The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-24
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pr1ErTED MANUSCRIPTS Will NY ~ -
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Gold closed in New York yesterday 81 0fs.
Cation srmer, with sales of S2Vo oa'es a'
2aSa25 cents. .o,,;vs nm nolitics
and stick to the practice OF law. ,oren.
"-Calisornia has produced an appie S''''
teen inches in circumference.
ON ssearthquake day in San franoso1 "t wv
Thousand telssraphic messages were SEM s;nr Sans
Mississippiis to have acotton, o!eaehins
I'D nrint mill to be built by French capl-
talist. r.i!.,: tho butter
merchants adulterate their commonly "''N
mashed potatoes. ..-,,,,d.
n one-fourth Of o square-mile surrouno'
IN, g. Paups Cathedral, London there a'e
NrCnchburg, Va, says it has the 1a.sess '
Io-r =, tba South, and claims for him
the championship" ..,., us,,
Stockton, California, has an srteslan aeo %o ooo
"a thousand feet deep, which discharges '''''0
Gallons of hot water daily. 49,.
o New York has twelve clergymen WIZ Ia %,
each paid over $4,000 year, and hunai0u
others who don't get $1,000 each.
Tn pittsburg, for years past, o woman na'
.hson, ,snnnorted by the charity OF her ne'eh'
p Sho died recently and left $1,000. 81
The actors and managers OF ne" io,A'
like the stockholders, have all goeten Dy 'no
ears and theatrical lawsuits are numerous
Polish Jew of Vida, who was 30 un'of-
.nno-e az to have his house burned down. was
snsd twenty roubles by the Russian maslS-
trotes - for, CRYING fire in the Polish language.
The "confdence game" is said to De SO eA-
tensiyely practiced in New YORK tna' IL -
dangerous thing to be polite to stranger ieS'
he hand you over to the pohce.
Con Eranciscoi is overrun with feas OF huge
size. and elegant "back scratchers," IN ivo,y'
II 10 said. are common ornament OF the paf'oi
table. -, a;a
II seems that the Louisville Journal dio
a;soharoe George D. Prentice, but it caused
Asnch a c,amor that they were only TOO siao 10
employ him again.
The New York corone's, il is Said, are ID
donbt as to whether they are city or county
officers, 80 they carefully get perqulsites nom
both.
"A married lady Of st. Louis is preparing
formal application for the Office OF postmas'ef
or nos tmislress- the city. petitlon LII
her favor is receiving many signatures.
The Worlds Evangelical Alliance, Tor lo0s,
will, n all probability, be held in the on'ea
states. The American branch has already SEM
an invitation to the General Conference OF
a,,ata r5am to meet next year in New York.
Experiments recently made at Cnenoa.
Illinois, in drying corn by hot air, and thereby
getting it to an early market, and obtaining
the first prices of the season are; it is said re-
paid by perfect success. Two drynouses are
already in operation, and another will be addea.
Some old furniture" that ''came over IN
the Mayaower," has already been discovered
in New England, that would have three ni!ea
ND that famous ship, without leaving room f0r
the Pilgrim Fathers, who were generally sup
posed to have been aboard.
Schenectady has genius in the shape o,
a saloon keeper, who has trained NUMBER Oh
rats TO run across his floor and waken up MS
customers who sleep about on chairs. Inc
startled drinkers see the rats; the parkeeper
declares there are no rats there; ana tne Ior-
mer. thinking delirium tremens to be approach
ing, quickly 60 home.
-Reyerdy Johnson, in his recent reply 10
the address ofcongratulation OF the Freedmens
Aid Union of Great Britain, gave his e2-
nerience. as @ Southerner, of the colored man.
declaring him capable OF receiving education
and of becoming the equal of the whlte race
Mr.. johnson stated that he had defended the
claims OF hundreds of colorcd persons anu
:. oaaartad his conviction that they we're Oh
d average in diligence, judged by men OF his own
color.
.Tno movement in favor of women's voting
:. advancing in England much more declsiveF
than in the United States. Noless man 'han
= Mr.. Gladstone has given it his appropation ~
far that he thinks widows and spinters VINO
own property Of their own ought to have the
RIGHT to vote upon it, on the same conditions
as men. Where the possession OF property
forms qualification for voters, as IN England
if ia easier to confer the franchise upon womeH
than in country where manhood suffrage Is
the prevailing rule.
The eruption Of Mount Vasuyius will prob
ably relieve the countries Of Europe from the
threatened earthquakes. The mountain, as
reported by the Atlantic cable, is in very
vigorous condition-tho streams of lava filling
and overhowing the long deep crevices IN the
side. The direction Of the current is the same
as during the eruption Of 1855. On the night
oY November 18th, the upper cone discharged
columns of ashes, occasionally illuminated by
flashes of fire. Crowds of spectators are hur'
rying to Naples to witness the grand eight.
Accounts from the island OF Crete. dateo
September soth, report that the mountains are
filled wi tn refugees, chiefly women and CHI!
dren. who are subsisting on roots, grass, ano
the bark of trees. The whole fighting force
refusing to submit, are still harassin@ the
Turks, and presenting as firm front as posi-
bic under the most adverse circumstances
The Greek consul in New York also says ina
sixty thousand Cretal refugees are scattered
through Greece, and are entirely destitute
Recently large body Of Cretan children