The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-08-02
NEWS ILlg OF THE DAY.

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In New York yesterday cotton closed quiet
at % cents for uplands. Gold 2lta2la; bonds
104. 4. rH
-In.Liverpool cotton closed buoyant; up
lands 7sasd, Orleans stasid; sales $1,000 bales
LIN Paris the Bourse closed firm, Rentes
6S francs ~ centlmes. 90
The United States steamer California,
twenty.one guns, sails for the Mediterranean.
General sigel was run over In Broadway,
New York, on Thursday night, BY carriage,
and had two ribs broken.
Austria VIII establish line of steamers
from Trieste to Southampton, to connect with
the American lines.
The steamer City Of Paris, which sailed
from. New York on Saturday, took out 2,5oo,-
900 In specie. - .n .-e r, sa tsa
Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie, the well
known author ard actress, died in London on
Saturday. .'."s,sst.''.. 80, ,s,..-...i.ss
IA member of Congress from Tennessee,
already somewhat damaged BY cadetship sales,
Ia In trouble again about pension frauds.
-After the battle OF sadowa, old General
Won Moltke said to the King Of Prussia, ''This
Is a giorions victory, your Majesty. Would to
God It had been over the French !"
-One hundred househoiders of st. Louis
have made arrangements for the Introduction
OF Chinese servants into their families. House
servants are said to be scarce in St. Louis.
There is evidently no truth In. the rumor
that the PrussIsns have sprinkled the left bank
of the Rhine. from Mayence to Kehl, with Linn
burger. cheese to keep the French from
crossing. l.e.s eslY ,ar..s.s
The French cruisers have commenced to
look affer German merchantmen, and the lat
ter are running into friendly ports for asylum.
The bark Meridian, from Philadelphia for Bre-
men, was overhauled by French man-of:war,
but vas permitted to proceed.
The City Of Mobile was visited with Sc
we're storm oneSatirday. Houses were un-
rooted, ttses uprooted, and goods In stores
damaged. by water. Four steamboats, were
sunk or dlriven;ashore; the dry-dook was forced
nom It's moorings and driven several miles up
the river. Tue damage Is estimated at about
two hundred Thousand dollars. No lives were
Iost,so far asyet known. M
The assistant treasurer at New York has
been instructed to sell one million Of gold on
each "Wednesday during the month Of August,
and to purchase one, million of bonds on each
alternate Thursday, commencing August 4th,
and two million on each alternate Thursday,
commencing August llth. The sales Of gold
during the mouth will thus. amount to five
millions, and the amount of bonds purchased
to six millions.
Speaking Of the sswar maps," so-called,
which many newspapers are now printing,
and which appear to be Chinese puzzles, u
contemporary says: "They are very easily
made. "A, pistol is first charged with powder,
then q small bottle ofink placed on this charge,
and fired against piece OF box-wood; the
block is, then handed to the artist, who chips
away all the surface not covered with ink
producing first-class newspaper war map"
"A strange story comes to us from Orange
County. There is woman there who claims
to have been married to Jeter Phillips during
the var, and who hes now child some five or
six years Of age, which she says is the fruit OF
their union. TIC reason assigned by her for
not setting up claim to her truant husband
sooner is that she did not know where he was
until he was arrested for the murder commit
ted on Drinkers farm, and that she did not
care. to have anything to do with him after
wards Her story is corroborated by the testi-
mony and belief OF the neighborhood.
-Hydrophobia is the terror Of st. Louis just
now, aud Justly, II such cases as occurred there
the other day are going to be common. A
German boy, about sixteen years OF age, was
taken 70 the City Hospital in fearful state.
Some four weeks ago he slept in the yard, on
account Of the heat, and there was in the same
yard alafge dog, which has since died of rabies.
This dog did not bite the boy, but probably
licked his hand, on which was fresh cut,
whence the virus was conveyed to the blood. !