The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-17
FOREIGN .ITEArS.

In Paris, by two cent tax on each opera
and theatre ticket. seven thousand eight hun.
dred and twenty charity hospital beds are sup
ported.
The London Court Journal says that with
In the last two years thirty-five officers have
retired from the British army and entered into
the wine trade.
Tho exQueen of Spains boudoir is of
ebony, rose satin and chiseled gilt bronze,
style Louis XVI, the bedroom and dressing
room to match. The furniture cost 800. 900
francs.
-The Grand Council OF the Catholic Church
is preparing in st. Peters; 1909 places are to
be reserved in the right nave tor foreign pre-
lates end diplomats, and polyglottal sleno-
graphic corps is being organized.
-Ihe Russian gov ent pretends to have
discovered great conspiracy to overthrow the
Emperor, in which O religious sect, which
mutilates women and keeps untold wealth of
gold and silver locked up in a cave, is con-
oerned.
There is decided revolution in the mat
ter OF evening dress going on in Europe. Gen
temen wear the blue coats with brass buttons
and the buff waistcoats Of their ancestors, and
the ladies appear at balls as bepowdered as the
stately danes Of 1910.
Singapore has Scca constructor that has
swallowed young lady, who wore ss the time
. SIG 600 diamond necklace. The young lady
ia Of no value now, but the necklace is-so
about thirty thousand natives are diligently
searching for the snake.
AT the last State ball at Vienna, the EN-
press Of Austria appeared in o new dress COM
3OF<
American beetles, sewn with gold thread on
tissue Of white silk. splendid suite Of dia-
monds and emeralds completed this costume.
-Haussin, the Paris executloner, has made
experiments, and concludes that there is dull
and rather lndstict sensibility in the heads of
decapt tied persons or animals for three or
four hours after their decapi alton in warm
weather. and for twenty minutes in cold
weather.
The project of the Viceroy Of Egypt to
open public gambling hells on the plan Of those
at Baden Baden and Monaco, at Cairo. was
suggested ny directors Of the Mediterranean
Steamship Company, who believe that such
Embellishments at Cairo will add to the bust
ness of their llne.
The court costume to be worn at the
Queens drawing room and state receptions has
recently been modified. The dress prescribed
consists in dark single breasted coat, with
standing collar, embroidered with gold lace on
collar, cuffs and apels; white waistcoat with=
out collar; trowsers like cost, with gold lace
down The outer scam; cooked hat, sword, white
he. ibis dress is prescribed for leyees. For
drawing rooms the same apparel is directed to
be worn, with breeches, silk stockings and
buckles. The material may be either velvet or
broadcloth.
From q dialogue reported in s'La Vie Pa
risienne," it appears that the necessity Of clas-
sifying French novels has at last been recog-
niaed. A lady entering circulating library
asks for q novel. 81 don't know how to tell
you exactly the kind want" she says. "Oh,
think we shall be able to suit you" II mean
something lively" explains the intending
reader; "the sort Of book that would not be
precisely suitable for the library Of young
girl" Marie" cries the keeper of the book
shop to her assistant, ''novel for woman Of
thirty-fve.'
Public meetings in Franco were last year
allowed to be held with some degree or free
dom, but now they are to be placed under
much more stringent regulations than before.
De FORBADE, the new Minister of the Interior,
in which he says that hitherto the government
considered it duty to confne its functions TO
vieilantly Watching thatno abuses Of the newly
granted liberty occurred, without even inter-
faring with those speikers who might DISCUSS
matters legally prohibited. But now the gov
eminent can no longer tolerate such violations
OF law. aud intends henceforth to repress all IL
oense, and thereby separate from the right Of
free meeting those exoesses which can only
have o tendency to render the speaker amena-
BILE to punishment.
"A protracted law suit, which has lasted
moro than twcny years. has recently been
brought TO q close in England. In 1849, lady
named Walter was engaged TO be married to
DIR. Dancer, gen leman Of some wealth. The
Wedding day was fixed and all prepara!i ions
were made, wien Ir. Dancer was taken sud-
denly Ill, and died on the very day appointed
for the ceremony. He had meanwhile made q
win, bequeathing all his property to his in
tended BRIDE. luis will was n .orously at
tacked by the relatives OF the deceased, and
the suit was taken from court to court until
the patience Of the parties was almost ex-
hausted. The lady married another gen .le-
man and had several cLildren, all Of whom
died in infancy, and about two years ago she
herself died. Tho herr NJ law, q brother it is
stated has at last succeeded in obtaining q
decree from the Court Of Chancery establish
Ing his right to the property, which has q
vsluo, Notwithstanding legal charges, OF about
84O0 900.
The Moncrieff gun carriage, 1t is snnounc-
cd, has beeI accepted by The Brltish Govern
ment. The inventor has been paid $50 900 for
this ingenious contriyance, which consists in
mounting hfavy artillery on rockers. withdraw.
ing the gun so, as to ba loaded under shelter.
Hitherto o six and q half ton gun hos been
tho heaviest which has oeen mounted on this
system, aud 1T is proposed TO continue the OK.
per,ments until the apparatus can be made Ia
carry twelve ION gus. Consequently, Mon.
crieff is tobe employed and paid $1,000 por an.