The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-07
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TUESDAY, MARCH :, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DIE.

NEWS OF THE DdE.
Gold at New York closed at lO5all.
The New YORK cotton market closed irregular
and heavy; sales $500 bales at 142lc.
I'm Liverpool, cotton closed dull and tendlng
down; uplands, barely 7Ad.; Orleans 7Hd.; saes
$4,000 bales.
The sum of s1ls1au has been subscribed in
New York for the relief Of the French sufferers.
San Jose, California, contributed $500 In gold
coin TO the cause Of the suffering French
Neil Warner, OF the Bad C1ld, is going to Aus
3tralis for Shakspearian season. 1t Isn't so
wheezy to be tragedian out there as some think.
Minister washburne, and al'o the London
French relief committee state that-nore money
"a wanted for the French sufferers Immediately.
VT Is ins stsnced' as an almsst unparalleled MILL
tarv achievement that General Won Wrangers
division OF German troops marched fourteenmlles
a day for nine successive days.
-There are some fears OF water famine IN
London. The daily supply OF that city Is ss'ooo'-
600 gallons Various plans for greater supply
are now before the Parliamentary Commission.
The mediation Of European neutrals has been
accepted in the matter OF the Spanish-Egyptlan
difficulty, and peaceable solution OF the ques-
ton between these doughty nations Is looked Tor.
The wife OF Marshal McMahon is unceaslpg IN
her efforts to soothe the suferings OF the thirty
two thousand Frenchmen held prisoners IN May
ence. She is very popular among the prisoners,
who call her their good angel.
The prodigal heirs OF NJ. Gromofr, rich lum-
be- merchant of ST. Petersburg, who died about
two years ago, have already. 1t Is said, run
through the fortune &C 10000 900 roubles which
that timber Cresus left to them.
Mrs. Myra Clarke Gaines has sued New Or
leans for $3.50 900, the same being for thirty 1--WE
years. rent OF q draining machine on public
mark, which has been adjulged by the courts TO
be her property.
"A Prince Bonaparte Is held prisoner In Lot
zen, in East Prussia He refused TO give his pa
role, and so he Is held in close confinement, al
though he has elegant rooms Every day he Is
out staying, accompanied by detachment OF
German cavalry.
Colonel von Schmidt, the California engineer,
has undertaken to drill a tunnel five miles long
through the Sierra Nevada, to bring the water OF
Lake Bigler to San Francisco. He win commence
next summer, and expects to finish his work In
four hundred andff.y days.
The sptnsters Of Illinois have formed socle'
ty to pro, iblt "klssinc before marriage" This is
virtual abolition Of osculation altogether. for
II contemporaneous- chronicles be true there is
very little kissing after marriage in that State
t1east as Tar as husbands are concerned.
Commodore Vanderbilt is said 10 be arrang.F
ing for the extension Of tGe Iron Mountain Rail.
road, in Missouri, from Pilot Knob to the southern
boundary OF the State, thence through Arkansas
to Texas in the interest Of the New York Central
RailfaRds. Il gig %f% >zsi-i, :
-Of one hundred men who are born, nfty die
before the tenth year, twenty between the tenth
and twentieth, ten between the twentieth and
thirtieth six between .he th,rtieth and fcrtieth,
i've between the fortieth and sixtieth; therefore
six only live to above the age Ct sixty.
-Acurious piece oficoneclasm is reported from
Japan. Ahronze Buddhist Japanese IDOL forty
feet high, and more than six hundred years old,
has been ordered to be destroyed by the Govern
meat Of Japan. because the Buddhist element OF
Japan is not In favor OF the government.
The manufacture OF cheap plated, rubber and
morn jewelry has grown to be a very large, pros
porous and increasing business, and in Boston
alone there are five or six wholesale dealers who
represent capital between $4,000 and $500
600. Large orders are being constantly flled for
shipment to California, and the Eastern provincial
trade has been steady and satisfactory, while the
West are not slow in providing themselves with
these goods OF New England Manufacture.
The new German Empire, with Alsace and.
Lorraine Will contaip4o, las, ,2os inhabitants and
Francs without those provinces, will have S6, 6,42s,
543 inhabitants United Germany will be the
second nation in Europe In point OF population,
Russia alone eleadIng It'd The larger part OF Rus.
sia,howeves is inhabited By haleciVllized people,
and it may bc fairly stated that Germany, numeri'
cally speaking Is 81 the head of civilized nations.
The census OF 1880 will advancs the United States
to that position. 60
--Atthe completion OF the Mount Gents tunnel,
the last thin partition OF rock In the middle OF tbs
tunneFwas reserved 10 be blasted at the formal
celebration. But q small hole was made In 1t, and
the workmeu on both sides, who hau Tor thirteen
years and forty days been tolling their way
toward zach other, now, Tor the hrst time, saw
each others faces thr"ugtit, shock hands, and,
30 far as for the same nationality, couversed To-
pether whetr she mine was nred the lights went
out for distance OF about one thousand ards
arourd the spot. The frss climb over the frag-;
raen,s Of rock was the Italian commando t, Grat-
toni. There vas general scramble from both
sides. and cries Of '.rtua lItalta ~
-One Of the mos. impor; aat inventions brought
in. O userbJ the Prussian war Is the Erbs-wursr
or pea sausage, which has more than realizcdlhe
expectations formed In regard 10 IT, snd~is the
best liked OF AL the articles constituting The Ger
man soldiers rations. 1t coetalns great amount
Of nourshmsnt i1 very small voume, and Is
capable or being Increased in bulk by REM wing
the akiu and boiling IL; eris may be eaten raw.
as many Germans prefer to'eat all their sausages.
1t Is said to be made rom thirteen different kinds
OF meats and vegetables, the principal ingredients
being dried peas, bacon and tal!ow, and thai after
being kept for six or seven years Ii will be fonrd