The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-08
NEWS OF TIE DAP.

.Aus,trta win In future execute condemned
murderers by shooting.
--Recent experiments have established I'M
fact that some plants are as sensitive 10 the 10
fusacs OF, ,cnloroterm as animals.
The Boston jubilee will pay expenses
Considering the amount invested In IT
$500 ooo-this is surprising, and certainly ths
like was .'le'er seen before"
the pretended correspondence between
u,as Nellie Grant and Queen Victoria frat saw
lIpht in San FraHcisco mind. A people tina
can y vote SIC, ,0Oo. 900 to prospective railroad
are excusable for moderate eccentricities.
The. ladies Of Augusta, Georgia, haV'
formed q society to assist the early closing
movement. The members OF the society, OF
Joining. agree to make no purchase after foul
o'clock during the summer months
@.The amount of smallpox In Baltimore II
very considerable, and an exaggerated esti
!. mate puts It as high as six thousand cases
newspapers keep very quiet on the sub
iect but admit that the whole community is
crowdinp about the vaccine physicians, and
that. although there are eighty public places
fol, f,"y vaccination In the city, the practitioners
have NOT enough time to answer the demands.
AT sharon, New York, recently, pretty
shakeress 'eloped with q young Shaker,
greatly 10 the surprise and indignation of the
community. The runaway couple were fol-
lowed, but the pursuers found that they were
too late, as the happy couple had been made
man aud wife. The lady, in answer to the
angry approximations OF her friends, is reported
TO have said: 'sYou can make your apple sass
and warrant 1t to keep; but gals amt apples,
and YOU can't bile 'em down 80 they wont
sour on your old rules about marrying"
"a dispatch from Tarboro', N. c., july 4th,
aiyes an account Of an attempt to murder q
Democratic editor, Captain Blggs, OF the Tar
boro' southerner, by mob of Radical negroes.
The dispatch says: 1.-THE 4th OF July was Oh.
served here to-day by large crowd OF ne
gr0es. Captain Biggs, of the southerner,
was present as reporter. He was assalled
by q large number Of negroes, and saved his
lie with difficulty, after having exhausted all
his weapon. It Is certain the attack was
MANNED before hand. The authors OF the OUT
rage are known" y. a5
9 A convention Of the stockholders Of the
sayannsh, Albany aud Gulf Railroad was held
in Savannah on the Sd instant, to consider Ger
taln: charges that had been made against the
management OF the road under President
screyen. Six directors had resigned from
dissatisfaction with the policy pursued oy that
oAicer. These attributed the present nom
having condition Of the road to his inatten-
lion. They had requested his resignation OF
the may orally of Savannah, and advised Ger
tain rerencnments in the operating expenses
Of the road. The city council declined to 40.
cant mis- resignation Of the mayoralty, and the
president had not needed the advice OF his
six directors for retrenchment. The conVen'
ton OF stockholders endorsed the administrar
tio&pf the president. .r ...'. -, asq-
- New York Ia still excited upon the wealth
ar question. Under the heading Of this arti.
Gle, the Sun declares that on Tuesday an ex,
traordinarily large number of sunstrokes was
,renorted. aud the death roll is terribly long.
Men. women aud children of all classes OF
society, though generally of the middllng
clssses. were stricken down by the relentless
heat, and In many cases there was no warning
OF the fate in store for the sums burning, for
they iellIdead where the deadly ray struck
them. The ambulances were In constant de-
maud, and they rolled through streets which
had seldom seen them, Wall, Broad and like
streets down town, and the arlstocratic streets
up town, fringed BY brown-stone.fronteo
houses, echoed to the quiet roll Of the porten'
.tous. vehicle, and people who perhaps had
never before seen one, yesterday could say,
'sTtere goes an ambulance" ~
The English lockout contest in the build
ing trade between the masters and men is
still retained with uncertain results. lock.
out, like strike, can only be efacacious If j
is general, and the masters do mot seem to
have taken the trouble to ascertain in adj
vance whether the majority of small firms
were in q position ror In mood, to-co-operate
In such a measure. They had notion, more
over, that the masols, plssterers, &C., could be
separated from the carpenters and joiners,
but at this moment the union between all
pEAuCueS VI Iuo ~oh hmCn oCCAio PciAoSes ~
Is 30 perfect that the concord between
the men Is doing more to make the lock-
out universal than agreement between the
matters. Great contractors, who meant to go
on With certain portions of contracts, find
themselves brought to q complete standstill.
The.great hope Of the masters In such clrcum-
stances Is their want of hope. If they yield,
1T must be an unconditional surrender, and Is
surs to be followed by other demands against
which they will have less means Of standing
out than they, now have. The nine hours
schedule Will soon be followed by one of eight
Bus the current Is all on the mems side. Al
the time OF the great Newcastle strike, it was
pointed out that the method then adopted, and
the success gained by the men, must largely
influence the relations of employer and en-
ployed all over England and In every branch
of labor. In not single contest since then
have the employers carried the day, and
there is no reason to suppose the builders will
succeed where others have failed.
%. The decorations Of the place of meeting Of
. the Balumore Convention will not cost more
than I'VE thousand dollars, which ls one.hali
the sum expended for the same decorations al
Philadelphia; but they will be quite as eff.c.
tive. In front Of the theatre a grand triole
arch or portico Of evergreens over the pave.
ment bearing these memorable words n,ter.
ed on the occasion of the grand old rally Of
1aiO, In Baltimore; "EYery mountain has