The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

In Liverpool cotton closed strong; up
lands lla1ltd, Orleans lllallsd; sales 2o'ooo
bales.
1t is intimated that the Hop. Robert
Toombs, Of Georgia, Is in favor Of supporting
Greeley and Brown.
The speaker OF the Massachusetts, House
of Representatives decided recently that 1.-THE
absurdity of a motion was no parliamentary
to It,"
-Episcopalians generally will be Interested
to hear that the contest which has been going
on in England for some tune past concerning
the retention, modification or dscontinuance
of the Athenasian Creed, has ended In victory
for the creed, the votes in convocation being
sixty-two for and seven against It's being
retained. Dean Stanley is, of course, disap-
pointed.
AT Providence, r. l., lately an action was
brought 10 one of the courts to recover sum
of money alleged to have been won IRON tne
plaintiff at faro, by fraudulent practices. The
plaintiff used, as an illustration of the tecnni-
calities of the game, complete faro table,
with lis marking apparatus and silver cue
keepers box, and employed an expert to
demonstrate to the court the various tricks by
which the victims are defrauded by profes-
sional sharpers.
The people of Japan are making rapid pro-
gress In their efforts to shake off old customs.
On the 9th of April, a great national fair was
opened In the sacred City of Kioto, and for the
space of fifty days foreigners were to have
free permission to visit the city, 60 where they
pleased In 1t without restraint, and to exhibit
their goods. This is regarded by foreign resi-
dents of Japan as an important step toward
the tual and complete abandonment of the
old policy of exclusiveness which has so long
been characteristic OF that country.
The Norfolk Vlrglnian of May IL contains
letter from the Hon. John Goode, a member
urine NatlonaI DemUCraCIo commlCtee, cur-
rectlng the statement Of the New York Her.
AIDS letter, that he was urging extreme Dem
ocratic views. Mr.. Goode says that as at pres
ent advised, he is prepared to support the
nomination of the Liberal Republicans, and
Re thinks 1t would be unwise for the Baltimore
Convention to make nominations. James
Barron Hope, the editor, In commenting on
Mr.. Goodies letter, says it prefers "Captaln
Pen to Captain Sword"
The English Antl-Tobacco Society deslr.
ing practical evidence Of the evil effects of to-
bacco, took into their service Professor New
man. This gentleman had never used tobac-
co in any form, and the agreement was that
he should take good smoke, get sick, and
then describe his horrible sensations In
course of lectures. In fulAlment of this, the
professor smoked q pipe for half an hour, but,
singular enough, instead Of getting sick,
awoke to the fact that he had discovered
new source Of pleasure, and, far from being
utterly disgusted, has continued to smoke
ever since, greatly to the encouragement Of
the society.
New York is full of trouble. There were
twenty new cases of smallpox 10 that clty-a
large increase-on Saturday, and seven deaths;
the spotted fever is on the increase; the
croton water is impure, leading to fears of
visit from the cholera; and the street contrac-
tor, one Brown, allows ''dlsgusting heaps OF
filth" to accumulate in the thoroughfares and
spread their foul odors broadcast Desperate
diseases require desperate remedies, and the
Bulletin saggests, as the only effectual cure
for the inef1clency which is running the city,
the radical measure Of hanging two or three
street.cleanlng commissioners, and shooting
the contractor.
IA New York correspondent, writing on
the llth instant, says: 'Rumors come thick
and fast from Washington to prominent poll
tcians here that sw Republican eombina-
don Is on foot whereby, In order to preserve
the unity OF the party, General Grant and Mr.
Greeley both are to he dropped at Philadel-
piua and some new man taken up. The over
tures to that end are sufficiently definite to ex-
cite considerable apprehension on the part Of
the Democratic managers, and there Is much
telegraphiDT In consequence between the
Manhattan Cub, Fifth avenue, and the New
York delegation in Congress. What 1t all
amounts to we shall probably see in a day or
too"
AT Boston recently fhe vane on the steeple
of the East Cambridge Methodist Church, re-
Guir 1g repairs, man named DOORS Yolun-
teered to ascend and throw it down. He
ClthUCu up Wy mCouo VI onluli .ouuOif oho
having accomplished his object, proceeded to
descend. After coming down part of the way
he found himself on tower twenty five feet
above the root of the church, his ladder i'm
movably fixed, and himself quite unable to
move either upwards or downwards. After
remaining some hours, he was at length res
cued from his perilous position by the chief OF
the fire department sounding an alarm and
bringing hoek and ladder company to the
spot, which soon relieved him.
We have heard of great many amphibl-
ous things, from the h!ppcpotanus to the ex-
tinct animals of the earliest ages. We have
read of balloons calculated to carry detacha-
BILE boats, so as to save their passengers If, by
any chance, they should allght In the ocean;
and Wa have seen kind Of broad, boxed iu
wheel, which sanguine Inventor claimed
would carry passengers inside, by curious
self.adjusting arrangement, either over land
or water. Mr.. Burns, of Wisconsin, now
brings before the public the most novel scheme
for combining land and water transportation
that has yet come under our notice. This is