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

in New York, yesterday, cotton was IN
good demand, closing firm al l65c for upiahos.
Gold closed at I3t.
lin Liverpool cotton closed firm; upland 81
assd.
Mills are Idle in New England for want OF
water. The streams everywhere there are very
low. MI,
The woman who stole the child OF MIR. Dig
by. in New Orleans, has been sentenced to hVe
years. Imprisonment
John ALLEN, the ''wickedest man" IN Ne"
York, is reported to have died on the 18th ult.'
in Fulton County, N. 7.
Cincinnati merchants are now advertising
heavily. The dailies OF that city have found IL
necessary to issue extra sheets with recent Is
sues.
.-Muscatine. Iowa, has man who offers to
wager that he can whip any dog in town with
hfs:teeth.. He proposes to have his hands tied
behind him.
r,rn.nbe pullman Palace Car Company, organ:
iza,, in 1867, with capital of sl,00O,0OO, has
now increased 1t to ss,0OO,0OO. 1t runs its cars
over ,nfteen thousand miles OF railroads, and
EMPLOYS about three thousand men.
1.-The Southerners in Cincinnati "smole a
shastly smile" when Mt. Groesbeck got up ana
said this Is "a land where the press Is Tree and
fhe conscience free, where speech is free and
education Is free, where the people rule and
change their administration at their pleasure"
The Turkish Government has been aroused
by the gigantic war preparations of Russia.
An order has been issued by the Sultan for the
Immediate inspection Of all fortresses on the
frontier contiguous to Russia. Army prepara-
tion is being made, and munitions OF war are
being collected on as large scale as the fac'll-
ties OF the government will admit.
.-ImmigraLon to this country from Ger
many has not been materially checked by The
European war, as 1t was greatly feared would
prove the case. The arrivals at New York for
sthew eek ending last Saturday were twice as
great as for any week during the last TWO
months, and the total arrivals for August last
were only 1886 less than for the corresponding
period OF last year.
f,E--Thurlow Weed in response to query the
other day as to whether he now takes much
interest In newspapers, said: "None at all; |
was an editor for f:ty years, which is good
apprenticeship; but the papers OF to-day are
!;tiifferent,from my time; we were progressive,
but the press of to-day is doubly 80. The
young men of the press are the true journalists
sof the .day-vim and enterprise, vim and en-
terprlse."
81, ut Is well known among sporting men in
England and France that the Emperor Napo-
ilsojn was the real owner of the racers entered
by tie Count de LAGRANGE. When the famous
Gladiateur won his series of triumphs in Eng
land, the Emperor was cheered by the Pari-
SLAMS as for some personal achievement, so
completely was be identified with the La
gGrange horses. With the failure of the En-
'pdfe comes, Of course. cessation OF these re-
latlons, the consequence being that The entlre
stud, numbering thirty-nine animals, was dis
posed OF by public auction at TaItersalps. 1t
Drought sil3, l5O In gold, the great Gladiateur
bringing 5000 He was bought by Mr. Blenk- !
ison, after spirited contest with England's
most famous racing nobility.
Gotham Is greatly alarmed at the increase |
OF yellow fever cases in that city. 1t is report.
ed that the fever recently 80 fatal on Cover
nor's Island, which was pronounced by the
health authorities at first to be pernicious
fever, is now admitted by the same authority
to be The verilable yellow lever; that some of
ITS victims are only in the early stages while
others are In dying condition, among the
latter the Chaplain Ol the post. The health
oard have authorized the sanitary committee
to .akc Lllc necessary steps lOr The removal 10
quarantine of all those Infected with the dis
ease, and to devise measures to prevent the
spread OF the malady. 1t has been ascerlained
thaktne dread disease has been on Governors
Island since the l4th Of August, and there is
,peoa reasonsfor believing that it was commu-
niossed from vessels that had succeeded by