The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-03-12
Tbe GbafleSto1t 9ems
TUESDAY, MARCH IL, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAK.

cents for uplands; sales l470 Dales.
The Liverpool cotton market closed quiet
uplands III, Orleans lid; sales 10, 900 bales
There are six cotton factories in operation
In Alabama.
"A persevering Illinois woman has just
married her seventh husband.
Theodore Thomas and orcnestra nave
been creating furore In Cincinnati ahe
Louisville.
Two female students, at Leipsic, recently
had fencing duel, in which one lost an eye
and the other part Of her nose.
Edwin Forrest met with unprecedented
success in his recent Southern tour. In Texas
he drew immense audiences at five dollars
ticket.
IFS reported that the traditional long
pine is going out OF fashion In Turkey, and
that the Turkish aristocracy now almost ex-
cluslyely use cigarettes when smoking. This
NAV be considered step in advance In Turk
ish ''progress."
"A cool Kentucky critic calmly observes
of Mrs. Moulton that ''even as she sings she
becomes TRANSPORTED before you, and her
form rises to q rare and bewildering beauty,
that scarcely Raphael himself, were ne alive
again, could adequately paint"
The guillotine and the axe, 1t seems, are
sppanages of justice in Germany, as well as
elsewhere. Last year nineteen executions
took place in that country, Of whom four were
of women. Eleven Of the number were be-
headed with the axe, two were guillotiRed
and ak we're hanged.
in New York real estate there is re-
ported great revival Of activity In all dlrec-
tions. Large and important transactions IN
what Ia called westside property are recorded,
while boulevard and park lots are again IN
demand, appearing to justify the faith OF those
who have maintained that land In the vlcinage
of the great park would prove the most des!ra-
BILE In the city for dwellings.
The New Orleans Picayune says: The
ramle plant continues 10 enlist considerable
: interest in many parts of the South. It's now
generally conceded that 1t will be a profitable
crop, more profitable than sugar, cotton, rice
or tobacco, whenever a machine Is Invented
which will bs to the ramie fibre what Whit
ney's saw gin was originally to the cotton fbre.
Amachine is all that Is necessary 10 MAKE ltin
a few years one OF The most valuable crops IN
the South
Late accounts from Munich state that DR..
Dellipeer's faith in the future success Of the
..oldn Catholic movement Is shaken, and that
he expresses great disappointment over The
absolute neglect Of his movements oy The Cain
olics of the United States. Apropos OF DR.. Dol
lipper's opinion of the American priesthood,
the editor OF the Baltic Gazette, who dined with
the doctor upon recent occasion, when
Father Hyaclnthe was present, says that to
remark from the latter, describing the edu-
cational qualifications Of the clergymen In the
United States, Dolllnger said that those
whose acquaintance he had made, were In
that respect fully equal to their European
brethren.
The New York Standard says 1t is q
strange fact that In churches "sermons 10
young men" are chiefly listened to BY young
women. It remarks that "a sermon to young
men is notorlously the occasion for crammlDg
the church with young women. In this in
stance, we suppose, the proverb Is reversed,
and the angels rush in where the fools are not
particularly anxious to tread. At any rate,
the effect is that the class for whom such SER
mons are especially designed are either ousted
,r,,> the outer darkness of the vestibule, or
accomm,, ,,daled with camp stools in the aisle.
The good sheel and the innocent lambs SO
crowd fold that was not Intended for them
at least upon that occasion-ssssat the poor for-
-,3f1 black sheep are left to nlbole aespairlng-
,v at the door-posts. Every young wome"
thinks that she is born with an lnal'enaole
right to occupy the best seat Id i ghdrch at a
sermon for young men"
1t has been computed that Of the S45s
cerman soldiers wounded before Meitz, s5.5
per cent. were struck by chassepot balls, "a
per cent. by projectiles from heavy guns,
and only O.8 per cent. received sword OF bay
onet wounds. On the French side rs per
cent were wounded by artillery projeciles,
and about 70 per cent. by needle gun bullets.
The German artillery fred about 5000 rounds
dnrIng the Franco. .Prussian war, and as only
q. 600 French soldiers were wounded by the
artillery fire, it required three rounds to
wound one man. The total number Of cart.
ridges fred by the German infantry is said 10
have been Is, 100000, or about thirty rounds
uer rmap, and the total number of French kill
ed and wounded 100000, which wouldglre an
average of $50 shots fired for each man struck
The proportonate losses in the different
branches of the German army during the war
are given as follows: OF every hundred men,
killed or wounded, 80 per cent. were On The
infantry, per cent. were In the cavalry, and
per cent. in the artillery.
Among other things that Paris lost by the
war was her carnival The B9uf Gras had,
indeed, fallen in;o decadence before that
event. Instead of the traditional procession
headed by garlanded OK which was led
about the streets until 1t tell from fatigue, the
SYMBOLIC animal was hosted into gllded
chariot, surrounded with personatons OF
healhen goddesses, and the caralcade was
made the medium of fulsome advertisements
Instead of the expression Of simple joyous
ness. But the war, that made even lean beel
an article of such rarity In Paris, has given
che last blow to this celebration, and shroTe
Tuesday passed without either pageant or
masquerade. The municipal council has no
fnnds TO spare for such entertainments, and
the corporation of butchers supplies no LAT