The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-11

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NEWS FTHE DAY.
In New York yesterday gold closed at lsla
1ss.
Cotton closed quiet and firm at 22sc for up
lands. -.7.,-ss<>s
-Itis reported from Vienna that since the
notification in Austria of the laws on religious
liberty. about seven hundred persons of both
sexes have abjured Christianity for the Jewish
faith. 80 g y
The leading British ministerial reform
measures will, it is stated, be probably shelved
for year. The Irish Land bill however, will
be nut through, and probably the. new Educa-
tion ,bill,. which have occupied so much OF the
time of the British Parliament.
From London comes the news that another
Cuban war steamer, the Chieftain, with an ur,-
usually heavy armament, had succeeded in
.eluding the vigilance of the British authorities
and putting to sea. She is described as pow
erful, stannch and fast sailing vessel
"A London publishing house, profting or
hoping to profit by the example of American
bookaneers, announce monthly periodical to
: he made up from American magazines. Their
intention may be strictly dishonorable, but
with the best Of felonious purposes they will
find practical difficulty In doing more than
stealing English articles back again. "
The death of a noted tenant of the French
war office is announced-the famous parrot
Jacko, who. had been looked upon as an In
dispensable appendage to that department for
the past forty years, is no MORE he died Inn
mediatelyiafter the Duchess Of Berry, and on
the anniversary Of the death of Napoleon l,
three days before the Plebiscitum.
"A French surgeon has discovered pro-
cess of performing operations without pain.
He uses instruments heated to white heat by
means of. electricity. He was led to the dis.
covery by observing that burns caused by in
tense heat produced no pain. The absence of
pain Is owing to the destruction of the nerves
by the great heat.
"A Washington letter says: san informal
canvass of the House shows that Whittemore
win hardly get the seat tO which his Ignorant
negro constituents have returned him. Men,
bers very generally say that they cannot con-
sistently vote to admit him when they have
voted at the same session that he is unworthy
to be-. 81 representative the people In Con-
gress. General Logan will take the position,
1t is said, that Whittemore's reelection is an
insult to the House."
-Advices received in Liverpool MAY 24)
state that the steam trade through the Suez
,lfpt t,0 md fhof no Qfno
,;of freight have scarcely undergone any dimi-
nutlon.! Up toApril so the following move
ments of steamers had occurred: TheMagdala
had sailed for Liverpool with 72l4 bales of
cotton, and the Apollo with 62o6. The John
Dryden, the Europe. the Egitto, The Delaware,
the Atlas. the .Alonzo and the Adalia were to
follow with full cargoes of cotton by the canal.
"A London telegram of Tuesday says:
ssWolff's Continental Telegraph Company, of
Berlin, with spb-ageucies in the principal
!cities OF Europe, knows nothing of any recent
disturbances In Roumania. The manager Of
sthst company declares the telegram Of Adolph
-Crenleu1 to be an, exaggeration, and says all
reports tsHching the.slanghter or banishment
: Of The Jewshom Roumania are baseless. Dill
gentinquiry here and on the Continent fails
to discover any foundation for the terrible
stories which have been published in the
Untted. States" 1900.
The new Cunard steamer AbyssiIia is one
-l0f the.four new ships fitting out in the Clyde
,tocarry the mails between this country and
England, under Messrs Burns & McIver's con-
tract, which, 1t will be remembered, they OBJ
tanned from her Majesty's Government for
eight years, at 100000 year. The vessel Is
one Of the finest specimens of naval architec-
ture The Abyssinia is unlike any of the Gu
nard steamers now afoat. as she is four
decker, and with her heavy iron masts and
.aplum stem locks more like line-ofbattlc ship
than vessel destined for the service of the
Cunard Company.
- THE first suit under the social equality law
of Louisiana, brought against the proprietor Of
an ice-cream establishment who refused to re-
celye coiored applicants for refreshments, has
resulted in disagreement OF the jury.
1t lis said that variety of races were repre-
sented among the ]urymen, and that colored
juror was prominent In opposing the inten-
tions OF the trainers of the law, alleging that
he himself did not want white men as visitors
at colorsd peoples balls, "to come there and
take my colored ladies away" After long and
heated dicussion, the other jurors agreed to
take the opinion of a grave and silent German.
He decided that, as it had been evident that
the lawyers in the case were at variance upon
the law, the justice, and the evidence adluced,
1t could not be expected that jury which
knew far less about such matters should agree
And this sagacious opinion was adopted as the
fRdins OF the jury.
The Chinese question has been taken up