The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-09
NEWS OF THE DAK.


The New York cotton market closed dull
and Irregular at 23a cents for uplands.
in Liverpool, cotton closed dull; uplanos
HID Orleans 1l3d. sales le,o0o bales.
Charles Reade writes a long letter to the
London News, attempting to prove from cir
cumstantial evidence that the Tichborne
claimant is Arthur Orion.
"A prominent Kentucky newspaper, the
Louisville Commercial, which has hitherto
manifested free-trade tendencies, WILL hereai-
- -. -. :"
ter advocate the protective polic5.
THE only daughter of the Emperor Oh
pnssia. Marie, Is said to be very beautiful IN
nerson, and of great intellectual promise.
Shell s not yet eighteen years OF age.
At a meeting Of iron manufacturers IN
Plttsburg, on the 4th ultimo, all sizes OF iron
wore increased In price three-fourths OF a cent
~ueEEpound, and nails twenty-five cents per
keg.
aenew Chicago newspaper, says that some.
thing more than a bag of money. and a parcel
ofYeliows who can write, Is required TO make
anewspaper.
ri editor of the New Orleans Repuoli-
cahs thinks 1t. must have been the pEoof-reader
whO made him call the Governor "our enter
nrjsinp thief, when he meant to say "our en-,
terprising chief"
III IT'S news from the diamond fields, the
C~apeSstandard says !that diamonds are drugs
now: ind that drugs are diamonds; hal Isl TO
say. a very small quantity of qulnlne Is worm
abig precious stone,
President Orion, of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, says 1t costs the COM
pany, seventy cents for each dollars worth OF
messages transmitted, aud that for the wealth
erlmessages it only gets sixty cents.
Gaming houses are to be established IN
France. at Bagnieres, vicny, A~ix.les-Balns,
and at sssme places In the .nelghoorhooa Or
Paris, St. Cloud, Fontainebea0, or kngnelo.
# ia said of the Emperor Napoleon hal ne
never allowed cards in any Of his palaces.
"A witty. French writer thinks that a man
should be- permitted to marry his deceased
wife.s sister,.l If for no other reason tnan De-
ca5nse of the manifest Injustice of depriVfng
him of the opportunity of having not more
than one m0tner-lp'a"'
The volcano of Colima, in Mexico, near
the Pacific coast, which has for the past Two
wears been showing signs of activity, ID now
In tull eruption, throwing out clouds OF ashes'
which fall over 9, large section OF country
and the smoke Is 50 dense as to obscure the
sun.
latest personal description of Tenny-
am declares him 10 be a most inveteraue
smoker. and one who loves idleness above all
tbings-dreamlng away his existence. But IL
mnst be confessed that for an idle dreamer
the subject OF this criticism has lone those
things which a city full OF Industrious and
wide.awake individuals could never hope to
accomplish, even II their lives depended upon
the !endeayor.
TO discover spurious greenbacks, CT ma
t,onal bank notes, divide the last two figures
of the number of the bill by four, and If one
remain the letter on the genuine bill will be
A. II two remains it will be B; II three, G;
and should there be no remainder the letter
win be D. For example, a note Is registered
24sl, divide si1ty.one ty four and you will
have one remaining. According to the rule
the letter on the note will be A. In case the
rule fails be certain that the bill Is coun'
terfeit.
The Oldest rose tree, according to a South
German paper, is to be found close to the
church wall in Hildesheim. The roots nave
penetrated under the crypt, the trunk II
twelve Inches in diameter, and six or seven OF
its branches overshadow the eastern side Of the
church roof, bearing countless roses every
summer. 1t Is not known how old this rose
tree is; but there are documents In existence
showing that Bishop Hezilo, nearly one thous
and years ago, had a stone wall built to pro
fect this tree. Traces Of this wall are still IN
existence.
1T has been suggested that the sures'
method by which Sir Charles Dixie, the repub'
lican agitator, could convince the English
people of his sincerity, would be by surrender
ing his little and becoming in realty what be
ia now sarcastically called by the Saturday Re
view. plain "Ci.izen Dixie" Sir Charles Dixie
isa Baropet, the lowest order of hereditary
nobility in England, and the title descended
to him from his father. Even If he desired II
do 40 he could not resign his title, which Will
In turn descend, at his DEATH to his eldes
SON, and can only become extinct Wheel
hereditary titles are abolished in England. o
the Dixie family become extinct in the mall
line.
late letter from Yokohama, Japan, say
that conservatism is fast disappearing from
the ruling classes, and that A liberal spirit
amounting almost to rashness, In the advoca
cy OF schemes for Improvement is rapidly OF
the increase. A neat work of telegraph line
connecting all the principal cities Is projected
The railroad between Yeddo and Yokohama
only twenty-four miles in length, Is not: ye
compteted-a correspondent alleges, becaus,
the Eugllshmel who are constructing 1t under
stand that when it is finished the heavy sala
ries paid them by the Japanese Governmen
will cease. The whole thing is represented q
ahnge job perpetrated on the Japanese au
thori!ies By the contractors.
-Konig Lud Wig, Of Bavaria, seems to b
winning an enviable reputation ior ahaolllt
and true kingliness. His queer mixture
likes and dislikes have often been neacea Q
descriptive writer's, and bis Inevitable iolile
..na o,trayaoances have afforded the usus