The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

. In New York cotton closed Irregular and
easier at 234c. for uplands.
The LIVERPOOL cotton market closed quiet
and steady: uplands 11tall}d.
This IL the last year Of the income tax.
warm weather ID coming. Thirty lnouS-
and dollars worth of fans were Imported last
week.
"A Chinese newspaper has entered upon
TIA two thousandth volume. 1t has lost all lls
original subscribers.
1T ia said the only steam-ploughing appa-
ratus in successful operation IN the unlleo
states is on a Louisiana plantation.
1t is, computed that, during the past tnir-
~ wears. It has cost $500 to print the single
word daughter in the Congressional Glooe.
The wheat crop Of California for the pres
ant season ls estimated at 100000 bushels,
and the barley crop at II, Ooo, 600 bushels.
The chief business OF Canton, Maine, Is
making ~toothpicks. Machines are In use,
each OF which makes i've thousand toothpicks
q minute.
The death is announced, at Geneva, OF
Francois Jules Pilet de La Rive, the eminsnt
sw,ss scholsr, scientist and statesman, aged
is~i1ty-three years.
In a recent bull Aght at Bilboa, Spain, q
velocipede was substituted for a horse by one
of the picadors with the most triumphant re-
suits.
.-ANew York wedding cake weighed iorty
oounds. It was in the form of a three story
house, with sugar bride and groom coming
out of the front door.
The Emperor and Empress of Brazil, alter
visiting nearly every court Ia Europe, have
left the Continent for their " country.
They have left behind them an excellent I'M
preston.
M. Theirs has hit upon the happy thought
of dining and wining the rival parties In the
French, Assembly into good humor With each
other. According to rotation, he invites each
faction of that bsdy to dlne with him, trust
ing to gastronomy to promote equilibrium.
1t is reported that the remainder OF the
'sgans" of outlaws have disappeared from
scuf1etowu, and 1t Is thought they have left
the country. It is said that none Of them have
been seen since the departure of henderson,
ssthe Herald representative"
"A camel Calling gun, proposed to be
mounted on the backs of camels for use in In
dia, is In course Of trial by q select committee
at Woolwich. It has ten barrels, each forty
two inch bore, and Is sufficiently light to be
fired from q tripod fixed on the back OF a
camel without Inconvenience.
THE Journals of ST. Petersburg publish
some details concerning a type.settipg ma
chine, invented By q Russian printer, which,
they assert, far surpasses all similar machines
that have hitherto been produced. 1t sets in
an hour thirty thousand letters. 1ts cost ID
FIVE thousand rubles, and one thousand letters
set By it costs only five cents.
"A distinguished German physician states
that smallpox originates from the excess OF
albumin Gus matter In the blood, and that this
Is to be prevented by the administration Of
common salt. The habit Of children indulging
over freely In sweetmeats he considers one
great cause Of this undue development OF al
bumen, and coffee and tea, If highly sugared,
tend also to excite 1t In adults.
The Chinese carte-de.visite Is a curiosity.
It consists of a huge sheet of bright scarlet
paper, with he >owner's lame inscribed In
large letters-the bigger the more exquisite.
For extra grand occasions this card Is folded
ten times, the name is written In the right
hand lower corner, with a humiliatiDg prefix
like ssyour very stupid brother" your IN
worthy friend who bows his head and pays his
respects" &c, &C., the words syour stupid"
taking the place of our ''yours respectfully"
1t Is etiquette to return these cards 10 the Visl.
tors, 1t being presumable that their expense Is
too great for general distribution.
The result of the municipal election in
st. Louis, which occurred on The I'd Instant,
Is Of some significance as showing the un-
popularity of the administration In the West.
In 1868, both the city and county were car.
rled for Grant by a round majority. This
spring not one Republican was elected alder
man. aud only one was elected to the city
council. This single Republican councilman
owed his election to bis being an anti-Grant
man es much as to the fact that he Is q highly
respected citizen, and a popular official. The
administration party was defeated by a ma
jorlty OF nearly four thousand. Three years
ago that party had entire control Of city and
county. The vote In detail shows that the
German vote in St. Louis is lost to the admin
istration; heretofore 1t has been thrown almost
entirely for the Republican candidates.
-Croakers who fancy that this country is
not advancing in prosperity, are referred to
the advance sheets of the ninth census. Those
dry looking columns are certainly more elo-
quent and conclusive on the points on which
they Touch than any amount Of ''spread eagle"
oratory. In the first place, they show that
the total real and personal property OF the
United States was $50, OOs, SIS, 5O7 in 1870, as
against SIG, l5s, GIG, O6s In 1850, and 81, l35, $780,
22s In 1850. The percentage of increase in
wealth during the last decade is found by cal
culation to have been over eighty-slx per
cent, Notwithstanding the immense diversion
of productive energy and the enormous de-
structicn of property consequent upon the
war. New York State, where both agriculture
and commerce are greater interests than
manufactures, gained Two hundred and fifty
two per cent. IN wealth during the last decade,
and only seventy per cent. in the former one.
The report of the Judiciary committee OF
the New York Bar Association, which has been
pressing the investigation into the conduct Of
-n~6 thor nj