The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-12
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE r., 1872.
rNr. WILLIAM E. SIMMONS, Jr., is the
travelling agent for THE NEWS, for South
Carolina. 49, Z
NEWS OF TIE DAP.

vention.
Some idea of the value OF land In the
crowded business portions of the City OF Lon.
don can be cleaned from the fact that small
plot in Lombard street, containing an area OF
fifteen hundred and thirty square feeIabont
TWENTY-FIVE feet by sixty feet-was recently
sold for ssO,eOO. This averages over f3s OF
about sls5 per square foot.
-Tennie C. Cla1in having failed to secure
the election TO the colonelcy of FIsk's regi
ment, the Ninth New York, has been chosen
TO command the Veteran Guards, q colored
organization. and has accepted. This com.
man6 has been In existence two years, and
numbers about one hundred and fifty mem
bers. Colonel Clafin will formally assume
command on Wednesday next.
The commissioner OF agriculture is re-
sponsible for the startling official statement
that first-class intoxicating beverage can De
extracted from saw-dust and In consequence
thereof large number of Massachusetts
bucks have taken to the saw who never before
thought of manual labor, and the kindling-
wood of the season 10 said to be In remarkably
short pieces. II this announcement be true,
the phrase sslemonade with stick in II" will
become literally as we'll as fguratlvely sgnlf-
cant, e4,.f ..tF
1T Is stated that the cavalry OF the German
Empire are likely to be soon provided with
new aims, aad that there will be other changes
in their equipment. For the cuirassiers OF the
first rank lances are recommended similar to
those In use In Russia, and the Uhlans will
bear the same weapon. It Is also lntimated
that the whole of the cavalry will oe supplied
with firearms Of long range. because the
sword has been found insufficient, and The
cavalry ought, it is thought, to be made capa-
BILE OF fighting on foot.
According to the report recently presented
to the Reichstag at Berlin, IS, 600, 900 thalers
will be required for the proposed establish
ment Of the German navy, in addition to the
1yeU WHICH UTBaUy nave Ueen V0Ceu.
For completing the ships now constructing,
and 10 build new ones, 20, lss, ,23O tbalers will
be needed for frigates; 5000, 800 thalers for
corvettee, and 70,3OO thalers for avisos. The
acquisition of some new naval stations abroad
is also urged as an Imperative necessity. The
establishment, as proposed, should be com
plete In the year 1877.
The Hon. E. F. Pillsbury, who has been
three times the nominee of the Democrats OF
Maine for Governor of that State, has written
letter to a member of Congress urging him
to use what influence he possessed to secure
the ratification OF the Cincinnati nominations
by the Baltimore Convention He says: 1.-THE
Democracy OF Msine are unit, so far as I can
learn, in favor of The Liberal ticket at Balti-
more. If Greeley and Brown are adopted
at Baltimore harmonioasly, we shall see per-
feet storm of enthusiasm, but If rejected,
storm of Indignation from our people and
general collapse of the party"
The admission of women into the ranks Of
the medical profession in Germany appears to
have commenced. Ayoung woman recently
presented herself. before the Faculty Of Medi-
cine at Munich for examination for license
to practice as dentist. Being refused, she went
to Erlangen. The question was here referred
to the government, who at once authorized
the examination, on the ground that 1t was
absurd to exclude person desrous to submit
herself to authorized professional tests of abil-
ity by reason.of her sex. The yonng woman
triumphed, and, the German Journals add, Is
likely to find Immediate imtators. u
"A new kind OF material, called "4arezzo
marble" has Just been introduced in England,
and seems to create great attention among all
the architects and decorators. ills o material
protesting 70 have all the qualities of marble,
not only IS tpa beauty of finish but durability,
and can be produced at one-tenth the cost OF
marble, and one-half that of scaglioga or,
enamelled slate. A large number of archi-
tects and other visitors were recently invited
to gee the works In London and very fine
specimen of the workmanship-a splendid
fountain, which is Intended to be shown at the
removal to one of the seats In Ireland of Sir
Arthur Guinness. The universal verdict
seemed to be In Ills tayor. We have already
beautiful limitations of marble in this country,
but II this "Marezzo marble" be all that is as.
serted oft, not only as to beauty and durabili-
T but cheapness, 1t may prove worthy of the
attention OF our architects and builders.
The general and wholesale destruction of
large game in the West has called the atten-
ton Of economists to the need of more strin-
gent laws for the reasonable protection of the
same. In Minnesota alone the destruction of
deer has been 30 great and indscriminate that
It's effect Is now being felt In impoverIshing
the State Of an important source of wealth.
In 1870 the dealers of st. Paul shipped more
than 10000 skins, while In 1871 the shipment
on.J reached 1880, and from the present in
dications there, will be still smaller number
this year, During the last three years the deer
skins, buffalo robes and rurs sent from ST.
Paul amounted in value to s., ,Ooo, 900, and vet
the Wild animals are only killed for their skins
which bring but twenty-five cents per mound
IN that market AS consequence Of this
wholesale onslaught the large game /, rapldlv
disappearing from Minnesota and the Terrific.
ries, and Will soon be entirely destroyed unless
proper means are taken for Its protection.
1T is remarked by English correspondents
In Prussia, that notwithstanding the late ise
in the fortunes Of Germany, when the military
glories of the nation are brightest and France
is pouring wealth into its treasury, the exodus