The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-24
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sales $500 bales.
In Liverpool, cotton closed active; upland
12d@12td; Orleans 12{@123d; sales IL, 900 bales
George Peabody ls in very poor health, ant
will soon leave England for one of the German
watering pisces. G
The attempt to work the scenery at Booths
new theatre by steam power proved failure.
and tne old-fashioned manual power has been
restored.
The wealthest man in America is said to
be young Stevens, son of the late Edwin A.
Stevens, of Hoboken, who, when he reaches
his majority, will be worth $50 0O0, 1000, by the
advance Of his estate in New Jersey.
Life, according to Herbert Spencer, is sthe
definite combination of definite composite he
terogcnous changes, both simultaneous and
successive, in correspondence with external
coexistence and sequences" You're another.
IF you had eighty years to live, how
would you spend it so as to be perfectly happy
hero below?" asked French writer, and an
swercd it himself: ssThe 6rst thirty years as
pretty wo nan, thirty more as great general,
and the rest as bishop"
Black double breasted frock coats, light
pants, Stanley scarts, showing the edge of a
white vcst light gloves aud pink in tho left
button-hole, is now the correct, fashionable
and stylish ball, reception, dinner and visiting
costume for modern society men.
The London Times has actually come out
with the startling innovation OF an index Of its
daily contents, at the head of it's editorials !
The reason is this: The penny papers al Q get
ting ahead of it, especially in wayside ana
bookstall sales. and on the railways.
Julpe r Clitheral1 Of MontoOrnar
Ala, died in that city on Wednesday last.
Judge Clitheral was one of tic leading men
of tho State. He had filed the Offices of State
Senator, Clerk Of the House, Circuit Judge. and
Register in the Confederate States Treasury
Department.
The Toledo Blade states that Miss Maggie
Mitchell was married last July to MI. Henry
T. Pad lock Of that city, that she is to reside
henceforth in New York, and that she has
finally abandoned the stage. 1t is said in ex-
PLANTATION that as the lady had number of
professional engagements to fill, it was deem
ed best to keep the fact Of her marriage a
secret from the public, and it was made known
to but few of The friends OF either party.
Some modest genns is after the Louisiana
Legislature for an appropriation OF $100. 900 to
purchase his patent cotton worm extermina-
tor. The New Orleans Times tells us that the
working principle Of the invention Is founded
upon the known fondness of the cotton worm
for it's own larvae or eggs Several pairs are
taken by the planter and carefully bred until
the larv@ are deposited; these are to be sepa-
rated, and each one impaled on the barb of
small tish hook. When sufficient number has
been thus prepared, hook is to be hung upon
each leaf OF the plant. By carefully attending
these hooks, removing the caught worms and
rebarbing them with the larvae it is calculated
that in the course Of time the evil may be effec-
tually conquered in every locality.
l. A Washington letter says: sWhen Mrs
Senator Patterson found herself the FIRST ldy
il the land she made this remark, which has
been the keynote of the feminine department.
of the White House from that eventful day to
the present time we are plain people, from
the mountains Of Tennessee, called here for
short time by national calamity. trust too
much viii not be expected OF u.s. When Anna
Surratt threw herself prostrate upon the floor
of one OF the ante-rooms Of the White House,
begging piteously to see Mrs. Patterson, she
said: Tell the girl she has my sympathy, my
tears, but have no more right to speak than
the servants Of the White House, When the
pardon brokers' trailed their Shiny lengths
everywhere about the mansion, they never
dared to CROSS certain enchanted pathway,
and the face Of any lobbyist set in this dlrec-
tion has always brought up in the end against
stone wall.'
The New York metropolitan Record says
"There never was q time in the history of this
city when extravaganza was carried to such o
dizzy height as now. Not in dress alone, but
in houses, in carriages, in horses, in entertain
mente, in balls, in parties, in every way in
which money can be expended, it Is poured out
like water The result is dress without taste.
homes without happiness, and social inter-
course without enjoyment. The extrava ,ance
of the women is, indeed, saddening to coutem
plate. Exorbitant prices are asked and cheer
fully given for dress, while diamonds and jew-
elry cost fortune. Some OF our fashionable
bellies have their dresses imported ready made
from Paris, copied exactly in it's minutest de-
tells from the court costume Of the Empress
Eugene and the ladies Of her court. We have
our court journals, too. in which all tho fash
ionable chit-chat Of the day is retailed, mar
riages are announced by authority, and cope
ments duly chronicled, the proportion of both
announcements being about equal. Then we
have court qusdrilles at the houses OF our
republican aristocracy, and in point Of fact
as Cousin Feenix would say. having reached
the minimum in morals and the maximum in
wealth, we are ripe for the introduction of
every folly AMI every absurdity. To cap the
climax, our fashionable brides have determin-
ed to inaugurate' the system of pages 'Uto-
plan quite Here is good chance for our
swomen's rights women to see to it that boys do
not monopolize this new and doubtless lucrative
branch Of industry"
A writer in the London Spectator pro-
pounds new theory in reference to the nume-
rous we'll authenticated cases in which per-
sons, ct the moment of death, have made
their presence seen or felt by distant friends.