The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-01-14
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NEWS OF THE OAf.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at lOl.
Cotton closed nrm, with fair demand; up
lands 15X cents; sales 1900 bales.
in Liverpool on the 18th, cotton closed quiet,
uu,ands 7xa7Xd ;Orleans Sd; sales T., 900 bales.
Doors, inlaia with ivory and gilt are now
considered Indispensable In modern dwellings on
Fifth avenue.
"A crowded public meeting in favor Of Italian
unlty was held in New York on Thursday night.
General Dix presided.
The very latest idea Of fultra-fashionaolc ladies
is to have their boots and shoes padded AZ the
1nstep, so as to give to the foot at that point
high and graceful curve.
"A letter from London, describing one OF
spurgeon's evening prayer meetings, says that
s.the evening being wet, there were only nIteen
hundred persons present"
DIR. Holmes says: "Walking Is perpetual
falling, with perpetual self-recovery. 1t Is
most perplex, violent and perilous operation,
which we diyest Of its extreme danger only BY
continual practice from q "ery early period OF
lifen
DIR. Brewster, well known among Americans
in Paris, died recently at Versailles. he left
charleston, S. Co. for Paris, In 1884, and was there
appointed dentistto the Courts OF France and
Russia, from which he received numerous deco
ratlons.
Hiram Cranston, who, for thirteen years, was
proprietor OF the New York Hotel, will resume
that position on the first of May next. The insti-
tution ls to be rejuvenated and improved so as
to be on par with all the frst-class hotels that
have been erected during the last five or six
years.
Further details OF the loss OF the Saganaw says
she was totally wrecked. The crew were on the
island with three months provisions, plenty Of
water and birds on the island. The boat which
left the island for Honolulu lost in the surf,
butpne OF the boats crew escaped. The Saginaw
was lost October lsth. There is little doubt but
that the ninety three persons left on Ocean Island
will be rescued.
Anew York letter says: 'Mr. A. T. Stewart
Is soon to throw open for the reception OF his
friends the stately mansion he has been so long
constructing on Fifth avenue. Some idea Of the
splendor OF the appointments may be inferred
from the fact that the carpet for the drawing
room was made expressly for taat apartment,
in Berlin, at a cost Of s27 900. 1t Is in single
piece, and was woven upon loom constructed
expressly for its manufacture"
Mr. Bret Harte, who has worthily taken in
the humorous and very Western poetry OF the
coantry the place that was so captay dlled In its
prose by Artemus Ward, has been permanently
engaged by the Harpers as contributor for their
periodicals. They will soon publish poem some
what different in style from Truthful James,
and the ..Heathen Chiueen-a little more ambi.
tious, perhaps, aud elevated in tone, yet marked
by the inclsive humor that characterizes all Mr..
Harte's verses.
A Loudon baker has his blllheads printed
upon paper OF three different colors-red, green
and white. The object OF this Is to avoid giving
instructions to the man who delivers the bread,
-four, &c. to the customers. To prevent mistakes
when the bill was made out upon red paper, 1t
denoted "danger," and he was not to leave the
goods without the cash; if on green. it denoted
s'caution," as the customer was doubtful, and the
man was to get the money II he could; If on
white 1t was safe to leave any quantity.
There Is to be new Democratic paper in
Louisville KY. 1t is to be called the Ledger, and
TO be issued daily and weekly. 1t is to be owned
by joint stock company, and based upon capi-
tai OF $50, 900. The first number Is to be issued
February proXimo, under the business manage
lnert of L. G. Mathews, formerly Of the New Al
bany Ledger. Its editors are to be John Forsyth,
present editor of the Mobile Register; Paul R.
Shipman, formerly OF the Louisville Journal, and
Richard Stanton, Of Maysville. Ky.
The Raleigh N. c., Standard establishment,
owned and edited by Governor Holden, was sold
at auction on Saturday last. under mortgage
and was purchased by VI. F. Askew, Esq.,, for
$4,000. Immediately after the sale, the city sher-
sG announced that lie would sell the same estab
hshment, the goods and chattels OF which were
= then under execution to certain parties and give
q better title thar the attorney OF the mortgaaee
could. He then proceeded to SILL out the concern
In detail, realizing not quite $4,000. There is q
lively time now among the rival claimants Of the
property.
An American writes from Paris to the Clncin
natl Gazette: "You should see US, the Americans
Such lot for military advice and appetite. We
eat aud sleep and advise the military authorities
We growl sl day long and all the evening through,
and when we go to bed we growl in our dreams.
You know those Of us who are born in our native
land are born military and political geniuses.
War and politics are with us an intuition. SO you
should hear US discuss Trochu and Favre and
Ducrot, while We discuss the boiled horse or
stewed cat or roast ass, or fricaseed cat which
these great men entertain US upon"
The press OF Germany are discussing the Siege
OF Paris. correspondent at versailles asserts
that the delay in the bombardment has been caus-
ed purely by military reasons, and makes some
curious statements. The way from the terminus
OF the railroad ssatlon Is crowded with ammuni |
tIon trains. In each wagon, according to its size