The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-05
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at the noon quotations.
"A grand international art exhibition is an
nounced to be held in London, England, in
1871.
The completion Of the Mount Cenis Rail-
road will be celebrated in Italy by an nterna-
tonsl exhibition at Turin in 1917.
"A new ocean cable is proposed to be laid
from Scotland via the Orkney and Farce Is
lands to Quebec, for the use of the 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 distri-
button Of the Peabody Southern Educational
Fund, has published letter in New Orleans,
in which he opposes the mixing OF white and
negro children in public schools.
1t is reported in New York. on what
grounds is not stated, that the yacht Hen
rietta has been seizsd in New London, Con-
necticut. on the charge Of being engaged in
filib-stering enterprise against Cuoa.
Mrs. Ann s. Stephens has undertaken to
write complete set Of American historical
novels, aiming to be as indicative of our heroes
aud epochs as are Miss Muhlbach's OF Euro
pean men and times. It will be year or two
yet before they come out.
Twenty Thousand Fenian sympathizers
marched in procession in Limerick Ireland, on
Monday, and afterwards held o 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
place.
The "Avitor" or flying machine. now in
course of construction at San Francisco, is
only partial success. It will navigate the
air in calm, but the slightest breeze discon-
certs it's movements. The Chronicle thinks
that if the inventor should ever start for New
York, he would be quite as likely to bring up
at Cape Horn or thu North Pole.
President GRAFT and FaTty nave been vis-
iting around in New jersey. He went to tho
triple estate of Messrs. Campbell and Brick
, and Mrs. Stetson the other day, when the chill
dren impeded his feet with flowers, the men
nAn~'y .hooL hia hand off. apa anahy pro
sented him with fifty acre lot, which, &C
co:ding to the attendant Jenkins, che thank
fully accepted"
"A frst-class mansion Corner lot) in fash
ionable quarter Of New York, costs about
seventy-hve thousand dollars, but that city has
eighteen thousand tenement houses with q
population of three hundred and seventy-Ave
thousand two hundred and eighty-one. besides
a cellar population of twenty-five thousand and
ninety-fve, in which it's poorer classes nj auage
to exist 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
flame downwards into the lamp, igniting the
oil, and producing an explosion which scat
tered the flmos right aad left, burning her
to death. y
That venerable aboltionist, Horace Gree.
ley, has been making an inspection into the
agricultural and mineral resources Of portion
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 iroa ore sufficient to supply the
world for ages to come. besides hearing vague
ly of other mineral treasures. It is singular 10
find how favoraby Southern State appears,
even in the eyes of a Tribune philosopher,
when not on his pet hobby.
The latest counterfeit ten dollar greenback
is 80 very similar to the original nose that the
authorities, at Washington are preparing to
issue an entirely new series OF notes from one
to one Thousand dollars, inclusive, under the
direct supervision oehole-in-the-sky Boutwell,.
who has1apparsutly discovered a hole in the
Treasury as' deapss the other was high. On
these virgin notes VS. are pleased to learn
there Wilt appear no craven image OF any liv-
ing man. They will probably soon be c.rcu.
lating around in the place or money, unless
some half dozen millions fully completed,
except the signatures, should again be missed
from the Treasury building. 4n that case the
spectacles OF MI. Hole-in-the-sky will be in re-.
qlisition o SECOND time. /, 4, s4l4 .r.4
-Professor Andrew Jenkins sometimes call
ed the Canadian Blondtni a tigi1t-rope per-
former OF celebrity, about the Goth Of August
intends to essay'h most perillons feat, nothing
less than'crossing the fearful chasni or Niagara
River below the falls BY means of d veiocipede
ridden overs tight rope. The pla,e Of crcss-
ing will be short, distance below Tie, old sns
pension bridge, where the llepgth ~ the SPAN
ming cable T!n be about, one tbppssuds feet.
The vehicle used by the daring .veloopedo fun
ambulist is OF peculiar construction. Tire
wheels are grooved. and it is propelled by the
hands, 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 viii
doubtless attracta great crowd to R'ithess the
trial. iY#p s&H. itGf a.'a.t ~ X ,"tif,
The Ieateaworth' (Kansasj Times sayss
that on Saturday last wbiis two WoraRmer' were
engaged u digging Well a. Monument 81 ssa.- .
tion. for the Kansas r P4ciac Raiload Company,
1t caved IN. burying one pf, ,lhe men, while the
other escaped by seizing rope. and was drawn
mp. The we'll had baeny sunk one Hundred and
sixty feet and owing 10 the scarcity or timber
the curbinT had been'ries,ectedY Yor thirty feet,
and being thus insecure, without d m5nasns,a
warning It caved in, burying the man under
several feet oFearth ahd sand. The wuorktnen ii
above could distinctly hear bis caies forro help.