The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-10
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tive, with sales OF 51OO DaleS. MlO0lnRs Sl4
In Liverpool Gotten closed quiet. Uplands
112d. Sales ~ 100 bales.
The season at Cape May and Long Branch
has already opened.
MIR. Burlngame spent $40. 1000 of the Enn
peror OF China's money on two balls in Paris.
"A Nationa! Convention of the opponents o.
secret societies is to be held at Chicago this
month.
The session OF the Connecticut Legislature
was opened recently with prayer by coIored
clergyman.
The water power of the Chattahoochee, at
Columbus, Ga, is said to exceed that at
Lowell, Mass.
Alexander 81. Stephens is slowly recover
ing from his late injury, and has resumed
work ON the second volume of his history.
"A gentleman near San Antonio, Texas, has
farm of one hundred and thirty Thousand
acres fenced in, and forty thousand head of
cattle pastured on it.
The Hon. Sunset Cox, who is now taking a
pleasure tour in Northern Africa, writes to the
New York World that he has seen darkey
woman in that region weighing four hundred
pounds.
Young James Gordon Bennett is said to
have withdrawn from the New York Evening
Telegram, Of which o correspondent says it's
column OF jokes is as good as Punch's; in fact,
it is Punch'sl
Work is going on rapidly in preparing the
material for the great bridge across the Missis-
sippi at st. Louis. Owing to the high state Of
the water, nothing can at present be done in
the construction Of the piers and abutments,
but work will be resumed about the middle of
August -
Mr.. E. Y. de Bossiere, wealthy French
gentleman from the vicinity OF Bordeaux, last
year purchased large tract of land near Otta-
wa, franklin County, Kansas, where he propo-
ses to establish considerable number OF his
countrymen. His undertaking is based upon
the socialist idea of corporation. both in agri-
cultural labor and in the purchase of all arti-
cles Of consumption.
The Governments Of Europe, it is said, are
gradually coming to the conviction that repeat
ing rifles are failure. The Swiss have given
them up as too complicated for use in the
field. and the French have put an end to
their trial OF Vetterli's system. Almost all the
armies or Europe are of opinion that the new.
waapon has been too hastily adopted, and are
about to recommence their exper iments with
other breeoh-loaders.
The Yves 'orn lands, it is stated, are rapidly
becoming exhausted from the production of
one class of crops and from the neglect to ap-
ply proper manures. The journals of that
region assert that the grain-growing districts
of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Minnesota are
yielding smaller crops to the acre every year,
and the same fact has been observed in the
wheat districts or California. The West, as
we'll as the South, must adopt the plan Of rota-
tion OF crops. - ~
The Shoe and Leather Reporter says ::
eLadies' boots are mostly made to button or
lace in front, kid or morocco stock being used.
Serge goods are scarcely worn in tho Northern
citles the above material having taken it's place.
For information Of those who may wish to
know for what market the enormous quantity
Of serge (or lastiny) shoes made in Massachu-
setrs this spring were sold, we will say that
large portion Of them went South, where all
the colored women seem to run wild after
serge shoes, and wholesale dealers there In
formed us q few weeks since that they had
standing orders in all Northern houses for ell
the goods Of this kind they, could make, Of
sizes running from seven to twelve for women's
wear" ..y
Tho article Of Justin MCCARTHY ON s'Mr.
and Mrs. Lewes" in the June number OF the
Galaxy has called the attention Of the public
to the disproportion which exists between the
opinion entertained Of "George Eliot" in Eng
land and America. In England cultivated peo-
pla regard the novels of ''George Eliot" as
ranking with the novels Of Thackeray; in Ameri-
ca there is no such IA Measurement. The reason
is that the American mind does not UNDER
stand nor sympathizs with the size Of life pre-.
sented In "AdAm Bede," the "Mill ON the
Floss" and "Felix Holt" They are wonder
full pictures nevertheless, and are fairly enti-
tied to the place they have won at home. The
relationship OF sMr. and Mrs. Lewes" is also
the subject Of comment. AS far aswe remem-
Der it the story ia this Mr.. Lswes was mar
ried in early life, his wife subsequently eloped
with paramour; three or four years later
Lewes found her in great distress and relieved
her necessities, settling up IN her part Of his
income; he then applied for divorce which
was refused by the English courts on the
ground that his provision for the erring wife
was forgiveness Of her error. The Scotch
courts were less rigorous, however, and, nav
ing secured q divorce there, Lewes married
Miss Evans on a Scotch certificate.
The New Orleans Times relates that twen-
ty-fve Jears ago, when the case Of Mrs. Chimes
first camc up for trial In that city, herycounsel
having Withdrawn because OF difficulty with
the judge, General Gaines himself claimed, as
an admitted member Of the bar, TO represent
his wife's interests. Unfortunately, when no
studied law In Virginia, it was under very
different system Of Jurisprudence, and he felt
very much ont OF sea in the courts Of a OWL
law State. He would, therefore, ask that the
lady defendant, who WAS better acquainted
with the remarkable facts OF her history than
any one else, should be allowed to address
the jury in her case. The judge stated
that the LADY had the right to argue her own
'caee. Then the General, with that grand
old dignity for which ba was do aistiri-
guished, led forward Mrs. Gaines, who pro-
ceeded to address the jury at great length,
reading. numerous documents bearing upon
her case. Whilst reading these documents,
the Judge, who was high spirited. man, in