The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-28
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FRIDAY, JUNE 2s, 1872.
NEWS OF THE OAY.

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NEWS OF THE DAP.
Late advices from Port-au.Prince state
that the bombardment Of that city by the Ger
man fleet consisted of the firing OF only two
guns.
The fashionable shoe for summer prone
naders is made OF French kid, cut about three
quarters high, fastened with buttons, with toes
almost square. and heels about an inch high.
Colonel Hendrick B. Wright, Democratic
candidate for Congressman at large from
PENNSYLVANIA, expresses the opinion that In
the great coal-miniug county of Luzerne,
where he resides, one-third Of the Republicans
are for Greeley, and that fully one-half will be
for him In case he Is nominated at Baltimore.
London court dress-makers have been
notified by the lord chamberlain, that In future
ladies' in square e-cut bodices will not be ad-
mitted to the Queens drawing rooms. This is
a gentle hint in favor of more refined and
ssemly dressing than has hitherto been Gus
tomary.
During q cornet solo at the Boston Jubilee,
one day last week, a baby in the audience set
up lusty and prolonged howl, whereupon q
Boston paper, in alludiug to the Incident, sug-
gests that at the next jubilee Mr.. Gilmore
should include In the programme, "Nursery
Symphonies, with real Baby Obligators.'
-Advices received here from Ex-Governor
Curtin, now minister to Russia, Indicate quite
clearly that he will return to the United States
b,,&1 3rot nfA nd will To ha dald
for the Cincinnati ticket. Judge Coffee, the
first secretary Of legation, writes that he Is
coming home to speak in his own State penn
sylvania) for Greeley and Brown.
What are "female post-prandial privi-
leges?' Mr.. NJ. D. Conway says that Miss
Kate Fields successful after-dinner venture
in London will probably have the effect of
breaking down the prejudlces against female
postprandial privileges. Very good. But
what did Miss Field venture on 'after din
ner?" Did she take gin and water, or smoke,
or how' Before we rejoice In her victory let
us know what she won.
Letters received In Washington from In
diana give the most encouraging accounts of
the progress of the Greeley and Brown move.
ment, and the utmost confidence is expressed
in its triumph at the October election. Esti-
mates of q majority as high as fifteen thous-
and are made for ex-senator Hendricks, who
is running for Governor. Even Congressman
Kerr, who has been hostile to the Cincinnati
ticket, writes that it is idle to declaim against
1t In that State. and adds that the Indiana
delegation will cast solid vote for Greeley
and Brown at Baltimore.
The Home Journal says: "The story of Mr..
Greeley's white coat and hat will not hold good
as to the present time. The candidate for
White House etonors passed the Home Journal
Office on y..onday last, wearing, as is his habit
OF lie years, a black dress-coat, black trous-
era. single-breasted black velvet vest, black
silk neckerchief, and dark brown straw hat;
the latter somewhat the worst for wear. He
seemed not to know that he was the observed of
all observers, out walked along in his slipshod,
easy way, like man who cares more for what
he Is than what he looks like"
The allegation contained In the Washing
ton dispatch to the New York Herald of
Monday concerning Secretary Fish in con-
nection with the recently reported Canadian
insult to the American flag, excites some
comment. 1t is said In the dispatch that
Secretary Fish, when his attention was called
to 1t, remarked "that 1t amounts to nothing.
Some halr-brained Dominion official thinks he
can make trouble by Insulting our flag. We
have become accustomed to such insoence."
The secretary In a private note to friend in
Washington says the statement is "utterly
without truth, and base fabrication from be-
ginning to end, as far as concerns me-"
The Herald hos dispatch from Washing
ton reporting that the Spanish war vessels
have strict orders to seize and sink the Ameri-
can steamers Virginius and Edgar Stewart
wherever they may be found outside of neutral
ports. Thus, if the virgnius were to leave
Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, where she has
taken temporary refuge, she would be pounced
Upon and destroyed at once by the Spanish
war steamers Arapides and Pizarro, which are
lying In wait for her at that port. The in-
structlons of the Spanish naval commanders.
tits said, admit of wide construction, and
the VirglnIus is liable to capture as soon as out
Of the reach of the guns of the Venezuelan
fort The commanders of the Spanish war
vessels are only 80 far limited in their instruc-
tions as to avoid armed conflict with neutral
powers.
The excessive heat in New York rendered
the animals In the Central Park Menagerle
unusually lnorose and irritable, and visitors
were warned not to approach their cages.
Last Sunday evening, the house containing
the lions, tigers and leopards was densely
packed with sIght-seers. Among those con-
gregated before the cage of magnificent leo
pard were Mr.. William C.. Coffee, OF No. 26l
West Houston street, and his little son, about
five years of age. Mr.. Coffee, lost ln gazing
at the leopard, failed to notice that the child
had passed under the outer bar, and was
standing with his face pressed against the
cage. The savage beast within, however, was
not slow to observe 1t, and, bounding sudden
ly to the bars, he imbedded his claws in the
boys lace. The child's shrleks induced the
belief that some of the beasts had broken
loose, and rush for the door ensued, the
panic being increased by the roars of the
other animals, and the widest excitement pre-.
vailed. Meanwhile the father tore his child
away, but not before his face had been badly
laceraie,l The leonard was subseOnentlv re