The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-02-03
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1872.
NEWS OF THE D4Y.

.. :. i. NEWS OF THE D4E
Gold closed yesterday at 81.
Cotton closed steady In New York ; up
lands 22s cents sales 226s bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed quiet; up
lands lid, Orleans llad sales $4,000 bales.
The Rev. DR.. Peabody, Of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, preached the annual sermon
before The State Legislature at its recent as
.sembiing iiom the text, "Tnou shalI no'
steal"
The other evening gentleman accidental
IL paye bootblack five-dollar piece, mlslaH-
ing It in the dusk for cent. The boy dls'
covered the error at once, and what did the
noble little fellow do? Quietly put 1t In his
pocket and say nothing? No, spurred by a
bet. er impulse, he called all his comrades ana
generously spent every penny Of 1t In peanuts
and lemon beer.
.Asippular scene In The New York STOCK
Exchange is thus noticed in the Trlbuae: $50
marked Wasthe absence of orders In the STOCK
Exchange Saturday that the members OF the
hoard spent much of their time In athletic and
other amusemenls, such as running, jumping
sliding, upon the floor, singing sna'ches OF
songs, &c Only occasionally was this sort OF
sort IS interrupted by an order to buy OF sell
something, som These dull days, are al well
enough, If we don't have too many Of them" !"
"A polItco- sentimental complication IN Eu-
ropesn "hlgh life, is suggested In the goss'py
announcementdhat one of the Russian Grand
Dukes. son of the Gar, has rashy fallen IN
love with the daughter Of the Prussian Gene
ralVon Alvensleben, who recently visited st.
Petersburg with her father, The lady is said
10 be, both, charmiog and accomplished-aa
CIRCUMSTANCE which, if marriage be proposed
by The Grand Duke and objected 10 by the En-
peror. would only make the matter worse for
the love-orn imperial suitor.
Heretofore dogs, have been credited Win
being In all cases the original propagators OF
hydrophebia, and thousands Of innocent
CANNES have been on this account doomed to
death. But now there Is said TO be q victim OF
that terrible malady in Chicago who was never
bitten by dog. He Is a German, twenty-eight
wears of age, named Reiter, and goes Into
sossms and convulsions ut the sight or thought
Of water. his paroxysms are described as
dreadful. and the doctors can do nothing TOT
him.
An experienced groceri in Kalamazoo, who
has watched the manGavres and strategy Oh
rails for many seasons, solves the problem OF
how rats carry eggs up pair OF stairs. He
declares that he has seen rat g. to basket OF
ass;fp,. take one in his paws, roll over on his
back, resting the egg on his abdomen, holding
fttbere BY his legs flap his tail as signal that
all was ready, and out would come two other
rats, seize the: first one by the tall, ana drag
him up stairs on his back, egg and all.
According to Dr.. Toner, The eminent sta
tistician, who has prepared diagram IN re-
gard to the relative longevity ofth sexes, and
q curious table, showing the number OF children
born 10 each thousand women between The
apss OF fifteen and fifty, there are but half as
many children born to the number Of women
mentioned now as there were In the year lsOO.
DE-. Toner'S table further shows that there has
been regular decrease of births every decade.
According to his theory, the depopulatlon OF
1he world is but matter of lime-say of tew
thousand years.
A plot of land in London, opposite the
Mansion House, the public residence of the
lord mayor, is said to have been recently let
at.a grouhd-rent almost equal to one pound
per square foot per annum, which represents
a capitalized value of about million and
halt sterling per acre, or seven million i've
hundred thousand dollars. II IN New York,
on the leading avenue OF business, Broadway,
two hundred Thousand dollars be paid for
city lot twenty five feet by one hundred for
the fee simple, the price Is thought high. Six.
teen times The area mentioned will be about
an acre, and sixteen times the purchase In
stancsd will be put three million two hundred
thousand dollaFs-less than halt the value Of
the Kanslon House plot.
- "A manifesto has been Issued by the Count
de Chambord to the French people. The
Count claims, as Of yore, the fright d.
yIne,n and says: ~ shall never abdicate
my claim to the throne of France.
shall never forsake the monarchical
principle which I have preserved Intact
for forty yeare, and which Is the last hope Of
Frances greatness and liberties. C@sarism
and anarchy threaten France because her SAL
walton ls sought in personal questions and not
in principles. shall ever uphold the flag OF
France and aid In restoring the ancient pres
tIge of her armies. Time passes, and allan
ces and reorganization are urgent. The hap
piness of France is my only ambition; and I
will never consent to become revolutionlst
where am legitimate King"
A New York paper says: "Stokes rests
his curled head on lace-bordered pillows. The
odor of his cell permeates the entire Tombs.
He orders In perfumes by the box, and every
time the soup and hash for the common crins-
ualsis toted past his door he breaks bottle
of musk. In climson-faced dressing gown,
embroidered slippers and silk socks he smokes
the time away, altogether the gayest bit of
criminal that ever lodged in Aurderers' row.
I don't think the man extraordinarily intellt-
. gent. How that unfortunate wife of his must
feel at Sandy Hook, on her return home.
= When the pilot goes aboard all The late papers
are eagerly sought, and, among strangers, her
heart probably filled with dar: uncertainties,
that poor woman will firstlearn that the father
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