The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-13
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Cotton, in Liverpool, hast evenings closec
.quiot,s With sales Of 5000 balea. Middling 11ad
The mercury stood at niuety-six degrees
in The shadGat Tampa, Florida. last week.
The City Of New York slone gets ffty'
sevsa millions yearly from the South for life
Insurance.
San Francisco has an olive oil refinery. The
olives grow sbundantly in the southern coun-
Ties o. California.
-Gi hop Conolly, of Halifax, had an inter-
view with the Governor-General OF Canada
o. saturday, to urge the release OF Father
n Mahon.
The Paris Figaro intimstes that during
Pl ..;s recent tour her profigate husband lost
more of her money at rouge et noire than she
m le by her singing.
The British postoHace contemplates follow
ips American example by reducing tie rates of
. exspapsr postage.
Four years ago sanguins friends of the
PsoiAs Railroad predicted that the work might
he oomSleted in 1876. sti
I'm Nav York police captain has been
Led one tho 4sand dollars for al unjustilable
aslrulE 81 acitizsn. t.s.-.lra,:--.;i "a.
-Thefeport comes from Georgia that Grow'
o..c ,sorib,ans planted snoand n cotton aeh
vi. .;otect cotton from worms and other de-
e.-uctive insects.
-Last@eek President Grant presented his
fae black horse, 'Jef Davis 70 General Ca
pom, Con, missioner OF Agriculture, as token
otiriendBi3.p. .4talT f"r
Blaaue Bey, the. Turkish minister and
s.a6;.hapI engaged cottages atathe Virginia
Mh;:s Sulphur for the entire season, commend
In June 1st. I. m-:a..
6Dor Pfatt is in New York making arrange
rlsats ior the publication in book form. OF his
entertaining Washington letters to the Cincia-
matt Commercial. -
1t is probable that Oliver Wendell Holmes
win,write an ode for the opening Of the tnusi-
cal festival in Boston, which viii be sung by
ten thousand voices to the accompaniment Of
the great organ, and an orchestra Of thou
Sand Pieces.
nHsWy Hunter Craig (negro) has been ap-
pointed mail agent on the Montg omery and
West Point Railroad, and L. J. Williams (ne-
ero} mail agent on the Montgomery and Mobile
Railroad. L. 8. Berry, another negro. has
been appointed mail agent on the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad. fe 49,.
Chief Justice Chase has, ruled that the
government cannot collect income tax from
foreigners who hold our bonds, and that what
has been collected must be refunded. The In
terpaT Revenue Bureau is preparing to- carry
ont this decision, and several hundred thous-
and dollars will come out Of the treasury in
consequence Of It. '-i
Tho steamship China, Of the Cunard line,
running between Liverpool and Boston via
Qusanstown, Ireland, has recently made the
quickest passage on record between Liverpool
and Boston. The Chins sailed from Liverpool
on April 27, and took her departure from
Queenstown at p. NJ on April 49,, and entsr-
ed Boston harbor on the afternoon Of May 8,
after IN unprecedented run Of only seven days
and tWenty-tR9 and s-haK hours Her greatest
q psaa ON sngoue dagf WAS three hundred and
=reefata Ave eMIlee, snf she averaged fourteen
kpaSaSSobr u he way oyer~s on: q 1' 80. :.S y.
The Savannah Republican Of yesterday an
n5NX6SS that while George A. Bicktora, ths,
captain Of the American ship Ellen 8onkhard,
Was crossing the gin1gs plank leading ntom the
shipsIhsobald; ;'hs acoidently lost his footing
and taIint9 the river.S Whether he struck In
his descent against the side Of the ship, is
u41nnyD, but after coming othe surface he
wagtHsd56essful ihesn attempt TO. swim. the
tdSS&bis bead only. being visible, N this
pol4t4A4 second mate OF the ThSobald, and
6seph Mansfield, plunged into the river.
to saye the hfs OF the unfortunate mans Not,
withstanding, however, the most prsiseworthy
efforts ON their part. they we're unsuccessful in
the atptt; rfhS body Of Captain Bickford
wss subsequently recovered.
In eIpe6t 6tatfon OF the contamination Of
sRem onnsctson, the Central and Union Pact
fig Rxllusds hadimsds due arrangements to
accommodate the trade and travel across the
o@hipaut. The sfrst thing upon which they
had TO agree was, Of course, the rate ofpsssage..'
The respective officers Of the companies, after
cons1itation, have come to temporary under
stanaDE thats the fare from New York to San
francisco for en1iaraut snd secoad-class pas
sensers should be SIS, and for first-class pas
sengers $175. Concerning freight nothing
definite has yet been arranged. It is expected
that the hdp trom shore to shore can be made
nttom si& to seven days. For the present the
time sof running will be rather slower, as the
trick is new and needs ballasting:: The Union
Company. as also the Central, have each, it is
stated. over 2OO0 freight cars, and while the
first has over 150 locomotives the latter counts
100.
The New York Herald Of Monday, in its |
review OF the stock market for the preceding !
week, says: "Southern securities were gene.
rally steady and felt the agitation Of the gene
raj market less than the other commodities Of
the Stock Exchange. Prices closed on satur-
day evening as follows Georgia skies, S1AaS3;
do. sevens, ssla96a; do. seveDs, interest pay
able in Georgia, 94a95; North Carolina, e1 cou-
pom, 6Oaa6o2; do, new, 55a553; Louisiana
SKIES, 7sa7s3; do. leyee skies, 69tasss; do. do.
,efxhts. ssIa90; Alabama eights, 102a1O5; do.
fiyes, 67see; do. SKIES, sterling, IS bid; South
Osrolina skies. 75a77; do, new, 75s76; do. re-
sistered stock, 64as7; City Of Memphis SKIES,
bssS4; do. Atlanta eights, s5as0; do. Savan-
nah sevens, s2as4; do. New Orleans consols,
s7s7s; do. do. issued to railroads, 71s72; Mo-
bile-Ohio sterEngs, 6sa7Q; do. eights, 61s62;
Mississippi Central Railroad, first mortgage,
zos71; do. second, do, 5sa60; Memphis and
Charleston, first, S7a88; do, second, 75a77;