The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-17
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

Nose mufrs are fashionable in Minnesota.
The late king OF Honolulu weighed three
hundred and fifty pounds,
Archbishop Bayley, of Baltimore, Is quite
recovered from his late Illness.
The total amount paid to the United
States treasury for cotton tax, while that tax
was in existence, was sss,072,3ss.
in England, recently, Stafordshire
miner was fined seventy-dve cents for kissing
ayoung woman under the mistletoe without
her consent.
GTennyson is exceedingly reserved. He
is said to be the only living Englishmsn of no.
toriety whose talent for privacy no American
has ever bafled.
-Pripce Bismarck has been presented with
1--WE French cannon, captures during the war,
and which are to be placed as ornaments IN
front of bis country residence.
Perhaps the severest criticism, in an cpl
grammatic form, passed on the. mistakes OF
Napoleon III, was that of Thiers-"There are
NO more faults to commit"
1t is. said thet Carlyle seldom hears the
name of Washington without expressing con-
tempt, especially If there Is an American TO
hear.
A man at st. Louis has brought suit for
ten thousand dollars damages against the IA
thsr Of the lady he wanted 10 marry, for in
terferIng and persaadlag his daughter not to
have him. ,VHl ..-=,.!-'.-.--f-
1t is stated as fact, that every governor,
every United States attorney, and about three
quarters of all the judges that are sent TO Utah
by the Washington government, are shortly
afterward accused of ''afaliations with the
Mormons.n n-.,,e
,,SA rumor was current that one OF the
largest and wealthiest jewish congregations
IN New York was about to substitute Sunday
for Saturday as iis day Of worship. The
Jewish Messenger emphatically denies the
truth Of the rumor.
Famine fever has again appeared In Lon
don. 1t Is now probably a continuation OF the
outbreak In 1858, when, having disappeared
from the kingdom for thirteen years, it sud-
denly revived and lasted through the two fol-
lowing years, dying out in 1871.
william q. Hurlbert, OF the New York
Worldcformerly Of Charleston, and one Of the
best writer's connected with the press In this
country. has gone on an expedition through
the Mexican and South American States TO re-
port upon their -esent condition, politically
and commercially.
A medical correspondent explains that
..emtolism,n of which the Emperor died, Is
coagulatIon of the solid parts of the blood Into
clots. which block up the heart and arteries.
These plugs are called emboli, and by block
ing up, the arterlal courses give rise to fatal
conseouences.s They are dependent upon pre-
vlous disease OF the system.
Executions OF criminals In England are
conducted very quietly, only two or three off,
cerso the Jail, the chaplain and few repre-
sentatiyes of the irrepressible press being the
Witnesses But the, instant the drop falls q
black flag is raised on the walls of the prison,
aud the Information is thus impressively con-
veyed 10 the public outside that justice has
done Its work.
The Pope gave audience last Monday to
large group Of visitors from abroad, among
whom were several German ecclesiaslics
he addre ssed the latter, complaining OF the
treatment the church had received at the
hands of the European powers, and ended
with the following words: Governments
strike the church, which is stricken as Christ
was struck. It is the duty of governments to
defend the church, whereas they rather seek
to destroy 1t, and with 1t all morality"
The Prussian Cross Gazette, of Berlin,
contains bitter article against England. It
considers the invasion of Khiva by Russian
troops, the negotiation Of Prussia with Porlu-
gal for the acquisition Of Delagoa Bay, and the
measures taken by the United States in re-
gard to the Sandwich Islands, as 80 many at
tacks on the prestige of England. The article
alludes to Russia and the United States In
complimentary manner, and iRtlmates that
those powers, combined with Germany, might
divide the world between them.
-Ohiselhurst, where Louis Napoleon died,
Is parish situated In the County of Kent,
eleven miles southeast of London. The chief
claims OF the place to historical distinction
seem destined to be neurological, as the ga
zeteers mention, as the only incident worthy
OF note, the death there Of William Camden,
the celebrated sntiquary. This, however,
actually occurred at Camden Place, In the
same parish, but short distance from the
beautiful villa of Chlselhurst, where the exlled
Emperor breathed his last.
The people of Maine are highls delighted
with the result OF their efforts to attract Swe-
dish immigrants to that State nv affordinp aid