The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-17
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WEDNESDAY, MAY II, 1871,
NEWS OF THE DAT.

in Liverpool cotton closed firm; upianos
73@Td.; Orleans 72@7sd.; sales lZ,ooo oales'
The crop prospects in California except
wheat and barley, are Immense" owing TO
the recent general rains.
At Yankton, Dakota, John McBeth. ailas
Jamison, a native Of New York, was hung oy
amob for several murders.
"A party OF reughs failing to break up a
picnic at Palmyra, Mo-, put tarter emetlc IN
spring used by the plcnlcAsrs, i've OF Wnom
will probably die.
The Paris commune has enforced temper
ance on the wine-bibbers OF that city. All the
wine and liquor shops have been closed, ana
no spirits are allowed to be sold to the troops
The Commune of Paris have ordered the
cafe Gretry, on the Boulevard DIES ltailens, 10
be closed, for the reason that Its patrons'
chiefly men on the Paris Change, utter TOO
many ruinous sentiments regarding the disas-
tro,,s financial effects of the revolution.
The New York World learns by private
letter from St. Petersburg that the intended
visit of the Grand Duke Alexis to this country
has been not only postponed, but entileiy
given up. The World says that the Gar mas
been so much annoyed by the propositions
made to him through his minister at wash
ineton from ambitious private citizens OF tine
Tinted States eager to undertake the duty Oh
sslionizing,n lodging and banquetlnS his son,
that ne has peremptorily put veto on the
whole expedition.
MIR Frederick GaiIlardet The well known
French Journalist, writes from Brussels stalihg
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his opinion on the question OF the immediate
future of France. He says that betting Is
going on at Versailles that the army and peo'
nle of the rural districts will replace. Louis
Eanoleon on the French throne, but, at the
ssme time, he does not believe that such
result will apsue. As to the purposes OF the
versailles Assembly his impression ls' not
8ithstanding their Bourbon tendencies, that
that they will maintain the republic.
-Twenty-eight churches, most OF them great
churches of the first order, have been smut up
in Paris by the orders Of the commune.
Among them are the Church OF st. GeneVleVe
fthe Pantheon,) the Church of Notre Dame de
Paris. Notre Dame de Lorette, DC. others,
like the Madeleine and St. German PAuxer-
rois, have been degraded to be places OIL puo-
Lie resort for speeches, concerts, &c. All tne
valuable articles in the churches seized nave
either been removed or placed under seal.
Perouisitions have also been made on twenty
seven religious houses and charitable lns'ilu-
tions In Paris and its environs.
"A g;rl named Agnes Norman, aged hlteen
-ygaTS, was TeCcurry urUuisHr 'up rofSfv' ' Eva
don Police Court, charged with sufocatlng the
infant child of her employer. Facts adduceo
at the coroner's inquest seemed to justify the
belief that the girl had q mania ior causing
death by suffocation. According to the !sti-
monv OF several persons who had formerly en-
Moved her. wherever she lived In service,
children, dogs. cats, parrots, goldfish ana pet
birds had mysteriousy died. and without ap-
narent cause. The evidence of the physician
tended to show that the child first mentioned
had died from sufocation, the more especially
rs an imprint as of two teeth was seen on the
lips. The girl declined to say anything, treat
ed the matter very quietly, and was renanded
for further evidence
The Oregon and California Railroad is
making preparations upon rather large scale
to bring immigration from Europe to settle up
its vast land grant, which covers some OIL tne
most valuable territory Of our Pacific domain.
General Wilson, late commissioner of the gem
erai land office of the United States, is Chief
manager for Abe Company In this business
The immigrants will be brought direct from
Germany in ocean steamers, via Panama. and
Transported without. detention direct to the
railroad lands. The bonds with the proceeds
OF which the road is being built were negotla-
ted in Germany, and the lands are pledged for
their security and redemption. Thus an effect
i've German interest was secured favorable 10
the success OF the enterprise.
"A recent diplomatic correspondence is the
subject of much comment in medical Journals.
The Government of Ecuador has written 10
that of the Uuited States In the general inter-
ests of humanity, requesting that an alleged
discovery of cure for cancer and similar COM
plants should be tested in this country. The
method Of the discovery OF the virtues OF the
specific is very suggestive. Previous to the
discovery, the plant from which 1t is procured
was regarded as poison. Acting upon this
belief. an Ecuadorian Indian wife administered
g. DOGdSS vi ~ w lCl 1Oius AiAS SAPNAA
ment proved great disappointment to the
lady, as the husband not only did not die, but
recovered from cancer IN the stomach,
which, II not thus doctored, would In few.
months have finished him.
John Frederick William Hcrschcl, Bart,
whose unexpected death was announced by
cable on Saturday, was born at Slough, near
Windsor, (ouly son OF The astronomer, Sir
Frederick William Herschel,) on March {, lI92.
He was educated at Saint Johns College, Cam-
bridge, where he won the honors OF senior
wrangler in 1918. In 1926 the Royal Aslro-
nomical Society voted him their gold medal
for his observations on the multiple stars in
connection With the astronomer South. The
astronomical society again voted him their
rolG medal in 1886. for his catalogue Of nebu.
lac. In l848 The astronomical society voted
him testimonial for his work on the southern
hemisphere, witch embodied The results OF mis-
observations made az the Cape Of Good Hope
during the years 1888. In 1855 he was non,-
mated to the honorable position Of one of the
. eight foreign associates Of the French Acade-
nv In 1850 he published his 'Outlines of As
t-onomy." u manual. the value oil which, in q
nopular sense, can hardly be over-estimated
No mention OF his failing health had been