The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-14
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Cotton closed lower with sales OF fVV uaie9'
Niddling SSas3ac.
in Liverpool cotton closed dull. Sales 1000
bales at the noon quotations.
.-Nashyille is to have steam hydrauhc
cotton press.
"A New Hampshire paper has funny typo
,ranbical error. 1t speaks of reception given
Ren Rutler. when the band struck up HAL
to the thief"
last week raft Of lumber passed by Wi
mona down the Mississippi River, which mea-
.nred over three acres in surface, contained
? aDo 600 feet of lumber, and will be worth,
when il reaches ST. Louis. $4,000.
The latest discovery is that OF the German
Who announces that men are long-lived IN
direct proportion to the amount Of tax they
pay. If this be true, the prospects OF Ameri
can property holders for longevity are very
dat.eripe. and the life insurance companies
should at once reduce their rates.
in removing the roof Of the Presbyterian
Church at Lebanon. Kentucky, few days ago,
= four. inch Parrots she'll was found lying IN
tbe suace between the shingles and the plas-
terine. ON one side of the building. 1t is no
aoubt one fred from battery under the COM
rapd of. General John Morgan during the
Rrhtof 9Th July. 1853 The shell is still loaded.
The valuable cotton mills IN Manchester,
Va. opposite Richmond, the property OF the
James River Manufacturing Company, are to
be sold az auction on the 9Th of October. The
works were supplied in 1867 with new machi-
merry of English manufacture. The establish
nsent is IN perfect order, and work may be
resumed Immediately. The terms are accom-
modating and the investment good one.
information from Bourbon County, Ken
tucky, is to the effect that Colonel Fry, who
ki.s5- General 1ollicofer, was shot and mortal
" wounded by citizen, on Tuesdsy, the Oath
ofAugust. he had gone with two soldiers to
asarch citizens house, and was told that II
he persisted in doing 90 he would be shot. he
uers;sted in bis determination, aud was shot
vith n common shot gun as he entered the
,ata. The person who shot him ran through
Che house, se,zed o horse and made his escape.
Grants papa comedies Ohio to the Demo-
urnts. In o recent talk with reporter old
Jesse Grsnt said: sBut things are going to be
diffsrent in Ohio thus fall to what they were
disst. We amt going to have Presidential
aIectiop. and the Democrats aia't going to
VHsn tngy put gucn usspefats desperadoes on
their ticket as Seymour end Blair. have no
fears about the State ticket, but the Democrats
win be certain to carry the Legislature, on &C
count OF the Fifteenth amendment s"d negro
suffsge. II lived in Ohio wouldn't vote for
single Republican candidate for the Legisia-
sWe.n s.si-a
Mr.. Frederic Church's last large picture,
ssDamascus has been privately shown in New
York. The view is from aheight sever 81 miles
back Of the city, and the foreground is bar
rsu range Of hills, manly Of reddish gray
rocks, very warm in tone. The hill on the right
d brilliantly lighted by the sun. while the
smaller one on the left, on winch is goatherd
watching his Aock. is In shadow. The middle
listance is vast plain, with an abrupt transit
Acn Of color 10 the green Of luxuriant foliage.
Ariyer runs Through it. The city Is seen in
The distance, giistening in the sunlight, many
towers and mnarets rlslng above the clustered
houses. The sky, broken by clouds near the
koriso1, is said to be exqulsitely delicate in
color and AIRY in effect.
--Twopalntings by Gustave Dore have been
imported to this country and placed on exhibi-
tion IN New York. The most notable one is
composition, in colossal size, representing the
daughter Of Jeptha and her companions
mourning in the mountains. illustrating the
Sgth and Ssth verses OF the eleventh chapter of
Judges. The time is twilight, and the weeping
maidens, all in shadow, are disposed in relief
against luminous sky. The taccs, like all
Dore's female faces, are said to be remarkably
ugly, and there Is no fiulsh; no detail IN the
picture. This was painted only two years ago.
The eotber painting dates back twelve years. and
VAS done when the artist was only twenty
ihree years old. It is q seene from the Inferno,
sled With horrors, in Dore'a fayorte style.
The Prussian journals stale thst an ioe
and cold-prodncing machine has been invented
by n. Franz Windhausen Brunswick. The &C
Ton Of the machiue is based on the principle
Of producing cold and warmth bv the expau-
MON and compression OF atmospheric air,
which is accomplished by means Of mechanical
power. The machires require 20 chemicals,
ncthng being used in them but wa'er and at
nospheric ar. They may be wrought BY
steam, water or wind, and they produce from
100 to 1000 pounds Of ice per hour. according
to SEE, ct . cost OF from 81. to 81. per 100
pounds; this difference resulting from the vary
ing prices of fuel and the mode OF working
chosen. One Of their uses Is to cool rooms.
cellars, theatres, hospitals, compartments OF
chips. &c.
There is something like panic amongst
the holders of in, urance policies IN England.
The sudden fan OF one Of the largest OF the |
companies and the terrible anxietV and distress
u has occasioned. is one or the chief events Of |
The dull season. and one natural result Of the |
Discussion is the quick growth Of suspicion IS
to other societies. It Is allowed that unlike
nost business, insurance ma, be reduced 10 q
certainty and be 80 conducted that no acci-
dent within the calculation OF ordinary busi-
ness msn can. by possibility. aft ct the SOL
vency Of the company. Yet here is COMPANY
N winch "a 500 persons have invested the saw
ipes OF q life lor the protection Of their wives
and children, suspendng payment II many
vther companies follow IN the same route. 1t
viIl not surprse Us II life iusursrce tails into
lhe hands Of the State. Already one authority
- little given to sentiment. it Is irae-x K
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