The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed on Saturday rather heavy at

Gold closed On Saturday rather heavy al
LIZ.
The New York cotton market closed quiet
but firm; uplands 23t cents; sales Alb bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed quiet; uplants
Id., Orleans ll3allad.; sales 10, 900 bales.
The New York Standard ia TO be discon-
tinued, having sunk $4,000
The Bank of England now prints It's notes
nm paper made of the common palmetto.
General Slckles and wife have sailed TOR
Madrid.
- Madrid correspondent asserts that IT
King Amadeus should abdicste, a Republic
would at once be declared in Spain.
-Helmbold's store and contents, on Broad
way, New York, we're sold at auction last
week at very low prices.
"A bill has passed the New York Legisla-
!. ture providing that a previous formation Of
an opinion from newspapers shall not preclude
Juror from serving In a criminal case.
Two hundred thousand dollars 10 said to
be tia capital stock Of the brides to be EN-.
ployed at Albany to prevent the New York
ring Judges from impeachment:
Germany Is to have but one executioner
alter the lat OF May. he will reside at Berlin
and receive two hundred dollars fer each e6.
ecutIon.
HAWKINS, who resigned his seat In the
New York Assemblyin disgust, says thai there
are now only twenty-seven honest men IN
that body; the balance, an even hundred,
being regular thieves.
The 1&archioness of Butte is about to re-
ceive as q wedding gift amagaidcent tiara Of
of seven stars, composed of the finest brilliant
diamonds, from the tenantry Of the Marquis
on the Dnmirles estate, and also presents OF
great value from the Butte teDantry.
Mr.. Paran Stevens, an enterprlssng citi-
zen Of New York, died last Thursday. He was
at different times proprietor of the Revere
and fremont Hotels, Boston; the Fifth avenue
Hotel. New York, and the Continental, Phila-
delphIs. Before the war he was the head OF
the Battle House, Mobile. It is to be Inferred
that she knew how to keep a hotel"
The official bulletin of the patriotic sub
scriptIons, in New York City, for the liberation
OF France, inst published, shows that the
whole amount subscribed up to the 2lst ult. Is
SIS, $40, most of 1t raised by the efforts OF per-
sons whose means are limited, but whose at
tachment to their country is without bounds.
-Terre Haste has a professional mar of al
work, named Springer. BE married a couple
one day, and the next day he sold them furni-
ture for their new home; shortly after he at
tended the wife In the capacity Of physician !;
as a consequence OF this part Of his work he
soon acted as undertaken at her funeral, and
on The following Sunday preached her funeral
rmo Not long after he married the wild
over to another lady, thus beginning the old
process over again.
The medical officer Of Liverpool, England,
In his report for 1871, gives the following facts
g in reference to smallpox and vaccination:
Among 1916 cases of the disease, the rates OF
mortality were as follows: Among the un-
yaccinated, 56.4 per cent; where one scar
was visible, lat per cent; where there were
proofs of TWO vaccinations, 9.s per cent; and
where three scars were discernible, Z per
cent. These facts 60 to show the necessity of
repeated vaccination; a view which Is now
generally admitted. Ii repeated vaccination
were generally practiced, under proper ad-
vice, the existence Of smallpox as an epidem-
ic would cease.
Under the head OF diamond Cat D!a-
mond,n the New York Tribune says: ''Those
two eminent railroad managers, Messrs. Tbos.
A.. Scott, of the Pennsylvania Central, and
John W. Garrett, Of the Baltimore and Ohio,
lately locked horns In Washington, and the
former, after a prolracted, desperate contest,
trlumphed. We now near that Mr.. John W.
Garrett has countered this rap by getting
through the late New Jersey Legislature a
charter for o short apparently Insignificant
road, where, by through connections already
bargained for, the Baltimore and Ohio may
run its trains right into Jersey City in utter in
dependence of the Pennsylvania Central and
its henchman, the Camden and Amboy. More
succinctly, each of the two railroad kings has
secured q clear track from the Hudson to the
Potomac, and will soon be running through
trains from the commercial to the political
metropolis n unemberrasssd competition with
hts great rival. Most heartily do we congra!u-
late the public on these facts"
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which
has been In progress for several days, has as
sumed a terrible violence, and intelligence Is
now communicated BY the cable that two hun
dred persons, inhabiting the villages at its
base, have been buried by the lava. Thous-
ands of others have fed in dismay to situations
Of safety, and the distress and excitement are
intense. The event recalls but few parallels
In the history of Vesuvlus. The first recorded
eruption of the famous volcano occurred in
the year 70, when Pompeii and Herculaneum
were destroyed. Then followed a long period