The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-07-05
THINGS IN NEW YORK.
The Heated Term-The Ice Question-
Fourth Of July-Blot-The Bailey De-
falcatIon, &c.
NEW YORK, July l.

Anew 1Vnh. Vuiy L.
The spell at last is broken. The heated term
is over and New York breathes freely again.
This morning the thermometer was as high as
ever during the term. At eight o'clock the
air was hot and fiery as on the previous days.
So 1t remained until about ten o'clock, when
a remarkable change took. place, the sky be-
coming obscured by clouds, and the ther-
mometer falling over ten degrees. All the
rest of the day has been cool, breezy and
cloudy.
The ice question excltes much comment,
and the advance in the price of that desirable
luxury is paid under protest. Rightly or
wrongly. it is popularity beneveQthat the Ice
companies make prodigious profits, and are
without Justification in their advance Of the
Ice tariff. Great hopes are entertained in re-
gard to the new ice company, In which the
Chief hotel proprietors are interested, and
which, by interfering WIN tne monopoiy, viii viii
reduce the rates; but this new company Will
not 90 into operation till next season.
Already there are symptoms Of the Fourth
of July In the repeated reports which sound
like the discharge of fre-crackers, but which
really emanate from o new species OF toy
which is finding ready sale-a kind OF air
pop-gun, which goes of with a smart slapping
S0unQ. Inc poliCo WIN lhVo,i ,ie,S III Sne -, u'S y
of Hre-crackers, but 1t is to be feared that the
harmless though annoying pop-gun is beyond
their Jurisdiction.
The display of large fireworks will this year
be on large scale, and will be under the su-
superlntendence OF the commissioner Of public
parks. Already the front OF the City Hall is
screened by large frameworks, on which the
fireworks will be placed.
NJ. Blot, the famous French cook, and now a
Ill,
taurantin in Brooklyn to newspaper man, and
will start similar establishment In New
York. .
while making some repairs, was yesterday
very much startled at finding human skull
embedded in the wall. How this relic of NOR.
talIty ever came there, or how long 1t has been
grnning unseen behind the plaster, no one
knows. 1t may be remarked Of late, however,
that the discovery of human remains In ole
houses in this city has become to be quite
common thing.
The intended publication in pamphlet form
of the lines written In memoriam OF Charles
Dickens has q rival in the scheme Of Elihu Bur
ritt, bette known as the Learned Black.
smith, WHO intends to do the same work IN
England, and writes hither inviting American
sermons called forth by the death Of Dickens
Considerable astonishment is created In busi
ness circles to-day by the unexpected an
nouncement that the defalcation of Collector
Bailey will amount to over six hundred thous
and dollars. The precise amount had only
been fully learned this week. and the facts
are to-day made public for the first time
Bailey's friends, after his flight, tried to make
out that he had run away almost penniless; or
Mt the most. had lost to the government only
about twenty thousand dollars. They ever
went so far as to say that the delalcation arose
entirely from the collectors excessive zeal on
the governments behalf
Where Bailey is nobody knows-at least the
general public don't know. It Is probable ina
he is enjoying his iIl-gotten booty somewhere
In Europe. No one believes the report that hi
committed suicide. Perhaps after dozer
years of luxury he will return to this city as
did defaultinE postmaster OF New York, Il
find his crime almost forgotten, and to escape
utterly unpublished. -