The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-19
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MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1871.
NEWS OF TIE DAY. /.

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Cotton closed strong. uplands 2O5 cents
sales $500 bales.
In Liverpool cotton closed firm; uplands
ssassd, Orleans SD; sales 10000 bales. =.
THE announcement is made that Manager
J.. Fisk, Jr., retires from all theatrical business
at the close of the present season.
"A marriage has been arranged between
the Princess Tbyra, Of Denmark, and Prince
Arthur, Duke of Edinburgh, second son Of
Queen Victoria.
1t is pleasant, in these torrid days, to think
that Captain Hall takes with him in his Arctic
voyage a thermometer which will register 90
degrees below zero.
. Prominent Communists have for years
predicted the demolition Of the. Yendome Cot
umn, and that they should live to see it dorc
Many of them did notliye very long after il
fell.
The Agricultural Society of Breslan, Ger
many, offers a prize Of $500 in gold for the
steam plough apparatus which will work best
at trials to be made on farms near that city
this summer.
Lord and Lady Lorne will shortly take up
their residence in Lodon in a moderate-slzeo
house, long occupied by the late Earl of Clar
endon, in Grosvenor Crescent. 1t is under
stood that. their establishment will be on q
very moderate scale.
Divorce suits-a rare thing in Richmond
Va, before the war-seem to be all the fash
lon now, the chancery court rarely having q
docket clear of them. Two new ones are now
attracting attention, and in one case those
who ask to be separated have not been joined
together six months.
Rapid progress is being made with the
works of the great tunnel under Mont Gems.
Communication from end to end has now been
open for some little time, but there are still
about: seventy metres Of the tunnel to COM
pleLs in the centre and the permanent way to
lar down. ills expected that the whole will be
finished by the end Of June.
Some English optlmists are hiding 1909
for c ,ncratuIation In the fact that the nationar
debt of England, which in april, 1858, amount
ed to ssOs, 572, 1888, was by March, 1871, re-
duced to s7ss, sO4 lisa reduction OF Ell, 1855
1928. England, without her ssnational blessing,
would hardly be recognized by her -MaJestS's
subjects; but really, If the same ratio OF feduc-
lion could be maintained fer fifty or seventy
Eve years, England might be free at last OF her
debt,
In October, 1864, FIVE different packages,
containing the mutllated remains Of a man,
were found HoatingtH New.York hsrbor.' a
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the murder Of two. comrades, contesses That
they were the party. who committed the muir.
der In New York In 1864, and then concealed
their guilt by hewlng the body to pieces and
throwing 1t into the Hutson River. The VIC
tim was one Joseph Smith, deserter from
the Twentieth Connectlcutt regiment, who
had $500 upon bis person, acquired by "boua-
ty jumping The confession appears to be
.corroborated by circumstantial evidence.
The Shakers at Hancock, near Pittsfield, In
Massachusetts, have had an unusual sensation
In the elopement of their leading business man,
Ira Lawson. with one of the fairest of the de-
mure Shakeresses. The clipping couple are
about SIS years otage, and have been brought
up in the community from childhood. Having
shaken off their allegiance to the rules OF the
community, these devoted Shakers fastened
to Albany, where they were duly married. 'Of
course Brother Ira has rendered himself liable
to be disciplined by the society, but he has
rather the best of his brethren, as he has BEEN
allowed TO keep the bank account Of the family
In his own name, and neither the law Of the
State nor the bank knows the Shakers as Q
body.
. The. association of German brewers In tho
United States has. lately issued an address.
in which the idea Is preached that lager beer
is one of the sources of the national strength
Of Germany, and points to the conquest OF
France in support OF the hypothesis. 1t has
been heretofore asserted that strong spiritu-
o1s beverages, such as absinthe, We're sap.
pihg the mental and physical stamina of the
French; and unlikely as the suggestion may
seem at the Arst blush, o contemporary con-
stders it not impossible that the conyivlal hab-
Its of the Two races may really have had on
Important bearing upon their stead'ness and
power Of endurance upon the field OF battle,
and that q portion of the madness which has
been displayed by the Paris Communists may
bestracede to the fiery st nulants which have
become the fashion In Paris.
The new. Virginia jury system which al
lows jurors to be drawn from one county to
serve In another, Is not found to be ''alto-
gether lovely" 10 Its operations. A few>weeks
ago q Richmond court sent to Alexandria for
Jurors, and besides occupying them for q num-
Der Of days with Tie trial of the case, kept
them locked up for an unusual period in an
unsuccessful attempt to force them TO agree
upon q verdict. Alexandria has retallated in
q way that provokes a wall from the City Of
Richmond. The sergeant of the corporation
court OF the former city made bis appearance
on "Wednesday, armed with a requisition for
twenty.four jurors, and, making a rald upon
the business community, returned TO Alexaa-
dria the same evening, having in charge Two
dozen of the leading business men Of RICH
mond. The act appeared to the Enquirer de-
signed to do as much harm as it could. and If
1t was PROMPTED oy asplrit OF retaliation, that
paper does hope ''our authorities will not send
to Alexandria hereafter"
The Raboinical Conference of Israelites
representing the progressive congregations of
the Jewish faith, which has been In session in
Cincinnati. has pronounced In favor of several
decided innovations upon the methods of wor.
ship that have been practiced by the Hebrews
fron, rho oorlipst acres A Was An.