The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-28
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N EWS ARX.
Gold at New York yesterday closed excited
and strong at 37. xs
The New York cotton mafKet closed with
out decided change; sales $50 bales at $40.
(, g At Liverpool cotton closed unchanged.
4 The New Workers. having become disgust
d With the attempts to blow down the He'll
Gate Rock, are preparing to tunnel under it
and blow it up. '-
"A singular political complication b as arisen
in France. The executioner of Paris desires 10
sell his terrible Office to "a monsieur not dis
agreeable to the Imperial Government"
THE Cuban filibusters. numbering one
hundred and twenty-four, who were captured
on Gardiner's Island last week and placed in
Fort Lafayette, were discharged on Friday
upon parole not to violate the neutrality laws,
and are dispensing to their respective homes.
. "A company have commenced operations
near Norfolk, Va, to reduce cane or reeds to
fibre, for the manufacture Of paper-box board,
pasteboard, wrapping paper, &c. The cane
fibre will be transported to fredericksburg,
where there is great water power. by which the
fibre will be ground, beaten up, or reduced to
pulp, for the above articles. . .f'.,.
Information has been received in WASH
ington to the effect that tue Yerger (Missis-
sippi) habe Is corpus case ia in form for, hear
ng at the next m oetiug Of the Supreme Court
of the United States. The next session of that
court will be held in Washington in October,
and THE class Of cases has the precedence over
all other matters. The, probability, therefore.
is that by the 1st of November decision will
be rendered. M % ma
New Orleans has lost simultaneously two
of her best citizens in the death OF Alexander
Harris and Aaron Harris, who with their sdr-
vivipg brother, Levi j. Harris, formed one OF
the most prominent exchange-brokerage firms
in the Southwest. Both the deceased gentle
men were natives Of Charleston, their father,
Mr.. Hyam Harris, having moved from this
CITY to New Orleans in 1875. They were both
mon Of high integrity, and Aaron. the young
er, at one time achieved much reputation as o
j ournalist. .t .l
"A palaos car. full OF passengers, that left
San Francisco less than week ago, arrived at
New York on Saturday morning, thus ira vers-
ing the whole continent in the short space OF
s1 N Ndays Soe Of the %hq
rope. md may arrive in Liverpool in nine days
more. thus traversing the whole distance from
the shores of California to the shores OF Eng
nearly seven Thousand miles will have been
made without difficulty or fatigue. first ia q
luxurious railroad car, and then In an equally
luxurious steamship. .,,g f,Y
Tho brick six story hotel in Boston, known
as the Pelham House. is to be removed, to per-
NIT the widening of Boylston-street. Eighteen
traverses have been constructed under the
building. each forming a tramway. AL are
10 k1n n
them is thus built: trench is dug from the
+ ,,oundations westward, fourteen feet in length.
The trench is filed in it's whole length with
immense blocks Of granite. On these brick
wall is built of the strongest cement. two feet
wide. one or two feet high, and fourteen feet
ong Along the top of this wall run several rails
an inch or two apart. These rails are made of
fat, thick iron. From under every one of the
4 elk walls that run from Boyiston-street to the
back OF the building these traversers of stone,
brick and iron 80 fourteen feet westward in the
direction that the building is to go. The build.
ng will roll on small iron rollers or round bars
over the fat iron rails along the. e.traversers.
ny -Bergh's industry and zeal in his work of
ralleyiating the misfortunes of animals iu New
'rYork is, indefatigable. A celebrated German
mime singer, who adored birds, ordered that
after his death the sparrows should be fed
daily upon his tomb. Ii Bergh ever dies there
should be a subscription taken up to give
;. bunflle Of hay to every needed horse in the
vicinity OF his last resting place, or
some other appropriate memento. A New
York evening paper gives tho following
description Of his latest invention. It saws
"Mr. Bergh, the President of the Society Tor
the Prevention Of Cruelty to ANIMALS. has gone
into the transportation business. He has Just
had manufactured an immense truck for the
conveyance from the streets OF disabled AMI
mails. at o cost OF $4,000. The AGor Of the truck
slides in and out on rollers, and is so connects
ed with improved maehinery that after the floor
has been run out to receive the animal, two
men, by working the machinery, draw tho
quadruped in. Inside the truck a stretcher is
provided to support the animal" This vehicle
will be furnished by Mr.. Bergh for The pur-
pose intended fee Of charge.
The Impression that Germans use lager
. beer to an excess ls an erroneous one, whether
1t refers to those among Us or those in the
Vaterland. Many persons fancy that the Teu
tons assemble at night IN thelr saloons to make
enormous and Incorporate exhibitions OF their
3 national beverage, and to make beasts OF
themselves" But those who understand this
valuable class OF our citlzens. know that their
gatherings are not bacchanalian. but SOCIAL.
and that conversation and not inebriation is the
a object sought after the labors of the day.
Those who are accustomed to the use OF lager
'Sbeer consume daily but little of it perhans
mot much more than habitual tea drinkers do
cups OF tes. A boy who had suddenly received
the freedom Of oandy-shop would, 20 doubt.
for . Few days cause TO disappear great num-
Der Of sticks but soon his appetite would be
yoloyed, and sweet thinas would sink to low
rank, among the luxuries Of app -tite, and be
for many days untasted So it is with our
sound headed Germans while hours are spent
in social ts,atterhalting. perhaps not moro than
one Of. two glasses OF beer are swallowed, aud