The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-31
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NAY 81, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

III. 49,
The New York cotton market closed nrm-
er; sales 1856 bales at l7S cents.
There was no cotton market in Liverpool
MI. Thomas Earle died in the lunatic asy-
INN. at Worcester, Mass, a few days ago. DE
had been insane ever since his little auSht
was taken from him by decree OF the court
and. given to his wife, from whom he had been
divorced.
Miss Burdett Coutts, who was lately made
a peeress by Queen Victoria, possesses a lot
time estimated ut slO, 900, 900. She has already
given away in charities $4,000, 600, and al her
death will leave large requests to oeneVolen1
institutions.
1t has long been a devout desire OF his
Holmes the Pope to live to complete the
twenty-ffth year of his reign, and 1t seems
very probable that he will do so. On the 18TH
instant he completed his seVenty-niath birth
day. He was elected after the death OF
Gregory XVI, on the 18th OF June, 1916, ana
crowned on the 2lst Of the same month. be
will therefore shortly complete, the twenty
fifth year oil. his pontifcate.
ON Saturday the steamship Italy left New
York Tor Liverpool, having, among her pas
sengers, Lydia Thompson, Justice Bowling,
Miss Leclercq, Harry Palmer, of Niolo's, Dir.
Henderson, and about twenty or thirty other
actors and actresses. On the same day the
steamer Oceanic took out as passengers forty
eight Knights Templar from Pennsylvania.
These tourists were escorted dow the bay by
numerous tugs with friends and bands OF
music on board.
"A public school for little girls in Paris,
maintained by the Sisters of St. Vincent de
Paul. was recently broken up by a revolt OF
the pupils against the substitution BY the Com
mune of three lay mistresses for their former
teachers. "Give US back the Sisters" cried
Tie Indignant little rebels, and they upset the
forms and threw the books and states about
the room. Order was only restored by the ex-
pulsion of nearly ive-sixths of the scholars,
the number in attendance having been reduc-
ed from three hundred and fifty to sixty pupils.
Mr.. William N. Evarts introduced VILLAIN
C. Bryant at the banquet to Baron Gerois. IL
New York, the other night, as "a great
scholar aud a great author, who never forgets
ANYTHING, that he ever learned, and is con-
stantly teaching others what they never
knew; one who translates poems written
three thousand years ago, and one who has
written poems that will be translated three
thousand years hence into the tongue OF a
nation that holds as much relation to us as we
do 10 Greece"
. ~ 80 Cir lUo1for Cnntt will no
finely celebrated in the City of Edinburgh, BY
AsAAAinala of tha room in the base OF the
monument to the great author, originally de-
signed for a museum to contain interesting
relics connected with SCOTS novels, which
will be soon completed. Among other objects
of interest this room will contain thirty free
stone statues, to cost ESQ apiece, and repre-
senting characters from the leading novels
and poems of Scott, showing an ample variety
of character, costume, &c. Much interest is
felt In the centenary in Scotland, and a Lon
don auxiliary committee is in course Of torma-
ton.
While the largest brewerles Of England
produce each from seventy to ninety millions OF
quarts of beer annually, the largest brewery
of Germany produces about twenty-three mil
lions of quarts, and tue largest of Austria
about thirty.eight millions OF quarts. lire
spective OF its export and import, England
consumes about enc hundred and tweu ty
quarts Of that beverage annually to each head
OF her population; Belgium, sixty-four; Ger
many, forty-eight; Austria, twenty; France,
eighteen; Switzerland, sixteen quarts. At
Munich, Bavaria. about two hundred and
thirty quarts of lager beer to each head of the
population are consumed annually. Munich
is the most noted city for beer-drinking in the
world.
M. Thiers's Paris residence, which was
demolished not long since by the order of the
Commune, was a model of culture, art and
comfort In It's interior arrangements. His study
contained a handsome library, while upon the
walls here and there were hung well executed
copies In water colors of the great master
pieces of Italian art, most of them Raphaels,
and on shelves, in recesses, and on tables were
scattered reproductions in bronze of the
choicest specimens Of Italian art. The house
throughout overfowed with costly works OF
art, bronzes, pictures, enamels, medalions,
porcelain, rarely-bound books, engravings,
cabinets and curious furniture. On the 18th in
slant, previous to the demolition, all the NOV
able property in the house was carted away by
order of the Commune.
The great schlsm In the Republican party
engrosses a large share of the public attention.
Carl Schurz has written a letter to the ''new
departure Republicans of Ohio, in which he
calls their movement an excellent one-just
what is,needed in times like these. and says: Il
shall be most happy to contribute whatever
can towards that end" The New York World
declares that the overtures made in Washing
ton by Grant to Senator Fenton and his friends
have been declined, the offers coming too late
to heal the breach. The Fenton men cannot,
under any circumstances, endorse the Presi-
dent as capable or honest, and view the offer
made in the light of bribery and corruption.
In view Of the bad men and measures with
which Grant has become identified, they de.
cline all offers Of compromise, and declare war
to the knife.
Among the pamphlets called forth in Eng
land by ''The Fight in Dame Europa's School"
the Publishers Circular notes the following:
''John Justified, a Reply to the Fight Johns
Governor Visits Dame Europa's School,"
"Break-up of Dame Europa's School, (which
Should John Have Helped ?" "Why Johnny
Didn't Interfere" 1.-THE Row at Dame Europa's