The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-14
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M IN LIVERPOOL irYt,l cotton closed dull; uplanaS
1osd: Orleans lid; sales 1o,oOO oales. :. bot WAC
The penalty of Western eie'''''- Wv w.
aele company of young men has been sens os Y
u.,ne shin builders to Virginia 10 cu' sn'p
timber this winter. ,,aos. oy
Tennessee says She has bad the o!aes. VI
m - -o,a menLone OF her inhabitants navins
.d;ed at the age of one hundred ana f.S.ioei'
Tbe, New York papers are engaged IN h'-
.;,,, o,,,t I elbustering expedition for the cap
ture Of Cuba. .,n. uon
New England, it is said, will present Hon.
James G. Blaine, Of Maine, as her canolaa'e
for tbe Speaker of the next House.
seventy-two persons have already Deen
.,,,onnc,d as .suren Of appointments IN Preal-
dent Grants Cabinet.
The boot-blacks of Washington are TO De
,;censed proyided they will promise TO aSteno
school during certain hours. w.t.,
The Homestead for Governor WISE
movement is about to succeed IN Virslh'a
among the foreign-born citizens.
=, letter from Spin says that the portrait
of Washington has been placed In iront OF 'no
town hall of Barcelona in place OF the picture
of Isabella torn down.
a New York paper tells General Grant 10
nav NO heed to ssthe great tribe OF ADVISERS
and then proceeds to administer Column u
advice of its own. lac
The San Francisco Bulletin says the loss
in that city by the recent earthquake VIII NOT
exceed s5OO0OO, and may fah Within 'nn'
amount. "
The Spanish journals state that ouee lsa-
bel,a dnrins the thirty-fve years OF her reign
received $50, 500, 900 in gold for her personal eA-
penses.
-T,ouis;ana and Florida are now beginning
to compete success sfully with Cuba ana tne
West India Islands in raising oranges 1or tne
Northern markets. .s.s..--.s
General Rosecrans, our new Minister 10
Mexico, sailed from New York, on Monaay' Ii
the steamship Grenada. General LonsS'iee'
sailed in the same vessel
The Secretary of the New England femaie
Medical College recommends that lady Pnysi-
clans nse The abbreviation of Drss. to desls-
nate their sex.
The Democrats in Winterseat, Madison
County, Iowa, as q joke, put the name OF a 1u'l-
blooded negro on their ticket for justice OF tne
peace. and he was elected. BEING now citi-
zen, he intends to hold Office.
The Abingdon, Virginia, salt works have
lust been leased for five years bv : Nasn''ne
company, at an annual reotai OF tnirty-one
thousand two hundred dollars, the lessees 10
nav forty.five thousand dollars taxes now que.
Eleven ballots we're cast in Indianapolis
Indiana, on uesday, by Germans, for tne
abolition Of the Presidential Office. A memo
rial to Congress, praying for the same Is
being circulated there, and has been signea
by number Of the more radical German cit-
liens.
a letter from Constantinople, published In
the London Register, states that great num-
bers of the Greek Church in Turkey-bishops,
priests and laymen-snd more particularly IN
Bulgaria, are fully prepared to join the Catho-
lie Church.
On Wednesday, the 4th, some Of General
.Blair,s Republican friends casually mentioned
,ssSalt Riyer." He replied that Salt River was
not large enough; he was "going to Sait
Lake, He left in that direction, via the
Onion Pacific, at 2 P. NJ, and has not been
heard of since.
The cotton growers along the Mississippi
River, it is reported, are shipping their crops
to the Atlantic seaports by rail from st. Louis
The cotton is loaded on the river boats, is ia
ken to st. Louis, and at that point is trans
fe,red to the cars. The cost OF transportation
to New York is 81 Al per hundred pounds. The
principal reason for adopting this route is the
fear for the safety of the cotton while descend
ing the Mississippi to New Orleans, and while
stored at that city.
Gushing Americans, who are accustomed
to pour out their souls to opera singers,
actresses and dancers, may be interested in
, the fact that Ristori recently said to some
friends in Venice that, during her sojourn in
America, she received every day several love.
letters; but the sentimental gentlemen who
addressed them to her we're probably ignorant
of the fact that her husband opened al her let
ters, and that the billets-doux always exhila'
rated the family at the breakfast table.
Young gentlemen Who are interested IN
the fashions may care to know that in France
-tn6 FOUNTAIN Wueuce oil iunPAiopion VI sn@'
Kind is drawn-the tight pantaloon leg is not
the thing; sort Of general fullness being OBJ
sservable throughout. Also that the jaunty
hats, with broad ribbon, medium brim, and
high crown, slightly squeezed in, generally
designated "the tourist, won't do any longer.
They are now left entirely to Positions and
couriers, where they started, in point Of fact
SO cay late adyices.
An interesting bit Of fashion gossip comes
from Germany. 1t appears that conference
of German ladies' of wealth and position hlE
been held at stuttgardt, at which motion wa'
agreed to declaring the necessity of modifying
womens toilettes, with view to check the ex
trayagance. the bad taste, and incessant changes
oil their vestments The conference then di
rected tho Association for the Education ant
:Amelioration of the Condition Of Women t
organize commission composed Of painters
doctors, taiors and modistes, for the purpos
Of suggesting Few toilettes. Tho Gezeae de
Fenmes will publish the recommendations
the Commission, and hereafter we shall Sc;
none but modest, sensible, economical fash
ions, the "Gi1l Of the Period" will disappear
ard men will be at their wits end for some