The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-09
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i 2td; Orleans 12sd; sales II, 600 bales.
We see by the New York Weekly that W
Gilmore Sims, OF South Carolina is the autho
~of Dir next leading story, which is to be pub
! shed in a short time.
"A benevolent gentleman in Richmond
offers Avo dollars to any good-lookng younl
woman with name ending in Y, who will neve
use the termination ie
Births, marriages and deaths in an Oregon
'ournal arc arranged under the respective
heads Of Come. ""Fixed to Stay" and "Gone.
The second would not do in Chicago.
Tho female teachers of San Francisco are
married of more rapidly than their places car
b Q properly supplied Out of sixteen teachers
the Lincoln School, thirteen have been
married within five years, aud the other three
were already married.
Granite, Notwithstanding it's exceeding
hardness, splits as straight and clean as chest
nut stick. At one of the granite quarries o1
Maine recently, block was split out which
measured one hundred feet long, eight and q
half feet wide, and 6ve feet thick. Tt weig he'd
over three hundred tons. NJ
The theatrical critic of q Boston paper
sto!o his account Of The first perform ance of
the now English play of ''School," at Selwyn's,
bodily from an English paper, but forgot to
cut off the concluding part, which stated that
the author called before the curtain. AS
the author has never visited this colntry, the
theft Wa at once perceptlble.
"A man in Des Moines, lows, has erected a
dwelling house for himself built mostly of
p per. The weather boarding. inside walls
a! shinglng are Of that material known in the
West as the Crock River Company's building
paper" The cost is about two-thirds that Of
the ordin'ry materials. and the )use, it is
said is warmer than where plaster and wood
are used.
-Sitko is the place whore the traveller
either gains or loses one day in the week. A
person going eastwardlv around thu world,
gains tho day which is lost by one who goes to
: ths west and Sitka is the poiut at which the
two .rsckonings meet. The Russians who have
ourneyal toward it eastward through Siberia
celebrate their accustomed Sabbath, while the
Californian, who has reached it by westward
Quincy across America. finds the shops shut
and business sus pended on his Sa turday.
The application of the physicians Of Maine
for q law furnisbilg them with material for
ulsso,tion, which has boon roflsed by q dozen
'eglsiaiurca, has now taken the shape Of q bill
which is thought to be unobjectionable. 1t
celiurs into the honds OF tho fraternity the
bodies OF any persons dying in their city or
town. State prison or Jail, whose burial must
be at the public expense, provided the de-
ceased make ITO request to be buried, or if his
remains are not claimed by friends or kindred.
"A spring wagon has been invented by q
gentleman ia Mayslick, Ky.. whiol he proposes
to run without any kind Of animal or steam
power. He has already perfected small model,
which runs up or down hill very rapidly. The
power is receivedfrom an immense coiled steel
spring, which will run for half an hour without
being wound up. In going up hill the spring
exhapsts itself, but in going down hill 1T winds
tself up. The inventor claims that he can
carry very heavy loads over any ordinary road.
The editor of the Montgomery Daily Mail
writes from Louisville the following melan-
.choly paragraph: Yesterday had an inter
view with Mr.. Prentice. He is not the man he
was ton years ago. Indeed, his genius fs gone
and his person is mere wreck. His family is
broken up-wife dead, one son killed on the
Confederate side; another settled on farm
down the river-and the old man, verging on
three score and ten cooks his breakfast and
dinner in his little room on the third floor ol
the Courier building, and lives only in conver
sAtions about the past. This man once welded
an imperial power with his wit and his music
Now, the world has whirled past him, and he
les on the shore mere stranded wreck
"A Washington telegram OF the 5th instant
says President Grants father aud brother,
Orville Grant, a merchant in Chicago, are here,
In conversation with the old gentleman
asked him If Mrs. Grant, the Generals mother,
would be here for the inauguraton2 "No,"
ooi 49, io1 t, hor n hrr1, I,ov, 81
come, but she wouldn't-I did not scoId her
about it, for never did scold her and am toe
old to begin now. She said. 'Pap. do you
think would 20 to Washington and be stared
at by fifty thousand people, and have every
stitch on me printed IN fifty newspapers2 No
indeed She need not stay away on that &C
count" said the old gentleman, for sh,
would have looked as smart as anybody here
but she and Ulysses are good deal alike, anc
once her mind was made up there was no use
faiking to her any more about it,"
Secretary Stewards reply to the compliment
ctary letter OF the officers of the State Depart
ment, after thanking them for their gooG
wishes, cocc.udes as follows: "Gentlemen, i
would be as idle as IL would be presumptuous
7or us to undertake to fix standard for the
popular appreciation of our own services. Thai
will be the task Of history, which delights in
contemplating stu'liously the vicissitudes OF
nations, and that task can only be performed
when we shall have ceased to be. Let us
Eherefore, be content for the present will
claiming for ourselves and oonceding to each
other the humble nretension that whateve,
may be the errors which history may at an,
time detect. these errors have been in al
cases errors OF Judgment aud not of motive O,
purpose. In the name Of the President OF the
United States I thank You all, and each o
you, for the efficiency, fidelity. ability an
<coprtesy with which you have performed you
several tasks; Snj pray Goo 10 nave you III
constantly. with your respective families an,
friends, in His holy keeping"
Mrs. Captain. .Maauire is living evidenc