The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-21
N E VS. 8 y " M A Ic T.

AT Liverpool cotton c.osed quiet; quota
tions unchanged.
The Spanish Regency hss been recognized
by France and Prussia. e.
Russia is arrayed against Rome, and for
b ids her bishops to attend the Ecumenical
Council.
The Know-Nothing party has broken loose
among the Chinese. FOREIGNERS generally are
denounced and threatened in that heavenly
land.
"A Methodist clergyman, named Mitchell,
residing in Madison County, New York, forged
the name Of county bank president 10 . check
for $50o0 cached it in New York city was ar
rested, restored $4,000 and escaped.
1T is claimed that the Peruvian, of the Ca
madam line, al Quebec, has just made the
quickest passage across the Atlantic on record,
having been i've days, eight hours and forty
minutes In going from land to land. fl-l !.
"A large and handsome building has re-
Gently been erected on Seventh street, Rich
mond, adjoining the new Richmond theatre,
for botel PURPOSES, intended more especially
for the accommodation aud entertainment of
colored people, !" but whites will not be exclu-.
ded." ~ ''.sA --+ t~ 'yHHs"
The London newspapers contain corres-
pondenoe from Canton, stating that prepara-
tions are making there for Wholesale emigra-
tion to the United States on the part OF the
masses, who are but too eager to embrace any
opportunity to get away from their mandarins
and the bastinado. ..e s.p
Two performers in Dan Castello's circus,
ut Salt Lake, Utah, named Martioho Lowande
and Henry Steinart, were shot q few evenings
ago, while on their way to their hotel after
performance, by some unknown person. It is
said that the shots were intended for Martinho.
he having in some way. injured or insulted q
q lady. Np
"A number OF Germans from the Baltimore
Saengerfest were at the Executive Mansion Fri.
day morning, and after going through the par
lors and East Room, they assembled in the last
named apartment and sang a farewell song,
which was received within great applause by q
number OF persons who had congregated
there. - ax sss
Miss Evans killed Captain James M. Den
mon, in Cass county, Georgia, on Saturday
morning last, before day. by splitting open his
skull with an axe while he was asleep. MISS
Evans ha l f. :merly lived at Captain Denmon's
house, snd was spending the night there. She
arose IN the night and went from her room
into that occupied by Captain Deamon and his
wife, and there committed the bloody deed.
The cause Of the murder was not known.
The proposition to import Chinese for, the
Southern plantations has attracted not only the
attention of K opmanschaap. who keeps Chi
nese intelligence Office for ali ths'world Of the
worlds centre, as Californ,ans deem San Fran
cisco. but now we have 1t that General Hiram
Walbridge and others, with $40 O0O, 900 or less,
all in scrip, expressly manufactured for tn,
purpose. are 70 build steamships to run by
way OF tie Suez Canal to India and China for
the purpose of importing coolies.
"A Washington telegram to the New York
Times says: "The business and commercial
reports from the south are OF the most en-
couraglng character. A gentleman who has
travelled over nearly all of the Southern States
says that the people generally have not only
recovered from the effects Of the war and the
general depression of a year ago. caused by
political complications but that they are now
on fair road to riches, and that the entire
section of country will shortly be as flourisb1ng
azs it was before the war;"
Tho elegant residence OF Mr. Carroll near
Ridg way, N. c.. was burned on Saturday
night last, having been set on fire by q. SER
want girl, who, while drawing oil in the base
ment. carelessly lighted lamp near the run
ming oil, which quickly ignited, enveloping
her IN h'mes visitor in the house, with
pra'seworthy presence Of mind, seized q blan-
ket and wrapped around her. thus saving her
from imminent death. The house was not in
sured, and was q total loss. Here is another
sad calamity to warn those who use oil. ~
Niagara Falls is still slowly wearing away.
Considerable excitement was recently produc-
ed by the announcement that the Horse Shoe
Fall had caved in. About thirty or thirty-fve
feet Of rock has given away on the old Horse
Shoe Fall. which gives the shoe triangular
shape on the side nearest Goat Island It is
computed that &C me seventy to one hundred
tons OF rock must have fallen IN, from the deep
gorge 1t has made. The fall OF these rocks
does not. we learn. in the least spoil the
beauty Of the Horse Shoe Fall; il anything, it
adds 10 its attractiveness.
The recent explosion Of nitro-glycerine at
Caernarvon Wales, was terrible in it's effects.
Three m 70 were blown to fragments, the cart
wheels hurled more than milo from the spot.
and houses within short distance completely
wrecked. The whole valley ut the foot OF
Snowdon was shaken, and the lakes were yisi-
bly affected. Portions OF the remains OF the
unfortunate men were found forty Yards dis
Sant, cart wheel was dlscerned ON ledge ~
rock one hundred and fifty feet perpendicn,or
height above the roadway. and men ct WORK in
the quarries three hundred yards away were
seriously injured. tx,.1
Massachusetts has been considering the
egg question. Areport eleven pages long was
recently made to the Legislature upon bill
to regulate the sale Of eggs by weight. La this
report the minority, who favor the bill. discuss
the egg question, ancient and moiern, from
every point OF view; contrast the size of eggs
and bonnets. aud declare that the female man
ayers Of tho boultry sard have studied roliti-
cal economy profouadls in order to reduce the
s,2e and increase the number OF their eggs.
They treat Of the egg trade betweet, France
and England, Of poultry houses and diseases
md or the tiaathaanf az setting hans Tic