The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-03
NEWS OF THE Day.

NEWS OF TIE DAY.
in New York Yesterday, gold closed at l43.
Cotton closed heavy; middlings 22s cents.
Sales 23oO bales.
In Liverpool cotton closed at lOialO4d for
upland, and lid for Orleans. Sales 10000
bales.
Pope Plus IGentered on his 10Th year, May
14th.
Queen Victoria already has seventeen
grandchildren.
Russia is to construct national railway
to sebastopol.
The Alabama Legislature has passed law
imposing tux OF $40 upon every Georgia
lawyer practicing in the courts OF Aiaoama.
The Georgia lawyers threaten resistance.
-Thirty-one thousand bales of cotton are re-
ported from Bombay to have been shipped to
ENGLAND by the Suez Canal within the past
few days. a2'
Queen vlctoria's birthday was celebrated
on Saturday throughout England and the pre-
vinces. She was born in 1919, and has COM
8 ppleted her lity-hrst year.
Russia, which has hitherto been in the
habit of buying her artillery abroad, particu-
Iarly OF the German works Of Krupp, at Essen,
is now in possession Of factory for war platc-
rial at Perm, in no way inferior to those Of
other nations.
The President has received the official re-
port of the Examining Board at West Point in
relation to his eldest son, which is quite favor
able to the Young Ulysses, no doubt on ac-
count of visions of preferment to the exam:-
ners.
The miniature steamer City of Ragusa
was to leave her wharf in Liverpool on We'd
nesday afternoon for New York. She is only
twenty-one feet long, but is proyisioned for
three months. The captain expects to make
the passage inside Of fifty days. The crew
consists of one man besides the captain, and
the inevitable Newfoundland dog goes as
passenger. While New York is the nominal
destination, the captain will make any conyc-
nient port inthe United States. Quite crowd
of people had collected at the wharf to Wit
ness the departure Of the tiny vessel.
Last week passenger train on the West
Wisconsin Railroad met with q startling adren-
ture near the Town of Tomah. fire in the
woods had communicated to pile of about
i've hundred oak ties, seasoned two years,
which laid alongside the track. curve in
the road concealed the danger from the engi-
neer tlLhe was nearly at the fire. He imme-
: diately. walsllcd ''down brakes" but seeing
that this would stop him in the fire, he
whistled ''off brakes" "and putting on all steam
possible, determined to run the gauntlet. The
:, rails had been so badly warped, and the ties
Consumed, that the engine was soon thrown
from the track, humping along on the ties I'LL
it was finally brought to halt, with the en-
gine and tender just through the fire, aad 3
ladies car at the other end of the train also
free. The engine and tender were immediate
ly uncoupled and run to place of safety, and
the passenger car also disengaged and remov-
ed, although not before 1t was badly scorched
and the glass broken from the windows The
rest of the train consisting Of one baggage car,
one second-class, and two freight cars, were
entirely consumed.
"A cable dispatch asserts that the discus
sion upon the infallibility dogma Is now being
carried on with considerable warmth, and the
argument, itis thought, will not be terminated
before the latter part of July. The following
purports to be o sketch of the debate on Mon
day: 'The opposition first obtained the floor,
and the bishops of st. Brience and ST. Gall
spoke against .infallibility. Bishop Celelc, of
R0ethenburg, made an energetic appeal, de-
claring that three successive Gcumenical
Councils had mathematical Pops Honorius,
/. denouncing him as hereto. Prince Cardinal
!. .Schwartzenburg referred in language of con-
y tempt to the excuses of partisans of the dog
ma in their endeavors to explain away the
/. truth and justice of the arguments against
:. Pope Honorils's affirmation that infallibility
was most inopportune, because such argu-
ments were false and ill-founded. He quoted
from tho works of eminent theologans, ad-
duciug authority 10 prove that Popes could be
deposed for heresy. Cardinal Won Rauscher,
though deputy, entered strong protest in
behalf Of society and the interests Of the civil
government against any proceedings prejud:-
cial to the cause Of freedom of thought and
action. The tenor of the document was blend
ed With expressions OF devotion to the Holy
See."
The New York papers mention remarka-
BILE case of kleptomania, the kleptomsniac be-
ing lady who devotes her leisure and ability
to stealing parasols. 1t appears that the wo-
man In question has been married for some
four or FIVE years, but her husband til: the
nresent time has never had the least suspicion
of her singular iailings. Mrs. Smith-to caii
her, for convenience sake, by wholly I'M
personal name-had in her large and elegant
horse lille boudoir which she always KEPT