The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-01
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
WEDNESDAY, MAY l, 1872.

LILO .NO"
dull; uplands 2s4 cents; sales $50 bales.
in Liverpool cotton was firm at the close
uplands lid, Orleans 1liall5d; sales lo'oo'
ales.
-Tweed's contest for bis seat In the New
York Legislature is still the subject OF com
mittee Inv estigatloD, but will not be reported
on until next session.
Miss Anna Dickinson delivered a poIlnca
lecture in New York, on The 10th instant, II
defence of the principles OF the Liberal move
nient.
American dentists are very popular, pro-
fessienally, in Europe. There are now SIX IN
at. Petersburg, four in Vienna, and Two IN
Constanlinople. They are. also to be f0uno Id
other large clties.
THE importatlons at New York Tor the
past week were about $4,000, OOo-a falling Oh
of nearly three millions compared with the
week before. The decrease is most noticeable
in sugar. tea, coffee, hides, iron and fancy
goods.
"A colored man applied at the police
Headquarters in Richmond, Va, on tae .ssa
instant, for hospital accommodation an
nouncing that he had smallpox. he claimed
IN have been landed from the Baltimore boat
on the dsy previous.
The Tichborne claimant publishes aletter
TO the public. In which he returns thanks for
their previous subscriptions in bis behalf, n
Asks for an additional sum of four thousand
pounds to enable him to continue his contest
for the possession Of the Tichborne estate.
III has already been reported from Paris
hat the Due de, .Noailles Is to be the new
French Minister ct Washington. The DUO De
Noailles comes of an old and historic family.
He served in the Chamber Of Peers IN 1876,
under Louis PHILIPPE. The Courier des Etats
Unis compliments him, both as q man and as
ad:Slomatist, and declares that he is one OF
the most distinguished representatives. tnat
France could send to America.
the residence of Mr.. Henry McCollum,
near Red Banks, Robson County, was visited
by stephen Lowery, one of the outlaws, and
present leader of the gang, one day last week.
Mr.. McCoIum was at work in the field e. the
time, and knew nothing OF the visit until the
outlaw had left. he appropriated a fine
watch belonging to Mrs. McCollum, and a gun
belonging to her husband, but afterwards, at
the earnes. solicitations of the lady, returned
the watch. He carried of the gun, but mo-
Tested nothing else.
M. Robert Bonner, Ia either very .shrewd
or very lucky In his purchases Of horses. Inc
name of Dexter is probably as well known as
that of the President of the United States,
Recently, startle, a young colt from Bonner's
stable at Fleetwood Park, trotted a quarter OF
mile in thirty seconds, or at the rate OF a
mile in two minutes and fourteen seconds.
Mr. Bonner paid twenty thousand dollars for
the colt, and after this feat was Immediately
offered by It's original owner thirty-fVe thous-
and dollars for il.
The report Of Attorney-General Williams,
in response to q resolution of the House oil
Representatives, shows that i've hundred and
one persons were arrested in South Carolina
In pursuance of the act Of Congress Of April,
1871, and that ffty-three confessed In open
court they were or had been members OF Inc
combination end consplrac!es forbidden and
made penal by said act. In North Carolina
thirty-seven persons were convicted or pleaded
guilty of violations OF the law; nine hundred
and forty four persons were Indicted for slmt-
lar violations; one hundred and hfty-two per.
sons have been indicted In the southern and
four hundred and ninety in the northern dis
trict of Mississippi.
"A Washington telegram, OF Sunday, says
''The pressure to have Congress PASS its judg'
ment against the consequential claims before
the Geneva conference having somewhat abat.
ed, the friends of that movement have turned
their attention to the Executive, who has beer
advised by some leading bankers Of New Yors
to waive that feature of the American case
for the reason that no European capital Il
seeking investment In the new American rail-
road and other securities. The President ex
pressed himself surprised to find such a gene
raj sentiment among capitalists, public mel
and the press In favor Of Withdrawing TN
claim, but he Intimated that the administra
ton Intended to adhere to Its position OF sub
hitting that feature to the arbitration as
preliminary question, with the very genera
expectation that 1t would be thrown out, ant
thereby settle the principle that neutrals will
in future in no event be liable for 1ndirec
damages The administration take the GROUND
/. that Great Britain has as much to gain by sucf
q result as the United States, and ought not X
abandon the treaty IN a preliminary question
"A horrible incident occurred at a. large
fire in Wooster street, New York, on Saturda!
night. The aNh. floor Of the building was oc
cupied by a tailor's cooperative society
Several tallors were working. They rushe'
down and attempted 10 escape by the stairs
The smoke and Intense heat drove back III
three last. There was no way of escape b
the root. Descending to the fourth floor, on
Ferdinand jumped from the rear window
fifty feet to me ground, and was picked u
insensible, but without serious hurt. Tw
others, John and James Mcbride, brothers
sought to escape by similar means. One wa
caught BY the flames, fell to the floor and wa
burned to a crisp. The other was leaning GU
of the window imploring help, when TIL
flames caught him aud burned him to a cinder
and his burned body remained leaning out Q
the window until the fire was put out. Durln
the fire the corpse hung from the window i
an easy attitude, ss if inspecting the disaster
and presented a horrible aspect. When th
corpses were removed their appearance cause
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