The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-15
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MONDAY, JULY Is, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAP.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
The highest honors of Princeton College,
u, have been borne off for the last three
years by Southern students.
One of Gladstone's sons was last month
formally received by Archbishop Manning
into the Roman Catholic Church.
The dying gift of Bennett, of the Herald,
was $3.50. 900 toward completing the Catholic
Cathedral in New York City.
The New York Sun says: "Mr. Elliott,
one of South Carolina's colored congressman,
ia about to select boy of his own race to be q
cadet midshipman in the Annapolis Naval
Academy"
The French treasury has just paid the
damages and interest required by the German
Government on behalf OF the Germans who
were expelled from France at the outbreak Of
the late war.
The Germans expelled from France, after
the breaking out of the late war, comprised
1890 Prusslans, 1923 Bavariane, 657s Wur-
tembergers, 1929 Badois, 1900 Hessians and
220O others, making total of 1852.
The postofice department at Washington
have received large orders for the new postal
cards from blalness houses 10 all parts OF the
country. 1t is believed that the cards will at
first be extensively used for advertising.
"A lump of pure gold, Weighing half a
pound, was recently found by negro woman
on the plantation OF Mr.. Hugh C. Nlsbet, In
Union County, N. c. The woman was hoeing
cotton, and knocked the lump over with her
hoe.
Walnut stumps have become an article of
merchandise, and many of them are very
valuable. The curly grain of the roots is used
for veneerine, and some stumps are worth
one hundred and fifty dollars after being prop
erly worked into shape.
Tho sale OF the Empress Eugenie's jewels
in London netted fifty thousand pounds. The
first sSticle which attracted attention was a
marqulse ring. With q pink diamond, sur
rounded by brlllisnts, formerly the property
Of the Empress Josephine.
Mrs. Greeley, it Is said, is hopelessly LII,
and of disease that forbids all freedom of
locomotion. The daughter Ida, who takes the
deepest interest In her fathers success, and
who Is very thoroughly educated in books. l
and In what books teach, Is now the head of
the farmhouse at Chappaqua.
Nearly one thousand pounds of Ice were
thrown into the fountain of the New York
Gold Room on Tuesday last. 1t didn't cool
the air, however, and the brokers amused
themselves by chipping off small chunks of
Ice and dropping them down the backs of each
others necks.
M. Auguste Rouzand, Miss NilssOn's pro-
spective husband, has reached thirty-slx, the
age when Byron thought he was in the sere
and yellow leaf. Gustave Dore, who has vain
ly tried to win the heart Of the Swedish can
tatrice, Is In despair at the thought OF another
becoming the sole possessor OF her charms.
Mrs. Gratz Brown, 1t is said, is a hand
some and winning lady, mother OF seven chill
dren, six Of whom are still living, the Oldest
not over fourteen years of age. OF fthese
children five are girls. It is related of the
Governor that he married for love, when Mrs.
Brown was a country maiden, and that he
first saw her swinging on gate In front Of
country farmhouse, as he and two or three
other members of the Missouri Legislature
were strolllng out OF town after one Of its ses-
sions.
"A food strike, which has been going on
for some tinle in the North of England, begins
to assume serious dimension, and threatens
violation OF the peace. At Consett, which is
one of the headquarters of the movement,
groups of women severely handled one Of
their own sex who ventured to make pur-
chase from an obnoxious butcher. The police
had to interfere, but 80 determined ls the re-
sistance to high prices that the butchers have
ceased to kill meat, and the population ls re-
duced, In spite of itself, almost to vegetarian
diet. =
The reports OF large deposits of guano on
the coast of Peru are said to have been exag-
gerated. The stock In the Chlncha Islands is
almost exhausted. The stock Of guano of good
quality on the Guanape, Mscabi and Lobos Is
lands does not exceed one million tons, and
is of very Inferior quality In the Lobos Islands.
Another million tons ia the outside quantity.
In the south the only deposit of any consider
alton Is on Pabellon de Plea, and this does
not amount to half million tons. The small
quantity of guano which remains on the Bal
lestas Islands is of an Inferior quality. Should
no new deposits be discovered the present
stocks will not last more than four years.
Every collection of English verse, made
within the last quarter century, has contained
q certain poem on the birth of Christ, through
which runs the refrain, ''In the solemn mid
night, centuries ago." Thirty-fve years ago,
Its author, Alfred Domett, gave royal enter
tainment to his friends; left them, leaning on
Robert Brownlng's arm; left him and vanished.
Many years after, he was seen, in boat
manned by saysges, off the coasto of New zea-
land, but this was the only glimpse vouch-
safed his friends. He was long ago given up
for dead. Brownlng's poem of "Waring" is