The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-16
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MONDAY, OCTOBER l6, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

export Qemanui upionue I0s SSS'
bales.
In Liverpool cotton clio. I'd strong; uplands
saasI, Orleans l0alotd; sales 10000 bales.
1t Is said that Mr.. Spurgeon has dropped
the title of Reverend"
The census shows more Germans than
Irish in the United States.
1t ia said that Mile Nilsson has $40, 600 III
vested in real estate in Chicago.
1t is reported that Jefferson Davis lntends
to make Baltimore his permap ut home.
Five bows have been dismissed from the
naval academy OF Annapolis for persistent
hazing.
Intelligence has been received OF the dealn
of Mrs. George W. Riggs, Of Washington, IL
London.
Dispatches report excitement Throughout
the Indian Territory in consequence OF quar-
rel among the Creeks.
-Judge Chase is in Washington, and re-
ports that he has gained twenty pounds in
flesh during his absence.
The phrase 'You know how it is yourself,
has been traced to Shakespeare. The idea is
found In "The Merry Wives Of Windsor" act
scene 2.
1t Is asserted that many congregations OF
Roman Catholic orders are about to leave
Rome and 20 to England and America, where
they propose to found converts.
Judge Mckinney, United States Judge oil
the Southern District of Florida, died Thurs
day on the steamer City of Houston, while on
his way from Key West for home.
The mayor of Macon, Ca, has offered q
silver service premium worth fifty dollars 10
the prettIest girl in the State, under seven
teen, who appears at the State fair In home
spun dress.
The Cumberland (Md,l News, of the 18th
instant, says that on the day previous snow
fell at several points on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad west from that city, adding that
at Cumberland and Oakland the fall was quite
heavy.
Tho wheat crop Of Great Britain has not
turned out nearly so badly as was at one time
announced. The average per acre ranges from
twenty-six to thirty bushels, and the quantity
estimated to be required from all foreign
sources Is about nine million quarters or sew
enty.two 2illion bushels.
-Pedlgrees don't count for much II push
Ing, practical Chicago. A merchant of that
city, on being requested to take an Eastern
clerk into his employ-a young man Of excel
lent parentage, whose father was distin-
pulshed man-made answer: THAT is of no
account to us. There is less daddyism here
than in any part of the United States. What is
he himself?"
The Germans expelled from France have
been accurately ascertained, and list giving
the names, occupations and residences, will
shortly be published. The number OF Prus.
SLAMS expelled amounted to l2,3oo, but as the
Germans who lived in Paris came principally
from the Southern provinces, the list OF the
persons frcm the other States respectively, 1t
is believed, will be much lGger.
The Roman Catholic prelates OF New York
and several other States met on the 5th instant
at the residence Of Archbishop McCloskey,
New York, to select a candidate ior the new
See Of Plattsburgh. The council was secret,
but 1t Is said that the Rev. Father McNeirney,
the well-known secretary Of Archbishop Nc
Closkey, and one of the most proficient mas
ters of Catholic ceremonies en- this continent,
has been nominated.
About seventy Of the foremost young men
of New York City, representing all professions
and trades, have prepared circular. which
they are sending or giving to every young
man of their acquaintance who can be trusted
to seek ouly the public good; Inviting him to
meeting to be held at an appropriate place,
for the purpose of organizing an association OF
the young men Of that city, irrespective OF
party, to work for municipal reform.
"A special to the Tribune, dated City of
Mexico, October lst, says: This afternoon
four hundred gend'armes and cayarymen re-
yolted and attempted to take possession OF the
city, wien the garrison rallied under command
of General Rocha and others and defeated the
insurgents Two of the latter were Killed In
the fight. Their leaders are said to be Negrete,
Talega, Rvero and Cheyarrio. They effected
their escape, but several of the officers, with
two hundred and fifty men, were taken pris-
oners and shot next morning"
The MILITARY Gazette" of Berlin states
that IL has been determined by the German
Government not only to give German names
to all the cities, towns and villages in Alsace
and Lorraine, now having French appellations,
but also change the French titles OF forts and
fortified places. The forts around Metz, now
under repair, are first to be rechristened, ant
Fort St. Julian is to be called Fort Mollke
The marble slab recording the construction
this tort under Napoleon III, in 1867, is to bea
the following amended inscription "Com
menced in 1867, in defiance Of, and completed
in 1871, in defence of Germany"
The Baltimore Gazette, of Friday, says
"The Ccncordia Opera House was filed t
overhowins last evening to hear General
Wade Hamro on's address on the life ant
character OF General Robert E. Lee. The audi
ence was we'll worthy Of The orator, and the
address was equally we'll worthy Of The audi
ence. From first to last, daring the two hour:
which were spent in It's delivery, Genera
Hampton rveled the attention OF his bearers
occasionally elciting tumutuous applause
when he made allusion TO the more prominent
events in the Lille Of the great virginian, or L
the more prominent OF his great lleutenan5s
and comrades in arms. Among the distfl
puished gentlemen who occupied the sta&<
we observed Hon. }. tferson Davis, who wa!
greeted with loud and hearty applause by the