The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

in Liverpool cotton closed quiet; upianas
l1id, Orleans ll3d; the sales amounted "
$1,000 bales.
New York consumes sO,oOo.oOo gallons OF
water daily.
There are said to be nearly two 'thousano
RAG pickers in the streets OF New York.
An artesian we'll has been sunk twelve
hundred feet In Chicago before finding water.
One of the rules of the new English dress
reform is TO wear dress until 1t Is worn out.
"A new style Of coffee pot has little
steam whistle attached which warns people
when the coffee is ready.
Birmingham, England, is said 10 have
sent SO many sham diamonds to the African
diamond field that the value of the real article
is depressed.
The Suez Canal receipts are increasing at
q gratifying rate. The receipts 10 January
were nearly double those in the same month
last year.
The extreme cold of the past winter in
Paris has been more intense than has been
known for q century, and great suderings
were caused by 1t among the poor.
Austria Is engaged In an ef9rt to attract
to Itself the emigration of laborers and skilled
workmen from Germany, which usually seeks
this country.
"A man In New York recently bled to death
after having Eve teeth extracted. Every effort
was made to stop the bleeding Of the gums,
but proved fruitless, and the patient gradually
died from exhaustion.
Persons who have recently travelled
through Russia say that that country resem-
bles more q vast camp than nation on
peace footing. Soldiers abound In oil direc-
tIons, and the greatest military activity pre-
walls.
The trials of Communists still continue at
Versailles. The last batch brought before
military tribunal In that city consists OF tWen-
ty.three persons who are accused OF the assHs-
slnation OF forty-seven gendarmes and priests
I'm the Rue Haxo, on the 26th of May.
Paris correspondents write that ladies of
the great world wear now at the balls
mourning toilette, composed of q black silk
dress, ornamented with white lace ana fed
roses, and diamond tears in the hair" Over
flowing grief in this style costs from five 10 ten
thousand dollars.
The health officer OF Liverpool should be
named Dogberry. He thinks smallpox epi-
demic directly lessons the number Of those
who will in future be susceptible 10 attacks Of
the disease. This Is good. 1t certainly does
40. by the number OF those who ole of the epl-
demic, whatever may be thought OF those who
have smallpox and survive. The suscepti-
bity of the dead victims Is strikingly dimin-
ished.
Frau Mallinger, who had fight recently
with Lucca, has conseEted to renew her en-
pagement at the Berlin Court Theatre on con-
dition of lifelong engagement, leave of
absence at any time during the season, two
hundred and fifty thalers for every appear
ance on the stage, and eight performances
guaranteed for every month, and pension OF
$500 thalers, and 10000 thalers paid in ad-
vance. Modest.
Among the lucky ones in the last Erie
pecuiarily are clerks, laboriug men and
ladies. One young lady added three thousand
dollars to her fortune in twenty-faur hours.
A shipping clerk risked his all, and made four
thousand seven hundred dollars Tuesday af.
ternoon. All this would be good fortune were
It not for the fact that these people will imme-
dtately give up their legitimate business, and,
seeking further success, find themselves in
short time penniless and indisposed to do so
little as an hours hard, honest work.
Marshal Mcmahon, like Damon, has just
sacrificed himself on the altar of friendship, In
testifylng recently that be alone was RESPONSE
BILE for the movements of the French army in
the late war after it left Chalons and prior to
Sedan. He said that Louis Napoleon was in
no way responsible for the disasters that fol-
lowed. Naturally enough, q grea; sensation
was caused In court by this avowa, as the
ex-Emperor has generally been held responsi-
BILE previously ior the movements that resulted
In the capitulaiion of Sedan.
The Boston Pilot (Irsh Catholic) makes
in the last number q very graceful tender Of
the olive branch to its Orange tIrsh Protes-
tant) neishbors. After alludng to the fact
that the Pilot office Was draped on st. Patrick's
day, mot in green alone, but intwined wreath,
and flags and streamers OF orange and greeD,"
IL saws s.Here is an offer to our fellow-coun.
trymen. Let them carry green In their pro-
cessions-it Is their color as we'll as ours. Let
Us twine them together and never hold them
apart Let their folds rustic and wreath and
clasp each other at the winds bidding, and as
all such intercourse must end, theirs will end
in love. Let us kill our old bad feeling and
wrap Its corpse in green and orange shroud,
aud bury it out Of sight forever"
-. Some European correspondent, in the
course 01 iIiis rambllngs up and down, has
1ecent,y allowed his footsteps to tend toward
the stately but now deserted palace of Mira
mar, near Trieste, where the lll-starred Maxi
milan and CarlUlta passed SO many happy
days befole the Mexican mirage arose before
their bewildered sight. Situated in one of the
lovelest spots on the face OF the earth, at the
head OF the blue Adriatic, and furnished with
every comfort and luxury that money could
procure or q cultivated taste desire, the
palace of Miramar is even now, when all its
associates are 80 sad and gloomy, miracle
of beauty and grandeur and very attractive
to the tourist. The grounds and gardens
are kept with the same scrupnlous care