The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-26
N e w s 9 U M Nj a r Y.

bales.
Bows, plenty of bows, all over bows, Is
the last fashionable report from Paris.
--Rocheforps "Lanterne" is printed on thin
letter paper and sent into France as manu-
script correspondence, sealed.
The New York Customhouse clerks report
a dull business. The spring importatlons have
not yet be- 5Hn.
-.Iady specuIators' arc said to frequent
some of the Wall-street stock. gambling broker
shops.
The Tribune thinks the bill passed on
Wednesday by the House, 30 Homeopathic
reform of the Franking iniquity."
1T is said London firm has offered Ma-
dame Rosslni $4,000 francs for her husbands
ten posthumous compositions.
General Grants favorite stecd for horse
back riding is said to be beautiful black
pony. which was taken from Dick Taylor's plan
tation during the war.
-Sipoc the e'new movement" In Virginia
was iuausuratcd the quotable value OF Its State
stocks has iucreasedslx per cent. II 1t sue
Goods the advance will be still greater.
The pioneer settlers of California-thosc
who went there in 1s49 contemplate an excur-
sion TO the Atlantic seaboard when the Pacific
railway is completed.
-Grinnell, Iowa. has college where, out OF
800 students, zoo are young women, and 1t IS
triumphantly mentioned that no liquors are
sold in the town.
The "belle of General Grants administra-
ton" is already announced. New York paper
saws she is to be Miss Nottie Fenton, daughter
of the New York senator.
A Cairo paper mentions lot of SOC, 900
bushels of wheat as having passed through
that place on the was from Chicago tc Liver
pool. 1t was to be shipped at New Orleans.
Spanish spies are complained OF in New
York, who watch the movements o. Spanish
families suspected Of sympathy with the Cuban
insurgents.
AS the Bishop OF Australia is Ritualist
the opposite party has sece1ed, elected new
bishop, consecrated him and cut loose alto
gether from theold body.
Albert Brisbane. the well known Fou-le-
rite, has bought large tract Of land in Kan
sas for COLONY OF Frencbmen, who will culti-
vate the land ON the cooperative principle,
and also manufacture silk goods.
There is grocer out West who is also q
Justice of the peace, and vino offers to marry
gratis all couples who will patronize his store
If he would give groceries free to all who get
married at his Office. it would be more OF an in
ducement to matrimony.
There is at last & prospect Of something
being done to put stop to the sale OF the dan
gerous and destructive kerosene oil now COM
monty 7ended throughout the North. The
New York Board of Health have the matter
under consideration, with authority to act de-
cis!vely.
The largest clearance at New Orleans since
the war was that of the new ship Jane Fish,
Captain Brown, 1893 tons register, which was
cleared for Liverpool last week, with 4703 bales
cotton, weighing 2.1sS Ss9 pounds, and valued
at 1892 8OO The ship is valued at Sill, 900, and
the freight amounts to f537O.
..-Eugenie's brother-in-law, the Duke of
Alba, has become bankrupt at Madrid, and his
property has gone into the hands OF COM
mittee Of his creditors. 1t used to be the GUS
tom for Spanish grandee to pledge his NOUS
tache for the payment of his debts, but the
usurers will not now accept that surety.
=, The warlike preparations in Prussia, in
terrupted since the commencement OF October,
have been actively taken in hand. Cores
pondence from Warsaw mentions that oil
the soldiers on furlough have been re-
called, and Two hundred roublcs bounty are
given to all the dischargedmen who re-enlist.
An ILLINOIS paper tolls the surprising story
that an amateur billla1d-player in Dixon lately
made run OF 14.O26 points on carom table,
push shots barred. It is added that two hum
dr. d OF them were made in three miCltes.. if
teen seconds. BY careful computation we fiud
that the entire number, if made at this speed.
would have occupied upwards of three hours,
fifty five minutes and twenty-nine seconds.
"A newspaper, called the Richmond Head
Light" is published on board the steamer
Richmond, one OF the huge passenger palaces
which ply between Louisville and New Orleans.
1t has two composltors and one editor, and is
published six times during each trip, or about
three times week. It is intended to oe o
faitlgul eXposItor of river llfo, afording enter
tain:aent for tho passengers, as we'll as an ad-
vertislng medium tor hotel proprietors and
merchants.
The smallpox isreported to be very severe
in the Western cities. It is asserted that the
number Of deaths from this disease has been
unprecedently great in Cincinnati. S nallpox
is declared to be an epidemic in st. Louis; it is
scourging Chicago, though nothing is said
about it IN the newspapers, and In Milwaukee
the public schools aud the rink have been
closed in consequence, and tho shutting up OF
theatres, concert saloons and other places
where large numbers Of persons assemble, has
been discussed.
-TheiB fillmore Gazette says: "The present
indicai IONS are that ice will be q very scarce
article in this section OF the country during
the approaching sum ner, 1t is said by those
engaged in the trade that south OF tn: State o.
Maine not ten thousand tons have yet beer
secured, no ice having YET formed in The
neighborhood Of Boston, the Connecticut OF
North Rivers fit 10 cut for storage. Some pri
vate individuals III the neshb Jrhood of Balti
more embraced the only opportunity thus fal
afforded, and filled their icehouscs, which is al
that has been secured in this vicinity"
Hon. Horatio Seymour, lato candidate 70