The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.


NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Oneida community have made $780,,
600 over expenses in the last two years.
Forty per cent. Of the suicides In Ne"
York last year were Germans, yet In their ma
tvs land suicide is very rare.
THE announcement is made that the
Western Union Telegraph Company is about
making reduction in telegraph tolls for mes
sages sent to certain Southern and South
western cities, amounting to rs per cent.
The printing of the bonds and currency
for the Japanese government In New York
has been completed, and Mr.. T. Losio, the ia
usnese commissioner, who has been superin-
tending the business, will shortly return to bis
own country.
Mr.. 3. W. Hughes. formerly editor Of the
Richmond, Va, Examiner, and eHcitizen Of
Virginia, 1t is stated, is spoken Of in certain
Republican circles OF Washington as The pos
ssh,iie successor Of Postmaster Central Cres-
wellin the cabinet.
"a dispatcl from Genoa says RsV. Edward
Bouverie Pusey, D. D., the well-known Eng-
hsh! divine, is dangerously III In that city. His
friends have been telegraphed for, and are
Fastening to his bedside. DR.. Pusey Is now
in his seventy-thlrd year.
Commodore Vanderbilt and the New YGrk
Central Railroad management are considering
the expediency of laying another set OF tracks
along the entire route. makinga grand four
track road from terminus to terminus. The
no in5onanAontlv 0f
passenger traffic.
"A Roman Catholic priest of Fort Wayne,
Indiana, has just received as present from
tho late Louis Napoleon magnificent gold
and silver chalice, to be used In the cathedral
In that city,. 1t is enamelled In four diher-
ent colors. and bears an appropriate inscrip-
ton in Latin. An autograph letter accom-
panied the glft. The priest was personal
friend Of the ex.Emperor in his early days.
"A bill poster named Michael Nixon came
ip collision with Charles Phyfe, truckman,
Ia Chatham Square, New York, Tuesday, and
after some words drew pistol and shot him
dead. Nixon was arrested, and on being
asked why he comLlltted the deed replied, II
lest pulled ont my pistol and shot him because
he said he would strike me with whifletree." !"
.Phyfe resided In Brooklyn. BE leaves wife
and four children. :as4'
The shoe and leather trade In Boston has
recovered wonderfully from the effects OF the
late fire. Not less than FIVE hundred and
Bisty-three firms In the shoe, leather and
findings trade were burned out In one night
and tLelr losses amounted to over eleven and
sqpartsr millions Of dollars. The trade has,
with great courage and availability Of re-
source, settled Itself In new quarters, and has
re-establshed its business with comparatively
few cases Of suspension or permanent diff
Guilty.. 7.,.i II. - i.saf Ia g..c.g..
The New York papers chronicle daily the
phases of feeling Through which Stokes, the
slayer of Fisk, is supposed to pass. They state
that on hearing the declhion of the Court Of
Appeals Affirming the judgment OF death
which had been passed upon Foster, the scar
hook murderer" Stokes seemed much de-
pressed. Ills counsel feel confident, how
oeves,lof suecessin their efforts for stay OF
proceedings and new trial. they profess
to have discovered new evidence In favor Of
Stokes. t-.
The Petersburg Index believes that Ylr-
ginia is not so badly of after all. 1t says:
''Money is more plentiful and at easier rates
year by year. New industries have been es-
tablished and are prospering, while those
already established have advanced far beyond
their former measure of profit. Not a town In
our limits but Ia fairly prosperous, and not q
county where fences have not been replaced,
houses built, stock Increased, farming uten-
sllsrenewed, fertilizers applied and increased
production over the dark years of '67, 1913 and
SO realized. ="
Cadet Samuel Gibbs, colored, son Of the
secretar.- OF the State of Florida, withdrew
from. West Point on Monday. Samuel Gibbs
was appointed a cadet In May, 1872, by a col
ored congressman from Florida, passed the
preliminary examination, land entered the
academy In June. A correspondent from
West Point tells the reason OF his withdrawal.
He says: 1.-THE January examination, which
closed about week ago, and which proved
death to the military aspirations OF Cadet
Gibbs, are represented to have been unusually
severe and searching, and about twenty OF The
backward young men were found which I'm.
plies that they were deficient In marks, and
failed TO pass an examination. In other words,
when a CADETS 'iound' he Is lost to the acad-
emy and returns to civil lIfe." The same cor
respondent states that while Gibbs was not
malrreatea, he, with Smith, the other colored
cadet, was completely ostracised socially by
the other cadets.
"A Washington telegram says: "The State
Department discaims having furnished tor