The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-24
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balos. Midding uplauds 332a34c.
In Live, pool yesterday cotton closed with
upland Is a. 121d and Orleans at 19d. Sales 49,
900 bales.
Fine rains around Montgomery, Ala. Corn
crop safe. Fruit scarce.
Lewis Lawson committed suicide near
Richmond, Va, one day last week, by drown.
ing.
MIR. George Grill, an old citizen Of Rich
mond, Va, died suddenly in that city on Mon.
day.
The Greenville South Albanian learns
that the yellow fever is prevailing to an
alarming extent in Pensacola.
"A negro man was sold at auction last Mon
day, at Glasgow. Mo-, as vagrant, and bid in
by the city at eighteen dollars.
The County OF Lawrence, Temp, boasts
five cotton mills, with 660) spindles and 40
looms, BESIDES three or four woollen mills.
-Eighty-sx passengers reached Richmond
. from the North by the Chesapeake and Ohio
train day or two since. They are in pursuit
Of land.
The European steamships arrived at New
York on Tuesday brought nearly two thousand
immigrants. majority Of them Germans and
Swedes.
"A letter to the Memphis Avalanche says
that lady residing at DR.. Bateman's shot and
killed colored man on Saturday last. The
villain was in the act OF climbing through the
window into her room. ~ Z.
The rumored marriage Of Commodore
Mutt and Miss Minnie Warren, the sister Of
Mrs. General Tom Thumb, is officially contra
dlcted. If Mr.. Bsrnum is to be trusted. the
Commodore, when MISS Laviaia Warren was
married devoted himself to- perpetual cell
bacy. Miss Minnie is at home with her pa-
rents in Middleborough, Mass.
-Philadelphia is to have q bigger musical
j ubilee than Boston has had. It is proposed to
celebrate the centennial anniversary of the
signing of the Declaration of Independence. en-
the Fourth OF July. 1876. by gigantic musical
festival, in building especially erected in
Paramount Park, capable of accommodating
100 600 spectators and II 600 performers.
The Savannah Advertiser says Son Tues
day evening last, as party of countrymea
were returning to their homes from market.
they were stopped by band OF seven negroes.
who assaulted and robbed them. One of the.
negroes told member Of the party that che
might go, to town to. take out warrants for
their arrest. bnt he couldn't get any, as there
was mo sich tings, as warrants any more
About the same time that the aboye affair took
. paw ~1o1Ah0A paA ~ IA were 6COp-
ped near :Pipemaker's Greek, on the Augusta
road, six miles from the city, and robbed -one
OF the number, who resisted the negroes. was
severely beaten. Since the recent whole,
sale pardon Of murderers and outlaws by Coy
ernor Bullock the negroes seem to havo set
all law at defiance"
TOE agricultural prospects OF. Texas. it ia
said were never more promising at this sea-
son Of the year. The much dreaded cotton worm
has not yet appe lred, and general health pre-
yails throughout the whole State. CORES
pondent at Houston. under date July Ia. |
writes "The pecaniary results of the grow
ing crops are estimated at between thirty and !
orty million dollars-if they escape the cotton |
worm. large proportion Of this immense
sum will be invested in internal improve |
ments-in the erection Of more comfortable |
dwellings,. The freedmen are more industri- |
GUS, and dcmeaning themselves with more |
general propriety than at any previous time |
since emancipation. Our citizens are general |
ly out of debt, and the financial condition of |
the country is much better than it has been |
since the war. Hopefulness pervades the pub |
nc mind. Cotton and woollen factories, -four |
ing mills. beef packing houses and other i'm 4
Proyements are springiLg up in different parts |
Of the State" ,..-7.~ =: '.s.s' 500
Whatever may b, said of the political ec. |
centricitiea of Chief Justice Chase, AL men /
must concede that he is man Of admirable /
dignity. and that he knows how to assert him |
self with . most becoming and magisteriai. |
grace. The Truth Of this was superbly exem- |
pllied. a few days ago. when In full robes OF /
ONCE in the Supreme Court Il appears that |
Attorney General Hoar has recently presumed /
so far as to treat the Judges Of the Court with
curtness and disrespect. In the progress Of d
speech by him, the venerable Justice Nelson. |
: inquired :" "What fs the page of authority you
are auotHg, Mfr ARsoy nsy Gener a 2'' TO ws,ich
the man whom ex @snefal Grant gave q Cabinet |
place tn exchange tcf''a library, replied
May 1t please the court, decline to be inter.
rupted In my argument" Whereupon the
Chief Justice. assuming upon his younger
shoulders the affront directed at his associate.
and incidentally refactlng upon the whole
bench, brought tho Massachusetts attorney to
his knees Ut once by saying: "Mr. Attornev W
General. you wall cease in your argument for
the pre- ~ent. This court. as you will learn when
you have become, used to it's amenities. re
serves the right to question: at any time any OF
ats counsellors on any point whatever. Yonr
reJolnder to the Question Of my associate is
1nadmissib!e; and when You have apolog ,zed |
20 tho court tor language which W. must say
was never heard here before. you may pro-
ceed. but not until that Is DONE" Whereupon |
Sne egal bully collapsed and meekIy bepeed |
pardon, which 1t ole ased the court to allow
"A Richmond. Va. letter says ..The title
to the ownership Of the JEFF. Davis mansion IL |
likely soon to be brought into litigation. Tho
City Of Richmond claims the Luilding. ana |
committee appointed to investigate the matter
report that 1t is undoubtedly onrs. on the
other hand the United States Government
claims it as, captured property OF the Confed. |
crate States. The house was purchased IN
1851, for $4,000, by the City Council, with the
viewsot making the Confsderscy ., present OF
IT, and it was offered to Congress, but by them
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