The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-28
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1871.
NEWS OF THE Day.


cents; sales 22sl bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed firm, uplands
s,as3d, Orleans ssseid; sales l5.00O bales.
-mhe greatest oil strike OF the season Is re-
ported in well near Queenstown, Pa, on Inc
22d. which flows thirty-fre irrels OF OIL per
hour.
"A carving match Is to come OIL In New
York. turkey, a goose and q partridge are
to be placed before each Of the operators. The
winner will carve stake of two hundred dol
lars In greenbacks after the decision has been
rendered.
The Washington.Lee University, Lexing
ton, Va, opened on the 2lst instaI with
fraction over two hundred students-'a larger
number than ever was present at thc begin.
ming Of session since the first year Of the late
General Lees presidency.
The Prussian Cross Gazette (sem official
paper says that at the Interview Netweer
Beust and Bismarck at Gastein, the question
of the temporal power of the Pope was moi
broached, and that the matter will lie treated
as an affair affecting Italy alone.
Texas Is to have an exhibition o children
at its State Fair, in Houston, and tt san An
tonic Herald says it does not believe there Is
another community OF It's size IN tie united
States that can produce so many perfecuy
beautiful and healthy children as the City OF
San Antonio and surrounding country.
The Pail Mall Gazette learns from EGYPT
that the Khedive is becoming weary OF and
more and more dlspleased with his batch OF
American officers, and 1t is rumored that they
are all to be dismissed soon wltha sratuity OF
some months pay. The Turkish officers are
jealous OF them, and Kassim Pacha manages
torpooh-peoh every Improvement they sas-
gest, 49,. ..-,
Plus TX, 1t is said, while thankful Tor the
many offers of home rendered to him IN vari-
GUS parts of the world, expresses his ltention
to die In Rome, where, he says, bis successors
in the Pontif's chair for thousands of years
Will also breathe their last. He and all the
dignitaries OF the church believe that the head
OF The Catholic Church should remsin In
Rome, unless compelled by violence to
leave 1t.
The Italian Parliament will not assemble
in Rome until the end of November or the
commencement OF December. King Victor
Emmanuel It Is stated, will not pass much OF
his time In the new capital Of Italy. and Turin
will continue to be the home OF his affections.
It Is also said that, though the government
makes every effort for things to go easy in
Rome, 1t encounters currents against which
headway is slowly made. Many OF the patri-
in
any of their great palace structures for the ac-
commodaiion OF The new administration.
Some of these families have an overstock OF
large houses which might now be sold at tour
or five times the former valuation.
Mrs. Laura Curtis Bullard tells story OF
the Baroness Coutts, who, when shopping In
Paris, was passed from one department 10
another by the clerks always with the remark
s'two.ten.n She was escorted from counter
to counter, and everywhere these cabalistic
words, 'two-ten," were repeated by one CLERK
to another. Struck by the popularity Of this
refrain, she asked the proprietor, as she left
the establishment, "Pray, what does two-ten
mean 1 noticed each clerk said it to each
other In your shop" "Oh, its nothing" he
replied, "merely password that they are II
the habit of exchanging" But Miss Coutt:
was not satisfied with this explanation. So II
the evening. when ths1porter, young boy
brought home her purchases, after paying hel
bill, she said, my boy, would you like to earl
five francs ?" OF course he had no objection
ssTell me,n said the lady, 'what does two-ten
mean. / will give you five francs.' Why
don't YOU know, maam 2" said he, evidently
amazed at her ignorance. ut means keeE
YOUR two eyes on her ten fingers" The myS
terry was solved at last. All the clerks OF tht
Trois Quarters had taken The richest woman
in Great Britain for shoplifter.
The real nature of the simulated friend
ship felt for the cJlored men by the Rldica
party Is well exemplided by recent afrron
put upon the African race By the of1ce-hold
ing managers at an entertainment recently
given to Grant at Ttusville. He has jus'
travelled through the State OF Pennsylvania
ArTitusville, in the oil regions, public
breakfast was given him at the principal ho-
tei. For this breakfast seventy-ive tickets
were sold at 50 apiece. A respectable colored
man purchased llCheI lOl tuc ElcsluSutii
bnGlkfast. On presenting 1t at the door he
was refused admission of course on account
of his color. The insulted man and his friend:
80 understand 1t, and 1t is so understood by the
public at large. The Titnsvlie Courier
denounces the affair in unmeasured term:
as an outrage upon American c:ti
zens, without regard to color; and the
New York Sun comments upon 1t as fol
lows: "a gross, deliberate afront OF this de-
scriplion is not to be atoned for by any amopn,
of empty professions, or by the action of the
government pretending 10 protect the negro
from the oppression of the whites at the South
Here Is something tangible, singing, and which
cannot be explained away, perpetrated usder
tre eyes of the President himself. In the South
ern States and in the City of Washington there
are penal statutes protecting The negro in all
the privileges of the white man, and keepers
OF saloons have been subjected to fine for re-
tusing to let negroes drink at their bars. But
what does formal social recognition amount
to, as agains; the insult of having the door oil
apublic entertainment, given to the President
in his official capacity, shut in the face of q
black man after he has paid his money for a
ticket of admission"