The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-04
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

with WnaC ne Calls lno oosSoie" pS
invalid"
The Jury In the Stokes case are nightly oan-
ished to the Astor House, where they are cotn-
pelled to subsst on charlotte russe, ice
cream. sherry cobblers, Strawberries. orange
ices. &C., and forced to endure one dollar
cahanos. the same as Fisk In life always
smoked.
The Postal Record gives some Instances Of
forgetfulness and inatteneon that appear SIM
ply fatuitous and absurd. Imagine four hum
dred thousand letters sent to the Dead Letter
Office last year for the want of stamps. Three
thousand letters were put into the postoffice
without any address whatever. And In these
letters go carelessly deposited were found
checks and drafts to the amount of three mil
lion of dollars, and over ninety-two thousand
dollars In cash. Much of this sum was OF
course returned TO the owners, but much of 1t
was lost irretrlevably, and was doubtless the
cause Of trouble, charges of dishonesty, and
many arrangements.
The Kansas City Times of the 2sth ultimo
saws that Miss Amanda Barber, who married
.Souaiting Bear" cruel Sioux chief, at
Washington in 1867, and went to Dakota Ter
rltory with her husband as missionary,
arrived IN that city on the steamer Fontenelle.
from Fort Benton, on Friday last. Alter
spendinp three years With the Sioux, suffering
: gross ipdlgnities and being compelled to per-
form the most mental duties, she attempted to
ESCAPE, but was recaptured and beaten nearly
to death by her husband, and then sold to a
toc far fhr0o nNnjpl RhQ
taken north In 1870. aud remained with the
Cheyennes until this spring. when she escaped
to Fort Benton. Miss Barber LEFT kansas City
on Friday last for her home a. Milford, Mass.
The Tom Thumb party, consisting of Cen
eral Tom Thumb and his wife, Commodore
Mutt and Minnie Warren, accompanied oy
their manager. Mr.. Sylvester Bleecker and
wife, their treasurer. Mr.. B. s. Kellogg, aud
retinue, making in all thirteen persons and
pair of ponies and carriage, arrived In New
York, In the steamer Egypt, on the 2Sd In
staut, having been absent three years and
completed voyage around the world. They
went overland to California, thence to Japan,
China, Australia, the East Indies, returning,
via Suez Canal TO Egypt, the Continent and
Great Britain. They have travelled fly five
thousand miles (thirty-one thousand by sea-
given one thousand four hundred and eleven
entertainments In different cities and towns
in all climates of the world without losing a
single day or missing single performance
through illness or accident. The little Gene
raj long since accumulated q fortune, and has
iusr completed fine residence at Middleton
ough, Massachusetts, the birthplace OF his
wife.
In view of future possibilities, not only
arethe character and the personal attributes
of the Presidential candidates receiving the
attention of q more or less Interested public,
but the immediate family Of Mr. Greeley at
least has been, even by his opponents, very
pleasantly described. His wife Is &C invalid,
30 that, II he ever occupies the Wsite House,
ia cares and duties will fall upon his only
daugh' 'er, Miss Ida, who is young lady OF
about eighteen, of medium height, handsome,
with the soft dark eye. shapely features, and
fine complexion of her father. A mass of
dark brown hair is done up In becoming folds
about her head. Her manners are ahaole and
cordial, her conversation ready and sprightly,
and her domestic accomplishments are
thorough. She may be epigrammatically de-
scrlbed as the philosopher refined out of his
Irregularities and eccentricities, and femlniz-
ed.n She possesses the ease of one familiar
with the world, but not forwardness, and will,
ifportents are not deceptive, be an ornament
such as the White House has MOI known for
wears. She heard Of her fathers nomination
first in London, and frankly admits was very
glad OF 1t. Her confidence In his election is
unbounded, If he should be endorsed by the
Baltimore Convention, and In this Instance
she would like vote to cast for him.
-Adeclsion has lately been made by the
highest ecclesiastic authority of the Anglican
Church In the long contested case of the Rev
Mr.. Bennett, vicar OF Frome, England, who, in
various books and opinions, taught the doc
trines now sustained. The decision is simply
this: That the doctrine of the real presence
In the Eucharist is true, and not what the low
churchmen declare, Roman Catholic error.
A distinction is drawn between this dogma
and the Roman Catholic transubstantlation,
the former being termed consubstantlation,
and implies that after consecraiton the Eucha-
rlst contains the body of Christ, while the lat
ter maintains that it Is converted into the
same. The more fully and formally to express
1t, her Majesty the Queen, speaking through
the mouth OF the Judicial committee of the
privy council, has decided that it is lawful for
a clergyman to teach that 'the body and
blood Of Christ Is actually present In the con-
secrated bread and wine, by virtue OF and In
consequence OF the conservation, irrespective
of the faith and worthiness OF the commnni-
cant. and separately, from the act OF reception
by the communicate" that 1.-THE communion
table Is an altar of sacrifice at which the
priest appears in sacerdotai position" and
that ''adoration is due to Christ present upon
the sltsrs of the churches, In the sacrament,
under the form OF bread and wine."
Railroad tunnels are proverba for scrapes.
They sometimes come 1t over cooling lovers,
who, having made good use of them In day
time, forget that by the light OF whale oil, long
after the sun has sunk behind the western
hills, they cease to be protection, and oscu-