The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-03-18
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, MONDAY, MARCH l8, 1872.

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:! NEWS OF THE DAH.
fold closed on Saturday at l03al0s.
.,o.-In New York cotton was steady at the
close on Saturday; uplands 225 cents; sales
1856 bales.
The Liverpool cotton market closed frm !;
.uplands lid, Orleans l14allsd; sales lz'ooo
bales. .roo
Mace and O'Baldwin have deposited s5oo
forfeit for s25eo fight In Virginia July Is.
-:1udpe Davis, the Labor Reform candidate
for President, weighs 256 pounds. = ..,2T'a
.i.-The number. of clergymen IN the enlteo
States ia set down at 81, 900, and their average
salaries at s7oo each. lei y. :,
1t is fashionable in New York now Tor
coachmen to wear gloves OF the same coior as
thstr horses, but we are not informed just
now what they do when the team don't
match. u. ~
sr.esanSojindent has Information from an unques-
thGonnhbis source that Sumner has consented to
nrsesfdMe M at the CiDcinnat. Convention. :,
Senator Conkling unfortunately compared
Hr. Edmunds to Don Quixote. insthe Senate, on
. Friday. "He is fighting Q windmill" J" said MI
Donkling. ..Certainly am" said Mr.. Ed
mnnds. 1.-THE gentleman from New York.
"A Washington correspondent says the
members of the Japanese embassy In that city
wear gloves two Sizes too large and boots two
Hes too small, and that they walk up four
Aiehts of stairs at the Arlington Hotel In
order to ride down in the elevator.
Horace Greeley, in an editorial. IN the
New, York Tribune, on the Cincinnati Con-
yention. says, II free. trade is. to be made q
plstik In the platform he asks to be counted
ant. All he asks is that there be left free
domTto all classes on economic questions:
1T may not be generally known, built is
nevertheless fact, that there is in Bostona
ministerial agency which is doing o lively
business. Clergymen In good standing OF
every evangelical denomination can, DE The
payment of one dollar, enter their names
either as candidates for permanent settlement
offor temporary supply.
.i,lIhereis In New York q man who Keeps
booesnd shoe shop for the sole convenience
OF One-legged persons. As, however, there
are about as many people who have lost their
rieht legs as there are who have lost left
legs, this wise man has 30 arranged matters
that he keeps constantly an equal number Of
rights" and ''lefts." He does about as good
:, business as other persons In the shoe selling
line. ,.or,
demonstrations" says a contemporary
..are as:thlok in washington as smail.poA u. IL
Philadelphia" There are twelve eohmittees
ndw1Goffganized, and five Of them In iAl piast,
viz: The customhouse transaction, the seneca
stone buslness, the sales of arms to the
French, the postofice mail route contracts
and the District of Columbia. host Oh Inese
are doing as well as could be expected under
the circumstances. 70
Mr.. .Gllmore's latest Boston notion 1s TO
use the Atlantic cable to fire an artillery ac-
commandment in London while playing "God
save the Queen" at the Hub. The only objec-
ton to this ingenious idea lies In the Differ
anee of time between the Two places. Al
though Bostonans may enjoy Mr. Gilmore's
nniiiisic early in the evening, Londoners may
not like to be aroused from their beds by the
firing of cannon couple Of hours after mid
nigbt.
The victories of the German armies have
been the subject of series OF lectures before
the students of the military school at Csssei.
The lecturer attributed. the success OF the Ger
man armies to the efforts exerted by the COM
manders to secure the offensive, and to con-
stantly keep the initiative of military move
ments In their own hands. In this way the
moral force of attack is increased with every
successful action, while the consciousness OF
being on the defensive depresses the other
army.
Fl The theatres and the opera in New York
are all making money, notwithstanding tne
restraining influences Of the lenten season.
The Academy matinee on Saturday yielded
about $4,000. which added to the receipts OF the
preylnus night, makes a total for the two per-
6ormances of about $l2,500. Nilsson Is going
70 Philadelphia and Baltimore, after which she
will sail for Europe with balance to her
credit, as the net result Of her American cam
paigD, of not far from 100000.
The New York Tribune, of Wednesday,
has the following paragraph. If there Is truth
in the statement, the President is very logic
ally treading the path chalked out by events:
s.The announcement that the President has
declared his intention to force his nomina-
ton at Philadelphia, whether there shall
then appear a reasonable prospect of his elec-
tion OF not, is made in our Washington cis'
patches on the authority of leading con-
pressman and warm supporter of the Presl-
dent. We should like, In spite OF this war
rant, to doubt it; since 1t is saddening thing
to find a man ready to rend the Republican
party In pieces, not for any question OF party
principle or ref,rm in party practice, but TO
secure additional reward to himself"
1t is terrible to think of the agonies OF a
woman of cultivation and refinement when
suffering under an attack of that dread dis
ease. kleptomanla. An Instance OF heart
rending Intensity took place the other day IN
Boston. An elegantly dressed woman was
detected in the very act Of plagiarizing pair
of silk stockings. She started, turned pale,
and burst into tears, suddenly conscious OF
her guilt, and then in the most agonized man.
ner besought the proprietor 10 release her and
offered him twenty dollar note for the