The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-02-25

Gold closed in New York yesterday at ll5
Cotton was in good demand at full prices;
uplands l51lc; sales 5000 bales.
I'm Liverpool cotton closed quiet at noon quo
tations-nplands 71d; Orleans 7Id; sales 1900
bales. :. ~
"A colored caterer IN New York lives in
brown stone house, aud is said to be worth at
least 100000.
Paris once more has theatrical amusements,
and strangely enough the most popular play Just
now is called the "Siege OF Paris"
One Of the stories told OF the Parls siege IS,
that Baron Rothscnild, firing OF rat, vainly
offered 500 for pheasant. BE was forced to
take fifty sparrows instead, tfor pot-pie) at 81
each.
The Binghampton Il. " Leader announces
that Rullon the murderer, is engaged to write eX-
clusiycly for It until he Is hanged. eontempo-
rary that don't like the Leaders, politics wants TO
know If some OF the other writers on that paper
are not engaged upon the same conduions.
Some of the recent Indian outrages on the
Texas frontier are even more appalling than
those related By the early settlers. In Wise Ceun-
ty. few nights SINCE the redskins entered
house murdered and scalped two women, and
alauphtered a family Of helpless children, with
horrd barbsr.ties, In spite Of the mothers pray
ell.
Scientists are indulging in puzzled spccula-
tIons over the s'three stone heads' found imoed
ded in the miocene or middle tertiary formation
near Mount Hood, oregon, and which are declar.
ed to be older than the mountain, and 10 nave
been uncovered by mountain torrent 1900 ieet
below tie surface. They are Of extinct races
ruminanrs, with tusks-and must have been allied
to the. camel, while another Is OF much larger
species.
"A curious diversity or opinion prevails among
the English royal family upon the subject OF tue
Franco -Prussnn war. The Queen and her. eldest
daughter, the wife OF the Crown Prince OF Prus-
sic, side with the Pr9ssians, while the Prince OF
wales and the Princess Of Wales the Princess
Helena. wife OF Prince Christian, and the Duke OF
Cambridge, the Queens uncle, are equally irteno-
ly to France. No statement Is given as 10 the
views of Prince Alfred AID Prince Arthur. They,
doubtless. think it's "bl2wsted bloody piece o!
business all round, you know !"
There Is no end to the gossip furnished oy the
correspor dants upon the subject OF the Marquis
of Lorne 1t is said that owing TO the necessity
that will compel him, after his marriage, practl
cally 10 abandon his career a. pubic man, MS
father, the Duke of Argyle regards The union as
misfortune The Crown Prince OF Prussia was
much opposed TO the marriage, as he had hNeu
nnon German Prince as husband for The Prlu-
cess Louise. But as 1t Is, the Marquis OF Lorne
will be enabled one day to say, "My mo!herin-
law; the Queen, and my brother.inlaW, the Em-
.peror of Germany"
r,,o oli r0u mil Of the New YORK
Chamber Of Commerce In order to make their
good worklet " the earliest pesstble monenf IN,
.FrsSce, hak established an Amsficans sbranchs
committee at London, to whom they will teie-
graph money orders, aud who Will buy and ship
provisions with dispatch to the suffering nation.
Mr.. Moran, charge d'a1sires, at London, and
Messrs. ]. S. Morgan, Hugh McCulloch and hus-
Sell Sturgs, have consented to act in this capaci.
ty. On Monday, ths ehambel committee :paced
to the credit aethe ainsriSal .at HpdopR
ten thousand pounds, with suggestion that the
French agricultural districts be first relieved from
that fund.-. s-st 49, : =. Fs5v si;4
The Paris Droit tells q funny story about a
man who drove q fat horse and lean dog to
market one day during the siege. He met
butcher who asked him how much hewould take
for the horse, and to this query the man maize re.
pfy that he would sell the horse aud dog together
Tor 1000 francs. 'sBnlt don't awansyeurs do2;
there is hardly pound Of meat on his bones"
said the butcher But the man wool6only sell
the two beasts together, and said, ~ will sell the
dog for sa5 irancs.n "Are you macr' quoth the
butcher s.But,n continued the man, 81 will
throw in the horse forfivs francs more" Finally
the butcher, WHO was sadly an need OF peata
bought the two at the price asked, and departed.
But policeman had seen the barter, snd, thought
1t suspicious; so he arrested the man, who eS.
planned matters by saying that he was q servant
whose master had died, having commissioned
him to sell the horse for the benefit OF the heirs
while he had bequeathed to him his dog. This
was the reason OF his refusal to sell the beasts
separately. The heirs. however, have sued him.
for he gave them the S francs received for the
horse, keeping the ss5 francs for his own use.
Mabel Grey has died Of consumption, ana
London misses celebrity better kuowu than the
thousands OF vlrtuous and titled women who
passed her carriage on Rotten Row with averted
heads, and whose appearance was as attractive
ITO the multitude as that of the Princess Alexa d.
>dra herself Her portrait in the shop windows
claimed preference Of that OF the Bishop OF Ok.
ford. She had dozen Peers in her train, at one
time was engaged to marry the heir Of one Of
England,s Oldest dukedoms, and numbered the
naughty Prince OF Wales among her admirers.
For three or four years Mabel Grey has held un.
disputed sway as queen OF the dsnltnonde.
long reign for the sovereign Of that unstable
Kingdom The glory or the concert hall, the unap
proachable deiry of all The cads oil London, and
the favorIte arltctatlon OF the golden yon'h How
well she played her part Is shown BY the fact that
only ahberai annuity sufaced to luy her OF from
the pursuit OF q asoung aud roullsh Robleman OF
high rank. who'hsd p, omIsed to marry her. The
good mothers OF London will feel easier now that