The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-18

bales. :,
in Liverpool cotton closed flat. Uplands
115a12J; Orleans 12taa12ld. Sales 1000 bales.
"A newly pa tented velocipede has carpet
bag" attached.
John C. Breckenridge is to be president of
q Kentucky railroad.
.-B,ack silks are now the fashionable recep-
ton dresses III New York.
General Forrest has assumed charge OF TIL,
Selma Road and retired from public life
Petersburg, Virginia, has boy OF seven,
vino ia four feet high and 6ye feet round the
waist.
"A brokers' advertisement of "Stocks Want
ad.nwas lately unfortunately printed "Stocks
Watered." u-
1t is proposed to construct tunnels AZ some
OF the chief street crossings in London, In
order to relieve the traffic.
Tho latest from Paris Is about beautiful
youne lady, without arms or legs, who seWs,
.embroiders and writes with her mouth.
"a Chicago reporter took phonoGraphlc
-no..s OF his swee.heart's love talk, and pre-
vel. led jltin. by threatening publication.
a-On Saturday and Sunday more earthquake
shocks were felt in California. A SNOW anu
rain, storn OF great severity was experienced.
--Wi,kie Collins has announced his deter
miraLion to write no more noves at present.
bn7 to devote himself to dramatic compost
ito p.
Tt is currently reported in New Orleans
that General Longstreet will be an applicant
FOR the Office Of collector Of customs for that
port under President Grant.
"A member of the French Parliament H.
yited the electors to take a cup OF coffee
with hin. before the, balloting, and his seat
ia now contested on the ground OF bribery.
Som, one has discovered that there is rot
ia the present British House of Lords single
descendant Of The twenti five baroos ap-
r,ointcd 20 enforce the observance OF Magma
Charta.
1t IS stated tfha. more than two bundled
thousand persons who now live in-New- -tor&
will m I'VE out OF town the coming sprlaS, IN
consequence OF the inability to get suitable
Accommodations there.
Ought we not rather say Miss Earth tnan
Mother Earth, sincc she is OF such unc CERTAIN
arep The best preserved old maid has moi
been more successful in conceahng the oate Oh
her b;. th than this planet of ours.
Mobile is to have direct steamship COM
munication with Liverpool. The Golden
Fleece, q iine steamer, with capacity for SOOo
bales OF cotton, will arrive III Mobile about the
25th instant, and this will be followed, IN
month, by the Mauzidus, OF the same line.
The Nev York Christian Observer says the
oanapers If the American Bible Society have
virtually decided to discontinue the May ami
yersars meetings. 1t is supposed that other
religious societies will follow this example.
The May anniversaries were once popular, but
eor some wears past their usefulness has been
more than questionable. Gr -
Siberia Is evidently good place to secure
long life. At lrkoutsk, in Siberia, during the
year 1867, eleven persons died, who were more
than one hundred years old. Six had passed
one hundred and ten years, t"o had attained
one hundred and twenty-six, and another
reached his one hundred and thirty-irst year.
according to tine Liberte, Of Paris, the
Pontifoal army numbers at present some SIX
teen Thousand men armed with the French
Chassepot gun, which is about to be excbans-
ed for the improved Remington rifle, OF which
e;ebtaen thousand stand have just been
placed in the arnory Of the castle OF SAINT
Angelo.
According to Hungarian journals, great
army movements are silently taking place on
thefronticrs OF Russia, where. by order OF the
Car. strateglcal points are being strongly for
tiied and garriscned. According to letters
from, Russia, the animosity If its people ID said
to be as intense toward Austria as it Is toward
Turkey.
The present Grand Vizisr is one OF the
most majestic looking Turks in Constantine
; ple. but man OF ittle ability. He has but one
wife, but keeps at his own palace an English
concubine, whose beauty is said to be so great
that when she visits the women of the SUI
tan,s hsrem none OF them en- be com mlared
with her.
Professor A. j. Herring, Of Fort Edwards,
New York, who is in the South Oh business
connected with the late purchases OF mineral
lsp6s in Northern Alabama. has invested ao1 1ut
s6O0COin Alabama, ana the others of his party'
Messrs. I,estrander, English and Flnnie. have
invested in 100, ,0Oa acres Of mineral lands in
West Virginia.
IT is sud THAT tho Derby in future vii! not
be run at EPSON. According 10 the statement
in the London Sportsman, tho new proprietor
OF portion OF the course has absolutely re-
fused to allow the race to bo run over his
ground Tho rent Of the ground was 8SOO
year, but the owner has endeavored to raise it
to f1OOO. To this increase the lessees Of the
course would not submit, but endeayored vain
iy to make new course, advertising the races
to be run as u-ual. This proceeding enraged
the owner, who now refuses any terms at all.
Should he persist, not only will the race to bo
run elsewhere but the nominations for 1869
and 1870 will all be void, seeing that the young
animals arc engaged 10 be run over the Epson
course and no other.
The Loru Chamberlain Of England grants
licenses to ali theatres within London, and
within places we're the Queen usually resides.
A copy Of every new pluy, eploSue or prologue
intended to be produced at any theatre in
Great Britain must be cent to the Lord oham-
berlain for examination. and that officer may
prohibit tho acting OF any play whenever he
considers it to involve violation of good man
ners, decorum or the pubic peace. Hence 1t
may be imagined that there has been some e1-
citement among the managers of the Loudon
Theatres in consequence Of letter addressed
an &hay, n, tho T,nrd Chamberlain .cnmDIain-