The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-02

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NEWS OF THE DAY.
Sold at New York, yesterday, closed al
l2ial2l. -zs.
The New York cotton market closed steady
at lsl cents; sales 2l56 bales.
At Liverpool cotton closed quiet; sales
5000 bales.
in Boston they call founding hospitals
asyFums for anonymous infants, and in Chi
cago they style them institutions Tor babies
born on the European plan.
The feet which willaccompany the Grand
Duke Alexis from Cronstadt to the United
States, to sail August so, will be the largest
that has ever LEFT European waters for Amer
lea.
-Bill-posting in this country is a regular
ayocation, followed by about two hundred and
seventy-fve professional bill-posters. These
.sbosseBn employ from two to twenty men each
to do the posting.
in Broadway, New York, there are several
fine specimens of Himalaya rabbits, imported
from India, where they aboand on the top OF
the mountains from whence they take their
name. Their bodies are pure white, while the
legs, ears and q part of the head are brown.
1t may be interesting to those who have
sent for counterfeit money, in answer to the
numerous circulars. which flood the country,
to learn that full list of the names Of such Is
being prepared for publication The moral
Characters Of many hitherto supposed honest
persons will probably suffer by being exposed
in all their hideous deforn,ity.
The Metropolitan Underground Railway
ofIOndon, since its extension to the heart OF
the city, has not been able to accommodate all
the passengers desiring to pass over the line.
Although the trains run every five minutes,
crowds of passengers are left at the stations,
and the carriages are filled with two and three
times the. number for whom seats are proVid-
ed. This oyercrowdiDg, it is stated, is posi-
lively dangerous In the second and third class
carriages, while in the hrst-class the compart-
ments designed for eight persons are made to
hold sixteen. -
Scenes Of very, ,grotesque nature are con-
stsntly occurring In Paris before the special
tribunals appointed to decide between land
lord and tenant. "What is your trade ," said
justice ofthe peace to tenant In the l7th
reimbursement, who pleaded inability to pay
his rent. "Perfumer," was the answer; ''and
bad trade it is" ssBad trade, indeed! ex-
claimed the landlord; .shls piece Of soap cost
him two sous, and he sells them torhfteen.
he is well able to pay.n "That's FALSE" roar
ed the tenant; sthe trade is bad; and who
ever thought Of washing under the Com.
mune?" The judges only remit rent In cases
whereit can be shown that the tenant was
heavy loser. through cessation of business.
The great French tenor, NJ. Capoul, IS
coming f,ither, 1t is announced, to blend his
voice with that OF Miss Nilsson in the next
opera season. Capoul Is now singing In Lon
don, whittier he fed from the slaughter and
famine Of Paris, that placed his notes, with all
Others, at discount. His last appearanceln In
that city was on the occasion when ne was
taken from his carriage on the boulevard,
mounted on its top and made to sing the
s.Marseillaisen to- mob of enthusiastic Re
publIcans. Capoul is handsome man, parts
his halr,in the middle, and Is adorned with
those physical graces which are as needinl 10
the popularity of tenor among critics OF the
softer sex as excellence and cultivation OF
voice.
"A correspondent has been 'fntervlewins"
Iongtellow and his owner, and Joins IN the
popular cry of admiration for the beautiful
auadruped. Longfellow, besides being hand
some, Is also good. He is quiet and even
tempered as plough-horse, but Is taken as
much care of as petteI child. Nine men
are in attendance upon him, and ne is not
left alone minute. The night Watchers
at his stable are armed, and there Is general
lying-awake-o-nIghts for fear that somebody
Will polson or MAIN him. No visitor is allow
ed to touch him, and his food Is examined as
carefully as Roman Emperor's. According
to the correspondent, the owner Of the horse
is quite as great curiosity as the animal him
SELF Mr.. Harper sleepsin the stable and never
leaves the grounds day or night. He oversees
personally the feeding of his horse. He Is
small-sized, muscnlar-looking man, and calls
himself sixty-seven,, but looks ten years older.
He wears the poorest kind Ct Kentucky
clothes, Il:ftting and dirty. Eight thousand
acres Of blue grass belong to him, and this
fact, together with the actual earnings Of
Longtellow-$s00 so far-will render sale
of the gifted animal quite improbable.
London letters confirm the rumor that
Prince Arthur, who has been for some time
animated by belle passion for Lady Anne
Churchill, daughter of the Duke of Marlbor
ough, hns been encouraged by the successful
result of Lord Lorne's suit to avow his love,
and the proposed marriage is now under dis
cussIon at headquarters" AS far as rank is
concerned, the point must be considered solely
as a matter Of principle, there being not a
shadow of difference in that respect between
the marriage now sought and that already con-
ceded The daughter OF the Duke OF Marl-
borough holds precisely the same relative po-
sition as does the son of the Duke OF Argyll.
The families Of both are equally illustrious,
and both are connected one way or another
with half the leading houses Of the realm. But
there does exist one ground of objection,
which will probably turn the scale unfavorably
forthe royal lover. The Duchess of Marlbor-
ough is halfsister to the Marquis of London
derry, who has been an incurable lunatic for
years. She Is also sister to the late Lord Adol-
phus vane Tempest, and for some time before