The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-03
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Cotton closed in Liverpool yesterday at
113a11sd for uplands. and 1sa11td. for Or
leans. -.
The diamond crosses made as presents for
Maximilian's lawyers have reached Mexico.
PATHS earnings will pay off 100000 OF
her husbands debts this year.
-Reyerdy johnson has more than forty
grandchildren.
New York has sold an eight thousand dol
lar diamond to Boston.
The hdeous sailor hats for young ladies'
threaten to be popular this season.
The youngest mother in England is aged
eleven years.
The President has appointed John Savage,
the Fenian Head Centre, consul at Leeds, Eng.
-Sight-seers are already engaging rooms IN
Washington for Inauguration week. - a:'
Speaker Colfax and bride have taken up
their residence in Washington for the session.
Several New York families employ male
flunkies, who wear powdered wlgs' Knee
brseches and plush coats.
The next Maine Legislature, it is an
.nounced, will abolish capital punishment In
that State.
The Saturday Review "Girl OF the Period"
articles are attributed to sister OF Lord
Cranborne, present Marquis OF Salisbury.
s-yclocipedes with two, three and four
wheels made good speed en- Boston Common
day or two ago.
Maggie Mitchell is playing in Richmond,
Va. and Laura Keene with her stock company
is shortly to appear there.
-By the consolidation of the Louisville
Courier and Journal bet veen sixty and seven
ty printers have been thrown out of employ
ment.
The American and Merchants Union Ex-
press Companies have been consolidated under
the name OF the American Merchants Union
Express Company.
There is an almost universal lull in poll
tics throughout the North that will hardly be
broke before the assembling OF Congress next
month.
The English mean to offset the Alabama
claims by about ten million pounds sterling
damages to British subjects in the South by
the Fedcrals during the war.
The St. Louis street railroad companies have
taken the rear platform from their cars and
dispensed with conductors. The passengers
get on the front platform and pay the drivers.
Dickens eldest son has lost an immense
amount of money by bad investments in large
paper mills, and has followed Edmund Yates
and Geo. Augustus Sala into bankruptcy
"A colored man has been admitted as stu
dent of law to the University Of Michigan, at
.Ambiber, the first instance Of the kind In that
State.
The Frontier Index newspaper constantly
moves its Office westward, keeping about sixty
miles beyond the end Of the Union Pacific
Railroad.
"A Washington couple having the misfor-
tune to lose child, and wishing to convey
the body to Baltimore, evaded the express
charges by dressing the child in its usual
clothing aud took it between them on the cars.
"A Western paper gave itself the following
obituary notice on Thanksgiving Day: S:No
paper will be issued from this Office tomorrow
nor any other day." The sherif-s officers wore
around.
Michigan is becoming rival Of Maine In
'ths lumber trade. It is reported that five thou
sand laborers are employed in the pine forests
of Michigan in preparing the logs to be hauled
during the winter months.
Rev. W. 81. Nelson. an Episcopal clergy
man of Hartford, Ct: backed by Bishop VIII
liams, will refuse communion for six months to
any of his congregation going to see Often
:bach's operettas.
"A line Of steamers is about to be establish
ed between Mobile and Havana, in connection
with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The St.
Louisanians congratulate themselves on the
prospect Of thus saving two days in their con-
nection with Cuba over the old route via New
Orleans.
-Forney says: 'sIt is given out on good au-
thority that o corps of the ablest OF the Viz
ginia orators-pIominent rebels in cabinet and
ield-intend canvassing such States as Penn
sylyania to inyite farmers, mechanics, manu-
facturers and capitalists into that State. Let
US give them bospitable welcome"
Accounts from Jamaica say the island is
gaining wonderfully in prosperity since the
taking away Of suffrage from the negroes. This
years sugar crop is the heaviest known since
the abolition of slavery. The coffee crop shows
fifty per cent. increase over last years, and the
net revenue of the island has increased ten per
cent.
The Pope intends conyoking oil the Cheva-
liers of Malta and restoring the Order to its
former renown. It was founded to make war
against the infdels, as its first namc implies,
the Order Of St. John Of Jerusalem. The cos
tune of the Chevalsrs will consist of long
black mantle ornamented with white cross
with eight points.
Among the valuable patents which have
recently expired, and which the government
has refused to renew, is that OF Colonel Hoe,
whose huge printing presses may now be man.
i. utactured Nby anybody with capital enough.
Hoe is sprightly, ingenious man, already
millionaire, full of fame, undiscouraged, and he
has conceived several new machines, presses
among them. There will probably be no COM
petition with him in the Hoe press-in this
country, at any rate; for the Bullock press,
whose processes are moro simple and more
thorough, is already the fayorite. The latter,
prints on both sides of an endless roll, at the
rate Of sixty-three double impressions minute.
Senator Fowler, Of Tennessee, has written
letter in which he takes broad and liberal
grounds on the suffrage question, and earnest
" fa7ors the immediate enfranchisement OF