The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-19
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FRIDAY, JULY fs, 1872.

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raj ~ NERS OF THE DAY.
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Mss Cunningham is to retire from Mount
Vernon. 81 e ~ f: .,'I'l. N.!'-:
Tom Thumb is writing an account OF bis
travels. -s''
-McKean Buchanan's daughter thinks her
father was poisoned, and will have his remains
chemically examined. 90
The watering places are all complaining
that visitors do not come as Hnmerously as
they ought: @
The electoral vote of the next Presidential
election win aggregate three hundred ana
.sixty-sIx, making one hundred and eignty
four necessary to choice. -, -,
The Russian telegraph lines are supported
across the steppes on brick pillars, no wooo
beinp available. !t.s!i' :. i ~ EGO, ..3.a
LIN Russia, the budget for the year contem-
plates an expenditure of sl7,5O0,ooO for edu-
caIonal purposes. .1-nLi ~ :..- G. .a'7 -.
Oxford University, England, 1t Is said,
intends conferring an honorary degree on the
e1.Emperor Napoleon. "a ~
Detroit Is said to exceed all the otner
cities of the United States in the extent Of It's
manufacture of fine-cut tobacco and cigars.
1t is stated that thirty of the best Euro
mean enpravers engaged in New York are
manufacturing counterfeit plates Of European
bank notes. a.iha "iig.' 49,
strauss receives $4,000 for his visit and
services at the Boston Jubilee and his and his
wtfs's expenses Madame Leutner gets
$4,000. 49, . -.
William Woodruff, the veteran trainer and
driver, died on Sunday at hisresidence In Ais
ton. Mass, after a long illness. he was well
known throughout the country as a noted
turfmaI. -. ,,...,,,r't
SeNew orleans Is bestirrlng herself CONNER
clally. The various towns and cities ot the
States of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North
Carolina and South Carolina are crowded
with an army Of drummers from thatclty.
IT seems the Mormon missionaries have
not a very happy time in Denmark. The gov
ernment has ordered all teachers Of that faith
to be tied up and logged, and one OF the
APOSTLES has actually been 30 welcomed.
"A reporter has been interviewing johann
Strauss, who said he was delighted with
which he regarded as villanous, and he longed
ardently to be restored to his ''divine Vienna
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Seventeen pleasure trips TO- the United
States have been arranged In Germany. The
average expense OF the whole trip. Including
a ten days sojourn in this country, Is three
hundred thslers. The visitors will arrive IN
this country mostly in August. They start
from Cologne and Hamburg. .as,.!
"A new, vessel is about to be built on the
CLYDE, to run between Liverpool and New
York, of dimensions only second to the Great
Eastern. Her length Is to be Ave hundred and
seyenty.six feet over all, and she Is to be fifty
feet beam and twenty-five feet In depth. 1t is
expected that the great steamship will make
the voyage from port to port In seven days.
The French journals give an account OF
the recent execution in Paris of q criminal by
agnIIlotine on new model. In the improved
machine there is no platform, and the posts
risel directly from the ground. The blade OF
the knife fs' black, 30 as not to dazzle the eye
in It's deacent. BY means Of this arrangement
all the apparatus of execution is on low
level, and the criminal Is not obliged to mount
three or four steps. The spectacle can, there
fore, only be seen by very few OF the crowd
that usually assemblies. On the occasion men.
toned the criminal was notified of his ap-
preaching doom at halfpast four in the morn
Ing, and at five O'clock he was executed.
"A New York letter OF Monday says: 1.-THE
streets In the lower part Of the city to- day
presented an unusual spectacle, revivlng
ones recolectlons of the late Franco.German
war. ,A.body of about TWO thousand natives
of Alsace and Lorraine marched down Broad
way, to the music, OF the Marseillalse. to the
ofice of the French, eoRsul, In Bowling
Green, and there soleunly registered an
oath never to submit to Kaiser Wilhelm. At
about the same time another procession, COM
posed of Teutons. carrying the German flag,
were passing down Barclay street. within
stones throw tine Frenchmen, en- route to
shntzenfest at Hoboken. The spectacle was
fair illustration of the cosmopolitan character
Of the city; at the same time that it reflected
the good sense of Gauls and Teutons alike,
that they could. thus have their celebrations at
the same time without interrupting each
other or coming Into hostile collision In our
streets" --..,.s- go.
The British have just brought out for trial
their finest iron-clad turret ship, the Grafton,
which was launched in the early part OF 1871,
but has recently had important additions.
Her class Is about halfway between The,
American monitors and the new turret-ships,
being hnilt tor the English navy, with turret
thirty feet In diameter, occupying a large
portion of the width Of the deck, which is fifty.
four-feet. In the turret- are mounted two
twenty y-fYe-tor guns, capable of being direct
ed to any part of the horizon. An important
feature of the vessel is her ram, which extends
eight feet beyond the upright part OF the
stern, and Is sufficient to make her very for
mldsble independently of her guns. Her
speed Is not remarkable, but as she is intend
ed for harbor defence. that will not make so
much difference. The armor plating on her
sides is. twelve inches thick above and ten
inches thick below the water line, worked
nto q teak backing of, twenty inches. Her