The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-30
NEWS OF THE DAP.


NEWS OF THE DAY
Gold In New York yesterday closed at
12sal22.
The New York cotton market was quiet
and steady at 1870; sales 422 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed strong; up
lands stas4d; sales $4,000 bales.
"A balloon from Paris Is said to have just
descended in Norway.
Texas will build, this year, five hundred
miles of railroad. The State within the last
three years has given s25,ooO,oOO to railroads.
The ex Emperor Napoleon will, it is re-
ported, pass some time at Torqnay, and the
e1-Empress Will simultaneously make visit
to Spain. 5&
The Russian Government has sppciHted a
special commission, which has already COM
menced Its lators, to inquire into and report
upon the e1pediency of adopting the narrow
gauge for all the railroads In the empire.
Professor j. Lawrence Smith. the new
president OF the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, is native OF South
Carolina, and is now resident of Louisville,
Kentucky, where he married daughter of
the late Hon. james Guthrie. He is MEM
ber of the French Legion OF Honor, and has,
besides this, had a number OF decorations be-
slowed upon him by various countries Of El-
rope.
The question of the future ownership OF
the Suez Canal begins 10 be somewhat compll-
Gated There is no doubt that the work Will
shortly be possessed by an English company,
England being the country most deeply inter-
ested In its management. The Levaut Her
aid says that The Turkish Government has
been approached by Lord Dalling on the SUBJ
3ect Of Its purchase, and that while the Sultan
Is willing to consent to the transfer, he In
sists as a condition that In order to maintain
Turkeys military rights over the isthmus, the
forts already commenced by the Viceroy OF
Egypt, at Suez, Pert Said and Ismilia, shall
be garrlsoned by Turkish troops. 1t is now
question, however, whether the Khedlve will
consent to this arrangement, and it is barely
possible that, should he refuse 10 give up his
forts to Turkish garrison, the long.deferred
hostilities between himself and tie Porte may
beprecipitated by this question.
1t is gratifying to learn that the superin-
tendent Of q new company, which has recent
ly been started in San Francisco for the manu-
facture of domestic silk goods, who has had a
long and extensive experience in the produc-
tion and manufacture Of silk in China, Japan,
France and Italy, positively asserts, upon a
careful comparison, that the native silk which
ne has thus far received Is not excelled by
the products Of any Of those countries, and Is
much superior to that imrorted from China
and Japan. He says that It possesses the ad-
yantages Of being stronger, auer and more lus.
tro1s, and predicts glorious future for Call
rornta as reproducing country. When to
tb,s come the successful results which have
recently been made in growing tea IN that
State. it may well be asked II the time Is not
near at hand when We shall have to look no
further than California for many Of the pro-
ducts and necessarles of which We have here
tofore been compelled to draw our supplies
from China and Japan.
Ready made houses are becoming an I'M
portant article of manufacture out West. We
have before lis the illustrated catalogues, with
price list attached, of Colonel Bridges. a build
er in Chicago, Offering twenty.nine different
sizes and styles Of dwellings, three of stores,
three of railway stations, and two Of churches,
at from SITS to $4,000 each. The slT5 dwelling
consists of single room, l0xl2 feet on the
floor. with walls eight feet high. 1t rests on
6y6.inch pine sills, and is foored with 2x6
flooring ioists and 2x4 pine studdng ratters
and ceiling jolsts. The outside walls are COW
cred with one-inch surfaced pine, the joints
being protected By perpendicular moulded
battens. The inside walls and ceiling are
covered with half.inch boards, dressed, with
tongue and groove. The floor is Of inch pine,
dressed and matched. The roof may oe OF
shingles or double flooring. The chimney Is
cement pipe, made In sections, and Joined to-
gether, a / resting upon bracket near the
ceiling. There are two doors and door frames,
and two windows and window frames. Sufi-
cient hardware is furnished to complete the
house. The larger and more expensive build
ings are of similar description, varying as to
details, according to their size and purpose.
No p.astering and 10 bricks and mortar are
used. except when specially ordered. The
buildings are shipped by railroad, making
from half a car load to FIVE full car loads; and
an immense number of them have been erect
ed on the prairies, where timber is scarce and
mechanics not TO be had.
Less than a year ago Paris was humbled
in the dust, and all her fine drapery was soiled
and tumbied; but now, presto they are be-
ginning to set the fashions again over there,
and correspondents write column articles as
of yore, in which bewildering mention is
made of dresses and head dresses, and para