The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-15
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{ and lower, sales 900 bales at 25a25t:
At Liverpool, cotton closed decnnlng a'
1Oa10td, Orleans 1oia10sd.
william Gilmore Simms is among the
= Berkshire hills.
The Mayor Of Savannah estimates the pop
ulation Of that city at 10000. ry.
-Changeable peplins are announced as the
coming rage. -,
-velocipeder can be .'called from the stand
. and hired like cabs in Paris. -
= The Abyssinian King Theodore'e son is to
>. be educated for the East Indis civil service.
Some Of the London theatres are stocked
in tie dull season by allowing amateurs to play
:. who will take fifty dollars worth of tickets.
"A Montana gallows is three rails, Set up
like q tripod, with q man hanging between
like a pot. ". aa&ssfsl d.dIs :. !. -,
1t is expected thatthe new British Parha-
ment will meet in the second week OF De-
cember. - ,s.., (. -
II is the fashion now to say that man
little the worse for liquor is on q "Grecian
bend."t'. n n + =: ~.
"A favorite style Of dress for gentlemen In
Paris this summer has been coats, vests and
iroRsars of white silk, with blue cravats.
An old negress of Toulon has won the
French Academy's prize for virtue. She sup
ported her master by gathering CLAIMS tor him
to sell. y ~ q r,gej sh.ato
"A Canadian has offered Baron Haussmann
100000 francs per year for the exclusive right
of selling tickets Of admission to the sewers
of Paris, the Catacombs, and the slaughtering-
houses. ss,,i.,,fi.- = tf'.'f,'
New Orleans is insolyent and cannot pay
issamployees. No one will lend it's financial
agents money, even at exorbitant rates OF In
.aerest. The difficulty bears especially hard on
She policemen and school teachers.l /
IA tub race from Buffalo, New York, to Al
bany, commenced on Monday. Wash-tubs and
paddles are the outfit. Charles Horne, OF
Schenectady, bets $1,000 that he can do the dis
tance in eighteen days. e.. * 80; Il .
Dispatches from Madrid state that the
Spanish Government is taking extraordinary
precautions to guard against threatened insur-
rection. Many disafected officers in the army
have been removed. ai'a - - go i-..
The President Of the, Baltimore and Ohio
aailroad reports that the damages to the track,
occaaoned by the recent food on the. Patap-
: s,osocan be- repaired at a. costtofi $l42, ,450,i
while the road win at the same time be i'm
proved aiis>sa.Js1: * J
The Board of Directors Of the Under.
Z ground Railway in New York have not yet de-
cided on the time for commencing work, nor
to whom the contract for building the road will
be given. Three Of the directors are in Eng
lani consulting with the, constructors OF the
Iopdan Underground Rsilway.
1.-THE EMPRESS Carlotts, according to the
report Of the London Lancet. is approaching
the termination other troubles on this earth
The mental derangement OF this unfortunate
1adyhss:now reassumeds an acute form, and
she Is st present suffering from attacks Of fu-
rious mania. The medical attendants teie-
graph daily from Iscken, the place Of her re-
tresf, To Vienna. 1eal, c..;a,! Q; ,i.d-' e
:-The Citizens' ssociatien IN New York city
hEse recently published . letter to the public
in reference TO pauperism in the State. They
assert thai. S. 00O, 900 are expended annually in
private and public charities, and they propose
toTofganize the expenditure that il msy result
IN more benefit and relieve taxation. For this
PURPOSE the Charity Commissioners have es-
tablshed labor bureau.
-Awestern paper tells us that bird has
been shot near Mound. City,. Illinois, (which
is supposed to have been q contemporary OF
the mastodon." 1t was killed while "on high
tree eating sheep it had captured" It had legs
four ieet long, q bill two feet long, and weighed
one hundred and four pounds, being thus
Mrgar than an ostrich. tits to be hop ID that
some naturalist will have an opportunity o.
examining this wopdrous fowl, II such one
has really been killed. ,9.as, .e a.'--ot
The Russian, people have been recently
greatly excited BY the preaching ofan old Mus
coyite peasant. named Alexis Ae1androNtch,
whocafter- seclusion of several; years, appear
ed in the District Of Samaira. declaring himself
spruphet. GHe ,is now, going fym place to
plaoe announcing the approaching destruction
ofofhe Crescent, and the substitution OF the
Greek Gross tor it, on the dome Of st. Sophia
atSConstantinople. The Russian Government
allows every liberty Of action and language to
this popular agitator.
-Ihe earthquake which occurred at diDral-
tar on August 1s is fully described in the for
eign Journals received by the last mail. On
the afternoon Of the day mentioned, two uu-
rnistakable shocks were perceived, but more
severely at the neighboring town of Algeciras
than at Gibraltar. The vessels passing through
the straits reported that although the wind
yras westerly, there was such strong current
running to the eastward that steamers which
had been making eight knots, and ships under
full es;l, could make no headway whatever, the
ships even actually making sternwsy. 1t is
also said that shoals OF fish of al kinds were
seen leaping out of the water. and apparently
in aStste Of great alarm.
The Lanterne question in Paris has reach
ed an odd phase. A. NJ. de Foudard writes to
the Tribune to say that among his samples OF
mock jewelry he has had diminutive Iantern
in his possession for five years, and that on
Thursday last, while his wife was out on busi.
ness affairs-e1hibiting samples, no doubt, and
obtaining orders-she vas arrested and locked
up for two hours, every article in her posses
sion bearing the remotest resemblance to
lantern being taken from her. At the same
moment a commissary OF police and four
agents paid visit to his workshop and seized
every article OF jewelry they could find, whether