The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-04-03
NEWS OF THE DAP.

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Both branches of the Alabama Legislature
have passed the bill to annex West Florida.
A theatre to cost fifteen million francs,
and to hold twenty thousand people, and take
thirty thousand francs at each representation,
Ia talked of In Paris.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
states that Mrs. Southworth has written forty.
TWO novels! Aud adds: Thousands OF her
readers have died, but she is still alive"
The attorney. general of Kansas has given
an opinion against the constitutionallty OF the
Law to promote the Improvement Of real es-
& tate by the exemption ofmortgages and other
securities from taxation"
, Felix Pyat, who took part In the COM
muue Of Paris, has been condemned TO death
BY the French courts 'par contumace." tis
highly probable that n. Pyat, as well as Gen.
eral Fremont, who has been condemned 10
five years. Imprisonment, will treat French
Jurisdiction and territory with "contumaciam,"
aud give both wide berth.
Mr.. John Hopkins, of B ,ltimore, has given
money and land to the aggregate value of four
million dollars. to found hospital In that
city. He has also provided In his will for the
establishment Of an educational university,
for which he has made bequest of from four
to ak millions dollars value. Mr.. Hopkinsis
q bachelor sevsnlY-sever years old, and the
richest man In Maryland.
The benevolent old uncle OF the stage has
actually turned rp in propria persona, In
Taunton, Mass. A house there was to be sold
at public vendue, and among the bidders was
an unknown man who seemed determined to
have ethe- house at any price, and got 1t. He
then called young man aside and told him
that he wonld give him the property. It was
thought to be q joke, but the young mans
VILE being summoned, 1t turned out that the
mysterious old gentleman was her uncle from
the West, and that the house was his present
to her. Then they all went into the house
and had q good time.
The original Raves are all alive, but the
youngest is more than siAty years old. When
: this troupe was last In the United States, two
young ladies were riding In car and wished
to open the window near them. They failed,
and one suggested asking the aid of an old
gentleman sitting on the seat next behind
them. "oh, no" responded the other, "don't
trouble tie old man. To their astonlshment
this aged Individual rose, stepped in the aisle,
made low bow to the young ladies', and then
turned somersault forward and then one
:, backward. After this he made another bow,
and then threw up the window. This was
Gabriel Rsvel, aged seventy.
1t would Asem by cable dispatches that
the French Assembly has virtually confirmed
the exile Of the Bonaparts family. Such was
the result Of an excited debate over Prince
Nspoleon's petition praying for the restora.
ton OF his rights as citizen and reEonstra-
ting against his illegal expulsion from France.
The debate on the subject is said TO have been
an excited one, and The order Of the day was
adopted by q vote of 347 10 2sl. Hitherto
President Theirs, though sometimes assum-
ing untenable positions, has been able, when
necessary, to retreat in good order, and
whether he has been right or wrong his ad.
versaries have been uniformly unlucky. 1t
remains to be seen whether the Punishment
OF the Bonapartes tsupposing there may be
any LEFT worthy the mark) Is not calculated to
strengthen their cause by exciting sympathy
on the ground of unnecessary persecution
The Prince Napoleon, from his antecedents,
would not seem to be man of dangerous
capacity, and If any of the rest of the family
have even his clsverness it has been carefully
concealed from the observation of the world
It ts not TO be supposed that the large minor
ity which voted against the prescription of the
Bcnapartes have any special fondness for that
dynasty or for imperialism, but may perhaps
regard the exclusion of citizens from their
OWE country as not exactly the reasonable
thing at this day OF the world, especially II
they have committed no offences against the
state, or have no such qualities as would rem
der them dangerous to 1t. There are mepy
who Will interpret such measure on the part
OF Thiers's government as a confession that
there is still strong party in France in favor
of the empire, though there may really be- NO
one to play the emperor.
The announcement of the return of Mr.
George n. Pullman from Europe, where be
has been for The purpose OF introducing the
Pullman palace cars into that country, Ia ac-
icompanied with the gratifying intelligence
that his mission has terminated successfully,
arrangements having been completed by which
the Midland Railway Company of England is
to nse them on their lines. The contract Is
substantially of the same kind as those enter
ed into with railway corporations here. The
Pullman Company agree to furnish as many
dinlng-room, drawiDs.room and sleeping-cars