The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-01
N VS. s u M MAR 7.

Gold declined in New York, yesterday, to
38a. Sterling was quiet at 81. Stocks excite
and strong.
Cotton in New York. yesterday, closed ac-
tive and cent higher. Sales 1000 bales at
294 cents.
In Liverpool, yesterday evening, cotton
was q shade more active. Uplands 11Ad; Or
leans 113d. Sales 900 bales.
-Dickens is mentioned as one of the pros
pective life peers under Lord Russells bill.
An Alabama ruralist complains that he
sont four dollars to jewelry firm in New York
Cor music-box playing twenty -four tunes, and
received in return jewsharp.
/. The claims OF American citizens on Mex-
CO, it is said, foot up to the total Of sixty mil
lions of dollars; and the joint commission ap-
pointed to adjust these claims will shortly meet
to consider them.
r The first Hartford passenger across the
continent by the completed Pacific Railroad
was young woman, who had faith enough in
young mans word to travel thirty-fve hum
dred miles to marry him.
"A Wisconsin paper having exulted over the
fact of it's coming out in new dress, rival
sheet remarks: "In this. as in everything else.
they are an age behind our Office, which was
The editor of the Norfolk (Va.) Journal has
recently seen quart of strawberries which
weighed one and three-quarter pounds. Fif.
teen berries made the quart, and each meas
ured over three inches and half in circumfer-
ence.
"A kerosene lamp exploded last Friday
evening in house on Fifth Avenue, New York,
and burned Mrs. Franklin Blaum and her three
children, Frankie, George, aged six, and Clara,
aged three, all seriously, and the mother
fatally.
In New York, on Thursday last, a youth
named John Lang, while at work, was seriously
burned about the face by the explos Of q
kerosene lamp. These accidents are becoming
numerous, and some effort should be ma 1e to
protect the thoughtless and ignorant from the
dangers that are daily occurring from the use
Of explosive burning fluid.
The French Atlantic Gable, it is announced,
will be completed by June LIST, only one hun
dred and seventy miles Of the line having to be
made. The Great Eastern, with the cable
aboard. and with the tenders, will leave Sheer
ness. noar the mouth Of the Thames, on June
10th. and, after coaling at Portland. will pro-
ooed 10 Brost. From D1 ost ti.o 1aaot1. y,
will Immediately start for st. Pierre, off New
foundland. while two other ships will sail for
st. Pierre direct, to lay the portion OF the line
between st. Pierre and Duxbury, Massachu-
setts. The land line from Duxbury tc New
York is already in course OF construction.
The Detroit Free Press makes the follow
ing singular statement: Senator Chandler
left here. with his family and servants. on Sat
urday night, for New York. where he will re-
main q few days preparatory to sailing to
Europe. His wife aud daughter each take with
them q colored female servant, and he takes
two black male servants. These servants are
to be fitted out while in New York with very
SNOWY livery. The coats Of the men servants
are to be OF lavender color, with white buttons,
upon which is the Michigan coat Of arms. ex-
cept that the stays support the letter @, which
is Of red enamel, with gold edge. The female
servants wear large belt buckles bearing the
same design as that upon the buttons. The
hats Of the men are black, with wide purple
band and large silver cockade, in the centre
Of which is one Of the buttons aforesaid.
The statistics Of divorce in Connecticut
are startling. During last year the divorces
numbered four hundred and seventy-eight, or
more than one-tenth the number Of marriages..
All the marriages celebrated in the State dur
y
The Norwich Bulletin says: ''A large proper
tion OF these are marriages between foreign
ers, communicates OF the Roman Catholic
Church, who. except in very rare cases, never
trouble the courts The TWEEN y-ave unhappy
couples whose names adorned the Superior
Court docket for this county at it's last term
are, without exception, native citizens. Add to
this the number who are practically divorced,
but who, from family or other considerations,
neglect to obtain a legal separation, end the
extent OF the evil will be made apparent" !"
The new Governor Of Connecticut has recon-
CONNIE nded to the Legislature a modification
OF the existing divorce laws, the provisions of
which are SO lax that there is hardly any appli-
cation for divorce whichsthe judges could le-
galIy refuse.
Last Wednesday, in New York City, an
election was held among the Methodists for
fve trustees to take charge Of the usual great
camp meeting, to be held at Sing Sing, in Au-
gust. The female members were entitled to
vote, and as great complaints we're made last
year by this portion OF the church in regard to
the unfair and injudicious allotment OF the
tents, great excitement prevailed. Five print
ed tickets, cont aiming the names of the candi-
dates differently combined. were distributed
by canvassers stationed near the polls, but
scratching" also prevailed to some extent.
BY six o'clock only thirty-fve female votes had
been cast. but according to the tactics OF an
ordinary political election. the women reserved
their strength TIL the last moment, and at 9
O'Clock, the time Of closing the polls, came up
In large body Of near a hundred, to decide
the contest. In addition, the married women
exercised supervision over their husbands
votes, examining the ticket ana depositing i:
in the box, with tho remark in some cases
''yon =yS..s that. assT; that's ali right
This incident caused the general observation
s'That's what we're coming. to-
The newest of the new plans for connect
ing England with France by railway, is that o
submerged iron tuba, to be supported at {
depth Of about so feet below the surface Of thu
water by iron trestles, the feet of which viii