The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-07
NEWS OF IHR DAP.

NEWS O6 1dE NAxs
Death is still the penalty for arson Id
Virginia and Maryland. g.
The East lrdia cotton crop Is one-dfth
larger this year than last.
The name 'sgrass widow" is of French
origin 1t is derived from the French 'grace"
and originally meant a widow by courtesy.
Cincinnati couples can 60 to the Rev. Mr..
Yocum for matrlmony, and to Lawyer Sever
ancefor divorce. ~ go
Professor Agassiz expects Lake Erie TO
dry. up in about twenty thousand years.
Cutie likely ne may himself be pretty well
desiccated sooner. 49,. ,sr. b. ...
Cincinnati has elghty-eight Journalists, OF
WHOM sixteen are natives Of the United States,
sIxty are Germans, and the rest belong to
other natioDalities. e,... ...a.....
The original manuscript Of Burns's cele-
brated song, s'scots, wha hae VII Wallace
bled, ,nia said to bs IL The possession OF sena-
torSumner. SET e lr ~
IA new line of steamers Ia to be estas-
lIshed to sail out of New Orleans, to touch at
Belize, Honduras, rup along the coast OF Mos
quito, touch at Greytown, Nicaragua, and at
-rurr otmou in Costa Rica.
ARGENT calculation relative to the prin-
otpal European languages shows that English
IA spoken by ninety millions Of persons, Ger
manly ffty.fve millions, Spanish by ffty-fve
millions, and French by forty-fve millions.
Fortunately for Prince Bismarck, his
membership Of one hundred and forty-one
different German societies is an honorary dis
tinction not involving the payment OF yearly
dues. - fanu. ,fii.3s,rr sssf !-s,..i ... ....
IA long Autograph letter OF George Wash
tnyton TO the Rev. Mr. Boucher, of Annapolis,
respecting the education OF his stepson, real
ICED twenty-five pounds at recent auction
sale In London.
-In Naples, the other day, Captain Cor
don. AN English officer, fred revolver at
young lady on the promenade OF the Chlsja,
aud then shot himself. Both died immedi.
ately. j: ,aaa3Gza ~ -
LONDON, correspondents say there is
split among the English hepuDiica"s, and 1t is
possible that they may, ere long, % divided
Into two distinct eamps-the Dnksites and the
Bradiaughites. - '.e -, - ~
An Irish correspondent Of the New York
Evening Post says truly that "when man
does well he Is called an Engllshman, (Mr.
Ieokie and Mr. Tyndall are called English
men; though really Irish, the moment he gets
intoa scrape and acts wIckeely, he is called
1rish.pp =. s:1a !! III .4-,.-. -. !,
An actress In Memphis, Tenn, has sued
for a divorce. on account of the jealous and
iilsagreeable nature OF her husband. The
husband, who is also % member of the same
theatrical company, thought his wife was too
realistic" when playing lovers parts, and
hence his Jealousy. r.. g;sf., ..leiI I'M.
G-LThers1 is something, new IN railroad
brakes. The London Times describes one
used In Bavaria, which has Important quail
r1Ies. THE engine driver and the guards are
provided With q belErope, which, on being
pulled, ..apples the brakes to the engine and
tsnder. and front and rear break-vans and
carriages, stopping the train In about eigh-
teen to twenty seconds, without sny unpless-
ant Jerk, and even without the driver shutting
of steam" - 8 q . Il, q.
THE famous silver statue, "Peace," pre-
ssnted to Napoleon upon the ratification OF
the treaty of Amlens-whieh statue stood In
the palace or the Tulleries, and gave Its name
10 the saloon in whIcn It was placed, Sale de
la Psix-has been placed In Marie de Medicis
Z bed chamber In the Louvre. 1t was at one
: time believed to hsve psrished In the oonfia-
grafton of the isTuilerIes. The next report
was that Courbet, the artist, had hid 1t. He
ceftainly had 1t removed from the Tulleries'
and he Indicated Its hiding place to the, gov
eminent. - e.qvc - .--.-az-.a- r:.c-
:; An Improvement In telegraphy isreport-
ed, whereby it is claimed that messages can
be transmitted with infinitely greater rapidly
than under the existing system. The words
to bs dispatched are embossed In the usual
hieroglyphics upon q thin strip of copper by
means OF registering machine, and the metal
strip thus. prepared is passed through an
Z electrical apparatus 80 arranged that steel
point touches only the raised dots and dashes
as they, move under it., thus making and
breaking the. electric circuit automatically.
: In this way kilograms have been sent from
= Louisville TO- Memphis At the rate of seventy
r1iye words q minute-as fast as the human ear
. can recognize their reeeipt-ard it said that
this speed may be greatly exceeded If method
can be devised for the automatic registratlon
of messages at the further end of the line.
. The one thousand seven hundred and
eighty Immigrants who arrived IN New YoFk
Wadnes6ay. included another batch Of six