The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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NEWS OF TIE DAY.
Gold at New York closed strong at l23a
1s3c.
The New York cotton market closed nom
inal; upIands ls5c; sales 57s bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed dull; uplands
Sid; sales 10000 bales i'.
The Punishment of Victor Hugo from
Brussels is neatly compressed by Punch init
'victor-you 60"
The Emperor and Empress of Brazil vii
make visits TO Bayonne, Paris, Germany, Eng
land and Italy, and return to Brazil in Februa
~ next.
About fifty thousand canary birds, mostly
reared in the Hartz Mountains, have been ex'
ported from Germany to America, by way o.
Bremen, this season.
Near Marsellles they manufacture in a fac
tory paper: from hop vines. The paper is vesy
white, strong, soft and flexible, and sald to be
much liked in Southern France.
The Paris Artists Union has received from
an EnglIshman s2Sl3 in gold as a prize for the
best picture, to represent England sending
provisions to Paris, after the siege.
-Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni was per.
formed the four hundreth time April Gath, and
Schiller's drama, 1.-THE Maid of Orleans" the
three hundredth time May Sd, at Berlin.
"A citizens association of Cologne mas re.
solved to present General Moltke with a bar
rel OF the very best 'eau de Cologne" from the
renowned firm OF Johann Maria Farina, con-
talning about Sc zen thousand bottles.
Punch announces the arrival of the follow
ing cargo extraordinary A vessel arrived at
. Liverpool on the 18th ultimo, having on
board a hundred cases Of cigars and TWO cases
of measles.
"A shooting affair cam of on Friday after
noon last at Richmond, Va, in which a man
named John Seay shot another named Geo.
Epps in the head near the left eye. The physi-
clans are hopeful OF his recovery. Both parties
fired two shots. Seay Is In custody.
-Hostilltles have broken out amongst the
rival clans in the Fejee Islands, and caunibal'
ism INDUCED in to an unlimited extent by the
Leroni faction who recently professed Chris
.tianity. King Thakamaha is getting his forces
ready to attack the revolving cannibals.
The curative power of excitement was Gu
flously illustrated the other day in o Connecti-
cut hospital. a rheumatic patient, suddenly
discovering the corpse Of a suicide in the next
cot 10 his own, sprang out and ran nimbly
out of the room, without stopping to say
ssGood morning. to his crutches.
"A steam yacht, Lady of the Lake, has been
built in New York for Brigham Young, and in
tended to ply on Salt Lake and the River Jor-
dan. The yacht is thirty feet long, with ten
feet beam, seven feet. cabin depth, weighs
seven tons, aud; draws eighteen Inches Of
water. She has been sent West By railroad.
The Pacific Railway Excursion Company
have made arrangements for q trans-contlnen-
tai excursion at the least possible cost, viz I:
$ls3 fare for the round trip from New York to
San Francisco and sl9I from Baltimore. The
excursion train will be composed exclusively
of Pullman palace d~rawing-room and sleeping
coaches.
In the Brazilian Chambers a vote has been
taken on the clause of the speech from the
throne relative to the emancipation of slaves
belonging to the crown, and resulted In q ma
4 orlty of twenty-eight for the government.
The debate upon the emancipation bill itself
.has.not yet commenced.
AT one of the ''labor conventions" held In
Washington during the strike, a contractor
made a speech exhorting his hearers to work
In the interest Of harmony and peace"
Wherupon an able-bodied striker sprang 10 his
feet with the exclamation, 'Yes sab! OATS
what we want; hominy and peas! but whe can
get 1t wild a dollar an a half a day?
An ~..oracle" at New Orleans, discussing
on the wonders of the Mississippi, me ntioned
the iron coffin of De Soto, containing the
golden trumpet given him by Queen Victoria.
/. .sWhat % exclaimed one, mot Queen VIC
toria ~ "Yes, sir, Queen Victoria" "Why,
abe wasn't born then by two hundred years or
more.n 81 don't care If she wasn't" was the
bold reply, 81 reckon she could leave 1t In her
will
The Memphis Avalanche gives the follow
ing account of the way Memphis jurymen kill
time: Every day a number of men-jury-
men-can be seen busily engaged in playing
that game, which All Sin did not understand,
In one of the rooms of the Second Circuit
Court. It is very thrilling to watch the buck
cts OF perspiration flow from the marble brows
of the players, when the wrong man puts down
the right bower"
The Grand Orient, Supreme Council Of
Freemasonry for France and the French pos
sessions, has repudiated and disoWned the acts
of the Paris Free Masons who made them
selves prominent In their efforts at Cancellation
during the Commune. The proclamation OF
the Grand Orient to this effect refers to them
as "a group OF Free Masons, OF calling them
selves such, but recruited Tor the most part
one knows not where"
The total number of physicians who paid
taxes to the government for the year ending
April 80, 1871, was 49,79s. OF these there
were regular or allopathic, 5000; homeopa-
THO. 296l; hydropathic, 1873; eclectic, 1880; mis-
cellaleous or not classified, Alto. These
figures show that the number engaged in the
profession has been over-estimsted. The usual
guess at the number Of homeopaths has been
10000. 1t is believed that the government
list is very full and accurate, as 1t Is not easy