The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-26
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Gold closed in New York at 36A.

Cotton il liverpool closed dull. Uplands
11ada11ad; Orleans 118da112d. Sales 10000
bales.
-"Bows, plenty Of bows, oil over bows," is
the last fashionable report from Paris. 81
--Rochefort's "Lanterne' is printed on thin
letter paper and sent into France as manu-
script correspondence, sealed.
The New York Customhouse clerks report
a dull business. The spring importatlons have
not yet begun. ID
f.-"Lady specuIators" are said to frequent
some OF the Wall-street stock milling broker
shops. s' 'N
The Tribune thinks the bill passed on
Wednesday by the House, "a Homeopathic
reform OF the Franking iniquity."
1T is said London firm has offered Ma
dame Rossini 1875, 900 francs for her husbands
ten posthumous compos itons.
General Grants favorite steed for horse
back riding is said to be beautiful black
pony which was taken from Dick Taylor's plan
tation during the war. u4.4t
Since the s'new movement" in Virginia
was inaugurated the quotable value Of its State
stocks has increased six per cent. If it sue
ceeds the advance will be still greater.
The pioneer settlers Of California those
who went there in 1849 contemplate an excur-
sion to the Atlantic seaboard when the Pacific
railway is completed.
-Grinnell, Iowa, has college where, out of
300 students, 200 are young women, and it is
trumphantly mentioned that no liquors are
sold in the town.
The s'belle Of General Grants administra-
tion' is already announced. A New York paper
says she is to be Miss Nettie Fenton, daughter
of the New York senator.
"A Cairo paper mentions lot of 800, 900
bushels of wheat as having passed through
that place on the way from Chicago to Liver
pool. 1t was to be shipped at New Orleans.
Spanish spies are complained Of in New
York, who watch the movements OF Spanish
families suspected Of sympathy with the Cuban
insurgents.
AS the Bishop OF Australia is Ritualist
the opposite party has seeded, elected q new
bishop, consecrated him and cut loose alto
gether from the old body.
Albert Brisbane, the we'll known Fourie-
rite, has bought large tract of land in Kan
sas for colony Of Frenchmen, who will cult
vate the land on the cooperative principle,
and also manufacture silk goods.
There is a grocer out West who is also
Justice Of the peace, and who offers to marry
gratis all couples who will patronize his store.
1.-The would give groceries free to all who get
married at his Office it would be more of an in
'ducement to matrimony.
There is at last b prospect of something
being done to put stop to the sale of the dan
gerous and destructive kerosene oil now COM
monty vended throughout the North. The
New York Board of Health have the matter
under consideration, with authority to act de-
cisively.
The largest clearance at New Orleans since
the war was that of the new ship Jane Fish,
Captain Brown, 1893 tons register, which was
cleared for Liverpool last week, with 1908 bales
cotton, weighing. 2, 1873 ss9 pounds, and valued
at $492, 800. The ship is valued at $l1O 900, and
the freight amounts to 9537O. 'n r
-Eugenie's brother-in-law, the Duke 81
Alba, has become bankrupt at Madrid, aud his
property has gone into the hands of q com
mlttee OF his creditors. It used to be the Gus
tom for Spanish grandee to pledge his NOUS
tache for the payment Of his debts, but the
,usurers will not now accept that surety. s
The warlike preparations in Prussia, in
terrupted since the commencement Of October.
have been actively taken in hand Cores
pondence from Warsaw mentions that all
the soldiers on furlough have boon re-
called, and two hundred roubles bounty are
given TO all the discharged men who re-enlist.
/ An Illinois paper tells the surprising story
that an amateur billiard player in Dixon lately
made run Of 14.O26 points on a carom table.
push shots barred. It is added tha. two hun
dred Of them were made in three minutes. fie-
teen seconds. BY careful computation we fi ud
that the entire humber, if made at this speed.
would have occupied upwards OF three honrs
fifty five minutes and twenty-nine seconds.
"A newspaper, called the Richmond Head
Ihght, Is published on board the steamer
Richmond, one Of the huge passenger palaces
which ply between Louisville and Now Orleans
II mas two compositors and one editor, and is
puphshed six times during each trip, OF about
three times q week. It is intended to be q
faithful exposition Of river life, affording enter
tainment for the passengers, as well as an adj
vernslng medium for hotel propretors and
merchants.
The smallpox is reported to be very seve,e
IN the Western cities. 1t is asserted that the
number OF deaths from THE disease has been
unprecedently great in Cincinnati. Smallpox
ls declared to be an epidemic in st. Louis; it is
scourg'ng Chicago, though nothing is said
about q 1t in the newspapers, and in Milwaukee
tne pubic schools and the rink have been
closed In consequence, and the shutting up OF
'neasres' concert saloons and other places
wnere large numbers Of persons assemble. has
been discussed. & MN 1-'.
-TheaBaitirnore Gazette says: .sThe present
andicas IONS are that ice will be q very scarce
article 10 this section OF the country d,,r;no
the approaching summer It is said bv those
engaged in the trade that south OF the State ~
Maine not ten thousand tons have yet been
secured. no ice having yet formed in tho
.noighDorhood Of Boston, the Connec iont or
Sortn hivers ht 70 cut for storage. Some pri-
vste individuals in the neighhorhood of .Balti-
more embraced the only onnnrtnnitp 4h.s ..