The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-07
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Gold at New York yesterday was heavy all
day and closed ut 35.
The Now York cotton market was firm;
sales so bales at 34ac.
AT Liverpool cotton closed shade easier;
aplands 123l; Oreaas 1874. Sales 5000 bales
The family Of the late Hon. Henry ]. Ray
mond are to sail for Europe Immediately.
--Parepa received $500 day E singing at
the Boston Jubilee. and Miss Phillips was paid
for all hel services $500.
ferencos, it is reported. will not be immediate-
" affected by the adoption OF this measure,
but will in few years be modified by the in
PRODUCTION OF the laity. In 1872 the lay dele
The lives Of all the members OF the Chica-
go FIRE Department have been insured for
$4,000 by subscriptions by the business men of
that CITY.
"A few of the personal friends of John
Mitchell, in st. Louis, swelled the proceeds Of
his late lecture by personal subscription to
over $500.
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad has
brought Sc 047 bales Of cotton to Memphis du-
ring the past season. The same road has car
ried away a, ,091 bales.
ALI the dramatic and musical stars Of Eu-
rope, it is said, are to appear in New York
next season, with two important exceptions,
Madame Patti and Christine Nilsson.
1t is reported at Washington that General
Bickles, the new United States Minister to
Spain, has received instructions to enter into
negotiations for the purchase Of Cuba.
~
Francisco, and 1t ia said the vessel rose in the
air about seventy-6ve feet, the machinery
op ,rating successfully, buoying up and driv-
ing forward the vessel with considerable speed.
The cholera is said to have made it's ap-
pearance in Hudson City, opposite New York,
and there is no little excitement there in con-
sequence. Quite number of persons are i'll,
but it is not ascertained thst any deaths have
occurred.
Mr.. David Dickson, Of Hancock County.
Georgia, has sixteen hundred acres Of land
planted in cotton this season. Upon these six
teen hundred acres of land Mr.. Dickson has
used fertilizers at an average of twenty five
dollars per acre.
John Brougham's benefit in New York
netted him $1,000. He at once paid off the dis
charged company. gave 5000 to poor actress
who had q number Of children and but little
work, and $50 to the Seymour fund. 1t is con-
fidently predicted that he will spend the whole
$1,000 in less than Six months.
The hev. r4onlng James has been remov-
ed from St. Luke's Hospital in New York for
having read the burial service over the re-.
mains Of John Wilkes Booth in Bait imore last
week. He performed the service at the re-
quest of o brother Clergyman who had been en-
gagged, but was suddenly called away.
!, In order to get over the difficulty occa-
:s:oned by the fact that the fifth Of July is not
9 legal holiday in Missouri when the fourth
falls on Sunaay, Governor McClurg issued
proclamation appointing the fifth as q day OF
public thanksgivlng. Suoh occasiops care pro-
vfded for by the State law, and the bank off.
GERS are happy. y--
AT q recent woman's rights meeting in
New York, according to the reported proceed
ings: ''Miss Upham. of Georgia. announced
herself as woman who was not married,
never had beens and probably never would be-
and then put the following conundrums: Who
.amIp What am I? Where am lp Am 1 a
0oitiEen. or am not2 Where do women stand :?
Or do We, like Mahomet's coffin, hang in mid
.air?"
The Rev. DR.. Waddel, Chancellor Of the
University of Mississippi. will preach the Bac-
calaureate sermon at the approaching COM
mencement Of the University of Georgia. Au.
gust /. The Alumni oration will be delivered
by the Hon. D. w. Lewis, and the literary ad-
dress before the societies OF the University by
Colonel r. M. Johnston, of Maryland. The
condition Of the University was never more
satisfactory. There are about fifty candidates
ROvs 1uo 49,
the large st senior class which the University
has ever had.
Official information from Florida regarding
the condition Of the State finances has been
received. c contradicting the statements recent
ly published that the state il bankrupt. The
following extract from private letter on the
subject confirms the contradictions: .In the
hrst place the Gleason Osborn dynasty, what
ever that was, never issued any bonds, and
consequently there was no interest on them to
tepudiate; in the second place, the State Trea-
sury. 90 Tar from being bankrupt, is in a better
condition than it has been for years, and is
promptly paying the interest on ali State
bonds. The interest on the State bonds falling
due on the LIST ult snow being paid in New
York by the financial agent Of the State"
"A Boston paper of Saturday, speaking of
the new molasses brig ''Novel y" says 'sYes-.
terday morning the steam-pumping apparatus
for discharging the cargo of the brig Novelty
was put in operation and worked finely. The
hose by which the molasses is forced from the
tanks OF the brig to the reservoir on shore is
about SIX inches IN diameter, and was Kept full,
2 steady stream all the time. The hose was
long enough provided the brig made no unu-
saal motion, but steamer passing near the
brig caused IL to rock 90 as to displace the
hose. and before the engine could be stopped
nearly two hundred gallons Of molasses were
lost. The hose was soon readjusted and the
pumping resumed, but the hose gave avav
once more duriog the afternoon. This uni-
suaa method Of discharging vessel has at
tracted large crowds OF the curious to see It.