The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-12
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Brazil ia the only country whose securi
ties sell at a larger discount than the United
States.
The price Of wheat in st. Paul, Mlnn., has
gone down to seventy-ive and eighty cents pei
bushel. and -four sells at five dollars per Dbl.
Hon. Schuyler Colfa1 was married ias'
waeA, Tuesday, in Ashtabah County, ohlo' &c
Miss Nellie II. Wade.
More than one-seventh OF the State oi
Mississippi is advertised for sale undar execu-
ton.
Paris has lis fountains, 508 hotels, 27OO
streets, 25 $40 stores, 2150 tailors, 40 theatres
1902 doctors and BIG photographers.
The horse railways in Havana are SAID TO
.be n great success, and tie companies arc de-
claring large dividends.
"A National Convention OF womah rancnlse
advocates is called to meet in Washington dui
ing the first week in December.
An English fashion paper contains an ad-
ye,iisement of ''elegant bridal presents to
let."
Protestant Sisters OF Charity, in Quaker
uniform, have an institution at DUSSELDORF
Prussia.
English courts have just decided that
man can't be Esquire" unless he holds the
Queens commission.
The oldest man in England has died,
aged one hundred and twelve yoars. Her
Msiesty,s bounty" allowed him twenty-five dol
lars o year for the past five years.
Tho Paris Steele is the best patron'zeu
with advertising of any Of the papers OF tnat
r.. .o;xts Froro fhia SOurce amount to
nine hundred thousand francs year.
General Sheridan, it is said, reports that
be has seen herd Of buffaloes ninety miles IN
,eneth and twenty-five miles in width, and es-
,t;mates the number it contained at three hum
- dred thousand.
The Real Estate Journal thinks real estate
in New York will fall, and continue low for sew
-eral years, in consequence OF Grants eieeuon'
People, it predicts, viii invest their money III
government securities.
Russia and France are not very friendly tc-
wards each other. The Car carries his spite
against Poland and his dislike of France so Jar
as to prohibit the introduction into the former
counryy'of any publications showing the Paris
fashions.
The Nonpareil says young lady was
.str,Ick dumb on the 4th instant at Council
Bluffs by the firing Of cannon. An assocla-
ton of married gentlemen is being organized
for the purpose Of having salutes fired near
their residences once week.
1t is reported that Prince Lon's, OF Hesse,
finds the temper OF his wife TOO much sor him,
and will apply tor divorce. His spouse ID the
Princess Alice, vlctoria's second daughter.
She has lost the little beauty she had, and is
exceedingly irascibe and jealous.
The Vie Parlsienne says that American
! aides are cot so much in fashion as they were.
TIE wittv Frenchmen find that our country
women do not improve in their knowledge OF
the French language, and that they are not
too well informed on general subjects. Hence
they have gone out Of favor.
AN article in the New York Sunday News
states that grand scheme is on foot In that
city, among band of Americans, for the cap
ture and conquest of the Queen OF the Antilles.
ACCORDING to this report, two thousand 1.-Two
hundred men OF pluck and spirit are oil that
are required to accomplish this undertaking.
"A ghastly scientific discovery Is reported
from Turin, where Professor Casturanl, the
celebrated oculist, has, it would appear, found
"a way OF killing animals, BY forcing air into
their eyes, within the space Of few seconds,
and, it is thought, almost without causing
them any pain. Within the space Of few
minutes, four rabbits, three dogs and o goat
we're killed in this manner. The most romarka-
BILE thing about this sskilling made easy" is tho
fact that it leaves absolutely no outward trace,
and il can be as easily applied to men as to
animals. II so, it is hoped that the method is
not easy OF application.
The New York Journal Of Commerce states
that private letter from weG-infor1cd source
in London, confirms the reports OF the great
progress made by the American minister to-
wards the settlement of outstanding questions
between this country and England. The dog
ma Of indeteasible allegiance, go long main
taiccd BY England, and still adhered to by
her Judiciary, has been renounced. and the
American doctrine expressly established. The
San Juan difficulty was on the eve Of adjust
ment, and is probably by this tune satisfac-
to1ily arranged. The good feeling created by
the friendly policy of Hon. Reverdy Johnson
was every day removing some oDstaclc 10 1hc
6a.i disposal of the Alabama claims, upon
basis which it was hoped would be approved
'by the American people.
An artist writes from Pompeli, on lao
,vis;t ST must notice one TACT concerning this
- nl,ce. for which was not at all prepared; and
this s. that the city is more like dolls model
than habitaticn ior human creatures OF the
size of Life; and yet Pompenans were thls, lor
one Of the skeletons was found TO be o little
taller than myself, and certainly want house
and rooms larger than chest OF drawers.
Thew have been discovering some paintings on
glass, examples OF which they had not before
obtained, although from Plny, il recouect
ar;ght, it was Known that the art was prac-
ticed. am very sorry to learn the melancholy
fact that The pictures on the wills OF houses,
and even those preserved in the museum, are
gradually losing all their brliancy and clear
. ness-are, in short, slowly disappearing
through exposure to the air."
The store of the Wclkibgmen's Cc-opesa-
tive Society, in Halifax, England. is hand
some stone building, erected at cost Of one
hundred thousand dollars. The basement con-
- ohons holonojnu 70 the society,"