The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-02
Tbe GbarleSton NemS.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1872.
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

An Alabama man and woman, eiShty-elgh
and seventy. eight years old, were recent!
Joined for life.
The government will buy one million o
bonds each Wednesday, and sell one million o
gold each Thursday, during the month Of Sep
TENDER.
"A bridge sixty-three hundred and ninety
feet 10 length, and the largest In Germany, Ii
shortly to be built across the Rhine at Vessel
The London street railroad companies ap
"A plan has been matured in Titusvllle
Pa, to prevent new oil developments for BIZ
months. Nearly all producers will sign a let
ter to take measures 10 enhance prices.
pear to be making a good thing OF 1t. DiVi
dends at the rate of seven per cent. per an
mum have been declared already.
-Strakoseh has made up his operate com
pany for the coming season. 1t will include
tCarlotts Patti, Teresa Careno, Miss Carey, n
Laurel, Signor Dell Ponte and the famou!
Mario.
Charles o'C nor was visited by fully
dozen reporters In New York on Thursday
He refused to talk with any OF them, merel!
observing that he had decided not to make
known In advance his political purposes.
The Western Iron and Western Nall Ass0'
Citations held meetings ut PitlsburS on Friday,
the result of which was the decision TO raise
the price. of iron and nails. The price of Iron
viii be advanced four dollars on previous
rates, and nails twenty. FIVE cents perkeg.
Professor Tyndall has perfected a new
respirstor for lremen, In which tho solid par
ticles OF the densest smoke are arrested by
films of cotton wool wetted with glycerlne,
and the most pnugent gas by layers Of char
coal. By this simple means, tiremen can
remain within a burning building for upwards
of an hour at o time, with safety and comfort,
30 far as their respiration Is concerned.
The New York Herald, OF Thursday, says
In Its stock market report: 1.-THE Southern
State bonds were neglected and generally
steady. The new South carolinas were ex-
csptIonally active and at the same time heavy,
some pretty spirited buying falling to advance
the July issues beyond 25.", The Herald of
Friday reports new Sonlh Carol;nas ''heavy,"
With q wide difference between the vlews Of
buyers and ssllsrs.
REV. Father Preston, Of st. Anne's Church,
10. New York City, has been nominated for
the blshSprlc of Newark, N. j., rendered
vacant by the elevation Of The Right Rev. DR..
BRyley to the primary. Father Preston, like
the new archbishop OF Baltimore, was former
II a member OF the Episcopal Church. He
and the Rev. DR.. Forbes embraced the Cathol-
ID faith nearly q quarter OF q Century ago,
and both entered the priesthood. The late
Archbishop Hughes appointed him chancellor
of his diocese, an~oflce which he still holds.
He Is the author of several standard Catholic
works, and bears a high reputation In literary
circles.
"A New York correspondent ofthe Chicago
Trlbune writes that the health of Manton Mar
BILE. Of the New York World, for a long while
seriously impaired, Is growing worse instead
OF better. The writer says: ''The exact
nature OF his disease does not seem to be
known. He appears, as I understand, to be
completely broken down; hls physicians have
nohope of his recovery, and, indeed, fear that
he cannot live six months longer. 1t Is fully
q wear since he has been able to do any edi-
torial work, and he has been confined to his
house for some time past. Mr.. Marble Is still
young-little more than forty-and has had
such a sudden and rapid rise In journalism,
that 1t Is a pity he shorld be early removed
from the prosperity he has achieved. 1t Is
hardly twelve years since he was employed
upon the Evening Post, Of this city, at a salary
of twenty-five dollars a week, and tor three
years past he has been the sole controller and
owner of the World, now become a very hand.
some property. If MT. Marble should die, as
Is generally feared, his newspaper will, doubt
less, be offered for sale, as he Is a widower,
and, I believe, without children or near rela-
tiYes to whom he would be likely to bequealh
the Journal"
M. THEIRS has cast his glance over the
prospective scene OF the meeting of the En-
perors at Berlin and delivered his views
thereon. For himself or his country he has
no apprehension. There are to be three OF
them present, and it is in politics as in love;
something Is sure to follow when two are to.
gether, but when three are In company moth
ing can come of 1t. Moreover. when he visit
ed the European capitals, during the war,
he was well received by tho Emperor OF AN-
tria, as he expected TO be, for he was almost
the only person In France that he'd predicted
that when Austria was made powerless, q COM
pact, menacing. irresistible Prussia would be
created. At st. Petersburg he was received
with no less cordially, and the Car told II.
Theirs that his own ambition was strangely
misunderstood If any suspected him of enter
tanning schemes Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and con,
quest; for, said he, ~ do not lack territory;
what 1 want Is men. 1 have too much land.
1 have not inhabitants enough. There is no
population at all on some parts of my domln-
ion." III ..Thiers sees In Emperor William q
rare good quality in q monarch, which leads
him, when once he has selected O man whose
talents may be useful to him, to bear with
almost anything rather than lose him. He
thinks that nobody has done the King of Italy
Justice, for he Is not only a 'h~ail-tellow-well.
met, but the %astutest, able st and most statee-
manlIke monarch in all Europe"
The American Science Congress la in ses-
aion at Dubuque discussing subjects OF inter-