The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-02
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TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cotton closed with steady demand al
l4z; sales 255s bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed dull; upland'
II d; sales l0, 600 oales.
An ice factory is to be built at Selma, Ala
bama.
in Mobile "acclimated Chinese tea-pants'
re advertised for sale.
Among the numerous presents which
General Won MolJke received last winter IL
France was box of fifty pairs of drawers
[ rom an American manufacturer.
Chang, the paralyzed S.amese twin, mas 90
far recovered as to be able to ride q crutch
about the house. His brother hasn't left him
a moment siace he was taken i'll.
Subscriptions are being made at Washing
ton for testimonial to Baron Gerolt, the Prus.
sian Mlnls,er, to be presented upon his pro-
spectiye retirement from the legation.
Mr. Wright, of Ne,y York, gave Miss Esta-
brook his note for $4,000, to marry him. She
did so, but he got possession OF the document
and refused to pay it. She now sues to re-
cover.
"A Western paper mentions an adinirer OF
Nilsson "iolowing her with the pertinacity OF
coon dog, assuming variety OF disgulSes to
elude the viligance OF Brignoli and his stuffed
CLUB"
The colored men of New York City are
orming several military organizations, the
chief OF which, the '.Griffin Excelsior Colored
Guard" now numbers three hundred andtiity
men, and is so rapidly recruiting, that il is
soon exported to reach one thousand.
The Princess oil Wales is described rs look
ing very thin and worn. with lovely face so
full of sadness as to be pathetic. She is said
to have lost in few years all the freshness
and bloom of youth. which ac the time OF her
nuptials were the theme of praise throughout
England.
Dublin is fortunate in some OF her citizens
A few years ago great brewer restored ST.
Patrick's Cathedral. which he'd Icing been in
sorry plight, at an expense OF s75O.O0o, and
now millionaire distiller offers to spend any
thing that may be needed in restoring the
other cathedral In that city-Christ Church.
The wives of men of sentiment are not
always the most appreciatiye women. Jean
Paul represents Siebender as reading one OF
his beautiful imaginings to bis wife, who listen
ed with ewes cast dow, and bated breath. As
he closed, the sharer OF his joys beamed forth
with: sDon't put on your left stocking to-
morrow, dear; must mend that hole in it.
The canary birds, for which The rage in
this country is greater than ever before, come
mainly from the Hartz Mountains-that IS,
their progenitors come thence, but bird fan
ciers and dealers breed them at home-and
about the Harlz Mountains large part of the
living of the peasants comes from breeding
them for tha market Daring this season not
less than rorty-dve thousand have been I'M
ported by New York houses, from which they
are sent to all parts of the country About
fifty varieties have been bred.
"A learned German doctor mentions three
instances among bis relations and friends that
shows strikiugly the unfailing love OF reading
among Gernlaus. One office in the land
wehr before Paris asked his viii, TO send him
Krants sKrltik OF Pure Reason" The son OF
the Prussun minister of justice, when before
Paris, wrote home for books, and his father
sent him the "InstiLutes" of Justinan. A
Heidelberg student, who was called away 10
serve as u private in the artillery, and was
first before Metz, and then through the CAIN
palgns against The Loire army, suffered great
hardships In the field; but the only complaint
in his home letters was that he could get no
books.
Ladies are carrying parasols with long,
heavy handles and long points-using them as
walking sticks, and as lady has about as
much idea of using q cane as man mas oil
fan. it Is extremely ludicrous to behold the
operation. First, you're reminded of a dat-
boat on the Mississippi, with some energetic
raftsman showing her along in the mud; then,
as she comes nearer, prodding the harmless
sidewalk, you. think Of men you've seen spear
ing eels, I'LL finally you see she Is not actnS
q charade, and begin 10 pity her for poor
blind girl. but all OF sudden and il'S only d
girl OF the period trying to walk with i'm over
grown caae that has slight eruption OF para
sol broken ont along lis spine.
"A tantastical story is told oi the coat'ct-
arms of the Bismarck family, which consists
of a clover-leaf entwined by three neltle-
leaves. The chronicle runs that Que oil the
maidens OF this family, beauty called Ger
trude, being courted by many admirers. Sc
lecled one of her first cousins However,
there came rough baron from the German
Ocean. accompanied by hundred horsemen,
To ask her hand. When it was refused, he
took the castle by storm, killed Gertrude's
father, and finally embraced The maiden, re-
marking, .You golden clover OF my heart,
you are no 1eltle and do not slins;" whereat
the sprighty maiden, observing, "l am net
tie when wish, and can sting, and so do
nettles ever sting the one who would Orrak
a clover leaf OF the BiSmarcks," quietly
smote the adventurous lover under the filth
rib with dagger, iajuring him so that hc
died.
The Thames cmbankment, according to
the Pail Maj Gazette, has not - any appreci-
able extent relieved the Strand and Fleet street
from the crowd of passengers aud constant
current Of vehicles which block up those thor
oughares OF London. The deserted appear
ance of this magnificent highway is remarked
upon as something very striking, since for
some reason or other omnibu rs will not ply,
cabs will not loiter, and crowds will not con-
pre9ate on the embaukment which has been
constructed at so much trouble and expense