The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-04
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The Emperor or China is fourteen years
old. while his intended wife is nearly eleven.
-"Erie,n: according to a cotemporsrg, was
the New. York lawyers Thanksgiving turkey.
During the first nine months of 1858, Eng
land exported 2,lss,5s1,2ss yards of cotton
cloth. - qy.!o; - Ec3ls'i .i-=.c-ss
The s.. Louis Democrat thinks that that
city will do more in, the, pork-packing line this
season than either Cincinnati or Chicago. *,
Wales has written one of the New York
bloods, and the latter shows the note to all his
friends. e.,7 es't7. g.
Sheet music reproduced in miniature
shape, by means of the camera, has made its
appearance in New York. ~
--Mr. Jacob Barker, the once famous mil
3Lonaire, has just received his discharge in
bankruptcy in the New Orleans courts.
The Erie Railway Company has already
paid lawyers and legislators nearly a million,
and it is by no means squeezed Try yet.
"A kerosene lamp exploded at Sing Sing,
New York, on Saturday, and burned to death
mother and her two little children.
The New York Times says the plots OF the
Thanksgiving theatrical plays in that city
"consisted Of all the indeicacies OF the sea-
son.
- in Paris, the salaries Of editors are said to
be in the inverse proportion to the work done.
One is mentioned who visits his Office an hour
every alternate day, and gets $4,000 salary.
The London News says we are told that
100000 meteors fall daily into our atmos-
phere, and asks, "How far are we safe from
the effects of SO tremendous bombardment Z"
The negro elected to Congress from the
Second Louisiana District is chosen to fill a
vacancy, and may therefore be expected at
Washington to take his Sc at at the approach
ing session. d.--.s.,
"A bill is on it's third reading in the Tenues-
see Legislature providing that lawyers who do
not gain their cases shall not receive any fee.
- The idea is to prevent needless litigation,
which is stimulated by unscrupulous lawyers.
The Union Pacific road conveys passen-
gers one thousand four hundred and thirty
miles from Chicago. "Only ten days to Cali
fornia," is advertised by the company, in con-
nection with the Welis-Fargo Express.
"A Baltimore publisher mas completed five
copies Of the proceedings Of the Plenary Coun-
Gil, printed on the finest paper and bound in
watered silk, to be sent to the Pope and four
cardinals. The work is said to be equal to
any ever done in this country.
1T is stated that Clarkson N. Potter, Of
New York, gets fee OF s1Oo.o 600 from the Lon
don bankers, Overend, Gurney Co., for pros
ecuting their suits against the Atlantic and
Great Western Railway Company. Mr. Potter
is a son OF Bishop Potter, and a Democratic
y >Congressman elect.
1t is credibly stated that the Emperor Ma
poleon is suffering from an attack Of diabetes;
that he cannut give his full attention to busi-
ness, and that the Empress takes daily larger
share in the details of the administration, re-
ieving the Emperor of many Of his burdens.
1t has been distinctly and officially notified
to Queen Isabella that she cannot be received
at the French Court with royal honors. If she
chooses to reside in Paris, her ex-Majesty must
understand that she can only do so as Madame
isabelle de Bourbon, and in fact be considered
a private individual.
We have from Washington some interest
ing statements as to the operations Of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau. Its assessments for
the year are given ct two hundred and seventy
millions, and its collections at two hundred
and tifty-four millions. New York alone fell
four millions behind the assessm ents, in its
collections.
"A New York letter says: sit is reported
that number Of influential Episcopalians of
the Low Church school have waited, or are
going to wait on Bishop Potter, to urge him to
impose some restra aint upon the rector Of
Christ Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, whose
sermons on the Failure Of Professionalism
they aIlege, are not only scandal to the
church, but heretical and schismatical as
wsll.''
"A nurse girl, eighteen years Of age, while
left in charge Of three children of the McCul-
loch family, near Corning, N. Y, last Wednes-
day, In at Of rage at the youngest child for
being fretful, threw it upon the floor, stamped
upon Il until it was almost lifeless, and then
roasted its hands on the hot stove. When it's
mother returned home at night it was dead.
The girl was arrested, and the coroner's jury
is investigating tbe case.
Horace Greeley delivered an address to
meeting of colored people on Monday evening,
in the Abyssinian Church, New York. He rec
commended them to be more self-reliant, be
temperate, to establish cooperative societies,
to learn trades, to contract for building houses,
but above all, to secure farms and houses
and lots, on which they could reside and be6t
themselves for the altered condition il which
they are placed.
The employers and workers at the cigar
making business in New York have compro-
missed, and strike is thus avoided. The en-
ployers have given the men an advance in
price, and have rcscinded their resolution not
to employ any member Of the Union. The
Union men have agreed to allow the bosses to
employ non Union men, and to work with
them on equal terms. The bosses also Pro-
posed "that hereafter all differences be settled
by joint committee of arbitration" and the
men accepted the proposition.
MIR. Disraeli, the cable has informed u.s.
declines title and peerage offered him by
the Queen OF Great Britain, but has consented
to transfer the honor to his wife, who is here
after to be known as Viscountess Of Beacon
felds. In this DisraeG shows his usual tact.
BE does not wish to sacrifice popular oppor-
.tunities to be buried among the peers. He |