The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-09
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Notices, 40 cents a line Marriage ana FunerM No-
uses. One Dollar each.
VIEWS s UMM MARY.
Gold closed, at New York, frmer, at 96Ba
81.
Tho New York cotton market was un-
changed; sales 1900 bales at SAGE.
AT Liverpool cotton closed arm at pravious
quotations; sales $4,000 bales.
Mr.. Alfred Tennyson ID travelling ia Swift
zerland.
"A girl nineteen years old owns and works q
hunared-acre farm in Iowa.
Home, the Splrituallst, has been invited to
visit the Emperor of Russia.
-Spinters from SIX ''last ties' OF the Pacific
Railroad have been sold, and the supply is still
equal to any possible demand.
Five English gentlemen have made We
locipede match to travel the entire coast
Line Of England, Scotland and Wales in Sep
tamber. IL
--EnArgetic efforts are being made to rem
= dor Paris Grand market for American Sc
0urities, and Considerable Ruccess has been
obtained. ...-.-.-
john Francis Mcguire, M. p, has resigned
his seat in the Cork Municipal Council. Coun-
sillor james Dwyer has been elected to the va
cant position.
The Chinese in California are very skilful
In oounterfeiting gold dust, and succeed in SELL
Ing q good deal of the bogus article. This
was once tried in Australia, but lynching
stopped it.
Michigan forests can hardly hold out long
against the enormous drafts made upon them
every winter. There is one jam in river of the
State and Its branch sixty. two miles long. The
lower end is in the Titibawasse Rlver; but no
one could have expected that logs should get
through q river with such crooked name with
out sticking.
-Captain Crawford, special agent Of tie
Treasury Department at Washington, who was
recently sent out to examine the various kinds
and qualities Of kerosene used on steam boats
ON the Western waters, has ascertained by
careful scientific tests and reported that nearly
all the different varieties sold are in greater
or less degree explosive and murderous.
The German citizens OF New York are
making an active movement for the introduce
sion Of the study Of their language in the pub
lie Schools OF tnat city. They have orranizca'
q central and ward organizations, and have
raised eoosdssse a,,s.f ths & 2aa n
New York Board OF III son rrfa ropEft II "
it's desirabIty, aud it seems to DO thought it
will be carrlod.
The fashionable circles Of Brooklyn are dis
turbed just now,by well-founded report that
the daughter Of q wealthy merchant living on
the Heights eloped last weok with her fathers
coachman; while those Of South Boston are
hardly less agitated over the fact that young
lady Of social position and culture. and one Of
the bellies of that aristocratic locality, has
adopted the stage as profession, ana will ap-
pear at one Of the New York theatres next au-
tumn.
An Iowa paper reports that as q man and
his wife we're at work in field in that State,
their chill l, which was in basket near them,
was heard to cry, and the husband asked his
tIife to 60 and see what the trouble was. She,
-'Ant upon her work, delayed few minutes.
aal tne- l-er horror, found the child dead,
.@,va G lars, snake coiled around it. The
hus SD and, ID he frenzy Of his anger and grief,
a;rnck lis wife with hoe which he heli in his
hand, and killed her instantly.
The Belgian pavement, now laid down IN
Fifth Avenue, Naw York is to be covered with
q coat Of concrete. This plan will give the lat
tor style ofpavement the best possible founda-
ton, and the experiment thus inaugurated will
afford reliable test OF it's availability for
much used carriage way. The result IS locke d
forward to with no little interest," as, should
it prove to be successful, it is likely that the
same course will be adopted in good many
other streets, and in other places besides New
York
The Hon. Alexander n. Stephens has writ
ton letter givlag his views upon the legal
status Of the expelled negro members OF the
Georgia Legislature. Mr.. Stephens agrees
with the decision or the Supreme Court of
Georgia that negroes are eligible to flee un-
der the present constitution and laws Of that
State and that the Legislature committed an
error in expelling the negro members. He
holds. however, that the action Of the Legisla-
turs was fnal-that no appeal can be taken
from it-and that the Legislature is not COM
petent to reverse its own action in the prem-
ses after having once decided the question.
The new Secretary Of the Navy is under
stood to have been recommended to the Pres-
dent not only by the gift OF tve hundred dol
lars towards Mr.. Grants house in Philadelpha,
but also by his joviaI temper. It Is not sur.
prislnR therefore. TO learn shat one of his first
official a,ts has been to telegraph to Admiral
HoH to send home the steamer Tallapoosa. as
he wants it for pleasure party" OF high off,
caals. This will be good news to the officers ef
the TaIapoo.a, who must find it quite O bore
to be poking about the Cuban coast to protect
Yankee sklppers from Spanish overhauling.
decidedly Robeson 's ''jolIy." And as for the
expenseT Well, that is not Robeson's affair,
you KNOW
-rhelcommiasioner rs OF Alabama appointed
70 negotiafe Tor the annexation OF WeSt Florida |
to that State, having made contract with tha |
commissioners appointed ON the part Of Florida |
for the purchase deailed. have reported the re.
in nf OH lo hOr RI nox Il
bans. The contract conveys to Alabama ju-
risdiction over all the country ,ssest of the |
ApsIachicola Riyer; vests in 1aabama all the
iands n, Afa ,,rn,,ofaAd tarritoru nnxu