The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-20
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SATURDAY, JANUARY a Ar 2 20 1872.
NEWS OF THED6K.

cold closed strong at s;a94 yesterday. !,
The New York cotton market closed
steady, with uplands at 22t cents; sales 1855
bales. -.
LIN Liverpool cotton closed strong; uplands
lo.d.: Orleans 1OEd.; sales $4,000 bales.
THE Masonic Grand Lodge of Utah has
been organized.
PRINCE Blsmarck's health is said 10 De mo
ronobly undermined. For some time past he
has lived exclusively on liquid food.
Father Hyacinthe is reported to De nope
iessly sick of consumption at Munich, IN Ba'
yarls.
Professor James W. Massie, of the Military
Instltuterat Lexington; YHgiaias died at that
place on the 10th instant.
The students of Moscow who signed The
adIfss in favor of the. liberty Of the press
have been, without exception, oanished TO
Siberia. ..,.,..-. ..#.s
SL-Ir. James Gordon Bennett, Jr., of the
New York Herald, is mentioned as the sue
cessor Of Jas. Fisk, Jr., as colonel OF the stn
regiment. 2t.'.", %
The .william NJ. Tweed Club" of New
York. it is recorded, has erased from lis roll
the names OF William NJ. Tweed, William n.
Tweed. Jr., and Richard Tweed. Possibly,
after while, the club may think Of changing
Its name. -.2!a 9.
qI-Washipgton adyices state That there is q
yery decided difference of opinion among
Southern Republicans. in regard to the pro.
priety of pushing Senator Summers civil
fights bill at the present time. With such
Conflicting opinions it is extremely doubtful
whether the civil rights bill becomes law
this session. 81 'c..s.s,
Y,--Among the remarkable events" Of 1871
will be- recorded the production OF the big
pest gun ever manufactured in England. 1t
Is called the Woolwich Infant, and throws
seven hundred pounds at single discharge,
and when we consider that this Is thrown In
one mass, instead of being distributed among
twenty balls, we may form some notion Of the
effects obtained.
When the German indemnity Is paid,
France will have the, largest national debt OF
any country in the world, amounting In round
numbers to s4, 500; 900, 900, or more than double
the present amount Of the public debt OF the
limited States. An Idea Of this unprecedented
national burden may be formed when we state
tnat it represents sp" equal t" ono -""""rH"
and TWENTY-FIVE dollars per head OF the entire
population Of France.
The humor of the late James FISK, Jr., OF
which so much. has been recently said, Is IL
lnstrated in his.ren'yto body Of his fellow
citizens of lBrattleboro', who wished MIN 10
assist In puttingsa new fence about the very
graveyard in which Fisk was last week buried.
He said to the astounded applicants: "Noi
MT a cent. You don't need fence tnere.
Tbose, that are in are in no danger of breaking
Int.; and those that are out surely have no de-
sire to break In"
a New York letter of the 18th instant says:
.vrbe Indifference with which the presence Of
the small.pox among us has been viewed by the
community al large Will probably bes disturb
ed by the announcement to-day that the pesli-
!. Hence is steadily on the increase. Since noon
. Yesterday therelhay been.eighteen new cases
ina three deaths. The physicians, acting
nnder the instructions of the Board OF Health,
continue to vacclnste all applicants gratis.
During the past week between seven thousand
and eight thousand persons were thus az
,ended'to. j % 6 i:
-Fhe proposed information bureau which
the life insurance companies talk Of organiz-
ing ia expected to prove a very efectnal safe
guard against fraudulent Misrepresentation
on the part Of woqldbe insurers. The plan is
for. the companies to mutually inform each
nther,of all rejected applications for life In
xusance, with the cause of rejection In each
case. As it is now, considerable losses result
from applicants rejected by the medical exam
liners of one company as physically unsound,
succeeding In getting insured in some other
company not so well informed Of the reasons
for rejection.
Daily bulletins are now received from
scamp :Aleyts,n as the bold buffalo raiders
have named their rendezvous on the plains
near North Platte. The gratifying intelligence
of the success of Alexis's first hostile mani
tesEation has already been announced In The
NEWS, and was also forwarded BY cable to the
Dukes anxious relatives in ST. Petersburg.
More accurate details of the saDguinary con-
test ara now at hand. The Duke, Buffalo Bill
and General Custer-all three of size and
armed .cup-d.pie for the fray-dashed of on
their proud and milk-wh!te steeds. Alexis's
costume consisted OF gray jacket and panla-
looms, trimmed with green, the buttons
bearing the Imperial court-of arms, an
Australian turban, pair of monogram
alligator boots, Russian knife and Smith
/ Wesson revolver. Soon the herd OF
accommodating bison wasreached. The gen
erous animals, peroeiyng the royal approach,
remained passive and calmly awaited their
rte. Custer and Mr.. Bill soon found all they
fosuId attend to, and the Duke was lett alone
with believing buffalo of Brobdignagian
aspect. Upon him did Alexis gracefully swoop,
with pistol balls twain, to his utter extermina-
tion.. Then the young hunter alighted, pulled
out bis dagger, removed the tall of his pros
tate foe, and bore it to camp in triumph amid
The eulogiums of the assembled multitude.
Several others, including Count Olzonfef,
also secured trophies, and the very successful
Initiation Of the campaign was celebrated In
the evening by grand war dance, in which
those talented artists, Slgnor Spotted Tail and
Herr Two Strike, took part.
Accounts of the sale Of the Empress Eu-
-,.,, ,a,uola are at hand and verv tIbri-