The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cold at New York yesterday closed at l3;
als2.
The New York cotton market closed un.
settled; uplands l74al7sc.; sales 24Oc bales.
At Liverpool cotton closed heavy; upland:
pd.; Orleans s4d.; sales 5000 bales.
Colonel Joseph E. Davis, a brother oil eA-
President Davis, died near Jackson, MISS, ias'
week.
The female brokers, Woodruff & Clahin
have leased for a year an elegant mansion IN
Thirty-eighth street, near Fifth avenue, New
York, which they are fits up in gilt and pur
ole velvet for ladies' clubhouse.
There is man in Louisville. Kentucky,
who pays his better and more valuable hal
regular salary of sS week to hold hel
tongue, docking her one cent for every time
she speaks to him when it is not absolutely
necessary.
-Halrs Journal of Health says: ''1f man
can sleep soundly, has good appetite, with
no unpleasant reminders after meals, the
bodily habits being regular every day, ne haa
better let himself alone whether he is as olS
as hogshead, or as thin and dry as fence
rail-"
The French sanitary fair at Philadelphia has
raised 1922, 900, of which $4,000 have been re-
mitted to Bordeaux Twelve thousand were
subscribed to aid the French Government on
Saturday, and $4,000 collected for the Protest.
ant and Catholic orphan asylums of Pniladel-
phia. ...
Knoxville, Tennessee, is rapidly acquiring
Importance as manufacturing centre, and in
that respect is setting a good example for
other southern and southwestern cities. AL
ready leather, boots aud shoes, sashes, doors
and blinds, merchantable iron, paper, and
many other things, are supplied to large ex-
tent of country. Several gentlemen are about
embarkinc largely in the manufacture of aSri-
cultural implements and woodenware.
"A new and fearful warning Is held up to
tea-drinkers. savant has discovered that
when we pour milk into cup OF tea or coffee
the albumen of the milk and the tanni1 OF the
tea Instantly unite and form leather, OF minute
fakes of the very same compound which Is
produced In the texture Of the tanned hide,
and which makes it leather as distinguishable
from the original skin. He consequently esti-
mates that ir the course of a year tea-drinker
of average capacity imbibes enough leather 10
make pair of shoes.
We see by European medical journals that
a sanatorium is to be established next month
at Cairo, under the care OF lady who has un-
derrone a considerable amount OF hospital
training. It is intended for inralds who spe-
cially require such climate, at once bright,
mild and clear, as is found in that part OF
Egypt The French Mediterranean resorts are
expected to be to certain extent inaccessible
this year; consequently the numerous cases oi
chronic rheumatism, bronchitis, and the irrlta-
BILE form. of phthsis that would ordinarily find
refuge In the South of France or Algeria, will
be driven to look further.
DR. Johann Jacoby, just sentenced by the
Prusslan Government tc q term OF ;nprison-
ment for drafting resolutions against the forci-
BILE annexation OF French territory, knows
more Of the inside Of prisons than even SllVio
Pellico. He is an old-time consistent leader of
the German Democratic party, and has always
been in the van Of political movements In
Is40 he wrote a memoir on the policy ot the
government, for which he was sentenced to
three years Imprisonment After ls4s he was
a member of the first German Parliament, and
then of the Prnssian Chamber. He was a
steady opInionist, and though speaking but
rarely. made himself dreaded by his tact and
management in the House. When the Parlia-
ment was fOrcibly dissolved he retired to
Switzerland, but hearing that there was pro-
cess against him for treason, he voluntarily re-
turned and tought the lawsuit successfully He
was again elected. but refused to serve and re-
turned to his practice. He was subsequently
q member of the new Chamber, and was sent
to prison tor sedi.ious language; and again for
another fourteen months for his memoirs OF
Henri Simon. HIS persecution By the Govern
ment of Prussia has been unremitting.
1.-THE Great Monopoly"-which, we are in
formed, is the apt designation accepted for it
self by the Western Union Telegraph Compa-
ny-f1nds both a historian and q panegyrst in
acontributor to Lippincotl's Magazine for Oc-
tober. The manner in which this corporation,
by the process of crushing out and buying in
opposition, has grown in ten years time from
aweak local organization with capital of less
Cnan million dollars into mammoth monop-
oily with capital Of s4p,0OO,OOO, and virtually
controlling all the telegraph communication in
the United States, Is set forth in Quite an in
terestihs way; but when the author asserts, as
he does by Implication, at least, lha. the pul
lie has been tile gamer by the absorption. he is
going little too far. Hardly anything is bet
ter known by the bitter experience of the
American people than that The telegraph SER.
vice is much poorer throughout the entire
country and the cost far greater than in the
good old days Of healthy competition. As a
general rule, rival corporations don't consol.
date and combine for the purpose of giving
better service aud lower rates to the public,
anu the Western Union Company is no excep-
Iion to II, as everybody knows.
An English paper says: .sThe very easy
circumstances in which deposed OF abdica,iny