The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-06
Tbe CHARLESTON 9eWs,
TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1871.
NEWs:.0F TIE DAK.

NEH6.OF TIE OAK.
Cold closed in New York, yesterday, at l2.
Cotton closed active and e1edted4n New
York: uplands lst cents; safes 6s4l bales.
In Liverpool cotton closed firm; uplands
8 astd, Orleans 84d; sales 10000 bales.
San Francisco's great park contaios three
hundred acres.
Secretary Seward Is on his way to Europe
from India.
The Boston brokers have started an open
stock board.
"A handsome cottage at New York Is built
upon q rock, and has an iron band which goes
across the roof and fastets the house securely
down to the rock.
There is a rumor that college for women
Is to be established at Cambridge University,
England, in order to give the students all the
advantages which that ancient seat of learn
Ing affords, such as the lectures of the UniVer-
sity professors, the classical and mathematical
courses, and the use of the library.
From a recent English special report it ap-
pears that Mary is the most popular Christian
name, William ranking next. or 1000 600 chill.
dren, half boys and half girls, 6s19 bore the
name of Mary, $3.50 william, $3.50 John, 46l7
Elizabeth, 1876 Thomas. There was only 1881
Arthurs, 1882 Alfreds, and ITO Edwards in the
lot.
The West istmore completely inundated
with people seeking work than the large cit
les of the East. A great many New England
ers. having tried the experiment are returning
to their native heaths, fully satisfied that bleak
and unproductive az their old homes are, they
are to be preferred to the inhospitasle whds
and rude society Of the far West.
Another instance of the purchase and sale
of a wife has been revealed In England. The
woman who applied to the stipendiary mage-
,trate for a relief, Said that the purchaser, who
had recently deserted her, bought her of her
husband twenty-five years ago.. ~ratify!ng the
transaction by standing in that gentleman's
shoes for a few months:
Brown linen cuffs are said to be coming
into favor. The story was probably started oy
"a man whose linen was 300 limited to be kept
immaculate. We shall look out for the an
nouncement that rumpled shirt-fronts are get
ting fashionable, and that collars with o dark
streak where they turn over are much worn.
There is In Manchester, England, a
nouueuu richie, one. Mendel, a cotton broker,
who is a very great patron of art, besides
maintaining a great stable of thoroughbred
hofses, surprising that of many Of the English
nobility. The jewels belonging to the wife OF
this person are said to excel those Of any titled
dame of England, not excepting the famous
gems of the Countess of Dudley.
"A Versailles letter states that the most In
tolerable decentralization exists IN the provin-
cial towns of Frames: The people are Idle and
do not wish to work. Discipline fatigues them.
All business, public and private, is conducted
in the Ioosest' manner. Everything is topsy-
turyy. Having contracted idle habits during
the war, the people now. seem distressed at
the bare idea; of labor for self-support.
One effect of the Prusians occupation OF
the Champagne, district has been toriscreese
enormously the exports Of brandy to England.
The bonded stock Of brandy there now amounts
to nearly la,Noe;soOs gallons; the bonded stock
to the end of last quarter amounted to upward
of 4 500, 900 gallons more than the previous
year, and these enormous imports still continue
on the same scale.
-Ayeung lady of cambridge, New York,
made a bargain with Curtiss, Cooper some III
teen years ago, whereby she was to have a
isewe lamb Ind Its increase until she was
twenty-one years old" in exchange for a gold
watch key. She was but six years of age at
the time, and now sues Mr.. Cooper for lS,O64
lambs, or their value, which, at 81 per head
is s64, 1926.
The mail accounts given Of the explosion
of the cartridge factory In the Champ de Mars
in Paris show the horrible nature OF that c.
tsstrophe.. About two hundred women and
children were killed, and the utmost conster-
nation was caused all ever'the city by the ex-
plosion. People at a distance from the scene
were killed by the force Of the conclusion, and
the dreadful event plunged the entire city in
gloom.
Although the Germans In Metz make every
effort to conclliate the citizens of their newly
cenauered-territory, they make no progress in
this direction. They complain that they are
nowhere received as friends In Alsace. The
garrison at Metz includes both Prusslans and
Bayarians. Since the war the natural antago-
.,tsm between these two has asserted Itself,
and many quarrels occur between the Soldiers
of.these different natlonalitles. So virulent.
are they htheir conduct to each other, that il.
has been found necessary to keep them as far
rom each other as possible.
in Baltimore the "Smith Family" an
nounce. that they have made arrangements
f or their first seml-apnual excursion, u which
is to take place e Tuesday, under the SUI
per1ntendence OF a committee of arrange
ments, embracing Grandfather George n.
Smith, Father, Jalhls p. Smith Uncle James
H. B. Smith, Nephew Charles q. c. Smith,
Brother Vim. H. H. Smith, Brother Robert NJ.
W. Smith, Brother Thomas b Smith, Brother
Joseph L. Smith. Ballet Master-George W..
NJ. Smith. The music is To- be by ''Smith'S
celebrated band, y and al the ''Smiths, Slny his,
Schmi,ts, schmlds, Schmldts, Schnilzs,
Smidts, and Slnitts" are invited to attend.