The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-22
NEWS OF TILE DAY.

Nilsson receives twelve hundred and forty
dollars for every performance at st. Peters,
burg.
Anew trial has been granted In murder
case In Sacramento, on the ground that
juryman slept during the address OF the
prisoners counsel.
"A man committed suicide In Troy. N. T.,
recently, by plunging his head through on
sir-hole In the Ice on the canal, sn6 maiD-
tanned that position until he was dead.
"A life Insurance company has been or
ganized BY some OF The wealthy ladies c. New
York, to which sufficient amount OF capital
has been subscribed 10 put 1t into operation.
An old umbrella displayed in show Win
dow in the Bowery, In New York, is said to
have belonged to Louis Napoleon during ais
exile In this country. ry.,,es.-.-.-
Mics Matte B. Dunlop, aged twenty-five
years, committed suicide In Petersburg, Va,
on Sunday last. She was a daughter OF the
late James DaDIop, of that city, and moved In
the best elrcles OF society. The particulars OF
the sad event are suppressed.
IA Washington dispatch says: "The gov
ernment is still pardoning prisoners at Albany
convicted of Ku-Klux crimes, and unless
there Is positively reasonable opposition from
residents In the localities where the prisoners
lived, all illundoubtedy be pardoned before
very long. Such seems to be the disposition
or the government"
1t is said that, In spite OF certain news
pape.=articles propbesying higher rents in
New York, the present ratos Rill be main
talned. There Is no scarcity of either dwell
ing-houses or stores, and neither the business
wants OF the city nor the individual demand
is so urgent as to justify landlords In asking
higher terms j
In the expiring hours OF Its last session
the Indiana Legislature administered the
deathblow to the divorce system, which, for
twenty years, has been q disgrace to the
Hoosier State. By the terms of the new law q
bona 1de residence Of two years In the Slate
Is required of the applicant for divorce, and
causes of divorce arising out OF the State will
not be considered unless they were good
ground for divorce under The laws of the
place where they occurred.
MI. Anson @. Phelps Dodge, said to be a
con Of Mr. william E. Dodge, OF New York,
for some time past q resident of Toronto, Can
ada,Srenounced bis citizenship in 1872, and,
after becoming q subject OF the Queen, was
elected to the Dominion Parliament as repre-
sentative of New. York, tn which county To-
ronto Ia situated. In one OF Mr.. Dodge's
recens speeches. he represented that pretty
nearly everybody in New York was in favor of
constitutional monarchy and Queen Victoria,
and wanted to be annexed to Canada. Mr..
Dodge Is evidently rare acquisition to the
Dominion Parliament.
The Austrian Emperor could have hardly
known what he was doing when he offered
his prize Of 81, 900 for the best newspaper ar
tlcle OF less than column OH Austria. Had
he confined the llsts 10 the Continent of Eu-
rope, or even TO the civilized world with
America excepted, the committee of award
might have got ready to make report some
time within the present century; but he
thoughtlsssly made his offer universal, and
the work OF preparation that ls now going on
In the schools, colleges, newspaper offices and
every spot in the couEtry where aspiring
young and old America oongregate, gladdens
the hearts of stationers as 1t must appal the
Austrian Emperor. There is no expressed
limit to the competition Of each individual,
and an easy writer can cook Austria in
dozen different way, to catch the uncertain
fancF. Of those who are to pass upon the merits
of his productions.
AT the age OF sixty. Eve Mme Marie Tag
lloni, probably tho greatest danseuse that
ever lived, returns to Lendon for the purpose
of.giving dancing lessons. Losing much Of
her property by the, late French war, and de.
sirous Of giving her son, who Is French Off
cer, as large fortune as she gave her daugh-
ter on marrying, kind hearted Nine. Tagllonl
cheertully goes to work, after years Of peace
ful lsecluslon on the banks of the Como. In
perfect health, active as many woman OF
forty, with an exceedingly pretty foot, the
great ex.danseuse goes through the modern
dances with grace unknown to the drawing
room. 'sAh don't know where the man.
ners are nowadays" she exclaims with sigh.
MNobody Knows how to bow. But the Amerl-
aryoung ladies please me best" she adds,
"they have great facility in learning and are
acknowledgement" iaTl~ -
The New York Express, In commenting
on the trades union agitstion In that city,
states that from careful Inquiry the build
iugs designed or In progress will not be de-
creased! by the contemplated strike more
than twenty-five per cent. 1t also states that
the master tradesmen are operating with half