The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-03-21
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THURSDAY, MARCH 81, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

in New York cotton closed quiet; uplands
224c; sales 2722 bales.
The Liverpool cotton market closed dull
uplands l1al1td, Orleans 1l5ellsdi sales lo''
600 bales. :,
Three sisters in New York are so beauti'
ful and attractive that they are known in 30
ciety as the ..Three Graces."
The scholars are now wrestling over
sshsligram>" :" sthalassagran," and "onagram,'
as names for cable dispatch.
The New York fatorite game with sharp
era Ia to swindle countrymen by charging
them seventy.fye cents apiece admission Zee
to Central Park.
There are said to be eight hundred differ
ont washing machines patented in Washing
ton, three-quarters being of New England
origin.
The marriage of two SONS Of the second
wife to two daughters of the third wife ofthe
same man Is a curious event which is said to
have occurred IN :Esssx County, Va.
The latest sensation in Paris Is the discov-
ery of copy of the constitution Of The French
Republic of 1894, bound in the skin Of victim
Of the guillotne: = IN r.
Alfred Hafy, who commanded the Eng
lish regiment which guarded the first Napo-
leon at St. Helena, died in Brooklyn recently,
at the age OF seventy-elght years.
"A member of the Austrian Imperial fam
ily. the infant Maria Beatrix, youngest sister
of the Duke. of Modena, recently took the veil
at the Ursuline Convent at Vienna
The members Of the Chinese Embassy In
Paris firmly belieye that revolutionsln France
are immovaoly periodical, and hsve-'be
making anxious Inquiries as TO what will be
the exact date Of the next.
"A virginian, recently deceased, has left
his farm to ten of his former slaves, who had
voluntarily remained with him until the day
of his death, taking what wages he chose to
give them.
The Mormon sisters in Ephraim, Utah, put
aside all the eggs laid by their chickens on
SUNDAYS, toward the subscription to assist the
Door matrons the coming year. The brothers
gave two thousand dollars In cash and ten
head of cattle.
DIR. Habel and Prof. Edwards, English
scientists, assert theory that the guano de-
posits found on the Chincha or Guano Islands,
which were in some places upwards OF one
hundred feet thick, and generally admltted
to be the ordure OF birds, is In reality an ac-
cumulatlon of the bodies Of animals and
plants, most of them Of marine origin.
The number of stars visible 10 the naked
eve, In the entire circuit of the heavens, has
been usually estimated at about 5000; an ordi-
nary opera. glass will exhibit something Ike
ten times that number; comparatively small
telescope easily shows 100000; while there
are telescopes In existence With which, there
ii reason to believe, moi less than 25,o0o,Ooo
stars are visible.
"A little more than year ago, the ladies'
Of Philadelphia organized Woman's Chris
tian Association. They have purchased and
furnished private clearinghouse for young
women whose means will not admit OF expen-
slye boarding. Recently, they haye opened q
d,nipp.room where women and girls may OBJ
tain a substantial meal for few cents. Among
other plans for the future, are an employ
ment bureau, cheap lodging-rooms and a sew
ing school.
-Bonapartist Journalists, who have recent
" visited the ex-Emperor at Chiselhurst, re-
port that he enjoys great physical and mental
vigor. They say that the Emperor emphati-
cally stated that, In the event OF hls restora-
tion. he would return to his old policy. He
also expounded to them fully elaborated pro-
pramme of his views, embracing compulso..
education and mllitsry service, and an income
tax to be levied on the bourgeoise class, whom
he regards as the authors Of his downfall.
The Bonapartist agents IN France Tell
some strange stories to the credulous peas
antry to secure their espousal of the banished
Emperor's cause. In the south OF France,
among other things, they 20 about telling the
peasants that the return OF Napoleon Ill WILL
cause Alsace and Lorraine to be restored to
France, by means of projected marriage be-
tween the Prince Imperial and the niece OF
the Emperor William, who has promised to
give these two Provinces 10 her as dowry.
The Coliseum at Boston, In which the
Peace Jubilee is to be held, will accommodate
seyenty-five thousand spectators and chorus
of twenty thousand voices. The arched truss
of the building will be one hundred and thirty
feet hfrh and three hundred and ten feet wide
at the base. Inc CruSseS " ePan enu soPpSA>
the root will be made of iron, with wooden
framework fifteen feet deep. and will De
placed twenty-five feet apart, and will be
bolted to the piles upon which the building
ia TO stand. This will do away with posts and
pillars, which would greatly obstruct the view
of spectators. The base Of the building will
be bound together by heavy iron rods an Inch
and half In diameter, running across from
side to side, secured with plates, thus pre-.
venting any possibility of the spreading Of
the walls. The floor will rest upon the solid
earth. The galleries will be seventy-tiVe feel
deep, and will be supported by pillars resting
on the plling and by other independent sup
ports. while the cross timbers will be framed
into The walls and boted to the trusses. A
monitor roof will extend from one end 10 the
other of the immense arch, and will be pro
vlded with large number of windows, which
will serve for purposes of light and Ven'ia'
ton. For evening purposes, system OF gas
illumination has been adopted Wkich WILL re'
flect an abundance of flight from overhead.
The Washington correspondent of the
Now York World writes under jate OF the l7tn
inst: ..senator Sumner, In conversation with
q ,ont,eman Yesterday, said he did not faVor