The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-03

kE MI. WuIIAE II. SlMAoNS, JI.i 40 sns
travelling agent for The NEWS, for souti
Carolina.
NEWS OF THE DAP.
Gold closed on Saturday at At.
cotton closed firm in New York; uplands
26s cents.
Cotton in Liverpool closed steady; uplands
llsallad. - -,
The first street railroad In Florida Will
shortly be opened at Cedar Keys.
The military system Of Prussia, with some
notifications, is TO be adopted In Japan.
1t Is reported that the New York kstrike
wilfsxtend to Philadelphia and Baltimore dur
Ing the present week.
George F. Clark, balloOnlet of Noyes's Cir
Gus, fell fifty feet, at Memphis, on Saturday
He will probably die.
The Shelby Female College, atshelbyville
KY, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night
Loss about SIS, 900. z.
-Advices from Peneacola, Fla, reports thai
Mr.. Stephen R. Mallo.y, OK. Confederate secre
tary Of the navy, has declared his intention u
work and vote for Greeley.
The carpenters and masons of Boriin
Prussia, who recently struck, have nao tnel
demands acceded TO by the masters. Their
nav Is now one dollar. and twenty cents for
dsy of ten hours.
The cable announces the death, In Lon
don, of Mr.. Frank Key Howard, tor many
years the principal editor OF tho Baltimore
= Gazette and It's predecessor, the Daily Ex.
change. He had been In Europe, for some
time, In pursuit Of health.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott, vice president of
the Pennsylvania Road, has been ordered by
his physician to stop work If he would live.
The president Of the road has, gone to Europe
for his health, aud the second vice. president
has been taken TO an Insane asylum. Railroad
men work too fast.
AA New York letter says: "Cat-g;ass is
again becoming very fashionable, an6 chande-
llers, used quarter Of century, are now be-
ing reinroduced. Tiffany offers whole sets
for boudoirs, including tempting Venetian
mirrors. at some of the recent dinner par
ties, glassware entirely superseded china, the
plates, vegetable dishes, &c, being all of solid
cnt-glass. These were, of I urse, most bril-
liant and effective by gaslight."
-Fnlly nine-tenths of the Democratic news
papers in the United States are favorable to
the adoption of the Cincinnati nominations at
Baltimore. Every Grant paper in the country,
without exception, Is desirous that the Demo-
Gratis should nominate q straight Democratic
ticket. The significance of these facts Is too
obvious to require comment. They tell the
whole story In afew words, and so plainly that
no one can mistake Its meaning.
The Metropolitan Greeley and Brown Cam
paign Club has been organized in Richmond,
Va, with aue list of members. The presi-
dent Is Franklin Stearns, thorough Republi-.
can Among the vice-presidents are Judge.
Robert Ould, Judge John A. Meredith, General
J.D. Imboden, General Bradley T. Johnson.
W..B. .Isaacs, WINS. White, and other promi.
nent citizens. The other officers are all gen..
tlemen well known and highly respected In
that community and throughout the State. It.
Is expected that not less than one thousand
members will be enrolled in this club within.
the next four weeks. - = , - ''so
The Emperor of China is at last to take g.
Wifa and organize haren, or rather have
one organized for him. AS preliminary the
Expresses Dowager have published three de-
crees, one naming the empress elect, another
appointing three ladies Of the harem, and the
third ordering the astronomical board to select
lucky day In October ior the marriage. The
future empress Is named Alule, Mongol by
descent, and the daughter of Chung Chi, an
officer OF the Haniin College, whose father
was q Mandarin of high rank. One of the
three ladies Is an aunt of the bride and the:
0inNr. two are daughters of subordinate off,
eisls s.. :; -..tss :. I, Z -
10 Among the matters considered last week
by the Methodist General Conference in
Brooklyn was the prohibition of sinful smuse-
ments. There was quite a lively discussion Of
the subject, some Of the ministry thinking the
church ought to specify what amusements are
atnfnl, while Rev. DR.. Slicer and others
thought something must be left to the con!
sciences of individual members in the mat
ter. Crcquet was savagely attacked. and one
delegate remarked that billiards should be in
cluded in the forbidden LIST. They did as
much harm to youngmenas dancing to young
women. Another brother said that dancing
wouldn't hurt the young women If they only
danced alone without men-whereuponN : a
wrldly-wlsa delegate remarked, "But they
doat ears about dancing that way And he
was right, too.
-One hundred anvils, to be used in the Bos-
ton Peace jubilee have arrived from England
In the Cunard steamer Olympus. The MEM
bers of the straus Orchestra, of Vienna, are
certainly coming Twenty five cannons have
already been provided. Military bands, royal
and otherwise, are waiting for the orders of
the triumphant Gilmore. And the Japanese
Embassy have all received Invitations to be
present. This Is the, last news, and is authen-
tic. 1t is just the sort of. thing that will be
enjoyed by these distinguished foreigners i'm
mensely. 1t will remind them of their native
land, and we should not wonder II, when the
aneils ccme into play, they shed tears. Sweet
memories of gongs and tomtoms, and clashIng
cymbals, will melt their usual stolcal COM