The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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NEWS OF THE DAK
The widow of Major General Robert An
derson lives In retirement near Florence.
Paul Curtis, the famous shipbuilder OF
East Boston, has just died, aged eeventy-two
years.
.-PresIdent Grant is growing feshy. "a
plague upon this care; It puffs man up Ike
bladder"
1t Is thought that ". q. Kidd, arrested ID
New York on the charge of laying fuse TO
lire his store in that city, Is insane.
An, energetic divorce lawyer of Chicago
has completed an arrangement with the
county clerk to have his professional card
printed Oh the backs Of marriage lcen es.
This is how the North British Mall puts 1t:
The MARQUIS and Marchioness of Butte have
hopes Of an heir. The interesting event, it
is arranged, will take place at Mount Stuart.
g-Miss Clara Remington, of st. Louis, has
Inherited an estate in Cuba, valued at half
million, from gentleman, recently dead, to
whom she was sfaanced.
The commissioner of public works in New
York reports, in the most direct and positive
manner, against the use of wooden pavements
In any form In that city.
The London Times says that not more
than two-thirds OF the usual average OF wheat
has been sown throughout England, and adds
that, judging from present appearances, the
area under wheat in 1873 will prove one OF the
shortest on record.
The third BON of the Khedive of Egypt,
Prince Hassan, will soon arrive In America to
make tour, but whether AFTER the style OF
Alexis is moi known. General Mott, of the
Egyptian army, a son of DR.. Valentine Mott,
Of New York, Is the young mans guardian.
AT recent operatic performance at Nice,
BrignolI was hissed from the stage while
singing In Lucia. To add to the confusion,
an over.sensitive royal parsonage who was
present took the kissing to herself, and left
the place In higA wrath. =.
"A Philadelphia manufacturer is preparing
q plan for column one thousand feet high,
to be constructed entirely of iron, In open
work, from the summit Of which the grounds
of the Centennial Exposition are to be illu-
minated by means OF Drummond light. II
adopted, 1t will be the ioftIest monument In
the world.
.t-It cannot be very reassnring to Governor
DIX, of New York, at the outset of his admin
istratlon, to find himself the subject of a con-
froversy as to his age, whether he is tar on In
the seventies or just past eighty, and to learn
that odds are offered among the betting fra.
ternity on his death, under the pressure OF
official dulles.
The New Haven, Conn.,, Journal says 1t ID
understood that the State attorney OF that
county designs to take no further action In
regard 70 Hrs. Lydia Sherman on account Of
her confession that she has poisoned eight
persons, but adds that the prosecuting oficer
of Fairfield County Is at liberty to put her on
trial for the confessed murder of her husband
Hurlburt, committed In that county.
"A Pennsylvania paper says: ''There ls one
thing which we wish to see attended to at
Harrisburg this winter, and that Is to have
the price OF legislators raised to some sort of
adecent figure. AS it now Is we have to
blush every time we talk with New York
man on the subject Of legislation. While
Legislators at Albany are worth from $1,000 to
$4,000 per head, the same article can be
bought here at IS to $50 each. 1000.
Among women, Mrs. Scott siddons has
an expression of face which is fascinating for
all pure-minded men, and they purchase
largely Of her picture. Photographers say no
woman ever appeared on the american stage
who made picture of such absolute perfec-
ton. Very few people ever care for tine pic
ture of Mrs. Scott Slddon's husband, ani the
only way he could float his face into the mar
ket'was by having it put oR the same card
with herself. It Is curious fact, too, that
there Ia no call for Mrs. Edwin Booths picture.
The charges made against Phelps, Dodge
d Co. by the New York customhouse officials
do not seem to surprise other houses In the
same line of trade. The laws, they saw. are
very strict and not exactly clear, or at all
events they are susceptible Of different mean.
ings, and Phelps, Dodge & Co. have merely
taken the liberty to constrne the law as much
to their advantage as possible, of course. A
few years ago this firm got their lead in free
of duty by having 1t cast into patterns and
invoced as ststuary. Works Of art come In
free, and the leaden busts of George Wash
ington, Napoleon Bonaparte, 60. which came
In for Phelps, Dodge & Go. would have filed
the Kitchen of every humble hero-worshlpper
from Maine to Texas. Importers do not con-
slider the matter of duties an ordinary transac-
ton, and they claim that it Is not 80 consider
ed In the commercial community. Nobody
no roo for O cnatanhouoo ooth and eaDtaina