The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed in New York, on Saturday, at
lotaloEc.
Cotton closed steady at 145c, with sales OF
3 600 bales. VIA
sales O,O0o bales.
The wine given the Prussian soldiers costs
fifteen cents a bottle.
-Napoleon's hair Is said to have turned
gray during his sojourn at Wnhelmshohe.
General Tom Thumb has purchased fifteen
lots of ground In Brooklyn, N. Y.
The cigar bill of the young Wall street mil
| ionaire, Dimocks. is $4,000 a year.
-Schiozer, the new minister from the Ger
mai Empire, has arrived in Washington.
The Florida papers report that not less
thar a hundred deer are killed every day in
the Upper st. Johns and its tributaries.
-Brighamyoang has ordered daily prayers
by the U1ah clergy againt the grasshopper this
summer.
Fashionable dogs in New York, the fash.
ion authorities announce, are to wear silk
neckties this summer.
Gable kilograms announce that the Bank
of England had reduced It's rate Of interest to
two and a half per cent.
"A Fan has just paid $50 to q New York
steamship company for the passage of dog
across the ocean.
The work on the Southern Pacific Rail
road is being pushed vigorously from Gileroy,
CAL, southwark.
There has been comparatively heavy
fighting in Cuba. The Cubans seem thoror"h-
ly organized for a guerilla system of war.
George Wendelken alias Dutch George, q
famous counterlelter, has been arrested In
New York. He was committed In default of
1925, 900 bail.
The Parliament OF the Dominion of Canada
has been %prorogued. The Governor Generals
speech is hopeful Of good results from the
High Commission.
Accounts from France state that there has
been a great waste Of the provisions sent there
as contributions from the United States and
England.
The Royal National Life Boat Institution
Of England has, since It's establishment IN
1924, been instrumental in saving nearly 90
600 human lives
ST. Louis, which wants to be the capital Of
the United States, and seems to be grabbing
after everything else, now sets up to be the
place for holding the National Democratic Con-
vention. ei
The reorganization of the Southern Pacific
Railroad this week excites great interest In
the Southwest. The name of Colonel Samuel
Tate. president Of the Memphis and Little
Rock Railroad, is confidently spoken of in con-
nect!on with the presidency, also that of Gov
ernor Alcorn, OF Mississippi.
in New York an alternative mahdamus
has been granted by Judge Brady, compelling
Booth 70 admit to his theatre the proprietor
and critic of a weekly newspaper, who had
been refused admission on purchased tickets.
The exclusion Is said to have been because Of
criticism.
~-Five-twenties in London, on Thursday last,
sold at s3-the highest figure which they have
ever reached in the foreign market. Consols
at the same time we're only 9St. The par Of
fye-twenties In London is 81, 30 that, making
allowance for accrued interest, they are not
efar from that level.
Three young gentlemen left Selma, Ala.,
one day last week on what will doubtless be
considered, In this day Of railroads and rapid
transit, a remarkable trip. They left for New
York on horseback, and will go the entire dis
lance In the saddle. Their names are as fol-
lows: C. l.. Tilden, Frederick Sherman and
R. D. Turner. The first two have been In busl-
ness In Selma for some months past; the last
named cam from New York specially to make
this trip. They are all well mounted and
equipped for the journey, and, no doubt, will
have a pleasant trip. They are Northern men,
and the Selma Times suggests that they take
Washington In their route, and when they
reach there, that they be called before the
Congressional committee to tel what they saw
of the Ku-Klux.
The Rev. Mr.. Cheney, of Chicago, is out In
full revolt against Bishop Whitehouse, of H.
linols, and The high church majority OF the
diocese. Although no longer sustained By the
courts, yet at the Easter election OF vestrymen
he was supported by bis church with only one
dissenting vote. AS he was suspended for in
subordination, the bishop did not attend to
administer the rite of confirmation to the can
didates. but that seemed to make no differ
ence, since nineteen persons presented them
selves, and, in lack Of a better, Mr.. Cheney
took the Presbyterian position, and himself
oficiated as bishop, confirming the applicants,
apparently to their entire Satisfaction.
"A Washington letter, of Thursday, says:
1.-THE prospect Of the passage by the Senate of
the House amnesty bill is not very good, from
the fact that it requires the amendment of the
rule in Iorce restricting tho order OF business.
There is also a probability, ii 1t should be taken
up, that along discussion would result, which
would naturally be confined to the enemies Of
the measure. This is to be regretted, for at
east half OF the New England senators are
disposed to support 1t, II it could be brought to
a vote at once. As soon as the Ku-Klux bill
/ 8 disposed of, an effort will be made to bring
the question before the Senate, when the
friends of the measure hope for a favorable
result
In consequence of the recent resignation
offs Democratic member of the New York As
semb'y, the Tammany party is one short of
the magic number, sixty-ilve, requisite to pass
a hill, In this condition of offa;rs tbo D.,