The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-12
NEWS OF TIE DAK.

NEWS OF TUE DAK
Gold closed in New York yesterday at Ia
a12s.
Cotton closed more active at decline OF
one-quarter of cent; uplands ls cents; sales
1862 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed dull; nplands
si@szd, Orleans 9@std; sales 5000 bales.
Paris Is threatened with lack Of Cologne
water in addition to her other misfortunes
There is no supply Of odorous herbs wherewitf
to make 1t.
The French Government, accepting the
situation in full, will shortly appoint consuls IL
the principal towns of Alsace and German Lor
Faine.
John Stuart Mill has been astonishing his
Scottish friends by the versatility OF his accom-
pllshments. While visiting Edingburgh this
season he passed much Of his time in sketch
ing, which he does, 1t is said, to perfection.
Mr.. MID, besides, is a fne pianist, an able
Phlologist, arch@logist and boHnist. -
"A letter has been received from Persia de
scribing the effects Of the famine in that coun
try. The letter, among other things, says
s.Onr mothers and fathers are eating their chill
dren. Our husbands are doing the same with
their wives. Grown up children are killing
their younger brott:ers and sisters, and, IN
some instances, their fathers and mothers, fol
food. Food, food, is all the cry"
"A poor woman in Belleville, Paris, whose
SON is a prisoner among the insurgents In
Versailles, wrote to the ex-Empress thinking
she:was still on the throne) to beg her to
grant a pardon to the prisoner. The En-
press replied: "Peace to the dead; they were
not the guiltlest, and God has already judged
them. Ideeply regret, madam, to be OF no
use to your son. The right of pardon no longer
belongs I'd. me Ofall my past prerogatives It
is the only one regret I can promise you
only to pray for your son; this 1 will not fall
to do"
Late mail advices from England give a
couple of interesting items regarding the
Tichborne case. The London Globe under
stands that some important intelligence has
been received from Australia, which Is ikelJ
to reveal the whereabouts of the second prin-
cipal hero in this romance in real life. 1t is
also rumored In London that some survivors
of the crew OF the Bella have been discovered.
Thia is the vessel; it will be remembered,
which the present claimant AYERS rescued him
when he was lost at sea. II any Of the crew
can be found, and they should recognize the
claimant, he will have gained his cause.
Among the seasonable items which come
around every year, We may mention the wo-
man with the slake In her throat, the sea ser
-,sn, at the various summer resorts, the reVo-
lutionary hero who votes for every President
from Washington down and saws cord ofwood
before breakfast; the country milliner who>nas
$4,000, 900 LEFT her by deceased uncle; the ola
lady lis years old who knits socks In four lan-
guages; the tigers that eat up the Bactrian
camel, ard the lions that lunch of the circus
band; the minstrel troupe scalped by Indians,
and The potato bug that fatally bites the Iowa
farmer. DR.. Liyingstone's arrival at oJgl
comes around about twice moath.
"A New York wholesale. grocer, who haa
become rich in his business, has lately made
the following revelation: He says his rule al
ways was when he sod bill OF goods on
credit to Immediately subscribe for the local
paper Of his debtor. So long as his customers
advertised literally and vigorously he rested,
but as soon as he began to contract his adVer-
tising space he took the fact as evidence tnat
there was trouble ahead, and he invariably
went for his debt. "For," said he, .'the man
who feels too poor to make his business
known is too poor to do business This with.
drawal of an advertisement Is an evidence OF
weakness that business men are not slow to
observe.
we learn from many trustworthy sources
chiefly through private, and therefore un-
sensational, letters from Paris that the dam
age done to the French capital is not 30 great
as reported, or Is, at least. much exaggerated.
"Paris, y says an intelligent observer on the
SPOT, ..is as beautiful as IN its very best days.
When We hear of the Tuilerles and grand old
buildings having been demolished, one ought
to remember that this capital OF wondrons re-
sources has been adding and adding to Its
architectural treasures every hour tor the last
twenty years. One great structure destroyed,
no longer intercepts the view to finer one be-
yoad.n, This will be pleasant news to those
s.good Americans" who hope to see the splsn-
dide Paris before. they die.
The immense foreign population Of New
York gives brisk. business to those who cater
to Sunday pleasure. New York Is fast ap-
proaching tie example set by Paris, making
Sunday. the great holiday Of the season. All
+bo,oad,no centres of attraGtion find Sunday
the great day OF the week. The lager beer
gardens on the Est and North Rivers, clear
to Harlem, are crowded by a jovial crew.
Dancing ard revelry make Jones's Wood
buoyant. Every line Of city railroad in New
York and Brooklyn run excursion cars, which
are crowded from morning TO night. Coney
Island is black with jewellers. Steamers
crowded to the waters edge carry hundreds
down TO the banks for fishing. Fisk's great
steamer Plymouth Rock goes up the North
River every Sunday with hundreds on bo.rd
A feet of steamers, crowded with living
freight, ply in every direction on Sunday.
Correspondence from shanghae gives tLe
particulars of peculiarly horrible punishment
inflicted upon the murderer of the ViceroJ
Ma. He was executed at Nankin by being
.'cut into 10000 pieces,n that is to say, cut to
pieces until he died.. He bore the punishment
AZ stoically as he had supported the horrible
tortures to which he had been subjected In the
course of the judicial Investigation. What
little confession he made was extracted from
him by keeping him kneelll : on hot chains
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