The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-03
NEWS OF THE DAP.

The New Orleans Bee is to be printed
wholly in French hereafter.
While In Paris, the Prince of Wales called
on Mrs. johnson; formerly Miss Earriet Lane,
who did the honers of the White House wien
Buchanan, her uncle, was President.
Mr.. Parton has discovered that witch
WAS burned In South Carolina nearly hum
dred wears subsequent to the Salem exhioi-
tions of that sort. The probability is that MI.
Psrton's South Carolina witch was some old
black cook who was burned at the steak.
According to St Johns letter there is an
iceberg TWO thousand miles long and from lilly
to two hundred miles broad, on Its way down
to us from Baffin's Bay. The writer states
that since the early part Of last January enor-
nous fields of Ice have been passing the
shores of Newfoundland In almost conlinu-
GUS stream. The thickness of this field OF Ice
is from twenty to thirty feet. The distance
between Baff1n's Bag, where the Ice fields are
formed, and the waters Of the Gulf Stream,
where the masses are dissolved, Is from fif-
teen hundred to two thousand miles.
The cup that cheers but does not inebriate,
according to DR.. Arlldge, an English physl-
clan, is.just as poisonous as the cup which
both cheers and lnebrlates. The doctor ls
ouoted In the Lancet as declaring that tea
tlppllng Is not whit less dangerous to health
than drinking. Tea Is narcotic poison
1t ruins the digestion. 1t enfeebles the hearts
actions. It skaters the nerves. 1t causes
the Introduction of a large quantity of hot
water into the system, thus interfering terri
bly with nutrition. Tea-drfnking Ito usethe
awful language of DR.. Arlldge) is ''as distinctly
sensual, extravagant and pernicious as beer
drinking or gin.swilllng." Think OF that, U
sisters OF Sorosis
Captain Judkins, for many years commo-
dore of the Cuuard line OF steamers, had
certain way occasionally of expressing him
self in reply to what he deemed pointless
questions from passengers. In fact, dove
like sweetness Of manner was not the commo-
dore's best point. On one OF his latest Voy-
ages, he had among the passengers Bishop
Llttlejohn and wife, of Long Island. Mrs.
LittleIohn, one day, being near the commo-
dore, asked him II 1t was not going to rain.
.!Ask the cook" was his bluff reply. II beg
pardon said Mrs. Littlejohn, ''am not
speaking to the cook ?" History has not In
formed us as to the precise phraseology Of his
response.
A call has been issued for convention of
the Irish American League, to be held In Bal
timore, July 9, to complete the work begun In
Cincinnati In May last Each branch OF the
league is invited to send one delegate, aud all
Liberal Irish American political associations
are requested to send representatives to assist
In perfecting measures for systematic sup
port OF Greeley and Brown. The call is signed
by the following named members OF the ex-
ecutive committee: General George N. O. Brien,
Nebraska; Major NJ. Poland, Kentucky; Thos.
Leonard, Kansas; William J. Nicholson, New
Jersey; Thomas F. Meagher, Vermont; John 8.
Mullen, Montana; James Brennan, Iowa; James
]. Rogers, New York, chairman Of national
committee, and John n. McCafferty, Missouri,
secretary.
"A delegation consisting of about fifty
members of the New York Schutzen Corps
sailed on Saturday in the steamer Deutsch-
land to attend the fourth German National
sharpshooting festival at Hanover, Prussia,
next month. The delegation was escorted to
the steamer and down the bay In tug by the
sengerbund Vocal Society and the New York
schutzen Corps-both organizations being
preceded by bands. Delegations from the
schutzen Corps of Brooklyn, New Haven and
other cities also went upon the same vessel.
The delegates from the Brooklyn Schutzen
Corps numbered thirty picked men, under
command Of Captain Alsgood. They take
with them handsome prize In the form OF an
American shield, made OF american gold coin.
Before leaving they were received by the
mayor and common council of Brooklyn.
The New.York Tribune says that while the
exact line of the defence In the trial of Stokes
for the murder OF Fisk, Jr., Is not known ex-
actly, the discussion and tendency of the cross
examination thus far show that they consider
development of the late coloners private
character vital to their case, not because they
desire to defame the dead, but because If they
can show that the character of the deceased
was such as to lead the prisoner to feel him
self In danger of his lie, 1t might have miti-
eating effect on the minds of the jury. With
this view, they have striven to show that the
witness Crockett, a clerk in the Grand Central,
was Influenced by the fact that Fisk kept mis-
tresses In that hotel, and paid the proprietors
large sums of money for their board. Upon
this point Mr.. Tremaine made a strong argu-
ment, claiming that the largest latitude should
be given to counsel, and they should not be
compelled to divulge their object In asking
questions, unless they were suspected of tri-
ding with the time of the court.
-The-e are no such magnificent swindlers
as Americans, and they have even better sue
cess abroad than at heme. The latest country
man in ..yhom we may feel pride for his va
rled accomplishments In this line is MIR.
Norton, who. toward the end OF the year !S64,
established commission firm In Paris under
the style of Norton q Co., having taken Into
partnership an English artist named Cook,
who brought fifty thoussld dollars to the con-
ce1n. NortoG had started with capital of
one thousand dollars, and at the time Cook
,,n{to5 1uith him the former Wag behindhand