The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-09
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uplands. Sales $4,000 bales. Uplands, afloat,
124d.
Tho British House of Lords is now the only
her editary 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
5000, ,00O, ,QOo
Karl Formes has turned actor, 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-
bablc that the entire distance from st. Peters
burg to Odessa will be completed in the spring
of 1869
Tho name Of Miss Anna Surratt appears on
the list Of applicants who passed examination
for teacherships in tho public schools Of Balti-
more few days ago.
The Prince Imperial is learning to play the
fiddle. His tutor urged the Emperor TO have
piano lessons given to him, but Napoleon de-
cided in favor OF the violin. The Emperor
himself is quito an excellent fiddler.
Judge Cannon, of Clay County, North
Carolina, recontly charged the 81 and jury Of
that county that lawful ience should be
sshorse-high, bully-strong and pig-tight."
The young men of Chicago are said to be
classified according to their skill as velociped-
lists into the ''timd toddlers," the "wary wab-
blers." the ''go-it-gracefuls," and the ''fancy
few"
Jefferson Davis, accompanied by Mr..
Slidell and two ex-Confederate officers, recent
ly visited the military school of st. Cyr. He
was received in state by the authorities. and
the pupils maneuvrod before him.
"A letter from Jacksonville, Florida, says !:
Northern company is erecting q large hotel
in this place. Many invaids are here and at
st. Augustine. It 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 givon 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 remains of her
judicially murdered mother
An industrial school. with ono hundred
and twenty pupils of German descent, is sup
ported in New York by the benefcence OF a
wealthy lady in that city. In this school the
mornings are devoted to 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 a remark in
court last week which was worthy of Amna-
dab Sleek, who declined to assist the family of
men who had fallen from scaffold, 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 ete1nally be
sending their children in the street to be run
over.
Gases Of suspended animation are not
very uncommon, but there is one at the pres
ent time in Wisconsin that excites great deal
ofattention. 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 decomposi-
ton there areno signs Of it. It is said that a
vein has been tapped and the blood flowed
from it as if the person were alive.
"A patent anchor has recently been invent
ed which, it is asserte !, by it's simplicity and
efficiency, surpasses any now made. When
not in use it occupies no more room than the
shank OF an 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 fiukes take
hold underneath, having no projection on the
upper side, such as the unused arm or fuke Of
the ordinary anchor, by which the anchor can
get foul, either by it's 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 fr IN the Mobile Register that at
the Chickasabogue Paper Mills fair test has
been made 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 aloneit
makes wrapping, news, or writing paper, equal
to the best in use. The experiment appears
to have been made on large scale, and to
have succeeded beyond all expectations. Ihe
result will be, that the planter will have de-
mand for production hitherto valueless as q
commercial commodity. the press will have
cheaper and better paper, and the paper mills
will have supply OF material right at their
doors thatwill 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 pickpocket
raid on the passengers Of o railway train. Soon
after leaving the station mob OF thieves en-
tered the last Car, one Of them singing out
@sThrough passengers take the forwar
cars" All started to 20 forward, when the
thieves obstructed the doorway and finished
their work. There was an actual fstic en-
counter in the Gold Room Wednesday, be-
tween two Of its members. The first blow
was struck in sport, but received as il in dead
earnest. Air guns arc now being used for The
purpose Of murder and robbery. Last Tues
day the sudden breakage Of 9 pane Of glass