The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-18
1be GbafleStp,t 9ems'
wi WEDNESDAY, MAY ls, 1870.
NEWS OF TILE DAT.

1~ol, =
in Liverpool cotton closed dull; uplanas
1IaI13d; sales Ii. 600 bales. ,-alrl u
..Mr.Edwara aPadelford, of Savannah, has
adfha $Sod6, to bis original gift OF $4,000 to the
EniaEmai; Church Homeof Savannah.
aPaiitdes have recently visited Fort Valley
in the interest OF Northern capitalists, with
yiev 10 the establishment Of a large cotton fac
tory at that place:;:e,li. !. fi.'s.iIs 80 -.
Mr.. Disraeli's new, novel bears on its title
page this suggestive motto from Terence
wNosse on,1.id hoo salas est: adolescer.t' 'osts'-
TO know all these things Is salvation for youth.
The Eagle and Phoenix Mandatory, al
Columbus, Ca, now consumes seven bales Oh
eoa5n per day. soon,it will work up an ave-
raee OF eleven bales.a Over $4,000 per month
are paid to the employees. 4 81
The loss by the fire in Fincastle, va, on
ths sth instant, Is upward Of $500, 900. Every
mercantile establishment In the town, and, In
deed. every business house, went down in a
aammou ruin. Three hundred persons were
made homeless by the sad event. L..
zArolling mill to repair rails has been put
.jnto operation at Grenada, Miss. 1t costs sl5,-
900 and repairs rails alta cost of ffty cents for
each laminated piece. It will repair one
]. place, saw OF, straighten, and punch three
hundred rails each day. g..
The, programme lat q recent charity con-
,rert In the hemieycle ofths Grand Hotel, Paris,
was 10 long that, at the seventeenth morceau'
.uearly all the audience turned their backs on
aqutsrtstte sung by Nilsson, Alboni, Cont ana
Lohs Hohler. .. .,!.Cs -: 80 . - - -
~ We learn from the opelika tAia.} Era that
a propoation from accompany OF Northern
capitalists has Been accepted by the directors
of the esaYaansh and Memphis Railroad 70
build the entire line, from Opelika TO Tuscem-
bia the workrsob bofnished In two years.
North Catolns Has another pair Of "siam-
sese Twins. 70 these are colored boys joined to-
ssether sttef the manner OF Eng and Chang
$ 'They we're born In Columbus County, are In
good health did are intelligent. They are
about eighteen 1ears old.i9...f G91 .
Butler says: .sNoY, we know that hassa-
chusettsIdess massachusetts statistics. che
educator of Massachusetts people, quite con-
sidersbly Impress the; legislation of the whole
country..n Yea, and Massachusetts, men put
the public money In their pockets consider
ably. -...--.--.--.
AT the; annual meeting aof. the Woman's
Suffrage Association, In New York, last Wed
nesday, Henry Ward Beecher, In the speech Of
the day declared: ssHe had no doubt that in
fifteen years hence 1t would seem strange that
the rights of woman to the suffrage had ever
beeRrdenied.n n-1eE
& I'M FISK, the prince Of Erie, took tho
Democratic delegates to the Rochester Con
ventjon from thA} plane In . special trs!a to
New York, running part ofthe time at . speed
of seyenty-ave miles an hour. Vanderbilt ran
train from Rochester to Syracuse last Sun
day, elghty:oae miles, Fl one hour and thirty
one minutes. Fastener: Fisks train gained
five hours On lightning express time.
There is tobe q. mass meeting Of the
women Of New York this week to protest
against the AcE Eariand verdict No men are
to be.samfesed, and Hrs! Stanton Is to be the
principal orator. It Is said that a canvass has
revealed the fact that some Of the foremost
women 1.-THE city are anxious to express their
Indignation at the ejurJ, and their sympathy
for Ma 4cFarland- Richardson. Ex-Surgeon.
General Hammond having made public. an
nounSemsnt thst Mcfarland was dangerous
person, from the peculiar charac or of his lu.
.nacySto be st large, some Of his wtfe,s friends
are seeking legal advice, to see if he cannot
be put Confinement; hcFarlala spends his
time in the newspaper ofieesin Printing house
square. he has published In the papers selec-
tons fton his wifss love letters, written to
him tan years sinces' They are gushing and
loving in tone: = 90 i;.s',! -, = :
Florida is the great State of natural
springs, outside Of Virginia. Silver Spring is
thus spoken Of !: ssvIhis grand and natural
curiosity bursts forth In the midst of the most
fertile country in the State. It bubbles up in
q basin near one hundred feet deep; and about
an acre In extent, and sending from it a deep
stream sixtYto one hundred feet wide, and
extending six ereetght miles to the Ocklawaha
River In the spring itself, fifty boats may lie
at anshor-qpite o.. fleet. The spring thus
formsa natural inland port to which three
steamers now rqn regular from the st. Johns,
making close connections with the ocean
steamers at. Palatka. The clearness of the
water IA truly wonderful. It seems even more
transparent than air; yoa see on the bottom,
eigety feet below. the bottom Of your boat, the
exact form Of the smallest pebble, the outline
and color and shades Of color Of the leaf that
has sunk, and al the prismatlc colors of the
rainbow are reflected. Large fish s~im in 1t,
every scale visible and every movement dis
tinctly seen. If you go over the spring in a
boat you will ses the assures IN the rocks from
which the river pours upward Like an inverted
cataract" TT
On Saturday afternoon in Macon, as Mr..
John Brougnton, prescriptionist In the drug
store Of Mr. l.. W. Hunt & Co., was walking on
First street, he was hailed from the opposite
sideof the street by Henry G. Ross, and he
stopped to ascertain what Mr.. Ross wanted.
The latter walked across the street to where