The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-31


season thirty-Rvo cents in this markot when
tho ordinary cottons wero WORTH twonty. four
to twenty-five cents.
CRUMBs.-A charge OF stealing o boat was
preferred against Charles Carr by G. s. Wake-
| fur and 81. May, aud heard before Magistrate
Bunch yesterday. Tho accused was required
| to gvo $500 security to appear before ihe State
Court tur trial.
There ara parties iu town trying to got ono
thousand hands to work on the Brunswick aud
Albany Railroad. and are Offering $50 90 a
month. They have in six weeks tmo secured
about only twenty-five out OF tho several hun
dred idle negroes in tho city.
There is street in Charleston called Seccs-
! sion-sireot.
| Catharine Connal!y and Sarah NJ. Norden,
white, wero fined SIS each. yesterday, for run
| ming around tho street after midnight for
whiskey. Their ploa that they woro in search
| OF it to give to sick child was ascertaincd
| to be false.
Several drunkards who had bsen drunk lately
were flued S. cach by tue Mayor yesterday.
One, who said it was his first and would be
his last drunk, was discharged.
J. D. Simpkins was fined $25 for having kcr-
oscne oil on his premises.
Council meets at eight O'Clock tonight
Somebody's axe has grown dull.
Several Meeting street merchants we're ar
raigned before tho Mayor yesterday for OBJ
structing tho sidewalk with goods. They
proved that they wero RECEIVING goods and
we're discharged.
IT. as is popularity believed, the Devil thrashes
his wifs when the sun shines during rain,
Mrs. Devil received frat class beating be-
twccn one and Two O'Clock yesterday.
The mammoth coffee pot at tho store of
MIR. McDuff Cohen, corner OF Hasel aud
Meeting streets, is attracting great atten-
tion. It is popular belle! among the juyen-
| lies that the coffee made in il this winter will
be distributed gratuitously.
| The officers OF the police force tried the six-
teen shooting rifles yesterday afternoon. The
firing was good, and the effectiveness OF the
| weapon clearly shown.
| An uninhabitel residence at the southeast
corner o. Hasel and Anson streets was burgla.
riously entered Saturday night, and q large
quantity Of lead pipe stolen.
negro boy trod on negro woman's dress
near tue corner of Queen and ArchdaIe streets,
| about eight oclo-k Iset night, an resulted In
his making hasty fight, followed by volleys
Of curses and brckbats.
Sarah Atkinson has had Constable Frank
Oliver, colored, arrested upon the charge of
false imprisonment.
Jacob Watson. colored, who wouldn't take
care Of his and his wife's baby, has given Sc
curty to do 30 hereafter.
Mr. HafkonscheiIl, who picked the locks of
the Customhouss doors when Collector Clark
n mi IN RI I,,it
last, complains that he has not yet received
pay for that little job.
Mayor Pillsbury gave n supper to the Alder.
mon and a few other Radicals last night.
That arrangement of 81. II. Collins & Co. to
furnish medicines and dlsiniectauts to the CITY.
is exciting considerable talk.
The Police bill. 1t ia expected, will go through
Council with rush tonight.
Alderman Barrow aud his wife will inost
probably be elected master and m atron OF the
Almshouse, at the meetlnl OF the AImshouse
Commissioners tomorrow afternoon.
The Mayor lias decided that the hogs living
above sh+pherd-street shall rest in peace, and
De allowed to grunt without fear Of boing ovor-
heard by officers Loyett and Trual.
The annual Convention or the SIC rcaptile
Cooperative Association will bo held on tho
9Th of September.
There are two hundred and twenty-five
streets, courts and llnes In Char!e ston.
II is reported that tho steamer Le@isbur
which, short time ago, while on her way
from Florida to New York with cattle, stopped
hero for water, arrived at her destination with
the cattlo so poor and diseased from lack of
food and water, that tho authorities would not
permit thom to be landed.
paper called tho FREELY. it is reported,
will be issued in Charleston at an early day,
and be devoted to showing up the peouliarlties
of such persons as make themselves conspic-
uous.
Six colored voters from South Carolina we're
detected whilo attempting TO register In Sa-
vanuah. ias
race between Savannah yachts took place
at White Bluff. near that city. on Saturday.
the winning boat, tae Avon, sailing eight
:nles in one hour and forty-seven minutes.
plantation on the Edisto was bought at q
sale about thIee weeks ago for $4,000, and IN q
few days thereafter was assessed at $22 600.
Another instance OF the beauties of Radical
rule.
II Clark was Mayor OF the city while the cleo
tion was being contested 10 the courts, why did
Council pay back salary to Pillsbury; II Ozark
wasn't Mayor, why did he draw hts salary as
such; II Pilsbury was Mayor, why did he need
sFesoutIon Of Council to secure his pay; IL
CLARK wasn't Mayor. can't he be made to re-
tund2 are the questions asked; but the only
answer is, that there was doubt about The
matte and the City Treasury got the benefit
OF it. by having $500 taken out.
The savannah Advertiser, IN speaking OF the.
ho
enough is due to the Savannah public to Rire-
them credit OF knowing what j., justly en- ]
braced under the head Of .'hrst clnas;" Ger
tainIy not such stars rs the .Vanes ;" &c. s4
A match game of bise bail. 'pia yed yesterday
nfto 1a,rr,or ft~of 11.,. n.,d rhs.