The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-12-30
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NEWS OF TIE DAY.

NEWS OF TIE DAY.
Gold, at New York, closed yesterday at
Ioxa1o1.
The New York cotton market closed duil auo
heavy at sc; sales $500 bales
At Liverpool cotton was quiet; uplands S@d''
sales 12 oeo bales; speculation and export 2ooo.
Saturday was the coldest day OF the season II
all parts OF the country.
The New Orleaus police has connscated the
wagons and horses Of q large number OF MIX
dealers, who put milk in their water.
Egypt could, In few days, place under arms
1oo. 600 men, many Of whom are armed with the
best breech.oading rifles
.Mr. Frederick Hudson, after three years re-
tirenent at his home in Concord, has resumed
editorial charge OF the New York Herald.
The well known Boston publishing drm Of
Fields, osgood 4 Co., at the beginning ofthe year
becomes James R. Osgood Co., Mr.. James I.
Fields retiring.
EARLY IN February the day will come which,
in Chinese reckoning, viii begin another term of
thousand years. Two weeks festivities are to
be devoted in California, to the celebration OF the
end o. q cycle and the beginning OF another.
Little Is known OF the manner In which tho divi
sion OF time is connected with their cosmology
and their religion.
s,-Juarez having recently issued pardon to all
the Mexican "lnsurgents," Santa Anna, from his
retreat in Nassau y. P, resorts in manifesto to
the worlu, protesting against oe'ns es'leu an III
surcent by the "monster" Juarez, and declining
to accept the pardon. lie makes bitter attack
on Juarez, and closes with !: "1 repeat reneat
II with d!sgast-,lown with the monster"
"A company has been formed In New York
which will seriously Interfere with the manufac
ture of American shoes. Contracts have been
made with shoe manufacturers In Vienna to make
aAme1icau hrogans,'' similar to those OF Massa-
chusetts manufacture, from Austrian leather,
and ship them to New York. They will cost per
,alr, duty paid, about twenty.two cents less than
American shoes.
Germany, to which we owe The easy Tyro.ese
hats, intends to reform the chtmney.pot Of
fashionable society. Eighty representatives or
the leading hat manufacturers Of the fatherland
have met in solemn concave for this purpose.
Fourteen models were presented to the meeting.
from which three were chosen by jury OF ten
experts. AZ. three came from the workshops OF
Berlin, and, after long dellbera'ion. one OF Inc
three was finally selected the hat OF the future.
Mr.. VIM McDouald, q practical printer III The
once Of the Erie Republican. has patented new
auadrat. The invention, or improvement, con-
sists In bevelins both ends OF the quadrat, which
serves double purpose. 1t will render the seha
tion OF solid matter Of little trouble. Tie other
advantage is that, being beveed at both ends, 1t
is immaterial which way 1t Is inserfei, as IL
forms the rcedsd cir chamber below, anil is 4
convenience above.
"A suit against the Mutual Benefit Life Insur-
ance Company OF New Jersey, for $4,000 insu:-
ance, has just been decided by the United States
District Court at tPittsbur Judge Mckennon pre-.
siding in favor Of the assignee Of the insured par.
ty, who, 1t appears, committed suicide, on which
account the company refused to pay. Nearly all
the evidence In the was to the single point as
to the fact of insanity. The theory used to be
that suicide vitiated q life policy Of insurance.
Several high judicial decisions recently have pret
ty well established the theory that insanity s a
disease and that if it leads to death the policy
holder is as much entitled to recover his Insurance
as II death resulted from fever or other natural
cause or accident
Competent medical authorities aver that
enormous as the number Of the killed and wound
never before been such large proportion OF The
latter who have recovered. Fresh air has been
secured to a ful!c. extent than before, and the
food supply has been, in most instances, better
managed. 1t has been the aim OF the SURGEONS
to trust very much to nature; To secure rest as
much as possible, and cleanliness by the option
or frequent dressing and washing OF wounds; TO
give as little actual medicine rs was really ncccs.
sary, and to secure full supply OF wholesome
food These conditions, with well ventilated
room and good nursing, have yielded lily
favorable results. Where, from any cause, this
plan coul, i,,t he fairly carried ous, success has
been diminished.
Mr. Clark NILS visited General Grant lately
for the purpose OF getting from him an authentic
account OF the particulars attending the surren.
der OF General Lee, to aid him in his proposed
work OF representation OF the event in bass relief
for his monument On this point the President
said: "Lee caEe In with a flag Of truce to see on
what terms would receive his surrender.
stated the terms, and Lee said: please reduce
that to writing l took some manifold paper
and made several copies and handed one to him
saying: There; believe that is about as | talk.
ed' Lee real it, signed 1t. and then passed it
back to me and signed 1t. The manifold copies
were then distributed to the several generals
The transaction took place in front OF my tent,
under the trce and with little pine table be
tween u.s." To the remark pf Mr.. Mills that he
had seen picture representing the surrender as
having taken place in a room with carpeted
moor, and In the midst Of the statf officers of both
armies, General Grant replies that "that picture
was got ul to show OF the aids" The real sur-
render took place as sbore stated.
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