among the high officers Of the French
; army. fss..s.s5
-Wilhe Collins story, ''The Moonstone," 4" i!
neaSly complete, and will be published in bool
form in London early this month.
-Iso souisiana, it is stated, will this year pro
duce sugar crop of 100, 900 hogsheads, which
: is only. half Of the annual product before th'
war. -
During 1867 the sum Of s2,70S, ,420 wai
transmitted to Ireland from America, by emf
grants to their friends 81 Ole. $50 Of the snn
being IN the form Of prepaid passage. orders
The Sultan's silver table is to be 14s fee
long by IS feet broad. There is to be fear
fully elaborate centre-piece, 2 feet 6 inches
high, beside end pieces, trirmphal arches
flower pieces, etc. twill cost about sSco,00o
beside which $1,000 will he expended fol
linen, glassware, and accompanying furniture.
Baron. de Rothschild is going toremoye
his bank from Frankfort to Berlin. The peo-
4 Pile OF Frankfort are very angry with him for
this desertion. They elected him to the Reich
I tag because hesXas bitter enemy OF Prussia.
! The King ofPrussia recently made him a menu
ber OF the Prussian Chamber Of Peers, and
Baron de Rothschild thinks Prussia ruled by a
very sagacious Prince.
LII is a significant fact that Butler was not
invited TO Henderson's marriage. tits said he
intended present Of silverware had he been
asked to come. Miss Foote is reported to
have withheld him an invitation for the double
reason that many valuable presents would be
exposed TO view, and because she did not wish
to receive eilYer service marked with initials of
other people.
The labor convention lately in session in
New York city passed kindly resolution call
ing attention to the INSULT eient pay generally
given to working women. Very large numbers
Of young women are now; employed in trades
and at other occupations requiring industry,
application and some degree Of skill, and, as .,
rule, they are not awarded: half the pay that
men cat for similar labor: In some branches
<of business they are compelled to, WORK for
starvation prices. This is crying eW.
3 IA new type metal, it is assertedNs now
produced in Humboldt county, Nevada 1t is
obtained by separating silver from the ore. and
is composed Of about thirty parts Of lead and
seventy parts Of antimony. The metal with
slight addito.s, is said to be superior TO that
used in this Atlantic States. It is sent down
to San francisco. in pigs of about seventy
pounds weight. a. shipment Of seventy tons
has been made to New York, Some of the iron
foundries and machine shops in San Francisco
are now using the same metal for journals, IN
place Of the Babbit metal.
THE English people are. laughing over the
red tapeism Of the Ecclesiastical branch ct the
government. They have never yet been able
to thank God for the preservation o: Prince
Alfred, in consequence OF not having received
the proper legal authorization. This is almost
as bad as the official routine of the Havana
Fire Department the engines are only allowed
to, be taken out by. a written authority. signed
by two or three officials, all Of whom must visit
4 this FIRE previously, in order to judge whether
such q alcourseis necessary.
The monument to be erected over the
( grave Of Lieutenant General Scott at West
Point, consists of q granite base, seven feet
long, three feet wide, and one foot two inches
thick. Upon this rests single block Of Italian
marble. The block is six feet long, two feet
wide, and two and half feet high. 1t is a
mere plain surface, except the inscription,
which is in square, plain cut-raised letters in
part, and the remainder in plain Roman. There
is not an ornament about it, not even mould
ing, to break the severe simplicity and solidity
: Of hemassive stone.
Paris has produced modern Sardanapalus
in the person of Count r.. He has amin.
Z come OF some 200, 900 francs per annum, and
dresses like lady. Not content with appear.
ing in his dashing carriage in this costume at
the late races in the Bois, he has just given o
ball, the guests being ladies only, and number:
ing some Of the most distinguished names oi
the old French aristocrary. Folly ever ATTRACTS
folly. The Count received the invited in arose.
colored satin dress, trimmed with the richest
Iace and ornamented with bouquets Of flowers
he is always yelled to hide his moustache-as
he desires not to part with it.
-Astrik;ng illustration Of the force of 9
mothers love for her child has recently been
exhibited in Iowa. The circumstances are re-
ported in noticing the pardon, by Governor
Merrill, ofa woman, Catharine McArdle, who
had been sentenced four years ago to the State
penitentiary for life. She confessed to the
murder of her husband and was sentenced tc
be hanged, but her sentence was committed by
Governor Stone. 1t was afterwards found that
she was entirely innocent, and that her son
: was the guilty person. 70 save him from the
gallows she had ayowed that she was guilty o.
the crime.
Z. One of the most transparent of the polti'
cal lumbugs of the day is the forwarding o
petitions to Congress numerously signed by
laborers employed in manufacturing districts
praying for Such increase of protective duties
as viii revive manufactures and restore pros
perity to the country. This is called prayer
of American workingmen for the protection Of
American industry. It is perfectly well-known
that these petitions are gotten up by the en-
ployers, and that the workingman who should
refuse to sign would do it with the peril OF dis
missal before his eyes. All that these things
mean is that bounties ore to be paid By the
10 a Forr not infaraota ond II ie