The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-26
NEWS OF. TIE DAT.

NEWS OF. THE DAP.
Gold at New York, yesterday, closed at
12Sal3s.
The New York cotton market closed quiet;
nplanes 2sa. Orleans 2ssc; sales 1888 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed heavy and I'M
chSspged; uplands HALT, Orleans llad; sales
10000 bales; speculation and export 1000.
THE Hercules Life Insurance Company
of New York has been declared bankrupt.
The government yesterday sold one mil
lion in gold in New York at ll2.4oall2.5O.
One seventh of Arkansas is said to have
been recently sold for taxes.
An English steam plough Is at work on
the malarious Roman Campagna.
"A number Of lighthouse keepers on the
New England coast are women.
The seventy.fve postofaces in the United
States in 1887 have increased to thirty.nine
thousand nine hundred and fifty.
Chicago bill-posters rush into barber shops
and paste bills on the boot-soles of those who
are being shaved.
"A man In London so resembled Arthur
orion. that he had 10 wear a placard. " am
not the CLAIMANT" to escape street hootlng.
"A French squadron Is preparing to blow
Madagascar into the ocean on account OF the
m-treatment OF Frenchmen by the natives.
Out OF the ffty.nine secretaries an
c6rncsd tor the New York Grant meeting,
every man of the first twenty Is a clerk IL
Mr.. .Clews's bank.
1t is rumored that the friends of Mrs.
Charles Dickens are about to publish their YER
sion ofthe cause ofthat lady's separation from
her late husband.
The Governor of Texas has Issued d proc
lamation for the enforcement of the quaran-
tine laws along the coast of that State from
the 10th OF May next.
within a period of fourteen months two
societies Of .iroa.workers In England paid out
for the suppoit of men on strike the enormous
sum Of %, $4,000.
The Judgment pronounced several months
since by a number Of Washington physicians
that the new specific called cundurango is
yslue,ess as q remedy for cancer has been con-
frmed by reliable representatives Of the medi-
cal faculty Of London.
"A New England paper calls attention TO
the fact that the cotton mills In the Southern
States now have $50, 900 spindles 10. operation,
and are paying from ten to twenty per cent
dividends on capitals ranging from 100000 TO
st. $50, 200.
"A magician was displaying his powers In a
Texas o " a few days ago, and introduced
the familiar trick of pretending toioad q pis-
toll and then allowing a spectator to fire at
him. The spectator. not to be outdone In
sleight-of-hand, managed to drop a bullet In
the barrel and killed the luckless exhibitor OH
hand.
1.-The Japanese "Plincesses" have elected
to- stay at Georgetown, D. c., and be educated
there. DeLong wanted them to go TO Vassar,
but they cried at the thought of leaving
Georgetown, and their tears were efectual.
Ryo, the elder girl, seems to be Of the right
sort. Some one told. her that she had a right
to have Jewels, silks and lsces at the govern.
ment's expense, If she wished; but she re-
piled that she did not want them-all she
wanted was a good education.
The New York Tribune's present stock
holders, that is, dating January l, 1872, are
Horace Greeley, Mrs. Greeley, Ba5ard Taylor,
Thomas N. Rocker, Scion Robinson, Samuel
Sinclair, George Ripley, Theodore Tilton, OIL
yer johnson, Charles e. Wilbour, c. A. Run
Kle, John Hooper, Ellis L. Price, Silas E.
Cheney, John F. Cleveland, Patrick O'Rourke,
Philip A. Fitzpatrick, Whitelaw Reid, Par
sons Farnham, E. a.. Jenny, J. G. Aver, and
= the estates of A. D. Richardson and 8. T.
Clarke-twenty.two owners and one hundred
shares. Any owner who wishes TO sell q
share can readily get $4,000 for 1t, and some
thing over. A year hence the Tribune will
'spull down its barn and build greater"
Two conventions will meet at Cipclnnati on
the first day of May. These conventions are
called By two organizations, though their sup
poIters appear to- have common purpose Of
government reform. The Liberal Republican
of Missouri, and seconded by leading Republi.
cans of Ohio, New York, &C., and in sympathy
with which the great liberal meeting in New
Yosk.was recently held, attracts the most at
tention. This is expected to be a very large
assemb!age..~ The other convention was called
by the Reunion and Reform Association o
Ohio, an organization which includes botf
Democrats and Republicans, and is said tt
have much influence in most CT the Western
States, in all of which the Germans have SINH
lar associations.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered an
address In the Cooper Institute, New York,
last evening, on the question, IT'S the opening
OF our public libraries on Sunday consistent
with Christian uses on the Lords day." He
took the affirmative side of course. This Sab
: bath movement Is agitatlDg Boston, and tht
question Of opening the public library on Sun
days is now attracting considerable attention
In that city. Acommlttee Of the board of al
dermen have the measure under considera.
ton, and have asked for an extension of time
to enable them to procure from abroad. evf
deDce bearing on the subject. There is 6
strong party in Boston in favor of the change
believing 1t will do much to counteract the
debaslng temptations which assa:l young mel
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