The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-12
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Gold closed in New York yesterday dull
at 35.
Cotton closed moro active, with sales Of
1900 bales at $40.
10 Liverpool cotton closed Arm with sales
Of $4,000 blles. Uplands 13d. Orleans 13da
1Ssd.
~ The ,s'Avitor' flies three times day in San
Francisco; admission as cents.
, Illinois is the first Northern State 10 or
game coored men as part OF che militia.
: Mrs. Grant once wrote poetry tor w esteru
journals. uuder the signature of .'Anastasia."
In some parts Of Georgia the cotton plants
,aIe'so heavy with bolls as to break down, Ind
FtSo' bales to the acre are expected.
-rhe present population OF Atlanta is thlr-
ty-fve Thousand and there are eleven hundred
new hOu ,es 10 process of construction.
-Ex-Senator Jesse D. Bright was reelected
to the Kentucky House of, Representatives,
from the Counues OF Carroll and Trimble, last
week. !. -''-.> ..5. re- ..:.sg !. ,,'' M
1t is now the plan to elect ex-senator
Henderson Governor Of Missouri by the same
tactics whioh elected Senter Governor OF Ten
nessee.
Chicago has started subscription which
alreadv foots up $40 600 for the purpose OF or
gani0lng base ball nine to beat Cincinnati
next gear.
The dry goods commission house of Bow.
ers, Beekman h Co.,, Of New York, has sus-
pended. Their liabilities are estimated at
The shipment Of boots and shoes at 3os
ton last week was 49 ATS cases, 1000 cases more
than have been shipped in one week in the
history Of the trade.
Charles g. Little, founder, and senior pa IT.
ner of the B 'ston firm Of Little, Brown & Co.,
the we'll known law publishers. died on Monday
In the seventy-hrst year OF his age.
--Persons who marry thereby diminish their
chance of being arrested for crime. Amalori.
tyof six thousand Of the men arrested in New
YorR last ysar were single, and the majority of
single women over married was nearly as
large.
There was race between two trains, one
on the Chicago and Alton, and the other on
the Terrs Haute Railro I'd, last week. The 10
comotives ran eighteen miles side. BY side.
!, neither gaining, running part af tbs dists pce
rate OF sQyonty Hva miles an hcnr. ..ssAaa
s@Iffe Washington Chronicle says (. 81 Lhnrles
e. Young. Esq. Of Philadelphia. son of MIR,
Edward Young. chief clerk ot yhe Bureau OF
Statlst 80. left h's city yesterday en- route for
South Carolina. having been appointed 10 the
position of o civil engineer on the Blue Ridge
-Commisaionet Wilson, of the general land
Office, has just received returns from the local
Office at Montgomery, Alabama, showing that
during the past month fifty farms, embracing
1864 acres, we're added to the productive area.
of that State under the operation of the. home
stead Law. Nn,jisS ~fa A
"A Washington letter says "Nearly hun.
dred small postoffses In various sections Of the
country. mostly southern, however have been
discontinued in consequence Of tie negligence
Of the postmasters to make returns. thereby
/. allowing their names to go ON the black list OF
the Sixth Auditors office"
1t Is stated that the thick tough sap found
in large quantities in The leaves Of New Zea-
land flax. NAV be converted into q gum for
sealing envelopes. which when dry. unltes the
surfaces of paper 80 thoroughly that no pro
cess Of steaming or soaking Will permit them
10 be separated again. For this reason it is
now being used in large quantities in England.
IN the preparation Of what are called .ssafety
en- JeIopes." F's., ~ ~ "a
-De'irium tremens is generally supposed
TO be confined exciuslvely to excessive con-
sumers OF ardent spirits. Cases are not want
ing however 10 SHOW that igat wines and to-
bacco. wlen used mm ,derateiy. will occasion
the disease. In st. LOUIS, Michael Wleand,
aged thirty-three, died of apoplexy after suffer-
ing from tie usual sym ,toms If delirlum tre-
mems. and ale 4s supposed to have been the
direct cause Of his death. fss ID
The photograph OF the person who COM
mltted suicide at Crewe, England, a few weeks
ago, and who was then supposed to be in some
way connected with the Ocean Bank fobbery.
has been recognized beyond doubt as that OF
Wiili M Lelss. formeglyca GUS ,omnouse broker
d at No. 56 Broadway. and at one time runner
at Castle Garden. Leiss is said to have been
involved 10 both domestic and pecuniary difi.
,a6ulties at New York. and to have borne not
very enviahle character.
"A large land slide occurred near Stockport
IN Columbia Coun y, New York on MONDAY
lsst. l he earth caved to dstano, Of eighty
sfses. and the surface moved six buudred feet.
carving trees and fences with 1t and leaving
them upright and IN, good order on the,r new
ste. Some Of the weaker trees were snapped
OF twisted. The movement oc .upied haIf an
hour, beng very gradual. and no noise was
heard until the mass struck the base of, a nil
with q crash like hunder. A fissure deea, he
yond sounding has sppeared near the euuken
portion Of land, una fears are Entertained that
anoth3r- slide NAV occur. Ihous ands of t,eo-
pi nave visited the sceae Of the phen,me-
I, no0. and great exoitement exists Ia Stockport
- fhe sleged III treatmeas OF the. sailors in
the United States navy has recently attractei
gEeat attention among the benevolent, ana the
intsffsrence Of Congress, Il is reported, win be
asked Tor at the next session. The same com