The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-26
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SATURDAY, MARCH &c, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

In New York yesterday gold closed veal;
at liz.
Cotton closed steady, with sales of 2lOO
bales at 222 cents.
No closing cotton quotations were received
last night from Liverpool
Cotton spectators have sunk 100000 in
Columbus, Ca, this season.
Northern capitalists are prospecting in
Selma, Ala, for profitable investments
DIR Townsend, of sarsaparllla fame, is
dead.
There are over three hundred Jewish
congregations in the United States.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, is proud ofits
first cotton mill.
Senator Revels said he was once excluded
from the Senate gallery on account of color.
When ladies lecture out West, they have
ladies to sell tickets, lady ushers and lady bill
posters.
A man at Lowell, Massachusetts,, says in
his will that he desires to be buried in burg
lar-proof safe.
The entire assets of Boston bankrupt
were nine children. The creditors did the
handsome thing, and let him keep every one
Ofthem.
Prince Arthur is to visit California next
month. Towards the close OF the year he re-
turns to England with his regiment in a troop
ship.
A Chicago woman, who deals quite extern
slvely in flour, has asked to be admitted to the
Board of Trade of that city.
Mr.. Vincent Colyer writes to DR.. Tying that
H'Aaska has not one Protestant or American
missionary or preacher within its vast border. "
-Four hundred and two babies have been
received at the New York Founding Asylum
since its establishment Thirty were received
last week.
The Elizabethan ruffis coming into fashion.
Just now they arc of moderate width, but the
tendency to widen them will be almost ire
sistible.
1t is estimated that over o hundred young
ladies' are at present studying law in this coun-
try. Probably they will all become mothers
in-law one of these days.
The Pope on Wednesday in consistory,
confirmed the appointments of the bishops OF
Toronto, Savannah, Annadale and St. Angus
tine.
A dispatch from Jackson, Mississippi, says:
san attempt was made to elect State libra
rian, but failed on account, Of the number OF
candidates. A negro woman, named High
gate, it is believed, will be elected.
THE Massachusetts, House of Representa-
tives, By a two-thirds vote, has ordered to be
engrossed bill to allow husbands and wives
to be witnesses for or against each other, both
in civil and criminal suits
I'm the testimony taken before the court
ofinrestigation at Yokohama, the officers OF
the Bombay state that the condition Of the
Oneida was not known, while there was much
alarm for the Bombay, and it was necessary to
make for shosl water with all speed.
The process of canning" eggs in their
own shells was recently explained at meet
ing the New York Farmers Club. When
two or three dozen eggs are obtained from the
nests place them In dish and pour scalding
water over them, and Immediately turn it off
This process is repeated three times, by which
means the albumen is fixed or coagulatcd, the
pores OF the shell closed, and the egg, as it
were, canned inlts covering. The eggs thus
prepared are then packed in salt, with the
apex. x.downward, and they are said to keep
perfectly fresh for many months.
The New Orleans Picayune says the rice
plantations arc now preparing for the next
crop. The hopes previously entertained of q
large increase in the area Of land devoted to
the cultivation of this cereal will not be real
ized. A deficiency of laboris one great impedi-
ment, and the planters are not well satisfied
with the prices obtained. However, the bet
ter grades have, during tho whole season,
been in. request, and brought remuneratire
prices. The incoming crop will be about 1OO,-
900 barrels clean. The total receipts at New
Orleans frem September to latest advices are
47,29S barrels and sacks, against 3s,l3l for the
same period last year, showing an increase of
Ia, l66 barrels and sacks, or 4s per- cent. The
next crop, with q fair season, will be about
100000 barrels of 200 pounds each, OF perhaps
little more.
"A good work was done in New York last
week, when the principal school book pub
fishers ofthe country, in convention assembled,
decided to abolish all agencies, travelling
agents, aha the payment Or allowance of any
commissions fnr the Introduction of text books
from ana AFTER un first of July next. There
alter tae retall prices Of all school publications
are to be fixed by the -espectiye publishers.
from which maximum dlseonnt viii, ha made
for cash sales, by a committees their number
aud books"'vill only be furnished " introdnced
In the regular and legitimate way,;nstoad of
by the modes heretofore in use The re,or,,,
docs not come any too soon. The old s,,.on,
OF agents and commissions was a source -
fearful corruption. as between the publishers
and boards Of education, school trustees, &c.
and terribly expensive to the public, who
were compelled to get new set of books
throughout, accordingly as the publishers or
their agents made 1t an object to those in
power to order change.
A curious case has been decided in a Mas.
saehusetts Probate Court. The guardian of
Frederick May, oil Medford, a partly insane
person, had pctitioned for leave to invest