The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-20
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1900 bales at 1884,.
Got ton in Liverpool closed dll; uplands
112d; float 113d; Orleans I'D.
An Ohio inventor applies for patent on a
snor ing preventive. It consists in an applica-
tion Of q oothes-pin to the nose.
The Chicago Evening Post, by way of an
nouncing the PAL don Of DR.. Mudd, informs it's
readers that ''Mudd is clear"
The New Workers. are now complaining of
adulteraLed funerals undertakers furnishing
block tin in lieu of silver for coffin plates:
The huge OK General Grant has been re-
prieved. Instead of being killed he is to end
his days on General Grants farm near st.
Louis.
-"Flirter" is a new verb in the French lap-
guage, from the English ''flirt." proposed
definition is ''the boundary limo between friend
ship and love-
The pork packers of Cincinnati have made
a clear profit OF So 100000 this season, the
greater part Of which, Of course, has been
drained from the South.
The members of the Wisconsin Legisla-
ture, it s said, blow out the gas" and .'eat
their mucilage," and correspondent hopes
they will soon learn better.
- uo New NeHduO uaSShCIo mas ucTGlOp0O
son.o atter-day martyrs for religions sake.
The natives captured by the Maori rebels were
offered their lives if they would bow down to
the Ha.han goa, but they refused and fifty OF
them were put to death.
- The friends # General Sherman have pur-
cha sod The residence now occupied by General
Grant on Istreet, New Jersey avenue, Wash
ingson for $65 900. and intend presenting 1t to
him directly after he becomes GeneraI-in- Chief
in place of the President elect
"A pin manufacturing com pany in Connecti-
cut manufacture nearly seven millions OF pins
per day. Tie number put Oh papers last year
approximatCs the enormous SUN OF 1900, ,OOO,-
900. OF more than enough to supply every hu-
man lAhab itant of the globe with pin each
-Iho Chinese have a remedy viii Gu they
say is a sovereign cure for colds. They regard
1T as a breach of good manners for any one to
appear in public when he is liable to cough or
snccze, because nothing would be easier than
to cure himself at once by taking drug which
they call TO guam aokidn, and assert o.be a
certain specific for a cod.'
Nj. Johuson's nomination of General Dent !,
General Grant brother-in-law, to be Minister
TO Chill is strange movement. Nobody un-
derstands it. Some say he meant it as q joke
others as O pcace offering to General Grant
others. again, as q blow at Fitzpatrick. Dent
declines positively. Xii. is triumphant, and
what MIR. Johnson meant is still mystery.
President johnson intends, shortly after
he goes OUT Of Office, 10 make visit to Europe.
The offer OF a passage was lately made him by
one OF the German lines of steamers, and the;
offer was ccepted by Mr.. johnson. 1t is his
purpose, Immediately after the 4th Of March,
to make a brief visit to Tennessee with the
view Of orr angling his affairs, and he will sail
FOR Europe about the first of April.
The Emperor Of the French is said to be
more embarrassed by his private indebtedness
than even previous to the coup detat. Both he
and the Empr ess have been living for the past
fifteen years far beyond their means, and all of
Eugenie's private property heavily mort
gagged. She never thinks OF the rainy Ciays
which may be in store for her in the future.
but is as extravagant as if the French exche-
quer were inexhaustlble, and the Imperial oy-
nasty not founded on sand, but sure to reign
for centuries to come.
"A neat specimen Of the slashing STYLE in
literary criticism is the following notice Of
Captain Clayton's Look on Spain from the Pail
Mall Gazette: ''Not worth the trouble of cut
ting the leaves. An utterly uncalled for ac-
countof rapid railway Journey right through
from Havre to Valencia, with snatch at the
BaIearic Isles, and q dash home by Barcelona
and Perpignan. The mere idle scribbing of q
chattering traveller on beaten road, doing
towns in the intervals allowed for refreshment,
and eking out his original matter by hashed
guidebook. Occasionally vulgar, often flip
pant; generally silly, always stupid"
Louis Philippe. in 1640 by permission Of
the British Government, removed the remains
Of Napoleo., from ST. Helena, aud deposited
them, on December 10Th Of that year, in the
Hotel des Invalldes. On January 2Sth last, the
French Senate bad before 1t two petitions call.
ing tor the removal of the remains of Louis
Philippe from England to France. The grounds
brought forward in one Of these petitions we're
shat the late king had brought the bones of
Senate rejected the petitions, laying down, shat
the plous duty Of restoring these noble ashes
to their native soil belonged exclusively to the
family Of the ilustrious dead" "
Captain DuohesBe commander OF the
steamer Pereire in her late disastrous voyage.
commanded III 1854 the little steamer Vesta,
which colided with the ill-fated Collins steam
or Arctic OFF the banks OF Newfoundland. The
Vesta had great hole knocked 10 her. and
seemed destined to sink; the passengers and
sailors few to the boats, but the captain, bran
dishing an axe, declared he would fell the first
man who embarked. This bold act re-estab-
lished order. the cargo and ballast were Cur
,ried aft and brought the ship upright. again;
with rAnoh trouble and r3atienoe the ho1a nm q
temporarily mended, and, thanAs to extraordi-
nary care, the vessel Was brought safely into
the port Of St John, Newfoundland. BY this
time the unhappy Arctic had sunk, with three
hundred people on board, Captain Dncheshe's
conduct won him the Cress Of the Legion Of
HONOR
More than fve thousand persons were
present at the mass meeting Of Irish otizena
at Cooper Institute, New York, on Tuesday
night. Mayor Hall presided and made d very