The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-05-18
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at 893aS9s.
Cotton closed at the same time in Ne'
York with an advance Of 90. Sales $500 bale
ats2c. for middiings. =
in Liverpool ON Saturday cotton was firm
er but unchanged. Uplands nsd., to arrive
12id.
Tile Prince of Wales is reported to be get
ting more in debt and out Of funds.
"A silver wedding has been celebrated il
Indiana, much to the astonishmenL Of the citi
gems Of that State OF divorces.
-Carlotta has not entirely recovered hel
mind. Her insanity DOW manifests itself IL
extreme tslkatiYeness, and q disposition to tel
family secrets and scandalous stories to every
stranger she meets.
nc--Trss, for the wheels of road locomotives
are now made of India rubber, five inches
thick, which pass easily over the softest OF
toughest ground without showing any signs
OF wear
1T hss been proposed in France to collect
: the comfortable gases produced in blast fur'
mace (andnow allowed to escape) into gas
ometar, and, in returning, burn them again, 60
as to economize the fuel. This, in effect, is
done in some furnaces in this country now.
THE President OF the New York Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals, on Tues
day lectured before the Farmers Club OF that
city, in, favor OF horse fesh rs food. At the
close OF his lecture, resolution was moved,
recommending horse -fesh:ss food; but, to the
astonishment of its advocates, it was laid on
the table by an almost unanimous vote.
Seven Alabamians, residents Of Eutaw,
have Just been sent to the Dry Tortugas by the
sentence ofthe court martial recently convened
4 at Selma four Of the number for two years at
hard labor, and three for one year at hard Ia
Dor. Their alleged offence was assaulting a
citizen, threatening to ride him on rail, and
ordering him to leave town.
The Washington correspondent OF the
Philadsiphia Ledger (Conseryaiye) has the
following hit Of gossio, under date May u: "A.
4. Stewart, Of New York, re port has it, was in
constellation with General Grant relative to the
nomination at Chicago, and bo.h Grant and
Stewart decided that Grant must decline to
permit his name to be submitted to the con-
yention Reorganization
,.--Russia, il ia rumored, is preparing f6r
fresh attack upon Turkey, not yet having aban-
'doned the design at establishing her capital at
Constansinople. A Russian army, consisting
ct 4a,eOo cavalry and 800 0O0 infantry and artil-
!ery, has BEEN sent to the frontier of the Dan
ubian Principaiities.. On the otherhsnd, the
Suitan has marched an army Of observation,
.cornrosed of 81, 900 men, 20 Shumlsh, where
thereWere many severeco contests in the Crimean
Maf.
Before tbs adjournment Of the American
Medical Association, theSPresidsnt took occa-
sion to contradict, without qualification,
ssory;thst the sssocistion had during the war
adopted aresoluton advising the government
to declare medicines and surgical instruments
contrsbend Of war. No such resolution was
ever even introduced. This fiction was the
cause OF strong opposition among the New Or
lsans physicians to inviting the association to
hold It's next meeting in that city.
The court-martial, at Montgomery, Ala,
which tried Ryland Randolph, for wounding
negro IN self-defence, sentenced him to ten
yesrs' hard labor ct the Dry Tortugas, and
would doubtless have handcuffed and hurried
him OF to the destined punishment but for The
intervention Of President Johnson. The Pres
ident Of the United States, although threaten
ed with violence ct the hands Of faction, or
dered the military to release Mr.. Randolph. It
s6ss done.
1T has been noticed that the French news
papers have had no cordial welcome for the
news Of British success in Abyssinia. They
prophesied some time ago that Theodore would
make vigorous and perhaps successful re-
sistanoe, and the unlocked for result has dis
= appointed them. They show the old French
jealousy of England, and Napoleon is Of course
satisfied If he finds the uneasy. Paris newspa-
pers giving vent to their feeling in any foreign
direction, as that relieves them and does him
mo harm. a.,-s-,e me-
The bishops Of the Irish Church who have
died since 1922 left, it is asserted, nearly five
millions dollars worth Of personal property,
upon which the legacy duty to the government
was paid. This amount does not include any
real estate the twenty deceased bishops may
have purchased, or settlements they may have
made upon members Of their families. The
See of Cashel had two bishops, leaving six hun
dredand seventy five thousand dollars; Meath,
S,,,r t,;ebo,,a Jaavino six hundred and sixty-