The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-28
NEW s 8 U M MI A r z.


in Liverpool cotton closed firm. Uplands
11ss11s; Orleans 11a113. Sales 12, 900 bales.
The famine of eight. years ago is expected
to reappear in India.
Gladstone says he can reduce public e1-
penditures in England $4,000. 600.
New Orleans forbids the erection of wooden
buildings within the city limits.
A statue is to be erected in Dublin to
Henry Grattan, the great Irish oralor.
MIR. Pratt the new senator from Indiana,
weighs four hundred pounds. lie will be the
greatest man in the Senate.
The New York Tribune cleared s225, ,ooV
last year, the most profitable year OF Its exist
ence. The previous year it cleared Sl25, ,0OO.
George Alfred Townsend has settled down
into spinning Washington letters for the CHI
cago Tribune at $4,000 year.
Mobile is considering the propriety OF
mounting its fremen on velocipedes 30 that
they may arrive early at fires.
The New York Herald! calls the proposed
inauguration ball s'srand spasm OF Washing
ton vu!garity," and is glad that General Grant
has had it ''knocked in the head
Mr.. John Brougham sold the seats for the
opening night at his new theatre in New York,
at auction, and gave oil the premiums, $1,000,
to the Dramatic Fund.
"A project is on foot to build cotton lac
tory IN LaGisnge, Geo., and one Of the solid
men of the city has expressed Willingness 10
take stock TO the amount OF $4,000.
An Australian horse recently ran ten miles
in twerty-tbree minutes and thirty-five Sec
onds, said to be the fastest time on record for
that distance.
Queen Victoria, it is expected, will broak
the silence she has maintained since the death
of Prince Albert. by delivering the speech
from the throne on the 1eassembling of Paria-
ment on February 16.
"A new perfume .yclept Loyal balm OF q
thousand nlggels" is advertised in an ez-
change. The inventor claims that it was man
ufa,tured expressly for parties desiring the re-
moval of their political disabilities.
The Leg stature Of West Virginia is con-
sidering bill CHASING oil stomach bitters as
liquors, and cxacting q Ii use tax OF one hun
dred dollars from all druggists and dealers
offering them for sale.
The Petersburg lines is informed that an
entire town in one of the southern counties in
Virginia, together with several thousand acres
of land around it, has recently been purchased
by colon nts from the West.
General Lees College in Virginia is to
have school OF agriculture, one of commerce,
one of applied chemistry and another OF
mesnsnical engineering, in addition to the pre-
viously existing schools Of civil and mining
engineering.
Men ought to be faithful husbands in Cal
ifornia if pecuniary interests have any inhu-
ence upon their moral movements. In that
State if a man commits adultery, and his wife
gets divorce in consequence, oil his real es-
tate becomes her property.
Henry Ward Beecher says that whom be
was a student he frequently walked thirty
miles day. On one occasion, to see GER
tain family, he walked fifty miles. 1t is to be
ru ssumed that he finally became member of
that family.
The Supreme Court, at Washington, in
recent patent suit, presented series OF
frames, spring balances, tramways, trucks and
railroad brakes filing the area of tho judicial
chamber, giving it much the appearance Of
the Office of the Commissioner Of Patents.
The counsel argued by illustration, handling
the brakes and running the truck with pro-
fessional dexterity.
While visiting tobacco warehouse in Bal
timore On Thursday last, Grant and Farrasut
were weigaed, and it was found that the for
mer weighed Que hundred and titty-iye pounds
and the latter one hundred and tifty-one. Tho
Admiral consoled himself for his lnferiority
by sccusing the President elect of having
s'bummerized four pounds of tobacco to make
up his weight"
The New York World says: ''It is general
ly understood that Fort Lafayet, willno be
rebuilt. It certainly should not be, for it has
long since been conceded that New York must
be defended at Sandy Hook; and That the fortl-
fcations built on this side of :he entrance to
the outer bay can be of little il any, Use in de-
Tending che city against o hostile feet. At all
events there are enough gurs now in position
at the Narrows to answer every possible pur-
pose, since torpedoos and other distractions,
sunk in tho channel between that point and
Sandy Hook, would render it as impossible for
a hostile vessel to reach the city as it was for
the Federal hon-clads to reach Charleston"
New Orleans papers give details of hor-
rible murder there on Wednesday Of last week.
Salvador Fernandez, a young cre,le, it seems
had been the afianced lover Of Mile. Leveille
previous to the war. He went off with the
Confederate troops, and served as a Lieutenant
in one of the Louisiana regiments. A report
was received in New Orleans that he was kill
ed, and his betrothed, after mourning for him
awhile, bestowed her hand in marriage on Mr..
Lewis Martin, merchant. Fernandez turned
up again after the war, much to the borror of
the Martins, and since then has been unceas-
ing in lis attentions to the lady. Last We'd
nesday, Martin put an end to his infatuation
by shooting him. The affair creates much
feeling among the friends Of the parties.
Captain Brown, of the Japanese ram Stone
wall, emoloys the following language concern
ing Japanese affairs in private letter: "They
are the slowest people to think and act IN tho
world. The seat of war is only about hun
dred miles from this, and any news in regard
to fights is always month old when we get
Their religion requires them to lie, even when
the truth would better answer their purpose,
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