The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-30
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Gold at New York yesterday closed at 81

AT nVcIpOOl NObco1 "SS
1o,d: Orleans lid; sales $4,000 bales.
.s:-Flotew, he-musical composer, was lately
divorced from his sixth wife in order to marry
4 Her sister. ~ g. 80. = r..
i.-rn. New, York il is becoming customary for
tbe bride to furnish the dress material worn
BY the bridesmaids.
.r.-..Gommodore Vanderbilt, With his family
owns over s15, 900, 900 of the s2S,OOo, 600 stock
Of the New York Central Railroad.
e. 2. Since the pfohbitory liquor law has been
intorce in Maine opium eating is said to have
increased to an alarming extent.
Ia deceased millionaire in Western city
has inscribed on his tombstone, she always
paid cash. ~ 81 ~. y. : - = ~: -
mt, George Francis Train, who arrived in
"a New York City on. Thursday announces thas
James Stephens has been restored 70 supreme
control of the Fenian organization. @o7
@.oA woman named Eliza Jones was burned
40 badly in Baltimore on Friday last by the ac-
cidental ups citing ola kerosene lamp that her
death will probably ensue. ,
-Gustsye Dore has twice proposed to Chris
tina Nilsson and twice been rejected. But be-
ieving that there is luckin odd numbers, he
is going 10 try it again.
Ii is stated that the supply of guano st
the chircha Islands Will give out in two years.
The Peruvian Government has ordered the
guano companies to export hereafter from the
Guanape Islands, on the northern coast.
"A bill is before the Tennessee Legislature
e1empting capital employed in manufacto-
,ries from taxation for the space Of ten years.
There is a fair prospect for it becoming q
law.
Mr.. George ". Adams, a leading Wash
ington correspondent, WAS married last Tues
day to the daughter of John NJ. Barclay, the
Journal Clor1 Of the House Of Representa-
tives.
The New York papers say that concerts
and operas in that city are overwhelmed by
ssdead-heads," and, as an instance, tell of
concert at which nearly three thousand people
attended, whilst the receipts we're not $50.
"A projected new railway from London to
Brighton, it is said, will combine IN us car
riaees combination OF the American and
English systems, with free passage through
out the length of the trains, and smoking and
refreshnent saloons at one end.
1t il said that the only infallible way to
ASCERTAIN that death has taken place, with the
. exception of decomposition, is by holding
. candle to part OF the body. Il the blister on
!. being punctured gives forth fluid substance
/. de,th has not taken place. II air is enltted'
dsath has occurred. SO
An Irish court has given gentleman two
hundred pounds damages for breach OF prom
Use by q lady with whom he had an engagement
to marry. The day had been set, the intend
ing bridegroom had sold 9 farm in British Co
.lumbiss and was on his way to carry out the
engagement, when the lady married another.
in Belgium new mode OF dressing
wounds has been adopted. "A sheet OF lead
one-6ftesnth Of an inch III thickness'is applied
to the seat Of injury, and made to assume its
shape by pressure. By means or strips OF ad-
:hesiye plaster the lead is secured, and cur
rent OF fresh water is poured over the surface
OF the flesh orce or twice day.
Great activity continues to be shown In
tho preparations for the Gcumenical Council.
Citations have been issued for eightnew Coun-
-ciIlors--one being summoned from America,
\>one from Spain, two from France, and four
Qfrom, Germany. An invitation was sent to tho
R:r. John Henry Newman, OF England, but he
has desired to be excused, on the ground OF his
i.age and bad health.
THE late Duchess OF Sutherland was
model matchmaker, and provided admirably
for her daughters. One che married to the
Duke of Argyle and another will be Duchess
OF Leinster. A third (very beautifully is mar
ried to the eldest son of the Marquis of West
nninster, whose wealth no man can count; and
q granddaughter has just been af6anced to
Lord Percy, heir to the Dukedom Of fNorthum-
e;berland.
Tho recent suicide at Chicago of Mrs.
: Augustus N. Dickens, widow of Augustus
Dickens, brother of Charles Dickens, was COM
usittea by taking morphine. She sent her
children to the home Of her brother-in-law,
Mr.. Lawrence, on Christmas eve, to take part
in getting Up Christmas tree. They remain
cd there over night, and on their return home
discovered their mother on the floor dead.
Nrs. Dickens was thirty-fye years old, and
Leaves three children. She has suffered much
lstely from poverty, being dependent almost
entirely ueon her friends for the necessaries
Of life.
Napoleon III labors in all things to mako
his government necessary to the French peo-
pie, and accustom them to look to him ior
more or less help, in the work Of social pro-
gress. Among his many arrangements for this
grand purpose, is the plan of sending agents
into the agricultural districts, where the great
strength Of the Bonapartean dynasty reposes,
to offer the farmfolk the necessary implements
OF ofindustry, at first cost and not these alone,
but the credit which enables the people to get
them. The latter have from three to five years
TO pay for them, and longer time when it is
found that they are industrious but cannot
raise the money. This interference is very
paternal one and, though it may have GER
tain centralized air OF despotism, yet it is
vary pardonable kind Of despotism, as the
world goes.
The New York Herald is moved by the re-
~csnt scrip dividend Of the New York Central
Railroad to tell how the capital stock Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company has been
'"gatered." Beginning with q capital OF $780,
600, fifteen years ego. that corporation now
has a nominal capital Of s41, ,0Os 800, nearly
FIVE times what it should be if the capital had
been increased in a legitimate manner to cover
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