The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-08-26
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MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DIY.

to be travelling In Canaua uuuer ~ asouuie'
name.
Brigham Young is reported to have sixty
eight living children.
The Belfast riots have been renewed will
several bloody conflicts.
Both O'Baldwin and Mace, the prize
fighters, claim the stakes.
There were fourteen sunstrokes IN Ne"
York Yesterday, four Of which were fatal.
The Livingstone expedition is said 10 nave
cost the New York Herald between forty and
torty-aye thousand dollars.
Over twenty sunstrokes have occurred a'
st. Louis within the last three days-mostiJ
fatal. The mercury during the past week
ranged from ninety-ave to one hundred.
Several English railway companies con
template abolishiug the use Of class carriage
on their roads, and adopting the style used IL
the United States.
3 The commissioner of internal revenue ha!
decided that the tax upon brokers and bank
ers' sales of gold and silver bullion, coin
promissory notes, stocks, bonds or other se
cuitIes is repealed on and alter October Isl
1872.
-.-Advices from Havana say the Insurgents
are massing all their forces to make fresh
movement on the Cinco villas. Havana Is
oyerrnn with scoundrels of every description
Constant murders and robberles are commit
-eAd. and the police seemingly powerless.
-Mr. rrns'ay. the London publisher, has
made practical useof the crusade started by
the Times, the Saturday Review~~ud other
Journals against the three. volume styIe~ot
novels by issuing all new works of fiction
published By his house in small and handy
duodeclmo.a
The Connecticut Legislature has taken up
the question of compulsory education. 1t
is said that l6, 600 children In that State, be-
tween the ages of four and sixteen, do not
attend school at all, and the advocates oi the
new law think it Is state OF things which
should be remedied.
James P. Cowardtn, formerly Of the Rich
mond Dispatch, has received the appointment
of captains clerk on board the United States
steamer Yantlc. The Yantic will In o few
DAYS proceed, under sealed orders, via Snez
Canal. to the Chinese seas TO join the East In
dia feet.
existing laws the postmastesr-generalh has no
authority 10 spend money for postal cards,
which Congress authorized, but for which no
appropriation was made. The introduction Of
the postal card system must await the further
action of Congress.
The manufacture Of dolls shoes has be-
come quite business within few years
past A single concern in New York maui
factures fifty thousand pairs per annum. using
twenty Thousand feet of morocco and sheep,
mostly scraps, besides cutting considerable
whole stock of all the fashionable colors.
Alaska Is ahead on some things, and the
discovery of honest, pure anthracite coal is
not an uRlnportant one, just at this time. A
specimen lately exhibited in San Francisco Is
of the purest anthracite coal o. remarkable
hardness. It burns readily and brilliantly.
and Is so pure and hard that wet cloth may
7be rubbed vigorously over it without soiIing.
The New York Bulletin says that joint
stock. company ls now being formed in Titus
Vile for the manufacture of pig iron BY means
of petroleum oil in place of coal. Ii success
fal (the editor says) the experiment will revo-
lutlOulZo lu6 lFOu ITtuo Ill luc OhlLeu otttcS
and render this country the cheapest iron-pro-
duclng country in the world. So far all the
experiments In this direction warrant The
most sanguine expectations.
The New York Tribune says Comptroller
Connolly has not been further than fifty miles
from New York, most of the time in Westches-
ter County. That he will turn States EVIL
dence, and lis testimony will absolutely con-
vicr Tweed ana twenty other ring officials,
whose names have not 80 far been published.
He will first appear 10 testify against the
voucher thieves, under Attorney General Bar
lows instructions.
The French navy for 1873 will consist of o.
armed vessels, of which are iron-plated. or
the entire number 81 will be held in reserve,
and will not be placed In commission. The
total OF marines and sailors will be 2s, ,43l men.
This Is large reduction, as the French fleet
now consists of l0l armed vessels, OF which
are iron-clads. In the time of the empire, i'm
nediately preceding the German war, the
French navy numbered l67 vessels, and the
effective force of the crews amounted to $4,000
men.
.-Thos. A. Durgee, aged forty, wealthy
EngIish-American, and wholesale lace I'M
porter, of New York city, attempted suicide
four times on Friday. He first ran u needle
In his throat, then rushed to a drug store, and
selling bottle marked "poison," swallowed
the contents, then stabbed himself with pen
knife, and when seized and rescued Tor the
third time, he broke away and plunged
butchers knife into his breast, causing proba-
bly fatal wound. He was under the ufiu-
ence of delirium tremens.
The national debt OF England amounts 10
$s,ss ,3O5, 1886, the annual Interest on which,
at 3 per cent, would be sl16, ,529, l60. The
highest point this debt has ever reached was
at the conclusion of the wars growing out OF
the French revolution aud the fall of Napo-
leon. At that time 1t reached $4,000, 900.
The creditors Of the English Government are
TOR the most part residents of the country,
ana consequently the taxation required to
pay the interest on her debt goes back again
to her people without any exhaustion of
national wealth.
"A workingman, it is stated, has been. for
the first time, elected to the House Of Cam