The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-03
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

NEWS OF TRED DAY.
-Ebenezer Childs, of Harrington, Me-, was
wounded by q bsyonet In 1914, and mas since
drawn $Is, $50 In pension mone".
-5-Dr.. Voisin, one OF the most eminent
.physlclans of France, died on the2 uit.ms'
at the age of seyenty-eight-
Sir henry Thompson, q leading surgeon
OF London, is the confessed author OF tne Ia
nous prayer-teSt proposition.
An event In English ecclesiastical circles
ia the election of Dean Stanley as one OF
the select preachers before Oxford UniVersl-
ty. The Dean is a slow churchman," ana was
strongly opposed on that ground.
-Longfellow owned large quantities OF
stock In q Boston Insurance company, 7-hich
before the Are was worth one hundred and
TWENTY-FIVE dollars share, and is now
worthless. .r --
:, 1t is thought in Salt Lake City that Brig
ham Young will never pass another summer
above ground. When he dies thirty.seVen
widows will mourn his loss, and one hunored
and seventeen children will be fstherless.
Sidney Rlgdon, who is reputed to have
been the, author of the Mormon Bible, and
who at cue time ranked next to Joe Smith IN
the church of the Latter-day Saints, was
stricken with paralysis last week at his nome
in Allegheny County, N. Y. &.
Ford, the well known Baltimore man:
ager, is emulous of the fame of the good
fairies among the poor children OF that city.
He gave on Christmas Day bright and SNOWY
performance for their especial behoof, and
added after the play innumersble presents
ior the little people whose eyes he had fsasted
gratis. Thlswas one of the biggest Christmas
trees ON record, and 1t, sprang from one OF
tho most generous and wholesome OF nearts.
Dlrrhamner, thetNew Orleans lawyer,
who recently committed suicide, the Times
saws 5"Mr. Dirrhammsr-always peculiar
and eccantrlc--had become more so, until at
last, q few days before his death, he appeared
!. to recant,all his iayorite Ideas, married his
servant, colored woman, declared his iuii
return to the Catholic ieith,, and after willing
all bis property to his wife, his head to his
doctor, his guns and pistols to some OF MIS-
legal, friends, and directing that he should be
borne to the grave in the poor mans cart, ne
took q large dose, OF the most fatal OF poisons
and departed this life." .;
:t-Central Park, in New York, presented a
lively scene On Sunday. 1t isestimated thai
q .fjfsy thousand persons visited the Park. Ten
thousand skaters were on the lakes, and hVe
thousand sleighs dashed around the SHOW
covered roads, and q large number Of specta-
tors were there enjoying the sport, comfort
ably mnfded for the occasion. The New York
papers describe the scene, not, only In the
Park but In Harlem lane, on the Fifth avenue
and other portions of the city, as enliyenlng
and brilliant as the city ever, wore. notTith-
standing the solemn character OF the day.
The price OF a. team ran up. as high as forty
dnllars, and many were disappointed Offering
thassum. 4E& .ITAI<-. &4;
1.-THE tactica OF the Modoc Indians, who are
NOW spreading terror over the newly-settled
portions OF California, ere different from those
usually adhered to in savage warfare. About
a year ago they had grand feast and series
oil dances, and improved this opportunity to
get an the small bands together and hold a
convention to revise their laws and usages OF
warfare, They resolved, after several days OF
debate, 10 abolish scalping and mutllatlon OF
the bodies, of their Victims; also, to abstain
from making war on women and children,
/ and to this latter regulation Is due the fact
that in very few instances have they molested
the families OF ranohmen whom they murder
ed. Captain Jack has some desperate fight
ers, and the only way to dislodge these H.
dams is said by old ranchmen to fight them
ten to one, and to go Into battle with the e1-
pectatlon oflosing number OF men. Scar.
faced Charley ia said to be equal to fifty men
hlmself. At the Lost River fight, while he
was retreatIng, more than fifty shots were
fred at him, none Of which took effect, so
quick were his twistings and doublings, while
he loaded hls gun as he ran, and, turning q
somersault occasionally, would shoot from
under his leg, and never missed.
1--WE have some news OF the movements Of
petroleum men In the oil regions to raise Tue
price of their product and keep it at facti-
tious point through q monopoly. The original
plsn contemplated an association OF producers
wlth,a capital Of 81, ,oos, 900, Into whose hands
thsewhole regulation OF production and first
storage should fall. as we'll as the establishment
of price tor reaners, This was found too big a
thing to carry; the stock could not be disposed
of and the Producers Council expressed
willingness to unite themselves with the Re
floers' Association. Accordingly treaty has
been drawn up with fourteen articles and ratt-