The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-14
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Cotton in Liverpool closed active. Upland
lid; Orleans lid. Sales 10000 bales.
Matthew Arnold has lost his eldest son.
"A call is made for money to aid i'll printing
bibles and testaments in Madrid.
The Duke de Montpensier is described al
GOOD specimen of .Bourbon for family use.
King John, of Saxony, author of the bes
edition of Dante ever published. has jus
completed the sixty-seventA year of his age.
1t is said that one Of the last things tn
great Rothschild did before dying was to di
rect his family and friends to "sell Lombar
dy shares Short" knowing that his deatl
would produce panic in these securities.
Chief Justice Scott, OF the Maryland Su
preme Court, has decided in favor OF the con
stitutionality of the laws OF that State forbid
ding non.residents from selling goods withcu
taking out license.
Two Thousand women, wives. &C., OF the
Rajah of Jeypore, lately set upon their guar
dian, who WAS keeping them too strictly, ano
beat him most numerically. lie barely cs
caped with his life and broken arm.
Out Of all the Southern families that wen
to Brazil, at the close OF the war, only sever
or eight remain. The Hastings colony" OF
the Amazon, has been reduced to remnant
Those that are left are in destitute condition
The French envoy at Berlin has million
francs year to spend in secret service, but
Prussia fattcrs itself that the fund dies net
enable the ambassador to discover any secrets
before it is willing.
Out at the end OF the Central Pacific Rail
road track they have completD blacksmith
shop permanently fixed on wagon. 1t is
moved along about three times DAY to keep
pace with the workmcn. One team is detailed
regularly to move the blacksmith chop.
1t is stated that proposition has been
made which, in all probability will be accept
cd. that all the European governments who
have signed the International Currency Con-
yention, shall also adopt international postage
stamps.
An Austrian archbishop has been fined sew
enteen thousand horins for refusing to give up
the papeIs OF his ecclesiastical court in refer
ence to marriages, in accordance with the late
law enjoining civil celebration of the rite OF
marriage.
The representatives oftour hundred lodges
of Camanche Indians recently arrived at Fort
Bacon, New Mexico, and offered to surrender.
They were told no surrender would be received
except at Fort Cobb, General Shermau's object
being to have all the tribes within watching
distance.
A correspondent, writing from Camden,
Arkansas, says: "rhe crop OF this year is
great relief to the people OF this State and the
southern portion of the Mississippi valley gen.
orally. For three years, in addition to oil their
OTHER calamities, they had bad crop seasons.
This years crop will furnish them food and
clothing, and money to pay their heavy taxes" J"
in the latest of the kerosene murders iu
New York City, the coroner's jury rendered
verdict of 'sculpabie conduct on the part OF
those who manufactured and sold the kero-
sene. In all the numerous and evcr-recurring
kerosene accidents, the sama verdict might be
given. It would oe well for ooroner's juries
always to give it, and in course OF time the law
ON the subject might be enforced.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jefferson Davis arrived in
London on December 81, from bennington,
where they had been staying for several weeks.
During bis stay in Warwickshire Mr.. Jefferson
Davis visited the Lord Lieutenant (Lord Leigh
and several other noblemen and gentlemen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis and their family intend
passing the winter in the south OF France, MIR.
Davis being still in Indifferent health.
-velocipede building now forms an impor-
tant br anch of trado in Paris. There are not
only manufactures of these new locomotives,
but foundries where tho lion work os which
they are composed is cast. One OF these en-
ploys about two hundred and fifty wcrimer,
and finishes twelve velocipcdes psr day for
coach builder Of LYONS. A Lyonese velociped-
ist is willing to take any bot that he Will beat
the fastest trottcr in race.
The new wing OF the Treasury Department
is rapidly approaching completion. The throc
upper stories are finished, and carpets are now
going down ready for occupancy by tho Intcr-
nal Revenue Department. The lower floors
will not be flushed for two or three months.
The walls of the leash room" Q to bepanel!ed
with rare specimens OF Italian marble. Tho
marble will cost about $4,000. When finished
it will be the finest room il America, it not in
the world
Tho Boston Watchmaa and Reflector says
;hat few years prior to the commencement
Of that paper--a little moro than fifty years
aso-there were. besides the African Church,
but three Baptist churches in the Town OF
Boston; and within q radius of ten miles
around there we're only seven other Baptist
churches, all small and feeble. Now there
are fourteen Baptist churches in Boston, and
within ten miles thirty-flve more; and most of
them large and pro porous bodies.
Brigham Young has telegraph wires lead
ing to his Office, and connecting with every
hamlet in Utah. The line is five hundred miles
long in all. Every settlement of half dozen
houses as telegraph Office, with female saint
operators, IN charge of bishop of the Mormon
church, who reports all that takes place 20
Young. From his private Office in Salt Lake
CITY, like the watchman in tie fire telegraph,
the Mormon chief may give an order or ring IN
alarm from Idaho to New Mexico.
"A gentleman who has lately explored tho
islands OF Pyra mid Lake, IN Utah, which are
avoided from some superstitious fear by the
Indians. saws that it is impossible il the incu-
hating season to walk on the islands without
stepping on the eggs OF gulls, ducks, pelicans,
and other aquatic fowl. Two small rocky ISL
ands are alive with rat3lespakes, which bask IN