The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-17
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY II, 1872.
NEWS OF TIE DAP

Gold at New York closed at S3ass.
..The New York cotton market closed quiet;
nn1ands 2f3; sales 742 bales.
al Liverpool cotton closed quiet; uplands
1osd; sales $4,000 bales. =.
SThe Presidents father, Jesse R. Grant,
has tendered his resignation as postmaster at
CoYlngton, Ky.
,.--A regular highway robbery took place at
Brooklyn last night, making six persons gar
roted and robbed within two days. 20,
&C. 8. snead, of London, claims that the
nroposed purchase of the cables by England
and the United States Mal:; reduce & she tolls 10
a ahlllins per' word, Ffdd u 6 . fai 7s'i 'T~' + !:
There are stores in New York where glass
syescanbeq purchased initiating thossf az
animals. e. from fra n the elephant down to tne
mouse.
a.4Tcontehporary reports that last year
was a good one, for saGdines, the returns Oh
the fishery showing that they generally es'
caped capture. grez ::"ls'cl -
There is a young girl in Virginia who
wears four bullets .made into the form OF a
Maasese cross, whicntwere extracted from the
bodtess of her father and brother, who were
killed III the Siege Of Richmond. !.
Among the prizes for 1879 offered by
Cambridge University, England, is Is one Of
gold medal for. a Latin. ode, not to exceed
thirty stanlas, on the subject: "The Ameri-
can united with the British people In pond
Of peace and friendship" -
The London Spectator says OF London
health. and morals, that the great city Is twice
as healthy, twice as innocent, and about four f!
hundred times as charitable as that home {? OF
ideal purity and plsty, the agricultural VII
lage. .-r.7i l,;aG ;i;s i',:a
John C. Heenan has returned Ito New
York by the steamer Algeri which had q
stormy passage and many of the passengers
were badly bruised BY the tossings of the yes
sell, Heenan; among them. He was thrown
down by q violent lIrch of the vessel, ana
fractured his knee so badly that he fears ne
will always be a cripple. -as
The shipments OF tea from Yokohama,
japan, to the United States, during the past
year were more than thirteen million pounds,
which. would yield a revenue to this country
not tar from two million five hundred tnou-
sand dollars. In 1868 the shipment was only
little more than million pounds, which had
risen to about six millions In 1866 H-''
'c.Zrhe Dukes OF Buccleuch and Devonshire,
w{thwhom are are associated number of opuient
English capitalists, have set about creating a
Great port on the Lancashire coast to rival
I,iyernool. The site is Barrow.in-F Furness, and
Ia not unknown to the mercantile world IN
connection with It's Besssmer Steel WORKS,
which Weld q profit of f5O0, 900. There has al
go been erected there, quite recently, very
extensive jute works. ts.4; i5...-.,1
The action of the British Government In
ssabsorbing" the diamond fields and adjacent
territory in South Africa is In entire Ear
mony with the policy which has given the en-
pire such vast outlying oloniaE possessions.
The disrnont tfeidsS were occupied by 'diggers
Of all nations, missionaries and natives. A
free State, with president, had been formed,
bpt tho British suthor1tie& assert having made
aAaGseneltwM natlVs Ghetto '.proeeets
his rights, the result of which is that British
sovereignty and virtual possession are extend
ed over the country.
The great diamond, weighing. one hundred
and ffftRbr 'cafats; which has been found at
the Caps ana is nov Oh its'way to England, is
already furnished with its legend. 1t is said
to have been found in the wall Of cne of the
native huts, where poor Irish adVenturer
had, received hospitality for the night, and
that being surprised by the light shining amid
thetdaEkness, he, upon examination, found 1t
to proceed from q clnmp Of the earth of which
the wall was built. OF course the clump was
soon detsched by the visitor, and this Kohl
moor with many other smaller diamonds found
withip.4, & 4: p As5tf 'rt' sr%
The Inhabitants Of Alsace and Lorraine
refuse to become Germanized in feeling, and
although they are forced to submit to German 70
,aie,sheg omitino occasion formanifesqng 70
t6eir rulers their dislike Of the new order of
things. Frequent murders of German soldiers
take place, and when these occur the whole
population assist In concealing the perpetra-
tors from the reach of law. A more slgnif-
can't evidence of the state of popular feeling is
given by correspondent Of the st. Louis Re-
publican, who, under date Of December 18th,
writes from Berlin that at that time there was
carpenter work to the value of 100000 thalers
to be done for the military department in
Metz, and that in that city of $4,000 inhabi,
tants, there was not single man to be found
who would undertake to do even the smallest
part of 1t at any price.
Plymouth Church, In Brooklyn, New York,
had its annual sale Of pews the other night.
isThe first seat in the synagogue" fell to Henry
C. Bowencwhoa formerly sat at the receipt Of
customs In Brooklyn, and now owns the In
dependent and Brooklyn Union. He paid q
premium Of three hundred and thirty-fve dol
lars for the privilege. A Brooklyn business
man got the next best choice, for which he
also paid handsomely, but somehow the bid
dingRes not as lively as usual, and the net
result to the church treasury fell twenty-five
per cent. below what it did last year. The
sale was, however, success. No one &C.
counts for the reason OF the decline in prices,
and the want ofisplrit In the bidding. Some
people, however, insist that Beecher's theolo-
Wis looser than 1t used to be, and this may
haye something to do with 1t. -.
The late James Fisk's letters to Josephine
Mansfield, which were ueed against the former
an the Stokes suit, are published. They con-
lain nothing Of public importance, and make
no revelations; as was expected, in regard TO
L. Hell