The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-19
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1871.

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5- NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed in New York, yesterday, at
Cotton closed quiet; uplands at lsl cents;
sales 36l7 bales.
IN Liverpool cotton closed strong; uplands
sEasd., Orleans ssa93d: sales Is, 600 bales.
Recent statistics show that $4,000 deaths
occur annually in England from consumption,
and the number OF patients constantly suffer-
ing from its wasting effects is estimated at
$4,000. ass-
The Alsatians and Lorrainers are said to
beleaylng their homes in such numbers, to
avoid living under German rule, that before
r year is out the population Of Nancy will be as
large as that Of strasbourg. 81
"A Louisville dispatch says daughter Of
Thomas Burnett Ewing, aged ten, was outrag-
ed BY a: negro. and then thrown into q pond
: near Fulton Station on the Paducah and Grand
.Gulf .Railroad. The negro was about being
lynched at last accounts -. =
La Messenger Franco-American, OF New
: York, publishes q: protest bearing 256 signa-
lures of Alsatians and Lorrainers, resident In
New York, :sgainst' the separation OF their
country from France. A number Of the names
:. are nnn,s,akably- German.
The Vienna lady orchestra, under the
: management of Mr.. Fred. Rullman, will ap-
pear for the first time in America, at steinway
Hall, New York, September II. The orchestra
will consist OF. twenty.six young ladies, under
the leadership Of Nile. Josephine Weinlich.
Prince Gortschasoff has published report
/. of.what passed between him and the Evangeli-
cal depuia,lon at Frederickshafen in July
After hearing the delegates, he replied that
their nilsson. had the appearance OF interfer-
ence in the domestic affairs Of Russia. and
that Russia could not tolerate the shadow OF
Intervention from whatever side 1t came: The
missionaries expressed their respectful regret
and Withdrew.
The druggists war in New York contin :
ues, and few OF the pharmaceutists stub
bornly refuse 10 go through the examination
prescribed BY law. The community aud the
newspapers were forced by repeated drug
murders to demand legislation to prevent the
!. recurrence of fatal mistakes, and now that
theyhsve the law, all should stand BY IT. The
board of examiners average about twenty-five
druggists passed per dey, and this will soon
IT, tive 20 rnfOorIfV
These might be brought to terms If the regu-
larly licensed druggists under the law were
required to display signs stating the fact, as
no one would patronize shops where they
claim the. privilege of employing ignorant
clerks. =. .,..
The. Leavenworth Daily Times, Republi-
:. can, contains aletter from Mr. Cassius N.
Clay, OF kentucky, to General William Lari-
mer, of Kansas, In which the eminent fitness
OF Mr.. Greeley forthe Presidency is strongly
urged. fthe latter is nominated by the Re-
.publicans, Mr.. Clay says, he will be trium-
phantly elected, the North will secure her
highest interests, aud the South will be coz
iient-we shall "have peace" To this The
wLig responds with the hope that
Mr. Greeley may be the, candidate Of the Re
publican party. That would insure us,' what
ever the result OF the election, vast improve
ment on the present. Mr.. Greeley ia honest,
and not ,mercenary, and he would give no
countenance to thieves and yi.laihs, carpet
baggers or others, who are now plundering
The land.
"A correspondent Of the Providence Jour-
nal attempts 10. show the origin of The cant
q phrase s'put a head on him." In 1863, he says,
he was corporal OF the first relief on a certain
cavalry picket, and In posting his men, heard
from the corporal Of the relief, then on post,
queer story, to the feet that the sentinel
on one of the posts, which happened to be
near an old grave, had been horribly perturb.
ed by the appearance before him, in tine dead
hour OF nighr, of man on horseback without
head. To Jones, the man whom the Jour-
na.'s corporal correspondent was to station at
this posi-, The tale was duly told, and then,
adds the correspondent: ''Look cut for the
man on horseback without any head on r
Jones was just firing up his "brlar wood" for
company, and replied between whiff$: '.Well,
(puff,) If man (pu6, puffy on horseback,
{puff,) Without any head on, (puf,) comes
round me, (puff, puff, puf,) I'll put head on
him n
"A London, Ohio, telegram, OF the 18th in
slant, says: To-day the Bufenburg poison
case assumed serious aspect. Having can
yassed the other relatives for funds to enable
:. him to secu-: ;he counsel for the prosecution
their fees, DR.. Saul Vandeventer, of Brown
County, Iiinois, the nephew OF '0ld Buf,
swore to an affidavit before Justice G. P.
Crabb here this morning, and the latter at
once Issued an order for Mrs. Colburn's ar
rest. DR.. Saul vandeventer, in the affidavit,