The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-05
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TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Gold closed firm at lls.
In New York cotton closed quiet and firm
% cents.
in Liverpool yesterday cotton closed firm. Up
lands 1lHd.
Napoleon calls the 45,o 900 sch0olmasters In III
empire "the pacific army of France"
The original Greek Slave OF hiram Power
was lately sold in Paris for 1000 francs, or NOR
than sy times the price paid to the sculptor.
Horace Greeley will deliver the opening ad
dress at the next fair OF the st. Louis ASrlcultu
raj and Mechanical Association, on october 80.
The New Orleans Picayune still advises
Southern planters to sell their cotton only fol
goll.
TO learn who really nceled work, the Sal
Francisco park commissioners offered to employ
men Mt price lower than the market rate ant
over one thousand men ~ once applied for worS
at the rate named-two dollars per day.
Corn Is selling in Central Iowa At thirty cer;ts
ner bushel, delivered on the railroad. Wheat is
yery plentiful aud worth only ifty cents. The
GENERAL COMPLAINT there .s-.oo much produce
and 700 little money.
-Dr. Lctheby, an English physician, says 'ha'
most OF the cheap tea-and some brands are sou
in England for less price than the customs
duty-is not tea at all, buta mixture OF st!tingS'
the dung CT silk worms dust, dirt, and solution
ofgnm.
y, is 4 well established fact that stars change
thc.r color. Sirius WAS described as hery rea
star hy the ancients; some years ago It was
mr., white while it is now becoming Of decloco
gre..n color. Capella was also called Z rel star
by the ancientS; it was afterwards described US q
yellow star. and Is now blush. Many other
lsssaDces of change of culor though less decided,
have been detected.
"A firm In York, England, several years since,
undertook to make q twenty-five Inch telescope,
something astronomy has never accomphsnea.
Ills now nearly completed. The tuoe inc'udipg
the dew cap and eye end is 80 feet anu its dia me-
ter Mt the object end 27 inches and whore iatsesS
81 The weleht Of ti.v-rr''o'e in''f . "Ho - ~
--r,, Ille object glass has clear aperture OIL 20
inches nearly and its focal length is 20 1eet Ihe
full Illuminating power of this telescope Is nearly
three times that OF the telescopes at Harvard
College Observatory, and at PulSowa, 81. Peters-
burg.
A happy retort OF sir. John Bright's isgoing
The rounds OF the English papers. Some little
time ago he was dining With we'll known citizen
OF Cottonopolis, nm the conversation turned on
the subject OF the growth and Development OF
America al should like" said the host, who Is
m enthusiastic ndmtrer OF the great republic,
-.to come ba.k nifty years after my death, to sea
what fine c0Intry America had become" 'l
believe you would be glid OF any excuse to come
back said NJ. Bright, with grim a!lusion III
the tone OF his voice 10 the quarters from which
his friend woud be likely to emerge.
Through sonlc strange freak 4 Pennsylvania
woman, while away from home, sent "a Dispatch
signed with fictitious name to her son, saying
that she was dead and lie must come for the
body. lie made arrangements for the fun eral,
went, found her alive, and brought her back.
Mourning was changed to joy. all present scream :
ing, dancing crying and laughing in concert.
The grave was alled up and the undertaken dis
missed. and there was q Aood Of Indignation
poured out against the wicked perpctrater OF the
terrible joke, the woman herself referring to the
heartlcss transaction with tears IN her eyes.
The New York Herald OF Saturday says ::
isThe States of New York ami Sonth Carolina took
position to day in the fore most rank OF honorable
debtors by paying the interest on their indebted
ness In coin. In the case OF the bonds OF New
York State distinction was made agalnt those
issued since February, 1852, and for which the
State received currency payment On such bonds
interest is not paid in coin; but in the case OF the
old dait OF New York. and the whole debt Of
South Caroiaa, payment in coin is now made
without exception. In the case Of South Caro-
lima the matter was the subject OF direct legisla-
ton last winter"
-Yeddo has bt en- again visited by great 1re
correspondent OF the Japan Gazette writes ::
.sRuined dwellings, shattered fortunes, want, and
even death, have come in place OF the joyous New
Years festivity, so long lookca forward to.
hear that nearly 5000 houses were destroyed, and
TINT over 81 lives are authenticity reported lost
: Besides aa imnoaron of1aitbful rctainers guard
Ing store Of silver, WHO were buried In the walls
OF building which fell in uppn and crushed them,
I henr that thirteen perlsaed around an enormous
quantity OF Nnsats which the government had
placed for safekeeping In the large silk store
called 'Ehesya.' The men stood staunchly to
their posts until they were completely surrounded
by fiery circle, which onlooSers could see mo-
mentarily narrowing its edge. 1t was evident
that most must perish, and all did so-thirtecn
.charred heaps OF humanity being found next day
between tie Go,downs. The kinsats We're the re.
suit of last years ln.gathering of taxes"
The destltutloa and aesolatlon Of great Lon
and her sou OF five years have for some time been
living alone; but recently for several days the
child was seen playing about, near the house,
with no sign nf his mother. Some Of the neigh
Dors inquired OF the child whether he had had
plenty Of fool during the wees, and he replied
that all that he had had was what was left in the
cupboard, AMI that there was plenty still remain
ing ,,ere. Upon missing the chila's mother, one
OF the neighhors inquired how she was, and
whittier she had gone. The little child, with great
simplicity redlul, Mamma Is lying In oed' and
she will not speak me- ard she is so cold, like
a o,nmn NJ ice. when lay In bed with her," The
same ncrson sai ''Perhaps she is Dead" when
the buv replied, "I think so too, for she Is so cold
ano 7 ran,t get her to speak at ALL" The neigh
bors. upon entering the room, found the uniortu
nate creatur,. lying still and cold IN oeo' "he''
she had bren de id for two or three days, and tn'
poar chilli h:d hcen lying at her side in bed dur
ing that iInr.
"A magiste: ial inquiry Into the circumstance