The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-30
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Opera next season.
Manager Grau found one hundred dollar
bill in paper of tobacco the other day.
An English pedestrian recently ran forty
miles in less than FIVE hours on wager OF one
hundred dollars,
The Paraguayan amazons are to be coun'
terbalanced by Brazilian petticoat soldiers
When woman meete woman then comes the tug
of-songues.
The proprietor of the ife-boat that was
capsized off Chicago the other day with such
fatal effect, announces mis- intention Of ye'
crossing the Atlantic in her.
1t is stated that lager beer from the Unit
ed States has been introduced in Hamburg
and is drank there with satisfaction. This is
like carrying Goals to Newcastle" ).
IS There is queer story that Wales went te
the P.ris races inoog., that he there had his
head punched by q Frenchman, also incog
mac.
.-Mrs. Lincoln is fulfilling her threat Of
leaving the country II Grant was put up foi
President. She can come back safely in the
fall -,
yellow hair is 10 be fashionable next
supplansng the red. This tightening OF col.
or looks as II there would bs return to
The powds, aid blanched tresses Of former
2 times.
-Mr. Burlfngame. says the Chinese have
more books, encyclopedia. pamphlets, mas
zines, &c, than any other people. Their prin-
cipal encyclopedias embraces five thousand vol
mnes. Good place for Celestial printers.
The Washington correspondent Of Geor-
gia paper says that Senator Doolittle and Gem
eral Butler recently met at the same dinner ta-
ble. II mnst have been o place Of 'saccommo-
dstion for mah,and BEAST
The changes which are at present taking
place in the constitution Of the government OF
Japan win so seriously impair The general Sc
curly OF Ysddo and Nilgate, that, in tie opin-
ION of Sir Harr Parker. the British Envoy, it
win be unsafe for foreigners to take mp their
reaidenoe at that city and port until affairs are
in more settled condition.
rich farmer OF Calais, Maine, aged sixty
five, recently married q second wife, who is
only nineteen years Of age. A daughter Of his
first wife is forty years old, and he daughter,
raged twenty, is about to be married. Thus,
there is child who is twenty-one years older
than her mother, and a grandmother who is o
year younger than her granddaughter.
{ -Coolie emigrants. to the number Of nine
thousand fye hundred and twenty-eight, have
been received in the British b West Indies dur
ing tn, year 1857. or these Jamaica received
aixtesn hundred and twenty-five, British
Guinea three thousand nihe hundred and ten,
Trinidad three thousand ak hundred and ten,
and the others were divi ded between st. Vim
scants and st. Kits.
The rich Jap who is coming to Paris in
search eta pretty and virtuous wife, is expect-
ed At Marse lilies ina steamship that he
hss had brilt expressly for the trip. he in
tends 10 settle In Paris, and wants to buy the
whole Eight bank Of the Seine for palace.
His income is $4,000 900 year. What q
blessing u we could only get him here
tax him.
b--Tha Austrian. Emperor, desirous OF re-
munerating the barristers who undertook the
periIous dutyof defending his brother MAXI
rtlisn, offered each Of these gentlemen, a large
sum cg money, which they ste adily refused.
The Emperor has, therefore, sent to each o
magnificent service OF plate OF the value Of
fifty thousand forms, and to the priest who
accompanied the captive to the place OF ezecu-
ton, q jeWelled cross Of equal value.
The refusal of his seat to Hon. John D.
Young, member Of Congress elect from the
Ninth District Of Kentucky, was as fsgr ant an
outrage on popular rights as can well be con-
ceived; but the substitution of his defeated OPP
ponent was even lower than that in legislative
baseness. The epithets we have selected are
NO vay unauited othe recent extraordinary
action Of the House Of Representatives. MIR.
Young, the sitting member, was elected over
Mckee b. majority of 1879 votes. A third
candidate received S62 votes, which left Young
clear majority Of GIT. No partisan legerde-
main can get over this, or get around it, Yet
Mr.. Young has Just been deprived Of his seat,
ana Mr.. Mckee has been put into it.
"A London correspondent, writing OF
fashionable wedding, says he failed to discover
single dress coat in the company, the
Sroom. the .sbest man" and all the gentlemen
friends appearing in dark, double-breasted
frock coats, light pants, black or coloced neck
fsies, and, with the exception ofthe groom, re-
Ssiuing their hats in their hands during the
i-ceremony. The bridesmaids dressed in white,
!. trimmed Nth blue, while the lady frienls wore
an kinds of.elegant morning dresses. Gloves
.cf every shsda and color appeared on the hands
sf both ladies' and gentlemen, while the latter
an carried the button-hole bouquet, without
which London man OF fashion would not be
considered dressed. -
& The aray of the United States, according
10 figures deduced from statements furnished
.bsthe Secretary of War to the Committee on
Military Affairs, is at present composed as fol-
.slovs: Artillery 541s, cavalry 1868, infantry
:s27N, makicg total Of 47,71s enlisted men.
Should no farther enlistments be made, the
diminution of the army from expiration OF term
af service. death and desert;on, will be very
arge. From the estimates furnished by the
aecretsrr, it appears thst. unless provision is
alssde to keep the force up to its present
strens b, the army ON January ist, 1869, will
Consist o., artillery 1881, cavalry 5455, ia:antr