The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-07-06
NEWS OF TEE D.AE:


sent to the business Office Of the paper.
NEWS OF, TEE DAT.
Gold closed in New York, yesterday, a
l3lal3a. a t
Cotton closed quiet at 2Os cents for up
lands; sales 1915 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed active ant
frmer; uplands ssdasd, Orleans std; sale
10000 bales.
-"The dearest spot on earth,' it is said, II
the store where they don't advertise.
J-Bonnets for next fall and winter are Z
have q Wide box plated curtain or cape
the back, which win completely hide the bach
hair. z,..
The total assessment Of real property II
New York City for the year 1870, was s742,
.2O3,625; for 1871, s769, ,302 25o; increase, s29,
oss, ,725-equal to about four per cent.
Three hundred Mormons, just from Eu
rome. left New York for Salt Lake, on Friday
night, in charge of Brigham Young's sons, anc
four hundred more are at quarantine ut thai
city.
Tom Hughes thinks that the United States
Is In the unique. position Of q "nation heapne
.up.weaith very fast, without having been edu
Gated into the ,time,honored way OF spending
any amount scientifically"
As the. time approaches for the execution
of Mrs. Fair, she becomes more anxious as 70
her.fate. California never has witnessed the
execution OF a;woman, but 1t really seems as
If she soon Will.
AT Richmond, Va, on Saturday eVealng
last, the rare sight Of FIVE might Blooming
Cereusp unfolding their wonderful beauty, was
announced at one of the florists gardens.
six steamers for Europe left New York
Saturday, the most Of them with as many pas
sengers as they could find room for. The
fleet; with but one exception, was under for
elgn flags. si'' 80
The lively lawyers of New Orleans had
.dayof high jinks on the 4th. They marched
In procession with ha6eas corpus, rnanddnlass
and injunction seated In chairs Of state. Fee
bills were borne as banners.
The only permanent mark that remains in
st. Peters, at Rome, to mark the jubilee Of
Plus Ninth, Is the Pope's portrait, set In me-
dalllon form, placed Just over the bronze STA
tue of St. Peter. This hoIor to Pope Plus Is
unique. ..-ass ~ ~
"A Louisiana Parish Court has decided the
marriage of;a white man to a colored woman
to be valid under the civirrights bill, and that
children born before the celebration of such
marriage are elegitimated by the marriage
"A meeting OF the Lee Memorial Assocta-
tion washeld on Friday evening at the Ex-
change Hotel, Richmond, Va, at which Gene
raj JubalA A.. Early, Bradley T. Johnson, Colo
mel T. M. R. Talcott, Captain Robert H. Minor,
Lieutenant N. b. Yansant and r. 81: Maury.
ESQ. were present. Lieutenant Vansant was
elected secretary Of the association, and Col
onel Robert E. Wlthers general agent 10 or
ganize regular system OF agencies through
out the Southern States.
The arrival Of King Victor Emanuel at
Rome on Monday virtually completed the
royal act Of making Rome the capital OF Italy.
The various branches of the government and
the diplomatic corps, with few exceptions,
had.already removed thither in anticipation OF
the event, and now the ancient city becomes
once more one the great secular seats OF
empire. AS q temporal sovereign, the reign
of Pho Mono practically came to an end with
the departure of the protecting French army
and,the entree of the Italian army Of occupa-
ton last summer, His temporal authority is
now finally and practically limited to the Vail
can and the Leonihe City.
-.1tl 4 fbof months
ago two ships, the Uncowah and Olivier,
which had been loaded with kidnapped coolies
at the Portuguese barracoons In Macao, China,
bound for Callao, were fired by the wretched
captives and both ships destroyed. portion
OF the living freight, numbering 27o unfortu'
mates, was, however,. secured, and shipped
from the Dutch port Of Batavia on the French
bark Bernica, for their original destination.
By latest Callao dates We learn that the bark
had arrived with 223 coolies alive Out OF the
270 with which she sailed from Batavia.
Fifty-or one in every fve-had died On the
passage. This fact sufficiently tells the mise
rable story of suffering and outrage to which
the coolies were subjected on the passage.
Two young ladies, daughters OF q Mr.. James
Williams, of Frankfort; Perry County, ILL.,,
aged respectively sixteen and eighteen years,
aud said to be modest and retiring in theil
manners, have lately developed into clea
case Of witchcraft, which has baffied the neigh
bors and hundreds Of visitors, including two
physicians, in their efforts to solve the myster.
of their condition. These young persons be
have well enough during the day, but wneI
night supervenes they so to the housetops
and there occupy their time in gymnastics ant
in utterlng deafening screeches, besides be
coming rigid. A local newspaper says that OF
these occasions they "gyrate on the comb Will
perfect ease and impunity, uttering at tn
same time the most hideous and frenzie'
screams" The young ladies, on recovering
devour flies until they are compelled to ceas'
from nausea. In their moments of paroxysu
they accuse an old lady of the neghborhoot
Of having bewitched them.
The New York papers give the following
description Of the sudden death of ex-Judg
Bell, to which reference has already been mad
in THE NEWS: 1.-THE trustees of the Episcops
General Theological Seminary held most e.
citing secret session, marked with tragl
episode, at the institution in West Twentlet