The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-21
Tbe Gbaflestp1, Neps.
SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1870.
xEHs OF THE DAY.

..-.-sold closed in New York yesterday at 14S
to142.
Cotton closed dull, with sales Of HOO bales
at 23sc.
Cotton closed in Liverpool quiet; uplands
1OEd. -.
The ssreadins and writing amendment
has passed both houses Of the Massachusetts
Legislature, and will accordingly be submitted
to the people 1t proposes to remove the ex-
listing educational test of the right Of sufrages
1t is thought that DR.. Scheppe, under
sentence of death in Pennsylvania for the al
legged poisoning Of q patient to whom he was
engaged to be married, to obtain her property,
swil be executed, Notwithstanding the great
efforts to obtain new trial.
"A Washington;G German bar-maid answered
the Presidents appeal for glass OF beer ::
stDas ist ausgespiel. You pays first and den
YOU gets your beer;;" mistakins him for hack
man who had been sspaylng next time" Grant
good-naturedly paid in advance, and got the
Teutonie tonic.
aRsgsSDr. Ever, of Christ Church, New
York, sails for. England next week. AS DR.. E.
! dsat the head of what is called the advanced
rituallsts, the reports, that he is going thither
in pursuit of fresh novelties with which to
.startle the low-churchmen on the Fifth avenue,
when he comes back in the fall.
Savannah is excited about the coming re-
gatta. The Republican says: 1.-THE boats OF
the city belonging to the various clubs are out
daily trying their muscle and speed. The mag
nifcent prizes are at hand, and we only walt
for response from Charleston, Brunswick
and other contiguous seaports to make the an
snual regatta exciting. Why do not Charleston
and Brunswick respond p
IA deadful accident, resulting In the death
of Mr.. James d. Butler, occurred last Wednes-
day, near Eden, in Efingham County, Geor-
gia. HI. Butler, while adjusting belt near q
circular saw, vas thrown or fell from his posi-
tion upon the saw, which was in full motion at
the time. His right arm and right leg were
cut of. and being remote from immediate
surgical aid, be bled to death in about six hours
after the accident. Mr.. Butler was identified
with tlfe: mechanical interests of Savannah,
where he had many friends. He was aged
forty years, and leaves family consisting OF a
wife and four children.
The undertaking of the City Of Rsgusa,, ,,twen-
ty feet long. to cross the Atlantic from Liver
pool to New York, by means of a screw and
seventy Yards of canvas, is a thing to take the
imasinstlon by It's picturesque audaclty. Cap
tains Plmorez and Buckley, with Newfound-
land dog, will be the entire equipage of the
vessel: and surely the two former, at least,
must have about their hearts a good deal of
the oak-plank and triple-brass sheathing that
Horace writes about, in taking on them such
a formidable piece of business, made more for
midaole by the fact that the screw Is intended
to be shipped and unshipped, on occasion.
Their voyage win be solitary one, and they
will be; for weeks with nobody with them at
sea but themselves
The newest Cuban sensation Is tnat tne
steamer George B. Upton, which sailed rom
New York on Saturday last, has commission
from the Junta Us regular man-ot-War. she
Is said to have o fGll complement of officers and
some two hundred fighting men, besides full
supply Of ammunition, shells, &c. 1t is stated
that Thomas l.. Dorwin. late of the Hornet,
formerly es the Confederate navy, commands
the Upton Robert Summers, also OF the Hor-
net, Is. second, and majority OF the ofdcers
arebraye and experienced men, The military
portion iof the expedition Is commanded by
General Valiente, late OF General Goicurlas
staff seconded by Colonel Drake ae Nay. ihe
Upton's destination Is one OF tse sman Keys OH
Florida; an easy distance OIL Cuoa.
-. .-Af y mass M 3 meeting OIL women was neia
New York, at Apollo Hall, on Tuesday, ct which
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered an ad-
dress on love, marriage, divorce and the NC
Farland case tipetitlon was read and circula-
ted asking Governor Hoffman to have McFar-
land caught and put in an insane asylum. The
meeting adopted With enthusiasm the Sorosis
resolutions rendering sympathy to Mrs. Nc.
Fsriand, and approving the conduct Of the
late A. D. Richardson. in making love to that
lady. Miss Catharine Beecher advocated the
legal separation rather than the divorce Of un-
happily married people, sin order to prevent
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