The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-04
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
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DUST; -
Ice twenty inches thick is being TAKEN
from the Kennebec River. '
Italy Is now becoming one OF the great
ship-building countries of Europe.
:-Poole, the eaamous London tailor, having
made s2,bo0. 900, is about to. retire from ousi-
ness. : Ss go IL
The Marquis of Waterford follows the ex-
ample of his wife, and Joins the Roman Catho-
lie Church: ,4a.
G-A train carrying one hundred and sixty
tons Of teas recently came East over the Pa
cllc Railroad. ".1.
Already passages ara being engaged on
Transatlantic. steamers for visits to. Europe
next summer. a.
General Mcclellan is being talked Of as
the successor OF Joel Parker In the guoerna-
torial chair;of New Jersey. .-a
James Alexander Henderson, Esq, pro-
prietor OF the News Letter, has been elected
to the nayoralty Of Belfast, Ireland.
The Louisville policemen threaten 10
strike because 1t has been made part OF their
duty to transport smallpox patients to the
pest-house. l-a sE." *. ~
Queen Victoria has presented twenty-five
dollars to q young man named Hughes who
was recently tossed by her bull, Prince Leo
pold; at Windsor Park.
-Mlss Sophie Barnes took premium at a
Montgomery (Als.l fair as ''the young woman
who. would make the best wife for poor
zzE,an.p.--eu '..ss 60,
@ffie season for. big hog stories Is In full
blast In Tennessee. Mr.. J. B. Clipper, OF
Limestone, has Just killed snorter weighing
EIGHT hundred and thirty-hve pounds net.
The first shipment of California cotton has
inst been received in San Francisco, and Is
pronounced Of excellent quality by the
dealers. ~ : 80
Atthe Smithaeld Christmas cattle show her
Majesty Queen Victoria took ''hrst .nonors"in
pigs, and the Duchess OF Athol was first In
Scotch cattle. - .rs- i &C.,
Mr.. Edward A. Bradford, a leading MEM
ber of the, New Orleans bar and formerly law
partner OF J. P. Benjamin, died IN Paris on
the 22d nltimo. ,.,,..,.,,
The New, York Tribune joins the Times OF
that city in urging metropolitan consolidation,
that ia, q union of Brooklyn and New York as
one municipality.
Vast numbers of buffalo are being killed
on the Western plains. The hides sell from
$Tsoto 81 80 each, and buffalo meat at two
cents a pound. aaalIe' j ~
The, Emperor Alexander, OF Russia, re-
Gently toasted his kinsman, Kaiser Wilhelm,
alta banquet OF the Knights of st. George, as
the Oldest member of that order.
?2.After life Of peculiar viclssitudes, COM
msncsd as circus rider and eliminating asa
princess, the Princess salm-Salm closes her
romantic career rs a nun IL convent at
bleak Innsbruck; in'the Tyrel
"A French correspondent says that In the
champagne country, still not sparkling wine
isdrunk by the people, and this wine may be
bought at the wine shops for about twelve
cents aquart. 49,. -,
iG-The largest and most complete collection
of.anclent and modern coins in existence is
said,to be that Of DR.. Charles Spier, of Yisalia,
CAL, who is reported to have IA, 600 specimens
in his possession.
Monaco the great Italian watering place,
is enlarging It's gaming tables to acaommo-
date,the throngs of invalids who have been
driven from the German spas by the suapres-
sion Of the business there.
China has adopted new naval flag,
which ts to take the place Of the provincial
flags hitherto borne by It's war vessels. The
new flag ls Of triangular shape, made OF
bunting, of q deep yellow color, with blue
dragon in the centre as.r ~
The Princess Louise has been made
President of the English. National Union for
the Improvement of the education OF women.
The object of this union-is to deliver women
from the plano, the globes, the blackboard,
and bad French, and make them fit for the
exigencies of modern lite.
They have compulsory. education In
Texas. The law requires that all persons un-
der the age Of fifteen shall attend school. A
married lady In Houston, who has not yet
reached the: age that would entite her to
exemption, attends school regularly and car
ries herbaby with her,,
The Great Eastern Circus was lately sold
at Selma, Alabama. The elephant was bought
TOR $4,000. Six bay horses brought s3400.
The den containing the lioness and cubs,
s6o85. The Bengal tiger aud leopards, $4,000.
The buffaloes $4O0 each. The ring horses
sold at from $500 to $1,000 each.
"A writer In the Pail Mall Gazette advo-
Gates the application Of a gayanic battery as