The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-30
NEWS OF TIE DAF.

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NEWS OF TIE DAT
Gold closed yesterday at 12aal25.
The New York cotton market closed quie'
but firm; uplands 23b cents; sales Slo oales.
in Liverpool cotton closed steady; uplanas
lid: Orleans lliallsd; sales 10000 bales.
The Empress Augusta, Of Germany, Will
leave Berlin on the 29th instant for England to
visit Queen Victoria, and will be absent ten
days.
The Rev. Alfred A. Curtis, late rector OF
Mount CalvaryGhurch, Baltimore, IN q letter
to Bishop Nottingham, that he
has Dissolved his connection with the Episco-
pal Church and joined the Church OF Home'
-Rochefort is employed In the kitchen at
Fort Boyart, where he serves out his term
of Imprisonment. HE is allowed TWO hours
dsily to read and write. He Is In good spirits,
but frequently complains bitterly that ne ID
not allowed any newspapers.
Royal ladies' in Europe cannot govern
their own health. The Empress of Austria is'
-consumptiye, the Empress of Russia suffers
nom govt and dropsy Of the heart, the EN-.
press of Germany is q victim to rheumatism
the Queen OF Holland is subject to frequent
fits of hysteris, The Queen OF Portugal IS a
confirmed invalid, and the Queen OF Denmark
is deaf.
All Hank, q Chinamar, was tried In New
York for highway robbery, the complainant
being Ayee, also Chinese. Ayee wished to be
sworn after his native custom, and to this END
q orockery plate was procured. The interpre-
ter henrepeated the words of the oath, ana
at the end Ayeerwaved the plate twice In the
air; and brought it down on the reporters
table with a crash that sent the splinters IN
every direction and caused a general retreat
among the Caucasian element.
"a novel temperance pledge is that which
originated in the New York Stock Exchange
the other day. It Is. addressed to ''sensibly
practical temperance people" and runs as fol-
lows "we, the undersigned, deprecating the
growing evil of intemperauce, and believing
that tits in a great degree induced by a mis-
taken idea OF sociabliity and politeness, there
fore, with q view of mitigating this evil in q
practical way, we hereby pledge ourselves to
nav only for the liquor which we ourselves
drink, and to abstain from drfnklng any
liquors which others pay for"
The hanging Of Joe Logston, a young des-
perado, near Nashville, Tennessee, broke two
ropes before it was consummated. "Ob,
Lord, don't do that again." said Joe TO Inc
: sheriff, as he writhed on the ground, Inc
blood running from his mouth and saturating
the white cap and shroud In which he was
dressed. At last he was dead, but the perform
IIances occupied over an hour, what with tho
sermon, PRAYER and the failures, and over two
thousand people watched the whole with I'M
tagging interest. : He was cool and pale, and
his only. speech was, .Let this be a warning
to ALL" Z
The correspondent of the Springfield Re.
publican, who visited the banking house Of
Woodruff, Clafin & Co., In Broad street, New
York, does not give a rose-colored view OF
either premises or occupants. The rooms aro
dark and gloomy, one clerk only occupies tie
room designed for twenty. Mrs. Woodruff has
ono sanctum and the famous Tennle and Colo
mel Blood another. .Dlngy carpets and cheap
pictures supply the ornaments. Colonel Blood
= u d plSdSduk mhut W loi6S
Tennie Is short and thick, and wore a blue
suit. Her features are described as masculine,
and her movements heavy and ungraceiul.
She was Idly scanning the stock quotations on
the telegraph tape, or giving directions to
Colonel Blood, or calling in sharp grating
tones for s'Jimmy," to deliver some letters.
Presently two young Englishmen entered and
~ 49, o. 100 ma~nIn Ubn 4 ayron6 90 fhnu
stated, was to get her picture, but 1t was pat
ent they had simply come to crafty a curiosi-
ty. Tennie listened to their shallow flattery,
whila trying to induce them to buy q set OF
her published books and those of her sister,
first for SO, then IS, next 81 so, and finally at
the greatly reduced price of 81 so, While the
youngsters, despite all her beguiling speech,
ended by purchasing q ten.cent picture, and
went off in evident glee.
* The Indictments preferred against the
quondam .1ichborne claimant at the London
Criminal Court are discouragingly volupi-
nous. They are printed at length in our
English exchanges, and accuse him of perjury
and forgery. He ID charged with falsely as
serting that he was the eldest son of The late
Sir James Tichborne;. that he resided in Paris
and was educated at S%tonyhurst; and that he
travelled in South America and other foreign
countries. The remaining aVertments relate
to evidence given In the recent trial, and to
the charge OF forgery in signing bis name to
the Tlchborne bonds. The prisoners appear.
ance has been somewhat altered by his five
weeks incarceration in Newgate. His fea.
lures are less ruddy, and he looks somewhat
sallow and W His elf.possession,
however, has not failed him, and during the
reading of the charges he surveyed the spec
tators with calmness, and did not evlnee the
slightest embarrassment at the position in
which he was placed. After pleading "Not
guilty" In a ste 1t voice, he was marched
back whence he came. Apropos OF this case,
the Melbourne Herald says that there is a
clerk In one of the government offices In that
city. who has in his possession a ring, bearing
the Tichborne coat-of-arms, and on the inside
the name oil Roger Tichborne's sister eneray.
ed. This ring was purchased for a trife from
a p%awnbroker; and it is not Impossible that it
may yet furnish a clew to the mystery which
ef;1 aprropnda this cUneo ce1obro