The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DdH.
Gold at New York yesterday closed at l45'
The New York cotton market closed neavy
: at 22bc.; sales 1900 bales.
At Liverpool cotton closed dull; upianos
10fd,alold.; Orleans 105d.alld.; sales 'ooo
bales.
-Dickens's Edwin brood is being translated
into French and German.
Anthony Trollope says novel writing Is 10
be learned like any other ''trade.'
The arrivals of immigrants at New Yor X
last week were II, ,4s3.
A. A. Wallace, we'll known Journalist OF
Boston, and for some years connected with
the Associated Press there, is dead.
The Matrimonial News is four cent week
ly lust started in London, which is Said to con-
tain over two hundred announcements from
candidates for marriage.
Mike McCool and Tom Allen have signed
articles1af agreement to fight ors25Oo aside on
the 18th of September, within fifty miles OF St.
Louis.
Frank B. Austrix, a pioneer Californian,
has been appointed by the United States Grand
Sire special commissioner to establish Odd
Fellowship in Germany.
1t Is reported in New York that Assls-
tant District Attorney Fellows is to succeed
John Morrissey in Congress, and that Collec-
tor Grinnell and Minister Sickles are to change
places.
The New York Academy of Music was on
Friday evening given up to the ball OF James
Fisk, Jr.'s Ninth Regiment. Colonel Fisk ap-
peared in his new $4,000 uniform. Max
Maretzek directed the music.
The ordination of John Christian Keener
as bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, took place in the Second street Metho-
dist Church, Memphis, Tennessee, May %. All
the bishops of the church were present on the
occasion, and the ceremonies were very i'm
pressive.
Mrs. Charles o. Rogers, whose late hus-
band, proprietor of the Boston Journal,) died
within year, has married the tutor of her
children for several years past. She is over
forty, and her second husband is only twenty
four, having graduated at Harvard last year.
Colonel Rogers left an estate worth about
$1,000, 900, most of which he willed to his wife.
New York does about one-elghth Of the
whole soda water business Of the United States.
One thousand fountains are in blast in that
city alone during the summer months. One
store on Broadway sells: during the hottest
days of the season, ten thousand glasses per
day. 1t is computed that during the three
hottest months, New Workers drink two hum
dred thousand glasses daily.
"a Treatise upon the Christian Doctrine
of Marriage" has just been published, from the
pen of the late Dr.'Hugh Davey Evans, of Bal
timere, and contains biographical sketch Of
the author The preparation Of the work is
due principally to the discussion arising in the
Protestant Episcopal Church in regard to the
right OF divorced persons to marry agaiu-a
right which the author unequlvocally denies.
From the London papersof the 7th Of May,
we see that at the annual election of fouuda-
ton scholars of Trinity College, University of
Cambridge, England, Mr.. Geo. Lockheart
Rives, grandson of the late William G. Rves,
OF Virginia, stood first on the list Of the three
scholars of the second year, then elected after
the examinations. The emoluments Of this
honorable distinction are about ninety pounds
sterling, tenable for three years. Mr.. Rives
graduated in the first class Of honor in 1863,
at Columbia College, New York.
The Macfarland-R Richardson case has been
dramatized in San Francisco at the new Pacific
Theatre. The death-bed marriage is made the
chief incident, and Is made intensely humor-
Gus by Horace Greedy giving away the bride,
and Senator Revels signing his name as wit
ness. The leading comic role is that of Ned
Harrigan, who plays and dresses Horace Gree
ley to the life. Tue de,souen,ent is perfect re-
conciliation between Mcfarland aud his wife,
and the curtain falls upon their second nup-
tlals, the ceremony being performed by
Beechcr and. rockingham.
Full particulars of the killing of United
States Marshal Story, at Grantsville, Utah, on
the I'd, and the subsequent chase OF his muir
derer, read like chapter from some wild no
vel ofthe Mayne Reed school. Albert H. Haws
the desperate, was wanted for killing former
comrade named Dunn in August lust, and a
warrant for his arrest was Issued by Chief
Justice Wilson and given to Story and Neva-
da sheriff named Carrigan, at Salt Lake City
On Monday the officers surprised Haws un-
armed at the corral near his house, and, draw
ing their pistols, demanded his surrender. He
pretended to comply, but while Story was
Handwriting him, sprang upon Carrigan
and seized his revolver. Story flew at
Haws, drew his pistol, got it to Haw's side.
but the latter bent his back, and the ball
passed by without touching him. Haws in an
instant grappled with Story, turned his pistol
upon his left shoulder and fired. Story fell,
and Haws shot him again, finishing him, then