The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-27
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obales atsoaas1c.
LIN Liverpool on Saturday cotton was easier;
sales 1000 bales at 10id.
The latest Paris duel was between two
Bourse specplators. uncle and nephew.
The French army is learning to swim. SO
as to cross the Rhine2
The cheapest paper in the United States is
the campaign TRI-wEExLY NEWS. Four months
I one dollar.
Napier has ten children, whom the liberal
ity Of the government will enable him to keep
in genteel poverty.
-Rumor has it that James Stephens is again
In New York, engaged in his old work of under
mining the British Empire.
No cotton, no tobacco, and no sugar to
speak of, forms the limited basis Of business
in New Orleans at the present lime.
The newest Partisan fan Is made in the
shape .6e "a horseshoe. 1t is very ugly, but
very fashionable.
Several young ladies' make themselves the
cynosure OF neighboring eyes at Newport by
driving four-in-hand.
"A wag suggests that suitable litanical re-
sponse for many city choirs would~be, so,
Lordr have mercy on us, miserable singers"
There are now forty -one thousand officials
required by the executive department alone to
execute acts Of Congress, whose aggregate
salaries amount to over thirty-one million dol
lars.
: The planet Venus, which for several
months has been SO conspicuous, is retrograd-
ing and approaching the sur. Hereafter the
planet will be visible insthe east before sun
rises I:-.-.5 --.Ss -, -
"A Paris eccentric advertised that he was
equity, Of . violent temper, and terribly quar-
I relsome, but that he would settle $40, 900 syear
on a Young and handsome.wife. He received
forty-six appications, and is now married.
The great Dering divorce case, the scandal
: Of high life in England, has come to conclu-
zion, the wicked Lady Dering and her para
mour, Capt. Blakeley, having both died OF yell
low fever at Lima.
The apparition in the Tuileries gardens of
sswomen in white, y blue, red and yellow, even
to the color Of. the poodles and the ribbons by
which those int teresting animals are led, has
brought forth an edict that all such phenomena
. ahan te excluded.
The French Government has been present.
ed with piece Of lanc. on the Mount Of Olives,
Where, according to doubtful tradition, theSa-
yiour taught the Lords prayer to his discl-
Piles. The giver is the pious and patriotic
Princess dela Tour dAuvergne.
II is related OF the Miss Foote who has just
married Senator Henderson, that once when
ahe aud her sister went to party with their
uncle, Senator Foote, q grammatical servant OF
the Hibernian persuasion announced Slna-
tor Foot and the two Misses Feet"
.-Fifty-four hours in luxurious car will
take one from the shore OF Lake Michigan, and
q temper ature up in the nineties, to the snow
capped mountains of Colorado, where overcoats
are in demand. A year or two ago. as many
: days were cften consumed in the trip.
d-A letter FRO m Louisiana says the freedmen
realize their obligations. They have ceased
to hope for the donation Of land and mules.
They hare ceased to apprehend any attempt
10 reduce them again to bondage. They labor
with more regularity, and although the pro-
duct of their labor is not SO great as formerly,
it can be relied on as fixed quantity.
ZTeIegrams from number OF localities In
the States Of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and
Minnesota, with two or three exceptions, an
nounce the crops OF small grain unprecedent-
ed, both in quality and quantity, and the corn
never looked better. It is asserted that un-
lesp some blight should come, both the
small grain crop and the corn crop will be
the largest ever gathered in the Northwest.
The grand caravan which set out from
CAIRO for Mecca with the holy carpet, In the
moath of January, returned to Cairo on the
25th Of June. It included fifteen hundred and
thirty pilgrims, hereafter having the right to
bear the honorable name OF 'hadji," and four
teen hundred and eighty-one animals, chiefly
camels. There are also thousands who make
the pilgrimag by the Red Sea, from Suez to
Jeddah; these had returned previously.
1T is stated in the English papers that Cap
tain j. NJ. Hudson, whose trip across the At
lantic, starting from the Bay OF New York, in
the little ship, Red, White and Blue, excited
much attention, is in reduced circumstancesin
London, and without the means to return to
this country. A serious accident to his wife
has been the chief cause OF his embarrass-
ments. His little ship is now under seizure for
debt and an appeal has been made in London
in his behalf.
-Of Elliott, Tucker tells this very amusing
anecdote. It seems the jo7ial artist was paint
ing some divine, who felt it incumbent upon
him to give the painter moral lecture during
one of his sittings. Somewhat in awe of the
artist. he began very nervously; but as Elliott
painted away without any sign OF annoyance,
he gathered courage as he proceeded, and
finally administered pretty good sermon.
He paused for a reply, and confessed after
wards he never felt so Insignificant in his life
"a when the artist, with the urbane but posi-
tive authority of lbs profession, merely said:
seTurn your head a lutte to the right, and shut
your mouth"