The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-22

Tbt Gbarket1m 4eRe.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1879.
81 NEWS OF THE DAY.
1t Il estimated that there are $4,000 Jews
In New York city. es,a =.
Prince Leopold, fourth son OF Queen VIC
toris. has Just entered Oxford University.
-Enplish railroad companies prosecute per
sons Who Jump from trains while In motion.
The annual importation of champagne
into this country ls estimated at 2,400,OW oot
ties.
An extensive toy dealer In Boston mas JUST
had q doll opening, which was largely attend
edbythe young folk. n,u
The installation of Rt. Hon. Benjamin DNs-
raell. as Lord Rector Of Glasgow University, Is
announced to take place in November.
Frederick Hudson was offered q salary OF
$4,000 per annum to go back and conduct the
editorial department Of the New York-Heraid'
the Galveston Chamber OF Commerce was
recently instrumental In securing the conVlc-
tion Of q person for fraudulently packing cot
ton. Ish aEi mes
Forty boy choristers are employed In the
choir Of st. Paul's Cathedral, London, Daily
seryicess ara held during the week, In addition
10 the regular service on Sundays:
Mr. Reed, the late chief constructor OF
the British navy, is reported to have declined
IN Offer of $lOO, 900 per annum to take q slmi-
laff position under tho Prasslan Government.
The rlots at Belfast will cost the people Of
that town some fourteen thousand pounds, re-
suling om:dRmage doneto property during
ths disturbance. s2y
,s-Arich .Engllsh Catholic lady-a mrs. Sta
~plston-has Just placed her country seat, near
Warrington, at the disposal Of sixty members
ofthe Society OF Jesus. driven from Germany,
inaerder that they might open an educational
establishment.
Tho death Is announced, at Calcutta, OF
the SON Of Tippoo sahib, who died. aged seven
tJ.nins Jears. He was about fifty years cid
when his father besIeged, for the second
tme-by the English In Seringapatam, perish
ed, sword in hand. ' Since that time he had
lived1n Calcutta, where he received an an.
nual pension ottwenty thousand dollara, paid
imbyths English Government g.f.
-KCprious. example OF military courtesy
and Of ssdeslre to attain what Ii not always to
Do ;found-ra history which does not he-is
shown inithea act Of Field Marshal Won Moltke,
who is sending to Marshal McMahon proofs OF
tnswork On the Franco-Germsn war. written
bvaf6se German general stan, in order that
tho Ffenchacomulander may correct any part
oftfe work. which may misstate the part
taken In, the campaign by the French marshal.
-AIady who met the author "oaida' IN
London4tn tsct,- lived In the same house win
herAdsscribes her as exceedingly eccentric.
ahsis mnIddie-aged, plain, but weird.looking,
and drives ID ii tn" most bizarre fashion. Her
asssaocisstGsis; are entirely gentlemen. She makes
pstsot various uncsnny animals, surrounds
herself, with. all manner of curious Objects
kesps. tho mostirregular hours, and generally
irapresses n as q cross between q sorceress
and ailnnatic.: et
The experiment of Mr.. G. F. Sampson,
Who II was at one time thought, had brought
the Pfilistiney into North Adams, Aassachu-
sstts,, In the shape Of the Chinese laborers In
hs sh6s factory, Is reported by the Springfield
aUnionn to be q success. It Is nearly two
Years slnce these Chinese were brought on by
Nj. Sampson. OF the original fly laborers
1faksetdstw work f~ortyelght still remain, and
are mali respects frst-olass workmen, indus.
tious, faithful and reliable. During the time
they havebeen employed they have 30 fully
mastered the difficulties Of their work as to be
able at tina present time to produce larger re-
sultsn every week than the same number OF
white hands were accustomed to do two years
ago. They work steadily, ask for no holidays,
and save tier earnings to q misery degree.
We hear, however, of no other manufacturer
wh0,,I upon investigating the results attained
BIZ M. Sampson, has been led T. employ the
same labor, Il. Is really curious to note the
contrasts, both, in California and Massachu-
sstts,, and measurably in other places, be-
tween. the ,~anticipations formed ofthe Chinese
a. lahorsrs and servants, and the actual facts
to-day.
-Aa gentleman from Malta by the name of
II. Bugejs has been astonishing the fashions
BILE Rsmesteri at Hombourg by certain recent
operations in cards. These operations have
been. conducted greatly to his advantage and
70 tie proportionats loss OF the proprietors OF
the gambling establishments. 1t lis well tnown
that many venturesome individuals take hast
nal plessurefn dsludipg themselves with the
idsa;thst they have discovered q ''systsm" by
means of which they must infallibly win In
their contests with chance. Armed With these
sysesmh they confidently repair to the tables,
Ike haekeray's hero ofthe ''wheel otfortune,'
and In uaemanner come to grief. The proprie.
torn recognize in these persons their most pro-
1table customers, and welcome them with cor
disllty. This II. Buseja also had a system,
and asked II. Blanc, the Hombourg proprietor,
ifhe might stake $4,000 francs at q time In.
stead Of 1900, the usual limit. n; Blanc,
f6rseeing q golden harvest, cheerfully con.
sentsd,, but what was his surprise and the
surprise OF the spectators to ind that 10
nvonfu.tu ono ,sIttings. the Maltese adventurel