The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-28
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Cotton closed in Liverpool with a down.
ward tendency, uplnnds 13id; sales 1000 bales
The Boston Daily Advertiser has been
less than $25OOO0.
Ger announce that they expect to bo able TO re-
new its publication next Fall.
Washington dispatches says the "goyern-
ment is out of town." The President, Vice.
President and all Of the Cabinet nre off on
summer to1rs.
Tho United States has moro real estate
operations on hand. Hayti wants to buy some
monitors, to bo paid for by tho harbor OF Cape
Nicholas Ia Mole.
"A State constable stopped wedding in
Newburyport the other day, by seizing the
liquor, without which the celebration .of the
Ceremony was impossible. (,
Binder the head of "Broken English" a
Paris paper places such Landowners as get
smashed mp by railway collisions or who
financially come TO grief ).a, "a,
In New jersey there is Quaker lady who
thinks it an Insult to God to foroe vegetables
and fruit by the use of hot.beds, which she
calls an invention Of the evil one.,
The Washington Chronicle prints report
that the President will reoommond to Con-
gress spot on Meridian Hill, nearly opposite
Seventeenth-street, as q suitable site for the
proposed new White House.
Tho Chinese have entered upon their ga cred
and imperial records that Bismarck invented
the needle gun. AS the records cannot be al.
tered, Dreyser, the inventor. will lose the honor
of Immortality in the Celestial Empire.
About eight years ago prominent mer-
chant in New York accepted deed for plot
of ground in the vicinity Of Chicago for an old
debt. Tho plot WAS then valued at about $500.
He has recently sold. one-haf of it for
$4,000.
Tho dwelling OF Mrs. Hannah Moore, in
Washington, u. c., was set on fire last Sunday
night by the explosion OF a kerosene oil lamp,
but by the excrtions OF the neighbors the
flames wers extiDguished before much dam
ago was done.
1t s recorded as remarkable fact in the
recent race between Mountain Boy and Lady.
Thorn, at Saratoga, that. although Meuotain
Boy won all three heats. tho betting ut tho be-
ginning OF the raco Was one hundred to thirty
in favor Of Lady Thorn. lf'
--Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jorrold have
been making systematic exploration of. Lon
don-from Wapplng to Kousington. among
high and low-with the view to great work
on the great capitul. NJ. Doro has made a
most interesting collection OF studies.
in Scotland tho pearl fishery OF the pro.
sent year, SO fur as it has gone. is q failure.
Fewer pearls have been found. and of those
obtained none are OF great vlluA; though, in
deed, We have heard OF one pearl which fctch-
ed q sum OF EGO. 1t was found in the Tay.
Bishop Lynch. OF Charleston, Sonth Caro-
lima, preached at st. Peters. Saratoga, sun
Ia nd A. -
lection, which was for the relief OF the diocese
OF Charleston, was largely increased Monday
by volunteer subscriptions from the hotel
guests. :
There is war Of churches in West Haven,
Conn. Tho Episcopal and congregational
forces set up aud tear down fonces, plough up
paths and remake them again. and flourish
revoivers, all because they can't wait for The
courts to decide the right Of possession to a
bit Of land and roadway,
SO far as known, the champion claimant
Of ageIs an Indian lady named Pee. kwa-no,
of Sioux City, Iowa, who wishes to be regarded
as one hundred and seventeen years OLD. She
has had thirty-fiye children. 1t is said that
she is not remarkably handsomej nor does she
look as il she had ever been e1duisiteIy beau
tiful. ijcf~ s"f>
The Musical World says that at a concert
lately given by the Auckland Choral Society 10
the officers Of the feet. his Royal Highness the
Duke OF Edinburgh TOOK part as '.lrst fddle,' :,
In the sopening pi,ce he played with Colonel
Balneavis and the other volinists. The Duke
subsequently, played in Mozarts '''Jupiter" and
other Orchestral pieces. ..s,,f.,5,.,. ,,,,s,,.
-EhD INpycSs saSenie will have q retipue
OF ABOUT thirty persons when she zslsits thin
county neSti year, among whom will, be the
Prince Imperial She will visit Boston, New
port, New York, Saratoga, Niagara Falls: and
perhaps California . SIT has been one Of nv
dSeams' 10 visit America" says the Empress.
"and d'nextyear # shall SEQ New York and
Niagsrn Falls .ti 10 .7Q s3t go 10 t.9ni .db
-Dakbtl Territory will soon be knockiplgs kn King at
the doors Uniop. Villages are said to be BE-
springing up there rapidly. q More than Eve
Thousand persons haze; emigrated to the Ter
ritoryDl bis summer The present population
is reckonsd at twenty Thousand, and forty seven
Thousand acres of.land have lately been taken
up under the:homestead and pre-emption laws
by actual ssttlgrs.co ras.i H:,p1 q prlissin
The W6itsoR Radicals in Maury County, Ten.
nessee. arc 'otrivfng to induce. all the negroes
In that county to'move 70 Florida About foauulr! 70 ii!
hundred have signed pledge 10 10. Others q
prefer AtzonA. The indi ynant Btoksrs az Q in.
ainerept where they 60, 20 that they quit the
State and deprive tho Benterites of labor.
These llast are, however, not iospondent. And
look confidently to, the Oelestisls TO. supn,s lha
chasm.e .E,,,rsr - - :,
The opening Of thg st! Pe,etsburr rnar..
trial E1hibitfo Flo fIsd fof the 1Sfh of M 7.
the ooblSg Year kii goods intended tor [; sSo
to be sent in between the. 18th February ana.
18th ApFjl,I Ihe introduction OF explosive and