The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS Ot Id6
Gold closed yesterday at l2al2t.
THE New York cotton market closed weak
uplands 23a cents; sales 1913 bales.
III Liverpool cotton closed dull ana un'
changed: uplsnds lit, Orleans llaallsd; sales
1900 bales.
George Alfred Townsend ia a delegate TO
the Cincinnati Convention from Delaware.
"a Forbidden Book broughttwenty-eight
hundred dollars in New York. Blu 1t was q
picture.
mot otherwise than embalmed will quit
Madrid.n SAWS Amadeus. He fears nothing
but his wife.
Considerable excitement Ia said to prevail
among twenty-seven hundred public school
teachers In New York owing to their inability
to tnl. any provision in the new charter for
their retention.
Measures are being taken to establish a
Protestant Esp.scopal Church in Rome, Italy,
the trustees Of which are to reside in New
York. Among the trustees named Is secre'
tary F1ah. '
The Missouri Supreme Court has refused a
mandamus to compel the State to pay certain
Of its matured bonds in coin, holding hat it
could not 20 behind the action OF the Legls-
lature. ordering their payment In currency.
The Emperor and Empress Of Brazil, who
have beer on q protracted tour OF Europe
have returned to Bio, accompanied oy tne
Duke Of SAKE. The city was richly decorated
and Illuminated for the event.
es-A dispatch from Rome reports mai the
opinion OF the Italian Government 70 that
the Geneva tribunal should not consider the
claims Of the United States Government for
indirect damages. -
The hair ION q camel weighs about ten
pounds, and sells for more than one hundred
dollars, which shows that it was not only IN
the DAYS OF Mohammed that the animal bore q
great prophet.
Grave charges are brought against some
of the officers of the Chicago Relief and Aid
Society, embracing negligence and incompe-
teney. Their employees are accused CT being
rude and corrupt, and Of receiving brides for
the performance of their duties. A committee
o, prominent citizens has been appointed TO
make athorough investigation.
nlvInstant Insanity ia the latest phrase 10.
vented by the lawyers and doctors to denote
that form of supposed mental hailuclnatlon
which prompts one human being 10 take the
life OF another. Fanny Hyde, who killed Mr..
Watson in Brooklyn a few weeks since, Is
now declared to have been a victim OF this
convenient form Of lunacy. which lasts only
while the killing 1t is on. Twas very unior-
tuRate for Watson in this case; but then, as
the New York Star says, she's dead, and OF
course wants no sympathy"
The Chicago Tribune, commenting on the
fact of Charles Reade being about to sue five
Journals for libel, on account OF their sar-
castle remarks on his latest play, "shilly
Shslly,n speaks of him as "fnh OF English
noyelists and first of English egotists,H and
thinks he had better not come to this country
to lecture, because our ruthless criticisms
would fairly agonize him, and our courts
would be full of libel suits In consequence.
His first action shoulG be against the Tribune
for those cruel words, s'ffth of English novel
ists.n.
The accounts from Mexico are again more
favorable for the reyolutlonists. Cortina Is
reported to have been defeated with severe
loss near Reynosa. 1t is also said that q regi-
ment Of his cavalry hes revolted, seventy OF
them escaping to the revolutioDists. Qutroga
IL to move on Matamoras with a force of three
thousand men, the necessary funds Tor the ex-
petition having been obtained. A report had
come from Camargo that he was already
on the march. Matamoras is said to be In the
beet possible condition for defence, and that
every precaulIon had been taken.
Miss Ann Preston, of Philadelphia, died
the 18th instant in that city. She was one
!. of the most prominent of her sex in the medi-
cal profession. She was born In 1914, at West
Grove, Pa, of a Quaker family. She was one
of the first applicants for admission to the
Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia,
graduated, practiced with success, and was
afterwards elected to the chair of physiology
and hygiene In that institution. which, as well
az the position of ''dean," she held to the
time of her death. When the Woman's Hos
pltal was incorporated and attached to the col.
lepe, Miss Preston was constituted one OF the
managers.
"a correspondent OF the Alexandra tVa.)
Gazette says that Mrs. Mason, lately before
the French arms committee Of the Senate, is a
native OF Alexandria, and that her maiden
name was Ada Hewitt. She was educated at
the alexandria Female Institute" and was
noted for her beauty and intelligence, and by
her sprightllness and manner, from her child
hood, rendered herself peculiarly attractive 10
gentlemen. Prior to the late war she removed
with her parents 10 Washington-and after
wards visited Paris, where she remained a
short time, and returned to this country sub
scrlbipg herself 'sMrs. Mason" During her
imprisonment i'd the Old Capitol, in the early
part of the war, with her child, a handsome
boy of four or five years, she was addressed as
'sMrs. Norris and recognized by her fellow
prisoners as a heroine worthy of admiration.
OF her adventures and hairbreadth escapes
during the war, and her subsequent con-
nection with the prime movers in the Cuban
insacrcction. the public have been fully ad-
Vised.
George Alfred Townsend writes: "Do
you know what 1t costs TO pay the senators
salaries and mileage per annum ? Four hum
dred thousand dollars !! Cheap at half the
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