The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-02-09
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

,uplandB 23sc.; sales l333:oaes.
At Liverpool cotton closed steady at llta
ollAd.: nearly due from New Orleans llsd.
shipping at New Orleans ll3i.; at Savannah OF
Charleston lid.
-,nI-Ex-senstor Grimes, of Iowa, died yester'
day Of heart disease. ~
20 :.s THE Auburn IN. ~ shoe factories MAKE
over oHe thousand shoes per hour.
-s"-Colonel Davis Cockrell, an old hote-keep'
or, of Memphis, Tenn, is dead.
Private dispatches via Washington report
positively that the Governor of Florida will be
.impeached. = = -, -
tasss:--Gppernor Smith. of Georgia, yesterday ap-
pointed W. W.-Aontgomery Judge of the Su'
preme Court, to fill vacancy.
t,,-Apassenger on the train which collldetd
near Alton, H., the other day, was caught by
thefeet and burned to death.
sa2:There was terrible snow-storm In the Cot
ton Wood Mining District OF Utah, on Monday
;last, In which several persons were lost.
1.g2:74-One hundred prisoners and two hundred
witnesses are at jackson, Miss, In attendance
on the Kn-Klux trials, which are about COM
3mencing. :" ~ ."-
=. =: Mcclure, the defeated candidate CT the
anti. Grant men in Philadelphia, has COM
rnenced the contest for seat In the State
Senate ,.,., ~
IA Mrs. MIL recently obtained a divorce
intEng,and. but, it is said, was ordered to pay
her husband fifteen hundred dollars year.
Sauce for the goose, &c. II j. c9s.
...,.e-The demand for meat Of the buffalo Killed
by Alexis is SO great, that three hundred
bnfialoes have been cut up to supply 1t, at st.
Joseph, Mo-, alone. "iH
G3AAi German antiquarian, DR.. Heinrich
SchIelman,, confidently asserts that he Will
:saorsly be- in a position to demonstrate the
exact position OF ancient Troy, now thirty'iVe
feet below the present level.
n-Clncinnati Is said to be the most densely
populated city of the United States, having
thirty-six thousand people to the square mile,
while New York has but twenty three thous-
and. c ~
sf)-Bnstol in Tennessee and Virginia, which
il almost evenly divided among the two
States, is an anomaly among towns. The
State lines pass through the centre OF the
main; street, The population is three thous'
and. s., - zls
IA poor negro, named Harris, who had
been smitten by. the smallpox, entered Inc
Town Of Flint, in Michigan, and instead Oh
meeting with humane treatment, was thrust
:anto q railway car going South. Having no
money to pay his fare, and admitting to the
conductor that he had the smallpox, he was
mt off the train to perish In the cold. he set
ont in the night, through bitter cold weather,
jfor the village Of Holly; but was driven away
nv an officer at the muzzleof a loaded pistol.
Sick, starving, freezing. and exhausted, he
made his way through the snow to Pontiac,
where he was graciousy permitted to die IN
an old shed.
1.-The last number of the Times OF India that
has been received says: "Famine continues
ltd 'rsYages in Persia, and the extent OF 1t Will
never fully be known. Much as ne know OF
the misery this widespread, long-continued
famine has wrought, it is strange that we
hear nothing of any organized and sustained
effort for alienation being made BY the Per-
sian Government. The starving people are
left, to look after themselves; such as can
leave the country do so; such as cannot, must
die, unless relief from some unexpected quar-
er reaches them. As is usual, disease has
appeared In the districts to complete what
famine had begun"
II "A Washington letter says: "Some of the
leadersin the liberal Republican movementin-
spgurated by, the recent convention In Mis-
asouri; and who will participate In the mass
convention to be held In Cincinnati the first
wednesday In May, are in Washington. They
state that there,is no doubt that every con-
gressioIal district in the country will be re-
presented In that convention. Ex-Secretary
Cox, Judge Stanley Malhewes, George Hoad-
Iy, and other liberal Ohio Republicans, opposed
to the continuance of the present administra-
ton, have issued card, in which they state
that they heartily sympathlze with the views
and purposes of the convention, In behalf OF
themselves and such Republicans as unite with
them in sentiment, join In the Invitation for
the same, and urge upon all those favoring
the political reforms proposed Senator Schurz
has been talked of for president ofthe conVen-
ton.
4. One of Sir Walter SCOTS most interesting
novels, "Ivanhoe,n gives US an idea of the
manner In which the wealthy Jews OF the
olden time were compelled to open their
money-bags for the benefit Of the needy mobiles.
In the days of Richard the Llon-hearted they
do say that the custom was 10 draw tooth
each day until the purse-strings were loosened.
Although the measures adopted were doubt
less eficacious, they were certainly rather
cruel. But the prefect of the City of Orizabs,
in Mexico, has been amusing himself by re-
ducing to practice some of these theories, CT
which he had heard by tradition. He had de-
manded loan of five thousand dollars from
the citizens, which demand was deemed un-
reasonable and compliance with it refused
so what does our gallant project do but arrest
the most prominent men in the town and
make them stand on one leg ior an entire
night. It is needless to say that the next day
they all "came down." and that the prefect
had no further difficulty in securing his loan.
The Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay, ex,minister to
Russia, defines his own views, and approx