The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-27
Tbe CHARLESTON aems,
SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Miss Nilsson's trousseau will be one OF the
most elegant ever made In Paris.
II. G. stands for Honest Government, q
s. G. for Useless Stealing and Grabbing.
That sprightly burlesque actress, Mrs
James Oates, is sojourning at Saratoga.
Hon. Charles Sumner has taken quarters
at the White Sulphur Springs of Virginia.
The New York Seventh Regiment spent
one hundred thousand dollars during its slz
days encampment.
-Hezekiah Porter, of York, 8. c., one o.
the victims OF Grants Ku-KluX policy, has
died at the Albany penltentiary.
Thirteen hundred natives of Alssce and
Lorraine have recorded at the French consu
late in New York their determination to re-
main Frenchmen.
Positive advlces have at last been received
that ex.G Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, now
minister to Russia, will resign and return to
his own State, to take part in the Liberal cam
paign.
The colored people Of Kentucky are fast
becoming real estate owners. One agent
alone, residing at Lexington, has sold them
the past year 500, 900 worth of house lots for
their own use, aud the whole co!ored popula-
ton Of thai town pay taxes on s40o.0 worth
of real estate. 20 II
The terms of the lease of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad to the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad, recently effected at st. Louis, are
ten per cent. dividend on the present stock OF
$500, 900 for three years, twelve per cent. for
two years, and fourteen per cent. for nine
hundred and ninety.nine years.
The Lexington (Ky.) Press, OF day or
two since, had the following: ut is under
stood that Mr.. Adam Harper has brought suit
in the Woodford Circuit Court against Mr.. Wal
lace Harper for slander, growing out of the
horrible tragic death of old Jacob Harper and
his sister short time ago. The damages are
laid at $5OO,OO0. 1t is thought that the trial
will bring out some interesting facts in rela-
tlon to the great murder"
The government stables of the White
House are seventy by eighty feet, two stories
in height, with Mansard roof. Their interior
and exterior appointments surpass even those
of Bonner's famous establishment. We are
told their cost was nearly fifty thousand dol
lars. No appropriation whatever for such an
end was made. Every day OF work upon
them is in deliberate violation Of the law
which requires special grants of money for
specific objects. Worse than this, the fifty
thousand dollars is taken from the funds ap-
proprlated by Congress tor the new State de-
partment.
The recent purchase by the United States
Government of four trunks full of Confederate
archives from Colonel ]. T. Pickett, who says
he acted as agent for other parties who had
kept them in Canada since the downfall of the
Confederacy, has been the subject Of much
comment, 1t being charged, especially, that
the sole object of the government was to ex-
tract from the documents purchased material
for the political campaign. The document
chiefly referred to among them all was the al
legged report OF Hon. Jacob Thompson, secret
agent of the Confederate Government, ''sta-
toned In Canada for the purpose Of organiz-
ing insurrection In the Northern States and
burning their principal cities" This report
nowcomes forth, as anticipated, in the shape
of regular campaign document, unpublished
by the Union Congressional committee"
!; Madame Pauline Lucca, the celebrated
German prima donna, leads, 30 far as German
court etiquette is concerned, a dual existence.
By marriage, she Is member of the nobility,
her husband being the Baron Won Rhade.
Whenever she is in Berlin, her presence Is
invariably commanded at court when a con.
cert Is given there. She attends the concert
in her capacity of "KaiSerliche Hammer
sangerin,' which means imperial cham
Der vocalist. There are other ladies', dis
tlnguished singers, whose presence is also
commanded at the same time to add to the
musical attractions. But these ladies, rot
being In the charmed circle of the nobility, re-
tire from, She palace when the concert Is over.
With Nine Lucca, however, the case is differ
ent. When at the strcke Of midnight the
Lord High Cnsm5eIiain announces that supper
is ready, Lncca ceases to be "Kaiserliche
ness Won Rhsde, and as such she takes her
place legltimately at the supper table with the
most nobly born German ladies. Lucca, it
will be remembered, although queen of
song, is of very humble birth, she having COM
menced her career as poor little street
singer in Berlin.
-Vanderbilrs underground city railroad,
the expected desideratum to supply the
needed quick transit in New York, is on the
eve of being commenced. It's completion is
officially promised within two years. The
necessary surveys have been made, aud exca-
walton will be begun next September. In
prosecuting the work no tunnels will be
bored, but excavations will be made and
arched over. Work will 60 on Simultaneous
ly upon each halt-mile section between the
City Hall and Forty-second street, and while
the excavations are proceeding In the streets,
traffic will be accommodated by temporary
bridges. Much attention has been paid in the
plans OF the road to the necessity of avoiding
confusion, and of securing dispatch In enter
Ing and leaving the cars. Thus, persons going
down town can only reach the Own track,
and those going up town the upper track-a
plan which will save vast deal OF time and
useless questioning of the employees of the
the road. The cars are to he so canstrrcted