The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-10
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l over. Sales 1000 bales at 29a29lc.
In Liverpool cotton closed quiet Uplands
12Ad.; Orleans 12ad. Sales 5000 bales.
New York city has over three Thousand
music teachers.
New York has seventy banks, with SO, ,OOO, :
900 capital, held by 81. 1000 shal eholders.
The winter OF 1869 is said to have been,
lat sea, the most tempestuous on record.
The Laurensvllle Herald, of the 5th inst,
contains the manly answer Of w. d. Simpson
to A. 3. Wallace, in regard to the contested
seat in Congress.
! The Texas Convention granted $4,000 o
/ year for thirty years to d aoompany that in re-
turn promises to introduce 12,5O0 emigrants
from Europe into the State in Eve years. Half
a million acres Of land are included in the
grant. With principal and interest the price
paid s over $1O0 and forty acros of land for
each Immigrant.
lis it not rather curious coincidence that
the suit of Charles Rsade against the Round
liable To- al alleged libel in an old criticism
upon Griffith Gaunt should have been brought
ust o tho time that he has comm ,nced the
publication of another serial story in this coun-
try2 Mr.. Rsade is o brilliaut novelist, a.
shrew5 advertiser aud a friend Of the Galaxy.
Tut yourself in his place.
-Four negroes were harged at Princess
ma, Maryland, on Friday last They were
:, til murilercrs Of the ,ptain of the schooner
Brave. All Of them died lietly except one
named Wilson, who struggled horribly after he
fell. Ii got the rop's of his hanls and feet,
an by cinsing to tho shro1d OF one or the
o'hers and to tho rope by witch lie was hang
tia:, managed to reach the scaffold again. The
k1,.,pxy MI
tao nooso and pushol Wilson of. jerking the:
rope tightly as the wrctcned man fell. This
Asuficcd TO end him. -
! a Ncw England clergy man. ono Monday
last summer, visited the market early in the
+ morning. While there his attention was called
to some very fine strawberries. Ho wished
very m lch to purchase some, but it being so
very early in the morning, it occurred to him
that thov must have been picked on Sunday,
and of course he could not purchase or use
anything which had been procured under such
circumstances. He inquired OF tie farmer:
MIR. Smith, were these berries picked on Sum
sday2" MIR. Smith, with slight twinkle in his
eye, replied: 'sNo, Doctor, they were picked
this moroiug, but they grew on Sunday"
s, Tho Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette writAs "Tho ina,,e nrat,o,a
ball was brilliant success financially, and
many inquistive individuals are asking who
pocketcd the money!? It was announced that
J fifteen hundred tickets would be Sold. and
arrangements were MI lde for this number of
hats and cloaks. One gentleman received
ticket for his hat numbered $3.50, and when he
called for it there was no hat for him, and he
left the building with lady's lace veil, which
he had PICKED up, tied abous his ears. Hun
dreds left the building hatless and coatless.
and the inquiry to-day is not only who got the
money, but who gathered the harvest in the
way OF hats and coats. Some parties have evil
dently made good thing OF it, and those who
were the victims must remember the old adage
shat = they who dance must pay the fddler."'
Tho Inauguration ball at Washington, al
though failure as far as dancing was Coz
cerned, presented grand display of the wealth
beauty and distinction Of the country. General
Grant, for once in his life appeared in full
evening dress, that is to say, he wore fine
broadcloth trowsers, a black swallow-tail coat,
white vest, white crayat, and white kid
gloves. His boots we're faultlessly polished,
and his hair was combed and brushed with ex-
quisite care. Among the ladies', long trail
dresses were all the rage, principally in heavy
rep silk and MORE antique. A few short
~dresses and panners made their appearance,
but they were evidently tabooed Ly the great
majority of tho ladies' Basques wore much
worn. and the square Mary Stuart style of
stoma ohers was extensively patronized. Here
are q few of the moro noticeable costumes:
Miss Blanche Butler wore o pale pink silk, |
square in neck; train very long; pannier or
point-applique lice, and hair in ringlets; |
jewels, diamonds and pearls. A niece Of
General Butler wore long tarletan dress over
skirt OF pink satin trimmed with white satin
hair powdered blonde; Jewels, diamonds and
pearls. Mrs. General Gaines, Of New Orleans,
was attired in black and gold lama dress,
trimmed with gold fringe, blue bonnet and
diamond jewelry. Mrs. Christmas, daughter
of Mrs. Gaines, wore white alpaca with blue
satin trimmings, gold jewelry. and hair in pufs
and curls. Mrs. Whitney, daughter-in-law or
Mrs. Gaines, bride Of two weeks, wore white
rnoire antique with satin stripes, hair in puffs
and braids, with magnificent pearls for jewels
Mrs. Drake Mills was attired in a mauve satin
dress, with tuaic Of black Chantilly lace, tiaaa
brooch, necklace, and earnings of magnificent
diamonds. Scores Of gentlemen in retiring
left their coats and hats behind theni, rather
than wait the intermediate time necessary to
reach the counter Of the cloak room. The
rush to supper was immense and those who
came late had to be satisfied with distant
glimpse OF the jelies and salads. ,s.s5
Since the great draft riot in New York, the
negro population OF that city has fallen off
about three thousand. At the present time il
numbers between 1900 and IA 600. all told
Among the better class are few doctors lat
least they call themselves doctors), two or
three editors, about a dozen preachom aud
couple Of lawyers, so-called. These lawyers
never go into court but they fnd considerable
practice in the settlement OF disputes among
the negro families. Quarreis are very FREE
quent in the nefRhborhoods occupied chiefly
by the blacke, and as the negro has an aver
sion to going into court, he generally takes his
case to the black lawyer and has II Axed by