The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-22
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY %. 1873.
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Parts of the Boston ruins are still smok-
Ing.
Black silk stockings are fashionable
among London bellies.
New Orleans recently sent valuable
horse as present 10 the Pope.
The discovery of the ruins of the Queen
of sheba's palace is announced.
The people of St. Louis are busy with
their forthcoming Industrial exhibition.
Kentucky Is discussing the question OF
holding constitutional convention.
"A young lady, Of New York, aged ten,
wanted to borrow her mothers solitaire d.
amoud to attend children's ball, go that the
other girls might think she was engaged.
Lord St. Leonards, aged ni6s::;y -one, is the
oldest member of Queen Vlctoria's privy
council. Prince Arthur, aged twenty-two, is
the youngest.
Society men In Boston do not waltz with
blondes and brunettes the same evening, this
winter. They thiak the mixture of different
tlnts of powder on their dress coats ls too
picturesque.
The intercolonial postal and telegraph
conference has recommended the San Fran
cisco route as the most desirable for the trans
mission of malls between Europe and Aus
tralia.b
The National Association, TO secure an
amendment to the constitution acknoWedg-
ing God as the author Of the national exist
ence and the Bible as the foundation OF all
laws, will have convention in New York on
the 2sth'tnstanr.
M. de Lesseps fuds greater difficulty In
making his Suez Csnal pay than he did In
overcoming the physical obstacles which In
terysned between the Mediterranean and the
Bed Sea. rHe2wants to Increase the tolls, and
tor this purpose he has gone to Constantinople
to ask the assent of the Porte.
Lord Lyttons estate at Knebworth is sup
posed to, have yielded him an income OF about
seveniy.ave thousand dollars year. This,
with the copyright of his works, which have
averaged hlm fifteen thousand dollars year for
many years. enabled him to live comfortably,
and ato place him In the position of being
the most opulent literary man of modern
times. l.,
-Bebel, the German socialist, was SEN
fenced year ago to two years. detention In
fortress, and was deprived Of his privilege to
cit in the Relchstag, (of which he was MEM
ber,) fer apolitlcal offence. At an election to
replace him, which has been just held, he was
returned anew by twelve thousand votes to
thirtg-seven hundred given 10 his opponent,
government Official
The Paris chief Of police has recently is-
Eued an order. .thstlarge tablets giving gene
ral notion Of how siok and wounded persons
should be treated when physicians are not at
hand are to be- suspended 10 all the police sta
tions In the city, in order to prevent mis-
takes, and to guard against the danger of con-
founding the insensbiey produced by apo
plexy and kindred diseases with that Of drunk
enness. rEa'1 i.,'f -"
The projected Canadian Atlantic and Pa
cifc Railway is attracting much attention.
With a,length OF nearly 5000 miles, The settled
country through which 1t passes is extremely
limited in area. It is doubtful even if Its
branch lines to the lakes and Interior settle
ments would ever pay. A vast, snow bonnd
aud comparatively sterile track interpoBes be-
tween the eastern and western termini
Though the charter Is liberal therefore, and
the land grants large, the prospect OF getting
the road speedily under contract is not fat
terlng.
Startling news comes to us from Berlin,
via st. Louis. The Democrat, published In
The latter city, has private advices to the eff.
feet that both Bismarck and his wife have
been greatly Injured In health by the perusal
OF poisoned letters. Exactly how the thing
Is doue-is not given; bat the fact that both
are suffering from peculiar indisposilion is
positively stated. Bismarck Is go troubled,
It is said,, with dizziness, that he scarcely
leaves the house, while his spouse, who al
ways reads his correspondence with hlm, iS
stricken with unaccountable feebleness." )"
Their palace has been closed during the whole
OF the winter, and neither OF them has taken
any part In the court festivities. less
strange tale than this has oftentimes turned
out eo-he true.
-Welearn from the Washington Republican
that the friends Of the proposition to refund
the Internal revenue tax collected from raw
cotton, with commeDdable enterprise are
still engaged In urging action upon some one
of the several bills pending In the House for
that purpose. Having destroyed the effect of
the CRY OF ''lobbg," which at first frightened a
few members from the North from due con-
slderation Of It's provisions by the present.
alton of d demand for immediate action, in
which all the Southern representatives in
Congress joined, the measure is now in a
more favorable condition than ever. 1t ia the
unanimous opiuion OF all who have examined
he subject that the imposition OF the Tax
at ,tne when The representatives OF
the cotton producing region could not be
heard was unjust, and that Its constitution