The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-19
N E w s s q M M A r Y.
Gold closed in New York at Ssh.

quotably lower.
1t is said to be quite the thing for young
men in Austria to wear corsets.
Queen Victoria is again grandmother
This time, Princess Alice of Hesse is the cause
and the grandchild son.
"A French colony contemplates planting
a vineyard on the hillsides whereon was fought
the battle Of Chicamauga.
The Governor Of Iowa, by proclamation
declares that the word ''white" has been strick
EN- fr ON tbs constitution of chat State.
"A movement is on foot, headed by several
prominent citizens of Spauldng County, fol
the establishment of a cotton factory in Griffin
Over 500, 900 of ''watered stock" is
said to have been issued by American railroads
within FIVE years.
in New York, the police have been ordered
to arreea all street bcggars and young ped
dlers OF matches, soap, &c.
A car is building in California for the tirst
through trip to New York over tho Pacific
Railroad The finish is to be Of California
laurel.
Baron Rothschild used to sneer at his
title in private, although recognizing Its value
with the public. "My nobility" he would say,
'sgoes back to the deluge."
Professor Winloch, of Harvard University,
reports that he has seen a volcano IN active
eruption in the moon during the nights of De-
cember 1st and I'd.
"A New York horse railway car having run
over and killed child three years old, its pa
rents have obtained $500 damages against the
company.
A young lady has been admitted as a stu
dent to the law school at Washington Univer-
sity, in st. Louis, by unanimous vote OF the
faculty.
French capitalists lave bought land near
Houston, Texas, where they will put up an
establishment for curing beef for European
consumption. co
"A single American drug-house consumes
fifty thousand sheepskins annually in making
plasters for our fellow-citizens who have weak
backs.
The legacy duty 10 be paid to the French
Government by the heirs Of the late Baron
Rothschild amounts to the enormous sum of
twenty millions of francs, or nearly four mil
lions of dollars.
Mr.. Senator Drake proposes to abolish the
grade. OF General and Northumberland in
the army, as we'll as Admiral and Vice-Admiral
in the navy, upon these positions being vaca-
ted by their present occupants.
A woman named Encarnacion Oquento has
died in the Potrero de 10 Langosta, Mexico, at
the alleged extraordinary age of one hundred
aud forty-fve years, six months and twelve
: days. Eer age was proven to be as stated by
the baptismal certificate found in the archives
of the city wherein she was born.
1T is stated that II one Of the late actions
near Neegata, Japanese "Tommy," who at
tracted so much attention from the American
ladies in the days Of the embassy, was killed.
he was shot through the breast and leg, but
died fighting for the chief, true to the Pokuga-
wa clan.
Captain VIM. F. Cleveland was stabbed by
Colonel Thomas Taylor in a personal rencontre
on Friday night last, in the Manassas Club
room, in Memphis. Cleveland died the same
evening. The parties had been warm per-onal
friends up to the moment Of the difficulty, and
: were both highly respected.
General Young, whom Mr.. McCulloch ap-
pointed on Friday last to be Supervisor of the
Southern District Of Ohio, was at the moment
ofhis appointment the Recorder OF Hamilton
County, which includes Cincinnati. The fees
of that Office amount to $4,000 per annum,
and yet General Young gives up this $4,000
Office aud accepts in it's stead one that by law
is fixed at $4,000.
The bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church have forwarded to General Grant q lot
ter Of congratulatiol on his election. The letter
says that his accession to the Presidential
chair must result in the restoration of the States
to their proper relations, business to its proper
channels, rights 10 all citizens, peace to all our
borders, and the public credit and the national
honor to their proper eminence in all the mar
kets and courts Of the world.
"A car driver OH one of the New Orleans
street railways and his son were murdered by
a negro on Saturday, the 9th instant. The
driver demanded the negros fare, five cents,
which the negro refused to pay, and, seizing
hatchet, killed the driver by repeated blows
upon the head. He then attacked the drivers
son, who was the only other person in the cor
at the time, and inflicted injuries which
caused his death on the following day. The
negro then turned the car off the track and
made his escape.
The clergy of the Church Of England
worked harder than any other class in the late
elections. They preached against Mr.. Glad
stone on the Sunday, and worked day and
night against him on the week day. AS
body they committed themselves to the
Conservative cause. That cause has lost, and
we expect the church On it's political side will
lose too. There is a growing determination,
apparently, TO put those reverend gentlemen
on the footing Of other sects, 80 that they may
not be able to carry the aid of the State into
their political partisan fights. This and the
ballot seem probable consequences of the last
general election in England.
In order to keep his private fortune secret,
even from his family, Baron Rothschil1 opened
accounts for false debtors under false names.
unto whom he would pay in millions and mil
lions regularly. There was book for GER
tain Petro at Constantinople, another for a
Prince Z, at Moscow, another tor o uabob
Nani-Syah at Bombay, and twenty others or
more, while he would personate these sup
posed individuals, thus paying the sums they