The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-07
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Cotton at New York was in good demand,
but closed quiet; sales 45o0 bales at 282.
1.-The Aiverpool cotton market closed easier;
sa,es 10000 bales; np1anas ,1ttd; Orleans lad.
"A man in Australia has .Aost IA 900 out Of
1s 900 sheep, for want Of water. @'en'
Cough talked to some purpose last year.
a;l returns an income Of $14 500. ,.'.aA
"A new ministry is wanted in Spain by the
majority Of the delegates IN the Cortes!'
Mr.. John Waddie, Of Bpartanburg, died on
tho 2Ath Of April, in the 1881 year of his age.
The liquor dealers Of Boston arc organiz-
ing political resistance to the prohibitionists.
Senator Pomeroy isgoing to preach female
su frage in Brigham Young's tabernacle at Salt
Lake, I,. ''
Boston is to put up twenty drinking .foun.
t,ins to aid the enforcement ofthe prohibitory
liquor law. r .s tyi 5t.1,rg
The estate Of the late Baron R6thschfd
has just been settled. It amounts to 1, ZOO 0OO,-
600 francs.
About seventy telegraph wires have been
run through the Chicago river tunnel since it
was opened. ,I,
Tho New York Police Commissioners,
being paid only $1,000 each year, want an in
crease Of salary. ,
-Henry Ward Beecher was prominent among
the speakers st Cuban sympathy meeting in
4. " York last week.
Philadelphia enacts that the stopping OF
sidewalks by cleanly servant girls must stop at
Sven il the morning.
Tho London Common Council has declined
to spen any moro money on statues and me-
mortal Of Prince Albert. ''-'
They still have sleighing at Bethel, Maine
and have enjoyed it continuously for the last
five months and twenty days.
House rents are reported to have declined
one-third in Brooklyn, the supply of dwellings,
being in excess of the demand.
Fowler is leoturing in Missouri on free
schools, and paper in Detroit says that he is
thus douby free knowledgist.
The "oldest Mason" has now turned up in
Canada in the person of Charles McKewen,
who was raised in Ireland in 1776.
White Feather, an Indian chief, is lectur-
ing in the West on ''The American Indians" {"
and dresses and sings in illustration.
+-One OF the New York papers says that the
very purest milk that can be obtained in that
City contains fully one-third OF water.
rrzFor Afty-eight REPRESENTATIONS of "Romeo
SaI~.,.- W AtoW Aork, the
gross receipts were nearly sixty five thousand
dollars. !.nac c.e .,ii, Ia n ,.sl, .e... ..t
If 4 The Hoosac tunnel. IL is asserted. will,
when completed, cost the State Of Massachu-
setts the large amount OF sixteen millions Of
dollars.
THE Ames Brothers, of North Easton,
Massachusetts, have just built a fine school,
= house, at the cost of $4,000, and presented it
to that town. ..s' 1n.l HI s.
The Geographical Society OF Paris have de-
creed o gold medal to Dr.. Hayes, the American
Arctic explorer, in acknowledgment Of his SER
vices to sciepee. -: rs,,i..., -ss7
Secretary Boutwell, .is reformer. He in
tends to prohibit smoking, chatting, visiting
and drinking among the Treasury clerks dur
ing business hours.
The last tie to be ! i'd on the Central Pa
- cifie Railroad Is made of California laurel,
mounted with silver, and it will be accompa-
nnied by q spike of solid gold 4 NJ: =
Scientific men say that the. time OF diurnal
revolution of the earth is gradually being
shortened, on account OF the shrinkage Of the
Il earth by cooling in the interior.
~ !. '!:2Mf. Christopher Townsend, OF Newport,
r. L, has purchased, at cost Of $26, 900. a
building in that place. which he proposes to
q ''c6hvert into "People's Free Library"
"A bill is TO be introduced In the English
House Of Commons to prevent the Mayor OF
:, Cork from holding any Office connected with
q the administration Of fjustice in Ireland.
sbon--A forger, known as Bent Drake alias Benz
,H6n, was arrestedat Worcester, Mass, yestet.
day, on charge Of feloniously obtaining $12,i
500 from the First National Bank at 81. Clairs-
vile. .A' 4. !11H *. ~
The National Board of Underwriters Of
New York enjoyed 1890 dinner at Delmoni-
co.'s on Thursday, after they had decided to
pnt up the tariff rates and curtaii commissions
toagents. I'll. W q a5rc i,
= ~ William B. Tassmore, of Christiana Hun
dred, Delaware. lost five fine pigs, worth $125
a few days since, In consequence of throwing
the trimmings Of some rhubarb or pie plant
into their pen sor a,a5f. :t q!
"A revolution has occurred in the Internal
Revenue Bureau at Washington. The promi.
nent officials. with out one exception, con.
nected with the Commissioners Office during
MIR. Rollins administration, have been re-
moved. n
James Madigan, the celebrated circus
rider, was instantly killed while attempting to
throw double somersault at Paris Ky.. on
wednesday last. He fell and broke his neck.
Mr. Madigan was q native OF Albany, and was
the son OF Mr.. Harry Madigan.
An lnexhaustible bed OF plaster, such as ia
ground and used for fertilizing purposes. has
Deen discovered about six miles from Fairfax r
courthouse. II 1t turns out to DO as repre-
sented, 1t will be great source Of wealth for
snose who have the good fortune to own it.
v Ine Arizona Cotton Factory. estahIisha,
IN claiborne Parish, Louisiana, since AZ rar
'is now paying net profit Of twenty-fonr nar
.cent. per annum. This income is realigea mn ~
"a capital Of $4,000. and with q part OF the
machinery counted In the capital, not vet At
work. 7"
--The Canadian House Of Commons has
agreed to impose heavier restrictions upon
American 6shermen In Canadian waters than
heretofore, to meet the exactions imposed on
Canadian trade. and at. the Same time secure
something like q fair qusd pro qvo for the