The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-25
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER rs, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAT.

The New York cotton market CLOSED
steady at lsc for up'auds; sales $500 bales,
The Liverpool market closed strong; up
lands 9ta9sd, Orleans 95d; sales $4,000 bales.
The average fall of snow at Ciaclnnaii
Yesterday, was four and half inches.
The Canadian Colonization Society, com
posed of British subjects, has passed resolu
tion favoring the annexation OF Canada to the
United States.
The Louisiana State fair was formally
opened at New Orleans yesterday. fifteen
thousand visitors being present. The fail
continues until December 8.
"A countryman bargaced with California
photographer for halflength picture OF him
self at half price, and when the artist deliver
ed fine view OF his subject from the waist,
band down, the viclimlzed sitter INDUCED II
remarks more torcible than polite.
The public schools Of Texas, according t
a recent act of the Legislature Of that State
are to be supported by the proceeds OF the
sales of the public lands, and one-folrth Of al
the taxes raised are to be applied to the same
object.
"A New York paper says: David Dudley
Field has been employed as Republican coun'
sci to assist Reverdy johnson in the argument
of Ku-Klux cases in South Carolina. 1t ls ex'
pected that Judges Bond and Bryan will dis
agree in opinion, which will have the effect Of
bringing the case before tie Supreme Court al
Washington, and thus test the cons;itutonality
Of the law"
The Navasota (Texas) Tablet Of the 4th
instant says: Zone thousand persons are
about to settle on lands just outside Of town,
with every facility offered 10 them by the OWL
ers, and at nominal rent for some ofthe best
land iu the country. A Catholic church and
school.house will be built for them; also, quar-.
ters. A priest will reside 10 their midst.
There are thousands Of acres which will be
offered with the same inducements to imni-
grants settling In our midst"
The vine was planted ic California nearly
one hundred years ago by The first missiona-
ries. But now the grape region consists OF
vast area OF mountain lands, too high and dry
for other crops. On this soil the grape fou,-
ishes and produces better wine than In the
moist valleys. 1t is estimated that there are
thirty million vines growing In California,
whlss the number is increasing every year.
Los Angeles is the eldest vine-growing county,
and leads in the production Of wine. as Inc
vines grow older the productlveness becomes
greater. The wine interests is destined to as
sumo magnificent propor''7,s 10 California.
During the past three years forty-nine of
the August meteors have been so successfully
identified, at different stations, that their dis
tance from the earth could be calculated.
Their average height at appearance was found
to be about seventy-seven miles; at disap-
pearauce, afty-four miles. Tue velocity,
relatively TO the earth, was estimated at
thlrty.four to thirty-seven miles per second.
Astronomical theorists long ago set down the
average velocity at thirty-eight miles to The
second. The above observations show that
their reasoning brought them very near the
correct figures.
I'm Munich 1t Is required by law that every
corpse, whatever the cause Of death may be,
shall be publicly exposed at the cemetery be-
fore the burial service can take place. The
rigid features of the dead can be clearly seen
through the broad windows Of the room, their
bodies elegantly draped and covered with flow-
ers. In the right hand Of each Is small cord
that reaches upward to bell. A watchman
is always at hand. Burial alive is SUI posed TO
be impossible under this arrangement. The
law has been enforced for hundreds Of years,
but there is no record Of q life saved by 1t.
Such law invades the sanctity Of private
grief.
This Is the age of exploded myths. The
latest character 20 disappear is Lycurgus, the
famous Spartan lawyer. Herr Trieber, a3tEor
of new FORK in German on 1.-THE Spartan
Constitution finds that the Greeks them
selves were divergent 10 the extent Of GEN.
tury as to the time when Lycurgus lived; that
all existing accounts of him are traceable 10
an obscure writer named Euphorus, whose
works have perished, fragments only surviv-
ing it, Plutarch and Aristotle, and that Eupho-
rus was untrustworthy, and an inventor of
names and dates. All, therefore, that re-
mains is the possibility Of there having once
lived in Sparta man named Lycurgus, but of
his age, life and work We have no lruslw or. ny
account whatever.
a wild woman of the woods, attired after
the fashion of our original mother, tall and
slender In figure, and with "the air OF the
queen Of the Forest" swift as deer, and haV-
ing an ove.i face. ''set with keen black eyes,
and frarned in long masses OF flowing black
hair,n Is just now, naturally enough, one
would say, exercising the rustcs OF the village
Of Gebharrisville, Somerset County, Pennsyl.
vania, by her presence in their vicinity. This
female Casper Hauser, it appears, affects not
men or women either. AS to man, with the
admirable premontion of her sex, "she
bounds away over fences and fields whenever
one attempts to approach her. Yet" adds the
local reporter, ''she is consistent, and avoids
in like manner too great familiarity with
women" But for children this poor creature
has great fsndness; she even goes to the ex-
treme Of stealing them from their parents at
favorable opportunities.
The lookup Of gold by the Prus-ian Gov
eminent has now reached its highest point
The different German Governments will pay
off their bonds and other obligations to the
enormous extent of seven hundred million
a.ers, equal to about 1915, 100000 currency,
c mmencing the lst Of January, and from that
date to April next year. This will, it Is be-
lieved, produce currency expansion and
speculation in securities somew': t analogous