The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-21
NJ EWS S UNI MAR Il.

active and steady. Sales $500 bales at 2s2
cents.
( AT Liverpool cotton closed quiet. Sales
10000 bales; uplands 115d; Orleans lid.
Nearly tour thousand persons are said to
have starved to death in London last year. q
The city council Of Petersburg, Va, (Rad-
ical,) has appointed fifteen white and four
negro policemen.
Tho Episcopal convention OF Pennsylvania,
just held, adopted resolutions against ritual
istio innovations.
Failure to pay ones hotel bill was decided
by New York court on Thursday to be pen
itentiary offence.
Thirty days is the time it now takes for
merchandise to arrive from Yokohama, Japan,
to st. Louis. Mo-
The Marquis Of Butte has built hospital
for lepers at Jerusalem. in token of gratitude
for his conversion.
The 'Blue Grass" region of Kentucky has
sold the South during the past fall and winter,
$4,000, 900 worth Of mules. 81 =
Over seven hundred passengers left New,
York for Europe by the steamers Of Saturday
Last, tho grca or number going for the summer
trip. n3s
Scientific men say that the time of the
durnal revolution of the earth is gradually be-
ing shortened, on account of the shrinkage of
, tho sarth by cooling in the interior.
-Kentucky was first set foot upon by aniel
E>one, June Z. 1863, and the people. OF the
= tate propose celebrating the centennial by q
grand barbecue and festival at Frankfort
Official returns show that during the last
twelve months the number Of horses slain in
Paris for the meat market amounts to 240O
Five per cent. have been employed in making
.sausaSeS.
-T1e best time ever made on veloci pede
was accomplished at the rink at Cleveland,
Ohio, on Saturday afternoon, oy Mr.. Frederick
Hawley, of Rochester, New York, making fifty
miles in three hours, fourteen minutes and
thirty-n,ne seconds actual running time.
Upwards of five thousand European i'm
migrants arrived at New York during last
week. The packet agents say they expect an
equal number this week and every v week AfJdq t3l
Mma55fHFFS MmaaH555fHFFSS' of them Germans and Irish.
"A telegram from st. Louis, dated May II,
says: s'The South Pacific Railroad Company
received to-day the State Treasurer's checks
for one hundred thousand dollars on the con-
!, struction fund Of the company, making one
million dollars the company have applied TO the
construction Of the road and levees. One mil
lion dollars still remain in the construction
fund" :
= The Irish National Republican Associa-.
tion, through iw general committee, consist
ing OF gentlemen in every State and Territory
of the Union. have issued O. call for conven-
tion, to be held in Chicago ON the fourth Of
July next. The executive committee calls
upon. Irish republicans in every State and
Territory to send one delegate, with an al
ternate, from every Congressional District \
u, "a, government OIL :er stationed at Rich
7mond, Va, writes that negro labor is at u dig
count in that portion OF Virginia. The exten-
aivs sales of land in small portions to white
immigrants, who are cultivating the land them
selves renders it necessary for colored labor
ers to so further South in order TO seek en-
apfoyment. Over three hundred .colored people
have gone South by rail from Virginia in the
last month. Indications arethat the number
during the present month will be greatly in
excess Of last month. .H'N
1t is now ann ounced that Mr.. John Russell
Young has actually left the New York Tribune
Office, snd will shortly sail for Europe as sn !:
agent FOR Jay Cooke. The office Of managing 1
editor ofstha Tribune is abolisheds Mr.. Gree
ley is not only editor Of the paper de fire but
de Jtdoto, and IN his absence MIR. Whtelaw Reid
is to be obeyed and respected in accordance
with general orders issued from the meeting
room of the Tribune stockholders. There has
also been quite change among the small fry !
and other hangers on Of theofice, but they are |
'of nodnapoftance to the outside public. Mr.. |
Young, ii is said, will, upon his return from |
Europe, press his lawsuit against Dana to
the very bitter end. as he will be able. to
show actusl damages sustained by the Sun
publications.
---r.sc New York LeQisature has recently
passed an act In relation to the compoundinR |
OF physicians prescriptions. BY the terms of |
the law no apothecary is to permit any person |
IN his employ to put up q prescription unless |
said person is o medical graduate, or mas |
served an spprenti seship Of two years in q
drug store. Violations Of the p DIVISIONS of the I
act are to be deealed misdemeanors and run-
ished by fine Of one hundred dollars, or i'm
prisonment tor six months III the county Jail.
IL death ensues, the offence is to be deemed
felony, and punished by fine OF not loss than
one thousand dollars nor more than Eve thou
SAND dollars. and imprisonment in the State
prison Tor not less than two nor more than four
years. or by both fine and imprisonment, in the
discretion Of the court gs-s.,
speaking OF the Alabama elaine and our
new minister TO England, Washington tele-
REam 20 bne rev York Times Gays eMr.
Motley's sentiments on the Alabama question
ere kpown TO be in accordance with the recani
speech Of Senator Sunnner. and many indic.-
ions have been developed within the last two
or three days which 60 to show that the Pres,-
dent and the Secretary OF State very nearly
coiI eide with the Massachusetts senator. The
indications ct present are that the settlement
Of this question win not be Immediately
Attempted, unless the English Government
should refuse to listen to tho advice OF the
leading London papers and initiate nsgotia-
tions. A foreign war is one Of the last things
which President Grant would desire. but. at
the same time. the settlement Of question OF