The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-29

- VI
Pesdtsb1rgdescribe the -magniacence of an
ilhnfhsd- copy Of the sacred writings Of
Baddha, In the language Of Thibet; which Is
bsane executed for aaMongol prince; 1t will
consist OF one hundred and eight folio vol.
mmes: of which eighty are completed, all 10
Hfstters of gold, and bound inenbroidered silk,
vithsflver clasps. The copyist Is to receive
fwenty.aye thousand dollars for the work.
- German marble cutter of Albany has
snSttsuted Q suit against q weH4known dealer
8afpSymento OF wages. The workman was u
struosed to cut uron . tombstone, "Let her
soul rest in peace but being cramped for
1psceshe abbreviated the sentence thus: sLet
het io1l j. l. Pr The person who ordered the
1tone would not accept Il, and It wac returned
10 tho dealer, who deducted the outlay he
Isdsbean put to from the wages OF the
1lsinttG ;,
A principal ofa fashionable private school
1nQq6w York City, which is' attended only oy
M Children Of the elite of that metropolis,
aafiBsto the bureau. OF education that there
.are over $s0,0 900 due the institution under his
charge tor tulusn, and that not one cent can
bScouscted, although the money Is owed BY
persons In high standing, but who refuse to
,pay school. bills, but recognize all others.
This stste. OF things also exists in other cities
tosr.Aaening extent, 1t Is reported.
- wx Washington telegram says: 'sThere Is.
ths best Republican authority for saying that
tho Republicans in Congress viii look very
sharply after the Liberals. Banks, 1t Is etated,
WIN be removed nom the craftsmanship Of the
foreign relations committee, and Governor
Blaif rom the claims committee. In the sen-
ete It Is proposed to entirely reconstruct COM
inittses.. This viii take Trumbull from the
Judiciary, and dispose of Senators schurz, Tip.
ION, Summer, Rice and Fenton, "a II they were
Democrats" s5.@n
"A man ont In Nevada, who took . dose Of
stryehnise by mistake and escaped to tell the
stale,, describes the sensation OF, dying by this
process, Il. q; enough to deter any person In
.bis senses DO select that mode Of committing
suicide: he says he felt q succession Of shocks
and. i;oonyulsions, each worse than being
broken on the wheel, and after suffering terri.
BILE torments for q period that seemed Of inin-
Tive duration, he finally sunk iato uncon-
,Buuu6u666s nOm uutoh AO wa 4CoOu0u UI tuO
utmost eXertions Of . skilfnl physician.
~ Paris engineer has Just been ''hoist
wtthhis own petard' in q literal sense; l. D.,
blown 70 pieces BY. the accidental explosion
81 an Internal mschine, whose destructive.
prpHerses he had Intended for the benefit Of
thSspfnsEsns, should another war break out.
The tnan's" name was Durieux; and for many
months he had labore1 %aesIduously at his
benevolent invention, which was to sweep
away whole ranks of the enemy at a single
dischxrge. At last the moment came for the
final proof. Durieux procured q hundred
leaden toy soldiers, dressed them In the Prus-
slan uniform, placed them before his lnstru-
lnant Of vengeance, fred 1t, n blew himself
10 pieces.
--The death of the Right Rev. DR.. Gray,
EptIooppal bishop Of Cape Town and Metropolis,
tan cf south Africa, Ia announced. The de-
ceased bishop was sixty-three years Of age,
Z an div appointed to the See Of Cape Town
in lsE7. Bishop Gray will be remembered In
connection with the Colenso controversy,
about eight years ago. DR.. Colenso, bishop OF
Natal, having published a critical examine
ton ct the Pentateuch and Book Of Joshua,
the work was condemned BY the Convocatson
OF the Province of Canterbury, and its. author
WA declared deposed, by Bishop Gray, IS
Metropolitan. This act on the part OF Bishop
Gray was declared on an appeal to the Privy
Council, to be In excess of bis jurisdiction,
and Or. Colenso'remains in possession Of the
Sea- ,r.
"A Warrington letter says: Associate
Judge Nelson, Of the Supreme Court, is 30
feeble in health that he will never again take
his Seat upon the bench. He Is now at his