The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-07
NEWS SUM r z.

12ia12ld; Orleans Ria123d.
"A tunnel under the sea, from Scotland tt
Ireland, is proposed.
Tho only State out of debt is Iowa. Sht
hssis, ,oes. 900 surplus. 49,.
The theory OF velooipede riding is "strad
Gle, paddle, and then skedaddIe."
Punch thinks the 'bsst check for pauper-
ism" is zone Of George Peabody's."
Female notariss public are coming into
fashion in Missouri, as we'll as in Iowa.
Miss, Lizzie Van Lew on. Thursday enter
ed upon the discharge Of her duties as Post
mistress OF Richmond. :.
IA Portland druggist has this cheerful invi
tatior in his show window: s'Come in and gel
twelve emetios for one dollar" =.
yellow fever is raging on the Chilian
coast, and psymasler Cushing, OF the Iusia'
rora,sis among the recent victims. .ra = Il
The Buffalo man who made the s2O0 pair
OF boots for the President, now swings
sign, ,y.:Bootmaker to his E1cellency o. 8.
Grant
james H. Bunce, independent Democrat,
has been elected Mayor Of Louisville, KY,
over John G.. Baxter, the regular Democratic
nominee.
The revenue of the; Atlantic cables is now
$500 in coin per day. Every reduction OF the
tariff so far has largely increased the receipts
and r-odts.
---Juigs Carter has left Cincinnati for Wash
inpton with a petition for the release Of the
Fenian General Halpin, now confined In brl'
tish prison.
According to an English astronomer, the
temperature Of the moon varies alternately
from tlat Of molten load, to that OF frozen
mercury Nice climate.
Hon. Horatio Seymour is still at keokuk
Iowa, laid up by the injuries he recently re-
ceived by the railroad accident near Peoria, Il
linois. -
-Tilton's Independent says that Grant
"cares for no great idea," that he is "hfted to
a statior which Is one placed too high for his
genius" and that the Radical party twill sra-
duslly grow weaker and weaker, and their
opponents stronger and stronger"
Reports from Japan show that the per-
secution of Christians goes on in some parts
oH-that country with great vigor. Late let
ters state that on the Goto Islands hundreds
of Christians have been imprisoned and tor
tured, and many dying after great suffering
A novel tournament is to come of in Chi
cayo some time in May. The Chicago Butch
ers' Society offer solid silver belt, with
buckle of soil gold, to the butcher who can
kill and dress an OK in the shortest time. Ths
belt ia a very handsome one, and costs nVe
hundred dollars.
-aOf all the Bourbon Princes and Princess
es now in Paris" writes the Paris correspen
dent of the Turin Gazette. ssthere is only ont
who. if suddenly deprived of his fortune, coult
make good living by his own merits. 1t
Don Sebastian, the Infante, who is a capita
portrait painter"
TO show how our ocean commerce is dWlnd'
ling away, it may be stated that in 1857, out o
value of $3.50, ,OOO, ,OOO0 carried to and from
our domestic ports, only $ls1. .0o0.0 900 went un-
der foreign flag, whereas. in 1867, out ol
$s74,OOO. 900 at all the ports, $577, 100000 were
carried in alien vessels, aud last year the pro-
portion against US was still further increased
Tho bill to amend the Judicial system
the United States, having been amended b1
the House, is now being considered by tht
Senate Judiciary Committee, who will probabl!
report it with soma further amendments, bu
in such shape as to secure the concurrence
of both Houses. In anticipation of its passage
there is quite a lively anxiety among the lega
fraternity throughout as to the prospective
occupants OF the new judgeships it creates
For the additional Justice of the Supreme
Court, ex-Attorney-G General Evarts is promi
nsntly mentioned. For tho fifteen Circui
Judseships to be created, there are no end tc
eminent lawyers who will be willing to serve tn
government in that capacity. For the new
Circuit Judgeship Of New York, e1-senato
Harris, of that State, is most prominent!
mentioned.
The New York Tribune says: Mons.
Chevalier, the distinguished geronaut who latel.
arrived in this city for the purpose OF making
a balloon voyage hence to Europe, has LEASED
Landmann's Park, Sixty-seventh street ant
third avenue, where he will mako several as
cents during the next two months, prior to hi
fnal departure on his great transatlantic voy
age, which will be on the S1st day OF July
More than one hundred applications have beer
received by NJ. Chevalier from persons desiroui
to accompany him on his perilous trip. Th'
price fixed for the passage is $3.50, and not al
who offer themselves at that price will be ae
copied by the Professor as canapagnons d,
uoyage, as he wishes to take with him only
such persons as are capable, through menta
and physical qualifications, of assisting hun il
his scientific observations, for the sake O
which, chiefly, the daring project is undertaken
There is woman in Cleveland, Ohio, whit
has had seven husbands within the past eight
wears, Within week after the death OF th'
first, she united her fortunes with man WIT
soc. lost his life in a street brawl. Returnin'
from the funeral she accepted the proposal o
third, and the next day was legally married
to him. But it appears that husband No. va
not the man to suit her ideas, and she soo1
after fled bill for divorce, which was grant
ed her, 4 few months elapsed and No.
pledged himself to love, protect and care TO
her. This mai riage also proved unhappy 10
both parties, and again the courts interfere'
and dissolved the tie which bound then
together. Ia May, 1857, No. 5 Was smittel
with her charms, and after short courtship
priest slipped the marriage moose over hli
head. and he became the lord and master o
her household effects. Two months they hVec
in peace, but at the end Of that time the w!ft