The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-26
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sales 500 bales at 29}.
The Liverpool cotton market closed a
lid. for uplands, and 12ld. fer Orleans; sale
5000 bales.
The New York Herald says there arc mer
in that city whose profession is to serve OF
coroner's juries.
1t is proposed in Cincinnati to consolidate
several educational institutions and found
university after the German model.
There are fifteen cotton factories In North
Carolina, running 81. .112 spind!es, and turning
out 5000, 900 pounds of spun cotton yarn.
A Matchmaker in Rochester has just hn'
ished watch movement which Will run eigh
DAYS without winding. II has two mainsprinss
"A colony ci beavers have settled on the
Appomatto1 River, Virginia, and are cutting
down quantities Of shrubbery and young
trees.
The City of Norfolk has tried the expert
ment of lighting its streets with kerosene, ano
the papers down there pronounce 1t great
humbug.
The lecture profession is about "payed
outn in the West. The Fat Contributor, Mark
Twain. and Du Chaillu have been failures In
indianapolis.
The Wilder steam. street car, announced
some rson,hs ago in the Detroit papers, Is now
in sucoessful and regular operation on one OF
the tracks in that city.
Cairo, Illinois, still asserts its claims to a
brilliant future. Vessels are now, for the first
time. being loaded with grain OK that point for
direct shipment to Liverpool.
The news from Japan represents that the
Mikado had given most cordial reception to
the representatives of foreign governments at
that court. Tho East is breaking up.
The managers of the ''new movement" IN
Virginia have postponed the holding OF the
State Convention indefinitely The movement
NAV, therefore, b. regarded as failure.
Tho Tallahassee, Pensacola, and Georgia
Railroad is advertised to bo sold en- The 2Osh OF
March. The sale is ordered by the trustees OF
the Florida Internal Improvement Fund.
Boring for one Of the deep-water piers OF
the great St. Louis bridge has been common;-
ed. The foundation is to rest upon solid rock,
eighty feet below the bottom of the river.
AT Nlblo's one night last week, follow who
went to see 5he Forty Thieves raised row ana
got his money back because there were but
thirty on the stage by actual count.
"A negro, as bl,ck as coal, is practicius law
in Nashville with success. He was citizen OF
Illinois, but went to Tennessee because he
eould not enter his profession in the former
State.
They are after swindling milkmen in New
York, Four wero arrested Saturday, and had
eighty cans of their milk seized. They not
only watered their milk, but they did 1t With
dirty water They were sent to jail.
Louisiana and New Orleans both intend to
beg Congress to give them the valuable prop
erty occupied by the New Orleans branch OF
the United States Mint. The State wants it
for cspitol, and the city for courthouse.
Tho Boston Statehouse contains statue
of Washington, which bold critic, without
the fear Of Boston before his eyes, says ''con-
yeys to one who looks upon it for the first time
the una sthetic impression that it represtnls
man getting up in his night shirt and attempt
ing to light the gas"
The Chicago Journal thinks the Lord
Chamberlain of England has begun in the
wrong pact OF the theatre in his efforts at
dramatic reform. There are more and grosser
indecencies in dress to be witnessed in the
boxes of the aristocracy every night than were
ever seen behind the footlight6.
Tho engineers will soon commence the
survey Of tho Air Line Railroad from Whining
ton, N. c., ID Newbern, Washington and Ply
mouth TO Norfolk, Va. When completed ard
in connection with the Annamessic Line, 1t
will make tie time between Wilmington and
New York some ten hours quicker.
Advertising ingenuity has left little room
for novelty, but merchant in Newark has
CHALLENGED attention by lea:ing his space en-
tirely blank, with the following note. in fine
print, at the lotion: "This space was sold 20
A. E. Brannan, but as their business is suff-
ciently brisk already they deciue to use it."
still auotuer railroad luxury has appeared
in the West-silver palace rohlrt,0 cars for the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Road.
There is ''rotunda" at each end of the car,
with every possible luxury in the way OF seats,
silver-piatel el chandeliers, water-cooler, basins,
stoves, etc. Each car has twenty-four double
berths.
Tic London Engineer shows the insupera-
BILE difficulties Of tunneling or bridging the
English Channel. and proposes fast steam
floats, "to be one thousand feet long and one
hundred and twenty feet vide, double euders,
and each propelled by four screws" These, it
thinks, cou d make speed Of twenty-five
miles an hour.
The old custom OF coct-fghting, recently
revived, Is extending rapidly in Virginia aud
North Carolina. gran Gallo tournament
between the two States was recently held in
Norfolk. veteran Virginlan publishes card
in which he shows that the sport is improving,
and that eating tho eggs Of game chickens
makes men plucky. punctilious and sensitive
for their honor.
The Australian Meat Importing Company
recently gave public dinner in London to
,werkipg men and their families by way of adj
vertising the quality of the msat imported,
The7 had mutton pies, beefsteak pies, sewed
beef, sausages and potted meats. With the
exception that some Of the dishes wero little
salt. the meats differed but little from those
killed in England.
.-IR the entire programme OF Gilnloro's great
national musical festival IN Boston corresponds
with the following extract from it, Which has