The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-20
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tieea One Dollar each.
VIEWS SUMM A e z.
--aold closed weak yesterday in New York
ats2s..
lii--Ootton VAS fully . bali cent better, with
ssles Of $500 bales al 84A cents.
zs-Ia Liverpool cotton closed active. With
uplands at 1871; sales 20 600 bales.
"A = a Mrs. Clifford, living in Marion County.
efoS,, died Saturday from the effects OF fright,
oocasioned by the solar eclipse on the Saturday
preTou-.
The stereotvped report that the Harvard
Boat Club Is '.much improved" comes again
through the cable, but with l. is the announce
men. that betting is in favor Of the O1onians
Eve to one. Mondsy. it WAS three to one.
= The dearth Of good titles for novels is
having strange results in Eualand. The last
sSooF SutiSoxlleds stha ts0Y. a.. or aorar.
Blake Became an T. a." Several thousand
aar,es can be named on this systam without
-tsing the same title twice.
-Cummssioner Delano decides that per-
), SON whose business It is to negotiate pur-
,,chsses OF ssles OF stock Is banker It he has
e place o. business, where he receives 1on
others the stocks whose sale he neeotistes,
or whore money is advanced or loaned On
stocks.
-Y6s daughter OF 4 Mr.. Thompson, resid-
anr near Front Royal. Virginia. was intercept
ed on bar wav home, on'Monday by two ne
Hoes. Who .foulIy outraged her .person. The
1pses xere Afterwards arrested and 1t is
aslie-ed lths. they have been appropriately
1ynched. 50 ezaae -
;.s:- -psinoe Artbur, Queen Victories third son.
In ENGLAND on, Saturday for Halifax Nova
1eotis. on q tour through the New Dominion.
. He is to proceed from Nova Scotia to New
Brunswick; thedces how'll 60 to Canada, and
ffom Can .da il is expected he will come ON to
The United States.
4 The statisfics6f insurance prove that the
loeses of property from the use OF kerosene oil
No greater than those nom any other eause
saye incendiarism. A New York paper recent
n devoted column TO the explosion OF the
idea that kerosene Is non-explosive. and pre-
sented an array Of tacts which would discour-
-sse ar prudent pelsons from using it in their
dwellings,. u -
The idea of constructing q ship canal
ssross the Isthmus OF Darien. and thus uniting
the Atlantic aud Pacrac Oceans. has received
a. -Dsua, 1secrhrty fstdrnsu rd the
United States in the steamer Guerrero from
the command OF the South Atlantic feet has
been ordered to make arrangements for Q
SURVEY Of the isthmus, 10 order to ascertain
the pfacticability Of QUITTING the canal.
! The Chinese question is thus explained In
. copversati6n bstween two oolored citizens Of
San Francisco Well Jim, I suppose you like
! the idea Of The Cinnamon coming to this coun-
try and going do IN South and working the old
plsntaiiopsag mo. sar; no. sar; dat am too
bad. bad enui sar. when white carpet-bag-
gers come. Now -dey going to 6ll up de couu-
IN wid yellow carpet-bsggsrs from China TO
keep d. white carpet baggers in ofice-cause
our folks was q throwing OF on de new white
stash.sa
The New York Express says: "Last spring
itwss rouehlv calculated that the shipments
ofcotfon. allowing for all overland drains to
Eastern ports and for all other drawbacks,
would net the planter $25 600 600. There was
some incredultv OF this estimate. What are
the real figures To last Friday the average
receipts at Mobile may be set down at 227 900
bales at an inside estimate. The price has
svsrsged fraction over tw,ntv-three cents.
giving gross return Of about $2 600 600.
Thus the unfinished season has largely ex-
teeded the spring estimate of the WHOLE"
The poor children of Philade phia are large
N interested IN the paach kernel trade They
extract the kernels from the ''stone" put
them upon Strings, or threads, in buuches
numbering from one to five bupdred. and sell
them TO the druggists. The price is one cent
ahundred. aud an Industrious cleaner might.
possibly, collect crack and string five hun
dred jD day; 80 that those urchins in the
trade are not likely TO be callsd on to pay in
come tsx. The kernels are used principally
for masking alcoholic ''bi.ters," and are chiefly
valuable for the hydrocianic acid to be procur-
Cd fton them.
The ritualstic war has broken out in Mas.
sachusetts. The Rev. Mr.. Fisse, Of Christ
Church, Plymouth. being Of St. Albsnian pro-
oaiviiies has excited the Indignation Of Bishop
Eastburn, OF Massachusetts,. whomost enpbat-
ically is not Of st. Albanian prochvit,es, but
Nho regards candles, crossings. intonmg and
eenuhexions mads to tho altar with old-sssh- |
ioned New England horror; 40 the offending |
Nr. Fisse has received no1ce rom his spiritual
hther that he must not oiaclate In anv Protes- |
tsnt Ep. .scopal Church in Massachusetts. Per-
hsps Mr.. Flsse thinks that Bishop Ess burn
himfelf Is rather, high. at lesst IN his notions
6f Episcopal prerosativee
The railway strife to secure the Western
freightine busineis from New York continues
unabated. Contracts we're made for freight
Gars, ortat,on over the Erie Railway on Sat-r-
dss atas Iowa figure as twelve ents per huu-
dred, and an agreement wss made for the car
syinp OF five hund,ed thousand bushels Of
wheat from Buffalo to New York at eleven and
Q half cents per bushel. During the freight |