The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-12-31
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Gold closed in New York, yesterday, at
1OX.
Cotton closed q1iet uplands 15H cents; sales
1000 bales.
in Liverpool cotton was easier; uplands SKA
ska; Orleans S2Sas}s; sales 1000 bales.
There are at present in Germany upwards Of
$4,000 widows and 10000 fatheress children.
The siege of Paris has added to the vosabula-
~. Thus we hear OF ''pigeoning" messages and
eballoonlngn dispatches.
The Missouri Democrat very truly remarks
that the day Of party organs is over, and that
people want Independent newspapers.
The bishop OF Gloucester and Bristol has de-
oIded that lay preaching cannot be allowed IN the
Established Church of England.
Colonel Williams, chief engineer Of the TIE.
huantepec Railway, is gone to Mexico to CON-
mence active operations.
"A correspondent Ia Paris writes: "People are
continually exchanging receipts for delicious
dishes, in which eggs, butter, milk and meat arc
replaced BY water"
The State OF New Hampshire borders on Can
ada for q distance OF thirty or forty miles, and
yet there is not road OF any kind across the
line 1t Is wild region on both sides, little
frequented, except by hunters.
The Pail Mall Gazette is anxious that "Amerl-
cans should know that England is heartily tired OF
the Alabama controversy, and Is ready to pay any
impartial money award II On adjustment can be
confined thereto"
On Sunday during the recent tour OF the
Prince Of Wales through Scotland, heattended
church. Strangely enough, the lesson for the
day was, sPut not your trust in princes" &c,
which the choir boys lntoncd with Unsurpassed
mirth.
Professor Chandler, in recent lecture on gas.
lights, delivered before the Society o! Tradesmen
and Mechanics Of New YORK, Stated that in order
to test the purity Of gas was only necessary to
dip piece OF paper in a solution of acetate OF
lead and hold it In current OF gas, and that II
any impurities existed the paper would at once
turn black.
The on magistrates, in consequence OF
recent viola.lurs Of public decency, have refused
to renew their licenses for dancing to the proprl-
etors OF the well.knOwn Alhambra and the High
bury Barn Tavern, but have granted licenses for
music only. 1t is some OF these dancers that CO.
terers for the American public have brought out
for our entertainment.
The new Georgia Legislature, (Democratic,) to
assemble on the first Monday in January, will
elect another United States senator to fll the va
cancy which will occur on tile Sd OF March next.
This makes eight se3ators elected by the various
Legislatures OF that State, seven Of whom are
still in the position, noninally, Of claimants for
admission to q seat.
The American families who used to spend the
Writer in Paris and Rome have emigrated TO Ger
may. Berlin, Dresden, Stuttgart and Munich
arc all full OF American idlers, and the result is
that the proverblal eheapness OF living in these
cities has become thing OF the past the ten
dency OF an Influx Of transatlantic tourists being
to make shop and hotel keepers more eXtravagant
In their pretensloas.
The Hon. w. N. Tweed, the great New York
city Democratic leader, has sent q note, with
check for Gfty thousand dollars, to Mr. J. Shand-
ley, 20 be distributed Through few earnest and
practical citizens" among the pcor OF the seventh
ward Of New York. Sheriff O'Brien has just gwen
four thousand tons OF coal to be distributed among
the poor people OF the twenty -nrst ward OF New
York. He has done similar actions for years.
On Christina afternoon the working parties
from the opposite en1s CT the Mont Gents tunnel
we're Within hearing OF each other, AID on Mol
day the last barrier Of rock was cut through, anu
the parties met. Mont Gents is OF the highest
peaks OF the .lips aud lies between Savoy, Franco,
and Piedmont, Ita!y. The tunnel Tas commence
ed by the late Emperor, when he was at the
height of his power AID popularity, and now the
immcnse works ueary compete. The Alps will
sooa he pierced by rAilroad through the tunnel,
to the great ben ut o: travel AMI cOnnlcrcc.
Though the fact that arms have been sent
from this country to France has been perfectly
well known, n,body having been at any pains 10
conceal it, and each shipment chr0nicled as it
occurred, most persons will be surprised aI the
aggregate amount or these Ship:nrntS. 1t ap-
pears fron. table complied from official sources
that there have been sent from New York alone
munitions Of war to the vaue Of over n!ne mil
lions OF dollars. Tile national treasury has re.
ceiYed the value Of much OF it. Bet must Of the
arms were exported ulon speculation, and ap-
pear to have found read, market.
The Pail Mali Gazette complains that British
breakfast tables threatened with serious dis
aster, since the French Government had prohibit
ted the expectation Of salt butter and eggs from
France. Tic Gazette says that while the ayricul-
tural population Is diminishing the manuIactur-
ing and commercial districts are increasing i'll
numbers, 80 that the Engish people will, year by
year, have TO rely more and more ''pon foreign
producers to supplement: the insufficient home
grown stores. In 1869, England imported $685.
1000 worth OF butter, Of which one.thtri came
from France. During the FIVE years ending De-
cenlber 31st, 1859, there were imported into Eng
land, from France, 2sO, ,3S6o0O pounds of butter
and 1880, 600 900 eggs giving yearly average Of
48s77 200 pounds Of butter, and S66, ,lao 900 eggs