The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-27
CURRENT NOTES.
COVERING FOR COTTON.

COVERING FOR COTTON.
Complaints begin to reach us of the short
supply of gunny bags and bagging for cover
ing the cotton crop Of 1870. The stock on
hand and on the way from Calcutta amounts
to only $500 bales, while it was $4,000 bales in
1869, and q, $50 bales to the same date in 1868.
Under these circumstances, great difficulty
will be experienced in obtaining covers for the
cotton bales, as the crop, it is predicted, will
reach $500, 900 bales.
ENGLAND'S NATIONAL DEBT.
The English national debt at the close of the
last year was s74s,27G 1873, and since then the
sum of $1,000, 900 has been converted into a
temporary annuity. The debt is now less than
it has ever been since 1918. 1t Is no less than
fl2O, 600, 600 below the amount it stood at in
1916, and f7O, 900 below the-return of 1857,
at the close of the Crimean war and Indian
matiny The.interest of this debt Is EGG, $40, 600
year, but &,5OO,OOO is temporary only, and
will expire in 1885. The permanent charge is
less than it has eve been since 1872.
N:scHING ON.
We observe with much curiosity the an
nouncement, in Connecticut exchange, that
''the Rev. Phoebe a. Hanaford' was Installed
as pastor of the Universalist Church" in New
Haven, Connecticut, few days ago. Rev. E..
H. Chaplin, D. D., of New York, preached the
sermon; the Rev. C. A. Skinner, Of Hartford,
gave the right hand of fellowship; ''the Rev.
Olympia Brown" delivered the installation
prayer, and the Rev. W. A. Start gave the
charge to the people. In word, everything
seems to have proceeded "decently and In or
der" according to the traditional and approx
ed method of installation services. What is
more remarkable, is the fact that the new
preacher is woman, and that one Of the
clergy who took part in the services is also
a woman, does not seem to have been referred
to with much special wonder. And yet what q
change from the day of St. Paul
NEW STYLE OF STREET CAR.
A street car has just been patented which is
calculated to greatly facilitate city travel. 1t
has been successfully tried in Philadelphia
and given great satisfaction. 1.-THE new vehi-
hicle is not only supplied with the slawson
box, which Is check upon the conductors, but
Tue ldltei HIS pOSitlou Ill tue Csti, dlu HIS uu-
ties are to give packages Of tickets and change,
stopand start the car, and aid passengers in get
ting on and of. The facilities for ingress and
egress are much better on the new car.
There are side entrances with hinged doors.
between which, directly in the rear, is located
the Slawson patent. in which passengers de-
posit their fares. In the rear of this is q small
platform for the conductors. and from this,
through the glass partition in the rear, he can
see the entrance Of every passenger, and by
means of bell direct their attention to the
box in which their fares are to be deposited.
The front platform is TO be enclosed" 1t is
thought that, although conductor and driver
are required for each car, the additional comfort
and facility of getting in and out are SO great
as to more than compensate for the additional
expense, as these cars command more custom
than those at present in use in many Of our
cities.