The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-08
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..-Goid in New York yesterday closed veal
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Cotton was frmer sales 1900 bales, a
sosc.s.5 e.,a .fa. Tic = g.
lin Liverpool yesterday cotton was firm
riddiine uplands 11td sales 1900 bales.
Colonel Mann, of the Mobile Register, is
Democratic candidate for Congress from Ala
banna. ,..., -...-
General Lee, whilst walking near Freder'
ioksbure, recently, had flowers s.rewn in his
path, by party Of fifty little girls.
Gan Antonio, Texas, promises to take hall
q million dollars in the stocked the first rail
road that reaches point within thirty miles
OF the city. a..,,a
Forty thousand beef cattle bound North
have crossed the Bra z0H River at Waco, Texas,
the present season. -Four thousand crossed in
two successive days. :. = =.
Baker and thomas, two negroes condemn
ed for the murder Of colored man named
Wade Oitcher, in Weldon, about one year
ago, we're privately executed st Halifax, N. c.,
on Friday last. no 90.
The International Boat race, It may now be
i!cs1rned, will certainly take place, as letter
hi, recently beerpesent BY the captain ofthe
Harvard Boat Club to the Cambridge Climb,
apo,oglzlng for the delay in ANSWERING, but
hoping thai silence has been copstrued .aa an
acceptance otthe chailenRe: hor '"s, 'aT -
GsTHs Norfolk papers record shocking case
OF homicide. The daughter OF Mr. John Muir
raw, stonemasou, was sednced bya q young
man named Alexander Perry. MaddenedI at
his srong, Murray made a desperate attack on
Pc.-y, who shot him dead with . double bar
rel gun. Perry delivered himself up to the au'
staorities, and caas released on bail.
1.-The BsidbFidse I aeorgia} Argus, OF the
9sth, says a, 81 There can bebs no:lopger area
sonablpdoubt that'the cotton caterpillar has
made its appearance in this section OF Geor-
Al. and Florida, and that its work Of destruc-
t;on has already commenced. We heard on
Monday that Colonel J.J. Williams, planting
ne.r Tallahassee, has a;feld Of four hundred
acres, in which were not many stalks OF cotton
that We're not either wholly or partially strip
ped BY this dreadful seourge."
The Oldest prisoner in the Massachusetts
stAtstpIariison is, George ,Hunnewell, who has
beeu7incarceraated twenty-one years. The
vxfdeA calls him s.the .Rip Van Wrinkle of the
institution" The other day, while the work
men were engaged in painting the oupola Of
the prison, he asked to. be allowed to 20 up
6N0k request was granted, and
Furnished With rau opera glass, :hel made the
saosnt. It was the first time he had looked
ont mon DON The vorld for twenty-one years. BE
.turned his glass toward his old home In Cam
bridge. "It is all changed" " was his only
comment. ~ i>f-.' '7'i7''I-
IN. Cheyalier ascended in 9 mammoth bal
loon near Fiushing, N. 7, q few days since.
He rose to heigth OF 1900 feet. He passed
through two layers OF rain clouds, and became
drenched to the skin, and then assembled to q
range Of white vapor clouds, which enveloped
him as in q deep mist. On rising above
them he opened into abroad sunlight, with the
thermometer at freezing point. The sky was
Of a deeper blue than seen from the earth, and
-tha white clouds below shone with dazzling
I ustretyHsIrbsso iwss aoTe peculiar con-
structicn. BypuHmhtK ropehe opened q valve
ztlthe toPS todPS tttres feet N diam ,ter. The gas
rushed out Sdd the Or was drawn in from the
.nsscx, ia4aa incKss wide, which in all balloons
sissl&sysepsu,er rThSloRes part ofthe balloon
= than Collapsed and struck upward, forming a
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