The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-27
M Mr.. WILLIAM E. SIMMONS, Jr., is the
travelling agent for The NEWS, for South
Carolina.

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travelling agent for The NEWS, for South
's NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed very active yesterday at l2s
al3. a.
The New York cotton market closed nrm
but quiet at 233 cents for %uplands.
in Liverpool cotton closed heavy; uplands
1lalltd; Orleans lid; sales 5000 bales.
"A charter has been granted by the len
nessee Legislature for bridging or tunneling
the Mississippi River at Memphis.
An English vegetarian offered his wife TWO
alternatives; either to abstain from the use OF
animal food, or to get q divorce. She chose
the latter.
The regulation of the 'social evil" In st.
Iouis has resulted Ia the diminution OF the
number Of unfortunate women, and a revenue
Of $500 o to the city during the past year.
Recent letters from Liberia represent the
country to be in a prosperous condition. The
climate Is healthy and the settlement Is grow
ing in numbers annually.
In the course Of q year the treasury de-
,partment and its branches consume nearly
fifty tons OF writing paper, BLK thousand gross
of pens and one thousand gross Of pencils.
The police of Japan are very vigilant. II
YOU have anything stolen they pursue the
thief, and If the property is found on him they
Chop of his head at your doorstep. For a
small consideration you are allowed to DO
your own killing.
President Buchanan, In q message sent 70
Congress ffteen years ago, remarked tnat
..ever since the origin Of our government we
have been employed in negotiating treaties
with Great Britain, and ATE: ward In discus-
sing their true intent and meaning" And we
are. still at 1t.
-Of the TWO colored cadets at West Point,
Smith, the original bone OF contention, stands
tenth In his class, while young Napier, ior
whom a betterfeeling has been entertained OF
late, stands at the foot of a class of sixty.si1
members. His friends fear that he may be
pronounced deficient at the coming examina-
ton In June.
"A colored woman, probably the largest
sA0Q tu6aNlGkk pSlbOh Va NJ ~
died In 81. Louis a few days ago at the age OF
fIty-one years. She weighed between nine
hundred and one thousand pouucs. Her
dimensions were five feet ten inchesi in height,
twenty-elght inches across the shoulders' ana
thirty-seven Inches acrossthe hips. Her.srms
were thirty inches in circumference. When
.she had been arrayedin burial vestments, 1t
was found impossible for seven men to lift her.
Finally the box was tilted on one side and she
was rolled in while the priest. chanted the ser
Vice of. the dead. She was then placed In .
large wagon which proceeded eloWly to the
cemetery. The wagon was backed up to the
grave, and eight men and.six rollers com.
bined their exertions to lower her into her
narrow bed.
-Mrs. Sherman, who is on trial at New
Haven, retains her feminine folbles although
charged with a fearful crime. For several
days a New York artist has been in therco0rt
room endeavoring to sketch the features OF
the prisoner. Durlngt the entire afternoon she
kept moving her head and covering her fact
with her gloved hands. to prevent her features
being secured. Later In the day, learning
from Sheriff Scott that the artist had secured
very poor pietpre, the prisoner became visl-
bly, excited, aud after a brief consultation with
her friends, announced to Warden Webster, OF
the county jail, that she did not wish to appear
to q disadvantage in the Illustrated papers,
and would like to be escorted to a gallery, that
she might there have her picture taken and
copies presented to the members of the press.
The warden, who is an obliging gentleman,
complied, and a sitting was had. The pris-
oner, on leaving the gallery, expressed her sat
isfactlon at the result Of the sitting, and
returned 10 her quarters at the jail, apparently
greatly relieved, now that her personal appear.
snce Ia not likely to be caricatured In the pic
torial press.
I'm North Carolina a considerable number
Of people find occupation In gold hunting, and
although the results Of their operations are
not great, many make a living from the pur-
suit, while a few Of superior energy and skill
gain something more. The gold veins best
known are situated in Sten'ey County. but a
great part of the billy country in North Caro-
lima and Georgia is auriferous, though the
metal is seldom found in paying quantities. A
British company which is working the mine at
Gold Hill in North Carolina took out FIVE
thousand dollars worth OF ore In December
last. After crushing and sitting the ore they
sell the refuse for twenty dollars a ton. The
Hartford Times says that Mr.. R,sley, OF Berlin,
Conn.,, has been buying this refuse, and has
made it yield forty dollars a ton. 1t costs
about three dollars a ton to work 1t over,
leaving a profit of seventeen dollars a ton.
Small nuggets, weighing from FIVE to fifteen
pennywelghts are frequently found by the
negroes in that region, and one much larger,
worth two hundred dollars, turned up there
not long ago. But that was an exceptional
occurrence.
1t is likely to be a long time before. we hear
the last OF Tichborne. The trial OF the pre-
tended Sir Roger for perjury will probably re-
suit in the introduction Of a great deal Of new
evidence relating to hls life. From the man.
ner in which the Indictment against him has
been drawn, 1t would seem that the prosecu.
ton intend to go to work to prove, not that
he Is not Sir Roger Tichborue, but that he is
Arthur orion. This is sensible, and will sim.
plify the matter; for, If 1t is eonclusively
rrovod that the man IL orion, It will not be