The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-04
NEWS OF THE DAT.

Gold closed yesterday at l44al4s.
The New York cotton market ciosea nln
middlinss 273c.; sales 695 bales.
The Liverpool cotton market closed quiel
and steady; uplands 1laallad.; sales l2'ooo
bales.
Ladies' are being admitted to the practice
;of dentistry In Germany.
-Christ's Hospital, London, has been sold
for railroad depot, bringing three million
dollars. -:
The tules or reed vegetation of The Call
fornia swamp jGnd has been found to sieio
fifty or sixty per cent. of paper pulp, equal to
that obtained from cotton.
"A Baltimore jeweller has Invented an en-
gasement bracelet, whichth the gentleman locks
on the wrist of the lady when, they are en-
gagged, and keeps the key.
The parish surgeon of Leominster, Eng
land, has been fined twenty shillings for max
ing practice Of kissing his lady patients
The ladies are indignant-at the smalness o.
the fine,
The workmen making excavations at Her
culaneum and Pompeii were ordered to stop
work during the eruption Of Vesuvius, as It
was expected the mountain would give the
resurrected remains second burial.
1.-The following advertisement lately ap-
peared in q Pennsylvania paper: ''If the mid
dle-aged party who spoke to young lady at
Centre Square, in q blue bonnet, will call upon
her brother, he will find something to meet
his eye. Address Pugilistlcus, box lool."
The Emperor Napoleon isdescribed by
recent vlsitor at Chislehurst as looking seve-
raj years younger than he did at st. Cloud In
July, 1870. He Is said to have lately made the
characteristic remark: .''When you have such
sreceptIon q aud such continued welcome as
Ihayehad in England, you do not much heed
the climate. D. z,,,i'. :, - 20 a.,,z;
There has been animmense businessd one
in native rice between Shanghai and the
southern ports in China during the past sea-
son, steamers receiving one hundred and five
fnllara frelabt ner nicnl Tor a four -daGa, Noy-
age. The business Of exporting nan"o hce
from China, at present, Is neither pleasant Ror
yroatable, as under the laws Of the Chinese
Empire the penalty for engaging In 1t is
DEATH, ..@s,.:; ..s.g. = iI,.,7.aa o.
The pleasure boats which belonged to the
Imperial family of France were lately sold at
auction In Paris. A gondola, handsomely
carved and lined with red silk, obtained five
hundred dollars; very elegant steamboat,
given to the Emperor by N. Benoist- -Champy,
president of the Rowing Club, went up to
ten hundred and forty dollars. The sale did
MOI last more than twenty-five minutes, and
the whole amount received was twenty-five
hundred dollars.
"A member of the staff Of the New Orleans
Republican recently questioned General Long
street concerning his views on the pending
Issues The general reviewed his own action
In reslgning from the suryeyorship, and ex-
planned why he could not consistently, as
Republican, sustain the party represented by
General Grant. In his opinion, the Cincinnati
nominees are the true Republicans, and, as
such, should receive the suffrages of the Re-
publican party. ,...-s
The Philadelphia Press comedies that the
Democratic nominations In Pennsylvania are
strong, and Colonel Forney writes that ''it Is
folly, worse than folly, TO suppose the Repub-
lcan ticket can be elected as it stands" He
calls for the retiring Of the Objectionable can
didates, and urges that it Is not yet too late
to secure victory by bringing forward gocd
men. The fact Is that the Pennsylvania elec-
ton will have 80 much significance as
''straw" that the Republicans cannot well
afford to throw away any chances By running
Objectionable candidates.
The Italian Government ia, it is said,
making great efforts to encourage popular
education among the Italians, and to overcome
the effects os It's almost total neglect during |
the past two hundred years. In the army, |
education is compulsory, and the thousands of |
discharged soldiers who have returned 10 l
their native villages, are acting as the pioneers
Of culture. No soldier who is unable to read |
and write is allowed single days furlough. |
A bill Is now before the Italian Parliament to |
make education compulsory throughout the
country.
Mack writes from Washington story of
an unsophistlcated gentleman from the West
who recently dropped into the NaN of The
House Of Representatives to see the sights.
Reckoning to neatly attired citizen of Afri-
can descent who stood near him, and who mod.
est'y answered bis call, he said to him, "Jlm,
Will you show me to the barber's shop; want 6
70 ges shaved and have my boots BACKED ,n 8
This was little too much for s.JIm," who was :
none other than one Of the honorable mem I
oers nom South Carollna-Mr. Elliott. "'Scuse +
me, sal, !" said Elliott, "l'se no waitah: l,se.
nenbah.n The gentleman from the West "a.
dred, deeply mortified. l.
Revenge Is sweet, according to the adape.
and France is tasting 1t In very small degree
u Inc literary way. A book Is announced as | h
n press made up of letters written TO Louis o
Napoleon by prominent Germans, before. the | d
var. The materials for this epistolary work q
we're found In the cabinets of the Rrilerles G
nd !t appears under TIE title Of ssGermapy at
be TuIlerles." Most of the nissiyes of this
objection are applications for money, petitions
Or the Cross of the Legion of Honor, &c. As
lese letters are graced with the full names of
le writer's, the excitement which the publ- O
alton Will,prodaee In Germany may be better n
aagined than described. s
IA aendlsh attempt was made one day last E
eek, while the Chappaqus wood-chopper was 1
his way into the country, to betray him c
to an oath. The train-boy was the hqm'ol |