The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-31
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THURSDAY, MARCH 81, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Gold closed at IL in New York vest erday.
Cotton was dull and unchanged, with
sales of 1850 bales.
In Liverpool cotton was quiet and un-
changed; sales $4,000 bales.
The JEFF Davis capture reward of 100000
is to be paid to 237 persons.
The Germans in Cincinnati have started
''Scrubbingbrush."
General Joseph E. Johnston has gone into
the real estate business, with two other e1-
-Confederates.
President Grant pays taxes on $4,000,
and General Sherman on s23,5c0 in st. Louis
County, Missouri.
-Burlesque in London, it is said, will rage
worse than ever this spring. No less than
seven new fooleries are in preparation.
Dispatches from the African coast an
nounce that the President of Liberia is s'pros-
ecuting an active war against the ncighboring
natives"
v.-''Shoo Fly" on the programme of fash
ionable concert in New York, is transformed
into Souvenir de Shoo-ly Chansonettc
Comique."
in case recently on trial before court
In Laramie City, Wyoming Territory, ali the
male jurors we're challenged off the jury, leay-
ing it entirely to the women.
One thousand Chinese laborers are to be
imported by the way Of the Suez Canal, to
work on the Midland Railway, New York.
They are 10 get $40 q month and rations.
Under the negro government of Liberia
the right Of suffrage is very much restricted.
At the last election 1t is stated that only 1890
votes were polled out Of q population Of "a 900.
One manufacturer fartidcial legs and arms
in the United States has made fine business
out of the late ''unpleasantness. He has sold
10000 artificial lers nj slsn oh------------
The compositors in the newspaper offices
In San Francisco have assented to reduction
of fifteen cents per one thousand ems in their
wages.
The President has declared that he intends
to issue The proclamation announcing the
adoption of the amendment as soon as Texas is
admitted. and that he will not wait for the ac-
mission Of Georgia.
-lNc NEW IOIh Mail says tutie tuc uCW
fashioned parasols are so large that only one
lady can pass under an awning on Broadway
at time. They have the appearance Of per-
ambulatng skylights.
3-One hundred gentlemen have organized
racing association, and have leased the Nation
al Race Course near Washington. Among the
stockholders are President Grant, General
Sherman and large number of prominent
officers of the army and navy.
Washington correspondents say there is a
heavy combination of national banks in the
country against the Funding bill, and when 1t
is sreported to the House there will be strong
opposition to its passage from unexpected
sources.
lady Franklin recently arrived at Rio
Janeiro, on the way to Yancouvers Island,
where settler is said to have letter from
Sir Jyhn, or relating to him, which he will not
deliver except to Lady Franklin in person.
Her ladyship is nearly so years old
Professor Goltz, of Konigsberg, has been
experimenting upon the nervous centre of
frogs. He finds that if you take out the brain,
and then rub awet finger down the frogs back. |
the creature will croak as IL pleased. Frogs
must be easily pleased.
The election Tor Governor of KentucLv |
takes place in August next Among the prom
inent names mentioned sor the democratic
canudate are United States Senator Thomas
Z. McCreery, Jesse D. Bright, and the Hon. E.
Y. rnister, Of the Kensacky House OF Rep-n
sentatives
Mr.. Thornton, the British minister. has
called upon Mr.. Revels, and the latter is the
recipient Of numerous invitations to dinners
ano private parties. He is invited to dine with
hr. and Mrs. Fish. Report says Mr.. Sumner
has prevailed on Mr.. Revels to spend the snn,-
merin Boston.
The elevated railway on Greenwich street.
Sew York, has been completed from the bat
terry to the corner of Thr.ieth street and Ninth
avenue, and trial Of it is 10 be made next
week. The cars will move over the heads of
pedestrians at the rate of twelve miles per
hour.
The people Of Florida inform travellers
hat they propose to erect two monuments on
est. Johns River, near Mrs. Stoves resi-
oce. to commemorate the names of the he
ro.o her most famous novels. One of the
saai is to be dedicated to the memory OF Uncle
Tom I'D one to that of Lord Byron.
-imConservative members of the North.
Carohns legislature, in an address to the peo-
Ple1ot ..nA State. represent that Governor
Hoioen 5 re,mmendation to Congress for the
suspension the writ OF haoeas corpus |
tnroaShout tneState is unwarrantable, and he |
is guilty Of will libel upon q people whose
rights he is sworn 70 project.
\ The San Franchco Bulletin says that seve-
cases of native champagne, sent some
C6kks since by wine merchant IL that city to
that 70, weres returned, with the statement
its sale condition of the wine wonld injure
and numb of the bottles were exaaincd,
Ing in the TSt crystals were discovered sest-
discovered to he These were analyzed aad
the effect of the erf00ls, or crystals of tartar,
pague. Several hot.,'Y cold upon the cham
Sre then placed in a