The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-01
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Gold at New York ranged from Sit down
TO 29la2Si, closing at the latter price, Tho
sabsTreasury sold one million at SoaS1.
The Now York cotton market was fully
one half cent lower. Slles 1900 bales, at zig
cents.
70 Liverpool cotton closed dull; uplauds
1911; Orleans 1911. Sales 5000 bales.
Large gold beads, strung on blue veiSee'
are the latest fashion.
= There are. $1,000 children in the public
schools OF New York city.
New York city pays more taxes than all
the rest of, New York State.
,l-8oston has only sixty-seven men to hVe
hundred andsixty.6ve women among her teach
At A. T, Stewards store in New York
tvsnty $4,000 shawls have;been sold this season,
and one worth $500.
The Chicago Medical College has opened
,Vid. its door TO the sdmission Of womanklnd,
and hereafter female stadents Will be adml6eeo
( with all privileges OF men.
! Adams Express Company ycompels all agents
ana employees toeput up their photographs at
,abe general otHce, so that in case any OF them
srun the detectives can identify them.
in New Orleans is large oak tree, around
which has been built . dwelling, so thst the
trunk OF the treeisnlcely housed, while Its top
completely covers the work. OF the eccentric
builder. etI ~
~.-onthe ADJOURNMENT OF the Grand Lodge
ofOld Fellows, at San Francisco. yesterday,
Grand Sire. Farnswortb was presented with
diamond ring set in gold from the filings OF
the last spike OF the Pacific R,ilroad.
DR.. Olersoy has published in French
medical journal IN account OF complete cure
OF a bad case CT eonsunptibn by the use OF
arseniate of soda. He gsve six miliigrams
day for twenty consecutive days, then cod
liver oil for sixteen days. and then returned 10
the arsenic. A correspondent Of an English
papsr which published the account writes to
cav that dilutions OF arsenic have long been
used by the homeopathic school in pulmonary
diseases. .-.,....,s
An authority who il, or thinks he is, in
che sscrsts.of the prison house. tells rs that,
afsef all. play viii go on, and the rooms OF
Baden remain open nd tganitans that is, so
long as & desire for play exists in the human
breast; and that desire seems likely 10 con-
sinue. ii Is true that tt has been resolved to
put stop to public play. and that will be done.
A ''frsnc' entrance will be -barged for the
rooms, and then the play becomes 'prlvate,'
and thu "kursaal1 kind OF cheap club.
Z; o. The Saturday Review states that the
English Government has appropriated 4l0.5O0
to equip expeditionary corps to'bs sent out to
various parts Of the world t, observe the trau-
sit of Venus across. the suns dlsc in 1874, and
thus aid in the solution Of the problem IN
which all humanity is indirectly interes ed.
The problem which has to be solved, which the
Astronomer Royal has well called 1.-THE noblest
problem in astronomy" is the suns distance
from the earth.
Wild beasts ara counierfsited in India in
order to get the bounty paid by the govern
ment for their destruction. Tigers, bears and
leopArds are mlde to 60 as far as they oan.
First, the skin is sent 10, with skull or WOOD
itted into the hes1;~ secondly, tho real skull
is brought forward; and sometimes. as thru
source, the real tiger or bear is dispensed with
sndthe skull Of hog or iackal is rendered,
provided with false teeth and covered with pig
skin, moulded on real tigers head. Some
Of the monsters were boasts Of straw. The
skulls are now ordered TO be smashel and the
skins TO be sold.
The Swiss government is i'll disposed to
take up the case Of the Frankforters who
thought to escape military service by nataral-
izing themselves in s 'iss canton. while con-
tinuing to reside in Prussia Public opiuion
in Switssr1Nd decides that the federal govern
rnent cannot protect such tactics. The trade
In letters Of naturalization has, consequently,
been checked for while. But the military
service oxasuerates the people and leads to
wholesale emigration. Rob Or poor through.
ont Germany are subjected to bona fde en-
.roiment, whioh cannot be evaded even at the
peice of gold. Tho wealthy are furious at the
loss OF their privilege, and the poorer classes
.curse the Oe ,ariau regime Of which Prussia
has set the example.
The Indian papers state that the MaharaJah
OF Travaucore is about to perform the ,re-
mony OF Thoo.oparum. The process consists
of his Highness beng placsd in 'ne scale with
an equal weight OF gold iu the other. The
gold thus obtained IL afterwards distribu' ed
among the Srahmins according TO each ones
privilege, and It 10 only litter the ceremony tn 1t
his Highness is supposed to be sanct'fied.
There is another ceremouy which consists IN
his Highness passios through the belly OF
COW uof gold; this is termed Erniagherpum
This it is proposed to celebrate next Year. Ii
Iis feued that thess cos,ly Ger m )nies. oom-
bined with the coming MoorIebum will absorb
.agood portion OF the surplus revenue OF the
State.
ysc--h wes announced some time since that
musical festival ON tho model Of the Peace
Jnbilee wa. 60 be eiveu at the London Crystal
Palace. TIE festival took place fortnight
since, and vas 20 grelt success that it is to
be repeated. The chorus numbered eight
thousand vohces, being the largest number ever
gathered together 10 England. The Official
statement OF admissions to the festival showed
that SO 4SS ,persoos atteu Jed as auditors. Il
was organizsd by the Tonic Sofia ASSOCIATION
.xndgatueeed representatives OF one hundred
and four classes. The mu 'ic performed was
largely drawn from the pro, anime OF the
r,.,,, pasre JubIee. 81. Oliver Wendell