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 Franco Of Alexi dc Tocqueville's 'Democ
racy in America"
"A battalion of$Ierman volunteers has been
organized at Rome, 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, whichis within few feet of being
three miles high9-si are above 1900 feet.
The highest obseryed mountain in the moon is
24,944 feet high.
"A plan for usting q canal through the
valley OF the Garonne, France, to unite the
Mediterranean anG the Bay of Biscay, is re-
ceivsng much attsfition, and is favorably re-
garded. The cost Oh the scheme is estimated at
sss, 400 900, and Ole possible of accomplish
ment in six years. 1.-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, sine five thousand "mill
hands," as they are called, were out on a strike.
BY this time the number may have swelled to
twenty or thirty thstusand. In Lanarkshire,
Scotland, where theas are many thousands Of
families dependent 20 On the &C tton mills, some
mills we're already ssaa ding.
"A young fellow ih England has settled a
breach Of promise suit, brought against him
by a most eligible damsel, in new way. The
damages were laid. at f5OOO, and she gained
them in full. WheIcuron the defendant ad-
dressed the young lady note, saying "I
have behaved UNANIMOUSLY, but if you will only
forgive and forget, Ne may be happy yet. The
only objection whictimy friends had to you ia
now removed. They can say no longer you
are without a penny. since you have f5OOO of
your own" And shelmarried him.
The Abbe Deguesry, 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
dressesP With these eyes have beheld ladies
OF the most irreproachable character spending
their whole evening in ca tching at their shoul-
der-straps lest their dresses should fall off en-
tirely, and this is notfrom any feeling Of pro-
priety, 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 a lady wearing
similar bouquet to hiaown; and when shs is
found, he has right to take possession Of her
and retain her as partner for the rest OF the
evening. ,yss.@.
The land question tinvolving the nainten-
ance ofaraat propertiess is coming to the front
in Europe ID every 5odntry except France,
England, and Austria. In Spain, Italy, Hun
gary, Russia, ''more land is everywhere the
cryof the peasantry. Tic elections in Hungary,
which have terminated in the victory of the Deak
or liberal party. have brought to light this state
OF feeling, which in this instance did not avail.
Whatever the "Iberality OF the Deak party
consist I'D of, it had nothing to do with land
The large proprietors, who still own the woods
and unculti 'ated lands. we're 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
represent sensation of the chief town in East
ern England. On New-Yeal's day an innkeeper
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 myste-
riously disappeared at the period specified,
that he had soon married again, that the re-
mains OF o 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 beer tried, convicted and sentenced
to death. His heal h seems breaking up, as wen
as it may, alter this long agony OF remorse, and
1t is doubt ml whether he will live to be hanged.
1t 10 onetimes true that m urder will out.
DIR. Eernard. the President OF the Academy
of Medicine il Paris, treats with contempt the
objections to vivisecti0n, and declares tnat the
science Of medicine, properly SO called, willnot
exist until doctors cut up enough living cats,
dogs and other animals, to form proper basis
OF finductien. He acknowledges, however, that
the strangely human behavior Of poor mon
key under his dissecting knife, caused him to
desire to use chloroform. It was thought be.
fore this address was delivered that French
physicians had recognized the cruelty OF the
practice, especially es @ pursuit OF careless
students. The horrible doings at Altort,
where veterinary students learned to practice
on the living horse. have heen IL IN statod ~
late years, greatly curtailea, 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.. Berthold Auerbach seems to have got
himself into trouble in Germany BY the boasts