The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-02
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1872.
NEWS oF THE DAY.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1877.
e:c.dz NEWS OF THE DAP.
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General John. B. Gordon, of Georgia, is
stamping the Northwest In behalf OF Greeley
and reform.
Edwin Booth is preparing to produce KING
John In grand style this winter In New YORK,
and hopes confidently for a hundred nlgns
rum
The British emigration commissioners re-
mort that 1927 Immigrants came INTO mat
country in 1871, OF whom Al, 726 came ron tae
United States, 1897 from British North
America, 1904 feom Australia, ITO from other
places: 1926 were cabin and S6,20l steerage
passengers. 49,,
.lss1t: Ia un~derstoodahat Pauline Lucca is to
place her Jewels and trophies on exhibition at
Tfnany's IeWRelry store in Union Square, New
York. She has the pen presented to her BY
Auosr, with which he wrote FRA Dlavolo;"
crowns In gold and silver; diamonds, too,
not rings and earrings only, but whole neck
laces and stomachers Of gems"
of 3. B. Bullock, Georgla's absconding
Governor, q London (Canada) correspondent
of the New York World writes: 1.-THE Gov
ernor lives In one Of the finest suburban resi-
dences about this city. His house Ia furnished
msgnifcently; his stud Is Of the finest STOCK;
his turnout unsurpassed, and he says he has
concluded to make London his residence for
the future"
1T has already been stated that q number
OF. oolored men are emlgratlDg from Mary
land, Virginia and West Virginia to work on
railroads In Pennsylvania. and, 1t Is int'.aated
pretty, broadly, to vote in the coming election
tor the: Hartranft ticket. Exports to this
effect have been received from Washington
CITY, IHnapoll6and from Pennsylvania, where
In some cases; the names OF the c~o!onists have
been published, = :.
IN. D. Conway says that Ltvlnstone's let
ters are a bitter pill to English orthodoxy, and
they would gladly believe them forgerles, If
possible. Dr.. Livingstone was sent out as a
missionary, and that he should, even for a
moment, think Of the grounded limbs" in
wrought blythe slave k%ldnappers than that
wrought by Satan, fills them with d%esponden-
OF and surprise.
New York telegram of Sunday says:
.Rev. Francis Vlnton, D. D., assistant minis.
ter Of. trinity Parish, died at 2.3O this after.
noon, after a lingering illness, at his residence
in Brooklyn, aged sixty. three years. DR.. Vim
ton was a graduate of West Point in 1880, and
willis stationed attBoston, as o lieutenant of
artillery, studied law. Two or three years
subsequently he served as civil engineer In
several New England railways. He was lad.
mltted TO- the bar of Portsmouth, N. H., in
1883, ,and, was. on duty in The Creek war In
Georgia and Alabama In 1886. In the follow
ing year he left the army and studied for the
ministry, and was ordained a priest Of the
Protestant Episcopal Church In 1889. He and
his brother DR.. Alexander d. Vinton,, have
both distinguished themselves in their high
calling BY their learning and eloquence. =.
in a, late number Of the Contemporary Re-
view, Herbert Spencer combats the Idea that
inebziety.ls on the increase. he describes the
time when men took drugs to increase their
desire for wine; when glasses were SO shaped
thsttheyhadto to be held until emptied; when
q man was reckonea as. . t..two-bortled man,"
a ..three-bottled man." &C.; and when (Mr.
Spencer might have added) one OF tho ,6rsto
Scottish mobiles employed a domestic whose
sole duty it was TO sit under the table and
loosen the neckcloths Of the guests as they
fell from their chairs, 10 order that they might
not suffocate In their drunken sleep. IntoxI-
cation used to be q mark Of honor. 1t is now
a Disgrace Education has driven the evil
from one class after another. It is now al
most exclusively confined to the lowest. AS
Mr.. spencer says, the remedy for it In Eng
land Ia not q "Maine-l law, " but the Introduction
The cholera epidemic, which az one time
Threatened our own shores, still peryades Eu7
rope and Asia with fearful results. The news
which comes from Roumania concerning lts
ravageS can now be contemplated by Ameri-
ans with q compassion which Is not mingled
with apprehension. The latest estimates,
which tx the number of Roumanian victims
at ten thousand, 1t ID to be hoped, are eXag-
gerased. At the same lime, history shows that
that country has always been a favorite play
ground, 80 to speak, for epldemics. The
cities in-that portion OF Europe are filthy and
crowded, and the country isotJen marshy and
unhealthy. The Inhabitants Of the Western
Hemisphere should be peculiarly grateful for
their immunity from this dreadful disease
during asaasouL which has , cen remarkable
for its widespread ravages In other parts of
the globe, Frcm Northern Asia 1t has swept
into India, doing incalculable mischief there, |
and has also spread over Russia. Persia and Tur-
key, and menaced even Germany and Aus
tria. The lateness Of the season precludes the
tear o., its further progress westward. and
even, the districts now being attacked will
probably 5000 obtain relief from natural
causes:
the Cleveland (ohio) Herald gives the
following particulars of the burning of North
ern Ohio insane Asylum, on Wednesday last,
by which six hundred lunatics were turne
out Of their home and nine persons were
crushed and burned to death: SIN the course
OF fifteen or twenty minutes 1t was found that
IN spite OF every effort the flames had worked
d0WnW0rd and u,ara nonidlu' IGproodinO