The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-07

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NEWS OF TIE DAY.
Gold closed in New York, on Saturday, at
l2sal23.
Cotton closed easier;. nplands ls2 cents;
sales s04 bales.
jim Liverpool cotton closed quiet; uplands
ssasd., Orleans 93d.; sales 10000 bales.
"A Chinese actress has made sensation at
London theatre. ~
THE London Daily News calls New York
the third German and the first Irish city in the
world.
New York has $4,000 dogs. Their natural
enemyis the sausage maker; their protector is
Bergh.
james Gordon bennett, it is reported,
has given sl00, ,OoO to the new Roman Catholc
Cathedral on Fifth avenue, New York.
The l4.o0o heather Chinese in San Fran
cisco don't meke much noise In the world, out
they own $4,000 in real estate, and 81, ,lsS, ooo
-. ;.
in personal property.
The entire machinery of the Columbus
steam Cotton Minis was sold at auction in that
city on Tuesday. Dr.. .Bussey, president OF tne
Eagle and Phoenix Factory, was the purchaser
fo-sl2 600. The building and engine were not
sold.pr 8 g
Social philosophers in England are becom'
ing alarmed over the growing excess OF fe-
males over males In the. population. Ten
years ago the oyerplus OF women amounted
to haif: million, while, according TO- the
census lately completed, there are nearly a
million more women than men in the country
-uThe Emperor Alexander" says the
Ayenir National, ..has just decided question
wtfchthas greatly preoccupied public opinion
iniRussis, and even in Europe-namely, that
Of fthe preponderance Of classical studies over
others. His Majesty has decided that they
shaff take precedence in middle-class educa-
tio-." ..,i :
The Young Duke Alexis is said to bear a
striking resemblance to his imperial father,
whose tayerite son heis:%He speaks Blk IAN
eisIges fdently, smokes excessively, is con-
noisseur In meerschaums and champagne,
sjReara wear, In twelve tongues beside his native
Russian, ,and play billiards like professional.
"a Paris paper says: when Patti mar
ried, Mile. Nilsson fell Into reverie and thought
of marrying She did not care for aristocracy'
butsheE snted beauty and wealth. Her choice
was an apprentice fnancier, whose moneyed
talents equalled. his physical advantage. When
she SET out, for America she confded large
SUM ot.money to her betrothed, asking him
to put it to the best account. He added to 1t
all his own fortunei and said; I shall triple
the money, In two months, and she shall be
led to the altar by millionaire There was
no end to the castles in the air he built, until
/. q panic on Change swept away alfhis money
and all the. cney the songstress had confd-
ed to him. viii she forgive the deed for the
Wills sake. Her friends say she Will prove
pitiless. NJ Z ~.
Mr.. P. S. Gilmores prospectus OF the
.sGrand international Musical Festival" to be
held in! Boston, next summer, proposes 10
double the magnitude and magnifcence OF
the sJubllee.n Twenty thousand voices are
to astonish and delight the hundred thousand
auditors In the coliseum. Poets, composers
and artists Of; every land will be asked to con-
tribute or to take part, and all governments
TO send Representatives. The time fixed for
the Duration of the festival is two weeks.
The prospectus also says: "Each nation
should be represented BY magnificent band,
in The full uniform Of the country to which It
befongs-which band should be the gilt and
contribution of each government to this, the
lrst International musical festival, the hrst
peace Jubilee of all nations eyer held"
Horrors accumnlate daily in the case OF
Mrs. wharton. The Baltimore American cites
another supposed victim Of this fendish
woman. (, Mrs. Wharton borrowed $4,000 OF
Mra; brlcker some time before her arrest
Only: a few days before the. facts already pub
lishel came to light, Mrs. Stricken called at
Mrs. Wharton's houseIor the interest then
due. Not feeling very well, Mrs. Wharton
nrayalled on her3to take dose Of medicine,
which she prepared. In sfew moments Mrs.
stricker was seized with convulsions and Dy
direction Of physician who had been sum-
moned, was Immediately removed from Mrs.
Wharton,s house. The physician, 1t Is said,
insisted that the lady should at once be re-
moyed:from Mre. Wharton's. His directions
were compiled with, a carriage procured, and
theiaay taken to the house other sister-i1-
law. Her friends think that Mrs. Wharton
poisoned her.
General Moltke has addressed the follow
inr letter to the citizens Of Lubbock, in ac-
acknowledgement Of their having presented
him with the freedom of the city: II have
received with gratit de from your representa-.
ton the splendidly and artstieally executed
document which confers upon me the title ol
a burgess Of Lubbock. The numerous monu'
ments of power, OF patriotism and Of beneh'
cence, recalling the time when Lubbock stood
at the head of the confederation OF cities-a
confederation whose fleets commanded the
sea and; made war with kingdoms-thev venera
bile town hall, the lofty towers, the protecting
bulwsrks with their shady trees, the great
ships. upon the narrow river, the ancient
rates-one of which is so admirably. repre-
sented in the document you have sent me
.,,..t ,onolo ootiona of nv childhood