The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-04
N E " So N MANY,

NEWS So N MART. &
Gold at New York yesterd,y closed at 352.
At New York cotton closed steady. Sales
1900 bales
The Liverpool cotton market closed q
shade ems or, but prices were unchanged.
"A cargo OF slaves has recently been landed
at Colorado Koy for Cuban planter.
Miss Florence McCarty, native of jack
son, Miss, has been appointed telegraph ope-
rator. Rt
or the eiehty-four steamers which ply be-
tweea America and Europe, butfiye are owned
by American companies.
The nom,nation of o Seymour and Blair
ticket at Nashville has thrown a damper On
the ardor ct the Senter Republicans.
The French Gable Company will regularly
open busides- on the 5th with a reduction of
twenty per cent. on the present Atlantic cable
rates.
Both the Oxford and Harvard crews are
now in active practice, preparatory to the in
ternational race. Betting is two to one in
favor Of the Oxford.
South American news is cheerful. They
have smallpox at Valparaiso, yellow fever at
Rio, cal thquakes near Iquique and Arequipa,
and the Isluga volcano is again in action.
The Spanish Regent, in his speech to the
new American Minister. General Sickles, said
that '.PresIdent Grant could not have made q
more grateful selection to the Spanish people,"
But he did not say why.
Twenty -four thousand dollars were stolen
from the safe in the trea surer's off 30 OF the
United States arsenal at Philadelphia Friday
night. The safe was uninjured by the opera
zion and tthereby hangs a. tale" .,
james R. Butts, formerly Surveyor-Gene-
raj of Georgia, died in Macon last week, after
a few hours illness. Of bilious collie. at the
time OF his death he was supposed to be one of
the largestaand-owners in Georgia.
Several American gentlemen, who seem to
have been disappont I'd in Washington, have
lately been arrested in Mexico on charge OF
comphc,ty with Lopez and others in con-
spiracy against the pubic treasury Of that re-
public. Their trial is now gong on.
The New York Post. OF Saturday. saws !:
s'Carrle Autterheld, aged twenty-five years,
was terribly burned last evening by the explo-
sion OF q ksrosene Lamp in Houston. street:
nlaea = as. s,e. on y,4s ats ssfed only
Mhsn she die's. IN " es:rssst
AMONG the visitors at the White Snll,htlr
Springs. Virginia, are Genera,s s. g. Bucsrer,
of LouiHYllo; A. r. Lawton, OF Georgia; Ma-
-gruder, Of Baltimore; Lilly, Of Virginia; Bishop
Wilmer, of louisiana; Admiral Smith. Sur
Reon-General Barnes. and the families Of the
Prussian Minister at Washington, and the
French Consule at Charleston and Savannah.
-Forney has received letter written for
his sPress," from Columbia, 8. c., in which
the writer says: There has been some talk
among the Republicans as to who shall be
nominated for the next elect ion. F. j. Moses,
Jr., will try aud satisfy his ambition by tecom-
ing Lieutenant Governor. No one but Scott is
spoken Of for Governor. Sawyer is not at all
popular with his party here; and although spo-
ken Of as o Conservative candidate, in opposi-
tion to Scott. neither Democrats nor Radicals
favor the idea"
The Reformed Church in New York have
been very fortunate in their real estate trans
actions. They rented the old church in Mas
sau.street tor postoface, and for many years
drew rent for $40. 600 per annum. Then tbey1'
sold it for $3.50 600 and bought six lots in Fifth
avenue Tor $50 900, which are worth 5000. 900.
They als bought, about thirty years ago, four
lots In Lafayette place, on VIII oh they also
built cnurcn. For these lots they paid
$4,000. They now ask $40O OOO and will prob
ably get their price.
Two New York ladies stopped their car
riage On = crossing. One went into store and
the otBer remained in the carriage. Two gen
tlemen wishing to cross the street ordered the
coachmai, TO- nove on. The lady in the car
riage told him not to stir. On this one OF, the
gentlemen opened the coach door, and with
his boots and spurs stepped through the oar
riage. 3He Was followed by his companion. to
the extreme dsccmposure Of the lady within
as we'll as the lady without. To complete the
Jest, party of sliiors coming up, and rellsh-
ing the joke, scrambled through the carriage.
Ben. !" Pittnnan, the famous rhonographer +,
has just returned 70 Cincinnati from reporting
the Yerger trial at Jackson, Miss. He says
that 1T was by ali odds the most Interesting
and ,hor ugh he ever reported. The defence
had ENGAGED the best medical talent in the en-,
tire South to prove Yerger INSANE, and nothing
could be more elaboIative and exhaustive than
the efforts to establish that piea, MIR. Pittznan
believes that VI he had been tried beEoreany iury
in the country it would have acquitted YER
ger. AS II ls. he believes that the military
commission found HIM guilty and sentenced
him to DEATH sos.t, ~
We noticed sorne days sincs that ii was
proposed to es,ablish st Macon . Fertilizer aud
guapo m4nuaci ory. The Telegraph says IT.
has airead, been formed. and 1t asy proposed TO
PINT at the head OF 1t General pEilliam s.. Holki a
man ~ welkknown fnanoisl and sxacntisb
ability. spd planter, Sass,wel ss president of
the Sonsnwestern Raikoad.a itiis prot,sssss:
also, 70 nake' that well known agricusturis6,
chemist and planter. DR. N. 8. fendietoa. 81
sparta, inspector of 'shsF works Il sconeiderx-
ble araopRs q stock 10 sntes pr iss hss
a,seaay @ been taken Lake. ~ lsap ~ y .hs leading
"A queer Incident ocourtsd ssunder the linz
Den. !" 10 Frapkfort, spung weeks ago. "a brides
groom sWas missing when The marriage pro-,
cession fb'med, and, alter long search ras 3
discovered ~ the top of linden Nee Z, ,TAo
guests, the bride and hsr father ali assernb bed
beneath,s tpeseeohing hipa Ia sooms ssowp, but: