The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-25
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Is, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DHF.


The New York cotton market was decidedly
lower at 2s1sc; sales 1000 bales.
The Liverpool cotton market closed quiet
11AsllKd; Orleans llHal1xd; sales 10000 bales
1t costs $500 to guillotine criminal IL
France.
oysters are regularly imported into England
from New York.
-Koopmanschaap is coming East next montl
for more contracts.
-Salnave's dying advice to his sons wa
snever to meddle with politics."
"A contract has been obtained by some Eng
lish engineers for building three hundred miles
railroad in Japan.
The daily expenses attendant upon the ecu
meuical Council in Rome average 1000 scudi, Of
about $4,000 in gold
The Missouri Legislature has amended the
public school law SO as to allow women to vote In
matters relating to schools.
"A telegram from Rome states that among the
ecclesiastics who have been expelled from that
city were several Americans.
A firm which recently failed in New York,
with liabilities at ssOO,ooo, handed over three
sleeve buttons as the actual assets Of the firm.
The share OF public lands granted to Virginia
for agricultural colleges amounts to oooo acres,
and Is now subject to the order OF the State au-
.thorltes.
Ten per cent. OF the violent deaths on which
one Of the New York accident insurance compa-
mes has paid insurance policies have been
murder.
The ram Atlanta, which sailed from New
York for San Domingo December 10th, has not
been heard from, and 1t Is feared that she has
roundered.
-Advices from Marsellles state vessel painted
black and coppered, has been seen ashore near
Cape Bow, on the coast OF Africa. Atent was
erected On Shore over which the American flag
was dying.
-Thaddeus Young Smith, Of the Mormon mis-,
sion. in Louisville, KY, writes TO the Courier
Journal that the Saints propose to resist the effort
to abolish polygamy, and tina: the Mormons "oid
defiance to every crusade that originates IN the
corrupt court of Washington"
Attempts to commit suicide are hereafter to
be punished In Massachusetts,, upon the principle
that attempts to commit a crime are indictaole
.as misdeme; uors at common law. person who
recently attempted to shoot himself but failed,
has been bound over in Worcester, Mass. for
trial in the criminal court
The persons arrested during the recent dir.
animation. One hundred and eight were uncon-
dItionalIy discharged, one hundred and twenty
nye held to appear at court, and one hundred and
fifty kept under arrest on the charge OF consplr-
Ing against the State and the life Of the Emperor.
The old North Dutch Reformed Church, one
OF the few remaining landmarks in the lower
parts Of New York City, Is about to succumo to
the uptown movement. The site Is offered for
lease for Il years. Tile estimated value OF the
corner lot Fulton and Ann streetsl Is 100000,
and that Of the four remaining lots $4,000 each.
Twenty thousand dollars per annum Is asked Tor
the lease Of the whole, the lessee 10 pay taxes anu
assessments. The congregation will remove to
new building, now in course OF construction, at
the corner Of Fifth Avenue and Forty-eighth
street, at cost Of $780, 900.
The recent defeat Of Escobedo by Generals
Toledo and Martinez is thought to be ominious OF
q widespread insurrection in Mexico. 1t Is con-
tended that Escobedo is general ofSreat ability,
and is at the head or nearly all the available ma
tional forces. Quite recently he has been largely
reinforced, but, in spite OF this, lie has been
obliged to retreat from San Luis Poosi to San Fe-
7Ipe, and from the latter place to Guanamato.
The States OF Xaisco and Michoacan are up in
arms, and the leaders OF the government troops
are divided in councils, and unable to put down
the insurrection. Under these circumstances the
future Of Mexico is not promising.
AT the recent meeting OF the shareholders OF
the "Atlantic" and Anglo-Amercan Cable Com.
psnies one Of the speakers, in referring to the ar
rangement Just about to be perfected under
which the two corporations are to be consoli
dated, and work the two English and the French
Tho n N
fear any rivalry in the futnre possesses the eX
elusive connection with the whole OF the civilized
world in communication with America, and the
exclusive connection with Cuba and Mexico on the
south, as well as the Pacific on the west. Through
the French Company it receives the messages
from France, and by another arrangement mt 1t has
nearly an exclusive right to the whole OF the Ger
man business.
The attempt Of the inmates Of the Hudson
County, New Jersey, Jail TO escape on Sunday
night was triumph OF human ingenuity. The
rlngleaders of the plot, securing several table
knives and file, converted The knives into saws;
then, being allowed to roam in the prison all day,
the prisoners repaired to what Is known as the
Bathroom, small dungeon in an extension In
The rear over which Is skylight and underneath
iron crossbars. They made kind OF swing, ex-
tending from the bars down, placing the saws
atthe top. Then they invited all the small boys
or.the neighbornood to enjoy themselves By swing
ing. They kept the saws continually at work.
Thus they had sawed the bars nearly through,
when their trick was discovered and the ring
leaders at once placed in solitary confinement.
"a 4o.rld death from starvation has just been
brought to light by the sanitary inspectors OF
NenYori. These officers in making their rounds
searching for cases of ''relapsing fever" acci-
dentally heard Of man who was lingering in
exsremss destitutlon In one OF the damp and
filthy cellars OF Water street. They sought the
premises and descended to the basement by pair
ortd,apidated stairs. Once upon the landing OF a
DARK. dreary and llthly hovel, they raped for
admtttance. There was no response. They rap
ped again and again, and yet all was stiffness.
For quarter OF an hour they kept up their en-