The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-14

Gold closed IN New Iork Ut lo5al4'
Cotton closed with strong demand; up
lands 2lt cents; sales 1887 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed firm; uplands
9ad, Orleans 93d; sales $1,000 bales.
Bunker Hill, Massachusetts, Is to be cul
down and used to fill up certain negh6oriDe
fats.
-"Would it very much surprise your Is Inc
popular slang in London derived from the
Tichbourne trial.
james Gordon Bennett, Jr., paid $4,000
tor the yacht Dauntless, and 1t costs him IN the
neighborhood of $4,000 a yecr to run her.
-Wachtel, the famous tenor, comes to this
country quite unheralded, intending, 1t Is said,
to- organize German opera troupe, with
Madame LEGITIMACY as pvima donna.
An Englishman has won q wager of $500,
by writing one million strokes with pen
within month. he did 1t in twenty-three
DAYS, but his arm vas nearly palsted by the
operation.
Robert Bonner, undismayed at the reports
of Goldsmith Maids achievements, offers
100000 for the horse than can beat Dexter,
and If the owner declines :. sell, he then Of
fers $4,000 ITO see 1t done.'
3 Late advices from Rio Janeiro show that
the discussion in the Brazilian Legislature on
a aclause of the emancipation bill had termina-
ted, but the measure would probably not be-
come law during the present session, owing
to the strong opposition of Its passage.
Twenty years ago, a shoemaEers's appren.
tice, at Unionville, New York, mysterlousy
disappeared, and there have been no tidings OF
him since. Recently. however. a skeleton
was found under the workshop In which he
was employed, and it is now copjectured thai
he was murdered.
"A New York letter, dated the llth Instant
says: "Nearly all the prominent families are
back from the summer resorts now, and not
few of the brilliant equipages which were
dashing along the beach at Long Branch and
at Newport, short time since, were making
the dust fy in the Central Park this afternoon.
The boat race at Saratoga detalns many of our
citizens there, but next week will see them
also back in their places here"
The money article Of the London Times
saws "a financial combination for enteriLg
into European or other large undertakings,
has been constituted under the title Of the
Syndicate Ucion Qimited.) The nominal
capital Is .2.2UO, 900, of which the first issue Of
$1,000 900 has beer privately subscribed, 1t not
being Intended at present to invite any parli-
cipatlop by the general public" The names OF
the founders are given, embracing some OF
those well known and powerful in The none
tary world.
An account from the Chicago Times of
visit to Mrs. Fair credits her with saying that
she would prefer execution to commutalion OF
sentence. Her reason as stated was: II
have daughter who is now growing up, and,
should remain in prison, she would have TO
stay here and visit me. She is young, she
would grow up without protection, and there
would always rest on her the stain of my
prison life. But II 1 die, the stain would so
would be forgotten"
-"Life of Mrs. Victoria Woodruff" by The
odore Titon. has appeared in New York, and
creates days sensation" 1t appears that
Mrs. W,odhull is guided by spirlts, and to
soine purpose, If the statement be true that
they directed stock operations which netted
her 100000. First, however, they provided
her an "afAnity" In second marriage while
she has living husband, Here ure some of
tne things she can do: "She can ride horse
like an Indian, and climb tree like an atE-
lete: she can swim, row boat, play billiards
and dance; moreover, as the crown OF her
nbysIcal virtues. she can walk all day like an
English woman Mrs. Woodruff never goes
IN any church whatever. She manufactures
her own religion.
The Chicago Tribune says: "The extent
to which the abor-savns implements nave
been introduced in agriculture we saw Illus
trated day or two ago in Wisconsin. a farmer
was seated on reaper, with gloves on MS
hands, and with an umbrella over him, and.
with as much comfort as If driving a buggy;
he was cutting oats, the reaper throwing mem
into regular and convenient sheaVes LOT Lind
Ing and stacking. We remember the time
when, twenty years ago, we cut lis without
an umbrella or gloves, and let the grain lay
where it fell from the scythe. Yet here, vas
man with pair of horses, in comparative COM
fort, doing more in enc day than twenty-five
men could have done by hand twenty years
ago."
Tea trains are rapidly becoming special
feature OF the Central and Union Pacific Rail-
weys, and, from present Indications, 1t seems
that they all soon become of such frequent
occurrence as not to attract any special atten-
tion or notice in the California papers, as is at
presen. the case, while the thing is yet new.
For some months past there has been going
on warm discussion in the commercial pa
pers of the Atlantic ana Western States con-
cerning the tendency OF the lea business to
find new channels for transportation. The im-