The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-03-19
Tbe Waflestoa1 9ews,
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAP.

NEWS OF THE DAT.
Gold at New York yesterday closed al
lOal0t.
The New York cotton market closed quiet
uplands 2?3c; sales ], 1893 bales.
At Liverpool cotton closed strong; up
lands llallad; sales $1,000 bales.
Chicago has a new cotton mill, said to be
the first put in operation in Illinois.
The old capitol prison in Washington, D.
C., is no longer in existence.
Tennessee hires out conVicts to work on
railroads, which is thought to look like offer
ing premium for them to make tracks.
III is stated that the government directors
Gill decide in favor of Council Bluffs as the
eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Joseph N. Wilson was arrested IN Baltl-
more, Yesterday, charged with obtaining one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars under false
-pretences. *
The. maximum money value OF human
life. as determined by an act OF the Ohio
Legislature, is $40, 900, that being the largest
sum which can be demanded from any rail-
way company for killing anybody.
France will have hereafter but one e1ecu.
toner, who will be stationed at Paris. hafe'
tofore every large town has had one, but the
government thinks it necessary to "cut
down" its expenses.
"A New Yorker wrote to General Spinner,
asking him for an autograph and sentiment.
He got both, as follows: 'Slr, you ask for
INV autograph with . sentiment. Ny senti-
,ment is this: When gentleman writes anoth-
ar ON his own business he should enclose a
postage stamp"
1t is very gratifying to learn that the mag
niHcent generosity which was displayed ior
the relief of the sufferers by the Chicago IRE
has been altogether sufficient for lts object.
There is an overplus Of $lo0,Oooin the hands
of The Relief and Aid Society, which 1t is pro-
posed to turn over to the city treasury, to be
nsed In building an enduring monument OF
charity, such as free hospital or other benefl-
cent institution. There Is now plenty of work
to do, with ready pay, and that Is far better
for the people than to receive gratuitous aid.
1t is not generally known that oysters and
CLANS can see. 1t is, however, the fact. They
have no regularly constructed eyes which give
Distinct impressions of objects on retina, but
thew have floating nerve flaments ranged
among the gill fringers that give them sense
of light. They are rudlmental optics. but sufi-
Client for all the purposes Of these very hum
BILE animal forms.
Through tickets around the world are
now issued, the price being sll45 In gold'
and the running lime eighty-one days. The
line of route going westward is: From New
York to San Francisco, about 5000 miles; san
Francisco to Yokohama, 47Oo miles; thence 10
Hong Kong, 1900 miles; thence to Calcutta,
$500 miles; thence 10 Bombay, l4oo miles;
Bombay to Suez, 5000 miles; from suez, by
the way of Alexandria and Brindisi, to Lon
don. about $500 miles, and London to New
York, 5000 miles.
Seth Wilmarth, the master mechanic IN
the machine department Of the CharlestoWn,
Mass, Navy yard, has gone to England with
a model of a fort, which he claims will silence
any iron-clad now floating. 1t consists Of
conlcal or hemlspherical turret, made Of Iron
of such thickness as to Withstand the heaviest
shot that can be thrown against it. There
will be portfolios nit which can be closed
with Iron when the guHs are being loaded,
and 1t is worked similarly to the turrets on
the monitors. Our government refused to pay
him anything for his notion.
The English are talking of amending their
burial laws, and spropos OF this the Pail Mall
Gazette thinks that 1t would not be amiss to
revise marriage laws also. At present no one
can be married after twelve o'clock in the
day, and this absurd regulation imposes upon
the relatives and friends of a happy pair the
necessity of eating cCld chicken and drinking
champagne almostimmediately after breakfast.
After doing SO, of course uone is fit for busl-
ness during the day, indigestion and walking
nightmare set In, and these terrible results
are brought about by holding to ''vestige of
barbarlsm."
The London hair -dressers recently held
their annual competition exhibition at one OF
the public halls in that city. The twelve most
skilful artists in the profession exercised their
skill upon the heads Of as many different
ladies', chosen on account Of the luxurlance Of
their hair. Each artist undertook q different
style of coiffure, and the president of the fra
ternity awarded prize to the most successful.
The public are admitted to witness the trials
of skill, upon payment OF fee, and the at
tendance is generally large. The exhibition,
this year, was given for the benefit Of the
needy French members of the profession,
who took refuge in London during the war,
and are too poor TO return home.
The interest which always attaches to the
Cambridge (EDgland) Mathematical Tripas Is
increased by tragcal incident. Mr.. Robert
r. Webb, of st. Johns College, is the senior
wrangler, which is the highest honor Of Eng
lsh scholarship and the crown of university
career. The papers announce that his father
died during the progress of the examination,
which continues for days. Lest the knowledge
of his death should interfere with the sons
success, the event was Withheld from him,
and he heard about the same time Of his loss
and of his splendid success. Not only the
senior wrangler, but all the high wraDglers
have secure career before them at the bar or
the church. The fame of university success
follows young man through lite. The nine
first wranglers are OF such Importance as to
have their biographies printed In the Times,
The ff. h this year is an American, Mr.. George
Lockhart Rves, of New York, and the twenty
ninth a son of Dickens. There are fyrty-f7e