The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-20
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golden KEYS in rosewood doors.
New York had twenty-si1 ''fIst-class" we'd
dings last week.
Mrs. Polk, widow Of the late General and
Bishop Polk, has opened girls school In Ne"
Orleans.
The family Of the late Nathaniel Haw-
. thorne are about to sail for Germany to take
mp their residence there.
IA counterfeit fifty cent note mandatory
has been broken up in New York, and about
$500 in spurious money captured.
a blind child OF three years plays the pi-
:ano in Baltimore in skilful manner, using Its
elbows as we'll as it's hands.
Some of the Georgia negroes refuse to pay
any tax until the Legislature retracts its action
10 expeling the colored members.
Two weekly papers, wholly conducted by
ladies, we're started at Chicago last week. One
Of them is devoted to legal intelligence.
The voters of the Fifth New York Congress
.sional District have o variety to choose from
Horace Greeley, John Morrissey and George
Francis Train.
+. An s.iron jail'' has been made in New York
for county in Missouri. 1t contains three
= cells, and is fifteen feet square by seven and
half high.
"A man made money at New England fair,
by letting people raise him by the ears at
twenty-five cents premium for success and ten
cents fine for failure.
Nine OF the English crickcters will play
base bail against the celebrated ex-champion
Union nine at New York, on Tuesday next,
after which the cricketers leave for England.
The Governors Of all the States are urged
to select the day designated by the President
November 26-as the day for thanksgiving this
fall. The Governor OF Massachusetts has al
ready dona so.
"A sailor having saved one Of the Chinese
ambassadors from drowning in the Niagara
River, he was sent by the diplomat letter in
Chinese and ten dollar greenback. He thinks
less Chinese and more cash would have been
better.
) "A New York Snowman who exhibited
<.headless rooster" has been convicted of cru
city to animals. Itsppears that he cut of the
birds bill and tied its head under its wing 30
that it could not be seen. The tortured bird
struggled, and was exhibited to gaping
crowd as ''freak Of nature"
John B. Cough stated in his lecture on
,'sEIoquence and Orators" that although he
had spoken nearly six hundred times in Boston
and New York, before upward OF half million
people, he had mover been able to overcome
Temporary feeling Of nervousness and want OF
confidence on being introduced to his audience
Wendell Phillips states that he is similarly al
fected on such occasions.
An Gon-Jaw man, for so he is called, ar
rived in New York during the past week from
Europe. He is pronounced one Of the strong
est men ever seen. While holding by his legs
to trapeze bar in the air, he Lifts horse from
the ground by his teeth, as well as performing
many other wonderful feats Of strength. He
should compete with the great Native Ameri-
can Pie Bitter.
-Thirty.two years ago two journeymen
printers started the New York Sun, writing
and setting up their own editorials. They is
sued seven hundred copies daily, which they
sold to the newsboys al sixty-two and halt
cents hundred, and the boys resold them at
one cent each. They worked of the edition
with their own hands on an old Ramage press.
As the circulation increased they bought Ma
pier press, and finally steam PRESS. Ono Of
the partners sold out his share for ten thou
sand dollars, and became lawyer and men,
ber of Congress in the West. Penny papers
soon became power in the land, and their cir
culation immense. In some of our cities they
have built palaces for themselves, and made
milionalres Of their proprietors.
The New Orleans Picayune says: "Mr. E.
A. Pollard, who, while protesting to be friendly
to the "Lost Cause" did more, through his
newspaper vanity and seE-suffciency in persis-
other man, unless Henry S. Foote and Joe
Brown, OF Georgia, to break down the Confede-
rate effort at independence, proposes to write
the life o. Jefferson Davis, whom he hated and
yet hates because the latter would not let him
be s2y upon his movements and councils.
His CHEZ object is, Of course, to make money,
though his malignity is also to be gratiied In
it. 1t will be libel and a lie from beginning
to end, with only enough truth in it to hang
it together. We trust that no Southern man
will invest cent in it, and that every Northern
man who has soul, however radical his dis
like Of Davis political course and of the South
ern cause, will turn from it with loathing. All
men despise traitor and spy"
"A New York corr espon6ent writes: ssTherc
is not all the harmony that could be desired in
the Episcopal Convention now in session here
though there may be quite as much as the
Bishops expected. 1t was foreseen that the
subject OF Ritualism would come in and proba-
bly, make trouble, and it bas done So A small
minority Ct the convent: are in favor Of let.
ting Ritualism alone, believing that the best
way to kill it is to taks no notice OF it; but the
majority are in favor of putting it down by the
strong hand of authority, and the no-notice
party is likely to be overruled. Should the
proposition now before the convention, to pre-
scribe the form OF service so exactly that
there shall be no pretext for innovation, and
to prescribe everything introduced by the
Rit1alists, be adopted, as seems likely, it will
cause considerable dissatisfaction among the
supporters of the new movement in New York.
It may be rather difficult, however, to check
.Ritualism, for it is both fashionable and pro-
Sressive, and YOU know how hard it is to stop