The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-08-19
!, NEWS S OF TIE DAY.

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.,4Gold atNew York, yesterday, closed steady
at '1saaIss. 80 :
The New York cotton market closed steady
at l92c; sales 1000 bales.
3n;At Liverpool cotton closed firm; uplands
SD; sales Il, 900 bales. -. ~
;-..-Miss Charlotte, Cushman is Ill In London
with cancer S.!i':r,a'- l..Ta' s'efa
Eight cents Is the regular fee Of a 'sregu-
lar Chinese doctor. = ii. .:s.,,,...
c..-In Kansas, Ehe papers are said to be oil IN
Ysy,orsof female suffrage. Z. :..5 :.
ii,-..Grasshoppers are at their old trick Of
stopplng trains on. theiU Union Pacific Railroad.
mississippi Is to have no less than forty
AGRICULTURAL ialrs during the coming autumn.
They are now making kid gloves out at
Salt Lake, ef'.'ii. - -.a.fa. :isi y
The East river bridge piers between New
York and Brooklyn are slowly progressing.
THE Bavarlans have not been supplied with
the needle gun; they still use the old percus'
sion lock muzzle-loader. -
s-lir. Frelinghnysen has declined the mis-
sion to England, and the President has now, it
Is said, ofered it to Senator Trumbull, who it
ts thoughtwill also decline it. g
s:lThe! American Colonization Society will
send to Liberia, during the fall an expedition
OF about 1900 colored persons, mostly from
North Carolina. 80:
IAN Engllshman speaking Of the brilliant
career Of Paradol as a newspaper writer, re-
marks that in. England journalism leads to dig
ntdaH nhrnurttr - ~
On Monday night Booths theatre, In New
York, opened with Joseph Jefferson as "trip
van winklen yNlblos Garden, under the man.
agement Of Jarrett and Palmer, opened on the
same night Both places were largely at
tended. J a.'z' ll.;, y;ize..1 -
The details Of the massacre Of Christians
state thai, twenty-five European and forty Chi
nsse children were murdered. Nine Sisters of
Charity were killed and their bodies mutilated.
Eight Protestant churches were Quilted, and
sfxteenplaces Of worship were destroyed. A
fewdays previous to the! attack the Chinese
parents had removed their children, $50 In
number, from the Roman Catholic schools.
From this fact it would appear that the massa-
crewas premeditated.
Miss NJ. s.. Green, of Alliance, Ohio, was
last week employed as a compositor at the
Government Printing Office In Washington.
It's stated that she Is an efficient typo, but
has no card from any printers union. Coming
from place, however, where there is no
union. members Of the Washington union.
according to their rules, cannot object
to her being employed without card. She Is
the first female conlpositor employed In the
Government office.
The New York Times says: 1.-THE city has
more Southern visitors at this moment than at
any time since the restoration Of peace. Some
of our largest hotels are literally crowded with
them. They seem intent upon blending pleas
1lre with business, and not at all unwilling to
talk, and act and enjoy themselves generally,
as though they had never smarted under the
process of reconstruction. Their presence in
dicates the return ofprosperlty to the South
gradual 1t may be, and beset with vexatious
recollectIons, but having all the signs Of health
and durability"
The New York World, in analyzing the
news from the seat of war, remarks: "The
French army Is gradually more and more con-
centrating around Nancy and Toul. not only
because the German main attack is directed on
this important strategical point and railroad
centre, but also because the line between
Nancy and Chalons, where the French reserve
fs stationed, offers several points Of defence, a
direct and easy connection by rail with Cha
Ions and Paris, and finally because there is 10
earthly use for the French to stay near The