The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-11
Tbe GbafleSto,t NemS.
TUESDAY, MARCH IL, 1873.
NEWS OF TIE DAP.

NEWS O1 10G NAk'
The Legislature OF Rhode island has legal
lied marriages between whites and blacks.
The labor market In Texas Is said to be
greatly overstocked by the Immense immigra
tion from other Southern States.
-Froude, Max Muller and Charles Kings
lev are brothers-in.law, having married the
three daughters of wealthy London mer-
chant.
The three organizations OF bricklayers In
Brooklyn, New York. publicly announce that
they Will, on the 3oth of this month, demand
81 per day fer eight hours.
The Virginia papers are commenting on
the constantly Increasing demand for the cane
fibre manufactured at that place. AS an artl'
Gle of commerce 1t Is increasing In Importance
and promises to become a very considerable
Item. The Petersburg Appeal, for instance,
says that an average of thirty bales per day
passes through that city en- route for the paper
mill at Fredericksburg.
"A New York letter of Friday says /: 1.-THE
representatives of the leading Irish societies
called upon Mayor Havemeyer this afternoon,
snS invited him to review their grand pro-
cession on st. Patrlck's day. After friendly
interchange OF Views with reference to street
professions generally, his Honor gave bis
consent. It Is estimated that at least twenty
five Ghousand men will take part In the
parafIe, including delegations from Brooklyn,
Jersey City, Hoboken and other suburbs"
g LFhe Minnesota newspapers are calling
upon the State Legislature not to adjourn
Without taking some action In the matter OF
spproprlatlng sum OF money for the pur-
chase of seeds and trees 10 be distributed 10
ench town throughout the State. They eepe-
cIally urge that trees be planted on the pral-
ries of the State, for the benefit OF the farm
ers who fill up the broad stretch Of land
between the railroads and rivers, 80 that they
NAV thus fence their roads and farms with
forest trees.
The London Times and Standard have
got into 8 lively controversy ss to the value OF
Canada to Great Britain. 1t is the sharply
expressed opinion Of the ''rhunderer" that
Britannia could get on very we'll without the
Dominion. But the Standard, on the other
hand, deems Canada the very heart and soul
of the great British Empire, aud goes 30 tar
as to say that 1.-THE question will soon be, not
whether Canada is strong enough to stand
without England, but whethar England Is
strong enough to stand Without Canada"
-ossawatamle, Kansas, has come down to
us linked with the name OF old John Brown,
though he Is supposed to be some distsnce
from there at the present time, es he has kept
"marching on" at q desperate rate ever since
he died. The place, however, has entitled
Itself TO new distinction, By lynching the most
desperate horse thief to be found on the bor-
der, one George Ellis. He fought fsrcely,
but was hung to tree, with blanket over
his head, and irons on his hands and feet.
When he was buried one Of the lynchers, to
make sure that the dirt was we'll packed, got
uponc the saew made grave and stamped 1t
down untliit was nrm, and the coff1nless man
rested In peace In the shadow of the primeVal
woods. 49,
The recent forgeries perpetrated on the
Bank OF England recall similar attempts to de-
fraud that institution made In the past. The
most prominent forgeries Of promissory notes
discounted by the bank were those Uf Robert
Aslett and OF Fauntleroy. Through Aslett the
bank lost 81, 600 900, and through Fauntleroy
$500, 900. In 1882 great quantities Of the
watermarked paper used for Bank of England
notes were stolen from the-government mill
by one 2off the hands employed there, and
were printed on at Birmingham. The printer
admitted that he had been pursuing this dis
honest business for q: long time, and said he
printed the whole Of the notes forged on the
Bank or Englsnd from 1855 to 1862. No esti.
mate was ever published of the loss TO the
bank through these transactions. d.
The Tftnsville Herald has published Its an
nnal statement of the production of petroleum
for the. year 1872 The business is increasing
in ali TIC oil regions, and tho opening of new
wells gives premise that it will not decline,
but may be considered practically inexhaus-
tible. The production of the Cansdas and the
United States reached the enormous figures
Of 7,S94, 900 barrels, or 20,27l barrels daily.
Production has nearly doubled in five years.
The shipments from the Pennsylvania region
were 5,Tl2 1856 barrels, an increase OF between
two and three hundred thousand barrels. The
total export was s,4s7,s44 barrels, decrease
OF IS, ,0ss barrels. For the first time In the
history OF the trade there was falling off in
the export. This decline was caused by the
attempts Of the producers and renners to force
prices up early in the year. AS result, JAN
usry /, 1879, there was heavy stock On hand,
estimated at more Than million barrels.
"A New York letter gives this picture OF
Lent in q fashionable church: "The curtain
has fallen, the foot-lights are dim, and the
caynlvalislic fun and irolIc have ceased with
the Lepten Fast. In sad-colored garments
we CRY PeccaYlmus ] Congregating beneath
groined arches IN the purple and golden light
Of stained glass, do fair sinners aaigh, with
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