The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-09
VIEWS SUM MAR T.

Gilmore Sims, oil South Carolina, is the author
of their next leading story, which is to be pub
i shed in short time.
"A benevolent gentleman in Richmond
offers fve dollars to any good-looking young
woman with name ending in y, who will never
use the termination lie.
Births, marriages and deaths in an Oregon
ournal are ar anged under the respective
heads Of Gone, "Fixed to Stay" and 'Gone.'
The second would not do in Chicago.
The female teachers Of San Francisco are
married off more rapidly than their places can
b 9 properly supplied. Out Of sixteen teachers
y, the Lincoln School, thirteen have been
married within FIVE years, and the other three
were already married.
-Glanite, Notwithstanding it's exceeding
hardness, splits as straight and clean as chest
nut stick At one of the granite quarries oi
Maine recently, block was split out which
measured one hundred feet long, eight and O
half feet wide, ard five feet thick. 1t weighed
over three hundred tons.
The theatrical critic of Boston paper
stolo his account of The first performance OF
the n n,w English play of 'School," at Solwyn's,
bodily from an English paper, but forgot to
cutoff the concluding part, which stated that
the author was called before the curtain. As
the author his never visited this country, the
theft was at once perceptible.
"A man in Des Moines, Iowa, has erected
dw. ..ling house for himself built mostly Of
,pa2,r. The weather boarding, inside, walls
anal shingling are OF that material known In the
West as the Crock River Oompany's building
paper" The cost is about two-thirds that OF
the e}ordinery materials, and the house, it is
said, is warmer than where plaster AMI wood
are used.
-i-Sitka is the place where the traveller
either gains or loses one day in the week. A
person going eastwardy around the world,
gains the dry which is lost by one who goes to
the west, and Sitka is the poiut at which the
Two reckonings meet. The Russians who have
ourneyel toward it eastward through Siberia
celebrate their accustomed Sabbath, while the
Californian, who has reached it by westward
ourney across America. finds the shops shut
and business suspended on his Sa turday.
The application of the physicians OF Maine
QlSSoCClOu, MutCu Iao boAiA ASNeS>~ - :" ~
legislatures, has now taken the shape OF q bill
which is thought. to be unobjectionable. 1t
deliyers into the hands of the 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 no request to be buried, or it his
remains are not claimed by friends or kindred.
"A spring wagon has been invented by
gentleman ia Mayslick, KY, whicl he proposes
torun without, amy kind Of animal or steam
power. de has already perfected small model,
which runs up or down hill very rapidly. The
power is receivedfrom an immense coiled steel
snfing, which will run for half an hour without
being wound up. In going up hill the spring
exhausts itself, but in going down hill it 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 MIR. Prentice. He is not the man he
was ten years ago. Indeed, his genius is 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, verginS on
three score and ten. cooks his breakfast and
dinner in his little room Oh the third floor OF
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 whirlcd past him, and ne
les on the shore a mere stranded wreck"
"A Washington telegram of the 5th instant
SAYS President Grants father aud brother,
'Oryille Grant, merchant in Chicago, are here,
In conversation with the old gentleman
9 asked him If Mrs. Grant, the Generals mother,
would be here for the Inauguration? NO."
he said, "[ tried to coax her and brlbe her to
come. but she wouldn't did not scold her
about it, for never did scold her and am too
old to begin now. She said, pap, do you
think would go to Washington and be stared
at by fftys thousand people, and have every
stitch on me printed IN fifty newspapers? No,
indeed She need not stay away on that ac-
count" said the old gentleman, for she
would have looked as smart as anybody here;
but she and Ulysses are good deal alike, and
once her mind was made up there was no use
talking to her any more about H."
Secretary Stewards reply to the compliment
tary letter Of the officers OF the State Depart
ment, after thanking them for their good
wishes, concules as follows: "Gentlcmen, it
would be as idle as it would be presumptuous
for us to undertake to fix standard for the
popular appreciation OF our own services. That
will be tho tasL of history, which delights in
contem plating stuiiousy the vicissitudes of
nations, and thai task can only Lo performed
when wo shall bave ceased to be. Let us,
therefore, be content for the present with
claiming for ourselves and conceding TO each
other the humble p1etension that whatever
NAV be the errors which history may at any
time detect, these errors have been in all
cases errors Of judgment and not of motive OF
purpose. In tho pane Oft the President OF tho
United States I thank you all, and each of
YOU, for the efficiency, fidelity, ability ami
courtesy with which you have performed your
several tasks; and pray God to have you all
oonst unity, with your respective families and
friends, in His holy keeping
Mrs. Captain Mcguire is living evidence
Of the ability OF woman to discharge the du-
ties of positions generally filed by the steiner