The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-15
NEWS OF THE DAP.

NEWS OF THE DAK
Gold closed in New York, yesterday al
12s. 4e.i.,
Cotton was In better demand, with lower
prices; upIands 1876; sales 1886 bales.
in Liverpool cotton; closed dull; upland
SD, Orleans 3d.; sales 10000 bales.
The census Of Germany is to be taken OF
December 1st. fs
The navy expenses of last year were jus
million dollars less than the appropriation.
The arrival of the cotton worm Is chroni
.cled in Louisiana.
The sale Of newspapers has been begun il
the streets Of Berlin.
-Tsglioni, the once famous danseuse, die'
at.her villa on Lake Como, recently, aged lO2
The fare on San Francisco street cars ha
been reduced from six and quarter to tou
The tide of European passenger travel ma
turned for the season. Americans are begin
ming to come back to America.
The statement is now made In 1ndi' II
that Vice President Colfax, after his term ex
pires, is to be reelected to the House OF Rep
resentatives from his old district.
The Empress Eugenie is about to make
visit to Spain to see her mother. Napoleon il
purchasing property near Geneva, in swit5er
land, with view of residing there.
An express train between Plymouth ant
London makes the distance, 1874 miles, in fouI
and q quarter hours, including fifteen minutes
steppage. This is probably the fastest travel
ling in the world. .2cia
"A California genius has invented what he
calls the Eureka boot-puller, which consists Of
aleather belt, having two hooks attached to
It. He places the belt over his right shoulder,
adjusts the hooks In his bootstraps, and then
leans backwards, and the tightest boot is con-
qlered,
The old traditions about the Ger of Jug
ernaut are apparently about to be extin-
guished. An eye witness Of the ceremonial
says that the. old stories are grossly exagger-
ated, that no victims are crushed, and that
there is no more orgy than may be witnessed
at an English country fair.
ANEW device for aiding the postofHce re-
venue has been propounded in England. 1t Is
proposed that tae stamping instruments should
be arranged to give brief advertisement
around the margin, and that advertisers could
then engage to have all the letters going to
certain points they might desire to reach
stamped with their advertisement.
--ConHantinople Is to be connected with the
opposite Aslatic coast BY a railroad tunnel,
consisting of sheet iron double tubes, under
the water Of the Bosphorus. The tunnel is to
be about twelve hundred feet long, ten feet in
diameter in the clear, and to be thlrty.six feet
below the level Of the water, In order'not to
obstruct navigation. !. 81. go
Life Insurance Polices are put up at auc-
tion and sold to the highest bidder In England,
the buyer, sometimes making, sometimes
losing by the operation. Recently a policy of
sseoO on the lie Of Liverpool merchant in
his 10th year WAS disposed Of for ESQ. The
merchant died two days aflerwagd, and the
purchaser realized in orty-elght hours $4,000
outpf$7s0., -; 7ss
"A writer in the Food Journal says that out
of twenty samples Of bakers bread analyzed
and examined by him, only three were posi-
lively genuine, while sixteen were contami-
mated with an actual poison The quantity, he
saya, ia not so great as to show immediate
effects, but thousands are unconsciously con-
sumingta half grain Of fsnlphate ofcopper every
day, habit that cannot be long practlced
with impunity. As he suggests, however, the
fauismay not rest enEfsly with tho bakers,
aimee there are,inferior brands of flour in the
market warranted to make white bread with
out the use ofalum.
Another new book has been published In
England which is destined to make a ''sensa-
tion.B ills entitled "The Coming Race" and
has Just been republished here. 1t describes a
totally. new community, discovered by an
American, beneath the surface G the earth.
We shall gsye:some account Of it another day
In the hemeantlme we may mention that loud
dispute Is going on in England with regard to
the apthorshtpo the mysterious book. 1t was al
frst attribnfed to Mr.. Laurence Oliphant, OF
the, Broeton community but that gentleman
writes the following note to the Athensum:
.:Ihaye beeninformed thai the authorship of
avery remarkable work which has lately ap-
peared, entitled "fhe Coming Race" has been
Rttt10uted IN your Columns 10 myself feF'
init me to say that, while ] recognize the great
literary merit of the work, am not its author
or In any way responsible for, or In sympathy
with, the very peculiar Views which II con
tains. LAURENCE OL1PHANT.
The New York Times is inclined to trace ths
authorship to. Mr. Arthur Helps, author O.
.sRealmah,"a book which has many features
IN common with ..The Coming Race
The latestdevelopment In the case of Mrs
wharton is contained In the following from
the Baltimore American: "There has been 6
rnmot floating about the streets for the las
three daya to the effect that Professor Aikel
has completed the analysis Of the stomach O
Major Henry Wharton, drought from Morris
town some weeks since,) and that no polsoI
has been found. Professor Aiken and tn
members of the medical faculty, who are sup
posed to know the result of the analysis, de
cline. to give any Information, and the civil au
thorities profess to have no Information OF
the subject. Without having. any direct au
thority forthe assertion, we think that it ma!
be safely stated that the chemical investigation
was concluded on Wednesday last, andtha
the results obtained were only negative-tha