The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-04
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The Miss Rothschild who was married tne
other day has only slo,o00,ooo. Beauty anu
booty. ...
* dispatch from Key West, Florida, states
that there is an unknown steamer ashore
near Carey's Fort lights. Assistance has been
sent. :,
Fifteen German immigrants passed
through Lypchburg, Virginia, on Monday, oy
the Orange Road, en- route for BONE, Georgia,
In which locality they expect to engage IN
farming operatiops.--
Bodies Of three of the working girls and Of
three fremen crushed by the fall Of the walls
of the fire In Boston Thursday, have been
taken from the ruins. The bodies Of one other
zirl and several other nremen are yet In the
ruins.
The two Augurs. Dlsrallus-I always
wonder, brother, how we chief auguro can
meet on the opening day without Laughing.
Gladstonius-"Iha have never felt any temptation
70 the hilarity you suggest, brother; ana Inc
remark savors OF hippancy."-Punch.
-Dr. J. 8. Barnwell, Of Beaufort, 8. G., ID
now visiting the Northern c!tles for the pur-
Dose of bringing the facts OF the advantages
OF sericulture before the manufacturers inter-
ested In silk, with q View OF establishing
niIkworm nursery at Beaufort. In colonial
times this was business of great profit IN
Soush Carolina.
general Colstcn, formerly Of the Confede.
rate army and OF present In charge OF MILL
tary school In Wilmington, has been offered
by the Khedive OF Egypt charge OF the Military
Academy a. Cairo, and, besides, a place on
the staff of General Stone, an old Federal
soldier who Is serving in that country, the
two positions being worth about four thous-
and dollars in gold.
The Pail Mall Gazette recently contained
queer advertisement Of an auction sale which
is soon to take place In the vicinity OF Lon
don. It announces that the church living,
known as the Parish Of Falmouth, will be
knocked down to the highest bidder when the
sucuoneer takes the stand. The venerable
divine who now exercises authority over the
souls of the parish, is said 10 be seventy-one
years Of age, and it is therefore obvious that
his claim Ia but short.ived at best, and that
the purchaser will have to wait but q trief
period before inheritipg all the emolu-
ments of the living. Eight thousand
seven hundred and fifty dollars is stat
ed as last years income of the rectory, and
the rewards of pastoral fidelity are rapidly
increasing by the combination of statute law
and commercial growth. Certain acts of Par
lament in the reign OF Charles II. still In
force, endow this rectory with a rate Of six.
teen pence In the pound on the property Of
The town, whose rapid growth thus swells
the receipts Of the pastor. Besides this gene
ralrate, the living is entitled to two sbiilIngs
nndBix pence for, every foreign vessel and
two shlllIngs for every coaster entering Fal-
mouth port, from which source alone the
yearly revenue Is more than twenty-five hun
dred dollars, and the number OF arrivals is
froreaslng nearly ten per cent. per annum.
+2-Whatever may have been the result OF
Tie recent Hassler expedition, In which Pro-
iessor Agasslz embarked In scientific search
Of unknown denizens of the "vasty Deep" 1t
is yet certain that, from this voyage and
others, contributions have lowed In from
eyerg source, and have given Harvard Col
lsge the finest and most complete museum of
comparative zoology In the world, In the
specially for. which Professor Agsssiz is
kmous. The collection of ashes Is greater
sasn that In the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris,
and that In the British Museum put together.
Professor Agasslz hiss devoted to 1t his life,
and It will be his monument after death.
Tne museum is rioh, however, in other de-
partments besides that OF ichthyology. It
now wants aid from the State of Massachu.
astts to the extent Of million Of dollars for
Q larger building, wherein may be displayed
20 advantage the two leading ideas Of Profes-
cor Agasslz to illustrate the history Of Gre
alton from the earliest times, and to exhibit
oil the animals peculiar to the different parts
ofthe world 10 such manner as to impress
the observer with their actual association In
nature, so that the student Of natural history
shall be able to make himself familiar, In one
part of the building, with the latest result of
scientific research In working out the system
Of thoughts which bind together the whole
animal kingdom as unit; while in the other
part Of the building the geographical distr;bu.
ton of animals upon the whole surface Of the
earth, and their various combinations and as
socis,ioDs In different continents, will be made
apparent
The ship Pegasus, 1l2o tons register, OF
Maitland, N. g., which sailed from Bo-ton
few weeks ago with cargo Of ice for Hong
tlopg, has proved to be very profitable ves-
eal. She was launched Ia 1857. Her drst