The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-30
NEWS. OF TIE DAP:

American hotels tor American visitors are
soon to be erected in London and Paris.
The London Spectator declares that moth
ing can be7made absolutely safe from fire.
The latest story about General Cluseret is
that he is an Irishman and is named McAulltf.
Punch paid Douglass Jerrod s25 for the
famous ssadyice to people about to marry
don't" g.ss.
Even France, in all her straits for money,
declines to resort to SO odious measure as
the income tax.
2. The number of homeopathic physicians in
the United States has increased from 100 in
1874 to 5000 Row.
The receipts of cotton at Memphis up to
Friday last were FIVE hundred thousand bales,
the largest eves known In a like season.
The rumor has gained ground In England
that Napoleon Is about to leave Chiselhurss to
take up his residence In the Parish OF Main
head, In Devon.
The overflow at New Orleans having
almost entirely disappeared. the city engl-
neers are engaged in seeking to repair some
of the damage.
The John Bull newspaper Of London be-
neves that '.England Is hasteAing with self
accelerated momentum to the dreary abyss OF
democracy
1t Is curious fact, demonstrated by the
recent British census, that the population OF
ireland is actually less than the number OF
irish who are now in the United States.
The result of the late Derby races was
forthwith telegraphed from London to the
East Indies, where the dispatch arrived at
Karrsehee In three, at Bombay In fours and at
Calcutta In Eve minutes.
% The London Fortnightly Review thinks
the recent European war has reduced the
great powers from five to two-Germany and
Russla--thus counting out Austria, France and
England.
1T is said that only one copy exists Of the
English Register of Consols, and as Its de-
structiou would bring financial disorder, 1t
is proposed to have The originals photograph
ed, leaf by leaf, and copies kept In cities at
9 come distance from each other. s;;srz = -.
A fashion writer says ''The new styles OF
/ bonnets for next fall are said to be something
really new, and many milliners think that they
= will have to hire few people to wear ther,
so as to get people used to their decidedly
unique appearance" Before hiring ladies to
wear the new style the milliners might call for
volunteers.
1T seems that the cotton interests of Brazil
are on the decline. While the exports of this
staple from Rio Janeiro iE 1868 amounted t6
.II3, ,465 bales, they were in 1859 only 45,Oo6
bales-aR enormous falling of-whIch was
further reduced in 1870, when the exports
from that port were only 1910 (Brazilian)
bales The exports of cotton from Santos
during last year were 243, ,727 arrobas, equal to
about Is, ,2s0 bales of 400 pounds, which, add.
ed to the Ii, ,9l0 bales from Bio, makes total
export Of cotton from Brazil, for 1870, of &c.
, 100 Brazilian bales, which Is less in weight
than twenty-eight thousand American bales.
: III the testimony Of the Medical and Surgi.
{ cal Reporter, which should be able to speak
by the card, be of any value, one may under
stand why so many medical gentlemen -four
ish In our country, and whence comes the vast
wealth enjoyed by the vendors of patent pills,
tonics, rejuvenators, regulators, and other
liquid and material rubbish sold by quacks and
u,ountebanks under the name Of medicine.
The Reporter reckons that medical service
and medicines cost the people of the United
States annually $780, 600, 900, and that The value
of ouack medicines sold reaches sum not
less than s25, 100000. These figures represent
vast deal of trash to work its unwholesome
way into the human system.
The Patent Office records show that, from
1850 to 1860, nearly ninety-eight per cent. of
applicants for patents for agricultural imple-
ments were from the North, and slightly over
two per cent. from the South. Since the
emancipation OF the slaves, the planters In
the South have been obliged 10 make use Of
machinery to cultivate the soil, but 1t was
found upon trial that very few of the agricul-
tural implements used In the North were per-
fectly adapted TO culture In the South; thus a
corn planter could not be used for dropping
cotton seed, and cultivators could not be en-
ployed in destroying the weeds between the
rows OF the cotton bushes. The ingenious
mechanics and planters in the South, 1t is
stated, then making virtue OF necessity, set
about inyenting agricultural machines suited
to the cultivation of the crops Of that region,
and the records Of the Patent Office during the
last two years, 1t is reported exhibit most
gratifying result, showing that the applica-
tions for patents for agricultural implements
from the former slave States have risen from
two per cent. to about thirty per cent OF all
The cases filed. The yield of the cotton under
the improved methods OF culture, 1t is stated,
Is greater than was ever before known.
Efforts are now being made on large
scale to introduce the culture of ramie into
many of The provinces of India, to which 1t
has hitherto been stranger. In the Liver
pool market the product OF this plant brings
readily s265, gold, per ton, and is rapidly 81.
perseding cotton for various purposes. Among
the many supposed advantages of this plant
over cotton is, that it is much harder and