The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-25
NEWS SUM MAE r

Cotton also fuctuated, closing heavy at
%. Sales 1900 bales.
10 Liverpool cotton closed quiet ana
STEADY. No change in quotations.
:-Brignoh begins an opera season IN San
francisco in November. Miss Antonio Henne
IL his prima dons.
The Boston Post says that the boot and
shoe business has become the largest branch
OF manufacture in New England.
-Four years in the penitensary is the fase
a. the victorious negress in that femsle duel
with clubs which came of in Virginia lately.
Senator sprague employs not less than
eight thousand people, ,and he is credited with
recently raising their wages fifteen per cent.
.Asugarhas been advancing for some time,
and aeeras TO be- still going up. The current
prices are extremely high, and will necessarily
-eurtal consumption.
= Professor Blot says the reasonsNew YORK
has no good and cheap restaurantsis, that
Americans are too much in hurry for their
Ganer, to encourage them.
,t.-Ehe Montgomery (Ala.l Mai. is authority
SS Us Stafement that ;aSr Governor James Il
s0G, in copipotion With others, is quietly
s;sAntet6a1e aud Waake1izing South Carolina> :
The very latest in the divorce way is the
case Of man of 81 and woman OF 81, in Mis-
asouri, who. after married life OF seventy
years.. divided their property and separated,
= tte other day.
: Commissioners Delano's report, it is said,
will advise modification Of the tax laws, TAX
ing the burdens from food and clothing and
making them heavier on deeds, mortgages,
Dstes and other doeum snts which represent
capital.
The religious situationin Europe is becor-
ing intensely interesting, and the coming
council at Rome is disoussedby the press and
che people with decree Of animation. not say
excitement, which indicates the approach Of
great struggle. s..,s-
But one vessel is upon the stocks at New
York, and reports from the New England ship
yards do not make much more favorable e1-
hibit. Every year since the close Of thewar
this branch ofindustry has been growing less,
and the result has been that large proper
ton of our commerce, export and import, is
conducted by foreigners and in foreign built
ships.
Hon. R. NJ. T. Hunter, in's letter to
Kentucky gentleman. on Chinese immigration,
says he does notregard this GLASS Of population
desirable in Virginia or Kentucky, but thinks
IL may be Of great service in the cotton, rice
and sugar States. he is OF the opinion that
the question will settle itself. under the law ol
eslf interest irrespective of the views Of poiti-
clans or the legislation OF Congress.
THE gossip OF Washington correspondents
mentions lively Congressional mill as likely
to come of in the next session, when Butler
will overhaul the extravaganee OF the several
Congressional. committees that have been
travelling across the continent at government
expense, making particular application to
Echsnck and his Ways and Means COMMITTEES.
Schenck is ready to meet the powdership It
his opponent with one Of his Cwn, having, it
is said, found out something bad in Buffers
connection with certain manufacturing insti-
tutions. %*- - y ~
The Memphis (Tenn.) Daily Sun, Of Thurs
day, proves that cotton factory in that city
will clear ESQ Is more on every bale Of cotton
woven into cloth than can bs realized by tho
mills of Lowell, Mass; and that 5000 bales at
Memphis would produce profit OF $248, 900 in
one year, against the .008 of the mills Of
Lowell, built at nearly the same cost. The |
New England manufacturer pays SIG to get |
bale TO his mill, and loses entirely thu profit of
che oil from the cotton seed, $50 per bale, all |
Of which, with the advantage Of labor at lower |
rates, enters into the gains ofthe homo manu- |
facturer. eaf
Tho New York World. Of Wednesday, says:
"The Right Rsx. Dr. Lynch, Bishop Of Charles. |
ton, will ordain theRey. Henry s. Like, now q |
deacon, to the priesthood, tomorrow (Thurs-
iay) morning, at 8 O'Clock, in the Church Of |
the Pauiist Fathers, Fifty-ninth street and |
Ninth avenue, and not on Friday, as has been |
announced. Mr.. Lake is the son OF George
Lake. Esq. Of the well-known firm of Lake &
HcGreery, and convert to the Catholic faith.
On the same occasion, several other postulants
Of the Paulist Order will receive the tonsure
and minor orders, one OF whom, We learn, is
Mr. George NJ. Ssarle, formerly the professor
ofmathematics in the Naval School at Newport.
On the night of the 17th instant, man,
apparently about thirty years OF age, register.
ed himself at the Cataract House, at Niagara
FslIs, as sCarl Schurz, New York, and on the
following morning he left the hotel, took car
riage and started for the new suspension but
be changed his mind and crossed TO Canada,
remnking to the ferrymIn during the passage
that he should like to walk over the falls. de
went To the Table Rock, took off lis coat, and
giving his money and watch to boy who was
standing BY, walked into the ewater, which is |
shallow, and about ten feet from the brink sat |
down and shot over the precipice. His body |
remained on the rock beloY for several miu-
utes, and could be seen by several persons who
were behind thesheet OF water at the time; It |
was soon washed of. and has not yet been re-
covered. His coat and two pair Of gloves are
now in possession OF 2. B. Lewis, Clifton, On
tario.
The New York Tribune Of Wednesday
ssys: s'Messrs. @. Koopmsnschaap& & Co.. the
great importers OF Cinnamon, yesterday con-
eracted With the Texas Land Company, No. 20
Broadway. to; supply them with fire thousand
Chinese laborers or ernigrsnts to be employed
upon their lands. Nhlch ara sitnated sion& the
tine Of the Houston Central and Bed Blyer
Rsghosd. The company intend to estsbhsh
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