The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-31
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T50 bales; mddline 332.
In Liverpool cotton closed shade frmcr:
uplands 1871; Orleans 125a13d.
Mrs. S.onewall Jackson has Just received
bequest of $1,000
The negroes in Arkansas propose to pre-
empt public lands and hire tho Cinnamon.
A Mississippi boy went out to fly his kite
when the kite few him, aud he was landed in a
tree seventy feet from the ground.
Tho onoe celebrated but almost useless
Thames Tunnel being requ red for the East
London Railway Works, has been closed Tor
traffic.
Several OF the recently discharged Cuban
prisoners from Fort Lafayette have returned
to Richmond thorouSly disguste6 with Cuban
affairs.
Two gentlemen left Selma, Ala, q few days
since for San Francisco for shipment of Chi !.
nese. They had orders for I've hundred
laborers.
Ajewelry store at the Greenbrier ,Vs.)
White Sulphur Springs, was entered and rob-
bed on Friday night of $500 worth of watch es
and jewelry.
"A biographical sketch OF the late Henry
Rives Pollard, from the pen OF J. Marshall
Hanna, is soon to appear in book form at Rich
mond, Virginia.
"A devil fish has been caught at New Or
leans. His chief characteristics are length
of twelve, and breadth Of fourteen feet. and a
mouth two feet wide.
-Workmen and others in Connecticut are
forming clubs for the purpose of buying coal
by the cargo. They thereby save couple of
dollars or more on the ton.
The Emperor Napoleon, who is passionate
U f0nd nf fhn nn1l I,oc
Pe;itpai, the ballet master OF the opera, with q
retiring pension Of $500 (god) per year.
Mile. Rita Sangalli. the favorite premiere
ddmseuse. contemplates organizing first class
corps de ballet, with which she proposes visiting
the principal cities OF the South and West
viii 1ns view u dancing ;ss1s5sss ii:0 TIC sud
graces of the unterrihed ''unreconstructed.''
try to sing IN parsbaaa Is uG9mipe to this coun-
Will make her debut in ''Somnambula." She
is to have $500 q week salary, in gold. all her
travelling expenses, and private carriage.
she is said to be young and beautiful, and
brilliant vocalist, too.
six OF the resident physicians of Pensa-
cola, Fla, deny the statement that the yellow
fever is prevailing in that city. They assert
that not single case Of yellow fever has oc-
CURED in that city, and that the population
was never more tree from disease of any and
every type than at the present time.
"A party OF seven Sisters of Charity came
passengers from France to New York on Tues.
day, in the steamship Vile de Paris. They
are said to be the first instalment of hundred
or more who have been sent for to aid the
Catholic missions in their now rapidly extend
Ing work along the line of the Pacific Rail-
road.
Massachusetts, is in the agony OF the exc
cution Of the new rrehihitory Levy. end its in
habitants invent many ingenious lodges to get
possession Of the ardent. Thus, a Taunton.
man the other day procured pres ,ription
from adoctor and then added to it the words.
zone bottle OF porter" The pharmaceutist
noticed difference in the chirog1aphy. and
ignored the ''porter."
Second only to the Suez Canal is another.
to be completed within the year, connecting
the Rhone with the Mediterranean, thus avoid
ing the sand bars at the mouth of that river.
winch nave always rendered it useless for COM
mercial purposes. This canal has been some
years IN construction, will be twenty feet deep.
enter the Mediterranean between Cette and
Marseilles, and cost 50 400 900.
The failure Of the Colombian Legislature
to ratlfy the Cushing Daricn Canal treaty is at
trlDuted to the intrgues Of the English and
Frer Oh Ministers at Bogota. Instead of send
ing an envoy there fully able to cope with the
european diplomats, our government pays
little or no attention to this subject. and allows
l'se't TO be baffed by the English and French
Lobbyists in the Colombian Senate.
The great battle-felds OF the late civil wer
are about to be illustrated by series OF views.
published in chromo-lithogrophic STYLE AND
taken ro n oil pictures painted on the. spot by
George l.. Frankenstein. The views. each
measuring fourteen by ten inches, are to be
published in one or more volumes, together
With descriptions Of the different battle.6elds.
containing historical explanations.
Judge Dent, the Conservative candidate
for Governor Of Mississippi, writes letter cay
ing that he is a national Republican; opposed
to the extreme prescription Of bis party; and
placing himself unequvocally on the Walker
platform Of Virginia advocating universal ann
nesty and universal suffrage. In all these
positions he CLAIMS to be in unison with the
president. who endorse his policy. Z
The Orientals travel with bar gold coin and
Jewels to pay their way in foreign lands, bank
iDs oeing very little OF an Eastern institution;
.nere'ore IL is not so very wonderful if curious,
W "ear 1nat the V,ceroy Of Egypt. to meet his
expenditure In England, came furnished with
Twelve boxes OF oak. bound with brass. each
ok being eighteen inches long, nine inches
high' and twelve in width, and containing cold
and notes. '
Some time ago the New York Board Of
Health undertook an investigation OF the quail
lty OF the kerot'e 10 oil sold in that clty for
family use. Their chemist. Professor Chand.
Ter. OF Columbia College, tested over one hun.
dred samples, purchased at different retai,
stores n, various localities, and found not one
among tho whole lot which came up to the
standard required by law. Indeed, one-elc hth
OF the samples were pure benzne. one of the
mos dangerous products OF the distilla,ion
or petroleum. disguised under the names
OF Aurora OIL" Liquid Safety Gas, I" and the