The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-04
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1870.
NEWS OF THE D1Y.

NEWS OF THE DdY.
Gold at New York yesterday closed dull
and heavy at 1s1sal93i.
The New York cotton market was quiet; sales
100 bales at 253sc.
AT Liverpool there was no market
The past year hassbeen one OF uneXampled
prosperity in Texas.
Sea island cotton is being grown extensively
In Texas.
There are twenty thousand tenement houses
in New York, occupied by seven hundred thous-
End persons
-Northerners are arriving in Florida in large
numbers and many have purchased land and
gone to work.
One Of the Boston street cars has cords attach
ed to the bells, and running along each side Of
the car just above the heads Of the passengers SO
that any one can easily ring the bell without ris-
ing.
The Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph states that
an effort will be made at the Gcumenical Council
to issue decree prohibiting any music but plain
chant in the services Of that church. The Tele-
graph opposes any change.
A boy in San Francisco recently sat down on
a leaky can of nitro-gycerine, contrary to his
mothers express orders. The lady placed the
Joungstcr Oh her knee for the purpose of spank
ing him, but at the first blow frightful cxpo-
sion took place, whereby the woman, her Inflated
son, and her house were shattered to atoms.
"A young lady OF Wheeling who had been wo-
fully fooled by young man Of the same place,
under promise OF marriage, called on him Thursday
to- fulfil his VOWS and as lie refused she shot him,
and surrendered herself to the authorities. The
gay deceiver was to have mayred another girl in
a few days.
Great excitement recently prevailed in Wa
bash, Ind, over the enforcement of the Sunday
law. Men, women and children were indicted for
fishing, sewing and backing boots on that day.
About one hundred indictments were returned
into court against the best citizens OF the town,
including several ladies.
The British Cabinet have nearly agreed, 1t Is
said, to settle the Irish land grievance by mea-
sure which will omit the Irish demand for fXity
of tenure and Mr.. Bright's scheme OF peasant
propriesorshlp. We hear that they will attempt
mainly to guarantee leasehold and adjustment Of
the relations between landlord and tenant By
means OF the courts.
1T Is announced that the Democrats Of Cham
paign County, Ohio, are running Harry Ford, a
colored man, for State senator from that district
The tickets have printed upon them the aphorism
that ssif he is white enough to vote he Is white
enough to be voted for" 1t happens that the
district is very strongly Republican, which fact is
the only thing calculated to throw suspicion upon
the earnestness of the nominating party.
Mr. Benjamin Baker, OF Key West, Florida,
mas sold his crop Of pineappes this year for near
.ly seven thousand dollars. The crop was gather
ed from less than an acre and half Of ground.
He has one hundred and fifty thousand plants
which will be in bearing next year, and these
cover less than seven acres OF ground. and II sold
ut the same rate as this years will net him sixty
thousand dollars. The pineapple crop OF Florida
next year will exceed two hundred thousand dol
lars.
"A poor boy of thirteen years was taken scEn
= New York boarding-house, and last week en-
Aausted nearly all his means, so that he no longer
paid for food, but lodging only. He paid his last
quarter on Christmas night, when the woman
told him he must CO. but he was unable to move
Another lad ptied him and paid for Sunday night.
The woman, thinking he would die, carried him
out in the street, where he was found by neigh
.bor, who conveyed him TO the Five Points House
of Industry. He was unable to stand, being faint
rsrnr hunger, as he had eaten nothing since Fri
day morning. and during Christmas day he was
suffering the agony OF starvation, without q soul
10 minister to him in that city Of wealth and
plenty.
The Prussian needlegun it is said, has for
mida1e rival In the form Of O zurdn,eSSergeere'ar,
or Hnife.gun the new breechloader invented by
Herr Mayhofer, OF Kauscher, East Prussia. At u
recent trial in Konigsburg, twenty-five rounds,
with full cartridge, are said to have been fired or
per minute. The missile penetrates at distance
OF two thousand yards. The piece carries with
great precision, and has the great advantage OF
u1. n minimum OF smoke. The Invention extends
,cothe cartridge as well as TO the gun. The in
-xentor had repeated his offer to sell his patent to
the Prussian government but it has not yet been
accepted He has spent his whole fortune OF
TWENTY-FIVE thousand dollars, in the production
OF the arm, and threatens to so to Austria or
France IL Prussia does not give him an answer
Il soon.
The memorial OF certain residents in British
Columbia, briefly referred to in yesterday NEWS,
was presented to the President by Mr. Vincent
Couyer. 1t purports to be signed by property
holders and business men in Victoria, many OF
,.them British subjects, and is to be followed BY
another bearing the signatures Of residents Of
other British Columbian towns, who, 1t is said,
W
:. States The President replied verbally that he
had read it with interest, and had sent it TO the
Secretary or State The memorialSts, while pro.
Tossing loyalty and attachment to the Queen, in
view Of the proposed severance from the mother
country, are constrained by duty to themselves
and their families to seek such political and COM
mercial connections aswill insure future prosperi
~ They set forth the disadvantages under which
they labor, and view with alarm the Intention to
confederate them with the Dominion OF Canada,
FOR the reason that 1t can afford them neither pro-
lection, market nor population-their great
want-nor can it satisfy any sentiment OF loyalty
or devotion and that their interests are opposed,
and the Canadian tariff would ruin Columbia;
: -and, on the other hand, they detail the advan-
'rart.s..o be derived from annexation to the Uni
ted States
"A new steam plough, recently invented in
Rochester, which has attracted great attention
among the farmers in that region, is described
az follows: This steam plough is an ordinary
double cylinder steam engine and boiler, mounted
on two main wheels, five feet in diameter, OF
eight inches in tread-two smaller ones being
placed in front for guidng-and weighing alto
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