The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-12-30
NEWS OF TIE DAY.


NEWS OF THE DAY
AT San Antonio, Texas, apples are sA
barrel and beef two cents pound.
The Bill Posters National Convention Ii
TO be held at Cincinnati January 10.
Marguerite Bellanger, OF odorlferous re
putation In Louis Napoleon's court, Is dead II
Paris, lits M s-f=s3
Memphis has city debt OF over $4,000,
900; and there Ii grievous complaint because
noarrsngement has been made to pay the
interest. - p .s"s s.
Archbishop Bayley, OF Baltimore, is too IL
to receive visitors. Bis complaint ia Brighti
dissass of the kidneys, from which no person
was ever known to recover.
LIN Washington the annual "egg-noge
war; 10 aow being fought upon the question
Of what people are to drink at New Year re.
eeptions. 80 ,is,.s -,
The horse on which Cardigan rode when
helesd the famous charge OF the light brigade
has just died, aged thirty. He survived his
gallant master four years.
Twelve Indians were hung In row In
Texss:recentlytor driving. of ofsurreptltious beef.
After having their faces washed, eleven turned
QUITO be white men.
-Women's rights are practically exempli-
hedirspafh. correspondent thus describes
tbs loading of iron ore at Bllboa: ut Is 8
curious sight toasse the women loading the
ships with their bulky icargoes, carrying it In
baskets on their heads, singing gayly the
!. while, and tripping up and down the steep
plankswith their short pettlcoats, brown bare
legs and straight supple backs; .;F
The New York Herald says: s:Ex-speaker
Orr, of South Caru1na, has arrived In Waah-.
ington, to receive his Instruction sas Minister
t0Rissa, and Is being wined and dined by his
old congressional acQualntances aad by the
Russian Legation there" And the Washington
Star of Friday tell Us: '.Ex.G Gov. Orr, Of South
Carolina, our new Mlnlster to Russia, called
upon the President to day, with whom he had
. long interview. he expects to sail for st.
Petersburg In January. Sex
r--Perley, writing from Washington to the
Boston Journal, says: The high church ladies
ofthis diocese are rejoicing over the arrival
at Baltimore aof three Protestant Episcopal
Sisters Of All Saints. A house Is being fitted
up for their residence, and it is expected that
several ladies of Maryland and this district
viii soon, join the sisterhood. They devote
thsir time to prayer and good works, espe-
cislly to administering unto the siok and In
structing poor children:
The game Of billiards has long been de-
ssribed as one Of the arts, and It's skilled prac-
titionero are termed professors. A novel
professor has turned up In. Chicago, whose
method Of playing is somewhat curious one.
FEse ohslking the end Of his nasal organ, he
ispermitted to play with either Of the white
bsllsaGnd to place 1t as he sees ft. He then
pusheshis bah against the object balls and
seldom falls to effect carom. Friends;
"Whata nose he must have" as the wolf said
10 Little Bed Riding Hood.
Mrs. Edwin Forrest, the trasedlan's wife
was, according to the statement OF q reporter,
at her husbands funeral. He says: 'Sltting
at the window facing Broad street, aud with
no one near her, her arms resting llstlessly
upon her knees, her-hngers nervously drum.
ming and toying each other, was .Cstharine
Sinclair, the divorced wlfe of the dead. II any
one knew who she,wss they appeared to keep
their distance, She arrived yesterday morn
Ing spd entered the house; at hall lfpasttw twelve.
She was dressed In deep mourning, with. o.
double black Grape veil flowing: nearly to her
feet. She noved. nervously towards the rear
parlori where the remains were lying. There
were, but fvs or six persons in the room.
Throwing aside her veil, she stood for nearly
ten minutes, placed her-hand upon hia head,
snd followed the arm down to the hand, which
she grssped Tfor few minutes. Then she
glidedtoward the foot ofthe coffin and plucked
one ortwo flowers from the cross which lay
upon the dead mans feet. She then moved
rapidly. to the front parlor. where she was
seated until the coffin left the house,
-Barnum's museums seem fated to be
destroyed by fire. Four times within the last
twenty.one years they have been reduced to
ashes and ruins. These four occasions In
clude the destruction In 1851 Of the museum at
tho southeast corner Of Seventh and Chestnut.
in Philadelphia, founded by Barnum, but
which, we believe, had passed into other
ownership before that fire. Since then, and
within the last seven years, three others have
been burned down in New York, beginning
with the famous establishment on the corner
OF Broadway and Ann street, where the New
York Herald Office and Park Bank now stand;
the next was on Broadway. near Prince
street; and the fourth is that Of Christmas
morning. The loss In each instance has been
heavy, but his motto as to fires is "Resurgam,"
and he might With great propriety adopt the
rphoanlx" asGhls crest. His misiortunes BY
Ere are very much to be regretted, for w.t.:
considerable spice Of humbug, which he
frankly conlesses, he has nevertheless fur
nished the public with q great amount Of
wholesome amusement and interesting In
formation. -
"A French physician, in recent essay Oh.
ohloral hydrate, states tnat 1t can be employ
ed IN all cases OF sleeplessness without fever;