The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-05
CURRENT NOTES.


The gas I'm New York Is the subject OF bitter
complaint in the Journals OF that CITY, who assert
that there is no town in the Union furnished with
such miserable light and charged such cNtrava-
giant prices.
The iron bridge at st. Louis, connecting the
Illinois and Missouri shores OF The Mississippi
River, Is reported 10 have been commenced and
four hundred AMI thirty men, with all the mo-
dcrn steam appliances rexcavatlng earth and
moving heavy stones and tmbers, are now nj
work. The bridge structure is to be composed of
three wrought anu cast iron arches, one OF five
hundred and fifteen feet I'm length, the other two
four hundred anu nincty-scvcn feet each. The
lower part Of the bridge Is intended for the pas.
sage OF railway trains; the upper for ordinary
travel.
Sewage, rs manure, Is now attracting great
attention In England, and il Is asserted that the
members Of the Metropolitan Board OF Works, OF
London, by their apathy on the subject, arc con-
nivng ut an enormous waste of money and ferti.
llzng power by ncglcctIng to utilize the sewage
OF London. The annual outflow of the sewer
water OF London Is estimated at ono hundred ana
| eighty miilions'of tons, and this refuse is cacu-
lated to be worth nine farthings ton. Hence, II
Is concndcd, valuable manure Is discharged into
| the Thames worth $1,000, 900 per annum or 500
5i5 II day.
The suirocation OF four persons at a fire in
Liberty street, New York, has called attention In
that city 10 the necessity OF constructing outside
iron stairways TO the tenement houses, which are
frequently crowded with human beings from the
cellars TO the atlcs. Ladders leading to the roofs
| Scuttcs ana ropes have been tried, and found TO
bc Intellectual. It Is asserted that within four
years over thirty persons have been sunocated or
burned TO death in consequence OF the absence OF
| suitable flre-cscapcS. The four persons who were
sunocaed in Liberty street, 1t Is contcuded could
have been saved had the llrcmcn ascendcd TO the
roofof the building and then descended through
the hatchway, Instead OF attempting 10 force a
passage upwards from below.
From tile reports In the London papers Il ts
evident that the people there have become much
| more expert than before at the business Of max
Ing Thames tunnels. new onc which has gone
Oh without much cosmopolite notice, is now
nearly completed from Tower Hill to the street OF
the "rhrcc Talors''-Toolcy -street-a distance of
over 1900 feet 500 feet 30 shorter than our great
brooklyn bridge, that Is 10 be. The work was
going on at the rate OF nine feet In twenty four
hours-a much more rapid speed than that OF tile
first Thames tunnel, which, for one cause or other
took twelve or thirteen years to complete it, In
the new tunnel people can hear the sound of pad-
dies and other noises OH the river overhead; but
the arch Is pronounced a perfectly safe one and
French say.
Some OF the ideas proposed at the recent
woman's Parliament In New York are rather
startling. married woman ought to have n
legal right to dispose In any way shc may please
OF IL share OF her husbands Income. According
TO that plan, IN cNtravagant woman might
mortgage her husbands earnings before lie re-
ceivcd them, and he would have no power to
! hslH himself IN cases OF pronigacy, the money
,e #fs4n ffisiSnt s , .,,9
SlSrnxer contcndcd that children should be allow.
cd greater frccdom-that no article belonging to
them should be touched without their consent;
that any question they liked to put should be
answered. and that they should be accustomed
to the idea that they ore to think AMI act inde-
pcndcntly. It is generally supposed that In this
| country there Is not much room for Improvement
III the aforementioned particular.
The Army and Navy Journal says that the
Navy Department proposes to take the defence OF
our habors out OF the hands Of the engineer corps
OF the army cntrusting il longer to forts, but
TO monitors AMI torpedoSs. The new torpedo
corps is bcng put into effective condition. ana
in case OF need Will prove Itself valuable auXili-
airy. new irOn-cad Is In progress, embodyIng
the main Idea OF the motitOr, having an eiongu-
ted turrct carrying fourteen guns, five on each
side and two each front and rear, thus command
ing The whole horizon with Its artillery, and with
out changing the position fits guns II Will
carry sail and have tclescoplc masts, which can
be taken IN when preparing for action, and a
bowsprlt that can be trccd up and got ont { the
way OF the forward guns. II will carry five or
SIN inches of iron armor, backed with for;y-two
inches OF nak. These are, we believe, the main
feature OF tic vessel proposed. II Is expected to
combine the cNccllcncc5 OF the monitor with tho
advantages of broai;ide vessel. :
Two or three Of the Frcnc. newspapers OF
the Republican side complain with bitterness OF
the lack OF sympathy which they meet with In
| tie United States and England. The Americans
who reside in Paris arc accused of being 10 n
large extent, toa,lies Of the court-rcady 10 fra
; terniZc with anybody who Will prOcurc them all
mission to court balls and festivities. II Is de-
clarcd that the French opposition which no
doubt consists OF the most iilustrlous men of the
country, finds more friends among any other
class OF foreigners than the Americans and Eng.
lish. Certainly the articles of some OF the London
papers are offensive enougli-thc Tory journals
even advising the Emperor to try another "a OF
december. From the French point OF view, this,
as every one will understand, seems scliishness
ITSELF On the other hand, II Is not clear low
any class OF residents are TO manifest their pref-
'ercncc for the opposition If they io prefer It.
The most they cnn do Is 10 abstain from, ostcnta-
tious marks OF regard for the powers that are In.
stalled.
.%sS- NOTICE.-NATIONAI. FREED
MANS SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY.
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