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

There is to be grand hunt through Africa
for DR.. Livin gstone, by a hundred well armed
men.
The London papers are discussing the
question sWOuld 1t be proper to kill incurable
lunatics?"
The Courier des Etats Unis, during the
month of August, was confiscated twenty times
at the Paris postof1ce.
Prince Napoleon pays five per cent.
month for the moneywhich Erlanger and other
Partisan Shylocks lend him.
The Queen of Prussia offers five hundred
dollars to every woman in the kingdom that
has given birth to twelve children.
The new astronomical idea in Paris is to
bring the fruit for dessert in on the branch,
dwarf grape-vines, on candclabra and apple
boughs hanging on figurinas.
A cable telegram announces that DR.. Will
berforce has been translated to the Diocese OF
winchester. Rev. DIR. Nackanncss succeeds
Dr. Wilberforcc as Bishop of Oxford.
The London Pail Mall Gazette says the
"Albertn is not the only bankrupt life insur-
ance company there, but that six large offices
are ''utterly rotten and tottering to their fall.
The body of young woman, buried In
France year ago, has been exhumed, when
II was found that the unfortunate girl had
torn her shroud, scratched the cofiin-lid with
tbe crucIflx. and enaw ed her hands in the ago
ny of burial alive.
- Vienna paper says "Bismarck's disease,
as the French papers said some time ago, Is
simply deliriu, tremenS. He cannot hold
pen in the morning, and he has to take strong
stimulants in order to overcome his nervous
ness. He can never make speech in Parlia-
ment without previously taking strong doses
of cognac brandy"
An order has Just been issued by the French
Government directing the 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 allay the great and still increasing dis
satisfaction with Napoleon III now entertained
by the Paris workmen.
Louisa Muhlbach was some time ago re-
quested by an American publisher to write
novel on an American subject, and the event.
full life of Aaron Burr was pointed out to her
as containing matter for first-class historical
romance. Madame Muhlbach naively replied
that she did not know who Mr.. Burr was, and
that she had never heard of him.
AT an industrial exhibition in Vienna
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 the product of q Partisan manufac-
turer. The threads are reported to be as fine
as a spiders web and as strong as wool, but
more beautiful in appearance. The thread
may be used for knitting or sewing.
Two Polish ladies were recently whipped
savagely, at the Warsaw police office. Letters
written by Langiewicz were found In their
possession, and the Governor-General OF Po-
land ordered them to be flogged as warning
to the other correspondents Of the famous
leader of the insurrection Of 1863. 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 the thirtieth stroke.
"A Paris letter says: The fly train is
quite an institution-not flying train that
CONVEYS one from one region to another, but
the train ladies put on and take off when they
wish-a most convenient fashion, too, hwhen
ladies did put 1t on they would have piece OF
lead put In here and there to keep it from
being so flighty in the faces of the cavaliers.
It:is h ped these fly trains will be of heavier
material than putfed gauzes as the cold comes
on. have seen a splendid one of black poult
worked with pempadour bouquets and trim
med with revers Of velvet and black lace.
This over any flounced skirt of silk with square
omen bodice will be standing fashion for
next season. Dancing in short skirts with
Hungarian boots is relief and hope for the
future.
"A Paris correspondent ofthe Independence
Beige states that Father Hyacinthes letter has
thrown the Faubourg Saint German into
state of CONSERVATION. The Papal Nuncio was
not in Paris when the letter was published, but
he was i'm mediately informed oft, and at once
telegraphed every word oft to Rome. 1t is
stated that the document was submitted to the
Archbishop of Paris before appearing, and ap-
proved by him after some slight notifications.
According to the Rappcl, the original cause
of the rupture between Father Hyacnthe and
his superiors was the speech he delivered at