The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-05
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be very proud of their new uniforms.
Bon. John T. Hoffman, the new Governor
of New York, and Mr.. Fox, the new Mayor
OF Philadelphia, were inaugurated on the first
Time and vegetation have almost oblite.
rated all traces of war from the Spottsylyania
battle field in Virginia. including the once
formidable earthworks.
The announcement being made that quan.
titles Of American whiskey are sent abroad and
returned as "French brandy" the Boston
Post thinks people are lucky who get brand.
(which has seen France in any shape
The earliest notice of the Grecian bend ap-
pears in the following passage from the
tenth book of the Iliad:
'1sLo here the wrcichel Agamemnon stands.
The unhappy general of the Grec,an bands,
Whom Jovc DEGREES with daily cares to bend
Galveston, Texas, it is reported, has Is 900
Inhabitants. It has six hundred business
firms and six lines OF steamships, five of sail
ing ships, two banks. six private bankers, two
insurance companies, and three cotton press
companies.
"A young lady who teaches music in an
academy il Western New York, sent an order
to publisher recently, in which she had spelt
the words very badly. She apologized by add
ing postscript as follows: You must ex-
kews this letter, as I pa hi noat, but spell bi
ear'
The Louisville Courier-Jou ournal gives all
account of q young lady near Hickman, Ken
tucky, who has spent nineteen of her twenty
seven years in sleep. She wakes freq lently
ten or twelvo times q day, but cannot remain
awake more than ten to twenty minutes at a
time. Her appearance is said to be rather pre-
nd oha 10 into NJ
aud well informed than would be expected
from ono in her condition.
n The Boston Journal has found the follow
ing about its ancestors in an old book printed
in 1899: ''Thc Inhabitants seem vcry religious,
showing many outward and visible signs Of an
inward and spiritual grace. But, though they
wear in their faces the innocence of doves, you
will find them in their dealings as subtle as
serpents. Interests is their faith, m oney their
god, and largo possessions the only heaven
they covet."
The new postal convention recently con-
cluded between the United States and Great
Britain went into operation on the 1st instant.
It establishes q postag, on letters Of twelve
cents per single rate of half ounce in the
United States, and twelve cents in the United
Kingdom, prepayment optional. A fine of five
cents in the United States and four in the
United Kingdom WILL however, be levied and
collected in addition to ,the deficient postage
on each unpaid or insuffciently prepaid letter
received by one country from the other.
BY divine command, communicated through
Brigham Young, ali the sanity shopkeepers of
Salt Lake arc now obliged to surmount their
signboards with @ mark Of their faith. This
consists Of ON arched Inscription, holiness to
the Lord" with the AllSeeing Eye in the cen-
tire. Mormons are instructed to trade only at
thsse 'bull's eye Shops" as the Gentiles irrev-
erently call them; but it is limited that the in
junction is very lightly needed, though the
penalty of disregarding it is being cut off from
the church.
"A Washington letter to the Baltimore Ga
:zette says: ''It is probable that compro-
mise measure in the nature of national legis-
lative exposition OF the meaning Of certain ar
ticles and clauses Of the Georgia Constitution
will be passed by Congress. This act will in
effect declare that, by the true intent and
meaning OF that fundamental instrument, ne
groes have the right to hold and enjoy ell Offices
OF profit and honor in the State, and that this
right shall be enforced by the Governor with
the power of his negro militia, aided, if noces-
sary, by the bayonets oP.the Federal Govern
ment. AS old Mr.. Hill and all the State off,
GERS were elected before the negro legislators
were expelled, and as the election OF the pres
ent delegation in the House could not be ef-
5fected by their expulsion, there will be less
need Of stirring up things--especially as the
other senator is of Democratic persuasion, and
easily disposed OF O. la Senator Thomas, oi
your State. So predict that Georgia will not
be re-reconstructed."
Dan. Bryant, Of the Ministries, tells Of the
most complex family ever known, something
in this wise 81 married young widow, who
lived with her step-daughter my father short
II after married the step-daughter. My wife
was, therefore, the mother-in-law and the
daughter-in-law OF my father. am the stop
father OF my mother-in-law, and my wife's
step-laughter is my step-mother. Well, my
etep-mother--that is to say, my fathers wife
and my wife's daughter.-had son. He's my
step-brother, OF course, but being the son OF
my wife's step-daughter, my wife is, OF course,
mis- grandmother, and am his grandfather aa
= we'll as his step-brother. My wife also had q
boy. MY step-mother is consequently the STEP
sister OF my boy and also his grandmother,
because he is the child Of her step-son. md
! my father Is the brother-in-law of nv son.
= who is the son OF my step.mother. am my
mothers brother -in-law, my wife il the aunt
OF her own SOD, my son is the grandson of my
Gather, and am my own grandfather"
The New York correspondent of the Chica-
II 80 Post thus writes: sour people were great
~ surprised at the rumor that the Rev. DR..
\ Osgood, ofthe Messiah Church, had resigned.
He occupies one Of the most costly and com.
manding church edihces in New Tork. lie
has been in New York nearly twenty years.
Succeeding DR.. Dewey in 1919. he at once took
rsnk among the foremost preachers Of New
York. Removing from the lower part OF the
oity. . church sdifce costing over $25O, 900 was
erected, aad has just bsen consecrated. The
hnancial troubles and reverees have embar.