The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-02-16
Tbe Gbaftestn1t Aems
g FRIDAY FEBRUARY le, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAT.


NEWS OF THE DAE
Gold at New York yesterday closed at lof
IllAFhe New York cotton market closeo
steady; nplands 22f; sales 2l24 bales.
At Liverpool cotton was quieti uplanos
i!11.da1lad: sales 10000 bales; nearly due from
New Orleans at IL 7-l6d; from Savannah OF
Charleston lid.
c.lAThe lCaiho.ic churches destroyed oy the
yChicaxo fire are to be rebniitas soon as the
. building season opens this spring.
-Ptayers were offered last Sunday IN all tne
churches at Sheffield for the prevention OF wal
between England and the United States.
Miss Laura; Keene hes retired from the
,oboafds, and, with Miss Emma Webb and seV'
leral ,other. Ladies', will shortly start q weekly
illustrated literary and socia journal calico
1tae Fine Arts. "a .szsH9f . zr:''" =di aat
The German Government has assigned
S22n.0eO out OF its crown funds to the munich
sI,al council towards the construction OF a Ger
man. theatre ini Etrasbourg, on3the condlton
lufths theatres being completed and opened
before next winter. The municipal council
lchas agreed to the stipulation. g.
Memphis, Tenn, was shaken out OF It's
'propriety early on the morning Of the 9th In
stant, 81 an earthquake which lasted about
one minute and which, created decided sem
satien among the sleepers. No damage was
done, although the usual shaking accompani-;
imen6 ihahtssted themselves, and the occur
hcsssrved for q aday'swender.
7ZaMM III appears that McCarty, the. lon-tamer,
Who's Wi;Hnoss tragic death at Bolton, England, was
recently recorded in TIE NEWS, was under,
The ii influence Of liquor when he entered the
cage with the animals. It was the smell Of bis
,potatlons, driving (as. liquor always does) the
animals wild with rage, and unsteadiness In
the look with which he had been wont to rule
them. THAT occasloned bis speedy destruction.
At an alleged interview, recently held at
'Uhisel6urst, between the ex.Emperor, Napo7
leon and d, a,.oonsiderable parsonage q strong
supporter iip Of The Empire, Louis Napoleon
aner saying that If the French people would
stSeni the Due dAumale as President ne
iiioi would give him his support, as ne himsei olo
not hope for restoration, Is reportea 10 nave
: nttared these remarkable words: "But remem-
her Veil what am about to say to you. IL
-,s,,h.n six months the Duo d'Aumale be not
President of the Republic, and If ne should not
,re.estab.ish the regime of 1852, France Will
come to fetch me, and-she, will find me-"
The culture Of RICE is now attracting 'ne
attention Of the agficulturalsts Of California
,n which State three hundred million pounds
of,,Ice impor,ed from Asiatic countries are
consumed. every year, the average price
being seven cents per pound. In the valleys
5of the San Joaquin aud Sacramento Rivers, lt
is,reported there are extensive swamp LANDS
well suited to the culture of rice, the climate
,a.so being favorable and the soil rich enough
to insure good crops; The failure OF a pre-
,y,ous experiment In the. rice culture, made IN
1870, 1t Ia stated, was due to the fact that tne
seed was planted too late, and that the young
crop was therefore killed by the frost.
To another modern Borgla!- VIII the
slIae stretch out to the crack of doom !? From
louisville this latest story comea, and 1t ls to
the effect that some twelve years ago there
came to that city from Germany young ana
beautiful girl named Catherine Melchior. She
subsequently went to the village of Rockport,
further up the river, and obtained service IN
the family Of an old and wealthy farmer named
Sharp. About two years afterward Ars Snarp
7;tiied very suddenly. After mourning for her
.Gdeath for an appropriate period, Mr.. Sharp
.<belhought him to marry his .comely mousse
keeper, and she coyfy consented on condilon
that he would deed her bis farm, valued az
about TWENTY-FIVE thousand dollars and GER
tain moneys and other property. This the old
siman agreed to do, and Undue course OF time
, All the necessarO papers for the transfer were
legally drawn and placed In Catherine's hanas'
Then the wedding took place, and for year
-'G, or two the affairs of the new household pro-
iaressed prosperously, when Sharp also grew
suddenly sick and died. The rich widow, SILL
Young and beautiful, was before many months
soueht aud obtained 10 marriage by Mr.. Batch
ellor. Of Evansville, who after two or three
Years went the way Of all preceding flesh.
ibout this time the similarity OF the com
,.n,aints wherewith all three of these persons
. ,had come to their death began to attract public
attention, and the usual e1humaaon' ols'
coyery Of poison, and arrest OF the woman
tiueedily followed. The trial will commence
On the 2sth Inst.
Hard upon the tidlngs received fe"
:. weeks ago of the assassination OF the chiel
ius,ice of India comes the news OF the killing
in that country of Earl Mayo, governor-gene'
: raj OF India, who fell at the hands of a Aussu'
!, man convict. The assassination ofthis distln'
q guIshed peer occurred on February 9Th, while
he was inspecting the Burmese fort (at PORT
Belair, Andaman Islands,) with his staff. The
, deceased statesman, the Right Hon. Richard
{ Southworth Bourke, VI. p, better known as
Lord Mas, was born in Dublin in 1922, and
was chief secrs tary for Ireland In each o.
Lord D.rby's three administrations, being
known as Lord Mas till, on the death of hls
father, five or six years ago, he
succeeded to the ealldom. His ap
pointmens to be governor-general OF India
In the last days of Mr.. Dlsraelrs power was
quite unfavorably received, the opinioa pre-
yalling for awhile the Immediately succeeding