The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.


NEWS OF THE DAY.
The fashion of the ladies parting their
hair at the side is extending.
"A couple living 10 Michigan, not yet
thirty-oue years old, have a grand-cbild aged
nine months.
Large shipments of coal are now made
to the West IBdia Islands, which have hither-
to drawn most Of their supply from England.
-Elvina stickney, the Iowa school girl who
shot her teacher some weeks ego because he
wasn't In love with her, has been pronounced
Insane, of course.
Prince Arthur, OF England, dressed In a
Holland blouse and gray bat, walked about
! the Corso, at Rome, during the carnival, ap-
parently enjoying his incoguito, being pelted
with boHquets and confetti for the amusement
Of the people.
The unusual financial TACT was developed
last week that specie was being shipped from
England to America. Usually the course Oh
shipment is the other way, the balance OF ex-
change being almost always 10 favor OF Eng
land. But last week gold went up In New
York, and exchange on London declined until
ultimately people found it cheaper to pay
freight ON specie shipments across the At
lantic than to draw bills of exchange. 1t was
an unsccustomed financial phenomenon, and
did not last long.
Billy Forester has been interviewed at
the Joliet prison, and promises 10 put the
authorities on the track OF the Nathan MUIR
derer.if he is approached In the right way.
he says !: 81 know the whole plot, and know
that certain New.York officials are implicated
In such q way asto make it necessary that
none but detectives of Kelso's choice shall be
put on the case. They have now spent sew
eral thousand dollars and are no nearer the
solution of the mystery than at the beginning.
Let proper persons approach me, and the
affair will no longer be mystery
Those who have seen OF read Of the
tumultuous scenes that have taken place In
the English House of Commons, on the rising
to speak OF any extremely unpopular mem
ber, or ON the defeat OF any Important meas
ure unexpectedly, can we'll imagiDa-the per-
feet Babel that greeted Sns vote on the Irish
opposition, at news 30 gratifying, undoubtedly
behaved like mature schoolboys, and even
that eelf-contained and ambitious leader,
Dlsraeli,. must have felt more fully that he
hal; even after the loss of his wife, something
yet to i've for.
Alta recent audience given by the Empe.
ror 5and Empress of Japan to the American
and Ruesian ambassadors and their wives, the
appearahceof the Empress Is thus described:
ssThe Empress was atttred In dress of heavy
brown silk, with overdress of crimson wrought
With gold. She had her hair dressed very
Hastily, fpufed at the side, drawn back from
the forehead, and low, while stiff at the ends
and fastened with ribbons. The sleeves of
the overlress wide and full, and reached
nearly 70, the floor. Her face was white with
powder, her lips vermilllon with paint, eye
brows not TO be seen. having been pulled out,
while the teeth were blackened to the utter
most. cia! ~
The text of the new lien law OF Georgia
has been Published. 1t is the most compre-
hensive of any OF the States, as Tar as we are
advised. 1t gives lien on the years crop by
special contract under the statute to all fac
tors, merchants, landlords, dealers In fertiliz-
ers, and to all persons furnishing money,
farming utensils, or other articles necessary
to make crops, and also to all those who sup
ply clothing, medicine or provisions, medical
service, tuition or school books. These liens
are declared: to be superior to all other liens
except those for taxes, laborers' wages and
those oflandlords. All liens must be by spe.
cisl contract In writing, and persons making
liens must give all Information respecting any
previous liens that may have been effected,
and first liens are to have precedence.
The Pail Mall Gazette describes the despe
rate effort made, 1t appears with no great re-
suit, to inspire the English provincial newspa
pers with just sense OF Mr.. Gladstone's
merits. A Liberal Press Agency was estab.
lished In London. The rural Journals were
supplied with letters purporung to Issue from
the agency, apd filed with dattery of the
Premier. Exhortations were regularly inter
polated, to support the government, and the
editors we're Kept we'll supplied with choice
leading articles in the same Interest. The
whole Kingdom was flooded with Gladstonian
articles, letters, anecdotes, and even psalmf
and hYmns-all the work OF the ministerial
ready writer's In London. This is called ''rig'
dng the press" Yet, in spite Of it all, Mr..
Gladstone has been compelled to resign.
"A Washington dispatch Gays: Hundreds
of letters are being received here daily, con-
tainipg inquiries as to the notifications of
the postal laws made at the last session.
Many people are Of the Impression that the