The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-24
NEWS OF THE DAY:

as ask.
The New York cotton market was heavy and
lower Sales OF 1900 bales at 25c.
AT Liverpool cotton closed steady. Uplands
Iixd; Orleans ,1Hd; sales 5000 bales.
"a Chinese carried or the prize for ploughing
atthe Oregon State fair.
washington interdIcts shaving and boot
Backing BY proxy on Sunday.
THE Pope hes written to the Grand Duchess OF
olga asking ner to intercede with the Czar In be-
Aslf Of the Catholics Of Russia
. Prom England reports come by cable OF the
continued prevalence OF gales around the British
( coast. shipwrecks are numerous.
- Father Hyacinthe, vho went to Boston last
weeks the guest there OF Robert O. Winthrop.
on bis return to New York he will lecture for the
benefit OF the French poor Of that city.
-WlnamE. Gladstone, after having been thr-
ty.fve years in pubic life, has just appointed his
con. Wfniamp n. Gladstone, .Junior Lord OF the
4 Treasury,D the frst ONCE the elder Gladstone
Captain washington, Of the steamer which
passed the burning steamer Stonewan in the
Mississippi without stopping to render assistance,
hss been censured by the committee which have
examined into the case.
Two hundred United States cavalry, short
tlrne since, met four hundred hostile savages on
sheI Upper Brazos, Texas, and after two days.
Afnting succeeded in driving them OF. The
savsges LEFT forty dead and many wounded on
she field -
vincent Colyer has arrived at San Fran
cisco with petition to President Grant, signed
by forty prominent citizens Of Victoria, asking
Z that British Columbia be annexed to the United
States. Mr. Coiycr says the feeling has received
4 new impulse from the recent note OF Earl Gran
vile, urging British Oolumbia's annexation with
ne Canadian Dominion.
"A New York letter says: 'There is good
reason for the belief that Thurlow Weed, whose
health is again quite robust viii shortly repair to
Albany ana resume the edtorshlp Of the Evening
Journal This Is said to be In accordance with
theurgent solicitations Of not few OF the leaders
OF the Republican party, who think the veteran
can Jet do much to restore it's prestige in this
Stste.n
--9ne last Virginia interviewer the President,
Colonel John W. Jenkins, chairman OF the Radi-
cal State Committee, asserts that the Walker
party Is ignored at the White House, and that the
Presldent fsvors only the Wells party OF Virginia,
and the sAicern party Of Mississippi. The Wells
party, says jenkins, accepts the situation, how
ever, and recommends the admission Of the State
ct the next session Of Congress.
In the probable elevation Of Sir John Lincoln,
n r for the Isle of Wight, to the peerage, the
Manchester Guardian notices the fact that 1t win
be the first time since the Reformation on which
an English Roman Catholic has been called to the
Upper House. Peerages have been called out OF
abeysnoe In favor OF Roman Catholics, as was
done In the case Of the Baronies Of Canroys and
Beaumont, but there has been no new creation.
-Eugenie's wedding present to de Lesseps'
bride is an ancient galley in massive silver, very
6eiicately chased. All round the keel, which Is
divided into compartments, the different works
sof II. F. de Lesseps are represented, since the
commencement Of the enterprise to the compile
;tion OF the Suez Canal. Above the symbolical
vessel rises o glory holding crowns and surround
ed by various sllegorical geni The value Ia about
q, 900 francs
- More model cottages for farm laborers have
been built In England. They are ON the estate OF
Lord Vernon, at Sudbury, near Derby. Each cot
rsee contains a living room, three bedrooms, en-
trance porch sculery, pantry, fuel store pissery,
uriyy, cesspit ana ashpit. Esch Is provided with
- washing copper, sink and .areclay baking oven
altted up In the scullery. The living rooms nave
cottage ranges, ana are ntsSu Will u""'i S"P
boards on each side OF The fireplace, and the bed
: room firepiaces have small cottage stoves. Tie
rain water from the roofs IS conveyed to tanks
for domestic use, each cottage having pump
Fixed over the sink In the scullery. The cottages
have been built with bricks made on the estate,
9 the external walls being hollow, :or uryness.
relieved with hands Of dark blue SsafYcrdshire
bricks.
"A Washington letter to the Baltimore Gazette,
speaking OF the Yerger case, says: 'The lawyers
on both sides are mum. Those on the part OF
Terscr nnd they are OF the heaviest metal in the
Dietrict) have doubtless conducted the case with
single eye to the Interest OF their client. They
.scan. at any moment. move for the issue OF the
wit OF naoeas coyr,as. upon which 1t is not now
,tiopbtei the court would decide favorably. Con-
.cress coss1d not, at ts&s day, and under the cir
cur,ssances, prejudice the prisoner by er post
J. Sacso leg station, and the understanding twhas-
ever rs character) was acquiesced in by Judge
Yerger lthe prisoners brother) who was present
when it was entered Into. Upon the whole, 1t Is
4 evident that M Yerger's head is safe upon his
sphou, de-, nd h ne n no danger-tnanks Qt
may bs1 70 the ma &C Of enem es."
IA Swsd sh professor, Grusseloach, claims 70
have discovered Q process by vhiea all the lune'