The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-22
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In New York cotton was dull and heavy,
closing at 23l; sales 1900 bales.
Gold fell to 404 but closed at All.
In Liverpool cotton closed quiet; uplands
III; Orleans liz; sales 10000 bales.
New Orie ans congratulates itself that it's
city scrip has come up to seventy-tivo cents on
the dollar.
The Sultan has publicly revoked tho law
forbidding Christians to enter Mohammedan
mosques.
st. Louis reports the receipt of an invoice
of teas, only thirty days from Yokohama. This
begins to bring the realities Of the Pacific
Railway before us.
Mr.. II. T. Holmbold, the well-known New
York druggist, retur as for this year an income
Of $152 205. All this comes from advertising.
Mr.. Hslmbold's expenditures for advertising
average over $4,000 week.
--Forney has been writing about Kennesaw
Mountain, which he says twas held by our
forces for many days against fearful Odds"
A captious critic reminds Forney that 1T was
the Confeder ties that held it, and 'our forces"
that formed the "fcariu odds.'
"A. T. Stewart pays taxes upon an income
of S.. .O1O 219, James Gordon Bennett s1SG 500,
Many other New Workers return incomes Of
hundreds of thousands OF dollars. A. I. Stew
arts income tax is $3.50 $40 90
The nearest approach to utility yet ma lc
in the velocipede business is that of an invent
or at Lanslngburg, Now York, who has arrang-
cd rocking chair seat to three wheeled We
hicle. Tho weight of the rider in the act OF
rocking propels tho machine at speed Of ten
miles an hour.
Another lot Of twenty-four Swiss immi-
grants have been forwarded by the European
agen: OF the North Carolina Immigrant Asso-
eiation. A dispatch announced their safe ar
rival-in New York, aud they were expected to
reach Goldsboro in a day or two. The COM
mittee authorized Hon. W. t. Dortch, ono of
their number, to distribute them to the mem
bers Of the association in Edgecombe and Will
son Counties.
A lawsuit in New York is bringing out
some interesting facts concerningefauds in the
teh trade. One Of the witnesses says that tho
marks on the packages are merely fanciful. to
attract the eye, and do not accurately describe
the quantity OF the tea. Some teas arc 'oa,g-
mated English Breaesos' Toa o,ie ,yDh ii
tea as that, as q tea, does not cAist. Tr'fs
eitht, Iouchcnp" q. SoFH G-a oGsssNSss class,
apGSS; icy ge%'ss II th- atrac lvo des' f@ton OF
'tEHGH2A1 ~Breakfa.t l,a" 70 dis ingulsh it
from "Cooog Ia fact, it is becoraing to be
pnderstood that toa-d4inkers are among the
creates: victims there are to the kind of rascal
ity in China which in this country is 81 extern
sively practlced by the whiskey men.
The secretary OF Che American Colonial
Gon Society, writing to he Philadelphia Led
ger in reference to the statement that the
number Of c'lored emigrants to Africa has fall
On off since the war, asserts that this diminu-
ton 1s only temporary, and has occurred only
IN the year 1868 He gives til, number OF emf
grants colonlzed by tho society in 1865 at 517.
In 1866 at G21 IN 1867 at G33, and in 1868 ut 451
making total Ut 1892 colonized in the four
years since the war. He asserts that in no
equal period Of the society's existence, except
one, have so many omigrants been settled in
Liberia The numbers sent during the We ars
named, it IS stated. gives but the smaller por-
Ion Of the persons who applied for q passage.
-Ihc new cab act passed by the Legisa-
lure provides that passengers shall be charged
Dut thirty cents for any distance not exceeding
q mile. forty cents being the charge for two
persons the same distance; the samo rate for
greater distances, fraction of O mile counting
always as mile. For any time not exceeding
an hour, single passengers seventy-f cents;
for two persons ono dollar; and for aIiy time
additional, for each hour or fraction OF an
hour, at the sam3 rate. The law requires that
cabs shall be statIoaed at any hour OF the day
Or night upon such streets OF tho cities Of New
York and Brooklyn as maybe ass i3ned them
by the Mayor OF clhcr city. ana no cab-drivor
Will be allowed to cava his cab at dcpos or
steamboat landings Until he is engaged by the
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