The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-12-29
Tbe GbarleStu11 9ems'
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAP.


At Liverpool, cotton closed quiet; up,ands
shd.; sales 10000 bales.
The University of Alabama is to be open
for the free tuition OF all students next year.
Eight new bridges are to be built across
the Rhine, uniting the new provinces with
the German Empire" About s25,Ooo,OOO are
to be at once expended in the construction OF
new strategic railways.
The new German coinage will consist OF
the pfenning, the groschen and the marx.
The ore necessary for the manufacture Is
found in the immense specie payments which
France has made 10 Germany in the shape OF
the war Indemnity.
The illness Of the Prince Of Wales has de-
veloped the interesting fact that o. the chill
dren born in Great Britain during the yea in
wbicbthe Prince was married three thousand
boys were gifted with the cognomens OF Albert
Edward, and half that many girls were blessed
with the appelation of Alexandra. This ls
an essentially English method OF exhibiting
the afectionate loyalty Of the people.
"A curious means Of obtaining an insight
into the public wishes in the way OF dramatic
DerlOTmaQCS6 10 III fOSuO oe WV <N>SNS ~~"
tre. in London. Every night ballot is taken
for the next piece TO be produced there. The
audience does the voting, and the play receiv-
ing most votes Is next brought our. At re-
cent sselectlon" the play of ''Hamle:' was sue
cessful over two competitors, macbeth" and
s'Pericles.'
The new Mrs. Sickles is described as Of the
medium height and delicately formed. Her
eyes are black and lustrous, the eyebrows
beautifully arched, and the eyelashes long and
curved. The face indicates gentle andloVable
disposition. The hair is of the deepest black.
Mrs. Sickles does not speak English, but she
converses in French with ease. Her manner
is luiet and selfpossessed, and her voice low
and sweet, Sue and General Sickles converse
in Spanish.
Hungry young men in Fort Wayne, Ind,
do not starye TO death. A party OF them re-
Gently ordered and ate large dinner at o
-sAstanrant. and when it was finished each
insisted on paying Tor the whole. Taking the
eood.humored water into their consultation,
IL was iually decided that the waiter should
be blindso.ded, and the first one ofthen that
he caught should pay the bill. The youths
then quietly departed, and in about fifteen
minutes the waiter sprang upon the proprietor
of the restaurant, who was just returning
from an errand. The waiter has gone on q
foreign mission.
-Durf, of Memphis, who held the ticket
that drew the capital prize OF thirty-fve thous-
and dollars in the Louisville lottery, is young
postof1ce clerk, thirty.one years old, and mar
ried. When he was apprised of his good for
tune, he quietly finished his Work. walked
home and broke the news 10 his pretty wife,
whose previous objections to lotteries van
ished suddenly, and who may now possess
several OF those dresses ana bonnets for
which she has been longing. Durf, like
sensible fellow, will stick TO his former posi-.
ton, and says he vii! never t-y his luck
again.
Young Sutton, who was son of the Bishop
of Canterbury, and was too hottempered ior
a bishops boy. One day he wea. into saun-
ders & Otley's shop, very angry at not haV'
Ing received some books he had ordered. He
sblew," indeed, until one Of the partners
intimated to him that his Language was past
endurance. II doA'l know who you are" was
the answer, ''but don't want to annoy you
personally, as you may not 3 the one in fault;
it,s your coniounded house nat blame. You
NAV be otley, and you ma be Saunders. II
Won are Saunders, d-n Otley. If you are
Otley. d-n Saunders! Imean nothing persona!
to you"
1t has been iudically established in the
Massachusetts Supreme Cou.t, by recent de-
csion, that suicide is not crime. one John
Dennis, it appears, was arrested some months
ago at Worcester on complaint charging
him with The attempt 10 kill al murder him
SELF" The Superior Court tot ad him guilty,
but the case was carried to The slpreme Court,
which has just decided that thel e was no guilt
in Denn's's attempt to Kill h msslf, on the
ground that the "provisiors o the general
statutes, in section OF chapter I6s, which are
a revision Of The whole law on the subject OF
attempts, do not include altem. rs to commit
suiciie.o But suppose Mr.. Dennis had sue
ceeded in his attempt. how, thea, would the
Commonwealth have vindicated lis outraged
laws?
The London papers are getting heartily
sick of the Iichborne case, which daily monop-
olizes much of their space. The cross-exami-
nation of Mr.. Baigent, one of the witnesses for
the plaintiff, at last accounts had lasted about
a fortnight, and the Spectator remarks: "Mr.
Bsllantlne has informed the court that his side
of the evidence may be pos:ioA done by
Christmas, and then the defendants begin,
and then there is rebutting evidence, and then
there will be the Radcliffe ag inst Tichborne
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, We should imagine,
about eighteen months good hard questioning
and replying. Ifthe press will not lake meas
ures to suppress some Of all this, we shall have
the Country clamoriDg for war or cattle
plague, or anything TO rid the journals OF 6
bore which is becoming TOO much for human
nature to sustain"
lie Roi Carotte," the new drama which
NM. sardou and Offenbach are writing, prom
,ses 10 be the success OF the season in Paris.
One of its scenic effects will be ballet princi-
pslly composed of ladies representing various
spec:mens of the vegetable world. Other al
fractions will be on similar scale OF surprise.
One tableau is laid in an inn, the sign Of which
;s the Hungarian cock. In the inrer court Of
1fishostelry. the balconies of which cent be-