The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-05
NEVIS OF THE DAY.

Gold at New York yesterday closed dull at
2saia267s.
The New York cotton market was declining
Sales 5000 bnlcs nj 26c.
AT Iivcrpooi cotton closed steady. t'plants
1ahd. Orleans 12.id.
Twenty lone suits for divorce are pending at
Davenport, Iowa.
Virginia is sending large quantities of zine
metal TO the North
Corn is selling al higher price than wheat In
some parts Of Indiana.
Madame Anna Bishop VIII settle in New York
and lead Il church choir there.
The Hon. Jefferson Davis is soourn.ng tcm-
perarily Ut fernando, Mississippi.
The Itavrc dock hand who saved the life Of
lhc murderer Traupmann, received u medal and
400 francs reward.
The proposed Canada and Pacific Railway Is
$500 miles in length, antl will cost seventy mil
lions Of pounds sterling.
n partial rcconsiruction of tile Spanish .Cabi-
net has been erected. Martas Is Foreign Sccre-
tary, ana Figncrola Minister Of Finance.
The superintendent Of the Georgia State
road declares that after this year The roaL viii
AZ tile Agricultural and Mechanical Fair,
He'd recently at Staunion Virginia, Benjamin
Smith, negro, was awarded The first premium
for the best specimen Of barrels.
1t costs royalty something to travel. The
Empress Eugenie thinks she can make her rip
from Paris 10 Cairo, Egypt, (abom as iar ms from
New York TO Omahal for SIG0,Ooo.
Count Bismarck's income is computed M
about $4,000, dcrieac from his various estate,
and ncc. To Ibis mus, he aided The no: incon.
siderable item ofa free ministerial residence in
Berlin, and table money.
The State Department has received intci!i-
gencc of the loss Of the Whaling schooner Susan
A. Smith. OF Boston, with the Captains vile and
two children, and I'LL the officers and crew rXccpl
the captain all,l four men.
"a survey OF the S,iaZ Canal shows tia, il is in
It's shaowcs! paris hul twenty feet ,leep: there.
fore the steamer Aiglc, on which the Einp!r.s
Eugenie intended going through IT. cannot ...a!.e
the passage, as IL draws more than twcn,y feet.
The Empress however. Insists oil making The
trip. even il ncw survey prove: that :, ii,e::cr
vessel will tc necessary.
-ine London Times money article Of yesterday
comments Un the increasing importation of wi,cal
from the United Siaics, and in yicw OF comp.;i-
tion With Russia ami Central Europe, when rail-
wayS In that quarter are fully developed, s,ly-
gcsts ms the grca, quest ions FOR the United States
to consider, the reduction OF frcghtS AMI the en-
largcmcnt OF communications, with the Missis.
sippi.
=, French paper reports that 1.-The most bril-
liant Of the stars Of songs by which cvcry one
will recognize the Marquis dc CAuX. has signed
splendid engagement 10 sing in Russia II is
stipulated IN the treaty that The diva promises
you would never guess what-t0 have ~ children
during the period of her engagement. And her
husband has written III the bottom OF the con-
tract: 'Thc above writing is read ami aI.
proved"
1t appears from notice sem TO the papers by
4 .Dnr q, I'M ',l I'M
Byron scandal; ana ihat she expects, Of course
to justify her previous publication on this SUBJ.
ject. The publication Of the Leigh LEI ers in The
London Quarterly levicw hai brought ont he
following note from Mrs. Stowe Mrs. stowe re-.
quests the public 10 suspend iie!r ;udsm,n II; ON The
letters Of Lady Byron 10 Mr. Leigh iaitiy ,,,,b
lished in the London Quarterly Ec:e". rn,il lie?
meet them in heir proIcr Ii,ogicai cuililrciiD.
In her forthcoming volume
~ horrible railroad accident occurred OF Non
day last near Narrowsburg, y. y, by wh;c, one
man WAS burned 10 death und drccn cars, load.
cu with coal oil, tobacco and cot I'll, we're cI.I,,y
consumed. When the fire hai reached lis i;r.,,
o man was seen in The m.dS u! ,hr glaring namcs
bu' II was impossible to approach near cnu,,.:n Ia
render the victim any aid, ANA hc WAS in u short
time completely rOasicd. Ills namc was Jaincs
RourHc. and he was a brakeman on the train II
Is suppose; lie had In some manner become
fastened between The ears in snc!l II way 10 he
unahlc To cN'Ticac himself before hci.!p nucatcd
by the rapidly approaching famcs.
An exchange gives The following interesting
gossip concerning the Siamcsc twins: Their sur
name IL Bunker. and their given names Chang
ana Eng. They reside alternately at Two resi-
dcnccs, one at Mount Airy, Nc. ana the other
three mites distant in the country. one OF the
wives taking charge OF each establishment They
married twin sisters near that point many years
since, AMI each has Il family of beautiful black
eyed children OF brunette complexion. They are
nged fty-sevcn, are quite Gray-hairctl, and while
they are In independent crcitM-la lancns they are
not wealthy. Their wives are large. hcaithy- Look.
lug women, ana their country house, The only one
we nave seen, Is bI' oi logs with pGnrlcon llOor,
ana WITHOUT finish or decoration. Thcy use
windsor chair Of double width, and a bed no lcas
than eight feet wide. A rustic Hight of sicp.-0f
double width leads to the u,tc, and they pas up