The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-07-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold at New Y0rR ClCseu dI 11ai's'
Cotton closed dull and lover; uplands 2o4
cents; sales 3O21 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed fati uplands
Sd, Orleans s3d; sales 5000 bales.
Governor Holden's impeachment trial cost
the ueople of North Carolina the nice little
sum of $6l, $40.
Worth, the celebrated French male
modiste, has returned to Paris, and once
more Is cutting and fitting dresses for ladies
OF the nobility.
Connecticut has ordained that railway
companies shall erect fence along the line OF
their roads, which reminds the stockholders OF
the legend, ssNot assent for tribute, but mil
lions for de fence"
1t Is said in Paris, both by Legitimists and
Orleanists, that the proclamation Of the Count
de Chambord has ruined by far the best chance
the Monarchical party has had since ls4S, and
that the hopes Of the elder branch must now
be set at rest for several years to come.
in driving London underground railway
tunnel we are told that in one part OF the line
the cuttings were made through mass OF
skulls and bones sixteen feet in thickness,
the remains OF an old burial ground. In
another place, forgotten secret passage,
twenty feet wide, was discovered, supposed to
date from the fourteenth century, and this
also had to be turned to good account
-Koopmanschasp, the famous importer OF
heather Chlnee, has been to Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
TO look after the interests of about $50 China
men who were taken there to work on rail-
road and received no pay. He found them
living on blackberrles and crawash, and prob
ably deemed the diet healthy Tor the Mongo-
liam constitution, as he left them to continue
the same regimen.
"A piece of s.iron paper" thousand Of
which were required to make layer an Inch
thick, was sent from this country to the Inter
national Exhibition at London, in 1851. But
English workmanship has now attained far
more remarkable result, in the production OF
a sheet of iron 30 thin that it requires four
thousand eight hundred such to form an inch
In thickness. 1t Is the thinnest sheet-ron
ever rolled, and measures ten Inches in
length, by five and half in width. 1t weighs
only twenty grams.
George b. Niles, the Maryland poet ana
playwright, died on the Oath instant, at
tsThornton," his country residence, about tour
miles south of Emmettsburg, Frederic county,
Maryland, OF Brights disease OF the kidneys.
Mr.. Miles Is best known to the public for his
magnificent prize play of ''Mohammed," (which
he wrote for Edwin Forrest, then In the zenith
of his histrionlo success. Mr.. Forrest paid
the writer $1,000 for this work. The play is
full OF rich imagery aud gorgeous oriental
scenes, but It's production on the stage was
attended with too much cost to make it. pop
ular with managers.
The disaster which has overtaken an
island of the PHILIPPINE group, as reported by
cable dispatches recently, Is comps 4atiVeiy
familiar one in the history OF that beautiful
but unfortunate portion Of the Malay Archipel-
ago.. The islandsare all of volcanic formation;
and abound with active as we'll as extinct era
ters, and 1t Is in such regions that earth
ouakes occur with greatest frequency and In
the most violent forms. 1t is only eight years
since banillo, the chief town Of Luzon, and
capital of the group, was almost obliterated
by one of these natural conYulslons, and
wear later there was terrible earthquake in
the island of Mindanao which swept away VII
lages and destroyed numbers Of lives; at The
same time SONS Of the smaller Islands dlsap-
peared entirely.
Peabody Square, London, another block
of model dwellings erected under the bequest
of George Peabody, will be formally opened
on August l. The square contains two fine
ouadrangles OF light airy-looking buildings,
the white and red brlck-work of which Is re-
lieved by the clusters of trees. The rooms
are described as well lighted, well ventilated
and thoroughly comfortable. Water pipes
run through the buildings, bathrooms are
provided in abundance, and the staircases and
passages are lighted with gas. The two quad
rangles afford accommodations for three hun
drei and twenty tenants, who pay sixty-lwo
cents a week for one room, one dollar lor TWO
rooms, and one dollar and quarter tor three
rooms. at these rates, 1t is stated, all the
rooms in the buildings have been taken, the
applicants being twice as many as the premises
could accommodate. Every effort, 1t Is said,
was made to insure that the tenants should
only belong to the deserving Industrious poor,
whom the trust is charged to benefit.
The marriage of the Princess Louise with
the MARQUIS of Lorne was not, according to
late English gossip, by any means the love
match 1t has been popularity supposed to be-,
and the welded pair are now far from happy
together. The story is that he Princess in-
herits her mothers quick and imperlous tenn
per, and the two women had such frequent
quarrels that the peace of the royal domestic
circle was quite destroyed. The marriage OF
the Princess and her residence elsewhere
being the only resource in The emergency,
a certain number Of young noblemen were Sc
lected and invited to Windsor Castle, and the
Princess required to choose husband from
among them. She obeyed, and her choice fell
on the young Marquis, but there was no more
love between them than usually attends such
business-like arrangements. The result has
been that the Princess's temper Is as bad as
ever, only it is exercised on new object. The
exclusion of the Marquis from the royal circle,
and the consequent separation of him from his
wife on state occasions, Is said to be owing to
these conjugal differences, and not to any law
of etiquette. 1t is even reported that not long
ago the Queen was sent tor, and went down to
Claremont the residence of the Young couple