The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-02-07
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY /, 1871.
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NEWS OF TIE DAY.
in New York yesterday, gold closed at
11Xa12. @z
Cotton closed quiet ana weak uplands 151
cents; sales 5000 bales
in Liverpool~ cotton closed heavy; uplands
7xa7xd, Orleans. 721asd; sasesl sle, 600 bales.
Daniel Mcfarland, OF the Richardson murder
notoriety, Is ,lecturing on. women's rights and
wrongs. - = So Sc
"A Japanese embassy issin washington study
ing finance, diplomacy and political 'rascality
generally.
1t is believed the President viii veto the oM
repeating the test oath. He Is urged to take th's
step by Southern Radicals.
The pagan Mongollan has developed weak
ness for chicken pot.pie that alarms the poultry
raisers of Frisco. .a
-Wilm,ugton has upwards OF seven miles OF
streets covered with sawdust. This is the best
attemn., with limited means, that they can afford
at paving that sandy town.
Professor Morse, inventor OF the telegraph, is
to have a monument. Few men have tile pleasure
OF personally seeing their great works rewarded
inan immortality OF marble. =, aal
.--Firty witnesses, from North Carolina, have
been examined by the outrage committee. Tnere
is tile probability OF q complete report this ses
sion. -.,.l.
An adventures from Paris, who calls herself
the granddaughter OF the First Napoleon, has
been creating q sensation In Vienna by her beauty
and snowy accomplishments.
A Sevres china tea set, presented by the CITY
of Paris to Marie AntOinette, was sold at auctlon,
In Boston, on the lst OF February, for $1,000. The
original cost was $4,000.
"A clean sweep in the Cabinet In thirty Jays Is
predicted. Boutwell, Is said to be soured aud
Akerman unhappy. The President thinks
change In the personnel Of his administrators "a
sential to Republican successes.
Six years ago Grant said the people OF the
South were all quiet and ready to pcaceably ac-
cent of the events OF the war. Now he says they
are madly committing oatrages OF all Kinds upon
loyal people. L. this compliment 10 six years Of
Radica, rule?
-Jen. Long, the negro representative from
Georgia, has an original way OF pntung things.
He exhluitedzone v Ms letters sa Stae Gepart-
men,s to mernber d congrsssto ascertain II 1t
was correcsH Sprded, waensts VAS discovered
that he doassdet .yecomm tior anofice, but
he "oder," tue candidate.
Don't say Helena any moEe:-. Queen Victoria
who Is credited With having avery correct ear Tor
quantity, doesn't ,tlxelt. She has beenso often
sho .ked athsatffgs shs pslAcess Helenaa name
mispronourced that sne has sent to the cohtor OF
.I,odge,s Pcerage" message, or rather, COM
.mand, that mark denoting short sy liable should
,be placed over the second vowel IN the name CT
her daughter, the Princess Helena. AS the conf
mand was scrupuiously obeyed by the editor, 1t Is
to be hoped that We rhall hereafter hear no more
OF Helena.
The new King OF Spain goes to bed every night
at ID O'Clock, like good Christian, and rises be-
times, which astounls the Spauards OF the court,
who have been In the habit Of turning night into
day. He has also abolished tine absurd etiquette
OF the Spanish Court, OF which so many ridiculous
stories used to be told The King refuses TO allow
his royal fingers to be kissed, and shakes hands
like any pl.bean. He walks about the streets
without an escort, visits the poor, anu makes Pur.
chases in the shops. The King contributed $4,000
Aor the poor OF Madrid, aud having asccrtained
that the pay Of tae pubic schooteachers was
several months in arrears the King has refused
to draw on the treasury for his own until tie
claims OF the teachers are satisfied.
The son OF Hon. Horace Capron, compission-
or OF agriculture, va, nearly burned to death in
the fire which destroyed the Holiday House,
Kenosha, Wisconsin. lie was In the fourth stvry.
The names were on all sides OF him, anil the stair
way on which he must pass was a perfect blaze.
Without hes,atinG, however, he plunged down,
and reached the floor bllow, although his thln
under garments we're on fire, aEa immediately
jumped from the neatcsC widow TO the grouLd,
distance OF forSJ fl ;e feet. He was picked up ana
walked across the street, tracking blood at every
step, and was subsequently taken to the resi-
dence OF his brother, Mr. Albert Capron, where
medical assistance was ut once procured.
Although the poor fellow was terribly 'rnel, his
limbs all black and eharrsd anu his o3ar bone
prolruding through the aceratei flesh, he lore
his suffering with forsttude, and calmly permitted
the dct ssng OF his wounds.
An Interesting opinion was given by Judg e
Blatahlurd in New York last week. in the case of
Benjamin F. Folsom against the Mercantile Mu
tual insurance company. 1t appears that the
schooner B. +. Folsom e.t Boston for Montevideo,
January 6, 1869. commanded by John orlando.
When she had been 70 sea one week she became
disabled, and was On the point OF going down,
when the crew were picked up and taken to B-e-
merhayen. Soon after. there came disp atch
throuvt the Associated Press that the schooner
...Orlandon had been lost. The owner OF the B.
IF. Folsom, apparently inci,ed by The rather vague
and Incorrect dispatch took out all additional
policy Of $4,000 from the Mercantile, aad hal 1t
ante.dated 80 that It would cover any acccent thal
might have occurred to the vessel siuce her de-
parture. The Official news OF the loss reached
New York by mail some weeks after. The in'ur'
ance COMPANY claim that Folsom should have
told them the name ufthe master ur the schooner