The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-20
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In Liverpool cotton was fat, with upands
at 113a113d; sales 5000 bales. .
"A new revolving rife gun, capable Of being
dred five hundred times minute, is on exhi-
bition in SIN Francisco.
-" The wife Of man who died Of hydropho-
bia in Cincinnati has sued the owner OF the
dog which bit him for $1,000.
Madame Parepa Rosa has accepted an il
vitation to sing in the grand choruses of the
national peace jubilee at Boston.
The Washington oorre spondents say that
the ratification Of only three States is neoessa-
!; ry 70 make the Fifteenth amendment law.
IN. New York, all the year round. says the
Herald, spends on an average s1SO.OO per
week for musical and theatrical entertain
,ments. n4@.. "ro t, -
Petitions have been circulated along the
line Of the Southern Pacific Railroad, asking
Congress to nullify the land subsidy OF the
load, and open the land to presumption.
-Veloclpede tournaments have been Intro
daced in st. Louis. The exercises include
lifting at the ring. throwing the iavelin, fenc-
ing with swords and similar trials Of skill by
bicycle riders. +"t
John Russell Young, managing editor OF
the New York Tribune, has rendered his resis-
nation and it hse been accepted. It is under
stood that his successor will be Whitelaw
Reid, Of Cincinnati '~.>!'
One of the last fats on the Central Pacific
. r ilroad was the laying Of ten miles of track
in one day, and ono who timed the actual rate
Of work saw 240 feet Of rail laid in one minute
and fifteen seconds.
!. Id Hxa,,, "en Wade. Of Ohio, it appears, has
been appointed .; President Grant govern
ment director of the Pacific RanTsy. About
as good au Office pecuniarlly as that OF Presi-
dent, without its responsibilities.
"A man in Jacksonville. Fla. stole the re-
Gently laid cornerstone OF new Baptist
church. in order to get the silver coin and cur
rency closed up in it. The stone was carried
some distance, but the effort to get the money
an estimable and promising young man, who
held the position Of Auditor of the Seaboard
and Roanoke Railroad, was 80 badly burned by
the explosion of kerosene lamp at Norfolk,
last week, that he died next day.
Carleton, the New York publisher, has
lately purchased the Worth House, corner OF
Broadway and Fifth Avenue, standing on the
most valuable ground Of New York, and it is
reported will make it sort OF "home for re-
jeeted autbors.". He will soon have it full.
Senator Cameron's opinion about Governor
egance: "The only minister we OF .Pennsylva-
mia have (except . negro. who cannot be
voter in our Stately sad he, els q man set
= down for Russia, who ought to be sent to the
Lobos Islands, vice guauo removed" "a
/. Justice in Texas is still very rapid, if not
always certain. A black mare was stolen from
"a livery stable, and, after search, was heard
from in distant town. The proprietors sent
a 7n6o ,soTt o,,l 40
wards received q dispatch as follows :aitssYour
marei here; will bring her; thief hung" :.
"A gentleman in .Pittsburg, Penn, pub
fishes the following offer: ''I will donate
twenty-dollars for every passage Of scripture
where the immortality Of the soul is mention
ed, to any Church or Suuday-school the finder
may elect" His address is John A. Best,
corner Of Fifth-avenue and Tunnel-street,
Pittsburg. u 9H G.it nf
- "A visitor Of the famous Blue Spring, in
Florida. says the spring, which is half mile
OF 8 from the st. Johns River, is eighty or
ninety feet across and some fathoms doep. Il
: b6ils up vito such force that boat cannot be
rowed upon it. The stream which is thus
poured out makes river about ninety feet
wide and six feet deep. R
q Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, has par.
who, it will be remembered, was convicted OF
murder in the first degree and sentenced to be
ha ged Soon after the sentence public
half, the influence Of which was pressed on the
Governor until Saturday, when he yielded.
They have worn out q whipping post and q
piliory in Wilmington, Del, and have erecied
new ones o: most subs anita character. The
at bav Ra;k
ancient instruments Of punishment. They say
they keep ro9ues from coming into the state.
and save the people from the necessity OF re-
sorting to lynch law and vigilance committees.
"A jury in New York has given verdict
against telegraph company for $1,000, w th in
terest. amounting in all to about SO 600. for
failing to send dispatch promptly over The
wires to the address to which it was directed.
The dispatch direct ed the sale Of quantity OF
petroleum; but by It's non-delivery, aud conse-
anens non performance OF the business trans-
acuon. the plaintiffs averred they had suffer d
LOSS equal % the sum for which they brought
gu oui', :, anu wnloh the jury promptly aware ded.
-s'"s.iuel. y. iaDoG. young man residing
Ia Brooklyn. attempted to xiii 4. vonn0 laav
named Lizzie Scribner, who reaidas in The
same house, early on Thursday mornino ua
had professed ardent love for the vo,,rn,
but she discountenanced his advances. n
came homo at an early hour Of the night and
attempted to chloroform her while she was
asleep; but failing in that he shot at her twice.
injuring her in the head and hand. supposing
that he had killed her, he retired to his own
room and blew his brains out. A coroner,s
jury rendered o verdict accordingly. Miss
Scribner ls doing we'll, but her wounds are
serious. aH TE
Michigan papers state that young man
named George Denslow, living near Rome
Centre, in that State. dreamed ON tho night OF
March Is. that be was deaf aud dumb. and on
waxing was horritied to find that he could
neither speak nor hear. From that time till
tho 4th Of May, ffty-three days, he remained