The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-16
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TUESDAY, JULY ls, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAP.

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Cotton factories are being built in Mexico.
-HFlorida paper reports that mill Is be-
ing built there to manufacture paper from 'ne
palmetto plant for Bank of England notes.
Since the thermometer has risen above
eighty degrees the Boston passenger railroads
have reduced the speed of the cars to almost
walking pace, or scarcely three miles an an
hour, to the great saving Of the horses ana ana
without inconvenience or complaint. 'asgi
-Bulwer is now Just sixty.seVen years old'
lives in almost complete retirement, looking
afterhis health. he stoops, is exceedingly aeas,
and has altogether strange look of antiquity.
Hts only son, ssOwen Meredith" now mid li !.
die.aeed man, Is in the diplomatic service. .
"A French plan of betting on horse races
has been introduced at Jerome PARK. This
new system is known as the "Parls Mutual .
All tickets are sold at uniform rate as nVe
dollars for. example, and every one purchas-
ing ticket states the name Of the horse ne
wishes 70 back. When the bell rings the lot
tery iss closed, and after the race the total
amount of the pool Is divided among the
holders OF tickets on the winning horse.
..LTheg are quite behindhand on the subject
Of imprisonment for debt In England;
memorial has been presented to the AtEo1El2Asey-
general Of England; signed by twenty -one
thousand gentlemen, bankers, merchants and
tradesmen, against the proposed. abolition OIL
imprisonmeht for debt. Because, as 1t ls
stated, last year only six thousand persons
were actually imprisoned by county judges,
the English creditors think imprisonment LOT
debt is not q hard law.
The Youdou festival which fourlshes In
New Orleans and vicinity, though diabolical, is
interesting, and brings strongly to mind the
witch scene in Macbeth. The last one was
held near one of the bayous on the Ponchar-
train Railroad, at night time. The Vo'ldon
Queen made short address to the assembly,
both black and white, all partlclpantsSRnd
afterward fire was built upon which every
one was required to throw stick OF wood,
making wish as they did 80. Then black
snake was cut into three PIECES and thrown
into q cauldron upon the fire, and after 1t a
cat and a black rooster, which were put IN
alive Then all we're ordered to undress; GER
tain powders were thrown into the kettle; at
twelve o'clock all hands were ordered into the
lake; and with incantations, singing, dancing
and q long sermon the time was occupied un-
til daybreak. The whole strange ceremony
wound up with prayers and benedictio1.
The German societies OF Dayton, Ohio,
have met and resolved to hold no more cele'
bratlons, nor engage in any professions on
Sunday. Not that they consider 1t wrong TO
take part In these things, for they hold the
contrary views. Itappears, however, that the
majority of their fellow.cilizens differ from
them, and it ls out of deterence 10 the opin-
ions OF The majority that they have taken the
sction mentioned. It is rare Instance OF
good feeling and regard for others, even at
some personal sacrifice, and is In the highest
degree creditable to the German societies OF
DAYTON. In this connection we see that New
York recently passed law prohibiting pro-
cessions on Sunday to be accompanied by
music. The law is, 1t seems, to be strictly
enforced. Six police captains were arrested
recently for allowing professions accompanies
by music to pass through their precincts, and
received warning not to permit such thing
to happen again.
There are deeds of personal bravery OF
the highest type in private life, which, though
not pertaining to the glorious circuul-
stancesn of war, are as much entitled to ad-
miration as any occurrences OF the deadly
breach or crashing charge. One Of this char
acter occurred lately in Pennsylvania. To-
comotive, which had been abandoned by It's
engineer, near Shamokin, after the cars had
become disconnected by an accident, went
flying along the rails at speed of thlrty-hVe
miles an hour. In few minutes the passen-
ger train from Sunbury was due, and If the
engine kept on q collision would be inevlta-
BILE, the results OF which would unquestiona-
bly, involve loss Of life and property. 4
young man named Miles Gray, a railroad en-
ployee, took In the situation at glance, snd,
as helocomotive was dashing by. he sprang
upon it apd succeeded in stopping itjust three
minutes before the passenger train arrived.
The action involved great personal risk, and
doubtless prevented most serious calamity.
The news from the White Sulphur Springs
tells at last of something more than fashion
able gayeties and vacation enjoyments, being
instead a mass of slckening details about the
railroad accident there, which resulted from
deficient engineering and construction. Pre-
oedIng the bridge on the railroad Is Harney's
tunnel, twelve hundred feet long. Thursday
morning construction train, consisting Of
small engine drawing five small flats loaded
with cross-tIes and having on board fifteen
employees, came out of the tunnel at the rate
of four miles an hour and moved upon the
bridge, structure thre., hundred feet long
and hftydour above the bed of the river. 1t
proceeded safely by the centre and had almost
crossed the last two spans when noise was
heard, and the spectators on the bank OBJ
served the bridge to sink gradually for Sec
ond or two, then 60 down with crash, the
noise being like the prolonged discharge of a
whole park of artillery. The whole train was
precipitated Into the river, and not man
escaped injury. The engineer, young man,
to have been married in month or two,
jumped from his engine only to be buried by
the machinery in the bed of the river, and the
remainder of the scene was made up of broken
and falling timbers, twisted rails and bruised,
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