The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-26
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Battle of Dorkfng.
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NEW YORK, June 81.
The summer has been somewhat backward
in this latitude, but the warm weather seems
I'd have fairly set in now. New York under.
| goes a social Transformation about the last oil
June, 1t being considered the proper thing for
everybody who pretends to be- anybody, In a
fashionable sense, to get out Of town into the
country, consequently whole blocks Of houses
on the society avenues and upper streets are
sealed as to their front doors and shutters,
and uniformed callers are met at the thresh-
hold by solitary Biddies, who calculate the In
eyitable s"Out Of town p This by no means
argues that the whole family has decamped.
Probably the women have gone, but the males
are frequently SO tied down to New York by
business that they get away only q week or
two in the middle of the season..
Curious lives these deserted husbands and
fathers live. The parlors are shut up and the
furniture put into summer covers; the "nlrea
girl";keeps house for herself and visiting cous-
ms In the basement, and the master OF the
house is banished to q BEDROOM IN the upper
stories. The family being away, he gets his.
meals at the restaurant, and when evening
comes he is driven to kill time somewhere out
of doors. And a sad way 1t is some of these
poor lonesome creatures kill time, l tear. Two
or three o'clock in the morning the policeman
walking his beat finds them tumbling with
their latch keys at their front doors; and when,
after q long struggle, they. coax their keys to
work kindly, they probably are constrained to
get up stairs on all. tours to their lofty roosts.
Il wives only knew all, how precipitately they
would abandon their cottages In the noun
tains and by the seaside and fly to the succor
of the dear sufferers, who racked with head
ache in the morning vainly drain the wash
pitcher for relief.
the city, but the watering places are already
filling up with guests. The ubiquitous Jim
Fisk's line of palace steamboats, to Long
Branch is munifcently patronized. The coast
Of Long Island on both sides, and the shores
of Jersey and Westchester County. are dotted
with suburban seaside resorts, which are be-
ginning to entertain their usual quotas OF
New Workers. The villages up the Hudson, as
far as Albany, are peopled with city folk. we
have notes Of preparation from New York and
Saratoga; and yet, Notwithstanding the sum
mer exodus, fully three-quarters OF a million
of citizens belong to the "CantSet-away
Club" and the streets are prevented from
looking deserted by the crowds Of visitors
from the South and West who are passing
through or ,tarrying a few days. Broadway
never ceases to be lively from one end OF the
year to the other, not even In a rain storm or
the dead ofnlght.
You who have come TO US on your annual
pilgrimages, and at the wharves have fallen
into the clutches of those desperate r%ufians,
the hack drivers, will be glad to. know that one
of the least attractive features.of your Metro
politan experiences Is about to be blotted out
forever. An enterprising company Is putting
on the streets, in large numbers, a new public
vehicle, which is to answer the purposes OF:
the London Manson" 1t is q small, handy
opening at the back, with seats at. the side,
and intended 10 accommodate four passengers.
The upper part Is constructed OF glass, and
from this the conveyance takes Its nam "The
CRYSTAL" The device Is purely American.
The drivers are uniformed In blue, and
the rates Of fare are fixed peremptorily 80
as to provide against eXtortion. They are one
dollar per hour for four passengers or less.
At reasonable fares, thousands OF people would
ride who now make themselves uncomfort-
able in crowded cars and omnibuses. / fancy
that none will more devOutly rejoice at the
substitution of ''Crystals" for hacks, than our
stranger visitors.
A curious gathering took place at the Bran
dreth House yesterday. If there are any In
kin to a Drake, of course they have heard all
about the great fortune awaiting them In Eng
land, for the. indefatigable DR.. Beckwith has
duly notified them. But that other half OF
creation who are not brakes will need to be
Informed that property valued at sl25 ,00O, OoO,
situated In England, rightfully belongs to the
heirs OF Sir Frspcis Drake, who died a couple
of centuries ago, and is wrongtully held by
certain noblemen and land proprietors. DR..
Beckwith. who is a Drake by blood, has been
arousing his kinsmen all over the Union to
look: after this bit of blrthTight. OF course
the present possessors, who are rlch, Will
spend a mint OF money before they will sur
render, and money must be raised tonight
them. Every Drake Is therefore expected-to
contribute literally towards the wal fund.
About one hundredo of them assembled yester-
day at the Brandreth House, and indulged,i IN
a long and somewhat heated personal debate.
the Anneke JAMS heirs, who claim the vast
Trinity Church property in this city, are like
wise fully organized, and are holding frequent
meetings.
The fBattle of Dorking,' the wonderful arti-
Gle which appeared in Blackwood for May, has
been reproduced in book form in England, and
already run through three editions. The de-
mand for 1t was 80 great on this side, that
Putnam, the New York publisher, has just
printed an American edition. The feeling of
its perusal produces in England, bids
to bring about the overthrow Of the Glad
ministry. The story Is so wildly told,
and the statements are so plausible, that the
patriotic Englishman can hardly finish the
reading.without being frightened half to death.
1t Is really one OF the most remarkable 5ro-
chureS Of the time. MN.
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