The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

DOIlaE per HOnthS Poy
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed In New York yesterday at l2s
al2s.
Cotton closed with fair demand, chiefly
for export; uplands lss cents; sales $3.50 bales.
I'm Liverpool cotton closed strong; upland
SD, Orleans 9sd.
Commodore NJ. F. Maury has accepted the
presidency of the Alabama University, and
will leave Lexington about the lst OF Septem-
Der to assume the duties OF that position.
The custom of wearing cadet buttons has
been given up by the indignant bellies at west
Point, since Cadet Smith presented some o,
his 10 a lady Of color.
1t is anticipated that the whole system Of
street cleaning in New York will be reVolu'
tionized, and chart Of the city made out foI
streets requiring cleaning every day and those
requiring cleaping twice week.
The remittances sent by previous emil
grants to their friends in Great Britain
amounted in 1870 to $685.. .04O, transmitted
from North America, and s64, ,02o from Aus
trala.
The German Government has decided that
the 10000 railroad cars taken from France
during the are to be returned as speedily
as possible, railway rolling stock not being
classified as legitimate '!spoils OF war"
The finest toilets displayed so far at the
seaside are those worn during the afternoon
drive, which Is really the event OF the day.
The large open laudaus and the low pony
pLetons show of handsome carriage dress
toperfection.
The new estate which the Emperor Will
liam has lately given to his trusty henchman,
Bismarck, is valued at more than million
thalers. It has IN area of eighty square miles,
and contains twenty-three villages OF collec.
tions of huts.
"A New jersey editor has announced the
death Of his uncle in Australia, leaving hin
a gold mine and $4oo, 900. His village contem-
porary processes to regard the matter as plan
cunningly devised to obtain credit for box Of
paper collars and straw hat.
MRS. Lydia Shankllnr probably the Oldest
person In North Carolina, died on Friday last.
She was about liz years old. This good old
lady attended the organization Of the Presby-
terry with which she was connected 10 ITO,
but was unable to attend Its centennial ami
versary, although!yery deslrous Of so doing.
1t is estimated that the number of horses
in the United States Is over eleven millions, or
more than one horse tor every four inhabi-
tants. Illinois contains The largest number Of
any State; l,346, 800; Ohio comes next, Penn
sylvanIa third, aud Indiana fourth. In the
State of New York, which ranks fifth, there
are 7O3, ,l2O horses; while Rhode Island, which
contains the smallest number, musters only
9l5O.
During the siege OF Paris we were told
that all the dogs. cats, rats, &C., that the city
contained were eaten. In this way poor Tray
served his master to some purpose. The faith
full animal is now called on again to bear his
share OF the wars burdens. According to the
new lists of taxes every owner Of dog
throughout the RepusS,ic is to pay twenty
francs annually toward defraying the German
indemnity. The result is, that the dogs have
largely been turned adritl by their owners.
Another step has been made In reparatlon
to the missionaries for losses sustained at
Tien.tsin. The English missionaries have been
paid $500 taels, instead Of 1925 taels, which
they claimed, and the Chinese have agreed to
rebuild the Catholic premises from plans to be
supplied by the French, to put over The gate
way the words Imperial gin" !" and to erect in
front tablet bearing the Imperial edlct, OF
which translation was given on the
9Th of November last. Great importance Is
attached In China to the words "Imperial
gtt,n and 1t Is anticipated trat they will act as
a sort OF political tallsman 10 protect the new
building.
According to statement which Is now
going the rounds of the French press, the to-
tai number OF balloons which left Paris durihg
the siege, between September 2Sd and January
2Sth, 1871, amounted 10 sixty-four, carrying
the same number of sconauts, three million
letters, large number of official dispatches,
three hundred and fiity.four carrier pigeons,
and ninety-one passengers. OF these sixty
four balloons only five were captured BY the
German forces, two were blown ont to sea,
and eHe crossed the North Sea, and after a
perilous voyage Of about one thousand miles
in forty eight hours, landed In Norway, where
it created quite panic among the Inhabitants
OF small village in the vicinity of Christiana,
where it descended. The ballast, consisting
Of bars and weights Of metal, which was yet
left In the basket after Its descent, was coined
into small medals, bearing an appropriate In
scription, which we're sold all through Norway
for the benefit OF the fund for the relief Of
French wounded soldiers, widows and or
phans.
The Hon Jacob Thompson, President Bu-
chanan's secretary OF the interior, has recent
" held political conversation at the White
Sulphur Springs. His remarks were interest
Ing as coming from resident Of Mississippi
and tending to show the state of feeling among
Democrats there. He said there Is little or no
political excitement in that State at present,
and that everything Is working quietly aud
peaceably. He denied. emphalically, the ex-
istence of Kl.klux in Mississippi; the few
robberies and outrages that have been COM
mitted there being the natural sequence of
every great war or revolution. In regard to
the sentiment OF the South toward the New
Departure" he said that for himself he did
not disapprove of it, and that the Southern