The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-02
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SATURDAY, APRIL ., 1870.
NEWS OF THE D-iY.

NEFS or 1HC O-h1'
Gold Yesterday at New York closed at
l1salls.
At New York cotton closed quiet and
steady at 22i. Sales 1900 bales.
The Liverpool cotton market closed firm
and unchanged Sales $4,000 bales.
Tennessee is rapidly filing up with Ger
man emigrants.
Imprisonment for debt has at length been
abolished in Rhode Island.
The number of Mormons who practice
nolyoamy is said not to exceed two thousand.
The spring style Of bonncts is described
as something like sun-fower on the peak OF
a hay-stack."
The biggest shoes for women made IN the
Philadelphia market go to Utah; the smallest
are ordered from Havana.
Here and there in California storekeeper
announces that he will receive greenbacks at
par"
The University of Virginia contains AGA
students. of whom not above Is come from
Northern States.
The London Times regret the reluctance
of the First Lord of the Admiralty to reduce
the naval estimate, and ascribes it to chronic
error that England Is responsible for. the po-
lice of the ocean.
The newest style for dressing the hair Is
called 'sthe Cleopatra" The hair is brushed
high off the forehead and braided low in the
neck, surrounded by q large imitation snake,
which is coIled around the head
An Indian lawyer recently charged client
$40 for collecting So, but said he would not
press him to pay the other dollar for few
days, ii it would be more convenient for him
to let it stand.
Chemistry does wonders. 1t has built a
butter factory on wharf OF the Thames,
where a delicious or at least q saleable article
of print butter is extracted from the mud of
that river. The extract is originally pure
white fat,<without taste or smell, but is mani
pulated into well-favored butter, and duly
stamped with the likeness ola COW.
"A meeting was held In Baltimore few
nights ago, to complete the organization Of a
company for the erection of an Academy OF
Music in that city. Dr. ]. Hanson Thomas
was elected president, and Israel Cohen, ESQ.,,
secretary and treasury. A committee was ap-
pointed to solicit subscriptions to the capital
stock of $500, 900, divided into six thousand
shares of the par value Of fifty dollars each
The name of John E. Owens, the famous come
dian, is prominently mentioned for the man
agement Of the Academy Of Music.
"A great bill is now before the British
House OF Commons. It's . bill for amending
and consolidating the acts relating to shipping
and navigation, and Is so comprehensive as to
embrace everything connected with shipping
registry, masters and seamen, accidents, de-
livery OF goods, liabilities of shipowners,
wrecks and salvage, pilotage, lighthouses,
harbors, shipping dues, crimes, &C., forming q
complete shipping code. 1t fills two hundred
and ninety-ive folio pages, aud contains about
seven hundred clauses, and an index occupy
ing forty pages.
The "pcdcspeed" is the name Of the latest
Yankee notion for the purpose of increasing
mans natural speed. The velocipcde having
played out, except as u device to increase
labor, the 'pedespeed" comes in. 1t consists
of two wheels, fourteen or fifteen inches in
diameter, one of which is attached firmly to
each foot by means of stirrup-like contrir-
anee, and, to those who understand it, pos
sesses all the capabilities of the skate. To use
1t requires skill acquired only by practice, but,
when acquired, there is skating the year
round-so says the inventor.
"A New York letter Of Tuesday says: "Mcr-
chants continue to complain Of the backward
ness Of the spring trade; not one particular
branch, but all. The western dealers are buy
ing sparingly, while Southern orders, as gen,
eral thing, are said to be much under the libc-
raj mark which the profitable cotton crop
seemed TO warrant. Many are inclined to at
tribute the existing stagnaton to the uncer-
tainty which attaches to the future, as the re-
suit Of the various financial measures pending
In Congress; but whatever the cause, there can
be no gainsaying the effect, which is visible on
every side"
The New York Herald of Wednesday, in
its stock market report, says: "The Southern
list yesterday was steady and dull at the
boards, but became rather active, and closed
strong in later dealiags on the street. The
Virginias and Louisianas reacted from the de-
preston and decline of last week, while the
new South Carolinas were very firm. The
new Tennessees showed considerable move
ment. In the North Carolinas the new bonds
were trife better in consequence of the adj
jc-rnment Of the Legislature and postpone
ment of repudlation measures such as were
adopted in the case Of the especial tax" issues.
South Carolina skies closed at ssasO; do. new
(July, Sass; do. October s5as7n
An incident which goes far to show the
different degrees of respect accorded by lh,
volunteers of Havana to persons of different
nationalities. occurred in that city on the trial
of the murderer of Greenwald. Mrs. Duniop
who happened to be an eyewitness of the cai-
rage, when giving her testimony in court, va,
arrayed in dress profusely adorned with tha
very color-sky -blue-which mas 80 obnoxi,il,
70 the volunteers as to lead to Greenwald's y. !.
sassinatlon. After she had testified that III
persons She saw committing the outrage o
the unfortunate and defenceless man wore II,