The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-04
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TUESDAY, APRIL 4. 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

1osales. y
weak asSl5ac.
The Liverpool cotton market closed un
changed; sales $4,000 bales.
The uavsii:ng Of the Morse statue In new
York is postponed to June 9th.
Rudolph beat Cyril Dion on the Sixty
sixth 7naidg.s seote-Rudolphe;, 1907 Nbten'
l7SSs
1.-TWO sharp shocks of earthquake occur
red at San Francisco yesterday, shaking
houses.bntdoing no damage. The people nee
into the slreetsirom the houses. ,ut soon re-
turned. -
llh woman whose house Bismarck TOOL
possession of at Versailles wanted eompensa'
ton for the injury done to her house and fur
nit,re.l Bismarck proved himself, In his reply
a second Barnhm. "why,, Madam" he said
styour house is a fortune. Don't alter a single
thing; leave II af Just as it is, and the Amerf
cans win flock to see where the treaty wa!
signed, and you will make ever 80 much o5
showing your room"
The Cincinnati Commercial has a column
for efopements, marriages. divorces anu
deaths Under the head of "Elopements," IN
its last number, VIE find:
FaKMrkLBRISTua-From Grand Tower, III,
nois, Henry Farmer aud -Afs Armlsts' ~Ae u T.
z A;npgSirRtSs.AfnRtcH From oswego County: n.
". Ma oh Is, u. l. Myers, OF Texas, ana nsss
Emniu. daughter OF F, has. Aldrich. The ladI !eit
hehint her u wedding party already 10
Witnes..hcr hupttaii, 1hssame evening, "Rh III
aged person named Fillmore.
The German soldiers who have. recently
oecupIed France, have, 1t Is stated, occupied
theirsieisure hi studying French and IN reading
works in that language. This Information is
derived from the reports of the agencies in
the provinees Of the great Paris publication
houses; who hare been surprised to learn that
during the German occupation, the branch es-
tablishfnents had transacted an Immense
amount. Of brsfness. French authors, n Is
surmtsed, have from this. cause extended the
circle or txefrresdefs.
Don PfEtrs new paper, the Washington
Canita,.s says: s.fhe President has created
.onsces without authority of law, MED them
without resaErtdto proprfety,. and seduced Con.
gress BY Tie hefttof hfs -crsatrres, to be the
:eaastse t~sdtfnct of his imperial department.
Coordination, there is none. The Executive
ID the pStty and the Kepublit. Perhaps not
without xho~ietge dideFrank Blair predict
that me PRESIDENT wdafdhsve his way with or
without mn, and without advice, and that
there Wis danger ID Finn.
EThere may 10 een at present, soon atter
sunset, tie planets Jupiter, Mars, Venus and
the moon, III cafeering magnfncentiy In their
orbits: Mars In the. east Yeuus IN the west,
and Jupitsr about In bla zenith, With the cres-
cent moon rising towards her meridisn. They
all seem dearly In a direct line OF the heavens,
and are, when ,unclouded. remsrkahly BRILL
ant. affordlng.a rare snd. beautiful. sight. such
as we ara not often tayorsd viii. This attrsc-
tive display ma be observed for several even
ings 10 coma. Saturn does not rise until TO-
wards morning, and Mercury rarely appearste
fha naked eye. ,r7
Chicago seemsto te. thoroughly convinced
that IL is destlnrdIo become the centre Of the
tea trade OF b UnltedS States, in consequence
OF! tae adyantages derived from the ling. Of
steamers between China Japan and Saa Essn.
cisco. and from tia Pacific ,RaiFoRd- Ates
company has been estahlishedy In Chicago, aud
a large, warehouse has bean opened. in which
an invsiGe ai I've thousand chests OF tes. ina
ported direct nom. China has just beer stored.
BY the same route, another importation. of the
same ananrty ottea Ia, ON lis way, and con-
tracts for monthly supplies have been entered