The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS Or tdG Dat.
a-Kaulbach, the celebrated German artist,
La engaged on a colossal picture of the Deluse.
The great Ferrara Marshes, In Northern
Italy, two hundred square miles In extent,
are to be drained.
Ice gathering along the Hudson Is said TO
be more successful this year than for fifteen
years past.
The notorious Jardn Mablle in Paris Is
threatened with destruction by President
Thlers.
"A Washington dispatch to the New YORK
HeraId says: ''The President will in lew
DAYS pardon twelve or fourteen Ku-Klux
prisoners confined at Albany. The favored
ones are those who appear to have been In
duced to Join the order without knowing the
real object of the Klan."
"A Boston paper says: "a party OF capital
lists at Hartford have bought Owen Munsone
grove of young oaks, and will soon employ
large force of men upon it, making the mate
rial into Charter Oak relics. Those who have
seen the wood pronounce 1t superior to any
that has yet been used for that purpose"
The wool markets of the world furnish
l,sls,sOO,oOO pounds. Asia, including the
Russian portion, furnishes 20, 100000 pounds;
Great Britain and Ireland. 26O, ,oo0,O 900 pounds;
Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium,
1888, 900, OOG pounds; the United States, l2o,-
10000 POUNDS; Australia, l30, 900 900 pounds,
and other countries IT'S, 800 pounds.
in the story Of the marriage ofthe Empe-
ror of China there is one painful episode offs
hunchback girl who was among the forty or
fifty first selected candidates. The Emperor
had dreamed that he would marry hunch-
back, and the medical men were consulted
with regard to the possibility of curing the de-
forinity. "After some vain efforts, 1t Is said
that farrier, very strong man, tried by
force alone to push in the hump, and that 1t
ended In the death ofthe poor girl"
The Golden Age (Theodore Tilton) a1irms
that Stokes achieved one triumph, videlicet:
..The naughty scouudrel, with his lavender
kids, received the humble apology of the
prosecuting officer whom he elegantly be-
rated, and the semi-contritlon of certain of
:he jurymen whom he magniacently despised.
It seems to US that the spectacle of district
attorney asking pardon of murderer for
procuring his conviction must have made the
bones of Matthew Hale scrspe against their
cof1n-lid al the self-degradation Of the law.
AS Stokes withheld his sweet-scented hand,
aud refused the solicited pardon, we hope the
district attorney will receive clemency from
no other quarter"
According to an account In the Australian
papers, the romantic story on which the Itch
borne case is founded will receive supple
ment from that part of the globe. 1t Is said
that widow In Western Australia claims to
have been the wife OF the genuine Tichborne,
who had married, under the name of Robert
Mills, another woman before he took her.
Though dlsslpated fellow, this Robert Mills
had shown evidences of good education,
such as having conversed huently in French,
&c. He used TO speak frequently about Lord
Bellew, aud his arm had the letters B. C. T.
marked on 1t. he related that he had suffered
shlpwreck on the way to Valparaiso In the
Bella, and spent three days on desert island.
This man, who now is buried by the side of
bis first wife. is also said to have mentioned
the name of Tom Castro as if he had formerly
borne it.
Foreign dry goods, as every one is aware,
are consumed in the United States In large
quantities; but for several months past their
consumption has been heavier thaa at any
previous period of corresponding length. The
last weeks imports at New York,.of which
returns are made, show that in single week,
foreIgu dry goods, valued at s3,435,699, were
brought into that port. This is the heaviest
weekly Importation ever made, and is an ad-
dtlion to the very large stock of dry goods
turned out by our American factories. The
goods coming In are for next spring and sum-
laer trade, and 1t will not be long before they
will find their way to market. This return
shows how enormously we buy of English,
French and German manufacturers. Indeed.
were 1t not for the American consumption a
considerable proportion of the foreign manu-
facturers would have to slacken their busi-
ness. The heavy Importation of dry goods
above noted was not oyer third of the total
Imports at New York last week, the whole
amount being stated at $ll, ,63O,26s.
The elevated railway in New York, which
is unquestionably the most practicable scheme
vet brought forward for rapid railway trans-
portstlonin the great Gotham. Is to be sup
ported 10y rows Of columns fifty feet apart,
standing on the sidewalks of the streets;
arches span the streets from one row of col
umns to the other. The roadway is doubly
ustaIned by hanging rods and by beams cross-