The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-27
NEWS OF THE DAP.


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NEWS OF TIE DAE.
1T IL reported that son OF Joe Smith ID
about to start an antl-polygamy Mormon es-
tsblshment In Ohio.
Printers In Switzerland think they have
sstatn situation when they receive s. 60 per
week.
The Sultan, 1t Is said, intends to abolish
the Office of grand vizier, and 10 inaugurate
the system of ministerial responsibility.
The sale OF copies of the New York Daily
News containing the account of Fosters exc.
cution Is said to have reached 2so,00o.,
IT Is reported that when Miss Nellie
Grant was In London Dlsraell was asked
whether be thought the American princess
pretty. "I can't say" replied the author OF
.Lothair," "for have only seen her once;
she was then sitting between General
Schenck's two daughters, and thought she
had some indirect claims to good looks"
There is soon to be started In London
political club, which is 10 be composed OF
ladies' as well as gentlemen. 1t Is to be of
decidedly Republican turn, and the ladies are
taking up the project with quite as much in-
serest, If not more, than the gentlemen, quite
outdoIng them In enthusiasm. Among the
names known To American readers are those
ofMr. and Mrs. Moncure D. Conway.
San Francisco is said to be the only sea-
port of The United States employing more
American than torelgn tonnage. In 1872
American vessels brought into San Francisco
goods valued at nearly thirty millions of dol
lara, whilst foreign vessels brought less than
ten millions. The grain exports last year
EMPLOYED vessels with l24,s ss3 American tou-
nage and 10, ,440 foreign tonnage-these grain
cargoes nearly all being bound to ports on
the Atlantic.
A Washington letter, alluding to report
that the Hon. F. A. Sawyer Is orother-in-
law of the new secretary OF the treasury, Mr..
Richardson, says: "The secretary and as
sistant secretary are not related. They are
not even brolhers-ir.law; for though one has
mastered the intrieacies Of the noble profes,
sion, and risen TO The altitude OF Judge OF
probate, the other has been content, before
his political star began 20 ascend IN the re-
pions of the Palmetto, to follow that other
honorable and worthy profession Of an In
structor of youth. They are both from the
same county, believe, In Massachusetts, and
there is some very distant family relation
ship, but that is ALL"
When Paris was invested, over seventy
applications were made to the government to
employ pigeons to communicate with friends
beyond the Investing lines. These were at
hrst rejected with ridlcule. but as the Siege
went on, and bsllooning became fashionable,
and even members Of The government BE-
came accustomed to high and airy voyaslng,
the project OF pigeon expresses met with
more favor. The little messengers did very
well, and out Of three hundred and sixty
three sent, seventy-lhree re-entered Paris.
Two scsrrier-pigeons made four return voy.
ages, and are now the especial pets ct Ma.
dame Thiers and Jules Favre. Most won
derful of all, the one hundred and fifteen
Thousand dispatches carried, after being pho
geographically reduced, weighed, as total,
only the thirtleth part of an ounce.
s.L.LThe burgomaster of Strasbourg recently
sddresseds petition to Bismarck, In the name
Of the municipal council, requesting that the
French tonguss might be: regularly taught In
the elementary schools Of the city, together
with the German The chief ground of the
necessity for maintaining general knowl-
edge Of French among the Strasbourgers is
tie commercial intercourse with France which
The situation of the place entails. The Chan
celior has answered the petitioners under bis
own. hand with very dec!ded negative,
debating that while he does justice to
the motives Of their proposal, he cannot
regard such q measure as the use Of TWO
tongues as applicable to the work of ele-
1ueptary teaching. 1t Ia much better, In
his view, Prince Bismarck goes on to state,
that the children should be thoroughly taught
IN Zone, for it would be out of all e1pe-
rience that they could possibly learn both 30
completely es TO be to their own advantage.
,"so far as is known" the Prince sarcsssically
concludes, ION the further side Of the frontier
the German tongue is never taught In the
French schools, from which 1t may be gath
cred that the supposed necessity OF mu-
tual knowledge of the tongues Of nelghbor-
ing States has not been discovered in those
schools"
The scenes around the office of the Bulls
Head Bank, In New York, when the news of
the suspension became nolsed abroad, are
described as anything but harmonious. The
bank vas one of the Oldest In the State, and
.uossessed such fne reputation for the safely
ct its deposits that the wealthy and the poor
alike had entrusted their money TO It's care.
Capitalists and workingmen and women were
.ciafno. ous to learn their fate on the morning
'ofa the suspension, aud they crowded about
1.-the Office In state of the widest excitement.
.'Apoor and trembling man came rushing up
with crumpled bank check In hin hand, aud
nveted, by his frantic actions, the gaze of
al those present. He wrung bis hands and