The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-07-20
NEWS OF THE DAP.

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NEWS OF THE DAE
Gold closed in New York, yesterday. at
l2sa12e.
.s-Cotton closed more active; uplands 20Ec.;
Orleans 2l4c.; sales 1889 bales.
I'm Liverpool cotton closed steady; urianGs
SD; Orleans std; sales $4,000 bales.
-Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has been nominated
for Governor of Massachusetts.
The editor Of the London Spectator de-
clares that no toll fatigues like reading manu-
script.
The overheated reader may be refreshed
by the information that there is still snow on
the ground in portions Of New Hampshire.
1t is stated that New York has not, during
the past twenty years, ever been in so peace
able and orderly condition as 1t has been since
the riot.
The population oi UTtas Utai has been nearly
doubled since the first of January last, in com o
sequence Of the discovery and development,
in districts adjacent to Salt Lake, OF num-
ber of vastly rich silver quartz veins.
Virginia papers say that the powder tanks
found by the wreckers in the Confederate
iron-clad Richmond, now lying in thirty or
forty feet of water, are in good condition,
and the powder as dry and ready for use as
before its submerson six years ago.
The premium of 5000 per scalp offered in
Sonora for the killing Of Apache Indians has
created quite new trade in that frontier
State, because 1t pays the ranchero better TO
hunt these enemies than to raise cattle, winch
are always liable to be carried off,.
Three heavy golden vases were lately
Sotnd at Pompeii, in the middle Of q street,
only few feet under the ground. 1t is be-
lIeved that they were carried by priests In
procession to propitiate the gods, am. that the
bearers were killed while moving through the
streets. So - -.' fi'-.'l
THE collection Of skulls from the battle
fields OF the Franco Prussian war is mentioned
bya German writer as an opportune means Of
adding to our knowledge Of ethnology. He
urges particularly the Importance Of obtaining
a good series of skulls of Turcos and other
African tribes represented in the French
army. -
"A large number of the shopkeepers OF
Metz have sold out their establishments, and
have emigrated to France. The first act Of the
Prussian purchasers Of the concerns is to clap
upon the shops the familiar inscription, "1ct
on parle FTancats,n . by which means they hope
to entrap purchasers, knowing as they do that
no Frenchman CT the town will knowingly en-
rurrorcnc ncpv-uJ q oer rrfurr
"A few days .Eo Napoleon s,:ro III dropped In
at bis old club, the Army and Navy, the smok-
Ing and billiard rooms he knew SO we'll in 1s4s,
and had a chop in the coffee room like an or
dlnary member. He then went to the Inter
national Exhibition, and when the inventor OF
new. type setting machine printed caro- Tor
him-.'The Emperor of the French"-he
thanked him With a laugh, adding, "You forget
the Ex.n ii, .t.ts.t,.. ~
a member of the Arkansas Legislature
in speaking Of an extravagant appropriation,
Indignantly exclaimed: "Gentlemen, talk
about. adequate compensation of public ser
wants. Why, sir, during the.late war | was
In, thirty-seven battles, was wounded thirteen
times in the cause of the South, and the entire
nav received was $50 In Confederate money,
every cent of which gave for one glass Of old
rye whiskey." -
Many of the French farmers, for lack OF
native labor, are employing German soldiers.
They are paid, as are the other hands, francs
and francs so centimes day. This fact en-
ables q French journal to remark, with some
thing like satiric complacency, that these
laborers, who at home earn only so or 60 CEN
times, are so astonished that they never cease
repeating: HOh, France beautiful country,
rich country everybody happy ! not like over
yonder ~ meaning, of course, their Father
land.
"A London correspondent of the Paris Sic
Gle writes that Louis Napoleon neglects no
means Of making himself popular in England.
His likeness is found in the glass cases OF all
photographers, and he voluntarily gives to Wis
itors his photograph adorned with his illegible
signature. He has just had himself enrolled
as member of the "Corinthian Club" OF
London, and his son has joined the volunteers
of Kent. Not long ago he assisted at meet
ing Of workmen belonging to the Conserve
tive party, and one of the orators consoled
him by predicting his return to the throne.
The hartford lawyers are puzzled over
singular legal case which has just arisen there.
A.mau who died lately, leaving handsome
property and childless widow, but with
prospect for the future, LEFT also will, duly
executed, in which 1t was provided, that it the
expected child should prove to be boy, two
thirds of the property should go to him aud
one.third to the widowed mother. If, how
ever, the child proved to be girl, only one-
third of Tie estate was to 60 to her, and the
two.thirds to the mother. But the widow has
become the mother Of twins, and, what great
" helghtens the perplexity of the case, the
twins are boy and a girl, and the lawyers
are in a quandary to know what they shall do
aboutit.
The vindictive feeling which exists in the
hearts of the irrelgious Romans and of the
Communists of Rome against the Pope and the
= Catholl, faith, is commented upon In the
recent letter of a correspondent writing from
that city. Young Italy, it is said, full of
wrath and hot blood, has replied to the provo
cations offered by the lower members of the
church party in the following strain: "If we