The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-18
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold at New York, yesterday, closed at
l3!al3l.
The New York cotton market closed quiet
uplands 1890; sales lO4s bales.
At Liverpool cotton closed quiet; uplands
sld; sales 10, 900 bales.
The "steam omnibuses" of Paris have been
abandoned.
"A mine ofmeerschaum clay has been dis
covered in Patagonia.
twenty-five thousand packages of tea are
now coming overland on the Pacific Rail
way.
The latest agony among fashionable New
York youth is to wear small thermometer on
the side OF the hat.
The attorney-general has dispatch from
North Mississippi, that st.Ss that FIVE Ku.hlux
with disguises complete were captured.
Had the Chicago fire occurred before the
era ofrailways and telegraphs 1t would have
been even much greater calamity, owing TO
the inability of the people there 10 make
known their sufferings in time to secure
prompt relief.
-Aher the great fire in London In 1865,
Parliament enacted that every house should
be built with party walls, and all in front raised
OF equal height, AID those walls should be oil
stone or brick, and that no man should delay
building beyond seven years.
The following paragraph appears In
Washington letter to the Baltimore Sun: VAT
torney-General Akerman has personally su-
perintended the arrangements for the trials in
South Carolina under the Ku-Klux act. He
spent most all OF last week in the Spartanburg
and Union Districts. In spartanburg there
are dozen confined in Jail awaiting trial, and
q large number of arrests are promised.
statement made in some Of the Republican
papers of the State that hundreds are aban-
doning the organization and surrenderlng
themselves either to the civil or military au-
thorities is very emphatlcally denied. AS yet
the Presidents proclamation has no such ef-
feet"
From a baby show to show OF maldens
Is but natural and easy step. The success OF
the baby shows at North Woolwich Gardens,
Kent, near London, has induced the spirited
proprietor to try the effect Of show of bar
maids. Barmaids ''draw" better than babies.
The swells, the fops and the snobs, attracted
by the dazzling splendor OF the maidens be-
hind the counter, drink unlimited quantities
OF "bitaw beaw," and, therefore, barmaid
shows pay better than baby shows, which at
tract only economical paters and matters,
whose sole Indulgence is an occasional "leetel
drop O. gin" on the sly. Each barmaid strives
her utmost to attract customers, and The one
who receives the largest number of votes, and
consequently sells the greatest quantity OF IL
auor, receives the highest prize.
"A Kentucky man wto attemp ed to cross
a high railroad bridge at Shepherdsvlle, In
that State, on the oath ult., stumbled and iell
between the ties, but fortunately managed
to grasp tie with his hands, and there hung
dangling, with one hundred ieet OF sheer fall
beneath him. he was utterly unable to regain
the top of the bridge, and he hung on With
death grasp until his cries brought assistance.
Lifted from his perilous position, he was led
off the bridge, and sat down for few minutes,
apparently overcome by the danger through
which he had passed. Then he got up, as he
said, 10 20 home, walked few steps, and fell
to the ground dead. Physicians, who careful
" examined his body, say that there was no
brnise or wound sufficient to disable him
much less cause death, and are Of opinion that
his death was caused BY fright.
The viceroy Of Egypt has hit upon dnan-
clal idea which no other brain, If we e: cept
Mr.. Boutwelrs, could have conceived. He has
assessed all landholders six years rent In ad-
vance, with the promise OF 'rebate" of FIFTY
Der cent. ever after. This scheme Is likely to
miscarry, from the simple fact that the land
owners have not the money 10 pay the rent as
demanded: but II serves to illustrate the dfd-
entities in which that gay ana generous Prince
has managed 10 invo.'e himself. having
studied in the school of European as well as
Eastern luxury, he has contriVed 10 comoine
the extrayagances OF the two systems IN
manner possible only in Egypt. de keeps an
onera at Cairo. to which he summons Inc
lights of the lyric stage in Europe by telegraph
without inquiring as 10 expense; ana lhis ne
supplements with theatre aud three clrcuses
in constant operation. He has some twenty
four palaces scattered about his provinces, and
his purchases of white slave girls are Tue
largest in the market. As If this were not
enough, he invested largely in the Suez Canal
and now that he finds money necessary to pre-
serve his peace with the Sultan, there Is moth
inc TO be done but TO put the screws on the
neople But even the Vceroy has not yet
ventur,d to impose an income tax.
The reception rendered by the delighted
Auburnites to the perlpatetic ex-Secretary ol
State ON the occasion OF his return to his an
c.:tral threshold, was OF most cordial de-
scription. The depot was thronged Win clli-
zens all on tiptoe, and when the locomotive
bore down upon the scene they besiesed the
train with the evident design OF carrying II oy
storm. The survivor OF japanese and Egyptian
entertainments was not TO be permitted 10 un-
dergo friendly immolation at The hands othis
townspeope, and an energetic committee sue
ceeded in rescuing and depositing him in safe
~ at the door of his residence. Thereunto
the crowd did follow, and he was easily pre-
vailed upon to make a speech. In it he made
a few slight illusions to his recent jaunt, told
his friends how hard it had been for him to en-
dure separation from them for so extended
period, and expressed the nope that II Would
not happen again. He had looked the whole
human family in the face, and had taken by
the hand and conversed v''th his fellow-man
in his lowest degradation and in his highest
80 ,;r;I;zation But he had only learned