The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-12
FoREIGfN ITEMS.


FoREIGN ITEMS.
There is to be grand hunt through Africa
for DR.. Livingstone, by hundred well armed
men. ~"
1.-The London papers are discussing the
question "Would 1t be proper to kill incurable
lunatics?" H
The Courier des Etats Unis, during the
at the Paris postoffice.
Prince Napoleon pays five per cent q
month for the money which Erlangcr and other
Parisian Shylocks lend him.
Tho Queen of Prussia offers five hundred
dollars to every woman in the kingdom that
has given birth to twelve Children
The new gastronomIcal idca In Paris is to
bring the fruit for dessert in on the branch,
dwarf grape-vincs, on candclabra and apple
hnughs hanging nn .flsurinas.
"A cahle telegram announces that Dr.-3ril-
berforce has been translated to the Diocese of
Winchester. Rev. DR.. Mackanness succeeds
DIR. @bcrforce rs Bishop of Oxford
The London Pail Mall Gazette says the
"Albertn is not the only bankrupt life Insur-
ancc company there, but that six large offices
are ''uttcrly rotten and tottering to their fall"
France year ago, has been eXhumed, when
torn her stroud, scratched the conin-lid with
ny of burial alive.
Vienna paper says 'Bismarck's disease,
rs Tie French papers said some time ago, is
Simply deliri,tm tremens. He cannot hold a
pen in the morning, and he has to take strong
oftp lo,1t, TO
ness. He can never mako a speech in Parla-
mont without previously taking strong doses
Of cOgnac brandy"
An order has just been Issued by the French
Government directing tho establishment on
the railroads of trains for the conveyance of
laborers to and from their employment at low
weekly rates. This order, it is believed, will
tend to alay the great and still increasing dis
satisfaction with Napoleon III now entertained
by the Paris workmen
Louisa Muhlbach was some time ago re-
qucsted by IN American publisher to write a,
novel on an American subject, and the event.
full life Of Aaron Burr was pointed out to her
as containing matter for flrstclass historical
romance. Madame Muhlbach nalvely replied
that she did not know who Mr. Burr was, and
that she had never heard of him.
| AT an industrial exhibition in Vienna a
new product OF art is to be seen, consisting of
various articles of spun glass, such as head
dresses, ribbons, bracelets, cuffs, collars,
watch-chains, ostrich feathers and the like
They are tho product of Parlslan manufac-
turer. The threads arc reported to be as fine
as spiders web and as strong as wool, but
more beautiful in appearance. The thread
may be nsed for knitting or sewing.
| Two Polish ladles were recently whipped
savagcly, Mt the Warsaw police office. Letters
written by Langiewlcz were found in their
possession, and tho Governor-General of Po-
land ordered them to be 1ogged as q warning
to the other correspondents Of the famous
leader of the insurrection of 1868. Despite
the pain inflicted on these poor ladies' they
did not utter single cry. One Of them, how
ever, the Countess Drynatzka, tainted away
after she received tho thirtieth stroke.
"A Paris letter says: The fly train Is
| quite an institution-not q flying train that
conveys ono from ono region to another, but
the train ladies put on and take or when they
wisfl-a most convenient fashion, too, II when
ladies did put 1t on they would have plece of
lead put in here and there to keepit from
being so fighty In the faces of the cavaliers.
Itis ped these fly trains viii be of heavier
material than puffed gauzes as the cold comes
on. have seen splendid ono Of black bouIt
worked With pompadour bouquets and trim
med with reyers OF velvet and. black lace.
This over any founced skirt of silk with square
open bodice will be a Standing fashion for
next season. Dancing in short skirts with
Hungarian boots Is q relief and hope for the
future.
"A Paris correspondent ofthe Independence
beige states that Father Hyaclnthe's letter has
thrown the Faubourg Saint Germain into a
state Of CONSERVATION. Tho Papal Nuncio was
notin Paris when the letter was published, but
he was i'm medlately informed oft, and at once
telcgraphed every word Of It TO Rome. ills
stated that tho document was submitted to the
Archbishop Of Paris bcforo appearing, and ap-
proved by Him after some slight notifications.
According to the Rappel, the original cause
OF tho rupture between Father Hyacinthe and
his superiors was tho speech he delivered at q