The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-12-05
NEFS OF THE a

o,a Ia aa,d tn oyerlIe an immense coal field.
The Roston fire has opened a biisk lum'
her traffic from Southern ports to that city.
-Missouri this year has raised thirty thou'
sand ~hogsneads o. tobacco, nearly double
last years crop.
1t ia n announced that the Marquis and
Marchioness of Butte are to visit this country
nextyear.
Alfred Wilt, the newly elected mayor OF
New Orleans, Is q Democrat, q Creole, ano
only twenty-six years of age.
The memory of Thomas Paine is to be
-perpetuaied In Boston by the erection OF q
building to be called Paine's Hall.
"A bronze group, costing eleven thousand
dollars, has been placed over the grave Oh
child in Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle, Pennsyl'
vania.
In London, recently, a man died inles-
tate. and as no heirs could be found, his prop
erty, valued at $l,25o00o, reverted to the
crown.
IA q late wedding q calcium light was
thrownon the bride as soon as she LEFT the
church, and was 80 managed as to flood the
carriage with light, and thus exhibit the
beauty and toilette of this blushing bride and
groom. to an admirlng multitude.
-Psrls shop-keepers have been 'invlted"
to remove ullet-marks from their shops. A
great many shops which received no scratch
during the Commune had their establish
menus marked by "artlsts In bullet-marks" to
attract customers.
ga .mnn ,v3o1 ~ stho upft nj PonUnrth DIXON
against the proprletors of the Pail Mall Ga
zette, to recover damages for alleged libel,
was brought to a conclusion on Friday. The
jnry awarded the plaintiff damages 10 the
amount or one farthiug.
The present scarcity of dwelling houses
for rent In Richmond, Va, according to the
Evening News, has not been equalted since
the Influx of .'refugee" families during the
late war. The real estate agents have various
applications every day from parties In want OF
medium siza houses, and one agent lately ex-
pressed the belief that ne could rent five hum
dred tenements.
M. Caron. q %Frenchman, who has made
investigation into the breaking Of iron rails
during frosty weather, considers that good
iron is not affected by frost, but that poor
iron does suffer loss Of strength. He holds,
however, that the extreme rigidity of the
earth beneath the rails in cold weather offers
a better explanation Of breaks than the effect
Of mere frost upon iron.
Statistics Of fires, recently compiled,
show that seventy-slx million dollars were
lost through isolated. CONGREGATIONS In the
United States within the space of two years,
the great Chicago and Boston CONGREGATIONS
not being considered. Twelve per cent. of
these fires owed their origin to accident with
kerosene. Eighteen per cent. of the fires oc.
curling In New York In a single gear we're
due,to the same cause.
Bismarck was recently called upon by q
Russian lady, who asked him tor bis autograph.
After,tle chancellor had complied with her
request she said to him: "Prinoe, may I use
your autograph for q noble purpose" Seer
tainly,nT he replied; ''but what Is itr my
brother has been exiled to Siberia; let me
write an application for his pardon over your
name, and tho Gear Will grant It." Bismarck
consented, and Alexander II informed him,
when at Berlin recently, that the pardon had
been granted.
Another step In the advancement toward
European civilization has been taken By the
Japanese Government. A system of public
schools has just been adopted, and 1t has
been decided that the children of the rich and
poor, high and low, shall 60 to, school, and In
order to press the Importance of teaching
the young Idea hoy TO- shoot upon the ORR
entail mind; the Miksdo has decided that the
parents must be severely punished If they
neglect to send their children to the newly
provided educational establishments.
"A Baltimore street car conductor has
filed his enforced leisure, caused by the prev
silence Of the epizooty, by contributing the
following to the American of that city: ITO
begin With, there is the passenger who insists
on standing in the doorway, because the car
is full and the platform Is full, but will make
no effort to go in or out, because he has pa
his fare.' Then there Is the man who will hail
the car two squares of, will run one square
and walk the other, and then heap maledic-
lions on your head for starting before he has
got fairly aboard. Then there is another who,
when he wishes to alight, berates the con-
ductor for not stopping directly opposite the
faapstones. Then there is the bore who, after
stopping the car, Zone of the Red Line, for
instance,) wants to know If you go to Druid
Hill Park. He is only exceeded by the other
bore who rides with you for a halt mile, stops
the car, and then wants you 10 give him.
geographical history of the neighbor.
hood, so that he can find a certain
locality which, after FIVE mlnutes' talk, you
discover happens to lie in another section OF
the city. Then there is the peppery old gen.
tleman, who tells you you don't know your
business, and takes your number for not stop
ping for him on an up grade. Then there is
the lady OF fashion, who meets unexpectedly
In the car an acquaintance OF her own sex.
They talk on a variety Of topics, and can
scarcely break of, even after one has signalled
the conductor to stop. The car has nearly
come to q stsnd'stlll, when one suddenly re.