The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-24
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER "a, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

AOk az
Trinity College, Dublin, has made the
study of Greek optional with their students.
Professor Stowe, husband OF Mrs. Harrie'
Beecher Stowe, has been stricken win pa
ralysis.
Carlyle Is now nearly eighty, and mas
abandoned writing, but appears IN society anu
converses as vigorously as ever.
AN American tourist, named James Will
cox. In company with a Frenchman. was re-
Gently lost In the crater OF Mount VesuVlus'
while endeavorlng to explore Its interior.
Michigan has a law which makes 1t a mis-
demeanor, punishable BY fine sad imprlson'
ment, to aim a frearm at any person, whether
the weapon be loaded or not.
-Forney's Press follows the wake OF the
New York Tribune, announcing that while IN
the main supporting the Republican party II
will hereafter be an independent newspaper
-%Frenchmen in New York appeal to theil
countrymen in the United States for aid fol
the many emigrants from Alsace and Lorraine
who are coming to this country.
George ". Smith, one of the presidents OF
the Mormon Church, with a party, have start
ed on a religious pilgrimage to Palestine and
the Holy City, to prove The connection be-
tween the Mormons and the East tribes.
Count de Chambord has written a letter
protecting against the establishment OF a Re-
public as the permanent government OF
France. He says a monarchical government
alone can save Franco.
The sale of about twenty American
journals is prohibited in the States of the Ger
man Empire. Among them are about six
New York papers. The general cause of their
prohibition is having spoken dlsrespectfully OF
German princes.
-AttarneysGeneral Williams has recon-
mended to the President the pardon OF VIM.
Teei, one of the Ku.Klux prisoners confined
in. the Albany penitentiary, on account OF con-
tlnued m-health. This pardon is one OF the
number asked for by Gerrit Smith.
Mrs. Fair manages to keep herself before
the people in San Francisco. She lately sued
her mother for debt, and her mother contrl-
putel still further to the excitement by taking
q small dose Of laudanum when she heard
that the verdict had gone against her.
Fossil remains of some enormous enimal
were found the other day near Malheur City,
Oregon. The tusks found were four feet IN
diameter at the base, and fifteen feet long.
Portions of the head show that the animal
was two feet wide between the eyes.
During the past week the wife ofthe hon.
Horace Greeley has been lying at the point OF
death. She can survive but a few days. Mr..
Greeley constantly remains at her side, and
cannot meet demSnGs for his presence in
various sections Of the country.
Nine. Matilda Heron announces through
the San Francisco press that she has decided
to take a few young lady pupils in reading
and dramatic literature during her stay IN
that city. The lady ''would also be pleased
to be the humble medium through which
might be lnaugurated charming drawing
room entertainments among the elite families
Of the city,
-Marshal Bazaine's forthcoming trial ex-
cites great interest in Paris and throughout
France. His position Is about the same as 1t
was when he surrendered himself q prisoner,
with the addition OF greatly impaired health
and an Indictment against him which daily
becomes more overwhelming as new infor-
nation Ii brought forward regarding his Metz
surrender. 10 - %
-Edgeworth Female Seminary at Greens.
boro,, .North Carolina, was destroyed by fire
on Monday last. Edgeworth had recently
been occupied as a residence by Mr.. J. A.
Gray, tho owner of the properly, and was in
sured for about ten THOUSAND dollars, divided
among the following companies: Etna. OF
Hartford; franklin, OF Philadelphia; Georgia
Home, and Andes. 1t was built In 1910 by
Governor Morehead, who gave 1t It's name.
Mr.. Gra9's loss cannot be definitely stated,
but will probably not be very great.
According to the weekly returns of the
Bank OF Prussia, now just commenced to be
announced, the stock of specie is about s25,-
600, 600" while the note circulation Is about
ESQ, 00O, 900. When the last instalment Is paid
by France, Germany will, by the ordinary
action of trade, be depleted of her unneces-
sary supply of gold. Prices will then fall, and
all who speculated In values when the quota.
ton was high will lose heavily. 1t Is inti-
mated, also, that there is great danger of a
financial crisis In Germany at the end, which
would, indeed, prove q lamentable conclusion
to her acquisition of 80 many millions OF
French money as the war indemnity.
"A cable dispatch from Geneva, Switzer.
land, announces the death of the eminent
theologisn and author, J.H. Merle D'Aubigne.
He was born at Geneva August 18th, 1894, and
was the third son of Louis Merle, a merchant
of that city. whose father married the daught-
er of a French noblemaD, D'Aubigne. From
his paternal grandmother, according to a
Swiss custom, Professor Merle derives his sur.
name, D'Aublgne. he was educated at Geneva
and Berlin. He was a pastor OF a French
church at Hamburg, and afterwards the favor
ite court preacher of the King of Holland: In
1880 he ives appointed to the chair OF ecclesi
astical history in the theological school of the
Evangelical Society of Geneva. He is. widely
known az q writer in theology and church his
tory. The principle of "God In history" he
sought especially to enforce in his "History of
the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century,
He was the author Of many other works, In
Guiding a life of Cromwell" &C., in all of
which he was q strenuous advocate Of the
Protestant religion. He had an ample fortune,
and lived in q villa commanding a view Of the
lake, lust on the outskirts Of Geneva.