The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-22
Tbe Gbarlestpot aems.
,5 TUESDAY, MARCH %, 1879.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold at New York yesterday closed weak
eratl2s.
The New York cotton market was lower,
at 333. Sales 900 bales. /.
AT Liverpool cotton was firm; uplands
lltd. Sales Il, 900 bales. o,.. 90.
a fashion writer says that the blue coat
and brass buttons will be all the rage for full
dress next winter.
-McFarland is visited, on an average, BY
six sympathizing women daily, most of whom
are utter strangers to him.. gLa
Mr.. Seward stopped at only four public
houses during his entire route through Cali
fornia, Alaska, Mexico and the West Indies to
New York.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office is in almost daily receipt of letters from
our ministers and consuls abroad, and agents
for emigration, and private individuals. in
Europe, and especially from the German
States, asking for reports, circulars and maps.
containing information relative to lands in the
Western Territories, all denoting that the tide
Of emigration to this country the coming year
win be greater than ever. - -. ;..
"A Washington telegram of Saturday night,
says: .sThere is considerable excitement in
the Internal Revenue Bureau about the alb.
sconding of Collector Bailey, Of the forty-sec-
ond New York revenue district. This is the
largest district in the country, the collec-
tions amounting to ABOUT s20,000,000 o
year. Bailey disappeared on Thursday last,
leaving note with his deputy saying, good
bye!' It is believedhe has gone to Europe.
AS yet, the Commissioner does not know how
much the government has lost, but there Is
no doubt it is quite large sum, as Collector
Bailey, If dishonest, has had the best chances
of any man in the country to make the figures
large. At q hate hour tonight 1t Is learned
that Collector Bailey has not yet been ar
rested; and that the amount embezzled by
him is large, 1T Isl stated that when Bailey's
name. went to the, Senate for confirmation it
was asnoticeable fact that he was backed by
many prominent persons and special requests
were, made by the ex-Secretary, McCulloch
and Fe@ehden, Chief Justice Chase, and Sec
retary Boutwell,, that Bailey be conHrmed.n
Another horrible catastrophe, which makes
the bloodsrun cold and shocks the strongest
heart, occurred in nitro -glyceriRe factory in.
Ridgefeld, N. j., Thursday morning. While.
some laborers we're carrying bags of nitro
glycerine from schafner's factory to sloop on
the banks Of the Hackensack River, one Of the
men dropped bag, which exploded, blowing
the building, in, which were $500 pounds Of
nitro-glycerine, into atoms. -Four lives were
sacrificed to the carelessness of one incautious
workman, and the bodies Of these unfortunate
men were, torn limb from limb, ard scattered
like the mason work all over the vicinity. The
leg Of one man was found lying 200 feet dis
tant from the scene of the catastrophe. Many
of those who were not killed were more or
less injured. One man was struck upon the
head by flying brickbat and severely cut and
bruised; another sustained fracture Of the leg.
The sloop escaped comparatively unharmed
Her mast was broken of, but beyond that she
sufsredlfttle or no injury. The factory was
ofbrick, one story high, and was $50 feet long
and so feet wide. Hermann Uyers, the fire.,
man, was one of the killed. The others were
two laborers and boy. The loss is STE, 900;
no insurance.
The delegates from the different States
Unions of working women throughout the
United States, who recently met in conven-
tion in New, York City, for the purpose of
establishing Central Union, have adopted
constitution, and resolved to obtain charter
from the National Labor Union. The consti-
tuition sets forth that the objects of the associa-
ton are to eHnoble labor and the laboring
women; to promote their interests and protect
their rights; to maintain q fair rate of wages;
TO encourage good working women, and to
employ every means which may tend to the
elevation Of wording women in the social scale
Of life, Irrespective of color, creed or nation
ality; to- further and to aid the principles of
cooperation, and to use all possible means to
bring all trades into successful operation upon
this plan; to use all means, consistent with
honor and integrity, to correct the abuses
under which women labor, and that will In
sure.to them their Just rights and principles as
working women, At the mass meeting held
on the evening Of March 10th, a large number
Of working women were present. One of the
speakers, Mrs! E. A. Lane, of Massachusetts,,
asserted that in the New England States there
were to be found children under twelve years
OF age, working in facsclies for eleven and
twelve hours day. The speaker compared
this state of affairs with the condition of the
working people in England, where by law,
manufacturers were prohibited from employ
ing women for more than eight, and children
for more than five hours day.
An authentic expose of the gigantic stone
giant has been made by the ingenious inven-
tor of the fraud, who was year and half in
idea. According to this confess
sion o gypsum quarry in Iowa was bought,
from which. the material of the statue was OBJ
tained. With much difficulty the stone was
to Chicago and there chiseled into
shape BY a sack-drnking sculptor named Saley.
Upol the completion Of the swindle, enclosed
In that famous ron-bound box, it was shipped
to Cardiff and buried on the farm of one
Newel-Broome County being noted as a
great place for relics. Newell had one
n RI iOf not In II