The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-04-01


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80 NEWS OF THE DAP:
Lord de Grey and RIpon has been re-elect-
ed Grand Master of Free Masonry In England.
e-.BlLl Run" Russell Is to accompany the
Russian force 10 Khiva for the London Times
The Russian government Is said 10 have spe-
cisIly invited 'sThe Tnunderer" to send cor
respondent. 49,.
Two State elections will be held within a
week. ION Wednesday. Rhode Island will
choose new State officials, and on Monday,
April I, Ahe Connecticut election will take
place. ai-zs t.ll
by new French law the sale of liquor 10
drunkards or minors is punished by aue and
imprisonment, and the cost OF being drunk
and disorderly In public ranges from five
francs Tor first offence to 750 francs and dis
iranchlsenent for two years.
Mr.. e. N. Davis, planter OF Mississippi,
has utilized large portion Of hitherto un-
productive land by dividing 1t into dozen
small farms and importing twelve families
from North Carolina to cultivate them on
ahales.
Miss Susan B. Anthony has been voting
again. The Rochester Union ia authority for
the statement that she voted at the election
Ia that city recently, and that two other
.'strong.mlnded women" also cast ballots.
Nobody was bold enough to challenge them.
IA new machine for carving on stone ID at
tracing the attention OF builders and others
In New York. 1t Is known as the 'gear stone
ornamenting and surfacing machine It Is
claimed that it will do as much work In day
as one hundred men, and at q great saving In
cost,
Boston testifes to the s'good side" OF
human nature, in the fact that, since the big
blaze, many firms have been surprised at the
payment Of debts long since outlawed and for
gotten. An instance is told of the drm or
which Ex-Governor ClshIn Is the head, who
have Just received $4,000, the balance Of q
debt, with interest, which was settled In bank.
ruptcy many years ago.
1.-The 'ssalary Steal" 10 the namo the news
papers of the North and East have generally
given to the late increase Of the pay of Con-
gressmen. Among the Hew views given on
this subject by consceHce-stricken or sensi-
tive members of Congress is to make capital
out OF 1t at homs by paying the sum OF their
extra salary into the treasury OF the county In
which they reside. Not few have done this,
1t is said; aud they intend to keep their action
aprofound secret. The Albany Evening Jour-
nal announces that Congressman W. W.
Wheeler, of the seventeenth district of New
York, has refused his back pay. he drew the
money, invested 1t In United States bonds and
then cancelled the bonds.
The practice of leaving the gas lighted
in the city stores at night has been generally
adopted as the most effectual means Of foiling
burglars. Exposure to the passing glance OF
policeman or passenger Is supposed, and ln
the generally OF cases wisely supposed, 10 be
more ample protection than. the barred
doors and windows, and the utter darkness OF
old times. A case Of bur- slary recently occur.
red in one OF the most crowded parts OF New
York; however, which shows the fntillty of
plans presumably the most secure. There,
Hnder the full glare of the gas light, before
the magnificent building Of the Young Mems
Christian Association, while an entertainment
was going on and hacks we're crowded before
the door, q hack drove up unnoticed, of
course, among 30 many others, and q party OF
men aligbted; went boldly up 10 the entrance
of.oue OF the stores facing the street; entered
BY means either Of false keys or by quickly
picking the lock, aud In the full blaze of the
constantly burning gas selected what plunder
they desired, and drove OF. They were seen
by number of persons, but 80 confident and
at ease were they that everybody supposed
they had right to be there. and nobody at
tempted to disturb them.
The last scheme OF organized benevolence
is the New York Diet Kitchen. It's objects is
to cooperate with the dspensaries In taking
care of the sick poor. Any physlclan who has
visited among the poor will testify that many,
very many, die who might be saved If nour-
ishing food could be procured for them. In
the midst Of civilized community, where
thousands of dollars are dispensed each
month In charitlee, these people perish of
what we cculd almost call starvation. They
are succored whom their wants are made
known TO the benevolent, but this only han.
pens In Isolated cases. The physician does
what he can, but his means are not sufficient
to give food to his poorer patients as well as
medicine, for 1t Is usually the younger and
less wealthy of the profession who attend
these cases. Therefore this New York Diet
Kitchen has ample scope for lts exertIons,
and is blessed charity. The association will
establish In each of the dispensary districts
one or more .det Kitchens" +" from which, on
the requisition of the visiting physician,
properly prepared food will be Issued at such
times and in such quantities as may be specl-
fed.
Frederick Greer, Of New York, is one of
those literary Bohemlans who get up biogra-
phies OF those who are emulous OF immortality