The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-24
Uy1oN REFoRM NOMINATIONS.
NEWS OF THE;DAY.

Gold at New York yesterday closed noml-
rnal llaallt.
The New York cotton market closed dull and
heavy at lie; sales 500 bales.
At Liverpool cotton closed Irregular; up
lands 1oad; Orleans 1oad; sales 5000 bales. y.
Frederick Grant, the Presidents son, Will
be graduated from West Point next year.
There we're six cases of sunstroke IN New
York on Monday, two of which were fatal.
Fifteen cardinals hats are to be bestowed
after the adjournment Of the conslstory a'
Rome upon as many fathers.
- The Radical, monthly organ OF mega
ton, issued In Boston, suspends publication
for want of support.
The general agent of Q leading insura nee
company in Atlanta advertises for lady ol
education and intelligence to canvass among
her own sex. .-z a-se
"A Montreal bat-rnaker made cricket bat
which he begged Prince Arthur to accept.
PRINCE Arthux, however, ''cannot accept pres
emit y and soothed the mans tender feelings
by buying it,
The funeral Of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte
took place In Baltimore on Sunday, and was
attended only by the Immediate friends OF the
family and, those ito whom special invitations
had been extended. Among the pall-bearers
were Hon. Reverdy johnson, Hon. Thomas
Swami, General John A. Dix, and Commodore
Purviance.
Senator Reyels is credited with o letter to
aclsrgyman In Brooklyn, urging that as his
sister refuses to, be assisted by him, nobody
else should be- allowed to assist her, and pro-
testing that she. must not be permitted to
stake a, cent Of the money now being raised
for. her benefit in order to throw disgrace ON
him; and, through him, the Republican party
a letter from Saratoga to the Boston Jour-
nal says the style is amazing this year. The
-Greciap bend Of former seasons Is nowhere
this year. The huge dresses, worn leave the
Impression that a lady got up in style must
have about her person o good-slzed lobster
basket. Plain and; smooth hair is scarcely
:seen. but the frlzzed, porcupiue, wlde-wake
style is the, rage. -.
We are told that Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe has nearly ready for the press volume
giving the ''true story" of Charles Dichens's
matrimonial lnfslicities.i The world will be
shocked to learn that Mrs. Stowe will proba-
bly,. attempt to demonstrate that they had
. 4heif origin, in strange infatuaton on the
part Of MI; Dickens for his great-grand-
mother. go. -t.
7-A,good deal Of the news from Cuba gene,
rntiytrrns mt to be of the kind that Is wished
tor, rather than that which Is founded In fact
From Spanish sources, evidently, number oi
dlssstsrs have accumulated round the voyage
of the George B. Upton. 1t now appears by
the latest advices that the vessel, with hel
lading of war asateriel and combatants, has
made another safe landing on the Cuban coset
The rumor Of her total loss appears to have
been as baseless as the intelligence which sen
out number of gunboats to. find her cas-
aahore. Next to the barbarlty attending thi
xnhappy struggle must be reckoned the men
dseity of most of the dispatches which arrive
through Spanish channels.
sae.A menagerie was exhibited in Saginaw
City last Wednesday. The moving tale of
monkey then and there, is short. Leaving
fhe protecting arms of its maternal parent, {
slmious infant roved from cage to cage, cling
ing to the wires with quadrumanous agility
and prehenslle grace. With the deXterity tina
the trapeze performers vainly emulate, the in
fautlle phenomenon sprang upon the bars thai
guard the cage of lioness. The latter, no
appreclative of circus gymnastics, or perhaps
e.n,tyee with having seen so much of then
since leaving Africa, put out q paw and pulled
the infant into her cage. The rest was al
affair. of two bites and two screams-one o
the latter from the unhappy mother, whit
looked on from her distant cage. Moral TO
young monkeys-dont trde with females
that are before the public.
There was an old negro woman callet
1'Jane,ng g.for Short" who announced to the
negroes near Springfield, Limestone County
Texas, that the millennium would take place
and the "m,ghty ship OF Zion" would come
down to take up to glory those who compiled
with her directions, on the 26th of May. 81
accordance with her instructions, preached tt
"a large congregation, the believers burnt one
half of ali their worldly possessions in abb,
bonfire, hoed up by the roots and destroyed
bali their growing crops, (corn and cotton,
gave away half their children, &c. They the
disrobed entirely, and danced "holy dance.
EttsrwaFd they did one sensible thing-the
killed all their dogs. Jane then proposed, i
is said, that they should eat the dog meat; bu
they hesitated, and she did not succeed yer
Mell In the attempt herself. Finally she Pre-
seeded to measures with view to sacrificing