The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-14
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1872.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Episcopal Bishop Eastburn, OF hassachu-
sets, Is dangerously III.
-BIsmarck's autobiography Is said to De
nearly ready for the press.
"A new abOmination has appeared In Inc
Observation-Disclosures" for married..
"A warm controversy has lately arisen III
England on the subject Of clergymeh "eafine
boards.
i'm Edinburgh, recently, the lamplighters
,ndnlped In a strike. They did not leave tne
city in darkness, but they refused to extinguisn
the lights, go they were allowed to burn all
day.
The Paris Illustration ventured to print
soms coarse caricatures Of the Prussians IN
tbenumber which would have been the cur
rant. one. and the whole edition has been
seized.
-old Field Marshal Won Moltke lives now
onIatly In the little SilesIan town of hive
mtg. He can be seen there every day In q
long black frock coat, smoking an enormous
pipe and reading the newspapers at the only
cafe in the place.
"a French correspondent writes that "the
old chateau of william the Conqueror, situated
on the Normandy coast at Bonneville, was put
up at auction the other dsS and knocked dow
for moderate price. It was there mai Inc
redoubtable soldier planned his schemes OF
conquest.
-Amorganatic marriage has just been SOL
emnized between the Grand Duke of Hesse
and a Miss Appel, an opera dancer. who had
previously been created Countess Hehstasdt.
The marriage took place at Gravenage, the
country seat Of the grand dukes chief equerry,
BARON Won der Capellen.
At toneham, Massachusetts,, on the 9Th
instant, q girl employed in a shoe factory was
caught In the shafting by the hair of her head,
and the entire scalp torn off as far down the
forehead as the eyes, including the eyebrows
and one eyelld and TO the junction OF the
spinal column at the back of the head II Is
thought she will recover.
The German Band, who played at the Bos-
4on- Suhuoa-andLt naNa cnnnarts In New
-YnrERnd
upon the division of the money made In this
country. Herr Saro, the leader, 1t Is stated,
claims 30 large q portion as his share hat the
matter and the money Is now In the hands OF
the authorities, with the prospect that the lat-
tar NAV appropriate the whole amount for
the benefit Of the public service.
An experiment Is about to be tried In San
Francisco which Will be watched with inter-
est by all the other cities on the continent. b.
J..Booth, Horace Davis. Joseph G. Eastland,
and others, have petitlonsc the board OF 81"
pervfsors for permission Il" lay pipes for the
transmission of steam through five or six
streets and the intersectlng alleys. They pro-
pose to be incorporated under the name of the
California Central Power Company. The steam
is to be supplied from a central boiler station,
30 located with reference to fuel, &C., hat they
can furnish power at less cost to both large
and small consumers than these can provide
It for themselves, aud at the same time to re-
duce their fire rates.
The name OF Henry w. Longfellow, the
poet, is given by the Massachusetts, papers as
deie2ate at large to the Liberal Republican
Convention. We are glad to welcome one so
honored and famous Into the ranks Of that
party, and to see that a poet can ''act In the
living Present" and bury many Of the anil
mosIties of the "dead Past" Mr.. Longfellow
Is beyond all cavn the greatest Of American
poets. He would be the foremost of living
ones did not Tennyson dispute the palm, and
the lovers Of poetry a divided allegiance.
That Mr.. Longfellow, a student, modest, re-
firing, and past the age when the blood Is
stirred by craftsmanship, should allow his name
for the first time TO be used In political affairs,
shows how urgent he must consider the pres
ent1need of reform, and how heartily he must
dislike the corruption, bribery and general
Generalization now existing.
The second trial of Laura D. Fair for the
murder of A. P. Crittenden is now about to
commence at San Francisco. The circum-
stance reawakens an interest In the history of
this remarkable case. The murder occurred
nearly two years ago, and the first trial, which
was held In the spring ofls7l, resulted In a YER
dict OF guilty of murderln the first degree. Mrs.
Fair was accordingly sentenced to death, and
the execution was to have taken place In July,
1871. But the efforts of her interchangeable
counsel awaited to effect q review of the trial
before the Supreme Court, and a repetition OF
legal proceeding was ordered, on the ground
that the court below had erred In not permit
ting the prisoners counsel to make the clos
Ing argument. Alter numerous delays pecu-
liar to the law, the nsw trial now bids fair to
be carried to q conclusion. What further de-
fence the counsel for MIS-. Fair propose to ad-
duce cannot easily be coniectured, unless the
prisoners line of argument, namely, that she
and not Mrs. C%rittenden had a moral right 10 |
the deceased, ia ampliaed. Two manifesloes !
have recently been published by the erratic
criminal, who is also said 10 have beeuiled
the tedlum Of her protractedIimprlsonment by
making some two hundred ana fGy thousand
dollars In mining speculatlons. The result
will be awaited with great Interest by the
married and manageable public.
From present appearances, his serene
majesty, the Emperor of Abyssinia. would