The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-24
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY "a, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

cold at New York yesterday closed at
sias.
The New York cotton market cioseo
steady; uplands 22sc.; sales 2llO bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed dull; upianas
Ieid ;eales 1000 bales.
Indianapolis advertisement: III lne ih'
dividual who is trying to wear numoer e's"l
hat on number four head desires 10 recover
b,s property, he can find 1t where he obtained
his morning shave"
The Saturday Review gives our PUP.
Docs" the credit of being of far more varied
and general value and interest than the Eng
lish. The editor has just received barrel oi
patent Office reports.
"A young lady In Boston recently claimed
the reduction made to ministers by the ven
dors of sewing machines, because, as sne
blushingly limited, she was engaged to theo-
logical student.
The North Carolina papers come to US IN
mourning for the death of Thomas Bragg, an
elder brother of General Braxton Bragg. The
deceased gentleman, it will be remembered,
succeeded Mr.. Benjamin as Encouragement
Of the Confederate Cabinet.
Governor Vance, of North Carolina, has
resigned the United States senatorship, 10
which he was elected by the Legislature ol
that State, but from which he was excluded
by the reconstruction acts of Congress. The
election for his successor will take place on
Tuesday, the 30th instant.
Fanny Fern writes with reference to the
expensive toys now In vogue: ''The doll OF
nv bIb-days was crooked.neck squash,
with towel for a dress and numerous pro-
geny of littly cucumbers for badies, and was
Just as happy, and great deal better con-
tented, than the lite girl Of to-day with a
hundred dollar Paris doll.
The Inevitable maiden lady of large means
who amorously pursues every traveller OF dis
tlnction, is now reported 10 be on The track ol
the Grand Duke Alexis. She halls from ST.
Louis, and OF course "beloDgs to good iami-
ly.n She is said 10 have followed The object OF
her alteration to Omaha, with the intention OF
taking part in his bufalo hunting excursion,
but falling TO secure her passage further west,
she patiently awaits his return 10 claim him as
her own.
John Rossen, messenger of the Metropolt-
tan Bank, was robbed in the streets OF New
York about noon Saturday of $4,000 In gold
certificates and quantity of notes and bonds.
The New York Evening Express says: mt.
Rossell, while going through Broadway, was
stopped by large man, who barred tie way
while The crowd from behind pursued him up.
At the same time some Irritating substance,
which he took to be some iolm Of ammonia,
was thrown in his eyes, AMI when he nnasIy
ont loose from the crowd hs found that his
coat had been unbuttoned and his pcckelbook
taken from his breast pocket"
William Henry Sed.ey Smith, veteran
actor. and one orlhe best "old men" on tho
American stage, died at San Francisco on Inc
18th instant, aged tixty-six years. He was
born of good family, at Montgomery, Wales.
His true name was Sedley. His father was
Peninsular officer under Wellington. His
uncle, Waterloo officer, still survives, com
mander of Bath. Young Sedley ran away from
home. came 10 America in 1927, and fist ap-
peared at the Walnut Street Theatre, Phila'
delpbis. His most valuable repute vas won in
Boston, where he first appeared In 1928. He
married, shortly after his arrival in this coun-
try, Miss Riddle, of Philadelphia, once q cele-
brated actress, whose death occurred in Boston
in 1861. Their children surVive-Mr. Henry
sedley, one of the editors OF the New York
Times, and Mary Sedley, wife Sol. Smith, Jr.,
the comedian.
China Is a curious place, and divers and
various are the customs Of that celestial re-
ZION, A common business there is the making
of dwaris and beggars. The process of ''msk-
Ing dwarfs" is beautiful in its simplicity. In
the first place, child OF three OF four years
Is taken, and then heavy porcelain vase Is
nut over him. go that the head alone is ..0r.
With al unexpected consideration for the
nrospectiye dwarfs feelings, this vase is re-
moved at night 30 that he may sleep, ttne
child, not the vase,) but both are restored 10
their former relationship In the morning
The child thus advances In age 10 his infeXi-
ble mould until he can no longer grow, when
the vase is broken. The process Of making
bergsrs Is more complicated, and not SO like
" to commend itself to public favor. At
Pekin, eyes are taken out and limbs broken
In order to excite the proper degree of COM
.mlseralion. Such practices are only INDUCED
in among us by those heroic souls who de.
spise such remnant of tyrannlcal govern
ment as draft
Whatever may be the verdict of the jury
In the Wharton case, now In Its closing scenes
at Annapolis, it seems that many will refuse,
under any circumstances, to believe her inno-
cent of the crime laid at her door. letter
from Baltimore to New York journal, signed
sold Lawyer" says that in the former city
there is no difference of oplnion-or as good
as none-regarilng the question OF her gvi
or innocence, and that out of one thousand
OF the best and most Intelligent citizens Of
Baltimore not two could be found who believe
her innocent. The writer pays high COM
pl!ment to the skilful manner In which the
lawyers of the accused have conducted her
case, and Gays that they have completely be-
logged the jury with technical scienti6cs of
experts. engaged for the defence at on
enormous cost. Regarding the result, he con.
cludes in saying that the popular verdict In
Baltimore, where The accused lived. was
known, liked and admired IL ''guilty." But
this is something upon which the Jury must
decide, and that, too, before many hours shall