The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-12
NEWS OF THE DdT.

Gold at New York yesterday closed steady
at 26H.
The New York cotton market closed quiet and
dropping ut IS cents; sales $500 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed dulI sales 10000
bales: uplands II I'd; Orleans 111<d.
North Carolina reports successful tea crop
this year.
Young women ride the bicycle astride in the
streets OF Detroit.
Floating ice has already impetlcd navigation
on the upper Mississippi.
1t is calculated that the Mississippi River
moves ten thousand tons OF soil every hour.
The wife OF General Beknap, the new Score
tary OF War; was Il ''rchcn during the war. Her
brother was captured by General B,lknap and
the circumstance brought about the acquaint-
ancc which led to their marriage.
The Philippine Islands were lately visited by
an earthquake. and MANILA experienced the full
severity OF the shock All the houses were shaken,
portion Of the city walls fell. and there were n
number OF casualties.
Andrew Johnson having missed the senate
rial chance, has been chosen q member OF the
Tennessee State Constitutional Convention. From
being constitutional eXpounder he will thus
appear for the next few months as q constitution
maker.
GA lady" In New York, who lives In Brooklyn,
hos been convicted OF stealing lace from n store.
The Judge called it kleptomana, and let her go
without sentence OIL the condition that she would
never show her face in New York city under pen
atty OF enforcement OF the law.
AT q sale OF autographs, letters, &C., In New
York last week, those OF John G. Calhoun sold for
sixty cents, Rcverdy johnson and Charles SUM-
ner's fifteen cents, ). w. Forncy ten cents Abra-
ham Lincolli's one and four dollars, ami George
Washlngt0n's twenty-five dollars.
Last week the foundation OF the first house
AT MIR. Stewart's iIcm.:stead Homestead city of
refuge for the Overcrowded population of New
York was laid The whole IIenpstcad tract has
been lad out, and the sites for parks, squares
and building lots located, and several avenues
graded.
Hon. Zndoc Pratt, who represented one O. the
interior districts Of New York In Congress some
thirty years age, and who Is set down IA worth
.s6. .0Oo,o 900, was married n few days ago, oil his
seventy-nln'h birthday, to Miss Grimm IL young
girl who has been employed as wrapper writer
In one OF the New York newspaper offices.
"A New York letter OF Monday says: "Thc
week opens with the announcement Of a heavy
failure in the wine ana grocery trade. The firm
OF A. Blnlnger Co., OF Liberty street, who have
been established since 1776 suspended this morn
ing. Their liabilities are believed to be quite
heavy. Their suspension was caused by the nom
receipt OF Western remittances, and the refusal
vi oui NcW ioTk puilhS just now 10 accommodate
the mercantile community. Money on coll can be
had to any amount on wnll street. but legitimate
discounts by banks to commercial men cannot be
had. Hence the suspension OF this firm, which
has. created quite sensation In mercantile and
financial circles. 1t Is not unlikely that other
houses, that hnvc large number OF bad debts in
tho West, will be compelled to suspend before the
end OF the wcek.n
"A recent utterance of the celebrated French
surgeon, NJ. NeIaton, has caused great sensa-
tion In the medical world, and Is likely to pro-
drcc q remarkable schism In the profession.
Some months ago VIC had occasion 10 notice
statement OF M. Claude Bernard, who prcfaced
one Of his lectures by declaring TINT Ia medicine
sctentJfq"e did not exist, and that VIC must look
to experimental physiology tas he euphcmlsiI-
'caily terms viviscctioD,) to furnish US with a
foundation for the future science. NJ. Eclaton
now goes even further than his colleague, and,
while fully agreeing with him that la medicine
sctentJ1ae does not exist, denies the necessity OF
Its existence. llo condemns as false and de!usvc
oil Systems based on experimental physiology
and mlcroscOpcal Investigations, anu, in fact,
every source OF information not derived from
direct observation OF the patient. So bold an
assertion has not passed unchalIcngcd. NJ. vcr-
neul, In the Gazette Heodonaddfre de Ia Ifgdf.
ofnr, inquiries whether, after denying the medical
profession the Md OF the microscope, A. NcIatou
Will not call on astronomers TO renounce tile use
of the telescope.
"A question interesting to wives and widows
has just been decided in the Supreme Court OF
ONO. mr. deorgc Ripley died, leaving O will by
which he gave his wife, after his DEATH the use of
oil his real ana personal property 30 i,ng as she
.renalnol h 4 low. lf She remarked tile prop.
erty was to gu to his thil'iren. She did remarry.
and legal proceed ngs were taken to dctermine
the cffcc. O the marriage. The court sus ned
the VII, and gave the p: operti 10 .hs children,
holding hat the iestrict.On ,tnst u second mar
rlnge wns valid one, AMI not, rs was attempted
to bc maintained, contrary 10 public policy.
Judge S;0rer. who delivered tho opinion, FL d i:
"Thc husband has an intercs, In the widow.
hood Of his wife, which, 1t ha. been well remark
cd. gives him the moral right to annex lImitn
tlons TO his bequcsts when she Ia made tho re-
crlcnt OF his bounty. lie may we'll be supposed