The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-07
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SATURDAY, oCToBER7, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DiT.

/ Gold closed yesterday at l4sal44.
In New York cotton closed weak; uplands
2O3 cents; sales 1905 bales
In LIVERPOOL cotton closed strong; upland;
syd, Orleans lO!d; sales 10000 bales.
Mile Ch ristine Nilsson had reception or
board the Swedish irigate Josephine, In Ne"
York, on Tuesday.
The grand jury in Brooklyn, N. Y, on 81
turday. indicted man for a misdemeanor II
circulating cards intended to advertise MIN a.
an abortionist, and The man has been inalcteo
and held to bail.
M. E. Legout, a French engineer OF note
abroad, proposes to construct railroad from
Paris direct to Pekin. China, and estimates the
cost of tunnels necessary at the modest sum o
220, 900, 900 francs.
"A petition, signed by the people OF He'll
goland, without exception, has been address
ed to Emperor William, praying aim 10 bring
about The annexation OF their island to Ger
many. What will the British old Mrs. Grundy
say TO this {?
The Tennessee immigration Association
piyes nelice that it is prepared to furnish
English female servants and Scotch skilled
agricultural laborers upon prepayment ofS4o
passage money and fee of IS each 10 cover
the expenses of the association.
Berlin gossip relates that in his youth
Emperor william was very much in love with
sontag. the celebrated cantatrice, and that it
was with great difficulty that his father, Fred
erIck William III, could dissuade him from
II. a.,lorad yprpnco m marry her.
-Signor Tamberlik, good opera singer,
who Is at present performing in the City OF
Mexico, was recently called before the cur
tain twenty times, and received three thou
sand bouquets. After the performance was
over his carriage was dragged to hls hotel oy
the populace.
The once beautiful Carlotta, widow of the
Archduke Macmillan, Of Austria, Is no longer
beautiful. Her personal appearance has be-
come repulsive She has become obese, and
her face is covered with unhealthy eruptions.
Her physicians have officially announced, 1t Is
said, that she cannot live for many months.
1t Is the New York World that says: "As
the English holders Of the Confederate cotton
bonds are organizing to present their claims
to the commission of arbitration, 1t would be
proper 10 offer the Fenian bonds as an offset,
the mullshness of England having been the
principal obstacle to their attaining par
value"
AN unusually large number of ladies at.
tended the first au,umnal meeting OF Sorosis,
In New York, on Monday, and brought oil tie
freshness of the country back with them 10
brighten the occasion. Afler lunch, and the
mild glass of pink.tlnted lemonade, which
NAV cheer, bu; certainly cannot inebrlate, The
usual business was transacted.
Very recently, Martha Walker, young
English woman, climbed the famous Matter
horn, over l4.70O feet high, in company With
her iather, aged sixty.fve. The Matterhorn is
one of the most difficult OF all the Alpine peaks
TO ascend, and tas rarely been attempted by
woman. The lady Is we'll named, having
climbed Monts B.anc, Rossa and other peaks
with little fatigue.
The Chicago Common Council has drafted
an ordinance that all bread, &C., shall be
stamped with the initials ofthe makers name
and with the figures indicating It's weight; and
the selling OF bread, &C., not thus stamped
will subject the maker 10 fine OF ten dollars
and the cost of prosecution. Another section
imposes fine of twenty dollars 70 any adul-
teration of bread.
The Prince de Joinville, in refusing the
candldature for the Presidency of France, said:
"But i'll were King, should know how to
govern well. The means are very simple.
would have constitution of two articles: the
first article should enact that every French
man should be functionary; the second that
every Frenchman. on reaching the age OF five,
ehould be decorated"
"A Berlin letter of September 20 says:
tThe settlement OF the indemnifcation tor
damage done by the sieges of Alsace and Lor-
raine is rapidly progressing. Thionville will
receive, 2,566.S42 francs; Bitsche, nearly the
same sum; Phalzbourg, l,256,075 france; Mar
sal, 25, ,l57 francs; and the villages round Metz.
3.6l3,l94 francs-in round numbers, ten mil
lions, in addition to the large amount which
has already been allotted to Strasbourg. About
q quarter of this sum has already been paid
into the respective communal treasures. The
disbursements are made according as the re-
construction OF the destroyed buildings Is pro-
crossing.
One Don Julio Berrant, Brazilian gen.
tleman, comes to the surface with something
to say concerning the claimant to the Itch.
borne estate. He states that he travelled
wIthf6e original Roger Tichborne from Lima
to Rio Janeiro just before Roger took pas
sage from the latter city for New York in the
steamer Bella, which vessel was lost, with all
aboard, on the voyage. Senor Berrant thinks
that the present mountainous claimant Is an
imposter, and it is yer" probable that next
November, when the Tichborne case will again
come before the courts, he will be present to
testify as to his recollection Of the lost Sir
Roger. The present claimant does not deny
that the missing Tichborne took passage on
the Bella. This fact, on the contrary, he ac
knowledges, at the same time that he insists
that on the occasion of the wreck OF the vessel
he was saved by a passing ship, which took
him 10 Australia, where he lay perdu, until a
few years ago, in the guise Of butcher and
sheep-tender.
in former issue we have mentioned the
result of the Investigations which are at pres
ent in progress in London to ascertain the
n.odus operandi OF the baking establishments
of that vast city, and their effect upon the