The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.


NEWS OF THE DAY.
At Liverpool uplands were 1ojd.
Cold at New York yesterday closed at l3s.
The New York cotton market closed firm
at 22k; sales 2300 bales.
Texas has over FIVE hundred miles Of
railroads, and is rapidly building more.
What is called in Europe the ''dead sea-
son, y in commercial circles, is now reported as
having set In, and news is meagre.
The New Hampshire House Of Representa-
.dves contains several members who are un-
able to write their own names.
An English sailor boy, not yet fourteen, de-.
1iberately shot aud killed another lad on the
levee, at New Orleans, last week.
Nearly an acre of land at the foot of Pop
lar street, Memphis, took plunge into the
Mississippi last week, swamping several
barges.
The Chamber of Commerce and the COM
missioners OF piers and docks are moving
simultaneously in the matter of improving
New York harhor.
The Governor General of Canada is soon
to visit Montreal and Invest Prince Arthur
with the insignia OF knlghthood of the order
Of st. Patrick, conferred by the Queen.
All the British monthly magazines, with
out distinction of party, denounce Disraeli's
novel, "Lothair,' as "immoral, shallow and
snobbish.''
The Mississppians are working to negoti-
ate transfer Of Mobile to that. State. The
Governor has sent a commissioner for the pur-
pose to Alabama.
"A Bombay (India) dispatch of Monday last
says: The prospects Of the cotton crop are
Improving. Heavy rains have fallen In the
planting districts. and apprehensions ofa short
crop have been removed.
Washington correspondents say the friends
OF Cuba at the capital have lately dispatched
from different points in the country large
quantities OF arms to the insurgents, and that
additional supplies will soon be sent thither.
The International Chess Congress at Ba-
den, July 18th, will bring together nearly oil
the most important players in Europe. 1t is
proposed to revise the rules of the game, and
make them uniform, and two Journeys are to
be held. ~
The great question of the election of a
king was debated in the Spanish Cortes on
Tuesday. A sensation was produced by the
declaration of the speaker that the restoration
OF the Bonrbons in Spain would never be per-
.mItted, and q denunciatlon of monarchy in
,,.eneral was received with cheers.
The Metropolitan bishop of Canada, at
Montreal, has issued form Of thanksgiving,
.4sin acknowledgment of Gods mercy in the
recent delivery from Fenian aggression
which was used yesterday in all the Episcopal
Churches In Canada. general day Of thanks
giving is called for by portion Of the Cana
dian press.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Quebec
has made an appeal for aid for the Saguenay
sufferers by the late disastrous fire, saying that
six hundred and hfty-dve families, making
four Thousand five hundred and eighty-fye
souls, lost their houses barns, furniture,
clothes, agricultural implements, animals, &C.,
not even saving the grain sown in the earth.
& s.AiMr. Tracey EsRoberts recently sued the
Toledo and Wabash Railroad for damages, In
compensation for severe injuries received by
him whilst travelling on that road. He OBJ
tanned a verdict of $4,000, Notwithstanding the
fact that the company claimed exemption from
damages on the ground that Mr.. Roberts was
travelling on free pass, which contained
condition to the effect that the company
should be so exempt. 1t appears, then, that
travellers on free or 'sdead-head" passes can
obtain compensation as well as other people,
when injured by railway accidents, all printed
conditions on the passes to the contrary not
withstanding.
The recent great fire at Constantine
pie appears to have been one Of the most ter
rible CONGREGATIONS in modern history. The
fire broke out in Pera, the Frankish quarter,
about one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. A
strong wind was blowing at the time and the
efforts Of the fremen aud citizens to stop the
progress of the flames were futile. The resi-
dences Of the American and British ministers,
and the consulates of several nations, together
With theatres, mosques, churches, stores and
thousands OF houses, were destroyed. No est-
mate Of the losses Is attempted About thirty
people were killed or injured BY the falling of
walls, and other lives are reported lost. Des-
huetiye CONGREGATIONS are quite common in |
Constantinople, in consequence of the infam-
.mable material of which the houses are built, |
and the narrowness of the streets. In one |
night, in 1852, seven fires destroyed an aggre-
gate of $500 houses.
A London telegram of Monday says: 'The
Irish telegraph lines are not working we'll
At present 1t is impossible to communicate
With Valentia, the point where the land lines
e onnect with the English cable. AS conse-
4uence, kilograms frcm English cities for the
United States are going forward by the follow |