The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-07-04

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GENERAL II. EG." BUTLER, OF EDasf1ELD'
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Gold closed quletin New York on satur-
day at llaa12.,
Cotton was quiet and nominal at 2os cents
for uplands.
GinyIiyerpool cotton closed dull; uplands
old. Orleans lold; sales 5000 bales.
The Democracy Of Missouri will nominate
no ticket this fall, but preserve pohcy Oh
t.passive resistance. 5Sa
THE delegates from Great Britain 70 tne
Evangelical Council, at New York, VIII NUM- l.ll
ber between 800 and 400. 5...s..ai. .Ys;.s,
twenty-five English noblemen nave oeea
driven into bankruptcy by gaming on ehe 'uri
within the last twelve years. 4.
1T is reported that cabinetmaker Oh OF
C5arlestown, Mass, has engaged ffty Cnina-
men to work in his factory. -
The Tennessee Legislature is discussing the
propirriesy Of granting, divorces where one OF
the partiesi is insane. = s1sE-:.
.arh,aa cubaus In New York are wearing
mourning as amark Of respect for the memory
ofsenor G. Jose Lemns, the diplomatic repre-
sentative Of the revolntionlsts In this country
who died In Brooklyn Tuesday. ~, .
s IT is estimated that during the fiscal year
ending June 80, the country has consumed
$50. sc0Doo. more. OF foreign goods than last
year, while tie exports Of domestic produce
were slQO, ,00O. 900 more. ~, -. o.
The Emperor of Morocco has decided that
a eertainnGmber Of: young men belonging to
the frst families of the realm shall be sent to
Paris to be educated. he has also concluded
to arm. the infantry in his dominion, as soon as
possible, with the needle-gun. So.
At one of the largest theatres In New York
CITY the audience. numbered just forty persons
all told. and Of these probably one-third were
free admissions. The fact shows,the indlspo2
sition Of people to crowd together while the
heat is 80 intense. es''
An the case in Baltimore of T. N. sie6ert
and wife ys. John Leeson, In which the jury
rendered verdict of $4,000 damages against
defendant for kissing the hand of Mrs. siebert,
Judee Dobbins on Wednesday said he would
:set aside the verdict unless the plaintiffs would
relinquish all but $500. They took time to
consider. ',,..s2,Fft!i..1 ~ g ;.g
One OF our exchanges makes note OF an
eccentric game Of chess recently played by
party of amateurs, FIVE in number. Number
one made the first move on the white side;
number two responded on the black, and so
on n alternately through the game. At each
round, the number of players being odd, one
wouid md himself on the opposite side from
what he s.had been before, and obliged to make
the bestofthe situation into which the others
had brought the game. It Is not stated which
side won, and, as Mr.. Toots says, 1t is Of no
consequence.
A correspondent of the New York World
statestAat it b. understood in Radical circles
in washington that the President will in July
make important changes ia the foreign mis-
sions, the Cabinet and the New York offices,
bSasay 81 Reorganization for the fall campaign.
Ministers Motley and Bancroft are to be re-
called, and others sent in, their places. The
supposed substitute for Motley is ex-Gover-
nor Morgan. The new slate for the New York
appointments is 70 be, made out In that city
after the Presidents return. from his Fourth Of
July frolic In Connecticut.
-Of all the cadets to West Point from the
South. but two were admitted. They were
from Virginia, which State had eight cadets at
the academy. number were physically dis
qualified, and were sent to hospital under
probability that their physical defects may
prove bpt temporary. One colored cadet from
South Carolina, as Is well known, was rejected
by reason or defective eyesight, and was
placed under treatment. All the cadets sent
to hospital will remain one year, and, if not
permanently cured in that time, viii he dna:!;
dropped Z
Pursuant to. notice. tue leading ice COM
zpanies in New York have increased their prices
twenty-five per cent. The leading hotel and
restaurant proprietors say this advance is be-
.yond the bounds of justice, and that the talk
about scarcity, which is the pretext, is mere
pretence. The quantity annually consumed in
New York City is estimated at about 100000
whereas, though last winter was not a
propitious season ftr cutting, it is known
that nearly 50, ,oOG tons remained over in the
-storehouses from the crop Of the previous year.
The advance is leading many customers to cut
down their supplies; and the poor, probably,
Fil have to dispense with 1t altogether.
"A letter In the New York Tribune from
North, Adams Mass, says of the Chinese
lately imported by Mr. Sampson, that they are
working away'steaally at their shoe-benches,
learning their new trade with marvellous fa-
cility, living simply and contentedly as their
ancestors have fots thousand of years, and de-
Yotlpg their leisure nost ardently 10 the a3-.
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