The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

condemned one hundred Thousand bricks In
one iof, declaring them unfit for use.
Amos Cummings, managing editor OF the
New York Sun, is'snferlng from consumption,
and has gone to Florida.
Niles Edmonia Lewis, the colored :Ameri-
can sculptress In Rome, is going to be mar
ried.
The Emperor Francis Joseph, OF Austria,
has accepted the protectorate of the Hospice,
near Jerusalem, to be founded by the Maltese
Knights.
General Richard Taylor, ssn'of ex-Presi'
dent Zachary Taylor, sailed in the steamer
Tybee last week for Samana Bay. he has
commission to aid In the organization of the
government.
Miss Clara Deyine, native of Savannah,
Ga, and Miss Alice Furlopg aud Miss Mary
Fenelon, of New Orleans, have entered the
Convent of Presentation, in Rome, aud taken
the veil.
The Legislature of Kentucky ,enacted
that married women may receive directly
from their employers the wages or compensa-
ton for labor performed by them, and that
the money 30 earned shall be free from the
debts and control OF their husbands.
The result Of the preliminary Inquiry Into
the case of Marshal Bazsine, against whom
charges were brought, affecting his loyalty 10
France, for having surrendered Metz to the
Germans, is practically concession In his
favor. He Is no longer Isolated IN bis Paris
residence, his friends are allowed to visit him,
and no action has been taken for formal
trial of, his case.
The Philadelphia Le6ger's New York cor
respondent says: 'The Washington rumor
intlmatipg that formidable flibusterlng e1-
pedi,ion is afoot, with view of establishing
new State on the Mexican side OF the Bio
Grande, is not all fancy work, as your CORES
pondent happens to know. New York ID to
furnish the money, the Southern and Western
cities the men, while the nominal Leadership
will be prominent Mexican military govern
or, acting under and by the advice OF we'll
known ex-C Confederate officer.
"A number of returned emigrants have
arrived In New York from Brazil. They
found. according to their statements, that
they had been deluded into settling in Brazil
by assertions that were totally false. Some
thing of the same kind recently occurred In
England, where charges we're preferred
against the Brazilian agents at Liverpool,
when the emlgrsnts again reached that port.
Upon the whole, 1t may be stated as highly
probable that Brazil ls not favorable coun-
try forEnglist or American colonists.
gE1!King Amadeus gives as one Of his rss-
sons for abdlcating the throne of Spain thai
theinsurance companies asked enormous pre-.
miuns on bis lie and that of his Queen. This
IL, probably the first time In history that the
question of insurance has had an importan:
influence on the destiny ota nation. TO q
tlmid monarch 8 high premium must cause
about the same uneasiness as the sangune
ghosts which disturbed the sleep OF Iiddle-
Age tyranls. It is delicate but busIness.like
intimation that the people don't iced his
services. .......
Brigham Young is now commencing TO
realize something tangible from hls matr,mo-
NAL Investments. The anniversaries of ihose
marriages are commencing to occur with as
tonishing frequency. First, there is silver
wedding, then q wooden wedding, and a tin
wedding, and then another silver wedding,
and. adjoining, glass wedding, and then q
tin wedding again, and next night still
another silver wedding, and then a linen
wedding, followed by wooden wedding,
which is succeeded by q glass wedding, and
so on through the chapter. The effect on the
Mormons-the rank and file of the faithful
an well be imagined.
olThere are seventy.four United States sen.
ators Nine were born in Pennsylvania, slx
In New York, elk in Virginia, five In Maine,
four In Massachusetts,, four in Ohio, five In
Vermont, three In New Jersey, two each In
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, North
Carolina, Georgia, Illinols Indiana, Kentucky.
one, e.ch In Alabama, South Carolina, Loui.
siara, Michigan, Missouri. Tennessee, Ireland,
Germany and Wales. Seven Southern States
have only four native senators. Pennsylvania
Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont have TWEEN
tythree native senators, Of whom fifteen are
doing duty In other States.
THE New York papers are Indignant thai
the street cars should be stopped by the "City
BandItfin with as much efrontery and coolnes:
as, in old times, the slage coaches we're BY
Dick Turpin or Claude Duval. The Tribune
thus lectures the police: When 1t is shown
that these highway robberiess are common oc.
currences the imperative need Of equally dar.
ing sedon on the part of the police against the