The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-15
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better, but decidedly less active. Sales 5000
D. bales at 293o.
AT Liverpool uplands closed at 11ad. Or
leans. 112d. Sales 10000 bales.
DIR. Manning. Archbishop ofWestminster,
will receive Cardinals hat in the spring.
Mile. Nilsson is said to be seulptress Of
no mean ability, and the next Exposition in
Paris will contain a statuette executed by her.
The Bank Of Montreal was entered by bur-
glars on the 11th, the safe blown open, and
robbed Of $500,000 in Canada legal-tender
notes.
1t is said that the approaching Gcumeni-
cal Council, in addition to its spiritual func-
tion, will undertake to supply the Pope's tom
poral needs.
1t is stated that Rossini has left nothing
operatic, with the exception Of great scene
from Jeanne d'Arc" and o sketch for the
e'Faust' Which, some thirty years ago, he in
tended to write.
-Cut-throats, garrotcrs and desperadoes Of
every name and grade are tbronging to Cali
fornia in perfect shoals, as they are driven out
from the new towns on the Union Pacific Road
by the terror of fvigilance committees.
The first Protestant church on Spanish
soil has latoly been opened at Mahon, in the
example, the municipality of Barcelona sent
of it's own accord o request to the Protestant
inhabitants Of the city, inviting them to petit
tion for permission to found church OF their
own. The Protestant community Of BARGE
lo1a is not inconsderable. Apart from the
English residents there are some seven hun
dred German speaking people.
"A shocking affair took place in Lancaster,
Eng, recently. A woman named Jane Martin
was found by Dr. Hall, who had been request
ed to attend her, with her eyes closed, appar-
emily from repeated blows, her mouth horribly
disfgured from like cause, she herself being
in an insensible condition. She died on the
20th ultimo, without being able to give any ac-
count as to how she received her injuries. Her
husband has been apprehended, charged with
causing her death.
III spite Of the accounts Of the doleful con-
dition Of the Paraguayan President, Lopez, he
appears, after Ill, to be surrounded with luxury
in his present encampment. Buenos
Ayres paper says that tho commander of for
eign ship of war who lately dined with him
was surprised to soc the table so well provi-
ded; Champagne Cicquot Grown Port, Cha
teau Yquem, Leeville, and, in fact, all the best
wines were drunk on the occasion, while on
the sideboard was seen very goodly supply of
Iud and Coope's ale."
"A correspondent of the Herald recently had
"a conversation with General Frank Blair in
Washington. The General still holds to his
expressed opinion that General Grant will make
a dictator or an emperor Of himself before he
leaves the White House. His modest deport.
ment is simply deep Discrimination and one of
the m0aauraa a1wava y1oad hv ovo1,;t;or, ~ 10,
since Julius Cesar thrice refused the crown.
The country is already ruled by minority, who
demand the aid Of bayonets, and it will be easy
for Grant, with his military power, to make
himself supreme.
The Leavenworth Commonwealth says
white man named Hays was recently murdered
at Hays City, Kansas, by three negro soldiers
belonging to the Thirtieth infantry. The MUIR
derers were arrested and lodged in Jail prepar
atory to trial, but during the night they we're
taken from prison by the vigilance committee
and hanged to the nearest tree. Trouble be-
tween white and negro soldiers at Fort Larned
has ot CURED, a nd conflicts have become 80 fre-
quent and serious that the negroes had to be
removed from the post and escorted distance
from it,
Notwithstanding the recent decision Of the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the |
Mackonochie case, declaring illegal the kneel-
ing during the conservation of the elements in |
the Lords Supper, and the lighting Of candles |
FOR symb olic purposes, the services at st. AL |
bans, London, of which DR.. Mackonochie is
the incumbent, on the succeeding Sunday, we're
without modification. There were processions |
lights, kneelings and prostratons during the |
prayer of conservation; in fact, the service was
in no way altered. DR.. Mackonochie was tho |
celebrant. -
Two fatal occurrences are recorded as
having taken place in London on Christmas
eve. In Alfred-street, Barnsbury, party was
given at q house in which two young men
were lod gers. In the course Of the evening a |
slight quarrel arose bet ween the latter, when
one took 8 rifle which happened to be near.
and shot the other dead. In New Gravel lane
Shadweil, two men, who had always been on |
good terms, disagreed on some trifing matter. |
when q scnfie took place, and one OF them fell |
from platform sixteen feet in height, and
was killed Immediately. In both cases the de-
linquents were taken in custody.
"A band Of the Ku-Klux Klan made raid !
into Livingston, Overton County. Tennessee. |
on the night Of December 80. What partiou
lar object they had is not kno wn, but they left
after sharp conflict with perty OF ooiored
men, forgetting to carry away with them half
q dozen horses and their shrouds. The ne
groes claimed the horsesiAs trophies, and sent
them away for safekeeping. The Ku-Klux re-
turned on the night Of January 2, largely rein
forced, and demanded OF Mr.. Lewis, United
States Attorney, that he should inform them
Of the disposition OF tho horses. Mr. Lewis
did not know, and SO informed them. They
then exacted o promise from him TO ascertain
the whereabouts OF the horses, stating that
they would return. Some Of them visited the
town the next day, and were very threatening
to MIR. Lewis, who brought the news Of the raid
to Nashville. # s, N
"A New York letter says: "The passage
through the House Of the bin repeating the