The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-06
CURRENT NOTES.
THE PRINCE 1xpER1AL's BErRorHAL.

candidates for the rather pleasant position OF
Empress of the French, the Archduchess'
Gisela, of Austria, the daughter Of the Empe-
or Francis Joseph, is the one most likely to be
selected. She Is about the same age, only four
months younger than the young Frenchman,
and is said to be pretty. The French throne,
however, has never proved happy seat to
the princesses of the house of Hapsburg.
RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.
= A horrible story comes from Europe to the
effect that s'thousands of Israelite men, women
and children have been butchered In cold
blood by the native Christians" in Roumania,
the metropolitan province Of the Turkish EN-
t;pire. Roumania is the name formerly applied
to the chief possessions of the Turks in Greece,
and north of them as far as the northern ridges
of the Balkan mountains, but is now applied
ONLY to the ancient provinces of Macedonia
and Thrace. The number OF Israelites In Euro
s.pean Turkey is estimated at 10000, Greek and
:, Armenian Christians, l0,000,o00; Catholics,
$4,000. The province of Roumania contains
. population Of 100000, and the proportion
of Israeltes to the Christian population is help
iessly small. Persecution and intolerance
have long been submitted to by the unfortn-
!: nate race in that country, and it appears sin
eular that the native Christians, who have
themselves been wofuly prosecuted by the
eNohammedans, have not learned virtue by ex-
, ,perience. Probably, however, the story OF the
massacre is greatly exaggerated.
~ FENIANs IN LONDON.
Il The English capital is suffering little once
more from terrorism Of Fenians. 1t is feared
-thatthere are large deposits Of arms at Biz
mingham, Sheffield and Manchester, and that
the Fenians are anticipating some some sort
iof outbreak. The London Fenians have almost
entirely ceased their public meetings, and are
;reticent and apparently tranquil Yet 1t is
well known to the police that great numbers
of the London Irish have armed themselves
recently, their favorite weapon being the re-
vofver, and that Fenians from ireland are
hanging about all the arms manufacturing es-
tablIshments in the Lancashire District. While
all mnst sympathize with the wsongs Of Ire
land, ills evident that the kind of vengeance
here contemplated can do no good. The Sc
.Yerest and most dignifed resentment Irish
men can display against England is that repu-
diation of her government in Ireland which Is
shown BY their emigration to America, where,
in all the years past, they have found liberty
and grand opportunities, and where their
presence is more than ever necessary to help
to preserve liberty.
~ FASHION IN A FLuRRY.
The suit of Mrs. Olivia P. Flint, dressmaker,
against Albert L. Coolidge, in Boston, Massa-
chusetts, to recover bill of $1,000 for materi-
ais furnished and work done for defendants
wife, within period Of three months, has had
an agitating effect upon the fashionable circles
of that city, where 1t was tried last week, the
Jury falling to agree. and the sensation 1t ex-
cited seems to be spreading to other Northern
centres of the beau monde. The defendant re-
fused to pay the bill, on the ground that the
charges were extortionate. The dressmaker,
In accordance with threat she had made,
brought the suit and had the bill published in de
tail in the papers, expecting at once to recover
the amount, and deal a blow to the pride Of her
fashionable patron that would be warning to
recalcitrant fashionables generally. But this
stroke of policy appears to have awakened
sympathy in the defendants behalf, and the
press In New York and other cities, in COM
menting upon the case, applaud him for resist
ing the dressmaker's selfexposed extortions.
The New York World says: "There was abund-
ant need that some bold man should take this
defiant stand. There are not few dressmak-
ere who trade upon the reluctance which every
man feels to subject his wife to the publicity Of
atrial in. resisting an extortionate bill. They
therefore charge the most preposterous prices
for their work, and in some cases are by no
means particular as to the truth of all the
items which they assert in their amazing bills. :"