The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-08
NEWS OF THE DAT.

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NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed in New York on Saturday az
l03a1Os. ,-.. ,,ocsd dn,,
nn,ands being quoted at a33 cents; sales loSl
bales. -,
I'm Liverpool cotton was quoted dull at
the close; uplands lltallid and Orleans llsai
the sales were 10000 bales.
"A woman who is worth her weight IN
gold If of average size, would be worth about
thirty thousand dollars.
:; :. N-Aristide de Ia Vogue, 8 French cotton mer'
q chant of New Orleans, was drowned on satur-
J day. a. IL Il - :
The New York Legislature has rejected a
p bin prohibiting appropriations from the state
treasury to schools or institutions under seeta'
rian or religious control.
tFq-Jertny Lind's daughter, aged fourteen
70 years, is said to give great vocal promise, a
(, prospect Of great Joy and satisfaction 10 tnee
Swedish Nightingale.
1t Is said that Carl Schurz will this week
90 to New York to attempt to organize tne
German element in that city for the Cincln-
natl Convention.
Three things are now said about the
comet that was to smash the eartn next
August. lst. Itnever existed; "a. PROFESSOR
plantamour never said. 1t did; Sd. Comets are
yaporous, harmless affairs. ::
The. London Echo says that Sir TraVers
Twiss, whose wife mysteriously disappeared
: during the examination of Mr.. Cs::esrs, upon
the charge of publishing articles defametory
to her character, has become insane.
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange IS
making an effort to get at least one cores
pondent from every cotton growing county,
who will furnish monthly reports OF the crop
prospects.
The Italian Government has Issued de-
cree ordering that 'the Holy See" shall re-
ceiye in perpetuity from the public treasury
. the sum of three millions two hundred and
TWENTY-FIVE thousand francs. This may be
roughly estimated at s645, 900 year In gold.
"A runaway couple In San -Franniaon ohar
!: tered steam tug and clergyman, determin'
Ing to be married out on the Paclhc' Ihe
weather was rough, and the ceremony was
continually interrupted by one or other OF
the party making precpitate retreat TO the
vessels side. Before the happy pair were
made one the. bride had tainted, and the cere-
mony was concluded by all parties, from very
weakness, going through the service on their
knees.
,.-Fity-hye prominent local Republicans OF
. Texas, including ex-Governors Hamilton and
Peasc, have issued call for mass meeting
to be held in Austin, to eelect delegates to at
tend the Cincinnati Convention. The address
closes as follows "Citizens who love free civil
] government more than party, who are tlreo OF
military despotism, poorly disguised, opposed
! to wholesale frauds In elections, to bribery and
corruption in public Office, and who wish to
. restore, and perpetuate when restored, a Tree
civil constitutional government, are respect
fully and earnestly invited to attend the said
meetlng.n
= Nothing is mora curious in the psyche
logical history Of man than the freaks of the
insane. Some of the strangest of which we
have read Of late have been exhibited by q
man from Detroit, who left his home year
ago and has been travelling about under the
Impression that he was somebody else, but
retaining at the same time peculiar Interest
in his real SELF He would write home to his
wife occasionally, inquiriDg alter her nus
band, being especially anxions to learn
whether he had "got over his crazy spell yet.'
He was traced from place to place for nearly a
year before his friends could come up with
him.
The Japs are decidedly the most thorough
investigators that ever visited this country.
Nothing escapes them, from chicken salad to
an insane asylum. They have already success
fully penetrated every hole and corner In aud
about Washington, and have taken such accu-
rate memorandum that they can describe,
with equal facility, bed bugs or the Seneca
sandstone quarry. They have just crowned
their passionate curiosity by. Joining the Ma
SONS. Four of them were Initiated into the
mysteries Of the craft last week, and will 60
back clothed in the lambs skin.
We have hitherto published several arti-
cles going to show the efficacy Of vaccination
asa preventive Of smallpox, and the Import
ance ofthe subject is our apology for again re-
ferring to it. Philadelphia has been terribly
afflicted by this loathsome disease, and other
cities should profit by her experience. The
report of Dr. William N. Welch, based upon
1927 cases of smallpox and varioloid treated
by him in the municipal Hospital" in Phila-
delphis last year, shows that in the cases OF
those who had never been vaccinated, NO less
than sixty-fve per cent. died-that is, out OF
every one hundred unvaccinated cases sixty.
FIVE of the persons died. Next it appears that
of those who were properly vaccinated in in
fancy, and whose arms showed good" marks,
only about nine out of every hundred died.
Where the marks Of vaccination were stair, =
but not ''good," about sixteen out of every
hundred cases resulted In death. Where the
marks were ''poor," showing the vaccination
In infancy to have been very imperfect, about
twenty-five died out of every hundred.
The latest East Indian papers TEEN with
accounts of Lord Mayo's funeral at Calcutta.
The whole city, literally, was in attendance,
and tho nronaeaion contained not Onlu oil tho