The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-08-30
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 80, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAP.

NEWS OF THE DAP.
Traces of an ancient coal pit are reported
to-bave been discovered on the eastern coast
ofAfrica.
The Italian governments Is exerting itsell
TO stop the traffic in hurdy-gurdy and tam
BOURNE children.
in Massachusetts forty per ceRt OF the
population are depositors In savings banks,
the aggregate being 56l, POI, out Of total Oh
only I,45r, 900 inhabitants.
The North Carolina apple crop Is 80 aoln-
dant that In Orange county, the Hillsooro'
Recorder says, thousands OF barrels are leit 10
rot on the ground.
l..Mesdames Adelina Patti, Nilsson, Volpini
and slgnor Graziana are now engaged for
Russia at the rate OF sle00, sl4OO, $500 and
ssea per month ssveraliy.
The .arst songs Nilsson sang on the day OF
her wedding were negro melodies learned In
this country, accompanying herself with a
bsnjo given her in New York.
The artificial production OF Ice In New Or
leans Ia said to be success, and has been the
means OF reducing the price TO eight dollars
per ton. The works give employment to one
hundred men. and turn out seVenly-hVe
tons Of Ice every twenty fur hours.
The pos.ponement Of an apporlionment
hill by the Georgia Legislature deprlves four
counties Of representation. A bill has been
accordingly introduced to maintain the princl-
plea of l77e. and relieve those counties from
taxation.
The Troy Press says: "Robert Lincoln,
son of President Lincoln, Is strongly for Gree
ley. In n<conversallou recently with bosom
friend or his father he remarked, If father
was living he would take an active part for
Greeley"
DIR. Abaker, known familiarly In Europe
as .Bismarck's PEN" on account OF his inli-
mate official relations to the famous states
man, has Just died In Berlin. he wrote the
PrussIan dispatches to Benedeiti at Ems,
which induced the war with France. and the
/ st one from Versailles, which closed The
truggie. s.ss
What Ia known in England as ""Baby
Farming has been the source Of innumerable
evils An act OF Parliament, 10 60 Into effect
on IuB nrsr of November, piuorr the houses
.recsIving for hire two or more Infants for
the purpose Of nurslng," under strict regnla'
tlons. The punishment tor any offence COM
m,ttei under the act is imprisonment for not
more than slx months, with or without hard
labor, or q Hne of twenty-five dollars.
The lAlsaclsns and Lorralners are not
enlyretainlng their French nationality With
striking unanimlty, but are also sendisg their
children into France to be educated. A re-
cent train from strasbourg TO Nancy had on
board two hundred Alaaclen youths, who had
been sent By their parents to finish their STU
dies In France. They were accompanied by
twenty professors, who we're bent upon shak-
ing the allen dust OF Alssce from their feet.
The postofice department has just COM
plsted the adjustment OF salaries Of postmas-
ters not amounting to four thousand dollars
per annum. The law provides that all sala-
ries not reaching above these figures shall be
adjusted every two years. based upon the
business done by each office, and that where
there Is an increase there shall be cores
ponding Increase Of salaries. The present
adjustment shows that the increase In the
postal business 10 some OF the States has been
enormous, and that some offices which the
ad,nstment OF two years ago allowed the
postmaster salary OF only hfty dollars per
annum, have Increased to such on extent as
TO nov admit Of q salary OF over twelve hun.
dred dollars. The aggregate increase Of sala-
ries 10 the whole country under the present
adjustment as compared with the one made
two years ago, is fraction less than eight
hundred thousand dollars.
-aHork by Herr Gleske on 1.-THE Hnmo-
rons Element In. German Law" was recently
published ut Berlla, and contains, among
other Interesting matter, descriptions of the
punIshmeflis tc which dellnquents were sub
jected "a old tImss. However ludicrous some
OF these inflctions may seem to the Germans
OF BIsmarck's day, they must have been any.
thing but funny to those who suffered them
Up to the middle OF the seventeenth century
II was the custom In Hesse 10 seat woman
who had be sten her goodman on donkey,
facing the tall, which she was made to grasp
firmly, and in this position she went through
the town, her husband leading the donkey.
Men who perslstently allowed themselves to
be henpecked had the roofs of their honses re-
moved. on The ground that the man who per-
mlta his wife to rule at home does not deserve
to be protected from wind and weather.
Slanderers and Abellers were made to stand In
public on block, and strike themselves three
times on the mouth, as token of repentance.
Russia Is reported to be preparing an ex-
pedItion against Khiva, portion of Eastern
Turkestan. The Government Of 81. Peters,
burg is said to have long been dissatisfied with
the Independent airs assumed by the Khan Of
KhIvs, and some months ago sent him an ul.
timatum, demanding number OF concessions
which wonld practically reduce KhVa to the
position OF q dependency OF Russia. The Khan
received the messenger with Oriental polite
ness, heaping all sorts of honors upon him,
and giving him two Russian prisoners, ,ne Of
whom was colonel; but he paid no attention
whatever to The terms of the ultlmatum. The
government has accordingly directed the COM
manaant of the Caucasus to reconnoitre the
roada LEADING IN KhiyB and provide provisions