The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-29
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Gold closed at New York at S6sc.
The New York cotton market was qule
and firm. Sales 210O bales at 2S3a29c.
At Liverpool cotton closed quiet; uplandf
on the spot lid, afoat Hid; Orleans llaall3d
Sales 10000 bales. 5.s5s
-"I,ncoln Avenue" has been created il
Washington, by changing the name Of th'
thorouehfare heretofore known as -Four
and-a-haH street, - -. -
More than. one-ffth Of the order o
Jesuits are now in the United States, ant
the members Of other Catholic orders are
coming to this country in great numbers.
One thousand miles Of the Union Pacific
Railroad are now in actual operation, and onl.
two hundred and fifty miles remain to bt
built.
Don Piatt, Washington correspondent o.
the Cincinnati Commercial (Repubican), says
ssWe have no end OF rogues, and an equal num-
ber of asses in our organization. that would
steal the last cent from the treasury. and drive
ua to the devil"
The New York Board of Health has adopt
ed an ordinance fcrbidding the sale Of kero'
sene oi!s and other burning fluids unless they
shall take fire at one hundred and ten degrees
Fahrenheit and not evolve explosive material
at O. temperature OF one hundred degrees.
The Rev. MIR. Murray, young man re-
Gently settled over the Park-street Church in
Boston, startled his staid parishioners the
other Sunday by inserting petition in his
PRAYER that the Lord would also "bless those
middle-aged females in the congregation
whose youthful hopes had been disappointed"
The Rev John 'ott, of West Virginia,
has invented a camera IL taking photographs
Of the earth's surface from any desired height.
It is sent up by a ba loon, with clock work to
open and shut it at the right elevation, and
when il is pulled down the Photographic i'm
preston is done. 1t is thought it will be OF
great use in war.
The Judges of the United States Supreme
Court were in consultation on Friday and
Saturday, on the legal-tender case. The dis
cussion of the judges was quite extended, but
no decision has been reached. The consulta-
tion has developed the fact, however, that
thess will be two opinions prepared, but at
this time it is unknown upon which side the
majority opinion will be made. Future cou-
ferences will decide this and who shall be
selected to prepare the opinions.
General Grant authorizes the statomont
that he has not in any way, in conversation or
otherwise, made known his preferences for the
persons TO fill his Cabinet. He has uniformly
indicated that he would take ro action ca the
subject until after he shall receive official mott
fication of his election, which notification can
not reach him for about month from this
date. There is the same authority for saying
that General Grant las not intimated an opin-
ion as to what course should be taken by the
Senate relative to nominations made by MIR.
johnson, nor what Offices should be left in
allowance until after the fourth of March.
Commodore Vanderbilt says that the secret
of his success in managing railroads is econo-
my. He says: "If cannot use the capital Of
that road (New York Central for pretty nigh
$1,000 600 better than any one that has ever
been in it, then do not want to be on the
road. Il you have been running road,
and you spend nine or ten millions to run it,
i'll cannot do 1t for eight, and do il as wsll,
am ready to go from the road. That has been
my principle with steamships. Inever had
any advantage of anybody in running steam
ships; but if I could not run steamship
alongside OF another man, and do it az we'll as
he, for twenty per cent. less than it cost him, 1
would leave the ship"
An attempt Was made the other day in tho
House to secure pay for the members from the
reconstructed States for the full term of the
Fortieth Congress. The resolution, as drawn,
included only the Arkansas members, but was
equally applicable to all the rest. 1t reclted
the precedents ofthe Louisiana and Tennessee
members in the Thirty Congress, when
both States were also represented in the Con-
federate Congress, and the case OF tho Tennes-
see members in the Thirty-rinth Congress,
who were admitted during the second year of
the term, butreceived pay for the full term.
After numerous motions, the House evaded
responsibility of direct vote byreferring it to
the Reconstruction Committee, though no.
body could see what they have to do with it.
The latest ind most horrible form of sui
oide is that chosen by young girl in Dandy,
ILL.,, about twenty-five miles from Chicago,
last Thursday evening. She threw herself un-
der railroad train, which passed over her,
severing her head from the body, and throw
ing it several feet away, and also cutting off
one of her feet and crushing one arm. The
cause of tho terrible act is said to be the re-
fusal of the parents to allow the poor girl to
marry young man to whom she was attached.
A letter was found in the pocket Of her dress
directed to her lover, bidding him an affec-
tionate goodbye. The suicide was commit
ted after dark, and the girl apparently threw
herself under the cara instead Of before the
engicc.
New York has number Of "velocipeds"
schools. Each school has three classes-one
fer beginners, one for those who can ride
without tumbling every few minutes, and one
for those who are nearly ready to make their
debut in the street. These schools are we'll
patronlsed, and the managers are making
money. When the roads harden after the
spring thaws, the velooipedsstriaas will infest
every highway and byway. Already we hear
of somo clerks and merchants making their
way down town in the morning on velo ,ipedes
and by IL 1tMay We shall meet them coming
in from the country in the same fashion. At
lsaet ten fhousnnd who do business in New