The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-13
NEWS sU Nj M A r Y.

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has been heard from. She gives about hve
thousand majority for Grant.
Frederick William Dickens, latest surviving
brother of Charles Dickens, died few weeks
ago at Darlington, England.
The engine driver Of the Irish mail train
wrecked at Abergell, has died of anguish o
mind.
The total number of lives lost during the
late riots in New Orleans was si1teen-sis
whites and ten colored men.
This season we resurrect in hats one oi
the oldest fashionable sugar loaf with
crushed in top and curled brim.
The entire ,.ssets of q recent bankrupt
were nine children, which his creditors mag
panimously allowed him keep.
Knoxville, North Carolina, with scarcely a
hundred inhabitants, has sent North this fall
nearly 500 03O worth of dried fruit.
The New York Times thinks the Presi-
dents salary ought to be raised to s1O0,t
year.
The Chinese like the English missionaries
because they can make shoe-strings from the
binding of the Bibles received from them.
General BAIL Duke, the e1-Confederate
cavalry General, has established in Louisville
in the practices Of the law.
The penitentiary of Indiana has over four
hundred convicts, whose labor supports the
institution, and the appropriation by the State
has not been touched.
1t is thought that il the Florida fruit sup
ply continues to increase, the United States
need no longer look to the West Indies for
oranges and lemons.
ON the first day of the next session, Con-
gressman Kelley, Of Pennsylvania, will intro
duce a constitutional amendment providing for
universal suffrage in all the States.
John NJ. Crebs, Democrat, is elected to
Congress over Green B. Raum in the Cairo dis
.trict-another Democratic gain. The Illinois
delegation now stands ten Republicans and
four Democrats.
"A host Of reporters .called on General
Grant, in Washington, on Monday 10 get his
''views,' but had to be content with learning
tho 'sviews" Of the servant who answered his
door bell.
The Cincinnati Commercial says: SIT ap-
pears that Democratic Congressman enough
are elected to give the party ninety members
.of the next House. Eight seats are to be con-
tested
according to the Columbus, Georgia, Sun,
"a postof6ce clerk at that place deems it to be
his Fright and duty, in times like the present,
ITO open and examine the correspondence Of
parties who in his judgment are disloyal."
In Vienna, the Dianenbad has been fitted
up as q theatre, at which women only are to
perform. All the male characters are tobe
personated by women, and even The orchestra
is to be composed exclusively Of female musi-
clans. a.
1t is proposed, in Boston, to gather togeth-
er all the flags, canvass, bunting, timber,
scantlng, and whatever else Of the parapher-
malta of the late campaign that remains, and
to dispose of them for the benefit OF the poor
--the coming winter.
The New York World says: $50 far, the
returns and estimates give the Democrats
eighty-four and the Republicans one hundred
and nineteen in the next House. The proba-
bilities are that the Republicans will have from
fifteen to eighteen less than two-thirds."
The New York World says: "Hofman's
majority will be between $4,000 and $4,000.
The delss-in receiving the official figures is
suspicious, to say the least Of it, and suggests
S>possible doctoring Of the genuine vote to
suit Radical necessities"
The New York Commercial (Republican)
has Washington dispatch announcing that
MIR. Stanton will be offered his old positonof
Secretary of War by General Grant, and that
Senator Wade or Horace Greeley will go into
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spoken Of as Minister to England.
MIR. Seward has issued an order that in all
communications hereafter issued from the
State Department the title of "Hon." shall be
igncrcI. The term has grown into such dis
repute Vi indiscriminate use as to have ensur-
ed its bestowal on negro oficIals-the crown
ing act to stamp it as an unmi6gated nuisance.
The members Of the New York fire depart
ment are required to become familiar with the
interiors of the buildings in their districts, so
that they can woik to greater advantage in
case Of fire; and it is intended to have con-
slant patrol OF frernen, similar to that of the
police department.
The bridge over Broadway, at Fulton
street, New York, having been ordered to be
removed as r1isance, it is now suggested
that the street at this point should be tunnel
ed. Tho few steps leading down under ground,
II is asserted, would not prove so formidable
an obstacle as the high fight of steps leading
up to the bridge, which overshadows the
neighborin, stores.
The researches Of Helmholtz, the distin-
guished German Psychologist, show that tn
psrvous fluid or wave, whatever it ~ be,
travels at the rate of 97.1 feet per second. If,
then, man six feet high we're to stop on a
nail, it would take little less than an eighth
OF second for The information to be carried
by the sensor nerves to the brain, and for the
order that the foot be lifted to be returned By
he motor nerve to the suffering member.
"A petition is in circulation in the North re-
questing Congress to pass statute declaring
null and void all laws and ordinances of cities,
towns and States which tax commerce in the
sbape OF harbor tonnage, port warden fees,