The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-05-01
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s-IQ6i NOW 1OGh COttOu 1uhk NOV SAoooo oeS"3s
: Gales $500 bales at sal cents.
AZ Liverpool the staple closed fraction
lower; sales 5000 bales; uplands on the spot
12sd.; aaoat 12sd. ~ .ss
Mrs. Ketchley. Mrs. Lincoln's confidential
friend, has q suspicious likeness to Washing
ton vendor Of peanuts.
"A Paris inventor proposes, as q defence
against night robbers, a cane, in; the head OF
which is an electric light Of such powers to
strike the beholder blind.
After Mr. Gladstone had made his great
speech on the Irish Church, his wife, it is stat
ed; rushsd to meet him in the lobby OF the
House Of Commons and kissed him:
"A well-known New York physician, worth
s2Oo. 900. has made will directing that his
body shall be burned upon hlsedeath. he has
also written book in favor of burning the
desd. = ~.
THE North Carolina Conservative papers
lay the blame of the defeat Of their party and
the ratification Of the constitution upon the
western counties OF the State, where there are
comparatively few negroes. 1t is most unfor-
tunate that there shonld be such diverse inter-
ests and feelings among the people OF the same
State. 49,. "a
If ther reports of the London papers and
of the correspondents Of that city are to be
believed, Mr.. Disraeli is occasionally victim
to a habit which sometimes betrays public
men OH both sides Of the water. Itsis more
tSSn limited that on the occasion Of his last
speech ON the. Irish Church question on the
nisht of the division. he WAS 'sfuddled."
illinois Is doing noble work Tor the Demo
crsry. At Pekint The Democrats carried every
ward, and made gain Of three hundred. on
the same day, bloomington, heretofore the
nursery Of Radicalism, elected Democratic
mayor by . majority of two hundred and
thirty-Aye. At Quincy an exciting Canvass
cloaed by the election of o Democratic mayor,
by majority Of about q thousand-a gain OF
mora than three hundred.
( The New York Stock Exchange, which
lherekoS6re has refused all alliance with the
Open Stock Board, Saturday, by Q nearly unani-
NOUS vote, rescinded thst clause in their con-
sstttuticn excluding their members from visit
ing any other board. and then voted to invite
their brethren Of the Open Board to visit
Them: 5The invitation IVES accepted, and the
s.e;ss 81 ptotod feelinen was duly inauguratedin
o yariatyof ways. The iraternisation wasp per-
fects and: m future the two boards will proba-
lyueet in the same building.
Further particulars OF the attempted assas-
sinstion Of Prince Alfred have been received.
The culprit was an Eishman, named farren'
who is known to be connected with the Fenian
organization. Farrell shot the Prince in the
back on the 2sth OF March, ct Sydney, Austria
1ia The ball was not extracted from the wound
until two days afterwards. The wound is dan
Rerous and painful, but the Prince is doing
well, beyond even the hopes OF his physicians.
His recovery viii necessarily be slow. Ac--
oording TO theadyice OF his medical attenoants,
tbs Prince sailed for England. .
"A London poulterer was recently brought
before magistrate for plncking feathers from
living fowls. he bad got a pullet on his
knee with itsthnoat eut, but still alive: and he
WAS tearing off the feathers, the wretched bird
auiysring with agony at every pull. He said sit
WAS his ususl way,a and fowls s'would flap if
YOU plucked them before they were cold" The
dealer called another who disposes OF some five
thousand or six thousand fowls week; and he,
too: ssalways does them inthis way" The de-
fence WAS that i. was "the custom" The pur-.
pose OF that custom is to make the birds look
nlnmpar at market, becausath the larcerated skin
ana tapnniz;sd flesh swell under the awful tor
ture. which is not the case with fowls plucked
attar they are cold in death.
= an amusing contretemps is told us in con-
nection With the Oxford and Cambridge boat
raoe. Resolved to- be independent of the elec-
.triio teIesraph. which in England plays eccen-
trio n,rranks ON such occasions, One OF the Lon-
don papers sent down to the scene two of the
be,st, trained carrier-pigeons. On the leg OF
one was tied q slip Of paper bearing the words:
aoxford has won,n and on the other similar
slip announcing Cambridgeas the victor. Un-
fortunately, in the hustle Of the moment after
thersce. ss the Oxford pigeon was being taken
ont of the basket the Cambridge pigeon
ssi;nar3ed 10 hard that il managed to getfree-
.tha two birds flying home with Incredible
spsad sbut driving their owners frantic with
the contradictory. intelngeuce they brought
1.-The Washington correspondent of the Chi
cago Times says 'The question OF the Vice
Presidency has virtually settled down, so far
as' the Republicans are concerned, to contest
heEgeen Wade and Colfax, with the chances IN
favor of the former If the President is convict