The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

men IOE LUG OultSo CLoISo Aooo JSS>A w. ~>c-'S
thousand. Emigration from Hamburg during
the same time reachedhity-nine thousand.
Stanley was engaged to deliver one hun
dred lectures In this country for fifty thous-
and dollars. He delivered two In New YORK
In the very heyday of the excitement conse-
quent upon his arrival, and then the mana
ger was content to pay the fifteen thousand
dollars he had put up for forfeit and termi-
nate the engagement.
Too much wheat, 1t seems, was raised IN
California last summer. There are not enough
warehouses; there to hold the crop or ships
e.ough coming to San Francisco to carry
away the surplus. Many thousands of bushels
remain unthrashed In the fields, and although
freIghts are double the rates of the previous
wear, q hundred ships at least could De nlleo
M with the wheat now stored In San Fran
cisco. Truly the Golden Horn Is horn OF
plenty.
The heaviest corn crop ever grown IN the
United States was that of last year, which the
Agricultural Report states at the huge total OF
lloo.o0O, 900 bushels. Not only is this the
largest crop, but 1t is said to be corn OF better
quality and Of greater Intrinsic value than
usual. Iowa was the banner corn-growing
State, her average being nearly forty-one
bushels an acre. Unfortunately for some OF
those who would like 10 have the Iowa corn,
1t takes the price Of four bushels OF said corn
70 get ons bushel to the Atlantic markets.
This ia one of the reasons why some people
are. demanding cheaper transportation be-
tween the West and the East.
-Harper's Bazaar says: "Leaders OF fashion
are again taking decided stand in favor OF
short skirts for street suits. Whether the
fresh protest against the sloveniness OF long
skirts ia merely return of good sense, or is
caused BY the fact that the newest Parlslan cos
tunes are short enough to escape the ground,
we cannot tell; but the effect ts good, and we
cpe glad to chronicle 1t. A leading modlste
sals her most fashionable customers are or
deringtheir costumes made shorter; or else,
If the skirts are made long enough to train
SLIGHTLY. .wbac used in the house or carriage,
they are Invariably provided with numerous
loops and buttons to shorten them when worn
In the street."
The African Repository for January re-
ters to the l5O select colored people, in fami-
lies, from Georgia, who sailed ior Liberia
from New York November 20, under the aus
pices OF the Colonization Society, and says
that the society has sent a similar expedition
annually since 1920, aud some years several
averaging $50 per annum for afty-four years,
and about the average since 1866. 1t has now
more applicants than ever, and desires to Gre
ale q Christian Republic in Africa. The
country has %, 800 square miles, and can sus-
tain 15 00o, 900 population, but has only 6O0,0 600.
Itfhas college, schools, churches, &C., and
Is exploring the Interior. The gross receipts
of the gociety have been 81, 7s2, ,04s, emlgrants
l4ss25, and Africa needs more whom this
country can afford to send. Money is needed
to aid them.
In spite of the strict regulations concern
ing the admittance of foreigners to the body
of King Kamebaneha, as 1t lay in state for the
frst few bours after his decease, good many
Yankee journalists lodged In by various de-
vices, and have preserved the details of the
occasion. All the officers OF the kingdom,
civil and military, were in attendance, and
thropgs ofnatives besides. The body OF the
deceased monarch lay upon high dais, In q
uniform that might have been modelled after
sockatoos and other birds Of brilliant plu-
msse. 1t consisted of red pantaloons and
black coat. The hands were encased In white
kid gloves, and three orders adorned the
breast. The famous yellow feather cloaks, the
peculiar possession aad distinctive emblem
OF royalty, were thrown over the bier.
These cloaks are made by fastening yellow
feathers Rpon network OF twlne The feath-
ers are procured from bird that bears only
one under each wing. The mantles are large
enough to cover man and fall in folds around
him, and as they give forth fine golden
color and fall in graceful shape their appear
snce is very beautiful. The Kings sister,
Ruth, last of the family of the Kamehamehas,
eat by her dead brothers. side, the pictHre of
grief, while on the veranda OF a house adjoin-
iHg the Kings residence was woman, who
had long exercised bouodess control over
the deceased, chanting the wall for the dead.
She had been known as his ''sorceress," and
her grief was as much TOR herself as him, for
the same messenger that took his life destroy
ed her lease of power.
For city that can be merry In the midst
of misrule, and exchange doubts and 1ears for
smiles and lighthesrtedness when darkest