The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-28
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Cotton closed in New York yesterday ut
282a29, with no buyers over 282.
Gold closed yesterday in Nov York frmer
at 36a. .@saiu,
In Liverpool cotton closed frm. Uplands
11aa11a; Orleans 11a112.- Sales IL 900 bales.
The famine Of eight years ago is expected
to reappear in India. J- - In
Gladstone says he can reduce public ex-
penditures in England Sic, ,O0O. 900. s.y.
New Orleans forbids the erection of wooden
buildings within the city limits.
A statue is ito be erected in Dublin to
Henry Grattan, the great Irish orator.
Mr. Pratt, the new senator from Indiana,
weighs four hundred pounds. He will be the
greatest man in the Senate.
The New York Tribune cleared $225,0O0
last year, the most profitable year Of it's exist
ence. The previous year it cleared 9125 oO0:: :.
-GeQEga, Washington letters for the Chi
cago Tribune at $4,000 year.
Mobile is considering the propriety Of
mounting it's fremen on velocipedes 80 that
they may arrive early at fires.
The New York Herald; calls the proposed
inauguration ball sgrand spasm of Washing
ton vulgarity," and is glad that General Grant
has had it sskuocked in the head"
Mr.. John Brougham sold the seats for the
opening night at his new theatre in New York,
st a,ction, and gas aN the premiums, $4,000,
to yhe Dramatic Tu0j
- ploject is on foot 10 build cotton fac
iory - I.at5rangc, Geo, and one of the solid
,aen OF HE city has expire Ased a willingness to
tase stock 10 the amount Of 10000.
An Arc 1iop Ix ~, ;1oe
in twenty-three minutes and thirty-ive Sec
onds, said to be the fastest time on record for
that distance.
K, Queen Victoria, it is expected, will break
the silence she has maintained since the death
of, Prince Albert, by delivering the speech
from the throne on the reassembling of Paria-
ment on February 16.
"A new perfume tyclept ''Loyal balm OF q
Thousand niege1s" is advertised in an ex-
change. The inventor claims that itwas man
ufactured expressly for parties desiring the re-
moval of their political disabilities.
The Leg stature Of West Virginia is con-
sidcripg bill CHASING all stomach bitters as
liquors, and .exacting o license tax OF one hum
dred dollars from all druggists and dealers
Offering them for sale.
The Petersburg Times is informed that an
entire town in one Of the southern counties in
Virginia, together with several thousand acres
OF land around it, has recently been purchased
by colonists from the West.
General Lees College in Virginia is to
have school ofagriculture, one of commerce,
one Of applied chemistry and another of
mechanical engineering, in addition to the pre-
viously existing schools Of civil and mining
engineering.
Men ought to be faithful husbands in CAL
ifornia if pecuniary interests have any influ-
ence upon their moral movements In that
State if man commits adultery, and his wife
gets a divorce in consequence all his real es-
tate becomes her property. 4
Henry Ward Beecher says that when he
was student he frequently walked thirty
miles day. On one occasion, to see GER
tain family, he walked fifty miles. It is to be
presumed that he finally became member of
that family.
The Supreme Court, at Washington, in
recent patent suit, presented series OF
frames, spring balances, tramways, trucks and
railroad brakes filing the area of the judicial
chamber, giving it much the appearance of
the Office Of the Commissioner Of Patents.
The counsel argued by illustration, handling
the brakes and running the truck with pro
fessional dexterity. a9t a,t, ,
While visiting O tobacco wareh ouse in, Bal
timore on Thursday last. Grant and Farragut
were weighed, and it was found that the for
mer weighed one hundred and fifty-flve pounds
and the latter one hundred and fifty-one. The
Admiral consoled himself for his inferiority
by accusing the President elect Of having
s'bummerized four pounds or tobacco to make
up his weight" ID s#a ls.sa.g4l
The New York World says: ssIt is general
ly understood that Fort Lafayette win not be
rebuilt. 1t certainly should not be, for it has
long since been conceded that New York must
be defended at Sandy Hook; and that the forth
ticationa built on this side Of the entrance to
the outer bay can be Of lttle if any, use in de-
SendiDg chs city against q hostile fleet. At oil
events there are enough guns now in position
at the Narrows to answer every possible pur-
pose, since torpedoes and other distractions,
sunk in the channel betwesn that point and
Sandy Hook, would render it as impossible for
a hostile vessel to reach the city as it was for
the Federal iron-clads to reach Charleston"
New Orleans papers give details of a hor-
rible murder there on Wednesday Of last week.
Salvador Fernandez, a young creole, it seems
had been the afianced lover of Mile. Leveille
previous to the war. He went of with the
Confederate troops, and served as lieutenant
IN one Of the Louisiana regiments. A report
was received in New Orleans that he was kill
ed, and his betrothed, after mourning for him
awhile, bestowed her hand in marriage on Mr..
Lewis Martin, merchant. Fernandez turned
up again after the war, much to the horror oY
the Martins. and since then has been unceas-
ing in his attentions to the lady. Last We'd
nesday. Martin put an end to his infatuation
by shooting him. The affair creates much
feeling AMONG the friends Of the parties.
Captain Brown. OF the Japanese ram Stone
wall, employs the following language concern
ing Japanese affairs in . private letter ssThey
o-a tho anvvaat r,aonlo ~ khinL ava :, nk Il. ~ :.