The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-09
NEWS OF TIE DAY.


IN. Ernest Remains next book will be OF
the Apocalypse Of st. John.
New York has a sell: f:propelling steam fir
engine. =,
Monday Ia now advocated as the pay da!
for working people.
The mercantile marine of the whole wofiee
numbers over 81, 900 vessels.
The new Tuileries is to be immeasuraoly
orander and more beautiful than the ola que.
-Yonng candidates for the pu,pit ~ 80 ~,
Enplsnd are questioned as 10 tne'f uoN'A -
the. Darwinian theory.
a Boston tea company, who were tne
arstidrm irilthe city 10 use oxen to draw tneir
wagons, now cali themselves the Occidental
Tee Company"
9IasrrQe numbers of English Immigrants
continue to,arrivsa at Raleigh and other points
In North Carolina. They are principally nom
Northamptbnshire and Birmingham.
=-2Boston has three churches, respectively
one hundred and twenty, one hundred and
forty and one hundred and fifty years DID,
which have remained unsltered since tney
wereibuilt.
...Atone Of the New York uptown churches
. slate, containing q list Of the weddings 70
be celebrated during the week, Is hung IN tne
yestibale every Sunday. for the benefit OF the
JouDg ladies Of the congregation
the inventor OF the Engel organ Is exhib-
iting his instruments In New York. The or.
gan has new stop called the .'vox Angelica"
an imiatlon OF that stop which only exists IN
the. .Bssle organ and sounds like chorus IN
thSI distance. esEF- .t.,,..--
Z rwensy-three pairs Of Alsatians resident
In, xnlhapsen we're Joined In matrimony day
OF tHp previous 70 the close Of the "oplion'" J"
hastened BY the report that the Prussian Gov
eminent iniandsd to obstruct purely Alsaiian
marriages affer that date, and to promote
than, between natives aad Germans.
-Mr.W. q. Smith, member Of Parliament,
nom london, England, Is in New York, on
tourof observation, which he will extend to
most d the leading cities. Mr.. Smith is cele-
brsted N q millionaire newsdealer In London.
He eha member OF the House for Westminster,
and was elected over John Stuart Mil.
Policemen in Berlin receive 81 rs day;
In Munich, 8; lin Vienna, 81 10; in Venice w
cenis; In Paris, 81; In Madrid, 81 so; In Rome,
.ssceGts; In Bucharest, rs cents; In st. Peters
baffI, go cents; in Copenhagen, ST. and In
stock6oln, 81 Is. In Constantinople they
mvs t5 content themselves with 40 cents:
M. Reed, formerly chief constructor, IN q
ls4ar.to the London Times, laments the weak
condition OF the British navy. He asserts that
two gears ago her navy was superior to any
OF the European powers, but now 1t is falling
offso,rspidly that, In Mr.. Reeds words, she
B biosine: ..the .prscticabllity of competing In
:tns fsce;" Russia and Prussls have outstrip-
pa EsrlShe has not an iron-clad which Will
COM compare with the Peter the Great, and in case
ofwar vspld he very badly off Indeed.
From Charles Kents new book, Charles
Dickens asAsRssder, It, appears that In bis
Amstican tour from December2 2, 1867, to April
40, 1856, Dickens gave seventy-slx readings to
andIeneas averaging 1900, the average net
peoueedA anonntnse to 5000, giving him
foytnnH Of ;ta2s, 900 in what may be regarded
asH1tmpis holiday excursion of five months.
HissnAnsst house was at Rochester, which
JtAd5ds $500, while his largest house gave
HIM $600e At the 1rst sale Of tickets In Bos-
fun "a November 10, Ar. Dolby sat at the
pigs0n' hole thirteen consecutive hours, taking
In sIA00o. Hr. Dickens was listened TO In
America BY III, 600 people.
Spotted short wells for ladies are no longer
fAshl0pable. Bracelets arc now made to
tRine around the arm, and require no clasp,
and vinaigrettes, made of. dull gold, In the
form Or a hunting horn, are worn suspended
TO the belt. In the new style of hair-dresslng,
called the Josephine, chignons are entirely
aboltahed. The halr. is drawn up from the
back of the head and piled on the top In thick
coils OF bralds, and loosely ffIzzled In front.
There sppears to be 9 general tendency shown
In she prevailing styles to revive the fashion
ofthe past: Skirts, suoh as we're worn by our
grsnd-mothers, have appeared, narrow at the
bottom and gradually widening upwards,
waists show q, tendency towards being short
ened to the armpits. The bonnets of to-day
ara not unlike The species known as "Kiss-me-
quIcks,1 In vogue iew years ago; Apiece Of
Information upon hearing which young lady
remarked she was surprised they should ever
hsHe gone out Of fashion. {.
Tho Count de Chambord has written let
tea to \. La Rochelle, member of the As
semhly, in.Bhich he says that France can only
bessysd by q Monarchy, and protests against
tho establishment Of a Republic, which would
be the commencement Of social anarchy. The