The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-25
NEWS SU M M "A r Z

and fully cent lower. Se40OO bales, az q
cents.
in Liverpool cotton closed dull-uplands
81 on the spot; TO arrive 81. Sales 5000 bales.
The new hotel in Norfolk progresses finely
towards completion, and will be, it is said, q
magnificent structure.
1t is said that the handsomest paper in the
United States with one exception OF course) is
printed at Denver, Colorado.
The Macon police are vigorously enforcing
the vagrant law and the number OF idle ne
groes has consequently materially decreased.
Lowell, Massachusetts, is no longer enti-
tied to special prominence as the "City Of
spindles." Fail River exceeds it by 40, ,046 spin
dies.
"A New York billiardist punched his cue
entirely through billiard ball the other day,
in proof of which curious story the ball is shown
with the hole.
The supply Of teas in the United States will
before long be greatly increased. No less than
twenty-tour ships loaded with teas are now due
in New York from the East.
"A lady in New Orleans petitions the City
Council to pay her fare to Washington, where
she expects to receive 1926, 600 from an
English estate. 1t all depends on her getting
money enough to go to Washington.
in view of the liberal charities Of Boston,
a wag Of that city suggests that good way to
live there cheaply is to get meals at public
soup house, spend the day at tie public libra
ry, and the night at the station house.
One Of the most recent patents is for a
watch case that is dust proof and water proof.
The inventor washes the ortside Of watches
having this improvement, and lea es them in a
pail of water over night without injuring them.
The Board of Presbyters who had charge
Of the trial of the Rev. MIR. Tying have decid-
ed that he violated the canon in relation to
parochial jurisdiction, and that he should re-
ceive public ''admonition," which is the mild
est penalty provided in such cases.
Henry Ward Beecher, in communication to
the New York Ledger, contrasting the influence
over children Of the rod and the sugar plum,
owns up to having been long grievously in er-
ror. He said he tried the rod in governing his
own children. but uses the sugar plum with his
grandchildren.
Nine Germans were recently Witnesses in
case in Poughxeepsie, N. Y, involving the in
toxicating properties Of lager beer, ali Of whom
testified to the constant use Of it in quantities
varying from twenty to sixty glasses in day,
and one testified that he had drunk eighty
glasses without experiencing any intoxicating
effect.
in recent editorial, the London Times
denounces the practice, prevalent in England,
OF adulterating cotton goods, and points out
it's disastrous effects upon English credit. 1t
says: ''we would only press upon the trade
this fact, now rendered very plain, that if they
persist in unfair dealing the mills of India and
America will leave those OF Lancashire idle"
The Macon Journal and Messenger says
that many planters are still in the market to
hire hands. Nearly all worth having have long
since been secured, and consequently those
taken now, as q general rule, are not worth
much. The prices aud have been from sS5 to
$75, rations furnisNe, $50 being the average.
This is about the amount grown negroes an
nually cost their owners before the war.
-Hram Smith, an eccentric old bachelor, at
Chester, Mass, is having his sepulchIe hewn
in . large rock in that town. He pays man
500 to do the work, and by the stipulation the
cave is to be seven teet long, four wide and
four deep, and after the coffin is put in the
aperture will be sealed up with marble slab
and cement. Smith says he doesn't want mud
to get around bis bones; he means to have
dry place for them.
One of the Mexican bandits captured rich
mercha ut, and sent to his wife demand tor
large ransom. It was refused, and the next
day another messenger appeared with an ear,
which the lady recognized as once upon her
husbands head. She still refused, and the fol-
10 ing day another ear was sent with the inti-
nation that the gentleman would be sent home
in pieces uni .ss redeemed in the lump. This
brought outthe money; but when the husband
returned bis ears were on his head. he ques-
tion is, where did the other ears come from2
"A body Of one hundred and tI Ienty-five
men (Zouaves), enlisted for the defence of the
Pope by the Catholics OF Montreal, arrived in
New York on Friday evening, preparatory to
their departure for Europe on Saturday in the
steamer st. Laurent. There is no truth in the
report that Prince Yturbide is among them.
Some Of the Roman Catholics in New York
telegraphed the Zouaves, before leaving Mon
treal, that they would give them public re-
ception il they would accept Of it; but the re-
ply was that as such demonstration would be
likely to provoke counter-demonstrati
they would prefer to dispense with it. A band
Of music was then rendered them, but that,
too, was politely declined.
"A Washington correspondent says: "One
Of the younger members Of the French Lega-
tion has become noted FOR his gallant speeches
and his exquisite compliments. few eve
nings since, at a german at Governor Nor
gan's, he was introduced to witty New York
lady, who has an Enthusiastically ugly fiat nose.
The polite Frenchman discreetly compliment
ed her on her dancing, to which she archly re-
piled: 'Ah have heard you are fatterer;
but you cannot find it in your heart to compi-
ment me on my personal beauty, 80 you praise
my dancing Madam was the reply, with
Partisan bow, you are an angel fallen from
Heaven, but you fell on your nose The lady
narrated this compliment with great compla-
cency, until it was nauShtily insinuated that
she was "a fallen angel since when she is
silent on the subject"
The New York Sun suggests the following
legislation as o means OF preventing railway
accidents: For every engine, tender or car
that shall run off the track impose fine, say