The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-23
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1872.
VIEWS OF TIE DAP.
The streets OF Jerusalem ore now reported
to be- lighted with gas.
Light coats and dark trowsers are com
Ing into fashion in England.
Worth, the Partisan dressmaker, Is pahk
rupt. a.
"A large dry goods firm in New York Ole
bns,ness last week amounting to three million
dollars.
The death is announced, In his eighty.
third year, of Captain W. D. Evans wei
known among chess-players as the inventor
of the s'Evans gambie." -
The Japanese utilize their condemned
Two Yeddo policemen sentenced to death fer
murder, were set up as targets on the Yeddo
rife range. I'll f. .-.ss -.
"A powerful body Of English manufacturer
are forming a company for shipping ove'
American coal. It can be imported from Amer
lea at less price than they are now paying.
None but .!pladies of good moral charac
terri are invited to compete for the prizes
offered at the MIddlesex (M~assachusetts)
County Fair for the best specimen Of female
strsddlewlse equestrianIsm.
THE morning and evening Journals OF Lon
dor. which. have the largest circulatlon-the
Daily Telegraph and the Echo-are at present
conducted BIZ. swo brothers, Messrs. Edwin
and Arthur Arnold. "
so extensively is the adulteration of3tea
now carried on In China, that Mr.. Medhurst,
the British consul at Shanghai, recently wrote
that ffty-.hree thousand pounds OF Willow
lesyea were in course of manipulation at one
port alone, to be mixed with tea for shipment.
at the ratio Of from ten to twenty per cent.
Fashionable hats and bonnets for ladies
differ only In name. The same article, when
worn we'll forward. on the head and the
strings tied behind, becomes a hat; and II
pushed far, enough back to show the coronet
braid and the iafantile onrls brushed over the
forehead, with the strings, and tied under the
chin, It becomes q bonnet. &aasr
-MonsieurE de Parls-that Is to say, the
headsman of Parls-is a ane-looking man, VIC
ALWAYS dresses 10 faultless broadcloth on the
scafold. When his attendants fasten the poor
wretch to the fatal board on the gulllotine, he
Whispers to him In the suaVest manner:
NCourage, my friend, 1t will not hurt you
much n
- Magazines multiply In England With mar
yelous rapidity. Very recently the appear
ance Of the ct Cetera was announced, and
now stu another magazine Is to be started
name not given. The capital Is seyenty-hve
thousand dollars, and 1t is said a duke sub
soribes twenty-five thousand dollars OF this
amount. The new venture Is to be political
In character, and Mr.. Jenkins, author of
"Ginx's Baby Is to be'the editor. The high
character Of many Of the British magazines
ia an honor to literature. Sir Charles Dixie
Ia about. to become the proprietor of Notes
and Queries, and the editorial department OF
that journal will hereafter be In The hands OF
DIR. Doran. Notes and Queries was established
twenty-thrse years ago.
-Agsult of great Importance to builders has
BEEN decided In the New York Court OF Com
mon Pleas. A brick mason agreed to build q |
heuss and charge Sc per thousand for laying
the brick. When he came to measure the
brick he measured all the openings, windows,
doors, 60, as solid work, making his bill
$1,000 larger than 1t would have been had he
only measured the solid wall. The man for
whom the work was done refused to pay this
$1,000, and the mason brought suit to force the
payment, pleading the custom Of brlckmasons
In bis favor. The court decided that he had
nj, legal right to charge for laying brick that
were never laid. This decision Is important
to builders and contractors, as other State
courts would. be likely to follow the decision
and precedent set by the New York court.
The high price of coal In England has
already affected the number of ocean-g0lng
steamers leaving the Mersey. It Is also UNDER
stood that one Of the Oldest and most lnluen-
tisl of the steamship lines have already made
arrangements and entered into contracts to
take all their coal for use on board their YES
sells on the American side; in fact, they will
shortly commence to load at Plcton, where
tie coal can be put on board at eight shillings
per ton, the present price of steam coal at
Cardiff being lhirty-ave shIllings per ton,
which is c~ertalHly a great difference when
compared with the quotations at Plcton. The
same firm have: also determined to lay mp,
until better times, four or five of their steam
ers, and many other smaller firms intend to
follow the action of the larger ones, until the
price OF coal will permit them to run their
steamers to advantage; the enormous advance
In the price of coal, combined with the in
creased rates of dues for the passage of the
/. 6ue1 Canal, have had a most detrimental
effect on the number Of steamers leaving
Liverpool for the east, via the canal. The
number OF steamers at present in berth, for
India and China, is remarkably small.
Tho New York Express says: 1.-THE tesli-
mony of Miss Anne Keenan,, produced at the
Forester examination on Wednesday, ls GER
tainiy remarkable. The witness has an extra
ordinary memory. She never saw the prison.
or but once, and then only obtained a single
glimpse. of his features. 1t was dark at the
time, and yet this one glance conveyed such a
strong Impression to her mind that at the end
Of two years she Is prepared to come forward
and swear distinctly that the man she saw
under these circumstances Ia undoubtedly
William Forester. What attracted her atten-