The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-05
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sales l0UU Daies.
In Liverpool cotton closed shade tirmer
atthe noon quotations.
A grand international art exhibition is an
nounced to be held in Lonlon, Easlanc, ID
1871.
The completion of the Mount Gents Rail-
road will be celebrated in Italy bJ an 'nteraa-
tioaal exhibition OF Turin in 1879.
A new ocean cable is proposed to be laid
from Sc,tl4nd via the Orkney aud Faroe Is
lands to Quebec, for the uss ofthe British Pos
tai Department.
The Hon. John Morrissey is said to be the
holder Of certain shares Of Central Railroad
stock. which are now worth half million
more than he paid for them.
DIR. Sears, the general agent for the distr1-
button OF the Peabody Southern Educational
Fund, has published letter in New Orleans.
in, which he opposes the mixing OF white ano
negro children in public schools.
1t is reported in New York, on what
grounds is not stated, that the yacht Hem
rietta has been seized in New London, zoe
necticut, on the charge Of bsfng engaged In
filib-stering enterpEjss against Cuoa.
Mrs. Aun s. Stephens has undertaken to
write complete set Of American historical
novels, aiming to be as indicative OF our heroes
and epochs as are Miss Muhlbach's OF Euro
pesn men and times. II will be year or tive
yet before they come out.
Twenty thousand Fenian sympathizers
marched in procession IN Limerick, Ireland, on
Monday. and afterwards held meeting and
adopted resolutions demanding OF Mr.. Glad
stone the release OF the remaining Fenian
prisoners. Everything was conducted in the
most ORDERLY manner and no disturbance took
plate.
The ..Avitor" or flying machine, now in
course Of construction at San Francisco, Is
on;y partial success. It will navigate the
air In calm, but the slightest breeze discon-
cer,s its movements. The Chronicle thinks
that II the inventor should ever stalt for New
York, he would be quite as likely to brig up
st Cape Horn or thu North Pole.
President Grant and party have been Wis
itins around in New jersey. he went to the
triple estate of Mesars. Campbell and Brick
and Mrs. stetson the other day, when the chill
dren impeded his feet with flowers, the men
nearly shook his hand of. and finally pre-
sented him with fifty. acre lot, which, ac-
ooding to the attendant jenkins. "he thank
fully accepted"
=. "a frst-c!ass mansion too.uer LOTT in fash
ionable quarter Of New York, costs about
seventy five Thousand dollars, but that city has
eighteen thousand tenement houses with
population of three hundred and seventy-ave
thousand two hundred and eighty-one, besides
osllar population Of twenty-five thousand and
ninety.Ave, in which its poorer classes manage
toexist in more or less misery.
The latest kerosene catastrophe In New
York was that Of Friday last, by which the
wife Of the proprietor of Hamblin's Freight
Express lost her life. The unfortunate lady
was carrying the lighted lamp near the fire.
place, when . strong gust Of wind blew the
fame downwsrds into the lamp, igniting the
oil, and producing an explosion which scat
tered the AIm,s right and left, burning her
to death.
THAT venerable sbolitionist, Horace Gree.
lev, has BEEN making an inspection into the
agricultural and mineral resources OF poS6en
OF Virginia, and opens his eyes in wonder
thereat. Horace swears it is the finest tim
bered country in the world. and has discovered
mountains of iron ore sufficient to supply the
world TOR ages to come. besides hearing vague
ly OF other mineral treasures. It is singular 20
find how favoraby Southern State appears,
even in the eyes Of Tribune philosopher,
when not on his pet hobby.
The latest counterfeit ten dollar greenback
is 30 very similar to the original note that the
authorities at Washington are preparing to
issue an entirely new series ofnotes from one
to One thousand dollars, inclusive, under the
direct supervision OF hole-in-the-sky Boutwell,,
who has apparently discovered hole in the
Treasury as deep as the other was high. On
these virgin notes We are pleased to learn
there will appear no craven image Of any lv-
ing man. They will probably soon be circu.
lsting around in the place Of money, unless
some half dozen millions fully completed,
except the signatures, should again be missed
from the Treasury building. In that case the
spectacles Of Mr.. Hole-in-the-sky will be in re-
q.isition q second time.
Professor Andrew Jenkins, sometimes call
90 tQ6 Saudu1au olouutn . eikAt4opo Pof-
former Of celebrity, about the 20th Of August
intends TO essay most perillous feat nothing
less than crossing the fearful chasm of Niagara
River below the falls BY means Of velocipede
ridden over tight rope. The pla,e OF crcss-
ing will DO short distance below the old sus'
pension bridge. where the length Of the span
ming cable will be about one thousand feet.
The vehicle used by the daring velocipedo-Fun-
ambulst is Of peculiar construction. The
wheels ace grooved. and it is propelled by the
hands, 8 balance pole being carried on the feet.
By this means Professor Jenkins says he can
surmount considerable grade. Nothing OF
the sort has ever been attempted In public,
and the novelty and danger OF the feat will
doubtless attract great crowd to witness the
trial
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Times says
that on Saturday last, while two workmen were
engaged in digging well at Monument Sta
tion, for the Kansas PIcific Railroad Company,
it caved In. burying one of the men, while the
other escaped by seiziDs rope. and was drawn
up. The we'll had been sunk one hundred and
sixty feet, and owing to the scarcity OF timber
the curbing had been neglected for thirty feet,
and being thus insecure, without moments
warning it cayed in. burning the man under