The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-25
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NEWS s MARX.
Cotton closed in New York shade lower;
sales 400 bales; mlddIngs 283a282.
Gold closed heavy, with an increasing pres
sure to sell at ALI.
In Liverpool cotton closed fiat; sales 10, 900
bales; uplands III; Orleans 11bd.
Savannah doesn't know what 10 do with
it's bicycles. The Council won't allow them on
the parks, and tho police stop them on the
streets.
-sickles is getting out up. The New York
Evening Post says his is a bad appointment,
not fit to be made In view Of his "character
and history"
GRANTS sisters marriage was the result Of
a cass love at first sight. She met her bride
groom OF sixty or the first timo at the inaugu-
tion in March.
The largest drum in the world has been
made for the Bos on peace jubilee. It is eight
and . halt feet in diameter, and inscribed "Let
us have peace"
The leading Radical organ in Tennessee,
the Memphis Ledger, has come ont in leader
advocating the establishment of an empire, on
the general plan prop ,sed by the organ of the
imperiai,sts In New York.
DIR. A. O. White. of Maury County, Ten.
nessee, communicates to the Medical Journal,
at Louisville. the case OF q woman who is now
thirty-Rour years OF age. and the mother of
twenty three children. She commenced at fif-
teen. She has had six single children; has had
twins seven times, and last month had triplets.
General Grant has had his monogram en-
blazoned on the White House china, and has
recently appointed "Physician to the House.
hold" Merchants are commencing to adver-
tise their wares as ''the best in Grants domin-
ions," and Foretopman Borie is running the
naval department and the lmperialst 'Jintiy,"
as Captain Cutie would say. What's in the
wind7 Straws, straws, straws.
"A Southern Historical Society has been
formed at New Orleans, whose object is to col
lect reliable data OF the workings Of the late
Confederate Government, and the battles,
sieges and exploits of the war. Rev. DIR. Pal
mer, of New Orleans, is President OF the socie-
ty, and General Braxton Bragg, Vice President
for Louisiana, General r. E. Lee for Virginia,
General Breckinridge for Kentucky, and Alex
ander 81. Stephens for Georgia.
Professor Aaassiz says that fish is kind
Of food which refreshes the system, especially
saafter intellectual fatigue. There is no other
article that supplies the waste Of the head so
thoroughly as fish diet;~ and the evidence OF it
is in the fact that all the inhabitants of the
seashores the world over are the brighter po-
pulation of the country. Fish contains phos-
phorus TO large extent. chemical element
which the brain requires for growth and health.
-Ex- Mayor Brooks, Of Norfolk Va. "a mill
tary appointee,) was publicly cowhided in the
streets Of that city on Monday last by Miss FL
len Carter. Brooks had DETAINED the charac-
ter OF Miss Carter, who made efforts to ascer-
tain il her slanderer had property which would
be liable in action for defamation. Finding
that he was utterly worthl sss, she took the law
into her own hands, aud catching him on the
streets administered a severe hiding. Brooks
wife and several neighbors looked on without
intertering.
"A New York engineer proposes to employ
the waves Of the oceau as motive power for
running mills, factories, &c. His plan is TO
build on the beach a dixie several hundred feet
in length against which the waves of old ocean
are privileged to break as they will, but are
not to be allowed toreccde. In the sea face Of
the dixie arc the openings of conduits which
conduct The water to o reservoir within the
dixie. "A canal fsom the reservoir reconducts
turning, on its way, the wheels OF as many
mills as can be built on the canal banks.
The NewYork clly papers publish the in
come retuns Of the Eighth Collection District
OF that city. sho wing a marked increase in the
incomes Of real estate owners, with some fall
ing off in those 4 merchants for the past year.
The district is the most wealthy In the cur
try. The list comprises only those whose in
cenaes are above ten thousand dollars, being
eight hundred and dfty-seven in number, their
aggregate annual incomes amounting to $24,.
$4,000. Forty-tYo OF these have each above
10000 per lannum -the forty-two ae gregatiup
T,244. .000 OF an average OF $172 900 each per
annun. Mr.. A. r.. Stewart tthe great dry
goods mani alone has the enormous
annual income Of s3.O16, ,OOo, or nearly
half as much as the forty-.wo richest
men all put together. The remaining eight
hundred and fourteen persons, each OF whom
has less than 500 600 per annum, havs m the
aggregate $1l,2S0 900, or on average of up
wards of BIT 500 each. 1t is thus shown that
Of the $24 $40 900. forty-two persons have
among them between 0ne-third and one-fif,h
OF tho whole. and that Mr.. A. T. Stewart has
one-cighth OF the whoe. Aaron Arnold re-
turns $280 ,609;J. II. Benedict sS11 $50; Har-
vey Fisk $196 129; George Fox $371 All; Potter
Goelet $285 688; A. 8. Hatch $278 261; Elias g.
Higgins $431. 1888; Parsop Stevens $244, 1856; Mo
ses Ia, lor s279 43s; Frances Warden $2s8 6s7.
Ihe list fills three columns. There are ,lenty
OF smal-fry fellows who return from $40, 900 TO
$4,000. M
The private detective system and it's
abuses are shown up in the New York Times.
1t seems that there are several firms and 4
large number OF individuals in their emnlov
who make business OF studying the habits os
yaung men la respon >ibls positions FOR the
purpose OF reporting them to their employers
or partners In business. This 10 technically
called ''shadowing." The officer, after getting
"spot" on tho clerk (seeing him for the