The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-02
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AT Liverpool cotton closed q shade firmel
Sales IL 900 bales. Uplands 121d.; Orlean
1921.
ers have struck.
Miss Rye has come out to Canada witt
another importation ofeighty English servan
girls.
The New York Herald calls the Pacif,
Railroad "The Iron Shroud of the Wild In
diam
China is overstocked with idols. Their
are three million Of them in half millio,
temples.
Only three thousand miles Of wire is re-
quired to complete the telegraphlc circuit O
the globe.
Freight on tea is two cents pound the old
way and hirteen via Pacific Railroad. from
China to New York.
"A $4,000 monuments being cast at Munich
for the graves Of Confederate soldiers inferred
in cemetery near Baltimore.
Chicago is sending out cards for q great
musical festival to be held next year, which
is to turn Boston quite green with envious
rage.
The French steamers are rivalling the bes,
OF English build for ewiftness. The steamer
New York in nine days.
Florida, it is asserted, contains over
seven million acres OF land lying along tho
coast from Indian River to Cape Sable. ad-
mirably adapted TO- the cultivation of coffee.
"A Russian naval squadron. under the COM
mand OF Vice Admiral Erbentoff, it is report
ed, has been recently sent out with instrnc-
tlons to visit the principal ports of the United
States.
The Reuter- Telegraph Company, it is an
nounced. has been awarded On indemnify or
$780, 900 under the law Of Great Britain. by
which the government has taken possession Of
the telegraph lines.
-Heed, carpet-bagger Governor ct Florida,
frames all the bills himself, and submits them
to the Legislature for their action. None have
failed to pass yet. and the simplicity of the
mode deserves attention.
Tho cotton mills at Oldham, England. were
thrown open on Monday, the 14th, with the
view or giving the hands an opportunity of re-
turning to their employment at the reduction
OF i've per cent. There was q very general re-
turn to work and everything was quiet. H..
ms" ->"v temuvrs..l, IN, Nova aoct;a
does not know to what country he belongs.
Ills father was rish and his mother German.
me was born In Canada, was naturalized in the
Onlted States, became q Confederate bv re-
bellion; and is by residence and attachment
Mexican.
a gentleman Is reported to have arrived
recently in Boston, from Madrid, who brings
special messages from Serrano, the Regent.
and Prin, the Minister of War, to President
Grant, announcing that The new government
intends to adopt policy tor Cuba that will
prove to be satisfactory to the people OF that
Island and OF theUnited States.
-Ihe advocates g. female suffrage have re.
~celved po~. ~.erful reinforcement. At their last
t..-Ag IN New York. the World says most Of
the ladies present we're young and pretty. IF
that is true. they need not despair Of success.
The worst feature Of the movement heretofore
has been that it's advocates consisted largely Of
middle-aged ladies in green spectacles.
The New York Times says: .'It is curious
to observe that our New York postofice al
ways Sends TO Europe much greater number
ofletters than it receives from that part of
the world. For the month of May it sent away
420,5 letters ana received 391 062. This
seems to show that the mass Of the foreigners
settled in this country write home to their old
friends oftener than the latter write to them"
Spain is said to be getting tired Of the
one Of the leading Spanish journals, makes O
strange statement. It says that agents OF th 9
government have been sent about to the news
paper Offices to tamper with the press. with a
view to obtaining It's advocacy for the sale Of
Cuba to the United States The Spanish cause
in Cuba is by no means hopeless, but the cost
OF carrying on the present desultory war at
such distance is too hurdensome to be longer
endured. The Spanish Government think they
may as we'll have good round sum for their
ine possession, and they have. according to
the indignant Imparcial, invited the press to
ges up an agitation on the subject.
The ice factory at New Orleans, situated
In one OF the elevators, is great success. It
consists OF six retorts OF chemical freezing
mixture. From these six re.orts six pipes de-
scend to sx huge chests. which chests in turu
raliate severalIy off into four compartments.
In each compartment are long, thin tin ca ca.
seven ON one side and eight on the other.
This making bv all the rules of arithmetic a
total Of fifty-six c,ses IN o box, and there be-
ing four boxes to o chest, and six chests to
factory, it toll 'ws that at full blast this South
ern ice factory can turn out 1874 cakes OF ice
eightesn inches long, twelve broad, and two
thick ct the completion Of each process. The
Ice 70 much colder than that frozen naturally.
and lasts much longer. Ths factory is q Joint
stock enterprise, and the property IL exceed
ingly lucrative
Tho Beefsteak Club OF London is dead.
For one hundred and thirty-aour years did it's
jovial members meet and eat together Moth
ing is immortal. however. and on the 7th OF
April Of this year the most successful eonvi-
vial society Of England became thing Of the
plAt During Its long existence, ,Sas matter
ofcourse. it's rolls had borne the signatures OF
many celebrated men, and it's cellars contained
aproportionate number OF famoHs brands Of
liquors. Aftersl 1emise OF the club all OF
tn remaining goods and chattsls, consistirg
chiefly OF old relics and the remnants or its
stock OF wines. we're dispersed far and wide by
the fatal hammar ~ the annta0naer. NAs might
be expected. fancy prices were the order OF the
day. One punch ladle, dating fror3 the year
1f2S, brought Ella; some OF the spoons reached