The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-31
VIEWS SUM MAR T.

Cotton closed quiet and dropping; sales
$50 bales; middline SS2. -,
In Liverpool cotton closed shade 6rmer;
lplands 1915; Orleans 12sa1sd.
Mrs. Slonewall Jackson hes just received
. bequest of $4,000.
The negroes in Arkansas propose to pre-
smpt public lands and hire the Cinnamon.
"A Mississippi boy went QUITO fly his kite,
when the kite flew him, aud he was landed in .
trse seventy feet from the ground.
The once celebrated but almost useless
Thames Tunnel, being required for the East
Lsndon Railway Works, has been closed ior
traffic. % ,,...
Several OF the recently discharged Cuban
risoners from Fort Lafayette have returned
SoHshmond thprougfy disgusted with Cuban
aGhirs.
Two gentlemen LEFT Selma, Ala, q few days
since for San Francisco for . shipment Of Chi
,ese. They had orders for five hundred
hbMers.
-Atsvelry store at the Greenbrier Va.)
White Sulphur Springs, was entered and rob-
bed on Friday night Of $500 worth Of watches
and iewelry:
IA biographical sketch OF the late Henry
Riyes Pollard, from the, pen OF J. Marshall
Hauns, is soon to sppear In book form at Rich
! xiend, Virginia.
"A devil fish has been caught at New Or
yesns. His chief chsracteristics are length
oetwelve, and breadth Of fourteen feet. and q
mouth two feet wide.
afx - GOnnaCfIHUf
forming clubs for the purpose OF buying coal
By tae cateo. They thereby save couple OF
dollars or moreon the ton.
The Empa6t Napoleon, who is passionate
II fond OF the ballet, has just rewarded III.
Peitpal, the ballei master OF the opera, with
retiring pension Of $500 tgold) per year.
Mile. Rila ssngalli. the fAvorite premiere
danseuse contemplAtes organizing first class
corps de ballet, With which abe proposes visiting
The principal cities OF the South and West,
With the view of dancing herself into the good
srsces Of the unterriaed ''unreconstructe1."
Rose Hersee. who is coming to this coun-
ty to sing in Parepa's English Opera Troupe,
: win make her debut in .'Somnambu]a." She
II to have $500 week salary, in gold, all her
travelling expenses, and Q private carriage.
Hheis said to be- young and beautiful, and a
brilliant vocalist, too.
Six OF the resident physicians OF Pensa-
cosa, Fla, deny the statement that the yellow
lsver is prevailing in that city. They assert
that NOT single case Of yellow fever has oc-
surred in that city. and that the population
vas never more free from disease Of any and
every type than at the present time.
"A party OF seven Sisters Of Charity came
passengers from france to New York on Tues.
dsy. 10 ..sse steamship Vile de Parie. They
are said to be the frst instalment Of hundred
C more who have been sent for to aid the
Catholic missions in their now rapidly extend
ing work along the line Of the Pacific Bail
road. q
Massachusetts, is in the agony Of the exc
sutfon OF the new prshibitory law, and its in
habitants invent many ingenious lodges to get
possession Of the ardent. Thus, Taunton,
man the other day procured prescription
from q doctor and then added to it the words,
'.uue bottle Of porter" The pharmaceutist
noticed q difference in the cbirography, and
ignored the s'porter."
Second only to the Suez Canal is another,
to be completed within the year, connecting
the Rhoue with the Mediterranean, thus avoid
ing the sand bars at the mouth OF that river,
which have always rendered Il useless for COM
nercial purposes. This canal has been some
years in construction. will be twenty feet deep.
enter the Mediterranean between Cette and
Msraeilles and ooat a 400 CO0
The failure Of the Colombian Legislature
toratify the Cushing Darien Canal treaty is at
txibuted to the intrigues Of the English and
Frerch Ministers at Bogota. Instead OF send
ing an envoy there fully able to cope with the
European diplomats, our government pays
littleor no attention to this subject. and allows
Itself to be;bafled by the English and French
lobbyiste in the Colombian Senate.
The great battle-felds Of the late civil war
are about to be illustrated by series OF views,
pubished in cbromo-ithogrophic style, and
taken fro n oil pictures painted on the spot by
George L. Frankenstein. The news, each
measuring fourteen by ten inches, are to be
published in one ossmore volumes, together
With descriptions Of the different battle-delds,
GOQtuuluS uibto1iSod CAptoAoeASAS.
Judge Dent, the Conservative candidate
for Governor Of Miss,snppl, writes aletter say
ing that he is national Republican; opposed
to the extreme presumption Of bis party; and
placing himself uuequivocally on the Walker
platform of Virginia advocating universal am
nesty and universal suffrage. In all these
.positions he CLAIMS to be in unison with the
President. who endorses his policy.
The Orientals travel with bar gold coin and
jewels to pay their way in foreign lands, bank
ing beng very little OF an Eastern institution;
therefore it is not 80 very wonderful. ifcurious,
to hear that the Viceroy Of Egypt, to meet his
expenditure In EDgland, came furnished with
twelve boxes Of oak, bound with brass, each
box bsing eighteen inches long. nine inches
high, and twelve in width, and containing gold
and notes.
Some time ago the New York Board Of
Health undertook an investigation of the qua.-
ity OF the kerose o oi! sold in that city for
family use. Their chemist, Professor Chand-
Ter, Of Columbia College, tested over one hum
dre6 6samples, purchased at different 1etail
stores in various localities, and found not one
among the whole lot which came up to the
standard repaired by law. Indeed. one-elehth
Of the samples we're pure benzine. one OF the
vro., 5anoor,na r,rodr ,ts of the dlstillaticn