The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-09
NEW S s U MI M a K Y.

Gold in New York closed at 353.
Cotton closed in New York at &c. lower.
Middling S0a9OIc. Sales 1900 bales.
In Liverpool cotton closed at 124al2sd. for
nnlands. Sales 12,eOO bales. Uplands, afoat,
12ld.
The British House of Lords is now the only
hereditary chamber in Europe.
Theodore Mundt, daughter of Mrs. Muhl-
bach, is coming to this country as an opera
singer.
Without counting the Rothschilds, there
are in Paris about one hundred and fifty Israel
ties whose combined fortunes amount to about
$500, 900, 600.
Karl Formes has turned acto:, and will
make his first appearance in Liverpool, in the
character of Shylock, at the Theatre Royal, on
the Goth of March next.
Russia is pushing her railroads forward
with great energy, and it is believed to be pro-
bable that the entire distance fiom st. Peters
burg to Odessa will be completed in the spring
of 1869.
The name of Miss Anna Surratt appears on
the list or applicants who passed examination
for tea cl lerships in the public schools OF Balti-
more few days ago.
The Prince Imperial is learning 10 play the
fiddle. His tutor Urged the Emperor 10 have
piano lessons given to him, but Napoleon de-
cided in favor of the violin. The Emperor
himself is quite an excellent fiddler.
Judge Cannon, of Clay County, North
Carolina, recently charged the 81 and jury OF
that county that lawful fence should be
sshorse-high, bully-strong and pig-tight."
The young men of Chicago arc said to be
classified according to their skill as velociped-
lists into ihe 'timd toddlcrs," the ''wary wab-
blers," the ''go-it-gracefuls," and the fancy
few"
Jefferson Davis. accompanied by Mr..
slidell and two ex-Confederatc officers, recent
" visited the military school of ST. Cyr. He
YVES received in state by the authorities. and
the pupils maneuvred before him.
"A letter from Jacksonville, Florida, says:
A Northarn company is erecting largo hotel
in this place. Many invalids are here and at
st. Augustine. 1t is said that many Northern
ers are now investing at the latter named
place.
Tho President has ordered that the body
of Mrs Surratt be given TO her family. 1t will
be recollected that the brutal tyrant Stanton.
when Secretary of War, refused the request of
Mrs. Surratt's daughter to be epermitted to
make decent burial Of the rcmf rs OF her
iudicially-murdered mother.
An industrial school, with one hundred
and twenty pupils OF German descent, is sup
ported in New York by the beneficence OF q
wealthy lady in that city. In this school the
mornings are devoted 10 study, and the alter
moons to learning different kinds of work, such
as sewing. knitting, crocheting, and other
home employments.
"A New Orlea MS lawyer made remark in
court last week which was wofthy of Amina-
dab Sleek, who declined to assist the family of
a men who had fallen from q scafold, on the
ground, that it would be encouraging people
to fall from scaffolds. The lawyer was defend
ing case against railroad company for run
ming over and manning child. He gravely
told the jury that if they awarded damages the
people of New Orleans would eternally be
sending their children in the street to be run
over.
Cases of suspended animation are not
very uncommon, but there is one at the pres
ent time in Wisconsin that exctes great deal
of attention. A girl of twelve years, just re-
covering from combined case OF measles and
diptheria, told her parents that she was going
into trance and asked them not to bury her.
She then apparently died, but though under
very favorable circumstances for decomposl-
ton there arc 10 signs of il. 1t is said that a
vein has been tapped and the blood flowed
from it es if the person were alive.
"A patent anchor has recently been invent
ed which, it is asserted, by its simplicity and
efficiency, surpasses cay now made. When
not in use it occupies no more room than tue
shank OF all ordinary anchor. Within the
shank two fukes, connected at right angles
to each other, are so adjusted that no matter
on what side the anchor falls the fukes take
hold underneath, having no projection on the
upper side, such as the unused arm or fluke OF
the ordinary auchor, by which the anchor can
get foul, either by its own c'ble or the cable OF
another ship This anchor, it is stated, weighs
less and has greater capacity than ordinary
anchors, while by the use OF rings at both ends
it is much more easily handled, and takes less
room for storage.
We learn fir IN the Mobile Register that at |
the Chickasabogue Paper Mills fair test has
been mude Of Reid's patent for the manufacture |
of paper from the okra plant, and with the
most satisfactory results. The okra is work.
ed up in less time and at less expense than |
straw or rags, and either with rags or alonelt |
makes wrapping, news, or writing paper, equal
to the best in use. The experiment appears |
TO have been made on large scale, aud to
have succeeded beyond all expectations. Tho
result will be, that the planter will have de-
mand for production hitherto yalueless as q
commercial commodity, the press will have
cheaper and better paper, and the paper mills
will have supply Of material night at their
doors that will answer all their purposes.
The New York papers are unusually pro- |
life of news items. Iu the criminal calender
are given the particulars of recent pickpocAet
raid on the passengers of railway train. Soon
after leaving the station mob of thieves en-
tered the last oar, one Of them singing out !:
"Through passengers take the forWar
cars" ALI started to go forward, when the
thieves obstructed the doorway and finished
their work. There was an actual fstic en-
Woln r.