The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-02-23
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!. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

New York yesterday.
At Liverpool cotton closed quiet; npland
1l}al13d; Orleans l1id.
Archbishop McCloskey is dangerously IL
at Princeton, New Jersey, of pneumonia.
"A cave has been discovered at Knoxville
Tennessee, which is said to run under the en-
tire city.
The Ice harvest this season has been
very large one, and the Ice houses everywher'
are full.
Queen Victoria has pardoned the two con
victed murderers, Rev. Mr.. Watson and Mis-
Edmunds.
Paris medical men assert that horse-fesf
has been discovered to be beneficial to per
sons of consumptive tendencies.
There are six hundred printing telegraph
machines ior giving quotations OF gold, for.
elgn exchange and cotton, now at work II
America.
BY padding his own canoe slightly in
advance of competing water craft, Ward has
made eleven thousand dollars during the pas
three years.
-Baron Gerolt, late German ambassador al
Washington, has been given by the Emperor
liberal pension and place In the PriVy Coun'
ell. with the title of Excellency.
In Boston, a life insurance company Is
contesting the payment OF two policies aggre-
eating $4,000, on the ground that the insured
life was represented as sober and temperate,
whereas it was in fact the reverse.
The Government OF the Porte has express
ed its Willingness to accede 10 the Russian re-
auest to facilitate the passage through the
Dardauelles, provided the signstory powers
to the Paris treaty express desire to this
-, ,ABoguml Dawson, an eminent German
trsqedIan, died. near Dresden, on the I'd in
stant, aged fiftytour years.; he made his de-
but In America at the stadt Theatre, New
York, in 1866. Subsequently he appeared as
Othello in German, to Edwin Booths Iago IN
English. and Madame Methua Scheller as Des-
demona. He returned to. England In 1867.
"A man In Memphis, desiring to see the
Grand Duke, took off his coat and carried
large Saratoga trunk Gn his shoulders up
stairs. thus evadiDg the police who had strict
orders to keep all strangers out of the Peabody
House. After carrying two-hundred-pound
trunk up two flights Of stairs he didn't see tae
Grand Duke, and found somebody had stolen
his coat. y
All the machineryin the Momaske mills
In Manchester, N. a., which has recently been
used In the manufacture of woollen goods, is
now devoted to the manufacturing of cotton
goods, in consequence Of the great dispropor-
tion In the price OF wool and the manufactured
articles. Wool of last years. crop which
was bought In Manchester for forty-two cents
per pound, now sells for seventy five cents
per pound. -..
"A telegram has been received In New
York, from Mobile, stating that an abrupt ter
animation has been put to the brilliant racing
career Of Helmbold, the famous racer, BY the
giving way of the middle tendon in one OF the,
forelegs of the animal. There seems In this
matter to be somewhat curious coincidence
between the fatality that affilcts the racer and
the rumored reverses that have overtaken his
human namesake.
There are now three plans before the
French public for paying off the war indem-
nifty. The first consists of purchasing the re-
manning lease of the railways and raising
money en- them. Next there Is national and
patriotic loan to be subscribed by people pos
sesslDg f4O0 q year and over, and bearing
three per cent. interest; and there ls NJ de
soubeyrans plan of a huge lottery with
monthly drawings. 1t is naturally asked is
French credit 30 bad that guarantee is re-
auired. The lottery plan meets with good
deal of favor from the public, and n. Pouyer-
Quertier is reported to have no doubts as to its
perfect morality and the soundness of N. de
Soubeyran's finance.
Worcester, Massachusetts. has an electrl-
cal house. In passing around the parlor and
rubbing the feet on tho carpet a person be-
comes highly charged with electricity; upon
touching the register, or any good conductor, a
brilliant spark of large size is developed. The
gas can be readily lighted by. first turning iton'
and then rubbing the feet on the carpet and
holding one finger over the jet. spark often
darts from the feet when passing over certain
places in the floor, producing painful sensa-
ion. When three or four persons take hold OF
hands and walk around they all become power
fully charged, and the one first touching con-
ductor would not care to repeat the expert
ment. What peculiar arrangement In house
is necessary to produce this phenomenon, and
Its influence on tue health Of It's inmates, being
constantly charged with electricity, Is ques-
ton for the scientist.
The Prince OF Wales, for the first time
since his illness, went to church at Sandring..
ham on Sunday, February 4. He was present
to the end of ofmorning prayer, and left before
the commencement of the Litany. The occu-
pants of the royal stall in the chaucel were the
Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke Of Ed
inburgh, the Duke OF Cambridge, and the Hon.
Mrs. W. Grey. The church was very full, the
additions 10 the ordinary congregation being,
as usual, strangers visiting in the locality.
The service was choral, and the thanksgiving
hymn for the recovery of the Prince, written
by Mr.. Lewis Morrison, and composed By Mr.
Charles G. Hornsby, was introduced and sung
with great effect The service was conducted
BY the Rev. W. Lake Onslow, who also
preached an Impressive sermon from the text,
Luke xvi, 5, How much owest thou unto
my Lord? p
The coming royal thanksgiving at st. Pauls
promises to be one of the most notable events