The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-04
NEW g sU M M A r z.
-eold Was quoted yesterday at New York Al

active and shade lower. Sales 800 bales, al
90aSOac.
- Al Liverpool cotton was quiet and firm
Sales 12,OO0 bales.
4 "A direct line of steamers is about to De
. established between Bremen and New Orleans
The negroes in New York are organizing
Seymour and Blair Clubs.
Thieves hide under the New Orleans levee
:; rip open cotton bags and plumber them.
=; ;-Greeley calls Colfsx the 'syoung hon OF the
$ west" Colfa1 the lion, and Grant the lamb
viii seie down together" in November, and we
shall haye peace. y; z.s...
The clerk of the Superior Court at Savan'
nah has been called upon to furnish certified
copy Of an Indictment, now pending, against
himself for larceny. -. ---.. u
Patti and her husband drive about in
chocolste-colorsd Landau, lined with cloth and
y silk of the same color, with servants in dark
green livery trimmed with silver.
The American News Company is about To
.open An agency in every ward Of New York and
BROOKLYN, where periodicals Of ell kinds will be
!. sold at retail at the wholesale price. ~
= 1t costs $4,000 a year to keep up the
French Emperor's stable. This is $50, 600 more
than Louis Napoleon received when President
Of the Republic in 1848
!. .--5s-The London petition to be laid before Par
lament for reconsidering the law excluding
I. women householders has already received be-
tween thirteen and fourteen Thousand sigma
lures. 9er
1.-The. publication of the correspondence Of
Napoleon goes on, and has reached the
twenty,fourth, volume. This refers entirely to
the fatal Moscow campaign, and Is probably
the best history Of it that is attainable.
gfi-A ship will sail from San Francisco to-day
for sitka to take on board the late employees
of ofthe.Bussian Fur Company and troops, shout
3 three hundred in number, for transportation
to st. Petersburg. This will close the busl-
2 ness OF the Russians in Sitka.
a race of tho Model Yacht Club came OF
recently at Booth, near Liverpool. The largest
vessel measured fifty six inches in length, and
the others varied from thirty-six to forty-eight
inches. The prizes were chronometer,
looking glass and purse.
I'm Louisville, on Friday last, Joseph Rab-
bette, one Of the oldest residents OF that CITY,
shot himself through the heart. He was over
saer Of the messenger foroe in tho Western
Union Telegraph Office, and the suicide took
place In an upper room OF the telegraph build
/. ing. Domestic troubles led him to the act.
: Or. Gibbon, Of North Carolina, read apa-
per at the Chicago Scientific Convention, IN
which he sought to chow thAt civilized peo-
ple dwelt In North America anterior to the In
dian races. His theory is based on the discov-
cry of fossil human bones, and also OF eleven
.Punic characters in Wisconsin.
.N-Ordars have been issued nom military
hesdnnters M Richmond, directing that
Methodist Churches in Virginia, hereafter and
until the legal right to- ownership Of which shall
hnye been definitely determined, shall be oo-
,r.Ssapied on alternate Sundays by the. .congrega-
sions OF the Methodist Episcopal Church South
and the Methodist Episcopal Church.
.ta'-h California steam plough is invented with
which the inventor claims he can, in soils free
from stones, roots and Jumps, plough from 30
to ~ acres each day for 81 so per acre. II the
sinyeutur has q machine that can do that, he
can make q foftune ploughing with it on tie
: psairiss. Farmers viii be glad to pay him 81
per sore forgood ploughlng. ~>a.
p. p a Saiatoga correspondent, writing of the
fashion there, says, among other things, that
ttsome women dress to please each other;
some to please men, or rather one man, for,
asa general thing, they despise mems opin-
ions on millinery. But the most dressy womo.
don'tdress to please anybody; they dress to
worry other women"
"A contest is going on in Louisville, Ky.,
between physician named Mckinley and the
Superior Of the Ursuline Academy in New AL
'bany, Indiana, for the possession OF girl 6f-
teen years Of age: The doctor alleges that the
child is his daughter; the Superior Of The Acad-
:emy that she is not. What gives point TO the
controversy is the fact that Ii, girl Is admit
ted 10 be heiress to fortune OF million Of
dollars.
Boston in stills .sdoing" The Chinese En-
bassy, and the Celestials are getting along 80
that, they are almost ready fer naturalization.
Some OF shell can say, 81 SNOW" and they all
reckon and g guess" like. natives. Their Gu
riosity is unbounded; but il is not true that
they sent to the harbor for bucket Of water,
with view o.. determining. what kind Of tea
was thrown overboard in our Revolutionary |
war; ,-' .-s.z ~ s..'
: "A Boston editor descants upon the falsity |
of the ewomen Of the period; not their faithless-
ness in love affairs, bat the false show they
make in thei: outward appearance. He says:
,sstufed. busLs.. skeleton skirts, wire-works,
pyramids OF foreign hair, rubber tricks-alas
alas how do any Of these items harmonize in
their thought with the conception Of ths
thoroughly natural, the graceful, the gentle,
the unassuming woman that is secretly every |
mans ideal, one WHO brings back to him the
image Of his mother, Of his sister, Of her he
first learned to love !" He evidently is mex
perienced in woman's arts and articles.
Some one rehearses in the newspapers the |
dueIing history Of Bladensburg, Md. The
principal meetings there are as follows: In
1914, Edward Hopkins was hled-the first
duel there In 1919, A. C. Mason, United States
senator from Virginia, was killed by Colonel
John McCarty, his brother-in-!aw. In 1920,
Commodore Decatur was killed by Commodore
Baron. The next year two Spaniards fought,
and ona waa l-;lleA Tn 1890 Midshipman Locke