The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-24
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George Peabody Is in very poor health, al
will soon leave Engisnd for one of the German
watering placcs.
The attempt to work the scenery at Booth
new theatre by steam power proved failure
and the od-fashioncd manual power has peer
restored.
Tho wealthiest man in America is said Il
be young Stevens, son Of the late Edwin A
Stevens. OF goboken, who, when he reache
his majority. will be worth $3.50, 600, by tn
advance OF his estate in New Jersey.
Life, according to Herbert Spencer, is ''th'
definite combination Of definite composite he
teroeenous changes, both simultaneous ant
successive, in correspondence with oz erna
coe1isscnce and sequences!" You're another
III you had eighty years to live, how
would you spend it so as to be perfectly happy
here below?" asked French writer, and an
swered it himself: ';Tho FIRST thirty years as q
pretty won an, thirty more as great general,
and the rest as bishop"
Black double breasted frock coats, light
pants. Stanley scarts, showing the edge of a
white vest, ligh. gloves and pink In the lett
button-hole, is now the correct fashionable
and stylish bail. reception, dinner aud visiting
costume for modern society men.
The London Times has actually come out
with ihe startling innovation of an index OF its
daily contents, at the head Of it's editorials !
The reason is this: The penny papers a1e get
ting ahead of it, especially in wayside AMI
booksta!l sales. and on ihe railways.
Judge A. 3. Clitherall, of Montgomery,
Ala, died in ttas city OF Wednesday last.
Judge Clitherall was one Of tho leading men
of the State. He had filed the Offices of State
Senator, Clerk Of tho House, Circuit judge and
Register in the Confederate States Treasury
Department..
The Toledo Blade states that Miss Maggie
Mitchell was married last July to MIR. Henry
T. Pad !ock of that cily. that she is TO reside
henceforth in New York, and that sho has
finally abandoned the stage. It IS said in ex-
PLANTATION that as the lady had number Of
professional engagements to fill, it was deem
ed best to keep the fact Of her marriage
secret from the public, and it was made KNOWN
to bat lew OF the trends OF either party.
Some modest genius is after the Louisiana
Legislature fer an appropriation o. Sl00. .OOO TO
purchase his patent cotton worm extermina-
tor. Tho New Orleans Times tells us that tine
working principle of the invention ls founded
upon the known foadness OF the cotton worm
for its own larye or eggs. Several pairs are
taken By the planter and carefully bred until
the larv@ arc deposited; these are to be sepa-
rated, and each one impaled on the barb Of
small fish hook. When sufficient number has
been thus prepared, a hook is to be hung upon
each lea; of the plant. Ely carefully attending
these hooks. removing tho caught worms and
rebarbirg them with the larvae, 1t is calculated
that in the course Of time the evil may be effec-
tualy conquered in every locality.
"A Washington letter says: s'When Mrs.
Senator Patterson found herself the FIRST l:dy
in the land sho made this remark, which has
been the Keynote Of the feminine department
of the Whito House from that eventful day to
the present time: We are plain people, from
the mountains of Tennessee, called here for q
short time by . national calamity. trust too
much W II not bo expected OF u.s. When Anna
Surra.t threw herself PROSTATE upon the floor
of one OF the ante-rooms OF the White House,
begging plteousiy to SEQ Mrs. Patterson, she
said Tell tie G1rl she has my sympathy, my
tears, bu, havo no more right 20 speak than
the sery-n o: tho White House. When tho
pardon brok rs' ira.led their Shiny lengths
everywhere ab ,at the mansion, they mover
dared to crcs5 ! CERTAIN enchanted pathway,
and the f,c, II any lobbyist set in this d.rcc-
ton lag Il Was bcou2ut up in the end against
q stoac WI. "
Tho New York metropolitan Record says:
ssThere rev,r wa, Il time in the history OF tbs
city when cx.!avacaaec WIS carried to such
dizzy he. gill ;.s uow. Not III dress alone, hut
in houses. in Jrages. in horses: in en- ertaln-
ments, IN b. Is, III PARTIES. in every way in
which muroy caa be expe. ded i! Is poured out
like water. :ic result is dress without taste,
homes wisuunt Happiness, and social inter-
course wi,li.ut C.. j ym.ns. Tic extrava auce
of tic wrnicl. IL, lodced saddening to coatem
plate. E1orn.,..u, prices aro asked and cher
fuiil sivrA .,g ,lru,s, wAi!c damon is aud ]ow-
elry cos, ! fI..uu1. SJno of our fashionable |
bellies have iclr dresses imported ready made |
from Pa:is, c,pi d exactly in Its minutest de- |
tails from the court costume Of the Empress |
Eugene aiid the .dies Of her court. We have |
our court j)lrnas. too. in which all the fash
ionable CHIC ,ar If the day is retailcd, mar
riages are anuouaced by authority, and cope
ments duly curJnlcied, the proportion of both
beng about equal. Then We
have court qua1f.lles' at the houses OF our
republican arIstocracy, and in point of flct,
as Cousi,, Feenix would Say, having reached
the minimum in morals and the maximum in |
We are ripe for the introduction CT
every folly N every absurdity. TO cap the
climax. our fashionable brides have dctcrmln
al to inaugural the system of pages 'U;o-
o;an au,tc.' Hero is good chance for o;ir
'yomcn's rights womon to see to it that bojs d.
mt rnoropoi .za this new and doubtless lucrative
branch of industry"
"A writer in the London Spectator pr1-
DouI.ds new theory in referoace 20 tho nrme-
,,a. well au h,n,icated cases in which per
soag. a. .hc momcut OF death hGvo made
.hsa, orca ncs seen or felt BY distant fciende.
Is. s+zzas.. TIA. the brain has the power oi
,,s5jsuc.ny aves Or vibrations IN an a.mos-
pacrc pecG.. .-= 10 itself, Just magnetic BAT
- scnas N salnIa;:on through the magnetic |
Z 81 contained IL telegraph wirc. or bel.
. Z. Ing air snir,1:i.nS i. in motion when it