The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-11
XEWs SUN MMARY.

81 Cotton closed steady, with sales OF GOO bales.
Middlings &c.
"a Owing to the disaster to the land lines, tele-
granbic communication with Liverpool was
suspended yesterday.
The stock exchange OF New York on we'd
nesday voted $4,000 to the widow and children
OF Secretary Rswlins, and like amount to the
widows and children OF the Ayondale victims
The Rawlins fund now amounts to $24,60O.
ls1s An electric organ is now being built in
London for Christ Church, camberwell. The
organ is to be placed in q chamber on tn the
south side .of. the chancel, above: the vestry,
but the organist win siton the opposite side.
among the choir. some fty feet distant from
tho organ.a r-Ec. - -i''l .
Fanny Fern says: eff one.hslf the girls
knew The previous lives Of the men they marry,
the list Of old maids would be wonderfully in
creassd.n Whereupon the Boston Post asks :
"r the men hnew what their future lives were
to be, wouldn'tit increase the list Of old maids
still further2" ~
a2o.Some paner having sneered at newly
agpointed officer in New Orleans, who had late
sIy y,emigrated from Texas, journal OF the lat
ter State says, IF you are not satisfied with
him send him back. We will trade you gov
ernor for him and throw ina chief justice and
small fry until you hollow hold, enoughl'"
The National Union Republican conven-
tion Of Mississippi met at Jackson on Wednes-
day, and unanimously nominated Judge Lewis
Dent for Governor, Judge E. l. Jetords Tor
Eeuterant-G Governor, and J. Z. Woodford and
Judges William Kellogg and Joseph W. Field
for Congress for the First, Third and Fourth
Districts. ,..- -.7 ..T,.sq t:t-gr.. 81
A ghastly lawsuit in San Francisco rested
noon the date of the death Of man whose
body was found in an advanced state OF de-
composition, ON the mountains. he had wan
S.dsrsd Of insane, and perished Of starvation,
and meantime $4,000 policy on bis tife had
run out. The insurance company claimed that
iKtook him Ave days to starve to death, and
thsWfdow that ne died ia four. The jury said
thssidov vas right alnd that the policy was
Q ;s-3he lawyers IN England reengaged in ar
Vurnent ss TO the classification OF en- earth
quaEeson point raised at the Liverpool as
sizes. The cause had reference 70 the monde
livery Of q cargoof nitrate OF soda, and it was
pleaded in answer that the cargo had been de-
aroysd by an earthquake on the Peruvian
eoass. Then: arose the knotty point whether
qhS earthGaakS was an ''accident" or . "ci55.
cumssance.ss and this has been left for the
jsdges 70 decide. a ~
,..---Enelshmen still cling With p4tenacity to
the hope That DR.. Living stone B stal living,
notwithstanding so long time has elapsed
sipce sny tidinss wste received from the Afri-
csn trsysiIer. They believe that he is the cap
tive of some African chief. or that he has
safned away westward from the Lake Tsngan-
Jfks,' having perhaps found clue to the origin
Ind Wsier sheds Of the Congo River A letter
from the wife Of the we'll known traveller,
Captain Burton, and which is supposed to re-
fect the latter's views, expresses, belief that
Dr.sLiyings.one is prisoner at the Town Of
I Lucenda, or Lunda, the capital OF the King OF
Ca1ambe. $50 si - .-.-s-.z.
= The Boston, journal Of the 2ssh uldmo
has . long and elaborate review, by B. +. But
les. of Mrs.. StoKe,s statement, of the, Byron
scandal. General Butler considers the case in
its legal aspects and in the light Of al the
.sridsnes or contemporaueous facts, of the
suppressior 1ef all documentary evidence BY
the wife, ofths extraordinary manner in which
this story is given to the public, considers it
moro ocopsonant with human reason to.con-
clude that the story Of Lady Byron, If We have
It correctly detailed TO Us, was . delusion or
mistake, than that this horrible crime in two
persons has been committed, and renamed
unreyealed, except to sefect few, until this
day. Anything too monstrous for General
Buffers conception may well be set down as
incredible. -, -. 80, ,...,..j -
The, recent act of Parliament compelling
railway companies to provide all trains travel
ling more than, tsenty miles Without stopping
with means of communication between pas
seueer and guard, has besn the subject Of
procesaIrg before the English magistrates on
tssoFsoent occasions. At Hertford, gentle
man who having inadvertently got INTO car
risge which was not ..slipped" at the station on
the Great Northern Railway to which he wish
ed to go, stopped the train, was fined 5s. and
costs, With the prospect of further proceed
ine:on q second charge. At Wakefield, another
gentleman, vino invthe same way stopped a
Sraln 70 6naDi0 ulLu ~ k0s out ~ . osoe'on oe
which itdia not regularly stop, was fined e.
10s., including costs. In both cases the mag
istrstes defined the section to mean that no
train was to be stopped for the personal con-
yeniencs Of any passenger, nor for any reason
not Involving urgent danger, such as fire, vio-
1encs, or sudden illness.
"A singular nautical enterprise ID now being
undertaken by . young Eng lishman named
Bennisons who proposes 70 paddle his own
canoe From New York to Texas. The boat in
which this enserprisina young man has under
taken his long Journey is only fourteen feet
long, and weighs sixty pounds. 1t is built
-staunchly, yet lightly. Of some tough wood,
and is decked two-thirds over with mahogany.
InTthe centre is an open space where the
rover Mts. supported at the back by two up
right stats OF wood and . cross piece. and
vrotecsed in front by rubber apron,
svhich bassons him completely into the boat.
For cargo he carries only His rife and am
mupisicn ands few other articles packed away.
and his propuinys power is given by double
bl.ded paddle, made Of ash, and weighing only
two sad-a.half pounds. he proposes to stop
for food and sleep at such points rs may be
convenient. Er. Bennison has padded his