The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-07-31
NEWS OF THE DIE.


I2al2t.
Cotton closed quiet and lower at 20 cents;
sales s2s bales
in Liverpool cotton closed fiat; uplands
3d., Orleans SD; sales 5000 bales.
Lemons have been grown this season in
Southern Florida.
The cotton trade of Cincinnati amounts to
s5,OOO,0oo annually.
The "Cesarlan operation" is said to have
been recently performed by New haven
physician. both mother and child surviving.
(. Alexandria, Virginia, is reported tob
making fresh start IN the march of improve.
ment A large number Of ofbuildings are going
up there.
Baron Rothschild, of London, has present
ed to his jockey, Tom French, who won the
late Derby races for him, the sumof $1,000, and
besides allowed him an annuity of s200.
The average weight Of the cotton bales
received at New Orleans during the year end
ing June 3Oth, 1871, amounts to 451 pounds
the 1,297,557 bales exported weighing $685.
4s0,4sa pounds, and being worth sS3,sa2,0l3.
The average weight OF the cotton bale in the
year ending June 3Oth, 1870, amounted to 44s
pounds-there having been exported from
New Orleans s69, $50 bales, weighing 435,-
452, 1926 pounds, and valued at 500, 6S5, 6o3.
The planters OF Florida are substituting
Swedish llborers for their colored field and
farm hands. A planter, writing from Quincy,
says Of the swedes: II have had one with me
eince last October. From the first day he
picked as much cotton as any hand in the field,
made the best fireman. ever had around
sugar furnace, beat all the hands at splitting
rails, and is as good ploughman as there Is
on the farm. The best of 1t all is, he never
drinks, les nor steals, and Is a type OF the
rest of them"
by way of Havana, we learn that the King
of Spain has issued a proclamation forbldding
the importation Of coolies into Cuba. The
reasons given for thiE step are not humani-
tartan, but political. The King Is moi. so much
opposed to serfdom and peonage us to the In
PRODUCTION of what he considers disturbing
political element. Unfortunately for both
Views of the Cuban cooie problem, the plant
ers and factors Of the 'ever-faithful isle" ac-
cording to the New York Tribune, 60 on i'm
porting Chinese laborers just as though ANA
deus had not spoken at all.
The staid London Athenaum, in the
course of its otherwise solemn comment on
the Orange riot in New York, INDUCES in
what it would prabahlI- call ssshy" at chat
city's 'slocal topic." 1t informs its readers
that s'James Fisk, of Erie notoriety, COM
mands the Ninth, and turned out with his
regiment to protect the procession. Some
one hit him with q club, but unfortunately
only broke his ankle; But his death was re.
ported on. .'Change, and Erie stock immediate
'ly rose. IT he dies, thought the shrewd ones
In Wall street, the eighth commandment may
again have meaning in New York, so they
bought on that very remote chance"
Mention has been heretofore made in The
NEWS of the success of Scandinavian resi-
dent of Georgia in procuring the immigration
OF Swedish laborers to that State. It is now
stated that this gentleman, MIR. W. j. Foss,
who recently brought a number Of Swedes %
Jasper and Putnam counties, is going back TO
Sweden about the last of August, and will re-
cember next. Parties desiring to send for ser
wants are notified to write to him, stating
whether they reside In town or in the country,
and what description of servants they want.
This Is something practical, and probably
more effective than any amount Of Estate aid"
would procure.
The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
of July 20 has q communication from Dr. N.
Rsmith, Of baltimore, showing the poisonous
effects of hydrate of chloral when persistently
used for the purpose of producing sleep, and
fatal results of large doses. Five cases of
death from its use, four of them In that city,
some of them very sudden, are mentioned.
When given in small doses, and continuously. /.
for some time, IL seems to produce gangrene
of the extremities. Given In large doses, and
especially where the system may have been
charged with 1t by its previous administration,
itexerts its deadly effects uponthe heart or
brain, perhaps on both, and causes immedi-
ate death. It Is believed that chloral. enter
ing Into the blood, develops chlorotorm in that
fluid, the amount developed being determined
not merely by the quantity taken, but by the
condition of the fluid. As to the use of chlor-
oform itself, this experienced surgeon says
the more he has used It, the less has his conf
dence become in Its harmlessness.
"A company Of land proprietors, owning
about two hundred acres OF land near the city
ofLouisville, for which they paid at the rate
ofsl05 per acre, have managed to put them
selves In the way Of making q good deal Of
money by entering into a speculation which
needed only tact, enterprise, and liberality in
expendiRg money-in advertising and other
wise-to make their venture success. They
bought the land on the first OF June, and i'm
msdiately proceeded to lay 1t out in squares,
streets and avenues, well fenced and white-'
washed, and named approprlately-establsh-
ing, In fact, complete town, minus the
houses, public buildings, &c. Having pro-
gressed thus far, they next advertised the sale
extensively in the city and interior papers of
Kentucky and neighboring States, prepared
stalking" maps of the site of the proposed new
village, built short railroad to the line of the
property at an expense Of $4,000, and during
the days of sale spread fine lunch free to all
comers. The result was that large throng-