The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-05
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

NEWS OF TIE DAY.
Gold at New York yesterday closed duh at
2eAa2sA.
Tho New York cotton market was declining
Sales 5000 bales at 2Gc.
At Liverpool cotton closed steady. Uplantls
12Kd. Orleans 12!id.
Twenty y-onc suits for divorce are pending ut
Davenport, Iowa.
Virginia is sending large quantities OF zinc
metal to the North.
Corn is selling at higher price than wheat In
some parts Of Indiana.
Madame Anna Bishop will settle in New York
nnd lead church choir there.
The lion. Jefferson Davis Is sojourning tenn
porary at fernando, Mississippi.
The Ilavrc dock hand who saved the life OF
the murderer Traupmann, received Il medal and
400 francs reward.
The proposed Canada and Pacific Railway is
$500 miles in length, and will cost seventy mil
lions OF pounds sterling.
"A partial reconstruction Of the Spanish. .cnbi-
net has been effected. hIartas is Foreign Secre-
tary, and Figuerola Minister Of Finance.
Tho superintendent OF the Georgia State
road declares that after this year the road will
nav Ell & he YHsrsSnra Sn1 S,Gt"
he'd recently at Staunton, Virginia, Benjamin
for the best specimen OF barrels.
1t costs royalty something to travel The
Empress Eugcnlc thinks she can make her trip
from Paris to Cairo, Egypt, tabout as far rs from
New York to Omaha) for 100000.
Count Bsmarck's income Is computed a,
about $4,000, dcrieahlc from his various estate,
and Offices. To this must he added the no: incon-
siderable item of free ministerial residence In
Berlin, ana table money.
The State Department has received intelll-
gencc OF the loss of the whaling schooner Susan
A. Smith, OF Boston, with the Captains wife AMI
two children, and all the officers and crew except
the captain and four men,
IA survey OF the Sucz Canal shows that it is In
Its sliallowest parts hut twenty feet deep: there.
fore the steamer Aiglc, OH which the Empress
Eugenie intended going through IL. cannot make
the passage, as II draws more than twenty feet.
The Empress, however, insists OH making the
trip, even If II new survey proves that lighter
vessel will lc necessary.
-4'he London Times money article OF yesterday
comments Oh The Increasing importation Of wheat
from the United States, and In view OF compeii-
tion with Russia and Central Europe, when rail
ways In that quarter are fully developed, sug-
gests rs the great questions for the United States
to consider, the reduction Of frcghts AMI the ell
largcment OF communications with The aIsss.
sippi.
"A French paper reports that 1.-The most bril-
liant OF the stars or song" by which every one
will recognize the Marquis dc CauN, "has signed
splendid engagement 10 Sing In Russia II is
stipulated in the treaty that the diva promises
you would never guess what-to have no children
during the period OF her engagement. And her
husband has written nj tile bottom Of the con-
tract: The above writing is read AMI ap-
proved.'r
1T appears from notice senI TO the pnpers by
Mrs. Stowe, that she Is preparing a book OIL tho
Byron scandals; ami that she expects, Of course,
to justify her previous publication OH this SUBJ
ject. The publication OF the Leigh letters In the
London Quarterly Review has brought out The
following note from Mrs. Stowe "Mrs. Stowe re-
quests the public to suspend their Judgment on he
letters OF Lady Byron 10 hfrs. Leigh lately pub.
lishei In the London Quarterly Review until i!.cy
meet them in their proper historical connection
in her forthcoming volume"
IA horrible railroad accident occurred Oh Non.
day last near Narr0wsburg, y. Y, by which one
man was burned To death and fourteen cars load
cd with coal oil, tobacco and cotton, were cHirc,y
consumed. When the fire had reached its height
man was seen In The midst Of Iiic giarins names.
but 1t was impossible to approach near enousi. to
render the victim any MD, AMI lie was in short
time completely roasted. His name was james
Rourke and he was n brakeman on lie train. II
Is supposed he had In some manner become
fastened between the cars In such a way az to be
unable to Nrlrac himself before bclg sllIocatc cd
by the rapidly approaching namcs.
An exchange gives the following interesting
gossip concerning the Sinmesc twins: .IheIr sur.
name Is Bunker, and their given names Chang
and Eng. They reside alternately Mt two resi-.
denccs, one at Mount Airy, ~ c., and the other
three miles distant in the country, one OF the
wiVek taking charge OF each establishment They
married twin sisters near that point many years
since, and each has family Of beautiful black
eyed children OF brunette complexion. They arc
aged ffty-seyen, are qnitc gray haired, and while
they are In independent circumstances they are
not wealthy. Their wives are large, hcalthy.look.
Ing women, and their country honsc, the only one
we have seen, Is oL.. OF logs with puncheon floor,
and without finish or decoration. They use a
windsor chair Of double width, and bed not less
.than eight feet wl'le. rustic flight g: stcps-Of
double width leads to the attic, and they pass mp