The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-08
HARIETIES.


comrade patronizingly remarked to the by
ISLANDERS, "He's an ignorant cuss; he means
tycoon
"A nice little game has been stopped at the
New York Customhouse. Some Of the men
have been accustomed to wear stomach can
teens" fitting about the body under the coat,
into which they would syphon off liquor from
casks unloading, carryit away, empty 1t safely
and return.
AT nobby childrcn's ball in New York,
where the ages ranged from two to fourteen
years, the little things were decked out in the
pufrs, panniers and frills of their elders, with
powdered or diamond.dusted hair and solitaire
diamonds. The boy babies retired to smoke
between the dances, and offered each other
refreshment from half-pint pocket TASKS of old
rye.
Some musical Texans, wishing to compli-
ment one OF their lady friends, repaired to her
residence, and soon strains of fairy-Eae music
stole upon the balmy air. aafter going through
q choice programme, vocal and instrumental,
second-story window was raised. and the
face of one of Afric's darll-hued daughters
protruded. ''Look heah," said she, 'missis
amt here, butt won't you please play the
Mockin Bird for me?'
.-"Mack," of the Cincinnati Enquirer, lrav-
ing been interrogated as to his views on GER
tain point, answers thus: washington, Janu-
ary 20, 1s70.-Dear Sir: In reply to your de-
mand' as to whether am what you call a
Chase man. have the honor to say that It's
none of your id business. Trusting that the
inpertlnence of your demand will be suff-
cent excuse for the strength of my reply,
am, &C., MACK"
Mrs Morris, the newly appointed female
justice of the peace in Wyoming, is the type
of the aggressive woman of the period. Tall,
muscular. one hundred and eighty pounds in
weight, ffty-seven years of age and not
ashamed to acknowledge it. the wife OF q re-
spectacle gentleman and the mother of twins;
she writes tor the Revolution and undertakes
to study law. On her first court-day the judicial
erminc in which she appeared consisted OF
calico gown, worsted breakfast shawl. green
ribbons In her hair, and green necktie.
Squire. Shelton, who has married four
thousand couples during his thfrty-fvo years
of magistracy at Aberdeen, O., died last week
at the age of seventy-nine. 1t was he who
gave Aberdeen the name ofthc "Grctna Green
of America" Thithcr eloping lovers fled at all
hours Of the day or night, and were speedily
married, the Squire getting out ofbed and per-
forming the ceremony in his shirt alone, or
conducting it from his bedroom window when
there was less time. So many did he marry
without strictly conforming to the letter of ;hc
Jaw, that the Legislature Of Kentucky a few
years ago, found 1t necessary to pass special
act legallzing his marriages.
The indiscretion of the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher has led him to give pfing letters
much more frequently than was credltable to
himself. But to be posted to the public in the
flaming advertisement of O truss pedder, as
having enjoyed the benefits of bis treatment
for ruptures, was too much even for Mr..
Bcecher. A warm letter from the reverend
gentleman to the truss man Is just published,
in which Mr.. Beecher says: ~ regard your
action toward me as an impertlnence, and
your treatment of the public as q deliberate
swlndle. Ifyou will put one ofyour trusses upon
your own mouth we shall have test case, for
know OF no other rupture so eminent and
disgusting P. S.--This letter, the only
one which have ever addressed to you, you
are at liberty to publish"
"A writer in the Peuple Francois tells
rather hard story of Mehemet Ali, in iustra-
ton of his nice sense Of Justice. Making q
tour of his provinces, in great state and with
a cavalry guard, he was stopped by an old wo-
man, who threw herself at his teet "Your
Highness," said she, Zone Of your soldiers has
bought some milk Of me for six paras, and
won't pay me- ''Why won't you pay herr"
demanded Mehcmet Ali Of the soldier. 'Mas-
ter" said he, 'this woman lies; she has sold
me no milk, and l owe her nothing" "You
swear by Allah that you speak the truth ?" said
the Pacha then to the woman. "Yes, swear
it, "And you as well ?' said he to the soldier.
"Yes, swear it," "Very WE'LL" said the Pa
cha. Then turning to his guard, he added,
with perfect composnrc. Take this man and
omen his stomach The pacha's order was
obeyed, and the milk was found. The soldier
llau ll1St ura1lh III. lHc WOIiiilil Is TlSHt, saiu
Mehemct Ali, rcmountng his horse; "let her
have her six part,s that are due hc..." And he
continued his journey.
In the ranks Of the Pontifcal Zouavcs at
Rome is one whose name appears on the roll
as .'Lalicki. ne Anlhropophasitc." Somewhere
in the Polynesian archipelago there is an &C.
centric population which still preserve the
go',d old traditions of anthropopha%y. There
was born the Zouayc: he was the offspring OF
honest though cannibalislic parents. who were
kings in their tribe. Once numerous family,
all have now diSapprarc'l-vclims TO the de-
mon Of play. For it appears that these canni-
ba!s arr tlrvplc,l ~ The gambling table, and
when they have lost all that men c:ln oS", i'll
clu,Ijn.e trr arms. their children and their
wives. puts themselves III, as stakes, ail thF
winner eats tie loser. THUS pcrlshed, after Il
came of rnlyncsiall l;lrp. the entire family ol
vu,,in I;.c1;i. II Srcnls that the boy was ill.,
cudrd in the bet, but hc managed to~cscape
while his papa and mamma were on The spit,
and was received by some pious missionaries,
who prt him to school, taught him his cate
chisu. and then, when he was old enough,
sent him TO Rome, 10 show that even royalty
was nroud to mount guard at the palace OF
the Popcs