The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-21
FOREIGN ITEMS.

are said to be in favor Of female suffra ge.
Five thousand copies are still sold annually
in France of Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democ
racy in America"
"A battalion of German volunteers has been
organized at Romo, which will be commanded
by Prince Lichtenstein.
The German astronomer, Maedler, has
measured the height Of 1898 mountains in the
moon, Twenty-Five of these are higher than
Mont Blanc, which is within few feet of being
three miles high-si1. are above $4,000 feet.
The highest observed mountain in the moon is
24,944 feet high.
A plan for cutting canal through the
valley of the Garonne, France, to unite the
Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay, is re-
ceiving much attention, and is favorably re-
earded. The cost of the scheme is estimated at
sSS 400 600, and to be possible of accomplish
ment in six years. The projected canal would
be for merchant and war ships Of the largest size.
BY the last foreign mail we have some
frightful facts in regard to the cotton spinners
strike in England. In Lancashire, the princi-
pal cotton centre, some five thousand "mill
hands," as they are called, were out on strike.
By this time the number may have swelled to
twenty or thirty thousand. In Lanarkshiro,
Scotland, where there are many thousands of
families dependent upon the &C tton mills, some
mills we're already standing.
"A young fellow in England has settled a
breach of promise suit, brought against him
by most eligible damsel in new way. The
damages were laid at s5O0O, and she gained
them in full. Whereupon the defendant ad-
dressed the young lady note, saying II
have behaved UNANIMOUSLY, but if you will only
forgive and forget, we may be happy yet. The
only objection which my friends had to you is
now removed. They can say no longer you
are without penny, since you have $4,000 of
your own" And she married him.
The Able Deguerry, preaching to fashion
able Paris against the fashions during Lent,
exclaimed: "Oh, my sisters, what can be the
meaning of the slight covering you wear on
your shouldersP What can, every evening, be
the motive OF the absence of sleeves to your
dresses? With these eyes have beheld ladies
of the most irreproachable character spending
their whole evening in itching at their shoul-
der.straps lest their dresses should fall off en-
tirely, and this is not from any feeling OF pro-
pr;ety, but from the dread OF inconvenience"
"A new notion has been introduced at social
parties in Paris. At the entrance of the salon
is placed large covered basket containing
small bouquets of flowers, and presided over
by modern Flora. Each guest places his or
her hand into the basket and takes posy,
which the women attach to their dress or put
in their hair, and the gentlemen place in their
buttonhole. The latter promenade through
the salons, each in search of lady wearing
similar bouquet to his own; and when she is
found he has o right to take possession of her
and retain her as partner for the rest OF tho
evening.
The land question, involving the maintcn-
ance of great properties, is coming to the front
in Europe in every country except France,
England, and Austria. In Spain, Italy, Hun
gary Russia, "more land' is everywhere the
cry of the peasantry. Tie elections in Hungary,
which have terminated in the victory vf the Deak
or liberal party. have brought to light this state
of feeling, which in this instance did not avail.
Whatever the "liberality OF the Deak party
consisted OF, it had nothing to do with land.
The large proprietors, who still own the woods
and unculti ;ated lands, were all on Deaks side,
and the peasants on that of the Reds, as prom
ises of great agrarian changes were frequently
made by the latter. But for emigration, says
the Spectator, this land question would be the
first social question of Europe.
"A matrimonial case in lower rank OF life is
the present sensation Of the chief town in East
ern England. On New. Years day an inpkeeper
from Norwich, spending his holidays in Lon
don, after some days. meditation OF suicide,
went into police station and demanded to be
taken into custody for having, thirteen years
before, murdered his wife and cut her up in
pieces in Norwich. His statement was care
fully written down and signed by the wretched
man; it was remembered that his wife mystic
riously disappeared at the period specified,
that he had soon married again, that the re-
mains of u woman had been found scattered
about, and an inquest held upon them without
result. The man was committed for trial, de-
med his confession, put in plea of not guilty,
and has just been tried, convicted and sentenced
to death. His heal h seems breaking up, as well
as it may, after this long agony Of remorse, and
it is doubtful whether he will live to be hanged.
It is sometimes true that m urder will out.
DIR. Bernard, the President of the Academy
Of Medicine in Paris, treats with contempt the
objections to vivisection, and declares that the
science of medicine, properly so called, will not
exist until doctors cut up enough living cats,
dogs and other animals, to form proper basis
of induction. He acknowledges, however, that
the str angely human behavior Of poor mon
key under his dissecting knife, caused him to
desire to use chloroform. 1t was thought be-
fore this address was delivered that French
physicians had recognized the cruelty of the
practice, especially as a pursuit Of careless
students. The horrible doings at Abort,
where veterinary students learned to practice
on the living horse, have been, it is stated, of
late years, greatly curtallei, and instead of ten
miserable animals subjected to sixty opera
tions and eight hours Of inconceivable agony,
there are now at most but one or two. And
now the evil is starting up afresh under the
auspices of the president of the medical
academy.
Mr.. Berthod Auerbach seems to have got
himself into trouble in Germany by tho boasts