The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-13
NE VS. SUM M-IR 7.

All showcases and protrudlng signs on
Broadway, New York, are to be removed.
The heirs Of Noah Webster are said to re-
ceive SIS. 900 annually from the sale Of his die
tionary.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, CON
tains bride who shines In $150.000 worth o
diamonds.
But two of the seven members Of Grants
original Cabinet have ever been in Congress-
viz: Messrs. Creswell and Washburne.
An estate of $500 was lately settled in Os'
wego County, New York, In which the lawyers
received $4,000, and the heirs-at-law the rest
about $50 apiece.
The "Prohibitionometer" is an instrument
invented in Boston, by which moderate
drinker" can tell when he ceases to be sober
and is getting drunk.
"A daughter OF Captain Wirz, the Anderson
vile jailer, is governess in an English noble
mans family. She is reported to be an &C.
complished and refnel lady.
The leading velocipede manufacturers of
New York and New England have mado agree
ments with the Hanlon Brothers to pay them
IS royalty on each machine for the use OF their
patent.
= ~-Bya recent experiment instituted between
Boston and San Francisco, it has been found
that electricity travels at tho rate OF six thous-
and miles in something less than sixty seconds
of time.
-Auerbach, Speilhagen, Clara Mundt, and
Hans Wachenhusen are the leading names on
the petition addressed by German authors to
General Grant to recommend to the next Con-
press the adoption OF an international copy
right law.
The American Shipmasters' Association
in New York has granted certificate to Cap
tain George Brooks, colored man. He has
recently successfully navigated vessel to the
coast Of Africa and back, and is said to have
been the first colored man who has received
the certificate of the association.
The question of admitting negroes to full
fellowship in the Sunday School Union is now
being agitated in WASHINGTON. The matter
was broached at meeting Of the Union Mon
d,y night, and after somewhat bitter discus
sion it was postponed until q future nesting.
It is feared that the result will he the breaking
ND of one OF the best Sunday School organiza-
lions in the country. One Sunday school has
already withdrawn from the Union, and others
threaten to follow.
IT is asserted by the New York journals
that Il the increase Of rents in that city con-
tinues, New York will, in short time, become
/. q residence for two classes at tho extremes OF
the social scale-the very poor huddled in
-tenements, and tbe very rich living in lu1uri-
ous splendor. II is stated that an immense
number of persons are driven out OF the city
every first of May by high rents, and that
further rise this year will compel between fifty
and one hundred thousand more to seek cheap
er houses in the neighboring towns. These
emigrants are taken from the very best classes,
that is from persons Of industrious business
habits, but possessed of limited incomes.
The New York Sun says :"For some time
past it has been known by few that Mr. A. T.
Stewart has meditated charitable enterprise
on colossal scale. 1t ls intimated that it will
eclipse in magnitude all other instances of pri-
'yate munlfcence, and will operate in direo-
tion where, more than IN any other in this city,
helping hand is needed. MIR. Stewart pro-
poses, in word, to erect homes for the work.
ingmen and women of New York, and already
ground has been broken for the foundation Of
one of these institutions. It is to be erected
on Fourth avenue between Thirty-second and
Thirty-third streets. This spot has been clear
ed of all old buildings, and for week past
men have been at work digging out old stones
and cellars, preparatory to tho work for the new
s,% ,ko 4
is the large vacant square opposite the
New Haven tunnel It contains twenty-five
lots, for which Mr. Stewart paid about $40 000
apiece two years ago, and extends the whole
distance between rhirty-secoDd and Thirty
third-streets, 1913 feet. running back 2O5 fce;.
On this square magnificent building is to be
raised, iron, tire-proot seven stores high, and
architectuIally finer than any other structure
in the city. ibis vii! be the working women's
hotel. Here sewing girls, feminine clerks,
hard.workil women of every trade, are to bo
provided with board and room for the smallest
possible sum. aud the house is to be managed
in the best manner. Tho ground floor may be
let out tor stores, tho proceeds TO be applied
to the building Of other s:u.iiar institutions.
The entire cost OF the hotel Will be about S.
900 0OO. The cdi6ce will not BE- completed in
less than two years. It is III ierstood that Mr..
Stewart also proposes to pu: UP, in time, a
workingmens hotc! Oh the same p'au."
The principal importers OF millinery good )
had their regular spring opening in New York
q few days since, and as the inevitable Jepkins
was on hand, We are enabled to inform our fair
readers that the bonnets are to bo very small,
without crowns, and some styles are high in
front. In fact. tho style is oaly new and re-
vised edition of the pretty Fauchon. Eonncts
are to be claborato;y trimmed, to correspond
with the present style Of costume, trimmed
with laces ard flowers; ribbon is sparingly
used. Roses in all colors and shades, from
the richest to tis most delicate hnls, will be
moro in vogue than any otier flowers. Some OF
the roses arc very large, one covering the Gu
tire top OF the bonnet, from which falls vine OF
half opened roses and \ with green leaves,
not ut the side, rs 'asu season, but straight
down. Lace is also much used III sashes or Wells,
falling at the back. Tho new color in flowers
which will be most worn for the present is
s'capucine," dalk warn, Color, with beauti-
full tlnts. Green grasses will be much in
vogue, and occasionally autlnn-.inted grasses