The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-08
FOREIGN ITEMS.


The Gear is ofraid ofthe women. He has
interdcted sorosis at st. Petersburg.
Fashionable people in Paris have tabooed
railway travelling this season, and are lander.
ing over Europe in thei- private carriages.
The British Parliament has spent owe,
800 600 in Investigations to discover whether
the coal supply ofthe kingdom is sufficient to
last forever.
The Bishops and thu Archbishops who are
to have seats at the Gcumenical Council mum.
ber nine hundred and twenty two, Of whom
six hundred belong to the Latin races. s.i.T
Quite number Of the cotton mills in Eng.
land, where the operatives have been on strike,
have resumed operations again, the hands
consenting to reduction in their wages. e..
an Englishman has engaged to form a
company with a capital OF 81. 1000, to work
the prolific coal beds Of southern Russia and
introduce the manufacture Of rails.
"A new circus trick just introduced in Paris
is for man to leap from height Of eighty
feet and bound back again to the original
spot. The performer is fastened to an elastic
cord.
| -sheiidan's 'School for Scandal has been
newly translated into German, and better than
ever before. 1t is having great tun at Mu-
Mich and is likely to be performed at all the
German theatres.
The French Government papers intimate
that the recent riots in Paris we're instigsted
by the liberal distribution Of Prusaian gold;
the French Liberal papers, on the contrary,
state that the gold probably came from Impe-
rialist pockets
Oliver Barthelet, Of Montreal, for his ser.
vices in recruiting the Papal 2 ,uaves in Cana
ds, has been made member Of the Order Of
Plus *, emitting him to the rank Of colonel
in the Papal army, aud the right Of sword and
epaulets. he is the frat American who has
received this distinction.
|. -Jewelry in Paris this summer is very fan
ciful. The most recherche sets are. enamels,
but in curious shapes, thus ;; Little piates are
worn as cuff buttons and brooches. to initiate
all the admired crockery ever heard Of, from
the Bernard de Palissy style to sevres, Sax
onY and China wares. Even Rouen hardware
is in favor. ~''a'
1t is estimated that there are at least
81, 600 American families permanently estab-
ished in Europe, living upon the incomes Of
American Investments, and enjoying the pro-
lection of the American Government, without
contributing single penny to the payment Of
our taxes or toward the wealth Of the country
by thsir productive labor. .-1"
An artesian we'll lately sunk in Algeria
threw up with the water an innumerable qaan-
tlty of small fish, about half an inch in length,
resembling whitebait both in appearance and
taste. AS the sand extracted from this we'll is
identical with that which forms the bed Of the
Nile, it is concluded that an underground
communication must exist between it and that
river.
Humboldt describes spot in the Alta ltic
Ocean, little to the west OF the Azores, OF very
great extent, completely covered with dense
mass OF marine vegetation. A Frenchman
proposes that the experiment be made OF TAX
ing from this place some of the rank growth
ror seFsIHzing purposes. His plan ia that the
vessels employed in cod fishing shall at those
seasons Of the year when they are not so en-.
gagged make voyages 10 this district, and he
believes that enough manure may be taken
from this inexhaustible source to fertilizs
annually more than thousand million acres
Of land.
Great efforts are now being made to sup
ply the Russian army with the American Ber-
dan rife. On the 22d ult. the Imperial Rifle
Battalion was armed with it, and the men have
begun to practice with it in the presence Of
General Berdan, the inventor. The projectile
from this rife will penetrate an inch at dis
stance Of 1870 PAGES. The cartridges are
made of thin sheet brass, and large contracts
have been entered into for manufacturing
them in this country. The warlike prepara.
tions OF Russia are, indeed, very far forward.
About 60, 600 rifles have been converted on
various systems, and several hundred thousand
of Berdan's needle-guus are in the course OF
shipment from America.
"A Pars paper describes how French mobs
are dispersed "The commissaries wear their
scarfs. A first roll Of the drum is heard, sue
ceeded by a short silence. second roll, and
then these words 10 the name OF the law,
retire!' To which is nearly always added:
Let all well-intentionel men withdraw !?
A third roll, sometimes accompanied by
fourth-the son,m1tion de grace alter which
the troops fire. When the armed force is
only composed OF sereeants-de-ville (polce-
mep, } the officer, i,stead of ordering his men
to fire, SAYS Break up that assem5lage, and
arrest every one you can lay hands on =
This is what occurred at the barricade oppo-
site the Varieties. Those WHO defended it
nearly oil men in white blouses, and walters
at cafes or restaurants mot having retired
at the summons, the agents charged, and the
CAPTURES were made. This barricade was
com m,os I'D Of two kiosks Tor newspaper stands,)
some benches, some Of the iron work used to
protect the trees, and some building materials
taken from the works in course OF execution at
the restaurant Bonnefoy."
%CONCLUSIvE EVIDENCE IN FAVOR
OF HosrErTER's STOMACH BIrTERs.-W. Il.
REESE, leading druggist in Monticello, ILL.,, in q
letter of June G. 1885, writes to this effect: Havng
soli Ho,TETTER'S BIrTERs for the past four
,,, ,,n,ot hrt aneak of the article as being the