The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-05
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and 6fty female proof-readers in Paris.
Queen Victoria is 10 her fiftieth year, ant
hiss nine children and thirteen grand-chil
-dren.
Memphis is jealous Of Louisville and Gin
cinnati, and charges them with stealing away
her trade"
Politics now fill up on an average, three
fourths OF the space devoted to reading IN d
majority of the American newspapers.
-Satchel is the appropriate narle Of the
chaplain of the Louisiana carpet-bag Leeisla'
'.ture.
MIR. Jefferson Davis is staying at Alton,
England with the Roman Catholic Earl Of
+. Shrewsbury.
1t is said that there are ten thousand peo-
ple in London who earn their livelihood by
literary work.
1t is stated that agents of the Ffeoch Gov
.ernment are in New York, making larse pur-
chases cf grain, salt meat, clothing, &c.
The sales Of pews in the new synagogue OF
the Israelites in St. Louis, on Monday last,
realized s49,O0s.
in 1871 the first really thorough census OF
lndia is to be taken. The population is esti-
mated at one hundred and fifty million souls.
The New York Sua says there is such de-
mand in that city Tor children for adoption,
that even crippies and other unfortunates are
not refused.
"A Railroad Conductors Mutual Life Insur-
:ance Association is proposed. Ag,neral meet
ing for organization has been called in Cincin-
matt on the Goth OF October.
John Bull still sticks 10 his beer. The
new hop and malt exchange erected in Lon
don, cost over seven hundred th ousand dol
lars IN gold.
Tie Boston Post is anxious to know what
will be done with the ten thousand Cinnamon
who arc working on the Pacific Railroad, after
it is finished.
Bishop Potter, on Thursday, made the an
nual address at the Protestant Episcopal Con-
ryention in Philadelphia. 1t was non-commit-
tai upon ritualism.
-Afhe grape crop of the celebrated Chateau
Latitte, which has just been purchased BY
Baron James Rothschild, Will tins year be en-
-ormous. It has been valued at over ono mil
ion frapcs.
The Rt. Rev. George A. Carreu, D. D..
Catholic Bishop of Coyington, KY, died on the
25th ult., aged sixty-si1. For many months he
had been in fall pg health. He was an earnest,
eloquent and highly esteemed prelate.
The number of iron clads in course of con-
struction in the different parts of France is as
follows: -Four frigates, seven coryettes, four
,ganboate. and one floating battery, designed
f1f.harbor def ence. The present iron clad feet
is,composed Of twenty-eight ships.
Hon. George b. Pendleton pronouuces
forgery the letter lately published purportins
to have been written by him, counseiling the
Texans to vote in the presidential contest. not
withstsuding Congress has shut them out,
with Virginia and Mississippi.
The Roman Catholic Bishops Of Cork,
sCloyne, Ross, and Kerry, Ireland, have had
conference in regard 10 The election, and have
decided to recommend MIR. Gladstones pro-
gramme to the Irish Liberal constituencies as
the only one that can be adopted.
There is q renewal of the war between the
New York Central and Erie railroads. Through
rates to Chicago fro m New York are now said
to be scarcely high enough to payfor handling
the freight. Good for shippers Of freight,
temporarily, at least, but death to the railroads
themselves.
General Sherman writes q letter to the
-ssBoys in Blue" at Philadelphia. He does not
believe that an officer who is in the army for
life, and expects to serve under different ad-
ministrations, ought to take an active part in
politics, but he begs that no one "will doubt
his respect. for and absolute confidence in Gen
eral Grant"
Two brothers in Kentucky have lived in
two States and six counties, and yet neither
has moved out OF the county in which he was
born. They lived in Kentucky when it was
portion of Virginia, and in Ohio County when
part of the territory that composed Jefferson
and subse quently other counties, until mar
rowed down to its present name and limits.
The leading featuro Of the dry goods auc-
tion sales in New York on Tuesday was cata-
ioguo u French and Saxon dress goods. The
attendance of buyers from the South and West
as well as others representing the nearby
trade, was quite numerous. Though the various
lines were sold through with some few dupi-
Gates, prices were hardly up to those realized
for the same kind OF fabrics last week.
Charles Lamb, in his pleasant essay on tho
South Sea House, anticipates the Grecian bend
in the following description Of Thomas
Tame :" "He had the air and stoop Of noble
man. You would have taken him for one had
you met him in one of the passages leading to
Westminster Hall. By stoop mean that gen.
tie bending Of the body forward, which, in
great men, must be supposed to be the effect
of an habitual coudescending attention to the
applications Of their interiors"
The United States tonded warehouses on
Wa.er-street, Brooklyn, N. Y, with several ad-
joining buildings, we're destroyed by fire on
Wednesday last AS near as can be ascertain
ed there was about 81 900 worth Of stores
in bond belonging to various New York and
Brooklyn firms. The goods on storage con-
sisted for the greater part in palm oil, mo-
]asses, gunny bags, gunpy cloth, hides, log,
wood and indigo.
The members of the Orthodox, Eastern OF
Greek Chmch in California, who number about
one thousand, arc about to erect church
building in San Francisco. Considerable funds
have reen raised in the interior of tie State,
20 which additions will be solicited in San