The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-28
FOREIGN ITEMS.

Ahc I'D uiS-SoouS ucuterS complain that
their trade, for many years past, has not been
as dull as 1t is ut the present time.
The Berlin papers have recently seen hard
times. None of these have rs large n circula-
tion rs they had previous to the war of 1866.
Tho Hamburg merchants complain that
their Importing business lns greatly suffered
since the establishment OF the Nortll-Gcrman
Confederation.
The French Cable Company are to hold q
general meeting In London on the 18th of No
Yember. A reduction In the tariff for sending
messages may be looked for about that time.
DIR. Steinbergs plan OF having an interna-
tional flag for hospitals, ambuances, &C., I'm
order to protect them In time of war; has been
agreed to by France and the Netherlands, tlion
and laInb,) which two nations have accented
the yellow flag and red cross as the standard.
Professor Faber's speaking machine Is to
be exhibited ut Hamburg during the Interna-
tiOnal Horticultural Exhibition. It is said 10
articulatc various words and oven to ans
wer questions by simple sentences with won
deriul distinctness. This machine Is more
perfect than any previous Invention OF tho
kind
"A French Academlcian takes issue with
Lord Rosse as to the moons capability of radI-
ating heat. Ii. Aarie-Davy announces as tho
result Of careful experiments that lunar rada-
tion Is incapable OF raising the temperature OF
an air-thermometer, coated with lampback,
even the millionth ofa degree. This Is equiv.
alent to saying that there Is no heat radlated
from the moon.
1t is rather. serious matter for wife to
attempt an,escapc from her husband In Bos-
MIA. The Pasha In q drunken fl took to beat.
ing his wives so numerically that their
screams aroused the Whole neIghborhood, and
the police had to interfere. One OF his wives
escaped to the Russian Consulate, but was
given up the next day, and 1t Is supposed that
she was Immediately murdered, rs nothina
has been heard of her since. y
The water In Calcutta must be q pleasant
beverage. BY the Pail Mall Gazette it is des.
cribcd as "beIng very dirty, with a large
amount of sediment. This being examined
with microscope proved to be made I'm OF
low vegetable growths, human hair, fibrcs OF
cotton, wool, linen, fragments Of woody tissue
starch, grains, &C., and among these innumcr.
able animalcul,c of many shapes and kinds
'disnorted themselves, while many minute
white worns wriggled about through the
muss."
-Napoleon's postponemcnt of the meeting
OF the Corps Leglslatif to tic 10th of Novcm
Der is variously commented upon. One Jour
nal calls the act "a riddle propounded to tho
rest Of Europe by that willy monarch,n and
considers that his ministers, being new and
unknown men, Will be the immediate suffer
crss, us deprivlng them of a chance to gain
public confidence In themselves and, their pol
Icy Tho Spectator, speaking OH tho same
s96jeet, terms 1t a ''snub to the Radicals and q
fsassert!on Of tln, courage of the crown.s,
'''-.rA manufacturer Of Alsacc has received an
onler. from Paris commercial house for. one
hundred dozen cYtton handkcrchicfs, on which
nre; to. be stamped tie Various episodes of the
Pantin tragedy Portraits : OF tho, murdered
victims will adorn some of these handkerchiefs
us they appeared lying in the zinc collins at
the Morgue, while on others, Yill be depicted
Traupmnnn in the act of leading Madame
Kinck and the two youngest children from the
cab to tile place of their murder. He is repre.
sentcd rs ,o6qgingly carrying the little girl.
Tranpmann as no appeared in the presence OF
the corpseswlli decorate others. These lively
sketches OIL cotton will be sold for sixpcncc.