The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-02
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-BlrOD IluCuUllZ 6euIS OIhuty IuOuo1uo
volumes of his famous series to this country
every year.
One firm at Frankfort-on-the-Main is said
to have sold seventy-iye thousand carte photo
graphs Of Mrs. Lincoln.
Tho costs on both sides OF the recent ritu-
Mist case in London amounted to one hundred
thousand dollars.
The Empress Eugenie stills looks hand
somc at a distance, but when you como near
YOU discover that her face ir tnickly pow der
ed. aud painted under the eyes, and her eye
brows pcncllled.
On New Years day tho Prince Imperial
presented velocipedo to the Prince OF the AS
fnrins. tho eldest son of Queen Isabella, and
taught lrn how to rIleit. Tho two boys are
constant playmates.
-Ex.Ouoen Isabella is issuing diplomas, ac-
compuuvins the bestowal Of decorations, ante
dated, which is supposed 10 indicate her belief
that in f.w months she will be reinstated on
the throne of Spain.
At tho recent festivities at Arundel Castle,
Enoland. in honor of the coming of age Of the
Duke OF Norfolk. the tables groaned under
plate weighing upward OF o ton and half, and
valued at $500 900.
Snow fell in such abundance in st. Peters-
hrrr and lts suburbs in tho latter half Of De-
ZANZIBAR. that in several streets it rose to twelve
seat in height. Accounts from the provinces
sfs te that whole villages are buried under the
DRIFT.
At recent ball at the Tuileries the guests
con.nmed ton thousand ices, fifteen hundred
Classes Of punch. six thousand Of sherbet,
Sour or fvo hundred chickens, eight hundred
bottles Of champagne and fifteen hundred bot
ties Of bordeaux.
-Justus ven Liebig, tho celebrated German
chemist, recently told friend that, during
the last ten years he had received seven calls
from American universities, and that twice he
fslt strongly tempted to go to the United Sta tes
and accept ther0 professorship.
-Ths French Government recently deter
mined TO substitute in cavalry movements
what is known US the English trot, for the
..French trot," on the ground that the former
is ess faiiguing to horse and rider. Upon the
nronlugation Of tho order 10 this effect, an
,f1icial request was received from Eng land for
information respecting tho "English trot,
with view OF making it known to tho British
cavalry.
"A petition is being signed in Ireland in
favor of applying the Irisn ecclesiastical
revenue to the payment OF poor rntes. "It
would bo return, say the petitioners, "to q
mode in which, at q period preceding the
Reform ion, the properly OF the church was
partially expended and It would afford great
and much needed relief 10 the oyerburdcned
yatepayers.
Tho Duke OF Alba is o Spanish grandee,
descended from tho mcrciless soldier Of Philip
Y, whose cruelty drove the Netherlands to
revolt. The Em ress Eugenie was once des-
nerltely in love with him, and tried to commit
suicide by laudanum when hc chose her sister
instead OF herself. His wife is now dead, and
he has sauandered his once enormous fortune
in dissipation. His estates, which IRE cntailed.
INV, pa sod into the hands OF his creditors, by
whom they will probably be managed as long
rs he continues to live.
Tho tunnel under the English channel, at
Dover, it is asserted, will hare to be bored
through n chalk formation aud though the
actuai perroration will be easy, yet the pres-
sure OF tue sea upon tho yielding rock will be
immense. Iu building the Thames tunnel, the
water burst through the roof several times,
during one OF these irruptlons OF the river.
In the event of violent storm the danger OF
a break would be imnneAt. and the wOrkmen,
having o run several miles to obtain O refuge,
would have but poor opportunity to escape.
The difficulty OF ventIl.ting such tunnel ust
prove TO be very great. But Notwithstanding
these serious objections, three eminent Eng
l!Sll engineers nave pIoHouisoI luo Pi,tu W po
feasible. and the estimated cost, forty-fve MIL
lioa dollars To bo reasonable.
Charles Dickens writes from Belfast under
dat. of January IA to the London News, us
follows II am required 10 discharge a Dain-
iul act OF duty IMPOSED upon me bv your in
sertlon in your paper of saturday, of para
rraDh from the New York Times respecting
The death, ut Chicago, OF Mrs. Augustus n.
Dickens, widow Of the brother OF Charles Dick
ems, the celebrated English novelist The
widow ofmy late brother IN til paragraph re-
ferrcd 10 was never at Chicago; she IL lady
now living, and resident in London; sho is a
lreoncnt guest at my house, and am ono OF
tl,r trustees under her marriage settlement.
NV tempol ary absence in Ireland has delayed
tor some days my troubling you with the re-
quest that you will have the goodness to pub-
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