The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-07
NEWS. OF THE DAY.


NEWS OF THE DAY.
Laura Keene Is to. give readings In COS
tune, assisted by musicat combination.
Edmund Yates and Jas. Anthony Froud
viii arrive in this country on or before Octo
ber 1st-
The New York car drivers complain tina
thew work seventeen hours day LOT ~ oo
and are going to meet to take action Tor re
duction of hours OF labor.
Young Ketchum, who served out his tern
in Sing Sing for forgery, is working IN wal
street again with all bis accustomed energ!
aHd vim. .s5ts $50 :a
There is q talk of the marriage of the DUKE
of Edinburgh with one Of the daughters Of tn
Royal family Of Germany.
There has been recently established II
London, England, an "Ofdce for Marriages,
which undertakes to provide duly qualified
matrimonial partners suitable for oil appll
cants. To support their statements, they pub
lish In their advertisements testimonials from
various persons who have been satisfactory!
supplied with wives or husbands, BY the OH
Ger. iu the same manner as the testimonial
appended 10 advertisements Of patent medi
cines.
Gas, meaning blcarburetted hydrogen, is
a large element in the festivities OF tne Brazil
ians. Thus, at the recent reception given 70
the Emperor at Rio Janeiro, on his return
from his long visit to Europe, the little bill OF
the gas company amounted to sl60,00O. AS
festivals ara held In Brazil on very slight pro-
.rocatton, and as they always conclude with an
illumination, the companies keep on hand
large quantity not only of flexible pipes but
flexible mains, 60 that gas can be furnished IN
any spot at an hours notice.
"A writer In one of the best of the Northern
papers gives some statistics concerning PROM
inent New York journals. According 10 bis
statement, the Tribune was begun In 1S4l,
with one thousand dollars, borrowed money,
and Its profits In 1850 amounted to sixty thou
sand dollars, and In 1870 to one hundred and
sixty thousand dollars annually. The first
Office of the Herald was In cellar, where Its
morality was as low as its surroundings. 1t
now yields yearly income of two hundred
thousand dollars. The Times lost, at the start,
one. hundred thousand dollars, and now 1t Is
valued at one million, including It's real estate.
The Evening. Post, after many fluctuations, ls
now worth one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year, the Express thirty thousand,
and the Journal of Commerce seventy thou
sand. OF course all this is only telerably ac-
curate guessing; but 1t shows the estimation
sha l
presumably Impartial observer.
News has reached this country OF the
death of Chlna's greatest scholar, statesman
and soldier, Tseng- -Kwo.Fan, who was the ao'
nolute commander Of eighty millions Of men,
and, because he was self.made man, his his
tory has all the more Interest for readers In
this country. He was the eldest OF nine
brothers, and the son of respectable literary
man Of moderate means. His first distinction
was Of q literary character, and 'n his thirty
second year he rose to the highest literary
honors, being made member OF Han-lln Col
lege. He then began to be recognized for
official preferment, and was gradually ao'
vancing when the death Of his mother forced
him 10 retire from Pekln, according to pre-
vsllug custom, to Human. During his retire.
ment, his military prowess showed Itself In
raising body of local militia and making a
successful resistance 10 the Tai-piaSs, who
were advancing northward.- Promotion from
that time was rapid, and his army, In putting
down Instructions or repelling invasions,
was constantly successful. His family was
hn ooao hnnnrnn
with the coveted insignia of the double-eyed
peacock feather, while at his death unusual
honors were paid bis memory By an imperial
edlct.
I'm the seclusion of his Piedmontese home,
amid his books and other literary treasures,
N. Olivier, the former Prime Minister, has
been sought out by an English traveller and
led to relate the circumstances attending the
early history of the Franco-P Prusslan war. Fer
himself he was ayerse to the declaration OF
war, and before accepting effice made 1t CON
dition that the voluntary Joining OF Southern
Germany with Northern should not be consid-
cred cas,ls belti. he declares, also, that the
Emperor was opposed to the war, but was
driven to 1t by the sneers of the opposition at
the pusillanlmity of France In permitting the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of Germany. Nothing
said he, sis possible In France but Democra-
cy-a weak Democracy is the Republic; q
strong Democracy is the Empire. But the
time of frutIon Is matter Of accident" He
iorgaye the Emperor for exiling his father al
the time OF his coup detat, tecause he had
been 30 good to France. n. Olivier is
engaged In studying the acts and lives OF
italian statesmen and writing history of the
events which led to the late war, though not
for Immediate publication, while he is de-
scribed as looking better in the face than
when het stood surrounded by ambassadors
and princes, though his hair has turned white
from the burdens of care that the severe
struggle he was called to pass through had
laid upon him.
Nothing has called forth saeh an acknowl.
edgment of departed greatness from the
press as the death Of James Gordon Bennett,
and the New York journals that have achieved
success by following in the path he beat for
them, have been prompt to chronicle and
credit the great benefactIons LEFT behind by
the dead journalist. Mr.. Benefits last hours
were eminently quiet and peaceful. He knew
what was to come, and spoked Of 1t with resig-
nation, though he regretted the absence OF his
family. Several days before bis death he ask