The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-29
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Nnws sU MI M a r x.
Gold at New York closed little stronger
at s4s. ...;uo h,,,
steady; sales $500 bales at 25aa25&c.
The Liverpool cotton market closed hr1n
..na uncbanged: sales 5000 bales; uplanss
lid. ooo
"A statue of Queen Victoria, to cost slO'oOo
is to be erected at Montreal
France manufactured $4,000. oOo worth o.
smoking pipes last year.
The telegraph reports great deal Oh sno"
at the North and in Cana1a.
Bismarck is said to. haze sent s25o, ,ooo to
the treasury of tic Spanish insurgents.
The Sandwich Islands expect to raise
$4,000, 900 pounds of sugar next year.
John C. Breckinridge was one OF the IN
v;ted guests at a recent agricultural falr IN
Canada.
man in New York sits on curDstone
and whites stick by holding the knife IN MS
toes.
The official majority for the Republican
State ticket in Ohio is 1882.
IT is calculated that the popular vote at the
forthcoming Presidential election will approach
100000. 49,
-oueen Isabella is growing bald, and they
.say the loss Of her hair occasions her as mucn
solicitude as the loss Of her throne.
Rev. DIR. Robertson, the new Episcopa
R;sbon Of Missouri, was consecrated in Grace
church, New York, on Sunday, with Impressive
ceremonies.
The internal revenue tax on whiskey now
manufactured in Richmond, Virginia. ana
vicinity, amounts to about s5OOOo per montn'
Last week nearly $40. 900 was paid.
a citizen of st. Loris has made gift OF
,,po hundred acres Of land to that city for
.nublic park. the only condition being that the
.,itv ehali expend certain sum In lmproV-
ing it.
The Boston Post thinks the Queen OF
Madagascar has matrimonial designs against
our amiable Secretary Of State, because she
has sent him presents Of teapots and Dea
quilts.
MIR. John Russell Young, prominent
young Journalist in New York, is in luck. AN
.nncle in the East Indies, whom he has never
seen and seldom heard OF, has been 80 good as
to die and leave him half s. million dollars.
Louis Napoleon, it is stated, is contem-
plating an immense undertaking In the en-
iarpement of the canal extending from the
town OF Agde, on the Mediterranean, to Bor-
deau1 on the Gironde. The cost OF the WORK.
it ia estimated, will reach the sum OF sSo,Ooo,-
600. and the name Of the improvement will be
the ssMaritime Canal of the Two Seas"
But little important business was done on
Monday in the Episcopal Convention. A mes
sage from the House of Bishops requesting
oint action on memorial from the Chiefs OF
the Oneida Indians, complaining OF the rapaclty
of spectators, caused a long debate, which
was terminated by the adoption Of resolution
declining to adopt the suggestion OF the House
of Bishops, as tending to interfere with matters
of State.
The New York Court of Appeals, the high
est judicial tribunal in the State, he's decided
that suicide docs not vitiatc life insurance
policy. The American Mutual Life Insurance
Company refused to pay the widow OF Marcus
W. Gibson the sum for which his life had been
insured, because he committed suicide, but the
court reafirmed the decision OF tho lower
courts that the policy must be paid. The COM
.pany attempted to prove that Gibson was IN
atheist or infidel, and therefore that the sui
eide was Intentional, the deceased not having
the fear Of God before him; but the court ruled
out this as irrelevant, and held that IN an ac-
tion TO recover for an insurance upon the lnc
of the deceased, it is incompetent to inquire
into his religious faith with view OF infiuenc-
ing the quest on whether, in such case, death
WAS occasioned by an intent OF self-destructlon
or Of accident.
The recent earthquakes in San Francisco
created terrible panic. correspondent
states that the streets were filed with men and
women in their night clothes, running hlther
and thither in great alarm. Animals OF oil
kinds felt the shock; horses became wild with
terror. and some were thrown down by the
yiols nce OF the shock, while others started and
ran eway. Dogs were barking and running
through the streets, apparently not knowing
what they we're doing. Birds even noticed the
great convulsion of nature. But few persons
would enter buildings, and these would stam-
pede into the streets with rush whenever
slight vibration indicated that the Garth was
not yet settled. The earthquake took prece-
dence over everything, business being for the
time forgotten, and all looked as il another
night might come that would swallow the city;
vet with all this fear the people tried to look
cheerful as they told their experience
and related their hair-breadth escapes.
MANY most udicrous incidents occurred. Per-
sons in the country noticed an upheaving and
Opening OF the earth in several places. Large
masses OF rock, several tons in weight, weTe
detached and rolled down the hill and noun
tain sides, we're violently shaken, and water
made its appearance where all was dry Defore'