The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-05
NBw S s UNI M a r Y.

The New York letter carriers are SAID to
be very proud of their new uniforms.
Hon. John I. Hoffman, the new Governor
OF New York, and MIR. Fox, the new Mayor
OF Philadelphia, were inaugurated on the first.
Time and vegetation have almost oblite-
rated all traces of war from the Spottsyl lvania
battle field in Virginia, including the once
formidable earthworks.
The announcement being made that guam
titles Of American whiskey are sent abroad and
returned as "French brandy" the Boston
Post thinks people are lucky who get brandy
"Which has seen France in any shape"
The earliest notice of the Grecian bend ap-
pears in the following passage from the
tenth book of the HAD:
.rIo here the wretchel Agamemnon stands
The unhappy general Of the Grectdn bands,
Whom Jove decrees with daily cares to oe''a"
Galveston, Texas, it is reported, has 2o,OOO
inhabitants. 1t has six hundred business
firms and six lines of steamships, five of sail
iny ships, two ba nks, six private bankers, two
insurance companies, aud three cotton press
companies.
"A Young lady who teaches music in an
academy i Western New York, sent an order
TO publisher recently. in which she had spelt
the words very badly. She apo!oRized by add
ing . postscript, as follows: ~ You must e1-
kews this letter, as I p!a bi noat, but spell bi
ear"
The Louisville Courier-Jourpal gives IN
account of 4 young lady near Hickman, Ken
tuckv. wio has spent nineteen of her twenty
seven yca:s in sleep. She wakes freq lently
ten or .Helv, times day, but cannot remain
awake more than tea to twenty minutes at
tinc. Her appearance is said to be rather pre-
possessing an6 she is much more intelligent
and wei informed than would be expected
from one in her condition.
Tho Boston Journal has found the follow
ing about lis ancestors in an old book printed
in 1899: s'The Inhabitants seem very religious,
showing many outward and visible signs of an
inward and spiritual grace. But, though they
wear in their faces the innocence OF doves, you
will find them N their dealings as subtle as
serponts Interests is their faith. IN oney their
god. and largo possessions the only heavcn
they covet."
The new postal convention recently con-
-c,uicd betwcon the United States ana Great
Britain vent into operation on the 1st instant.
It establishes postag, on letters OF Twelve
cents per single rate OF half ounce IN the
: United States, and twelve cents in the United
Kingdom, prepayme at optional. fine OF i've
cents in the United States and four in the
aUated Kingdom will, however, be levied a 7
collected in addition to the deficient postage
(. ON each unpaid or insuficicntly prepaid letter
received by one country from tho other.
BY divine command, communicated through
Brigham Young, all the sanity shopkeepers OF
Salt Lake are now obliged to surm mount their
sienboards with t. TX Of their faith. This
consists of IN archeo inscription, Holiness to
the Lord" with the Al-Seeing Eye in the CEN
tire. Mormons are instructed to trade only at
th sse s:bull's eve shops" as the Genties irrev-
erently call them; but it is hiated that the in
junction is very lightly needed, though tho
penalty of disregarding it is being cut off from
the church.
"A Washington letter to the Baltimore Ga
zette says "It ia probable that compro-
mise m easure in the nature Of q national legis-
lative exposition OF the meaning Of certain ar
ticles and clauses Of the Georgia Constitution
will be passed by Congress. This act will in
effect declare that, by the true intent and
meaning OF that fundamental instrument, ne
groes have the right to hold and enjoy all Offices
of profit and honor IN the State, and that this
right shall be enforced BY the Governor with
the power of his negro militia, aided, If neces-
sary, by tho bayoaets OF the Federal Govern
meat. As old Mr.. Hill and all The State Off
GERS we're elected before the negro legislators
were expelled, and as the election OF the pres
ent delegation in the House could not be eff
fected by their expulsion, there will be less
need of stirring up things especially as tho
other senator is of Democratic persuasion, and
easily disposed OF la Senator Thomas, OF
your State So predict that Georgia will not
be re-reconstruc.ed."
Dan. Bryant, Of the Ministries, tells of the
most complex family ever known, something
in this wise: 81 married young widow, who
lived with her step-daughter; my father short
ly aftor married the step-daughtef. My wife
was, therefore, the mother-in-law and the
daughter-in-law Of my father. am the stop
father Of my mother-in-!aw, and my wife's
step-laughter is my step-mothcr. VOL, my
step-mo .her-tbat is to say, my fathers wlie
and my wife's daughter-had q son. He's my
step-brother, Of course, but being the son of
my wife's step-daughter, my wife is, OF course,
his grandmother, and am his grandfather as
well as his step-brother. My wife also had
boy. My step-mothcr is consequently the step
sister Of my boy and also hi grandmother,
because he is the child OF her step-son, and
my father is the broShcr-in-law of my son,
who is the son of my step mother. L am my
mothers brother-in-law, my vito is the aunt
of her own SOD, my son is the grandsoa Of my
father, and am my own grandfather"
The New York correspondent of the Chica-
go Post thus writes: sour people were erca:-
ly surprised at the rumor that the kcy. DR..
Osgood, of the Messiah Church, had resigned.
He occupies one Of the most costly and COM
-manding church edidces in New York. He
has been in New York nearly twenty years.
Succeeding DR.. Dewey IN 1919, he at once took
: rank among the foremost preo chcrs OF New
York. Removing from tho lower part of the
city, a church edifss costing over $3.50, 600 was
erected, AID has just bsen consecrated. Tho
financial troubles and reverses have embar-
rassed the society to such an extent that DR..