The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-03
NEWS sU M M A r Y .

14ola140E.
Arm but less active, with sales OF S9Oo bales, AZ
1ss cents.
In Liverpool cotton closed on Saturday
oniet and steady, with sales of 10000 bales,
prices unchanged.
The receipts Of the Atlantic CABLE IL ls
said, are now upwards Of s1SOo day.
.-Th,-ty-six cars left Nashville, Tennessee
ON Monday for Norfolk, all loaded with cotton.
Montana red is now the fashionable color
in Pnris.
VIM. W. Burwen has become editor OF De-
BOWS Review. rs.o 30
MIR. Martin is continuing Victorlas n'' VI
Albert. .eg
600 worth Of real estate.
1T takes three servants to hold up the tram
OF a fashionable lady's dress in New York.
Great preparations are making at tne
Tuileries for the first communion OF the Prlnce
Imperial.
The Hartford Courant (radicap wants Con
eress to do "more for economy and less aoout
Andrew johnson"
Brigham Young has pronounced an eolc1
affainst tea and coffee. The prohibition is uni
yerssl, 80 far as the Mormons are concerned
Hannibal Hamlin is q fayorite in portions
~ the West for Vice. President on the Grant
ticket.
In . Missouri town concert troupe was
lately requested not to perform "Hal Colum-
bia.n as it would be apt to create i'll feeling.
"A quarrel between counsel in Memphis
oorrt reau,ted in one man being shot dead,
then and there.
Ohio proposes, after trial Of usufy laws,
60 90 back to its former system OF free trade
In money.
The last dandy fashion in Paris is to carry
n vaIkine-stick with sword inside at one END
and matches and a candlestick at the other.
There are three "Romeo and Juliet" operas
running against each other in the theatres Oh
Milan; one is by NJ. Gounod.
"A Roman medal Of the reign OF Trajan has
BEEN found by an Indian near Mackinaw, Mich
ioan. but it is not inferred that the Roman
army ever quartered in that State.
No young man in the Cyclades, where the
principal business is diving for sponges, is al
lowed to marry until he can descend easily to
depth Of twenty fathoms.
lThurlow Weed says: " In the present as
pecs Of the presidential question, the repubh'
can candidate for President will need the vote
Of New York"
One large dry goods house in New York
discharged all the single men IN its employ on
the 1st instant, and reduced tho salaries ofthe
remainder.
The order Of division Of spoils for the cap
ture of Mr.. Davis, has been settled by Con-
pressionsl Committee. Privates will get about
$500 each, and Gcionels about 5000 each.
Lord Mayo, who is said to be decidedly ul-
itfs-moutane in his proclvities, is prominently
mentioned as the successor of Lord Monck as
Governor. General Of Canada.
The Rev. Newman Hall, in an address de-
liyered in the tabernacle OF the Rev. MIR. Stur-
eeon. urged Lord Stanley to bring the Alabama
claims to speedy settlement.
1t is stated on the authority OF the London
Oourt Journal that the Fenian convulsion has
cured great many officers, civil and military,
Of the gout.
Nobody, says the London Saturday Review,
who is not busy person, ought ever to be per-
ritted to write to those who are busy, except
In fine flowing hand.
1t ia understood to be the intention Of the
British Government to confer title on Profes-
sor Whsntstone, in consideration Of his great
scientific attainments and OF his valuable IN
ventions.
2 An Ohio gentleman had dream six months
ago, in whloh the day Of his death was predict
Cd to him. On the day intlmated. he took out
an insurance policy for $4,000, got on railroad
train and was burned to death at Angola.
From the fact that the French government
ia buyine teak in England it is inferred that it
IA the intention to build new iron-clads this
wear, Tesk is sometimes used as backing for
the armor plates.
"A court in England has given decision
against the legality OF locking railway passen-
gers into the cars, custom which universally
prevails in that country, although it has been
the occasion Of many accidents.
jim answer to an inquiry, General Meade
ssys that General Pope's order prohibiting
OWL officers from publishing their legal adver-
tissmsnts in any but '1oyal" papers, is still in
force.
Available land is becoming so scarce in
Kansas that the leg islature asks Congress not
to allow any one person to purchase large
tract, and to compel the railroad companies to
whom grants have been made, toput them into
the market.
Intelligence has been received from Rome
that General Faily, comr ander Of the French
expeditionary corps, is about to return to
France with one division Of troops. The re-
mainder of the forces will remain in Rome,
under command Of General Dumont.
An old officer Of the army used to say that
the three duties Of g quartermaster, as under
stood by the quartermaster himself, were:
First, to make himself comfortable; second, to
make himself more comfortable; third, To
make himself most comfortable. II any time
remained, he was to employ it in making
everybody else uncomfortable.
Train sent the following telegram to the
New York World: mo location given) January
2s.-l am here, all right Have had an i'm
mense ovationl Cead mile taiAhe Spoke to
the people to-day. Was carried mile on the
shoulders Of my friends. Shall stump Ireland.
Derby quakes, but dare not stop mel
The New York Herald thinks that eleven
dollars day is s'royal pay for negro legisla-
tors." It SAYS: 'The negro Reconstruction Con-
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