The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-11
CURRENT TOPICS.

AS WE KNOW many OF our fair readers hayo a
weakness both for royalty hnd for balls, wo givo
the following regal tit-bt for thoir special benefit
correspondent OF The Cologne Gazette IL in ccsta-
ses ut tho aminbiity and sauoir-pnre displayed by
tho Prince of Walos ut Lord CowLxYs ball on tho |
18th ult. ''The Prince" ho says, "who oponod |
tho ball with tho Empress, WAS extremely talkRtiyo
and gallant, and mado himself SO charming tlat |
ono would almost think no was striving to win the |
hearts Of all the ladies present. His drcss was |
very simple: he wore blnok dress coat, wliite |
waistcoat, smalls nud whilo stockings On his |
breast gttered tho 9, and Gordon OF tho egion Of
Honor, whilo his knee waB adorned with tho Order
OF tho Gartor. In tho buttonhole OF Ills coat there
was q single roso. y . Although tho Em- |
press looked rnther melancholy, tho Prince, who
seemed oItromo.y merry, repeatedly made hor
laugh heartily. = After supper thcre
WAS a colillion, i'll which tho Prince danced with
tho celebrated beauty tho Marquiso DE GALLIrET,
whom ho had mot In tho garden and engaged TO
dance with him after a long conversation. Tho co
tilon lasted nearly two hours, during which timc
tho Prince talked necessarily with tho Marquise,
md it waB observed TINT ho could hardly resist tho
charm OF tho renowned Parisnn beauty" The
Duke Of Edinburgh was observed no less closely,
thouR, not 30 admirinsly, by this inquisitiyo cor
respondent. Ho thinks tho Duko ''rery shy when
compared 10 his brother; and whlo tho Prince OF
Wales mado many o lady blush by tho fro Of his
glance, tho Duke Of dinburgh il lady only look
cd Mt him rather intontly, instantly roddenod with
confusion. = Ho did not dance In the CO.
liiiion. Apparently he did not cat enough at sup
por, for directly Tho dance began he wont to tho
supper room and mado hearty meal Of half a
| roast fowl and somo shorty"
"MAN Is THE creature OF habit" 10 ono OF tho
sayings that from frequent iteration hns almost
Loaf it's nsignihcsnce. Yet is there vast deal OF
doep, phiosophic truth contained in this sold
saw" The degroo of attachment to old customs
can only DO properly appreciated by travelling
among tho older nations of Europe or Asia, and
closely observing their thousands OF aocial and
religious pructiocs and auperstitons for which no
better reason be given than that their athers
had dono so before them. Books OF antiquities
and popular superstitions sro full Of such in
stances. Tho older Tho country, and tho moro
primitiya tho people the greater the number Of
these curious customs. Thus thero Ia species Of
saturnalia to be found among every people NO have
ever heard of. Tho following Ia form OF it, pcr-
baps now to most Of our readers The old
fashioned English custom Of "beating tho bounds"
was observed o few days ago in tho parish Of
Waddcsdcn, III Bucks, in o manner which will re-
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walked along tho boundary OF tho parish, stopping
nt oil The important points of junction. At these
places they caught somo unlucky individual, and
| If tho boundary line Was marked by wall tree
the aforesaid individual was dumped" against it
thrice. Tho party 80 far forgot themselves TO
endonror to remove q clergyman from his carriage,
and to practice this horaeplay upon him. Tho
parties c1cuso themselves by Tho beliefthat on
such occasions thoy aro empowered to opornto
upon whomHooyer. they please, and that, to use
thcir own oppression, "ro law will touch them"
TIE mechanics in England and in tho North
aeom to bo fully awakened to tho. importance Of
tho cooperative Byst6nl, and from the energetic
manner in which they are adopting tho idoh, tiioy
sdcm alFo to tho fact that tho drones In the hivc
mako no honey; and that kings, whether Of capt
tai or Of country arc costly lu1uries. Wo find In
a Cincinnati paper q brief aeconnt Of tho pIofita-
BILE results Of somo OF theso enterprises which have
boen established in that city: Tho Cabinetmakers'
Union begun in 1862 with ffty-two mombers oach
OF whom contributed fifty dollars. They paid no
dividends ON tho shares until these had grown to
four hundred dollars each. They have divided TO
thoir mcmbers, in fifteen yenrs, ffty.si1 thousand
dollars, besides regular weekly wages. Every share
holder now owns tho house ho lives In and the
saies amounted in 1865 to s126,000. The Queen
| City Furniture Company began only tbrep years
ago, in 1B64 fourteen stockholders paid in fiYe
hundred dollars each. These five hundred dollar
shares arc now worth tlIrco thousand fvo hundred
dollars caoh. Tho foregoing wo clip from the
Richmond Examiner Of Saturday. Tho Examiner
| oui iSadois will ruineraLer conducted uu
this Joint atook workmon principle. We regret
however, that wo cannot say much in ia favor since
tho chango Of regime. Whateycr tho financial re-
suit may bo,. editorially thug lar, it has in our
opinion, been dcoiaed failure. ,,. iYg.
| Ef -a'a r" .y..: .,..s. a.
'sTnIKEs" Ann THE ORDER Of tho day. The
rat-catchors have caught the infection, and are
| out Oh strike. Whom number OF rats arc re-
quircd for matches between dogs or for any othor
purpose, these professional gentlemen arc called
into roquistion to furnish tho "liyo stock" Hith-
erto tho price has boon Is. q dozen. But hearing
or Trades Unions" strikos, etc.. tho rnt.catohers
haSo formed themselves into worshipful guild,
in ordor TO ,curo bettor pay for their seryues.
An Engliah papor says: IAN order waa sent from
Bristol last week to Wolverhampton- town.
boing,' wo suppose, the grand emporium Of the
trado-for largo supply Of rats. Thero wore but
feT to DO had, and thoso OF tho smallest sfze Dir.
mingham, Walaall and other places were tried, but
without succcss; and in despair another and moro
imperative order wss forwarded to Wolyerhnmp-
ton. A day or two passed. by in anxious suspense,
and late on Tuesday evening the looked for answer
arrived. It was utterly impossible to obtain any
rats for tho rat-catchers Ind struck; and demand-
cd uniform prioe Of four shillings and sixpence
per dozen, irrespective Of size or quality this
prico, the employers said, they could NOT afford to
give. What next, we wonder f. 1t ia to be hoped;
for the credit OF the guild that mono of it's nom.
bers viii become weak In Tie knees, and be guilty
Of rafting"
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AhtEn1elNs AnE. .yery prone TO tmsgino that pro-
Rrcss is altogether confined to tho Western Hon.
isphore. Chicago, st. Louis, Cincinnati, and other
citios Of the great West are certainly notable in.
STANCES OF rapid growth. But Europe also can
show somewhat In tho samiG iine Berlin. within
tho last thirty years has MORO than triplsd her
population. From $50 600 In 1887 aho has Increased
to about 800 poo in 1867. Paris, thirty yeaia ago
had about 100000 inhabtants,. whereaa now no wo
learn from NJ HAusshIAss annual statistioal state
.Went that the population at tlspose Of 1866 MAS
274, and the deaths ,7aq, a ratio of 281 per
1000 oof the population. Tho. inorease OF popula-.
tonis at the ratio Of 148 por cent, which Isl a5
per cent. less than in London. .lhe births were
fower by III in 1866 than IN 1906 Thero were 1914
houses built during tho ycar cndinE the Sotht or
September 1866, and 25o houses demolished.