The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-21
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 81, 1870.
NEWS OF TIE D-I y.


2253<c. Sales 1000 bales.
The Liverpool cotton market closed quiet anu
steady. Uplands 11ssd.; Orleans 112sd. Sales
1000 bales, OF which loco bales vas for specuia-
sion and export.
Connecticut has opened State agricultural
school for girls.
The Board Of Health reports one hundred and
sixty cases OF smallpox now in the city OF New
York.
-Advices from Cinco Villas, Cuba, state q light
took place in that district in which the insurgents
lost forty eight men killed.
The American bishops in Rome 1t Is said,
object to infallibility the ground that 1t Will
tend to check conversions OF PrOtestants.
The Russian infantry is now armed with nee.
die rides, and factory has been established IN
ST. Petersburg to manufacture 100000 stand.
The Mechanics Bank OF New York has been
yctimized with an altered check from $50 to Sl0,-
o61, certified after it was sold to broker In Wal!
street.
The coal trade is dull, and the tendency is
toward reduction Of prices. II is stated that
the amount Of coal on hand at oil the great points
OF delivery exceeds the demand.
"A public discussion on the tariff question took
place In Philadelphia Monday night, at Masonic
Hall. Speeches were equally divided between the
protectionists, and very deep interest was mani
fested
1T Is stated that Governor Walker, OF Virgil
MIA. has declared that lie has positive assurance
that SO 900 Of Northern capital TO be invest
ed in that State, is contingent on the admission
OF the State.
The action Of the New York Legislature upon
the Fifteenth amendment was communicated to
the Kentucky House of Delegates on Monday,
and was received with enthusiastic dcmonstra-
tions Of applause.
The Ohio has overNowed its banks All that
part OF the city OF Louisville lying on the levee
has been completely submerged. All the occu-
pants in the vicinity were compelled to remove
their property by means OF boats.
"A large meeting OF freedmen In st. Louis on
Monday night, passed resolution denouncing
Prince Boaaparte for killing Victor Nor, and eX-
pressing the hope that the whole Bonaparte fam
lily will soon pass from public notice.
An animated discussion took place in the
French Corps Legislatif on Tuesday between NJ.
olivier and NJ. Gambetta. The latter created
considerable excitement in the Chamber by
charging Olivier with having supple and
changeable conscience.
men in New York City who are attempting to keep
or starvation with the little point OF needle, and
whose wages do not average half dollar q day,
while many, by twelve or fourteen hours work,
donot make more than twelve cents.
= The sudden acqulescence OF the Frussian Par
lament In the financial plans OF the government,
which it has hitherto opposed is attributed to the
determination to assist Count Bismarck in the
new settlement OF the army estimates OF the
North German Confederation. Money Is given
him to prevent any schemes OF new taxation which
might endanger the attempt to keep the federal
forces at the present high figure Germany has
no intention OF dlsarming. The foreign policy OF
the next year two, say the ministers, will mot
be without risks"
Speaking Of the teegraphers' strike, the New
York Herald OF Tuesday says: 'There is no use
In Disgusting I'll fact that in this city the strike
is virtually at an end. Since last Friday large
number OF the league have either gone back to
work or have made application to the company to
do so. Most of those who arc still out are reso.
Lutte and seem determined TO stick as long as
there is life left. Many OF them declare they will
never work another day for the Western Union
Company under any circumstances, prelerring
rather to adopt some other vocation than to again
be subjected to that company
The Memphis Avalanche says that the tide OF
white emigration from Georgia, East Tennessee,
Virginia and North Carolina continues on as large
scale as ever 1t places the arrivals there by
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad from No
yember 7th to December 3lst, at 3l75, oe whom $40
were destined for Galveston and vicinity. The
great bulk were passing on TO the Red River coun-
try and Arkansas. They are represented as being
for the most part of the poorer classes OF farming
people. but possessed Of some little means which
they design investing in the cheap lands OF the
Southwest. They spoke Of thousands more who
will follow In their wake.
Prompted by the signal success attendant on
tho Boston Musical Jubilee last summer. the New
York Amusement Company propose to hold u mu-
steal reunion festival in New York next May.
Neither pains nor money will be spared to trans
cend AL eclipse an. affair of the kind that has
ever taken place. mammoth coliseum capable
OF accommodating So,cC0 persons comfortably, is
to be constructed The Attendance of 10, coo mnSl-
cal artists is to he secured, and The first stars Of
the lyric world have been engaged Tor The occa.
sion. Four grad prizes for musical compost
tons arc to hc offered, and every effort that art
can devise and money accomplish will bc made
BY the tornado on Monday last, about fifty
Houses in Cave City, Kentucky, and vicinity, were
totally demolished. Among the persons killed
are George W. Paynter, wife and child. Mrs. d
Sterritt. A. Y. Davidson, John McOwen and child,
and two persons named Vauhan. Miss Fitz was
mortally wounded. Miss NJ Drane, Miss Neval,
J. s. Foster, J. H. Brewn, D. McKinnie and wife,
DR.. J. S. Wilson and wife, John Edwards and wife,
and large number OF other persons were Slight
" wounded. The storm came from the south
T-est, tearing down trees and everything in its
course. Houses were blown down In every direc-
ton. @. ". Paynter was found some three hun
dred yards from where his house stood, undress-
ed Davidson was found in pond, about one
hundred yards from his house. When the house
fell on Mrs Sterritt she had two weeks old baby
in her arms. When found the baby was not hurt
Two men slept up stairs in Daviason's house.
They were not much hurt. About sixty families
are homeless, and need aid and assistance very
badly
The great billiard match for the champion
shia OF the world and the diamond cue, between