The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAP:
"A new orchestra with a thousand per-
formers ls to be started in London.
Bass, the beer brewer man, Is to be maoe
q abaronet. THIS will be bitter draught lot
some Of the peers.
according to the Milan Gazetta Musicale,
fifsvtoue new operas were produced IN ltaiy
last wear. Ofthess forty-nine were more OF
less failures.
Paul de Cassagnac insists that Napoleon
III was poor at the time Of his death, poorer
than Henry Y. His money for living pur.
poses, Paul says, was derived from Eugenie's
estates in Spain. :.
oo-Mrs. Carl Formes, vile OF the singer, Is
now a lecturer. This lady was Laura Rausch,
daughter OF a notary of Cologne, and the hrst
female graduate Of To medical college at
Vienna.
One of the results Of the late storms In
Europe was that great numbers OF saroines
were driven near to the Cornish coast. Fisn-
erman from st. Ives and Port Isaac caught
them with seines to the number Of fifty thou
sand and sixty thousand to the boat.
q The New York Freemsn's Journal says
good word for the italian immigrants who
have lately landed In New York, declaring
them to be poor, but aonest and hard working
people, who have been compelled to nee from
the grinding and oppressive taxation OF Inc
Piedmontese Government.
--philadelphia editors are not very poor IN
pocket, for 1t Is said that George W. Childs OF
the Ledger is worth s., 000, 900; VIM. n. Swain
of the Record, s.. 2.O00, 900; John W. Foroey OF
the Press, 50. .ooO, 900; Morton McMlchsel OF the
North American, $3.50 900; John q. Taggart OF
the Times, $4,000; William W. Harding OF the
Inouier, $500, 900; e. W. G. Greene OF Inc
Transcript, $50, 600; E. J. Hlncken Of the Dis
match. sl00 900; Dennis F. Dealy OF the Her
aid. s75. 600; VIM. Meeser of the Mercury, soo,-
600: Frank Wells OF the Telegraph, $76,Ooo.
The American Colonization Society, at
recent meeting In Washington, appointed
committee to urge the government to estao'
lish q line OF steamers between the Onited
States and Liberia. At present the only reg
ular steam line connectlng Western Africa
with civilization Is weekly line between
England and Liberia, and as consequence
all the steamship trade of the western coast
goes to England. There are at present three
thousand applicants for passage to Liberia,
and she next voyage OF the Colonization 80
ciety's vessel will be, made May lst, when
three hundred passengers will te taken.
With a steadlness and dlrectness that
challenge notice, the "horse influenza" has
marched westward to the Rocky Mountains,
and leaping over these has crossed the "Great
Interior Basinn and desert, and, still pursuing
its westerly course, 1t has bounded across the
lofty .ssierras, and was last announced from
Oakland, whleh is In sight of the Pacific
Ocean. It has thus passed, in measured
tread, across the continent. This is phe-
nomsnon unexampled except by the march
Of the cholera, and even the remarkable pro-
gresses made by this latter dlseaIo do not sp-
proach the '"horse Influenza" In dlrectness of
Course or steadlness Of march. r.
"A very curious suit, arising oat OF one Of
the incidents of the late war between France
and Germany, will shortly be brought to trial
in the French courts. During the war, 8 Ger
man soldier was shot nesr the village Of Vau1,
whereupon Prussan column swept down on
the place aud captured twenty eight peasants
who had fed for refuge to church. The
Pruaaisns, determined to have revenge for
the death of the slain soldier, announced to
the frightened captives that three of their
number would be shot, leaving the selection
of the victims to the prisoners. The Prus.
SLAMS proposed that they should draw lots, and
kindly offered them the use OF soldiers he'll
met for the purpose OF an urn, but the offer
was. declined. Finally, after they had been
shut 12 in the church for seventy-avs hours,
they reported that the three required victims
had been selected by majority, though no
intormationis given as to how the selection
was made. The unfortunate men, who found
themselves ia minority, were led out and
shot, and now their widows demand damages
from sBe twenty-five survivors, on the GROUND
that the three should have been selected by
lot.
"A story, already hintsd at, was ELECTED In
the Brooklyn courts lately, the details of
which are well calculated to establish the
romantic element In real life. woman by
the name of Spicer sought to recover SAL 900.
belyalue of the estate of the man whom she
claimed TO bs her deceased husband. The de-
fendant in the case was brother OF the hus-
hand. supposed to be dead, who denied that
the plaintiff was ever married to the man
whose property she claimed. The woman, how
ever, stoutly maintained that she had been,
and gave the circumstances which led to their