The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-13
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

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's5ss- NEWS OF TIE DAY:
"A new poem by Tennyson is announced.
Tue daughter OF the Khedive of Egypt Is
to have $50, 900 outfit from Paris.
"A dispatch from Manchester announces
that several cotton splnners in that city have
failed.
y-AmputstIon at the hip is considered one OF
the most difficult operationsiu surgery. Three
successful cases, however, we're reported last
year, one In Detroit, Mich, and two IN Eng
land.
The annual sale by auction Of the peWs IN
Rev. Henry Ward Beeoher's church, Brooklyn,
took place recently. The. total amount OF
rent and premium was sSo,2so. an Increase
of $3.50 from last year.
The Shah of Persia wishes to make his Eu-
ropsan trip without ostentstion, 80 he Will
take with him only three princes of the olooa'
three ministers of the frst class, seven OF the
second, and thirty attendants.
Henry O. Bowen, Of the Brooklyn Union,
has begun libel suits against the New YORK
Tribune Association and Whitelaw Reid, T. N.
Rocker, George Ripley, Patrick O'Rourke and
JohnyHsy, individually, for reprintlng from
the Brooklyn Eagle an article charging him
(Bowen) with being the author OF the Wood
hull scandal against Beecher and others.
-Alsdy In San, Francisco recently opened a
letter addressed to her husband, and found
therein clrcula. from bogus currency arm,
Offering TO send q large amount Of counterfeit
bills In exchange for small amount OF gen.
uine coin. The lady wac taken by the scheme,
sent the money, and the next day was called
upon by one of the swfndiers, who, very
much to her surprise and horror, she found to
be g United States detective.
The PailMsll Gazette says that proposal
has been put forth to recognize publicly and
solemnly the marriage of King Victor Emanuel
with the Countess MHasiosi, In which case
that lady would become Queen OF Italy. Sig
norss Ratazzl and Menabres are favorable to
the proposal but 1t is opposed BY Prince Hum
bert and the present Government. III should
be carried out, a change of ministers would ne
doubtoccur. r. g
EXTRACTS from the yearly circulars Of
prominent Liverpool cotton brokers say the
cotton trade was not 30 good In 1872 as In the
previous year, and the rates obtained were
not even 'remuneratlve. The spinners and
manufacturers commence the new year well
under contract. Business for the present will
be mainly Influenced by the quantity, of I'M
ports, and the present scarcity Is likely to be
tidsdi over without. any enhancement Of
prioes. ~ 10 . - o
-L1dies recently returned from Paris say
that the latest style Of ornament to wear with
anacklsce, Is one Of the eiols fashioned mlnla-
tures. painted onivory aad set'in the oid-fash~
toned red: gold. Those. who possess no such
heirlooms are having them mpainted and set In
as exact imitation as possible Of the old
styla. These miniatures are quite large, but
are very handsome and expensive, and fashion
makes them the proper and suitable thing to
depend from ribbon or necklace.
L@1hss eompositors. Of the N. 7. Tribune, at
asmeeting last week, approved Of the propo-
sltion that the printing offices in the United
States give ono or more pounds Of old type
each for the purpose OF making statue of
Horace Greedy, to be erected over his grave In
Greenwood, aud ask the compositors OF the
country to give the. proceeds Of one thousand
ems, to be set up on February Sd, the sixty
second anniversary OF the birth OF Nj. Greeley,
the money to be forwarded to the president OF
the New York typographical Union, No. 6, at
% Duanes street, Of which union Mr.. Greedy
was the hrst president
The Courier des Etats Unis, French
paper published In New York, in commenting
on the death of Nspoleon Ill, declares that at
the French establishments where its CON-
patriots congregate in that city, the news was
received 'sElth the came bitter smile indlcs
tive of satisfaction and disdsin.' The Courier
thinks the announcement was received with
the same Indifference In France, and adds:
Napoleon III died at Sedan, two years ago;
the phantom of Chiselhurst did not exist for
France, and 1t was but an Illusion cherished
by handful of ambitious persons, without
consistence and without echo, that there still
e1isted-almost nominally-a Bonspartlst
party" ...,r...--
The collector Of the port OF New York re-
celved Information the latter part Of last
month that the great metal firm OF Phelps,
Dodge & Co had defrauded the government
to the extent of one million dollars by means
Of fEa.seinvoices of imported goods. The Gus
tomhouse regulations are that invoices sworn
to by the importers must accompany the mer-
chandise before 1t can pass from the control
OF the officers. This the firm In question had
done, but, as Is alleged, were accustomed 10
nave another set Of invoices sent by mall,