The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-12-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.


No,h,no ba, been heard of the i've missing
Wilmington pilots.
colonel Blood, Mrs. Woodhulps man, sur
rendered by his ball, has been released.
"A friend OF the late Edwin Forrest says NJ
laft all his estate for the purpose OF foundlne
an Actors Home In Philadelphia.
Tho report which was current that lhe
employees ON all the English railway compa
niles would strike on the I'd of January proves
u~nfonnded.
The st. Louis Convention adopted a reso'
luton fayo.lDg the canal between the Tennes
ace and Coosa Rivers. Benz. E. Crane was
made president OF the executive committee.
Hon. T. o. L. Lamar, member elect OF the
Honsey of Representatives from Mississippi
whose disabilities have just been removed
has been struck with paralysis, aud Dr.. Garnet'
says he will recover.
John g. Mlcolay, Of Illinois, President
Lsnooln's private secretary, Is chosen by the
Judges Of the United States Supreme Court
marshal OF that body, in place Of Colonel Par
sons, resigned.
Recently a Mobile paper started the story
that Miss Lolita Crabtree, the actress, had died
In the South OF France. Miss Lolita, who has
beenfor several months in England, writes a
letter stating that she Is in excellent health.
The floods have reached the northeastern
departments OF France. Part OF the City OF
Lille was flooded and abandoned. Many fac
tories are closed, and the bridges and crops In
the adjacent country destroyed.
The bill to incorporate the New York,
Norfolk aud Charleston Railroad has passed
the North Carolina Senate. 1t Is said that the
road is q part of a grand Atlantic and Pacific
coast line. Henry Clews, of New York, Is one
OF the incorporators.
THE New York bank statement shows legal
tenders Increase seveu-eighths million; loans
decrease, three-fourths million; specie de-
crease, one and three-eighth millions; deposits
decrease, two and one-eighth millions; less
reserves, one-eighth million.
-As early as 1852 Senator Sumner offered
q resolution to prevent the names OF battles
with safellow-citisens" from being perpetua-
ted by ofacisl action. His recent effort was
TO discontinue q practice he then sought to
stop in Its i%ncipiency.
The Greeley will case came up 10 West
Chester Surrogate Court, on Saturday, when
tie fact was developed that Ida Greeley had
decided half of her property, left by her fathers
last will, to her sister Gabrielle, merely reserv-
ing the right to superintend her educational
affairs during her minority.
The London correspondent Of the New
York Tribune says that Mrs. Gates, who Is one
OF the victims of Bewles Brothers, the Amerl-
can bankers, sis a lady Of great age a South
erner, who had disposed OF her property in
South Carolina at a considerable sacrifice. in
order to put.it in a shape In which both the
property itself would be perfectly secure and
the income from It CERTAIN She loses St, 200.
Some of the lately arrived Italian immi-
grants appeared OF Broadway on Saturday.
They presented q most miserable spectacle.
They we're almost destitute of clothing and
look starved. The city authorities are some-
what alarmed at the arrival of so many of
them, and it is hoped that the officials at
Washington will take steps to prevent
further immigration OF such a nature. The
italian consul states that all OF them have
passports from their government, and that
there are no brlgands among them.
Those whose pride of ancestry Is offended
by the suggestion that men are descended
from monkeys will thank DR.. Ludwig Buech.
ner for e%ndeavoring to show that monkeys
are simply their cousins and not their great.
graRdfathers. The original man, according
to Buechner-who, unlike Darwin, doesn't 60
back az far as the hsltshell clam-was a
hairy, long-headed animal, with long arms
and short legs, aud the race took many thous.
ands Of years to develop into Its present In
perfect state. Whatever their nationality or
religious belief, naturalists seem to be gene
rally Impressed with the idea that the monkey
cannot be ignored as a relative. Even the
strictly Christian Waterton said he always felt
q shudder when about to dine on monkey In
the .wilds of Guiana.
The boyish Emperor OF China, who was
In his harem, who attend on the Empress
proper. The ladies are expected to make
themselves useful as well as ornamental, and
from each OF them Is annually expected q GER
tain amount of plain and embroidered work.
The race of Chinese Emperors has sadly de-
generated. Like the successors of Clovis,
the descendants Of Kang-he and Kien-lung
may well be termed rois tatntan,s. Their
brief llves-the last Emperor died under thlr-
ty-sre spent In childish Incidence, and not a
remnant of ancestral energy is dlscernible.
Still, the governing power in China is so well
distributed that but little responsibility rests
on the imperial ngurehead. Each province is
virtually a separate sovereignty, and the Gov
ernor OF q province exercises despotlc author
ity. China may in fact be called confeders-
ton of despotisms; and the day Ia probably
not lar distant when some Chinese Capet will
drive the lazy Emperor from his throne and
muse new life into a sluggish nationality.
I'm The banks of the river Gauges, says a
military Journalist, there are many quick
sands, and during our expedition a somewhat
distressing scene happened. An elephant in
cautiously came within the vortex of one;
first one foot sank, then another, and in en-