The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold closed at 13s.
Cotton in New York closed <ttong; up
lands 25t cents; sales 1858 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed firm; uplands
lid; Orleans 1lad; sales $4,000 bales.
The Florida sponge-gatherers rea:izeu
$3.50, 1000 last year.
"A pneumatic tube is to be tried between
tho government printing office and the capi-
tol at Washington.
"A Chicago committee on placards Tor
smoking cars have agreed on the following
form of words: ''If the passengers expect to
rate as gentlemen, they must not expectorate
on the floor"
"A Western paper relates that Democrat
was dining at acertain hotel one day, when
the polite walter said 10 him: "Beef, pork,
mutton, veal, or chicken ?" IL don't care
was the reply; anything to beat Grant. "
1t has been estimated In England that IN
three years of active circulation crown pieces
lose five per cent. of their original weight;
half crown pieces, ten per cent; shillings,
thirty per cent; slxpences, forty per cent;
and tbreepences, forty-two per cent.
The discovery Is announced in Hungary
of an almost entire human skeleton, together
with stone hammer, at depth. which. &C.
cordIng to the theories Of modern geoiogists'
would prove that mau must have existed long
before the ssmammoth age.
1t is expected that fashion will soon as
sert dominion over noses. A machine has
been perfected in England, which, applied to
the probosc!s for an hour daily, 30 directs the
soft cartilage that an Informed nose ls quickly
shaped to perfection. Thus every person may
determine what sort of an organ he or she
will wear, andthe question of style becomes
an animportant one. .ss..s.l=..-.
"A significant letter has been written by
United States Senator Ferry to Hon. James f.
Babcock, of New Haven, expressing his graft
tnde to the Democrats who gave him their
votes. He claims TO be o Republican, and
likely to-. remain so, but he says: "We are
not all antagonisms, even in politics. We
have one country that welove; one wish for
its prosperity. We differ In many ways about
ne 5aSs ms5sSs R oaf We
agreed" From the senatorial contest, he
draws the lesson of a purer political future,
for he concludes by saying that "the moral Of
the senatorial election In Connecticut is not
that any. party or faction, or Individual, has
won triumph, but that the people sustain In
dependent thought and action In their repre-
seRtaives. !" ls-- - s.'.H'
-Four New Yorkers have shown the sport
Ing portion of the Old World how Americans
do certain things, and likewise made some
little excitement for themselves by series of
gambling operations at Monaco, o quiet town
In Upper Italy, and the only place In that re-
gion where the roulette and rouge tables
flourish under the protection OF the law.
These sporting gentry appeared on the scene
first simply as respectable travellers with
their wives, and were much more interested
In the drives and scenery of the surrounding
country than in games of chance. Occasion
ally they took q turn at Fortunes wheel, and
retired after losing trifllng sum. Soon their
tactics changed, however, and they appeared
at the bank well backed by notes and gold, to
the mo small satisfaction lof the proprietor,
and opened the campaign. For two days they
played, losing slightly but winning largely,
until their spoils footed mp lao, 900 francs, and
the bank was declared broken. The keeper
then charged them with playing on the first
night with counterfeit gold and winning un-
fairly and refused to pay, which 30 aroused In
dignation in the manly. bosoms of the success
fuI blacklegs that they whipped out their re-
volvefs, and scattering the Italians, carried eff
the bank. Ssd
1t Is surprising what crotchets valetudna-
rians will harbor. Here ID an invalid lady In
anew England town who Is greatly distressed
by the noisy vibrations of the telegraph wires
which pass over her house. The company
have moved their wires once to relieve her,
but did Il in such a way that, as che says in
little publication which she has made on the
subject, alhe incessant roar and ring" were
"twice or three times as loudn as before. u
'timately, she was forced to pay seventy-fve
dollars to cover the expense Of having the
poles carried far away from her domiclle.
Personally, she ;lsrld OF the Eoian noises,
but her dlstruat of telegraph companies has
not In the least abated; for, In handbill
which she has cbligingly forwarded to us, she
expresses the opinion that telegraphs ''are
established and stretched through every nook
and corner of the land" not only for the pur-
pose of keeping invalid ladies awake, but ..by
secret and designing party of politicians for
the express purpose of ascertaining the exact
state of affairs, and controlling, as far as pos
sible, the free suffrages Of the people," As
she would never have thought Of this II the
noisy wires had not kept her awake, we are
happy to believe that the worthy woman is
quite mistaken.
"A correspondent of the New York Eve
ming Post writes from Washington as follows:
"Chief Justice Chase Is probably the best
scholar that has ever presided over the su-
preme Court. As Latin scholar he is not
surpassed by any man In the profession.
While he was Governor of Ohio, friend tells
me, ne read through the Greek Testament
during his first term. He reads French as
readily as English. He can translate sFaustn
into his own strong and vigorous tongue: and
reads italian and Spanish Nka the natives
of those sunny lands. While he Js not
poet, he is fond of Evenings with the Poets
and has a high appreciation. of Chaucer
Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Goethe and
othars He has made eoma oood <ro ns,a,;.