The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-26
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Gold at New York closed at s2ia32A.

Tho Liverpool cotton market closed at
l1bd for uplands, and 12ad. for Orleans; sales
5000 bales.
The New York Herald says there are men
in that city whose profession is to servo on
coroner's juries.
1t is proposed in Cincinnati to consolidate
several educational institutions and found q
university after the German model.
There are fifteen cotton factories in North
Carolina, running 81 liz spind!ss, and turning
out 100000 pounds Of spun cotton yarn.
A Matchmaker in Rochester has just in-
ished watch movement which will run eight
days without winding. It has two mainsprings.
"A colony of beavers have settled on the
Appomattox River, Virginia, and are cutting
down quantities of shrubbery and young
trees.
The City of Norfolk has tried the expert
ment of lighting it's streets with kerosene, and
the papers down there pronounce it great
humbug.
The lecture profession is about "played
out" in the West. The Fat Contributor, Mark
Twain, and Du Chaillu have been failures in
indianapolis.
The Wilder steam street car, announced
some Laon,hs ago in the Detroit papers, is now
in successful and regular operation on one of
the tracks IL hat city.
Cairo, Illinois, still asserts it's claims to
brilliant future. Vessels are now, for the first
time, being loaded with grain at that point for
direct shipment to Liverpool.
The news from Japan represents that the
Mikado had given most cordial reception to
the representatives of foreign governments at
that court The East is breaking up.
The managers Of the ssnew movement" in
Virginia have postponed the holding Of the
State Convention indefinitely. The movement
may, therefore, be regarded as failure.
The Tallahassee, Pensacola and Georgia
Railroad is advertised to bo sold n the 20th Of
March. The sale is ordered by the trustees Of
, tho Eaarids in farnal Improvement Fund
Boring f5r one Of the deep-water piers of
the great St. Louis bridge has been conmenc-
ed. The foundation is to rest upon solid rock,
eighty feet below the bottom of the river.
AT Nlblo's one night last week, q fellow who
went to see tho Forty Thieves raised row and
got his money back because there were but
thirty on the stage by actual count.
"A negro. as black coal, is practcing law
in Nashville with success. He was citizen of
Illinois, but wenb to Tennessee because he
could not enter his profession in the former
Slate.
They are after swindling milkmen in New
York. Four were arrested Saturday, and had
eighty cans of their milk seized. They not
only watered their milk, but they did it with
dirty water. They were sent to JAIL
Louisiana and New Orleans both intend to
beg Congress to give them the valuable prop
erty occupied by the New Orleans branch Of
the United States Mint. The State wants it
for capitol, and the city for courthouse.
< The Boston Statehouse contains statue
Of Washington, which bold critic, without
the fear Of Boston before his eyes, says ''con-
veys to one who looks upon it for the first time
the unwsthetic impression that it represents
man getting up in his night shirt and attempt
ing to light the gas.' 4
The Chicago Journal thinks the Lord
Chamberlain of England has begun in the
wrong part Of the theatre in his efforts at
dramatic reform. There are more and grosser
indecencies in dress to bo witnessed in the
boxes Of the aristocraoy every night than were
ever seen behind the footGghts.
The engineers will soon commence the
survey OF the Air Line Railroad from Whining
ton, N. c., via Newbern, Washington and Ply
mouth to Norfolk. Va. When completed and
in connection with the Annamessic Line, it
New York some ten hours quicker.
Advertising ingenuity has left little room
for novelty. but merchant in Newark has
challenged attention by leaving his space en-
tirely blank, with the following noto. in fine
PRINT, at the bottom: "This space was sold to
A. e. Brannan, but as their business ia sufi-
ciently brisk already they decline to use it."
Still another railroad luxury has appeared
in the West-silver palace 1ot,l7ada cars for the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Road.
There is 'rotunda" at each end of the car.
with every possible luxury in the way Of seats,
silver-platod chandeliers, water cooler, basins,
stoves, etc. Each car has twenty-four double
loerthr.
The London Engineer shows the insupera-
bic difficulties Of tunnelling or bridging the
English Channel. and proposes fast steam
floats, "to be one thousand feet long and one
hundred and twenty feet vide. double enders.
and each propelled by four screws" These il
thinks, could make speed OF twenty-five
miles an hour.
The old custom of cook-fghting, recently
revived, is extending rapidly in Virginia and
North Carolina. gran Gallo tournament
between the two States was recently held in
Norfolk. veteran Virginian publishes a card
In which he shows that the sport ia improving
and that eating the eggs of game chickens
makes men plucky, punctillious and sensitive
for their honor.
The Australian Meat Importing Conaparv
recently gave public dinner In London to
working men and their families by way of ad-
vertleing the quality OF the meat imported.
Iney had mutton pies, beefsteak pies, slowed
oeef sausages and potted meats. with tho
exception that some Of the dishes wero little
salt, the meats differed but little from those
killed in England.
IF the entire programme Of Gilmore's great
national musical festival IN Boston corresponds
with the following extract from. it, which has
reached ns, the OCCASION win be o nenaora bio
) one. The concert will open with 'sHail Oolurn-
Ola. once through by the full band OF 1000