The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-10-31
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BaR11N. Ostohsra aa99 The !sfiai sof
jmen for the attempted assassina-
tton OF Bismarck is progressing. He
is calm and admits the chargee. Forty
newspaper correspon lents are present.
LONDON. October 80. John Laird,
the ship builder and member OF Par.
liament, is dead. '-a'
BERLIN. October Abiding to
Alsace and Lorraine, your co-opera-
ton is'now. for tho first time, invited
to institutiag budget for Alsace and
Lorraine. You will here have an oppor-
tunity OF obtaining q more thorough
knowledge of the resources. req uire.
ments and .institutions OF those pro.
vinoes Athah was hitherto possible
under the old system Of yearly admi-
nistrative reports. You will show our
compatriots OF the Upper Rhine the
interest the whole nation takes in
this most ancient German territory.
TeisEra raphis-Anerican Matters.
WASHINGTON, October 3O.-Shrewd
politicians here, from New York, say
the election of Tllden is conceded.
Republicans are stated to be anxious
tnre, thus saving the successor to Sc.
nator Fenton, but the Democrats want
ell. Tim;d gamblers ere betting 100
to 60 on Tilden. John Morrissey is
taking all the bets he can get at two to
one.
There is no truth in the report that
certain Western railroads have oom.
bined against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. Their freight aud passen-
gers have equal facilities with the other
great trunks.
Probabilities Tennessee aud
the Gulf States. rising barometer,
Northwest winds. cold and partly
cloudy weather and possibly occasional
rain. For the South Atlantic States.
Southwest to North west winds, rising
barometer, colder and partly cloudy
weather. For the Middle States, New
England. rising barometer, North
west winds, cold and cloudy weather,
and occasional rain, turning to snow in
New England.
NEW ORLEANS. October 3O.-A col
lision occurred between Maj. e. Burke
and Gov. Kellogg. Burke drew a
whip and Kellogg drew a pistol, and
fired. grazing Burke, who then drew q
.piatQl and fred three or four ineffeot-
nal shots at the Governor. Burke and
Kellogg are congratulated by their
friends upon the laughably harmless
termination OF the affair.
There is no truth in the report that
tho Democratic leaders are about to
commence criminal proceedings for the
square fight of November IL
TERRE HAUTE. IND. October 30
The loss by the Greencastle fire was
$228. 900: Fires in the woods are still
raging.
NEW iberia, October $1,000 real
estate owners of the Parish of St.
Martins have just arrived, to offer
themselves as bondsmen for seven St.
Martineville prisoners. Messrs. Dor
court, Dugas and F. Garabinio, Of that
parish, were arrested yesterday.
Tclegraphic-Commc REPORTS.
Columbia, October 3O.-Sales of
cotton to-day 205 bales-middling
1aSe9l31. Demand good.
NEw YoRK. October 3O-Noon.
Stocks dull and lower. Money OK.
Gold LOS. E1ehange-long 84H;
ehort 4 81. Governments dull bat
steady. State bonds quiet and lower.
Cotton quiet; sales 2.036-uplands
143s; Orleans Is. Futures opened
easier: November Il GIG. II 11-Ie;
December "A 11.16. 14A; January
IA 10 16. IS; February 15Iz. Is 5.16;
March Is 8 16, 155a. Corn firmer and
advancing. Pork tirm-20 .25(02O. so.
lard firm-13Za.
~ P. M.-Money easy, ut 2021.
Sterling firm. Gold 1O16@1OA. Go
vernments dull and steady. States
dull and strong. Cotton net receipts
631; gross 5,7S6. Failures closed
steady; sales $4,000: October IA 16;
November "A 8 l6; December IA ll-l6,
"A 23 80; January IA 31.32; February
10 932, Is SIG; March Is 19 80, l55S;
April Is 1882. 1917; May Is Liz,
16 8 80; June 169 81, 1876 16. Cotton
dull; sales 2.579, at l45a@l5. South
ern flour quiet and heavy common to
fair extra 4.80@575; good to choice
5.S008.25. Wheat dull and 150lc.
lower; holders more disposed to real
'se, bnt shippers generally holding off
-1.15(91.36. Corn decidedly firmer
and active demand-9O@95. Coffee
quiet and unchanged. Sugar and rice
dull. Pork lower Western mess
1920. Beef qaiet--1O .5O@11. 90 new
plain mess. Lard firmer-prime steam
13T(0l4. Whiskey a shade firmer.-