The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-20
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III d; aaoat 114d; Orleans I'D.
An Ohio inventor applies for patent on a
snor ing preventive. 1t consists in an appica-
ton of ciothes-pin to the nose.
The Chicago Evening Post, by way of an
nounclng the pardon Of DR.. Mudd, informs its
readers that "AIudd is clear"
The Nsw Workers are now complaining OF
adultera.ed Observation-Disclosures furnishing
block tin in lieu of silver for coffin plates.
The huge OK General Grant has been re-
prieycd d. Iustead of being killed he is to end
his days on General Grants farm near st.
Louis.
-"Flirter" IS new verb in the French Ian
guage, from the English ''flirt." A proposed
definition is ''the boundary line between friend
skip and love-
The pork packers of Cincinnati have made
clear profit OF 50 100000 this season, the
greater part OF which, Of course, has been
drained from the South.
Tho members OF the Wisconsin Lesisla-
ture, it is said, ''blow out the gas" and ''eat
their mucilage," and correspondent hopes
they vii soon learn better.
sor.s iatter-day martyrs for religions sake.
The natives captured by the Maori rebels were
offered their lives if they would bow down to
the Hauhan sod, but they refused and hfty OF
them were put to death.
The friends # General Sherman have pur-
chascd The residence now occupied By General
CIR; 1t m I street, New Jersey avenue, Wash
ine;on, for So, ,OOe and intend presenting 1t to
him directly after he becomes Genelal-inChief
in place of the President elect.
"A pin manufacturing company in Connectl-
cut manufacture nearly seven millions OF pins
Der day. Tie number put on papers last year
approximates the enormous sum OF 2.00OO OO0,-
600, or more than enough 10 supply every hui
man i .habitant of the globe with pin each.
Tho Chinese have remedy whioh they
say is sovereign cure for colds. They regard
it as breach Of good manners for any one to
appear in public when he is liable to cough or
speeze. s.because nothing would be easier than
to cure himself ct once By taking drug which
they call TO guam ,rkian, and assert to be
certain specific for 4 cold"
Ny. Johason's nomination OF General Dent,
Generc! Grants brother-in-law, to be Minister
70 Chill IS 3 strange movement. Nobody un-
derstaudS it. Some say he meant it as joke
others as peace offering to General Grant
others, again, as blow at fitzpatrick. Dent
declines positively. Xii. is triumphant; and
what bIr. Johnson meant is still mystery.
President Johnson intends, shortly after
he goes out of Office, to make visit to Europe.
The offer OF passage was lately made him b.
one OF the German lines of steamers, and the
offer was cccpted by Dir. Johnson. 1t IS bis
purpose, Immediately after the 4th of March,
to make :. brief Wait to Tennessee, with the
view of arranging his affairs, ard he will sail
for Europe about the first of April.
The Emperor OF the French is said to be
more embarrassed by his private Indebtedness
than even previous to the coup Getat. Both he
and the Empr ess have been living for the past
fifteen years far beyond their means, aud all OF
Eugenie's private property is heavily mort
gagged. She never thinks OF the rainy days
which may be in store for her in the future,
but is as e1travagant as if the French exche-
quer were inexhaustlble, aud the Imperial oy
nasty not founded on sand, but sure to reign
for centuries to come.
"A neat specimen of the slashing style in
literary criticism IS the following nutice of
Captain Clayton's Look on Spain from the Pail
Mall Gazette: .'Not worth the trouble OF cut
ting the leaves. An utterly uncalled for ac-
count Of lapid railway journey right through
from Havre to Valencia, with snatch at the
Balearic Isles, and dash home by Barcelona
and Perpignan. The mere idle scribb!ing ofa
chattering traveller on beaten road. doug
towns in the intervals allowed for refreshment,
and eking out his original matter by hashed
suidebook. Occasionally vulgar, often Zip
pant; generally silly, always stupid"
Louis Philippe. in 1910. by PERMISSION OF
the British Government, removed the remains
of Napoleo.i from St. Helena, and deposited
them, on December 18th of that year, in tho
Hotel des Iuvahdes. On January 2Seh last, the
French Senate had before 1t two petitions call
ing for the removal of the remains Ct Louis
Philippe from Enelond to Frsnce. The grounds
broug.l. forward in ona OF these petitions were
that the lato king lad brought the bones OF
Senate rejected tho petition, laying down ''that
the p.ous duty. Of. restoring these noble ashes
to their native soil belonged exclusively to tho
family OF the iiiustrous dead"
Captain Duchesne commander Of the
steamer Pccc,re in her late sastrous voyaec,
commanded i'll 1854 the little steamer vcsia,
which collided With the il-fated Collins steam
CT Arctic off the banks Of Newfoundland. The
Vesta had q great hole knocked in her. and
seemed destined to sink; the passengers and
sailors flew to the boats, but tue captain BRAN
diships an axe declared he would fell the first
man who embarked. This bold act re-estab-
lished order. The cargo and ballast were lr-
ried aft and broughs the ship upright again;
with much trouble and patience the hole was
temporarily mended, and, thanks to cx'raordl-
nary care, the vessel was brought safely into
the port of ST. John, Newfoundland. By fhis
time the unhappy Arctic had sunk. with three
hundred people on board. Captain Duchesne's
conduct won him the Cross of the Legion of
Honor.
More than tive thousand persons wero
present Mt the mass meeting of Irish citizens
at Cooper Institute, Now York, On Tuesday
night Mayor Hall presided and mado a very
able and eloquent address. Resolutions were
unanimously adopted declaring the sympathy
of America with every people who arc strus-
Cling ter free institutions, aud calling upon the