The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-04
NEWS OF THE Day.

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a at New York closed yesterday at III
@ls.
THE New York cotton market closed dull
uplands 2si cents; sales 36s bales.
10 Liverpool cotton closed quiet; up!ands
l1@llid; orleans Ill@llsd; sales 10000 bales
-h;Hebrew orphan asylum ls to be estab
lished In Baltimore shortly.
Officers in the French army are hence
forth obliged to write and speak German.
-Tennysou is reported to be writing poem
to commemorate the recovery Of the Prince o
walea..
-. single firm in Melbourne, Australia
shipped, during six months last year, 2,loo,
600 pounds Of preserved meat, chiefly mutton
The cannon captured by the Germans
from tie. French during the recent war are
to be- cast into BELLS for churches. The Cathe
drsl Of Cologne has received 500 hundred
weight. OF the metal, and Frankfort EGO hun
.dred weight, and various quantities have beef
sent to other places. -,
Punch gives q hint to Brother Johnathan
IN a cartoon representing q figure ofthe Itch
borne claimant in chains; and Inscribed upon
his expansive paunch. d who claims what
isn't hIs'n, when he's caught is sent to prison."
a Is posted upon a: WALL upon 6hich gazes JON
athan with afrighted aspect, while John Bull,
-blIl:poster for the nonce, surveys the scene
with a waggish air of iollity.
The son Of Morgan, the disappearing
Mason Of olden time, lives In San Francisco.
he says his father lived and enjoyed himself
for thirty years after his supposed death. At
thetime of his capture he was taken to Que
bee, and at once sailed for England, whence
he finally went to Van Dleman's Land, and
when there started q paper. the Advertiser,
(which Is Still poblished.
THE Journal de Rome, In contradicting
the report asvo the dinner given by the Pope
to tie Prince and Princess of Wales, states
thathlmost the only guest ever seen at the
table OF his Holiness is q black cat named
Horetto.i 3Moretto even enjoys sometimes
the privilege of eating from the same plate as
his Master; and OF being caressed by the au-
gust hand which dispenses so many oenedic-
lions. The cat Ia, indeed, 30 fond Of the Pope,
that he news piteously when etiquette aud
ceremony necessitate atemporary separation.
When the Pope celebrates mass or gives an
audience; Moretto is placed under lock and
key, FOR fear that he should suddenly make
his appearance BY his masters side. go
Two Mexican ladies Of rank, at q recent
bali at Santa Cruz, getting Into a dispute in
regard to the number Of dances. Que each by a
neutral lover, one of them, throwing her No.
81 kid glove into the others face, challenged
her to mortal combat. They met the next
morning. The challenged having the choice
of weapons, chose the short sword, and alter
8 q few passes, her weapon passed completely
through the white sword-arm of her antago-
: MIST entirely disabling 1t. Frantic with rage
and pain, the wounded fury seized q pistol
and dared the other to ''come on, Macduf."
Nothing 10th, the other took her posltion; the
word was given, and again the challenger
was wounded, her left arm being broken by
the ball Of her antagonist. She was carried
Oh the held in a swoon, and the other more
fortunate fair married the casus belt two
hours afterwards.
That Lake Erie ia ultimately to become q
vast marsh is settled fact. In subsequent
ages this path Of a mighty commerce and ad-
miralion Of the traveller aud dweller on It's
shore, is destined to be changed into the home
of a teeming population, and to be, covered
with vineyards, orchards and thriving cities.
So says an e%nterprising correspondent. 1t
appears that the other lakes have an average
depth,o from me hundred to eighteen hun.
dred feet. Lake Erie has an average depth
Of only one hundred and twenty, and the up
per part of but thirty. Sediment carried do IN
by tributary streams is constantly accumulat-
ing. The western and northern coasts are
made up of Limestone Of the Heidelberg group
which quickly yields to the aclion OF the
waves. Consequently both shores are con-
stantly contributing to fill up the bed Of the
lake. Land slides are also said to aid in the
filling up process. Niagara, on the other hand,
is slowly cutting its way back to this lake,
and will one dsy-probably about the year
5000, or as time is OF very little account in
such. q calculation later even than that-draIn
1t entirely of Its contents.
"A singular action for damages was recently
brought against an opera singer in Vienna.
In hortzings opera, "Waffensehmled," ia a
scene in which the hero has to kiss the heroine,
first her hands and afterwards on the lips.
The latter kiss cannot be omitted, ss mention
Is repeatedly made of it during the opera. At
the first performance the tenor, Herr Nauman,
duly kissed the lady, Mdlle. Glndele, which so
incensed her, that finding she could obtain no
redress from the manager, she forthwith en-.
tered a. action against Herr Nsuman. While
the suit Was pending, Wafsnschmied was
again performed, and the house was crowded
by spectators curious to see how the kissing
scene would come of. After Nauman had
kissed the lady's hand, she interposed with,
s'There, I will not trouble you for the kiss on
the lips to which the ungallant tenor prompt
~ retorted, ''Thank heaven I have not to kiss
that fright" Mdlle. Gindele became. 70 excited
mat she had to be carried of in a faintlng
condition, and has again complained to the
manager. The result Of the suit will be OF
special interest to stage ~jurists, as it will settle
whether a kiss given in character to a lady on
the Stage can be regarded as an insult by The
recipient.
in London there is an association for re-
heviDg the condition OF the poor, and at the
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