The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

--G0lQ closed uuu aI Zlf.
S in New York yesterday cotton closed quiet
and rather heavy at 25Kc.
I'm Liverpool cotton closed steady and un-
changed; uplands 11Id; sales $4,000 bales.
.-G.lded stoves for drawing rooms are for sale
in Boston.
There are ninety-six different kinds OF street
payements in use in this country.
The Prince Imperial has smoked his first
cigarette and Paris is delighted.
The first cargo Of cotton that passed through
she Suez Canal came from Bombay.
James Mace has accepted Tom Aliens chal-
I, lenge TO fight for $4,000 or more side.
There Is said to be no doubt but that Victor
Emanuel was married during his recent illness.
"A daughter OF Professor Agassiz is in the In
sane Asylum at Somerville, Mass, monomaniac.
-TheNew York Commercial Advertiser shrewd-
iAsusgests that the suffrage be granted to all
WOMEN over forty.
Jenny Lind. Sims Reeves, Qhe great English
tenorl and Santley, are coming this season to
America. strong concert combination that.
The appointment of Rev. DR.. Temple as
Bishop Of Exeter has been confirmed, notwith-
standing the protests and arguments made
againstit.
Mile Artot, prlma donna, on the occasion
OF he. marriage, presented an unmarried sister
wish one hundred thousand francs, thns revers-
ing the usual order Of wedding gifts.
The title of Mrs. Stoves new book is 'The
True story OF Lady Byron ESabiished.'' 1t con-
tains some three hundred pages, and Will be
given TO the public at an early day.
Napoleon treated N. de werthern, the new
Prussian ambassador in Paris, with offensive
coldness at the audience in which the Embassa-
dor presented his credentials to him.
Mrs. Lincoln has returned to Frankfort for
the winter. 1t seems there Is not word of truth
In the story OF her intended marriage with Ger
man baron. She is living in retirement
Virginia granite, In dressed blocks, has been
shipped In large quantities from Richmond TO 81.
Louis, NO., to be used in building the piers OF the
steel bridge over the Mississippi River, at the lat
Ter city.
Altogether, 1SS, $50 Chinese have reached Call
fornia These are thus accounted for by the CON-
panles: Returned, 1898; dead, 1926; remaining
in the State, 4l,oo0; and the rest have gone into
other States.
-On the e5th, the Princess of Wales gave birth
to daughter Her Royal Highness and the in
FAINT princess were reported by the medical at
tendants to be doing well. There are now two
BOYS and three girls in The family OF the Prince
OF Wales.
The late Earl Of Derby left behind him for
tune of about 81, l,ooOOOo year. When he sue
seeded to his estates in 1851 they yielded him less
than q third of that sum. The increase is due to
the extraordinary rise in the value OF property in
Lancashire, where the Derby estates lie, through
the developments Of the manufacturing interest.
The Washington correspondents say that the
current inst now seems strongly in favor OF rails
ing the salaries OF the most important govern
ment officers. The idea is to double the Presl-
dents salary and largely increase the salaries OF
the heads OF departments and ablest clerks. Such
bin, however, will meet with determined oppo-
stIton In the House.
washington City is often represented as de-
hcient in trade and enterprise. Its stationers,
however, are the wealthest in the country, and
count their incomes almost by millions They
give gorgeous parties, live in splendid mansions,
and deny themselves no luxr which money can
purchase. All this arises from fat contracts with
the departments OF which they are tic happy and
successful possessors.
The Empress Eugene communicated with
her husband by telegraph two or three times a
day during her Suez journey, receiving the most
minute details OF domestic interest, and Ills
Majesty's remarks upon his entertainment at the
theatres he visited, and so forth. She telesraphed
complaints to the vlceroy from the remote points
In the desert which she visited, II her home dis
patches were more than two or three hours 10
reaching her.
Sing Man and Choy Chew, the Chinese mer-
sI.. 1ncf
established business relations with number oil
gentlemen here and in the West, and already
some Chicago houses have received consignmenss
froln them. The tea put up in one pound packa'
ges On the Chinese plantations and delivered IN
less than ffty days after it isshipped has already
become popular there and the demand for the
article demonstrates the fact that our trade
-teyestward to the Indies" will eventually be OF
I no mean importance.
& The "correct style for full evening dress" ia
announced TO be black dress coat, with velvet
collar and plain lapels rolling low. Ablack EN-
4 h,oidsrei cashmere Yest Is the most fashionable
this season, though white Narscilles vests are
I f,uch worn, cut low, to show three shirt studs
With rolling collar, and are In good taste
trousers are made OF fine black dees.in, cut
easy to the leg and with q good spring a. the
hotton. The shirt bosom should be neatly EN-
broIdered and the studs jewelled, small H'ahiohas
& 3being the most dressy. The tie Should always Dt
Witt, the ends little larger than In tue cen'r'