The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-08
VIEWS SUM MAR z.

Gold was eXclteo, closlnH ~ oV4'
"A first-rate New York shlrt-cutter gets
salary Of 5000 year.
chief Justice Chase has taken eostsge at
White Sulphur Springs, Virginia.
1t is DOW proposed by the Pacific hallway
folks to sell EXCURSION tickets "round the
world"
But 1Os out Of 800 applications made at
Washington for veloclpede patents have been
granted.
Slippery elm bark is peeled in Minnesota
in large quantities and shipped to Eastern
druggists. 81
California is adapted to the poppy culture,
snd will soon furnish opium to the devotees OF
that narcotic.
Cuban sympathizsrs spent 100000 on the
exped,tion recently intercepted by the govern
ment ct New York.
.-Kentueky towns refuse to license negro
beer.sellsrs, but reserve the employment for
The superior race.
1t is expected that the expenditures tor the
army will fall of during the next fiscal year
fully twenty-six millions.
San Francisco was to parade In its proce-
sion, on Monday, all the boys more than ten
years old, who were born in the State.
Mr.. Hurlbut, Of the World, it is reported,
win 20 to Europe to report the Ecumenlcal
Council and the opening Of the suez canal.
Mrs. General Grants "best" dinner BET was
made in Paris, expressly tor the White House.
Win the New York Tribune call this encoursg-
ing American manufactures
Reports Of great social immortality having
reached the ears OF the grand jury at Dubuque,
Iowa, subpoenas were issued to almost every
male inhabitant who had reached years OF dis
cretion.
-The New York Times is said to have re-
ceiyed, since Mr. Raymond's death, an ava
lsnche of propositions from would.be editors.
They are classified as follows: Persons willing
10 be managers, 6259; financial editors, 567O;
leaderwriters, 665; theatrical critics, 2076; re-
porter, 1; night editors, 0; errand boys, o.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: "rhe Chat
ham Railroad ls completed, we learn, from Ca
rev. OF, the North Carolina Railroad, to within
two miles Of Haywood. The terminus OF the
completed portion hasbeen named :Pullet Sta
tion.' honor OF Chicken Gunter, one OF the
representatives in the Legislature from Chat
ham County" a.,
-Inu Uasuruguun correspondents say that
there are four mortga ages on the National To-
telligenoer concern, covering $40, 900. The pa
per did not own cent of real estate. It has
been quite profitable. but could not support
one or two of its proprietors who lived in such
princely style as to astonish some Of the rich-
est men In the district.
Memphis, Tenn., under Radical rule Is not
pleasant place to live in. There have been
forty.three murders and homicldes committed
in the city and vicinity during the past twelve
months. or the guilty parties none have been
punished, and only two convicted and SEN
fenced, viz: Gavin and Moody, who are to be
hung on the 20th OF August.
.-Yergers confinement seems to be telling
on him. His fset are chained and his hands
are manacled, and the only glimpse he gets Of
the world, when hs is not before the commits
sion, is through Q little window at least eight
fest high. He said to thu Episcopal clergy
man who visited hum Monday, that he is quite
ready to die il Mrs. Crane wished it.
Sam Hildebrand, the notorious Missouri
OutlhHs WIZ ho0 OA6 00os1&-hVsSAec VIZ sAAS
butt of his rife. is reported to have died Of
the wound which he recently received when
defending himself against an armed posse OF
sixteen. He had escaped and wandered
through the brush for some days with large
party in pursuit. but cheated them OF the
$4,000 reward offered by dying under the
hands Of physician. =
A negro alderman was present at the Get
tysburg celebration. and was refused admission
to the hotel. Having, during last winter,
waited on o distinguished CongressmaDiwho
was in Gettysburg at the time, he applied to
him to use his influence in his behalf with the
hotel man. The representative declined to in
terfere. and the darkey stayed out in the cold.
The Mayor OF Washington, who was present.
did his best for the negro, but he failed to
stir the landlord.
"A bin has spassed the Senate Of Florida in
aid Of the railroads in that State. It is pro-
posed to issue bonds to the amount OF $14 600
a mile, to aid in extending the Pensacola and
Georgia ad to Mobile, all the bonds to be
issued at the same time. The second PROPOSE
tion is for the State to endorse to the extent of
$14,C00 mile the bonds of any comp Inv uu-
dertaking to build ra,lro I'd from Gainesville
to Tampa the endoised bonds to be issued as
sections of FIVE miles are in course Of construc-
tion.
The loclsmlth who picked the lock on the
outer door Of the Ocean Bunk vanlts has re-
peated he feat, the lock having been set this
time as it was on the night Of the robbery. He
WAS at work about four hours, and after he
had flushed szid he would open the lock at
any other combination in hslf an hour. The
bank offers reward, Of $25, 900 for the arrest
and final conviction OF the robbers, for the re-
turn Of the mouey twenty-five per cent of the
amount returned. ten per cent. on the price of
United States bonds returned, and liberal
percentage on other securities that may be re-
turned.
We learn from the Wilmington Journal
that q young lad, named Leoni las Beattie
Lsmo. saed thirteen years and nine months, a
son Of G. ". Lamb. Esq, was struck by hight
ming andinstantly killed, while hunting on the
beach a. MYRTLE Grove Sound, Saturday after
noon last. He had crossed over to the banks"
with little negro about the same age both
having guns for the purpose o. hunting marsh