The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-08
NEWS OF TEE DAY.

NEWS OF TEE DAY.
AT Liverpool there was no business.
Gold Yesterday, at New York, closed at
13j. ,,,r
THE New York cotton market closed dull
and heavy at 22c. for mlddlings; sales looo
bales.
THE Rothschilds are said to have lately lost
enormous sums of money.
1t is reported that two members OF the
cuban Junta, in New York, are in the employ
of Spanish spies.
, 1T is thought that one hundred Ohio iami-
,;es will migrate to Middle, Tennessee, in the
fall.
The largest shoes made tor women in the
Philadelphia market go to Utah; the smallest
are sent to Havana.
"A German chemist has found test so
delicate that one part of arsenic in one mil
lion parts of solution may be detected.
Mr.. Motley, our Minister at London, insists
on being addressed as "Your Excelency," In
public as well as private.
Paul de Cassagnac announces that ne
must refuse challenges from all except ac-
knowledged good swordsmen. He can't
bother with any more amateurs.
-Generals Kirby Smith and .Bushrod john
son have leased the Nashville, Tenn, Univer-
sity building, where they propose to establish
military academy.
The Empress Of Austria was recently shst
through the hand in attempting to take
loaded pistol from her SON. The young gentle
man is twelve years old.
Rather alarming reports are made by the
health officers at New York Of the prevalence
of yellow fever at Hayten and Cuban ports,
and also at Rio de Janeiro.
Now is the time for country boarding
houses and hotel keepers to advertise, rs thou
sands of families are looking about for pleasant
quarters for the summer.
The new French ministry have had anoth-
er decided success in the Corps LeSislatlf.
The DEPUTIES Of the Left declined voting on
the question.
Mrs. Gladstone, wife Of the Prime Minis
ter. attended tea meeting OF three hundred
<lfty poor mothers in London, and eX-
pressed her deep sympathy with the poverty
and suffering prevailing in the East End.
The Bostonians are lessenlng the drudge
ry of cooking, by indulging largely in corn fish
as an article of daily food. 1t is new prepa-
ration they are patronlzing, and Is called
specifically spatent dry corned fish,"
The burglar Of the coming period is to dis
pense with the rude jimmy and vociferous
gunpowder, and to melt safe locks quietly and
chemically b. means Of the oXyhydrogen blow
pipe. Thus does science daily multiply its
benefits to mankind.
Quite number of persons were on Satur-
day, in Paris, indicted by the Chamber Of Ac-
cusaton Of the High Court of Justice for
various offences. The larger number for con-
spiracy against the safety of State and the life
of the Emperor.
1t Is reported that an alliance has been
formed between Russia and Egypt; arms and
war material have been ordered by the latter,
andsit is nearly certain that war with Tur-
key!is imminent The Paris Bourse has been
excited in consequence.
james Smith, a pedestrian, who has been
boasting of his superiority to Weston, tried TO
walk one hundred miles in New York on Sat-
urday In less time than Weston, was obliged
to give up on the ffty-sixth mile, having made
flfty-fye miles in twelve hours and thirty
eight minutes.
"A new movement, it is said, will perhaps
be made in Washington to reconstruct Ten
nessee again. Prominent gentlemen of the
Republican party of that State do not like the
present state of affairs, and want Congress to
declare the present Legislature an unconstitu-
tional body.
The story of the terrible massacre Of Jews
in Roumania, has now an appearance of being
almost absolutely without q foundation. The
first accounts of 1t in Europe came from the
United States. A trifing riot in a small vii
lage, in MoIdavia, is the only apparent cause
for the report.
The steamer George B. Upton, which sail
ed from New York short time ago with men
and 6munittons of war for the Cuban service,
dlsembarked them ct Punta Brava, where an
attack was made upon them by the Spanish
force. Ten of the men, 1t is reported, were
killed and the remainder dispersed. All or
larger portion of the supplies seems to have
been captured.
The steamers for Europe from New York on
Saturday took IN aggregate of about thou
sand passengers, families chiefly who are 60
ing to spend tine summer on the continent.
The emigration, however, Is as nothing to the
immigration. The arrivals at New York have
been at the ratio of 1000 per day-l4, 900 a
Week-ani the cable advises that the depart
ures from Liverpool even now are at the rate
of3o,OOO weekly.
The New York papers tell us that The no