The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-08

can conventions of Illinois both meet at
Springfield on June 26, and will nominate
State ticket In concert. Senator'S Trumbull
and Schurz, Governor Gratz Brown and Geo.
b. Pendleton, of Ohio, have been invited to
speak, and a great demonstration Is eX-
pected. y - a.
The late. Monsieur de Paris, gulllotlnist,
had one fayorite machine which he christened
Jacqueline, and its periections ever excited
his ardent delight. He pracuced with calves
upon 1t, and handled lis machinery with pre-
cIsion that few have attained. His salary was
5000 francs year. He lived In pretty villa
lust out of Paris and maintained his children
at fashionable Institutions of learning under
false names they did not know their fathers
occupation. Wien work was to be performed
he was notified at midnight, and, TO get bis
land In, he beheaded cali or two on Jacque-
line, had a nice breakfast, and subsequently
executed his victims with neatness and
dispatch that challenged public admiration.
Theirs liked his manner 80 well, and gave him
such abundant opportunity of displaying 1t,
that the old man declared the president would
kill him with overwork. 1t seems he did.
The two champions in Scottish games,
Dlnnie and Fleming, have completed arrange
ments with the various Caledonlan clubs In the
principal cities of the Union, for September.
Dinnie was born in Aberdeenshre and is
thirty-four years old, six feet tall In his stock
ings, wSighs two hundred and ten pounds,
measures forty-siX and one.halt inches round
the chest, fifteen and one-half inches round
the arm, twenty-six inches round the thigh,
and sixteen and three. quarter inches round
the cali of the leg. Fleming is a native Of
Tullymet, Perthshire, and is thirty years ofage.
He is five feet eleven inches in height, weighs
two hundred pounds, measures forty-two and
one.half inches round the chest, fourteen
inches round the arm, twenty-three inches
round the thigh and fifteen and three-quarter
inches round the calf. 1t will be seen that
they are both men OF splendid physical pro-
portion, and the best of their doing on record
prove that their muscular gifts are cultivated
TO the utmost. Both have taken first prizes In
throwing the hammer, putting the stone, toss
Ing the caber, throwing weights, wrestling.
high LEAP, long leap, hop, step and leap, fiat
and hurdle races, vaulting, holding out
weights on palm of hand, dancing reels,
Highland fling and Chile Callum, putting up
dumb-bells, rifle shooting, walking, drawing
sweer tree and others. Dinnie has gained in
all twenty-one hundred and twenty.four first
prizes, besides eighty gold and silver medals,
twelve cups, DC. Fleming has gained upward
of seven hundred first prizes thirty gold and
silver medals, besides, belts, brooches, &c.
The English are running mad over their
third national cat show, at which two hundred
and twepty.one representatives OF the cat fam
ily are In attendance, including felines of
every race, color and character. There are
cats remarkable for their smallness, such as
one that weighs two and three.quarter
pounds, and for their bigness, like another
that tips the scales at nineteen pounds; charm
Ing kittens offs mouth, price i've shllings,
''to be handed 10 All Saints Church Restora-
ton Fund.- Cat which suckles two squirrels
with her kittens, a cat which has three legs,
q cat which has ''seven claws on each fore
paw and five on each hinder one;" cats
white. black, brown, blue and red; cats
loDg-haired and short-haired; cats tor
toise, mouse and fawn color; cats which
win silver medals aEl plated teapot;
cats belonging to noble ladies and laboring
men; and, chief OF all, the famous tortoise
shell Tom of Clerkenwell, who this year has
but again to come forward and take In hla
class his uncontested first prize of thirty shill'