The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-19
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only hereditary chamber in Europe.
Family dismemberment" is the Chicago
name for divorce.
An attachment to champagne bottle
patented in England, permits apart of the con-
tents to br withdrawn without in the least
ipjurine Inc rest
Thieves lately stole the carpet from ru.
raj church near Cincinnati, and when it was
newly carpeted brought back the old and stole
the new one.
Figaro tries to rob Rossini Of the glory Of
composing the prayer in "Moscs in Egypt,
saving that 1t is an old and well known air sung
for ages in the Pyrenees.
The final signing of the treaty for the set
tlement of the Alabama claims has elected
favorable comments from nearly all the Lon
don papers.
An Indiana youth put his Christmas candy
and torpedocs in the same pocket, and blew
out all Ills teeth when he tried 10 masticate one
of the latter.
MIR. Pomcroy, from the Congressional Com
mittee on Public Lands, has reported bill to
provide Tor the sale of certain lands on the sea
Islands IN South Carolina.
Miss Fate Rupert was terribly burned by
the explosion OF lamp at Harrisburg. PENN,
on Friday. She vas carrying on infant up
stairs at the time, but the child was not in
jured.
Nine. Otto, IN actress Of Lubeck, was so
enragea atthe success of a rival in the part ot
MADAME dc Pnmpadour," thai she stabbed
herself and then jun ped into the river, but
she was rescued still allvo.
-Piau had a fall from tho height of swing
ing trapeze, III New Orleans. Ipstead ofbTeak-
ing his neck, he alighted on his feet, turned
summersault and kissed his hand 20 the hor
rifed audience.
Body -snatching is going on in Washing
ton, and queerly enough, tne Burke is the
leader IL negroes are afraid to be out after
dark, lest the doctors catch them and make
them up into medicines, as they believe.
w. H. McArdle, tor several years the edi-
tor of tho vlcksb1rg Times, and famous fer
his connection WITH the ha6eas corpus case in
yolying the constitutionality Of the ReconstrGc-
ton acts, which is yet pending before tho Su-
preme Court, has severed his connection with
that paper.
Charles Dickens publishes card in the
London papers denying the story Of the recent
death Of his brothers widow in Chicago. Mr..
Dickens says that lady is still alive and we'll,
resides in England, and never was in Chicago.
he himself Is the trustee Of her estate under
settlement.
-Rothschild said, one day, he always knew,
when people were talking about his fellow-He-
brews, whether the latter were rich or poor.
Upon being asked to explain how Ec came to
know that he replied: 'Why, you see, when
people ar. talking about wealthy man
of my creed they call MIN an Israelite, but if he
is poor they call him Jew
Wendell Phillips ridicules in his sharpest
style General Grants demand FOR economy in
the administration Of the government This
is, he says, Thoroughly American in the worst
sense of the name, In our worst times"-far
more contemplate than Patrick Henry's patri-
OTIS cry Of s.beef, beef" in Washington's starY-
ing camp. The duty of the days, Mr.. Phillips
saws, is to secure the rights Of the negro.
When General Grant will ''tbrow himself into
that, he, Mr. P, twill feel obliged to believe in
him."
The press is yet at loss exactly where to
place Mr.. Washburne. The Springfield Roput-
lcan thinks that his magnificent sp5cch last
we ek renews and strengthens the impression
of his fitness for the Department of the Into
rior, and TIE certainty that he would work
revolution speedily in that nest OF indirecsion
and corruption; but thinks it also makes it the
more manifest that he cannot b, spared frcm
the House of Representatives, where his fame
will be larger, his hand sreer, aud he can meet
the gigantic frauds which meet the treasury on
the very tLr> shold.
According to Brazilian accounts from tho
seat Of wsr in Paraguay, the late repuise OF
the allies at vilctta has been followed by tho
greatest victory which. hos yet beca won by
them since the beginning of the war. V!lctta,
it is SAID, las been captured, and nearly the
whole Of tho Paraeuayau crmy destroyed,
about three thousand Paraguayaas being CAP
tured, and Lopez escaping with only about two
hundred followers. AS the President oil Para
quay has for some time had the greatest diff
Guilty to Gil the thlnned ranks OF his army
crushing victory like that now Gained BY Tho
Brazilans would probably destroy his further
power Of resistance.
Tho revelations which have oozed out from
time to time Of the state Of the Rasslan army
are we'll founded. The Muscovite forces are so
i'll prepared for an encounter that ii any oaen-
sive war they must be comparatively useless,
though the Russians are always formidable in
defence. All soldiers on furlough are ordered
to Join their regiments. ThUso who have
served their term. but are still capable OF bear
ing arms, are Offered the large bounty of
twenty-seven pounds to re-enlist. But, in spite
of all efforts, the Russian army still remains in
a deplorable state; only few thousand OF
breech-loaders have been supplied; and one
Warsaw correspondent gees SO far as to say
that the troops are completely demolalized.
"A new political party has been organic I'd
in New York upon the folowin: principles:
Every person should have the right to a po:-
tion Of the public lands free OF expense, and
tbs right Of .o5in, should be conferred on
both males and females over twenty-cne. with
out the payment Of taxes. Tho government 1t
is coptended. should establish system OF free
education for all tho people, and should carry
out and execute all public works 80 as to give
constant employment to the working classes.
The district schools should be kept open one