The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-03
N e VS. s U M MAR Y.

In New York cotton was steadier; sales
1900 bales, 282.. r
Cotton closed in Liverpool on Saturday
quiet and steady; uplands 11bd.; Orleans ibid;
sales 5000 bales. -. "a, no'
"A Detroit woman has secured q divorce
because her husband compelled her to black
his boots. hi. "' i
New Orleans consumes daily two hundred
and fifty beeves, sixty-seven calves, fifty sheep
and ninety hogs. rsa s> &, 1
"A clergyman at Kingston. Eng land, refuses
to admit young ladies to confirmation unless
they promise never to Dance
"A sensation in London theatre is q won
derful horse which rides through the flames
from the stage to the flies, with young man
on it's back.
Three hundred and twenty seven London
artisans and laborers, unable to make living
at home, started on final journey to Canada
in the middle Of April.
The Macon Journal says Major George An
derson, of Laurens District, 8. O., had thir-
teen sons in the Confederate army. Match
him or them, who can a.ca.t
At a little fete Of Eugene on the I'd ut., the
toilettcs OF the Marquse de Gallifet, Princess
de Met.ernich and Countess de Pourtales es-the
three graces of the Tuileries-c upwards Of
10000 francs. '-AN
a New York fashion reporter bitterly COM
plains that after a livery ostentatious display
at the church" 6 claret punch and cake we're
the only refreshments served" at recent we'd
ding reception.
The Boston Post says that the pixies which
ioyal Joe Brown had made to kill Yankees at
the commencement OF the war, have been sold
at Augusta, ga, and wifi be ured to srna the
South Carolina negro militia.
The footprints in the sandstone Of the
Connec ticnt valley, which have always been
supposedto be those OF birds, are prohounced
by Mr.: Waterhouse Hawkins to be the marks
Of marsupial animals, such as kangaroos. :
On Wednesday afternoon, at private we'd
ding on Madison Avenue, New York, the bride
is said to have worn ten Thousand dollar lace
dress, purchased In Berlin. The groom gave
his wife'a ne klace, valued OF eight thousand
dollars.
Southern securities in New York on Mon
day were firm and buoyant. Georgia skies, 81a
81; do. sevens, 95sa98; do do. interest payable
in Georgia, 93a95; North Carolinas, ex-ooupon,
614a613; do. new, 543a55; South Carolina skies,
74a75; do. new. 71a7S; do. regular stock 65a87s
The Alta Californian has "positive and au-
thentic" information that President Grant will
certainly visit California during the coming
summer. 1t says that his advent will be an
''occasion for the greatest enthusiasm ever
Witnessed in the State" This is now as posi-.
lively contradicted. '-Ss@ ~ fs n
"A writer in the Rural New Yorker thus
writes Of the Scuppernong grape: .This grape
is worth untold millions to the Southern peo-
pie. if they will follow the example Of Mr..
Hart, Of Wilmington, North Carolina. in de-
veIoping its culture and the conversion Of it's
juice into good wine. ts@ ,.,.ssYs
Both houses Of the Ohio Legislature have
passed a. bill giving Cincinnati authority to use
$4,000, 600 for the purpose of building short
line railroad through Kentucky to connect with
the southern system OF railroads at Chattanoo-
ga. The work will be undertaken ut once and
pushed forward vigorously.
Letters from Berlin state that from All
parts Of the rgdon Of Prussia, ,zapd even OF
the relatively rich provinces Of Prussia, the
emigration TO- North America has begun on q
larger scale fhan in former years. The emil
grants. generally say that they leave their ma.
tive homes On account Of the Distress reignine
there. and not merely. to escape the military
conscriptionsx 'azsei. 2}a@-oa} Y-T ~
The juries in Illinois are liberal in thei,
awards for railroad accidents. The following
is the estimated tariff in ordinary cases {: Fol-
simple fracture Of leg, $12 GOO; for com.
pound fracture Of the leg. $25, 900; for broken
ribs, $40, 900 each; for finger Knocked out OF
Joint. $1,000. for brnise on the head, $500;
fora hr uise at the opposite extrelnity, double
-ihat sum; and lesser md greater injuries in
iiha proportion.
Bergh, president OF tho society for the
prevention, Of cruelty to anirnals. stopped q
$4,000 pigeon shootng match in New York
lately. There wasaa large crowd assembled
and everything prepared, but Bergh appeared
with twenty five policemen and threatened to
arrest the principals, which stopped the match.
There was great excitement, and only the pre-
sence Of the policemen saved Bergh from being
roughly handled. ~ 80
"A dispatch from Washington saws ssen-
ator Sprague does not intend to take any no.
tioe Whatever OF the irate Captain Goddard.
he considers this bellic0se individual utterly
beneath his attention, and says that he win
not be diverted from the prosecution o. his
plans y-1aAy such petty. .sanno9ancss. The
million dollars Is believed by Mr.. Sprague to
be behind Goddard's intended insult. but the
Rhode Islander has determined not to be drawn
INTO further personal altefcAt Ations. !a
r--As an immense quantity Of copper enters
INTO the manufacture Of guns and ordnance.
wecan readily aoconnt tor Senator Chandler;s
taking the war pathAgainst England. Having
made the priceail right by the copper swindle.
no now, like thorough business man, goes 10
work TO make market. II we do mot have 4
foreign war 1t win be because he could not
eject IT.. and II we do it win be one roora 4.
the interest Of the Lake Superior copper mines
than IN those Of the American people.
In New York it is said that mercantile
houses have done best this spring which han.
pen to have Southern trade. The same 10 true
In other cities. The South is recovering from
sthe desolation of war, and in few years will
Assume . large proportion Of her old influence
I'm connection with the business relations d