The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-08
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER s, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold at New York closed at l3jal3l.
The New York cotton market closed strong;
uplands 20sc.; sales 1885 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed excited; up
lands ssd., Orleans gid,
-Habeas corpus has been refused the abor-
Zionist Rosenzweig.
Miss Annie E. Ford, daughter of John T.
Ford, Esq, has written play for Miss Leona
Cavender, entitled 'tAstray."
Horace Greeley's forthcoming article in
the October Galaxy will be entitled 1.-THE One
Term Principle" and Will advocate the policy
of restricting the Presidential office to one
term.
Persons engaged In orange culture in
Florida are threatened with great losses this
season. More than one-half OF the crop Is on
the ground, and much damage has been done
to the groves.
"A. T. Stewards hotel for women In New
York is rapidly progressing. In style and
finish 1t is scarcely surpassed in that city, and
1t will cost several milllons. 1t will accom-
WOQAtS OVER d PClsOhos
-Perheps the most ridiculous statement
that has yet been flashed to US by thu ocean
cable Is a report that the Pope expresses the
wish that his successor be chosen BY universal
suffrage, without regard to age or sex.
Archbishop Manning has determined to
mppress the custom of making Sunday the
great day for Catholic funerals in London,
whereby hundreds of undertakers men have
to work all day, and vast deal oil dlsorcer
is occasloned.
As the season for the temperance OF Mile.
Nilsson on the stage is approaching, her care
full manager is renewing the publication OF the
reports of the loss of her diamonds. They
have been recently recovered, and $500 reward
paid for them, 80 that the fair cantatrice can
shine as brilliantly as ever.
1T has been stated that the Rothchtlds
never employ ''uniucky men, Stewart, the
millionaire of New York, adopts no such plan,
but has employed great many broken mer-
chants, deriving great advantage from their
experience II there Is wisdom In either policy
as such, there is more on Stewarts side than
on the other.
in France woman has no remedy when q
man promises to marry her and doesn't. At
first sight this may seem little cruel; but
practically 1t has the effect Of doing away with
what are called engagements, and there being
no engagement there is no breach. A man
and woman meaning to be married, marry at
once, and there's an end to diplomacy.
The following interesting story Is told OF
the late Mgr. Darboy, the murdered Archblsn-
op of Paris. In the prison OF La Roquette,
In which the Archbishop was confined and
subsequently martyrized, was an immense
water reservoir, which the apothecary Of the
prison caused to be emptied secretly and sup
piled with quantity of provisions. He then
proposed to the Archbishop to conceal himself
there, assuring him that his hiding pace
would no. be discovered. Mgr Darboy, how
ever, refused firmly to avail himself OF the
offer. saving TO NJ. Trencard, "the good shep-
herd gives his life for his f1ock," words which
were used by his predecessor, Monselgneur
Afre. who fell on barricade In lS4S.
An alligator's mouth isn't the pleasantest
place in the world for ones head, yet Louis
lana woman tells OF her experience 10 that
frightiul position. Passing through the bushes
near her home the terrified woman was seized
by monster concealed in the bushes, and
after vigorous struggle was drawn into the
water by her powerful enemy. Here the alliga-
tor relinuushed her lacerated arm, and caught
her head between his massive jaws. Thi:
might be considered the end Of the struggle
when the strength Of the beasts jaws is re-
membered. But the woman still resoluteiy
fought her amphibious foe, and, incredible to
saw. reached the bank, and with the aid OF
neighbors escaped the monster. Her wounds
were frightful, the marks made by the teeth OF
the alligator presenting the appearance OF IN
clslons with steel instrument.
"A cable dispatch from London announces
the death of DR.. Carl Marx, the leading spirit
of the International Society, and one of the
most astute political agilators Of the day IN
Europe. He was native of Germany, but
had resided for twenty-five years past in Lon
dom. ON account OF the greater freedom Of ac-
tlon and speech accorded him there than in
GERMANY, France or Belgium, from all Of
which countries he had been at various periods
expelled for his radical political sentiments.
he or r'ginated the International Society in
1854, and with the assistance OF young coun-
tryman named Engels, and Mr.. Cowell STEP
ney, an Englishman, managed its affairs to the
present time. The power welded BY him and
his associates has been immense, extending
among the workingmen of Europe, and its
. Influence as an infamer OF Communistic Re-
publicanism has been rapidly growing, esps-
cially within the past twelve months. Marx
was in his ffty-.hird year.
The Memphis papers give full details OF
the recent tragedy in that city, In which Cap