The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-03
NEWS sUAAA r T.

fold closed in New York at S4lss4tt.
In New York cotton was steadier; sales
1900 bales, at 2S}.
Cotton closed in Liverpool on Saturday
quiet and steady; uplsnds it'd; Orleans taid.;
sales 606e bales.
a Detroit woman has secured divorce
because her husband compelled her to black
his boots.
New Orleans consumes daily two hundred
and fifty beeves, si1ty-seven calves, fifty sheep
and ninety hogs.
"A clergyman at Kingston, England, refuses
to admit young ladies to confirmation unless
they promise never to dance.
"A sensation in London theatre is q WON
.dsrful horse which rides through the flames
from the stage to the aies, with young man
ON its back. ~ .,.5-..,s.,.,.
Three hundred and tveuty-seven London
artisans and laborers, unable to make living
at home, started or final journey to Canada
iu the middle Of April.
The Macon Journal says Msjor George An
.derson, Of Laurens District, 8. O., had thir-
teen sons in the Confederate army. Match
him or them, who can!
AL little fete Of Eugene on the I'd ult, the
toilettes OF the Marquise de Gallifet, Princess
.desMet,ernich and Countess de Pourtales--the
three graces of the Tuileries-oost upwards Of
10000 francs.
A New York fashion reporter bitterly COM
plains that after Every ostentatious display
at the church. y st claret punch and cake were
the only refreshments served" at recent we'd
ding reception.
Tie Boston Pos! says that the pixies which
loyl joe Brown had made to kill Yankees at
the commencement Of the war, have'been sold
at Augusta, Ga, and will be used to arm the
South Carolina negro militia.
The footprints in the sandstone Of the
Connecticut valley, which have always been
supposed to be those Of birds, are pronounced
by Mr.. Waterhouse Hawkins to be the marks
-of marsupial animals. snch as kangsroos.
o. %ssassasz Mss avssGs AssSas9a ss private wed
is said to have worn ten thousand dollar lace
dress, purchased In Berlin. The groom gave
his wife ne 'klace, valued ct eight thousand
.dopirs. 30 >
.:-.essouthern securities id New York on Mon
day were firm and buoyant. Georgia sizes, S1a
a2: do. sevens, s59as6; do. do. interest payable
in Georgia 9Sa95; North Carolinas, ex-coupon,
S1h8t3; do. new, tis55; South Carolina SKIES,
74a5ss do. new. 71A7a; do. regular stock 65s67.
The Alta Californian has positive and au-
thent;en information that President Grant will
certsinly visit California during the coming
summer. It says that his advent will be an
.ssoccasion for the. greatest enthusiasm ever
Witnessed in the stste."s This is now as posi-
,tivsly conttsiftted. '-
= IA writer in the Burial New Yorker thus
writes of the Scuppernong grape: "This grape
is worth untold millions to the Southern peo-
Die, II they win follow the example Of Mr..
Hart, Of Wilmington, North Carolina, in de-
.veloping its culture and the conversion Of its
juice into good wine. -
both houses Of the Ohio Legislature have
,pSssed bill giving Cincinnati authority to use
$4,000, 900 for the p4Eaose of building short
hne sailrosd through Kentucky to connect with
the southern system Of railroads at Chsttahoo-
ganThe ycsk Willsbe undertaken ct onse and
p1shed forwSJd vigorously.
-xetters from Berlin state that from all
,pstts d the Ergdon Of Prussia, and even Of
:ths fshtivs'ysIio provinces OF Prussia, the
Snaafation,to assorth America has begun on a
larger scale than in former years. The emil
.grMts esnersIyssy that they leave their ma
tive homes on account Of the distress reigning
there. and not merely to escape the military
sconseIiptiou.
1.-The Jutfes in Illinois are liberal in their
awards for railroad accidents. The following
is,he estimated tariff in ordinary cases For
4 simple fracture Of leg, 81. 900; for COM
pound fracture OF the leg, $25, 600; for broken
ribs, 81, 900 each; for finger knocked out Of
iotnt,; 5000; for bruise on the head, $500;
.foy bruise at the opposite extremity, double
.sha. sum; and lesser and greater injuries in
1iks proportion: -.
-Bersh, president OF the society for the
prevention Of cruelty to animals, stopped a
S7oo0 pigeon shooting match in New York
siatal5. There was large crowd assembled
and everything prepared, but Bergh appeared
With twenty-five policemen and threatened to
arrest the principals, which stopped the match.
There was great excitement, and only the pre-
sence Of the policemen saved Bergh from being
roughly handled. ,....,-
"A dispxteh nom washington eaya: Sen-
.stor Sprsgue does not intend to take any no.
stine whatever Of the irate Captain Goddard.
He considers this bellicose individual utterly
beneath his attention, and says that he. will
not be diverted ftom the prosecution Of his
plans by any suoh petty annoyances. The.
million dollars is believed by MIR. sprague to
be behind Goddard's intended insult, but the
Rhode Islander has determined not to be drawn
into further personal alterations"
As an immense quantity of copper enters
into the manufacture Of guns and ordnance,
wecan readily account for Senator Chandler's
taking the war path against England. Hsvipg
made the price ell right by the copper swindle,
he now, like thorough business man, goes to
work to make market. Ii We do not have
foreign war il viii be because he could not
effect It, and il we do it will be one more in
sthe interest Of the Lake Superior copper mines
tAan In those Of the American people.
In New York it is said that mercantile
houses have done best this spring which hap
pen 10 have Southern trade. The same Is true
m other oikaa. The South ia recovering from