The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-01
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Seymour anu DlAlI C1uu1 - ~ -
Tie American and Canadian base ball
players VIII hold q convention in October,
5 either in Pittsburg or Cleveland.
-Fhe British steamship Colorado, which ar
, rived at New York on Tuesday from Liverpool
earned $500 from fares alone. "a
On Tuesday six hundred more Mormon
en,isrants, from Europe, arrived at New YORK
and started for Utah. g, ,f.:.l,,ss
Report says that several parties in New
Yofk xre after General Butler for"acts done
during TIE Baf. s.s3.:- 49,
S New York allows no wooden buildines 10
Be erected below One Hundred and Fifteth-
street. -
Fanny Fern having said that s'the men OF
the present day are fast, ''l Prentice replies
eThss they have to be to catch the women. :
The two opposing candidates, Republican
! snd Democratic, in the Sixth Con sressional
District Of Ohio, are partners II, the law busi-
Samuel B.SWiggins, prominent business
manofss. Louis, died in that city on the 24th.
He was born in Charleston, 8. O., in 1914, but
his,father, in ISIS, removed TO st. Louis.
-Mra Thomas Hooper, whose death occur
red 8. few days ago, was the Oldest Mason, IN
Massachusetts and Past MASTER m
the United States. he was Master OF King
Solomcns Lodge IN lsl1. :ss..4f, :.
-Gossips say that Prince Albert's brother Is
In England and desirous Of becoming Queen
yicsorias second husband. bu' sne ia@y1 S-n
land and the widow @ lncnnstlon sre posn - 'uo
*. !: :.
town OF senasools, - iss., was ~ -
into the widest e4ulemens isss 5meeA ~ tle
arrest Of fifteen or sixteen OF the most repasa'
Bile citizens IN the county, on h the charge OF pc
longing TO . gang Of horse thieves.
The use ot the lr1sn lsnSuAee 10 uytns ous
in. .Iralsai, an it Is e,iim .sed thasy TWEEN
years hence what is almost the Oldest tongue
n nNorshwastara E1sopsrwilI csas to be used.
The beauties OF Celtic literature can never,
however, be preserved in any OF, her language.
Negotiations with Mr. Naples on, the Ion
: don impressario, are ON foot TO bring over
Nillson; Tietiens and Patti for MY nignts IN
: JJanuSry and February.s Mspleson ASKS my
housand dollars in nsgold, but ne WIZ nave 20
fight Maretsek, Pike and 6rsussa d.:
Students OF euphony IN NEW VOTE are q ar- :.
guing the question whether the word "huzzs
lH automatically shoutabie. one co rres ponoen1
offhs EgepinS; Post, IN which the discussion 70
carried says that u u american anu
8 .onaatic Huzza is British ana:
THE drivers and conductors OF tne Guy ran
way companies in Philadelphia held meenng
tmS Saturday, and adopted an appeal 70 tne COM
paries In reference to 9 reduction OF the nours
: ufIsbor. at the present time, it is said, they
work about eighteen hours for two dollars.
IAey desire to have the time red uced to twelve
hours, In order that they may work the entire
week. instead OF losing from one to two days for
rest. ss::ss ..-5,e
General HaIeck and stat started for
sftkn on Wednesday, for the purpose OF inspect
ing the military post OF Alaska. 1T Is pro Dapie
that he will remain IN the newly acquired terri
tory six or eight weeks, and while there Will en-
dsaYor to inform himself fully on fishing and
agricultural matters, for the purpose OF furnish
ng the government, through the War Tepart
mnnt, with information that will be deemed Of
interest to the country at large. . - :,
The Boston merchants are taking steps to
rectify an imposition now largely practiced by
country buyers, of. sending money by express
ut the expense Of their city cred ltors. 1t seems
that they have only just realiz ed what tre-
msndous item ofneedlsss expense this amounts
to in the course Of year. AL the papers are
talking about the subject, and meeting of
mercantile men will soon be called to take ac-
ton in regard to it.
Captain Plumacher, Of Switzerland, has
nnrcbased forty thousand acres of land in the
vicinity Of Tu1Iahoma and McA1innvile, in Ten