The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-20
OBJ Gbarlestom aens,
SATURDAY, P 20, 1872.
40 Mr.. WILLIAM E. SIMMONS, Jr., is the
travelling nlfi, agent for THE NEWS, for South

travelling agent for THE NEWS, ior sou.f
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed yesterday at lltall4.
The New York cotton market closed weak;
nup,anas ,23f cents; Gales ll0s bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed firm; uplands
~<11ia11ad; Orleans llsallad; sales 10000 bales.
"A correspondent Of: a Baltimore paper
wants to know why marriages and death
notices have to be paid for? For the best o.
rsasons: One is an advertisement OF copart
uership and the other Is a notice OF d'ssolu-
tion. Business is business.
1.-THE ..toothpick factory In Canton, Me-
furnishes more work than all other business
III hi Town, over one hundred cords 81 q
nonlar:hayeibeen hauled for its use this. sea-
sen,7and converted int toothplcks. Each OF
de machines used will, it ls said, make five
thousand taothpiOks a minute sas...a .
.L-+Misss Anna z. Dickinson will present hel
Views nt the pending presidential issue IN q
lecture, al New York one evening Of this week.
saysths Tribune. Shells understood to be 1nfa'
vor 1.-THE movement for<eform, and Of allow:
Ing the people. rather than the ofdce.holdere
to say who shall be President ;s~r
Ian attempt 10 making In New York for the
release nom Sing Sing Of Moses L%owenburg,
who killed samuel. Hoffman In 1851, and was
convicted Of murder! and sentenced to DEATH
The then. existing statute providing that per-
sons 10 sentenced should be executed within
one, yeaS under q warrant issued by The Coy,
ernor, was repealed In the spring of 1867, and
since that tune the successive Governors q v
declined to grant awarrant-
1.-THE Methodist Conference In New York,
SpD,ssatpprday, had a lively debate on q resolu:
ton Recommending to the members entire
abstinence from the use Of tobacco, and 1t was
ssdoptsd,r Notwithstanding Brother Richardson,
an acknowledgement veteran, bore tesii-
moSytes he< Virtues OF the GLORIOUS plant"
saying he believed 1t had prolonged his life.
II abstinence from tobacco was to be recon-
mendeds!why not include tea and coffee in the
resolution! Bo:h are injurious If used TO e1-
Practical woman's rights, such as equal
pay With men for the same work, and similar
educational advantages, are steadily making
progress. In Philadelphia recently the Aea-
Ssmy Of Natural Sciences elected womenito
full membership, and one lady has been
rhosento serve on, one ofthe most important
commitsees. The building for women stu.
dents Of Cornell University will be commenced
this gear, and will: cost $4,000 With a gilt OF
800, Ooo besides. 1t will be ready for the re-
eeptlon Of female students before next winter.
Eon the 9Th Instant, Mrs. Laura D. Fair,
heretofore convicted at San Francisco, CAL, OF
murder Ia the first degree, by shooting A. T.
C~rittenden, Esq, came into court that Q day
might be fxed for her second trial, which had
been granted on appeal from the first by the
Supreme Court. :, Mira. Fair was attired, In deep
black and had alteredb but little in appearance
since her trial. Her counsel stated hat after
the; deFenoe should commence, their testimony
would not occupy over three days. The case
was set for June 9th. 1t will be remembered
that the senior counsel for the defence
and for the prosecution In Mrs, Fairs trial
have both since died. A letter writer In the
Boston Globe reports her now to be worth
$4,000, and says that during q recent excite
ment in stocks she was largely interested, and
made over 5000 0 clear.
-MIss Ann Pamela Cunningham, regent Of
the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association Of the
Onion, publishes q card in relation to the
charges recently made against her by Mrs.
Emily Edison Briggs, in which she (Miss ca says
that the eight hundred and fifty dollars raised
by the Masons of California as a nucleus OF a
fund for the erection Of q monument over
Wsshlngton's remains is On deposit With the
treasurer, Governor q. D. Cooke, awaiting
additions 10 make it adequate to the object
contemplated by the donors. She further says
that, with the exception of two months OF last
year, the monthly receipts from the Mount
Vernon boat did not reach five hundred dol
lars, as stated by Mrs. Briggs, and that the
receipts In December last were but forty-two
dollars and eighteen cents. She says the
income Of the estats has been inadequate to
the,demand, but By close economy 1t has been
successfully met. The regent. receives no
salary; and the money appropriated Is spent
for the interest OF the place.
THE report of the death Of Porhrio Diaz,
the recognized leader Of the present revolu-
t~ionisgainst the Mexican Government. now
seems to be substantially confirmed. On hls
Way rom the State of La Puebla to the noun
taIns of Oaxaca, sick, and with an escort Of
ten men, he was, as Is believed, assassinated
BY his body-guard. At all events, nothing
whatever has been heard Of him since he
started on the journey, and the revolutionary
General Trevino, it is stated, has received
what is considered the reliable information o.
hills death, as embodied In the statements
given above. 1t was Diaz who commanded
the. Mexican armies against the Archduke
Ms1imiian, and it is somewhat curious, IL
view Of the tragic death OF the Austrian
usurper, that now his great antagonist. on the
neid of battle should have fallen by the assas