The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-02
Tbe Gbaflestoot 9ems'
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1871.
NEWS OF THE D4E.

uplands ls}c; sales 1868 oaies.
Cotton closed firm in Liverpool; uplaads
Gid. Orleans 9id; sales $4,000 bales.
Fl. ]. Morris has been reelected Mayor q
Cincinnati.
The Southern Hotel safe, in st. Louis, was
robbed yesterday OF $500.
An American newspaper is 10 ne es'"c'
lished at Frankfort, Germany.
DIR. Davis, of Brooklyn, has been -iRalcteo
as nm aborlionst and imprisoned.
The city printing, in New Orleans, costs
$4,000 per year, and one of the papers offers
to do 1t for $4,000.
"A large number of horses have arrived IN
Memphis for the races this week, whcn pron'
ise to be unusually good.
The treasury sells two millions OF gold
each Thursday, and buys two millions OF bonds
each Wednesday of October.
Frost is reported in Mississippi, and Vleks-
burg and Jackson are congratulaling eacn
other that yellow jack is killed OIL.
Isaac Smith died of yellow fever, on Sat-
urday, in Cincinnati The disease was con-
tracted while on visit to Natchez.
"A malicious report has been circulated
among the Arkansas freedmen that !.Jrace
Greeley has Joined the Ku-Klux Klan.
"A wholesale discharge Of mechanics
from the construction department of the
Brooklyn Navy Yard took place on Saturday.
An Atlanta dispatch announces the dis
charge of Attorney. General Farrow from tie
charge of cheating and swlndlpg brought
against him.
The remains OF four assistant engineer,
who perished or the Weehawken in 1853, were
inferred with naval honors at the Brooklyn
Navy-yard last Tuesday.
1t is asserted that when the European and
North American Railway from Rangor to st.
John Is complesed, the ocean voyage to Eu-
rope can be mace In five days.
The anniversary of the battle Of Sedan was
celebrated at that town by the closing Of all
the places of business, and the holding Of
solemn services In the churches.
The hotel In New Eogland with the long
est name is the Quoquinnapseakessoanogog
House at Hampton Beach. 1t has only one
letter less than the whole alphabet.
The Paris Commune, during their shoit
reign. burned the guillotine; but Hendrecht,
the chief executloner for Paris, has been
commissioned to make anolher-this time Of
iron.
The French iroh.clad irigale Normandle.
which cost many millions. Is to be broken up.
the framework, attacked by dry rot, scarcely
holding together. The vessel was built only
ten years ago.
The factory operatives at Lowell. Mass.
who now are allowed foriy-hVe minutes LOT
dinner. are 10 have an hour after tie LIST Of
October. and their working day will be but ten
hours and three-quarters long.
Captain McLenan, of the steamship Bri'
,annia. from Glasgow was lost overheard in ex-
orting himself to save lady passenger while
he ship was giving heavy lurch, and was
drowned. All efforts 10 save him proved un-
successful.
The Burlington warehouse, in Chicago'
with goods stored in it 10 The value Of $780,
600. was burned yesterday. Four persons per-
ished and several flremen were injured. There
was $3.50. 900 Insurance on the goods. The
building was valued at $4,000.
A letter from Bonn tells story of Ger
man general, who, on inspecting his troops,
not long ago, addressed them thus: Now,
nv children, We can once more get seriously
TO work. The pastime Of war Is at an end,
and drill must 20 on regularly as heretofore"
The police of Paris have received orders to
suppress every gambling house in the city.
This looks like business, and appears 10 war
rant the belief that the new French Republic Is
about 10 emulate, in It's severe and simple
morality, our own happy and virtuous conn-
try.
After much consideration Of the question
Of the most fitting statue - crown the top OF
The reconstructed Vendome Column, NJ. Theirs
has very logically concluded that Napoleon l.,
in his gray overcoat and cocked-hat, shall be
replaced there. This is a proper solution Of
the matter, since the Vendome Column with
ont the first Emperor would be paradox.
The annual convention OF the Episcopal
Church for the diocese OF New York Is now in
session. An interesting incident, Immediately
after the organization OF the convention, was
the rejection OF the application of the Church
fSt. Mary the Virgin to be admitted 10 cano-
nical connection with the diocese, on the
ground that it was impossible for the commit
tee having the matter in charge 10 determine
whether 1t was Roman Catholic or something
else.
The English Journals report the circum-
stance that The Archbishop Of York lately off,
ciated in the parish church OF Glengarry, and
conducted the service according to the form
of the church of Scotland. The bishop Of
Winchester conducted service in similar
manner In Glengarry Parish Church on the
Sunday previous. The church of Scotland, 1t
must be understood. is Presbyterian, while
the Archbishop of York is next TO The Queen
the ecclesiastical head of the Episcopal
Church.
"A correspondent who recently visited the
Chinese shoemakers at North Adams, Mass,
writes IL learned one thing that l do not re-
member to have seen in print-that they are
strictly temperate. except on the lst of Janu.
ary, when they have grand drunk. Last
January they were given.four days for spree
of this sort, and they went through 1t with
magnificent sys' em and success. l omitted to
INQUIRE what their tavorile beverage is, but
somebody should find it ont; for after getting
drunk and keeping so for four days, they come
ont refreshed and invi.orated. There is no
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