The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-24
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THURSDAY, MARCH "a, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Gold closed in New York, yesterday, al
12s.
in New York, yesterday, cotton closed
heavy and lower; sales 1900 bales at 223c.
in Liverpool uplands closed at III 3D., with
sales of TO- 900 bales.
Chicago, following New York, now has
itfemale broker"
Extensive coal fields have been discovered
in the western part of Kansas.
"A lady flour merchant asks to be admitted
to the Chicago Board of Trade.
The New Workers are said to have go
alrcccssss their full ice supply this season.
Eyre the captain of the Bombay, proves
to be a near relative Of Eyre, the Jamaica Gov
ernor.
The Texas Legislature excludes all news
paper reporters, and has refused to elect a
chaplain.
The womens party in New Jersey very
appropriately want to make Elizabeth the
State capital.
The Marquis Of Bannevllle, the French
ambassador at Rome, has arrived in Paris, nc
j. companied by two French bishops.
Mrs. Coles, half.sister to yicc-President
Colfay, is to have an appointment US postal
clerk in Chicago
The Philadelphia Ledger records the
death of S. B. Bancroft an old and esteemed
:. dry goods merchants OF that city.
Mr. Ames, senator elect from MISSISSIPPI,
is described as "a handsome, boyish-looking
chap, with nice black mustache.'
Mrs. Stowe is said to have lost $4,000 in
addition to her reputation for good taste, by
the publication of the Byron scandal
DIR. John Radway, the owner of the patent
medicine known as ''kadway's Ready Relief"
.dicd in New York last Monday of consump'
.tion.
The New York Evening Mail says that fe-
male suffrage meets with much better support
now than the abolition OF slavery did In Its
earlier days.
The Printers Typographical Union OF
PHILADELPHIA have admitted to membership
lady, who supports herself by doing compost
tors work in her spare time.
Beautiful examples of photography In per-
-manent pigments are given in the first num-
ber of the Photographic Art Journal, just is
sued in London.
Uniform quaGrilles are new English
fashion. The gentlemen Of each set all wear
the same uniform and the ladies fancy dresses
to match.
The last of Washington's field hands has
died again, this time in ST. Louis. Ofcourse he
was los years old, and all his faculties unim-
paired. He Is still living in several other
places.
Mrs. Bowles, of Indiana, having gained
divorce and alimony, refused to pay her law
yers, on the ground that she was married when
:the contract was made. She having since
been drowned, they are suing her estate.
They have trouble in New York because
the proprietors of Irving Hall will not permit
the Anti-Savery Society to meet there, giving
as "a reason that "to admit colored people to
their hall would injure its reputation and
their patronage"
"A monster mass meeting of tailors was
held in New York, on Saturday, to discuss the
question OF q thorough organization. 1t is
stated that no less than 10000 tailors, not
members of the protective societies, have re-
solved to form union, and make stand for o
higher scale of prices.
"A Louisiana planter delighted his hands
last week by paying them in silver quarters.
One old negro exclaimed: "Federit money
come an done gone, and greenbacks Is played
out, but dis Is the stuff that rats can't chaw.
De old time Is come agln, hdo-ray"' And then
he went away and buried his money.
"A new fashion is being introduced. Ladies
bo, 70 1o in 70
tolls and daggers. 1t is rather curious sight
to see the blushng, timid Miss Fawn drawing
her ivory revolver, or Miss Stern, strong
minded young lady, toying feroeiously with
her dagger, which she suddenly turns into
fan.
Mrs. Stowe writes from Florida ''that a
country cannot be laid fiat down under war,
burned over with fire, aud all its pleasant
things laid waste, and come up again so as 10
stand even with the undsturbed civilization
of Northern towns In one, two or three
years. In this, at least, Mrs Stowe has truth
on her side.
The latest advertising dodge in New York
is the publication of q book in which the
reader is led on, by the interest of well told
story, to its close. This is abrupt, and he
turns over the page to an appendix, in which
he is told OF the pcculiur advantages of his
Investing his money in particular lite in
surance company.
"A dispatch of the 2lst., from Jackson,
miss, says: "E. N. Yerger, charged with the
smurder of Colonel Crane, and recently escaped |
from custody, returned to this city yesterday
and voluntarily surrendered himself to Sheriff
Lake. He has al no time, since his escape
week ago, been more than eight miles distant.
!: He addressed the following to Governor AL
corn: Having learned that the sheriff and his
subordinates, and perhaps yourself, have been
censured for my escape, and being unwilling
that injustice should rest in any quarter,
have voluntarily returned to prison. A proper
and kindly feeling for the officers who have
shown me as much courtesy as prison discl-
pine will allow, prompts ME to this action /