The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-18
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saIes 1900 bales 1t 2Si.
In L.ve1pool cotton closed quiet and IN
changed; sales 5000.
BY chemical process, knife handles and
fine tooth combs, 1t is said, are now made
from potato pulp.
When stoves are led-hot, the gases Of CON-
bustion, it is SAID. leak through their pores
like water through spon e.
- Brigham Young is the president OF COM
pany formed to build q railroad from Salt Lake
City to the Pacific Railroad.
DIR. Harris, the Republican candidate for
the lieutenapt-eo -eovernorship OF Virginia at the
approaching election, is colored man.
"A olothiug firm IN New York have given to
their one HUNDRED and seventy-6v clerks q new
suit Of clio, hes, preparatory to their removal to
their new store.
Large quantities Of hops lernain on hand
in Wisconsin, aud the price is so low that s.
frst-class article will not pay the cost OF pick
ing, drying and selling.
Seventy Tennessee negroes arc now trying
to make the courts give them $4,000, which
was left them by the will OF their former owner
in CASE they went to Liberia.
1T is said that all the gold in the world en-
ployed for coin, pac, jewcry, &C., if put in
single oubioal block, would be twenty-si1 feet
square, and weigh 10 500 tons. It's common
cial value would be six billion dollars.
Tho following is.taken from an advertise
ment Of DR.. ks liver-encouraginG, silent
perambulator family pills: This pill is as mild
ss pet lamb, AID it don't so foolius about
1t attends strictly to business, aud is as CO..
tain IS an alarm clook."
An Ohio paper tells Of conductor who
very kindly stopped his train to allow two cou-
pies and clergyman to o light and perform ths
marriage ceremony at a house oy the roadside.
TheperEormance occupied about three ulnutes,
and the welded pa'rs getting aboard again,
the tram travelled on.
The female population of the Bermudas,
as at many other maritime places, far exceeds
the male, there beiug about four times as
many OF tho former as of the latter. AS na-
tural consequence, young gentlemen are in a.
most constant favor and demand, and OF new
arrival the first and unlversa! question asked
sis he married?"
"A well known citizen of New York recent
" died with such strange symptoms that his
nhyueian procured the permission OF resur-
reoting the body and making an autopsy.
From that it appesred that the heart aad LIVER
had always occupied positions opposite to those
usual and natural. The heart was on the
right side and the liver on the left.
"A young woman in Chioago has invented
,av branch of female usefulness. She adver-
tises that she will ''givs lessons in etiquette
and the way of oonverslng With ladies, to any
voung gentlemen who does not feel at ease IN
in the society of the opposite sex. Tuition TO
lovers. extra" She has been quite successful,
and makes specially OF proposals In various
FORMS"
The Herald O, Monday, in its money mar
.ket review for last week, says: southern BE-
curities were, in general, higher and firm in
tone through sympathy, more or less defined,
with government bonds. TIE Southern States
all manifested disposition to pass law re-
ouiring agents of outside insurance companies
TO deposit State bonds as security with the
State authorities. The demand which this
measure has and will create for Southern bonds
ia another source Of strength In the market
"A firm in Washington have Japanese
mermaid on exhibition. 1t is about sixteen
inches in length, the body bearing close re-
semblance to the yellow perch, excepting that
4 row Of bones appear down the back. At the
point where the sills OF the fish should ap-
near. two arms grow out, about two and half
ar three inches IN length, ut the end Of which
are well defined hands, with lons talons. The
head is about the size of walnut. very similar
to the human head and attachsd TO the body
by an exceedingly small neck.
The Baton Rouge, Louisiana Advocate
Saws "Steady and quiet is the advance OF
small farmers into the cultivation OF cane. In
q very few years the country between the Amite
and Mississippi Rivers will produce an aggre-
gate of thousands Of hogsheads. all the result
Of the enterprise and industry Of the farmers
on sm,n tracts of land. Scattered around at
intervals, at the present time, are places
with twenty, thirty and forty acres Of cane
planted. Those will yield an average Of from
twenty to sixty hogsaeads of sugar next fall
We read III the New York papers that
sad story Of luhum nifty and barbmous treat
ment is told by the passengers OF an emlgrant
ship just arrived at that city from Liverpool.
They say they were beaten and starved during
the whole voyage, and that two of the crew
died from excessive beating and kicking by the
captain and his mates. A woman died from
the eff.cts Of being kicked by the mate, and a
babe died ina few hours after receiving hlck
in the head from The same brute. Tho captain
ond mate have fed, bat the second mate and
carpenter ware arrested. a thorough investi-
CATION is to be had.
The New York Times has the following
oneer paragraph: I'VE have discouraging ac-
counts. from private sources, from those who
nrcnosa going South for a milder climate dur
;op the raw and incleme ent season Of our spring.
There seems to be no room there, as every
n,aoe is already full! Passengers from Savan-
nah by boat to Florida. very frequently return
IN the samc boat because they can fad no ac'
.ommodatlons whatever. Invalids from the
North already occupy evc:y ara1lab'> house ID
all the available Towns OF that vicinity as OF
nearly everv other in the Southern states'
Even in Savannah, where The hotel acccmmo-
dat,on, are better than in most Southern
cities. and where the climate is not especiaily
inviting, guests are constantly turned away
for lack Of room Our Northern people must
buy Southern places for their winter residence;
and fortunately the chances to do 80 on faVol-
o,le terms arc very abundant That thousands