The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-29
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-Ihe New 1Ork cOLtoQ udfhet cioSeu uuii
and shade lower; sales 900 bales at 80 cents,
with sales as low as S2t cents.
AT Liverpool cotton closed dull and de-
clineda fraction. Up!ands, on the spot 125d;
to arrive, 1Ssd; sales 10000 bales. Manchester
advices favorable.
"A new athlete in London swings on the
trapeze by his teeth.
France has given the Arabs 100000 to
keep them from starving.
1t is reported in New York that the we'll
known but unlucky Maison Dore is to be con-
verted into theatre.
Prussia is Tightening the taxes on neces-
sary articles, and increasing it Oh tobacco and
spirits, which it deems luxuries.
England is to melt and recast the guns
taken in the Crimean war, out OF Difference to
the feelings of visiting Russians.
"A woman in Brooklyn purchased quart
of milk and found small fish swimming in it.
The milkman stated he thought the cow must
have swallowed the fish.
During his visit to this country, MIR. Dick
ems read to audiences that brought less than
two thousand dollars, in only two places
Rochester and New Bedford.
The fascany Johanna men, who ran away
from DR. Livingstone and told such whoppers
about him, have had the impudence to send in
their claims for payment OF wages.
Six women, in various parts of England,
have been elected TO parochial boards, and
it is becoming not uncommon for women OF
the Established Church to preach on Sunday.
We know that acordwainer is shoemaker,
and that wife is very apt to be as you make
her, but that is hardly sufficient reason for
making an atrocious conundrum, and we de-
cline to do it.
"A libel suit is impending over the Chicago
Tribune. Areporter brought in at very late
hour report that certain wel-known firm
had failed. It was published as rumor, and
this suit is brought to recover the trifing sum
of one hundred thousand dollars.
"A Prussian woman has revealed the fact,
upon her deathbsd, that she substituted her
own child for the infant of countess, IN whose
employ she was some thirty years ago. Both
are alive, and married in accordance with their
widely different stations, and the muddle is as
bad as can be.
The Germans are beginning to print their
books in Roman type. 1t is found much clear
er and LEGS trying to the eyes. Ophthalmolo-
gy-which killed half the poor compositors be-
fore they had been ten years at the business.
and caused German printing Office to be the
funniest assemblage of pale faces, small forms,
and big green goggles ever seen-will be ban
ished by the change.
IA new machine for navigating the air, in
vented by Scotchman, will be brought out
under the auspices of the British Aeronautic
Society. It is a sort OF bird, with body fif-
teen feet III length, and wings stretching ou'
to the width of thirty-fve feet. tail reaches
out behind to give direction to the movement,
while the wings are tapped by an engine OF
forty horsepower. This, it is thought, can be
made to proceed through the air at the rate OF
forty miles an hour.
The devotion Of some saranS to science IS
Illustrated by the testimony ofa medical expert
in poisoning case lately tried in France. He
found no difficulty in detecting poison in the
stomach OF the deceased, and acknowledged
that he had observed symptoms which he ut
tributed to this cose, before the death of the
gentleman, whom he had attended. On being
asked if he had administered antidotes, he re-
Piled: ''No, for their presence in the stomach
would have masked the presence OF the poison,
which could not, therefore, have been proved
at the inquest"
The result of the election in Chicago last
week is peculiarly gratifying when we recall
the fact that the Democrats have made gain
of nineteen hundred and four votes over the
last Congressional election in 1856; and in
another view, as showing the Importance which
the Radicals attached to it; for we learn from
the Chicago Republican of Monday that TO
morrow's results in Chicago will be taken as
an indication Of how the West stands political
", and how Illinois will go in November. 1t is
the last great election that will take place in
the Northwest before the great national con-
test"
The subject OF impeachment is discussed
in an editorial in the Pail Mall Gazette. which
SAYS: ''The temper of the House of Represen-
tatives, as exhibited in the managers, hardly
processes to rise above excited partisanship
To get the President out of office without the
loss of day is their declared object, and their
prosecution of it is not retarded by any consid-
erations Of justice or deceney. 1t is even
doubtful whether the managers have conde-
scended to notice the legal points raised in the
answer, and their opposition t. the very reason.
..3le request for delay submitted BY the Prcsi-
G.nts counsel certainly shows that they either
fail to estimate, or deliberately disregard. the
Importance of the issues raised"
-Cannibalism continues in A, A,geria. French
soldiers are waylaid, knocked on the head, and
made into broth or potted for future eating.
Two women, each having child, lived with
tribe near Tiaret. These unfortunates did all
they could for a long time TO stave off the hor-
rors offamlne; but at length all their resources
being exhausted, and public charity no longer
to be relied on, they agreed to cat the children.
A bargain was agreed to- and lots were drawn
as to which should be first killed. The mother
who lost gave up her infant, which was killed
and eaten. This served for few days; but at
last the hideous supply came to al end, and
the woman who had sacrificed her offspring
claimed that the other should submit to the
same loss The latter refused, being unable
to bring her mud to that extreme measure.
After long alterations both mothers at length
agreed to submit their differences TO the deci-
sicn of the Arab bureau, and in this way the
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