The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-03
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SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1871.
NEWS OF THE.D1Y.

At New Yorh, yesterday, COTTON CLOSED
steady; uplahds LIZ; sales $3.50 bales.
The Liverpool cotton market closed active
uplands 7sasd; sales 10000 bales.
in accordance with the will of the lat
King Louis of Bavaria, the building known a
Walhal]a, near !RatisDonne, has become tn
property of the German Empire. 1t cost 500,
900 forms.
. Lizzie Wilson, convicted OF .lnfanticide il
Kentucky, was given her choice by the Gov
.ernor between hanging and imprisonment To-
life. Sd hose the latter. She is represen
ted as being weak in her wits.
An interesting discovery has recently beer
made at st. Mary's Isle, the seat of the Earl o
Selkirk, in the shape of the original marriage
contract of the Bride of Lammermoor, which
must have been unknown to Sir Walter Scot
when he wrote his famou novel of that name
The Cincinnati Germans refuse to ODE!
the recent order of the Mayor of that city clos
ing up their beer gardens on Sunday, ant
have announced their intention, should hi
persist, of voting against his party, a threat
which they say will have the effect of making
him yield.
The announcement is made that the total
receipts Of the central committee at Berlin,
for the relief of the German wounded, amount
ed to the magnificent sum of s2,954,926 on
May 18th, of which. very nearly one-fourth, OF
about s73O,0Or, had been contributed by Ameri'
cans.
Many Americans in Paris, especially those
who wentto Paris as students and remained
In the city despite the troubles, have under:
gone great hardships. Money is very scarce
for these, and when they could not borrow,
they, have been compelled to pawn or sell their
clothing or what valuables they might have
possessed, to live.
-one of the New York Tribune reporters
allowed himself to be arrested'an confined for
several days (including Sunday, IN order that
he might report the condition and manage
ment of the Ludlow street jail. His expert
.epce satisfied him-made him sick, in fact.
Filthy quarters and disgusting food were his
portion.
The men composing the body Of the late
Paris Commune, with the exception of such
well known characters as Assy, Bergeret, Gu
seret, Pyat, Grousset and some others, were
nearly all rough and untutored workmen, who
were led by the men OF superior education.
They ranged between the ages'of twenty-five
and dfty-one, and had in general a very rough
exterior, and among them were SOME bad.
faces. They were originally eighty in num-
Der, and held their meetings in secret. 1t
was always. in executive session, and only
such portions ofits deliberations were printed
as it desired.
The great .'pigeon.roost" in Wisconsin
presents some features OF interest. apart from
the fact of the immense numbers OF these
birds that are being slaughtered by hunters
and shipped to the large cities. The present
%isroost," which is tor inGubatlng purposes,
extends over a tract Of country eight or ten
miles wide and about forty or farty-dVe miles
in length. The pigeons have taken possession
of the woods, and tAaIr nests are on every
tree. They number Quite as many as the
leaves in Yallambrosa. A popularity Of the
method of rearing the young of these pigeons
Is that when the former are two weeks old
the mother birds fiji their crops with food and
desert them. THIS queer domestic process Is
now going on In the Wisconsin woods, where
these millions Of pigeons are c~ongregated.
"A Washington letter of Wednesday says:
The resident, committees OF both political
parties have secured rooms at the capitol and
are arranging the preliminary details Tor the
distribution OF political documents and the
performance of other political work preceding
the fall elections. These central organizations
have extensive ramidcations into nearly every
township In the United States through State.
county and local committees, and are thus
posted as to the condition of party sentiment
and political requirements Of every section.
The Democrats intend to devote a good deal
Of their time to the questions OF taxation, es-
pecially the tariff, and are distributing some
carefully prepared speeches; showing that the
last tariff act, passed by.a Republican House,
was so manipulated In the line of special In.
terests as to actually increase the revenue
from customs instead of diminishing it twenty
millions, as was claimed at the time of its pas
sage.
Information has reached the Treasury de-
partment OF singular will just made in New
York. Aggentlemsn named Derby of that city
owns property to the amount of eleven million
dollars, much of it in England, apd in his viii
he as,deyised the whole estate conditlonally
to the United States. The conditions of the
legacy are. that Congress shall pass an act
guaranteeing perpetual interest on the
amount at three per cent. This interest is to
be paid quarterly to the heirs OF Mr. Derby.
His Immediate heirs at present are five
nephews and nieces and one grand-niece.
The substance of this curious proposition is, 10
short, that Mr.. Derby agrees to give at his
death eleven millions to the government. in
return for which the latter shall engage to
distribute among the heirs OF the testator the
sum Of three hundred and shirty thousand
dollars yearly forever, OF practically so. long
as any record of the family can be kept.
The lovers OF opera. viii hear With pain,
though hardly with wonder, that the superb
voice of Mario OF old is now, it seems, a thing
OF the past, TO be heard no more. Not that
this once great artist is dead, but age has at
last told upon him also, and the hero of. the
'.Barbiere, !" "LagazzI Ladra," la Traviata,"
and s'Trovatore," has in all probability said
farewell to these and similar roles forever. At
his recent appearance in London in the char
acter OF Count .Almaviva, mis- voice Is said to
have failed him entirely, and a journal of that |
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