The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-30
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in New YORK COTTON clOSeu IOWers mlu-
dlings 2Ss2Slc. Money was easier.
Gold closed at 312.
The German language is to be taught IN
the public schools OF Washington.
Fred. Winslow, Boston boy, took the
highest honors at HeidGberg University, Ger
many, this year.
,HAtDe1ter" made mile-the first OF two-in
s:a1, Friday, and Bonner is out with card to
say that be win not trot against "Lady Thorne. ="
"A recent publication, based upon letters
from several hundred cotton planters, states
that whep labor is fully organized, the South
can produc at least one hundred millions OF
bales OF cotton annually.
"A New Y rk dry goods market report says
that "SoutLeru buyers mustered In good force
last week. and purchased large lines, especially
IN prints, domestics and shawls." No mention
is made Of Western buyers.
During the time the Gcumcnieal Council
is sitting in Rome, an exhibition Of oil paint
ines by old masters will bs held. Those only
win be admitted which treat on subiess tou1d-
ed On Biblical history and portraits Of diga:ta-
ries Of the Catholic Church.
.g-eOhief efJustice Psrley, Of the Supreme Court
81 New Hampshits, has recently decided that
where any property is transported over rail
road line composed Of several distinct roads
the ORIGINAL company which received it is lia-
ble for the loss or injury. should any occur,
whether the damage be on its own road or any
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The signature to o valuable documeEPin
AIexandria, Va, was written with purple ink,
and, to the dismay of thu possessor. it has
faded entirely away. A paper in that city sc-
cordingly eondemns the use Of purple ink for
legal documents. bdt suggests that it would be-
highly sppropz;ate for love-letters. The sug-
eestion may be appreciated in Chicago.
"A company has been formed in Paris to
carry out really novel idea in the way Of ad-
yersising. The company takes lease OF one
window in the second or third story OF house
in a prominent street or boulevard. From
dusk till after milnight . transparency. bril-
isntly Lit ND, on sea-green ground, sets forth
the advertisemegt. Y,n can arrange either
for display once . week or whole week,
&C., alternately in any OF the windows in the
several quarters possessed by the company.
AN old trappsr who GRO used the Western
plains Ehirty-Hve years ag1. says that there
was no grass a. ell, hu; ouiy few sage
bushes and ocacti. Now, there is thin soil
formed over tho sand and gravel, and grass
covers the entire surface. It appears that this
enriching process goes on faster and faster
every year. This is why 80 many people have
been astonished at not finding any "Great
American Desert" and conclude that it was
only myth. The truth Is that it did exist,
but has passed away.
"A htersry entertainment Of a decidedly
noYel character has bsen arranged for the com.
ing winter in Boston. a course Of lectures is
announced, in Which, on every alternate night.
two lecturers shall present opposite views OF
vital issues. Professor Perry is to advocate
free trsde and Horace Greeley is to reply, hev.
Gilbert Haven viii present the claims OF wo-
vans suffrage, and Rev. Mr.. Fulton willoppose
the innovation. Rev. Mr.. Alger will set forth
the humanitarian theory Of Christ, and Rev.
Mr.. Townsend will state the Tripitarian theory.
A prominent Democrat and prominent Repub-
Icsn have been selected to represent the views
OF their respective parties.
THE anti ,-Prussian newspapers OF North
Germany are again beginning to express hopes
of the cutbresk Of q Franco Prussisn war. The
Emperor Napoleon. they say, is the only OBJ
stacle to such o war, and Whatever party takes
the direction Of; affairs in France after him
must make the first object Of its policy the hu-
mibstion Of Prussia and the restoration Of the
dispossessed sovoreigns. Even 1t the Empe-
ror should survive his present illness, they
add, he must, in order to save his throne, give
France parliamentary government; and suoh
8 government would be the natural adversary
of the despotic regime, Of which Prussia is the
representative. a regency or an orleanist ad-
ministration would find war with Prussia the
best means Of consolidating its power athome,
and French Republic would certainly never
allow "Pressian Cssarism" to grow up on its
frontier.
The consulgeneral OF Switzerland recent
iy paid . visit to Swiss colony or settlement
in Grun6v County, Tennessee. The tract they
OCCUPY embraces nearly ten thousand acres OF
land, producing an abundant growth OF yellow
pine, holly, laurel and other woods, which the
Swiss carvers delight to work up into toys and
domestic implements. Some of the colonlsts
have sufficient means to engage at once in
stock fsisipg and grape growiog. Ali like the
climate and natural surroundings,in in which they
find much 10 remind them OF their native coun.
try. The land they own was bought at titty
cents an acre. is within twelve miles OF Tracy
City, and the settlers have access to coal and
water.pover enough to run the machinery in
Tennessee for fifty years to come. The con-
sul-genersl is greatly pleased with the condi-
tion OF the oolonists and their prospects. He
dues not favor their settlement in large bodies,
as that would tend to cultivate elannlsh spirit
and prevent assimilation with the natives OF
the State. II the proper measures could be
Insulated. it Is taouaht that from ten to If
teeps .thousand5 Of these ingenious, virtuous
peope could be settled on the cheap lands IN
this ncini5y .4ithrp the next twelve months
Mr.. @. Koopmanscbasp, II putting his busi-
ness os labor impoEsstien in trains all over the
couptry.1 TIE other day. be was in New York.
SATURDAY he sas ip Washington, to-day be is
in Meaphiss and -he-p promises 70 visit New Or
leans and other parts pf ths saush.. 10 talk to-
the Louisville Commercial Conyantion on the
10th OF next mooth. leaving San Francisco for
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