The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-29
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perscaa- to fill hs Cabinet. He has uniformly
lnd,cas ISL -,.s! NC ~ouil take no action on the
subject until afrer ne shall receive Official mott
fcation of his election, which notification can
not reach him for about a month from this
date. There is the same authority for saying
that General Grant las not intimated an opir-
ion as to what course should be taken by the
Senate relative to nominations made by Mr..
johnson, nor what offices should be left in
allegiance until after the fourth Of March.
Commodore Vanderbilt says that the secret
of his success in managing railroads is econo-
my. He says: s'If cannot use the capital of
that road (New York Central) tor pretty nigh
been in it, then do not want to be on the
road. If you have been running road,
and you spend nine or ten millions to run it.,
i'll cannot do 1t for eight, and do it as we'll, I
am ready to 60 from the road. That has been
my principle with steamships. never had
any advantage of anybody in running steam
ships; but if I could not run a steamship
alongside OF another man, and do it az we'll as
he, for twenty per cent. less than it cost him,
would leave the ship.''
An attempt Was made the other day in the
House to secure pay for the members from the
reconstructed States for the full term of the
Fortieth Congress. The resolution, as drawn,
included only the Arkansas members, but was
equally applicable to all the rest 1t reclted
the precedents ofthe Louisiana and Tennessee
members in the Thirty seventh Congress, when
both States were also represented in the Con-
federate Congress-, and the case OF the ennes-
see members in the Thirty-ninth Congress-
who were admitted during the second year Of
the term, butreceived pay for the full term
After numerous motions, the House evaded
responsibility Of direct vote by referring it to
the Reconstruction Committee, though no.
body could see what they have to do with it,
The latest snd most horrible form Of sui
cide is that chosen by young girl in Dandy,
I'LL, about twenty-five miles from Chicago,
last Thurpday evening. She threw herself un-
der railroad train, which passed over her,
severing her head from the body, and throw
ing 1t several feet away. and also cutting of
one of her feet and crushing one arm. The
cause OF the terrible acG is said to be the re-
fusal Of the parents to allow the poor girl to
marry young man to whom she was attached.
A letter was found in the pocket OF her drese
directed to her lover, bidding him ON affec-
tionate goodbye. The suicide was commit
ted after dark. and the girl apparently threw
herself under the cars instead OF before the
engine.
New York has q number Of ssvelocipede'
schools. Each school has three classes
for beginners, one for those who can ride
without tumbling every Few minutes, and one
for those who are nearly ready to make thei,
debut In the street. These schools are well
patronized, and the managers are making
I money. When the roads harden after th,
spring thaws, the velocipedestrians will infest
every highway and byway. Already we hea
/ OF some clerks and merchants making thei
4 way down town in the morning on velosipedes
4 and by next May we shall meet them COMING
/ In from the country in the same fashion. A
least ten thousand who do business in Ne,
York live in the subnrbs; and it costs then
from Afty to two hundred dollars year i
come in and 70 out during the summer. The
\ Can save moaey by buying veiocipedes, whic
I cost from &85 to $3.50 each, and will soon
cheaper, learning TO ride them, and then travel
h ling on their own stesds. The number {
vslocipedes now In use In New York Ia abou
\ Swo hundred and fifty, and in few months
WI probably be increased to two Thousand