The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-18
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-In Liverpool cotton closed fiat. Uplands
11Aa12d; Orleans 12aaa124d. Sales 7OG0 bales
A newly patented velocipcde has q s'carpet-
bag" attached.
John c. Brecknridge is to be president OF
a Kentucky railroad.
Black silks are now the fashionable recep-
tion dresses Ill New York.
-Gen eraI Forrest has assumed charge of the
Selma Road aud retired from public life.
Petersburg, Virginia, has q boy Of seven,
who is four feet high and five feet round the
waist.
A brokers' advertisement of 'sStocks Want
ed," was lately unfortunately printed ''Stocks
Watered"
1t is proposed to construct tunnels at somo
OF the chief street crossings in London, in
order to relieve the traffic.
Tho latest from Paris is about beautiful
young lady, without arms OF logs, who sews,
embroiders and writes with her mouth.
"A Chicago reporter took photographic
nosos OF his sweethearts love talk, and pre-
vel. ed lifting by threatening publication.
On Saturday and Sunday more earthquake
shocks were felt in California. A snow and
rain storm OF great severity was experienced.
-Wi4k,e Collins has announced his deter
'mi.ation to write no more novels at present,
but TO devote himself to dramatic compost
ito s..
1T is currently reported in New Orleans
that General Longsreet will be applicant
for the Office of collector of customs for that
port under President Grant.
"A member of the French Parliament i'll
vited the electors to tako cup of coffee
,;tl 1,n4D {I,o bo1Io nj !,
is now contested on the ground of bribery.
-Soms oao has discovered that there is not
in the present British House of Lords single
descendant Of the twentl five barons ap-
pointed to enforce the observance of Magma
Charta.
1t ls stated that more than two hundred
thousand persons who now live in New York
will move out OF town the coming spring. in
consea uenco Of the inability to got suitable
acco1nln odEtions there. S
-Ought we not rather say Miss Earth than
Mothe4. Earth, since she is Of such uncertain
age? The best preserved old maid has not
been more successful in concealmg the date Of
her biz tn than this planet Of ours.
Mobile is to have direct steamship COM
manication with Liverpool The Golden
Fleece, d nae steamer, with capacity for 5000
bales OF cotton, will arrive in Mobile about the
25th instant, and this will be followed in q
month, by III Q Mauri4ius, Of the same line.
The Nov York Christian Observer says the
managers If the American Bible Society have
virtually decided to dis Continue the May ami
versars meetings. 1t is supposed that other
religious societies will follow this example.
The May anniversaries were once popular, but
for some years past their usefulness has been
more than questionable.
Siberia ls evidently good place to secure
long life. At Irkoutsk, in Siberia, during the
year 1867, eleven persons died, who we're more
than one hundred years old. Six had passed
ono hundred and ten years, two had attained
ono hundred and twenty-sx, and another
reached his one hundred and thirty first year.
According to the Liberte, of Paris, the
iPontifcal army numbers at present some six
teen thousand mon armed with the French
Chassepot gun, which is about to be exchang-
cd tor the improved Remington rifle, OF which
eighteen thousand stand have just been
placed in the armory Of the castle Of Saint
Angelo.
According to Hungarian journals, great
army movements are silently taking place on
the frontiers Of Russia, where, by order Of the
Gar, strategical points are being strongly for
tifea and garriscned According to letters
from Russia, the anlmosity Of its people is said
to be as intense toward Austria as it Is toward
Turkey. wv
The present Grand Vizier is one Of the
most majestic looking Turks in Constantine
pie, but a man OF little ability. H. has but one
wife, bat keeps at his own palace an English
concublne. whose beauty is said to be so great
that when she visits the women or the Sui
tan's harem none OF them cln be com ,ared
with hor.
Professor A. J. Herring, of Fort Edwards
New York who is In the South on business
connected with the late purchases OF mineral
lands in Northern Alabama, has invested about
$60,00Oin Alabama, and the others OF his party.
Messrs. Gestrander, English and Finnie. have
invested in 100000 acres OF mineral lands in
West Virginia.
1t is sall that the Derby in future will! not
be run at Epson. According to the statement
in the London Sportsman, the new proprietor
of a portion OF the, course has absolutely re-
fused to allow the race to be run over his
ground The rent of the ground was f3OO
year, but the owner has endeavored to raise it
TO SI00O. 10 this increase the lessees Of the
course would not submit, but endeavored vain
ely to make new course, advertising the races
TO be run as usual. This proceeding enraeed
the owner, who now refuses any terms at all.
Should he persist, not only will the race to be
run elsewhere. but the nominations for 1859
and 1870 will all be void. seeing that she yorno
animals are engaged to be run oyor the Epsom
course and no other.
The Lord Chamberlain OF England grants
licenses TO all theatres within London, aud
within places were the Queen usually resides.
A copy Of every new play, ep,logue or prologue
intended to be produced at any theatre in
Great Britain, must be sent to the Lord Jham.
berlain for examination, and that officer may
prohibit the acting OF any play whenever he
4 considers it to involve &yiolation OF good man
4 ners, decorum or the Rybiic peace. Hence il