The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-06
Tbe @arleston 9ems
SATURDAY, NAY s, 1871.
NEWS OF TIE DAY.


at l5Sc. Sales 4l67 bales.
At Liverpool cotton closed quiet and
teady. Upiands 7lda7id; sales $4,000 bales.
"A new style of ladies' hats that is out, is
said to s'resemble penwiper with friDge'
nd to be quite becoming"
-AdyIcss from Buenos Ayres represent the
elbow fever as dreadful, seven hundred deaths
occurring daily.
One of the Paris journals ridicules the sto-
ry that Louis Napoleon saved very little during
his reign, and says his fortune, at the smallest
estimate. cannot be less than s0,00o,0 600 OF
francs.
The Emperor William has pardoned, 1t IS
said. all the coavIots sentenced to death IN
Prussia since his return to Berlin, except three
men and one woman, who had committed
murders of the most diabo'ical sort.
John. C. Breckenridge has been chosen
delegate to the Kentucky Democratic State
Convention, but he declines to serve, as he
says he is unwilling to re.enter the arena OF
: political strife.
The Sultan of Turkey has sent President
Grant $4,000 carpet, to cover the floor OF the
East Room of the White House. 1t was over
year in making. but Is said to be not OF very
tasteful appearance.
"A statement having appeared in London
paper that the Hebrews practice gaming with
dice during the Passover, the chief rabbi OF
London has written letter TO the journal in
question, stating that, according to the Jewish
law, gambling is not only regarded as desc
Grafton of the festival, but is strictly prohibit
ed at all times.
Savannah is to have a mammoth warehouse
completed by August /, 256 by 2lO feet, with
capacity for TO- 900 bales Of cotton, erected by
Grower, Stubbs & Co., on the site of the old
Stiles mansion, which had been occupied for
half century by family whose wealth and
sterling qualities ranked them among the first
families In the State.
The Saturday Review has recently pub
lished an article alleging that the merchants
of London have acquired the habit Of drink
ing during business hours, and that the Gus
tom of taking frequent glasses OF wine Is
rapidly gaining ground in that city. The
amount of mischief produced by the habit OF
tossing of glass of sherry at odd moments,
either out of private bottle or at public
bar, is alleged to be incalcuable, and it is as
serted that, from this cause; paralysis is great
ly on the increase among the mercantile COM
munity of London. The list of young men
who every year die from paralysis or are re-
duced to permanent imbecility not only in
England, but in this couRlry, it is stated,
would startle those who have never paid any
attention 70 the subject.
"A Berlin letter of the 10th states that it is
mistake to suppose that the Idea OF 1.-THE En-
p;re" is accepted calmly or quietly by the Ger
mans outside of Prussia. In Dresden the Sax
ons are quite as loud as ever IN their denunci-
atoms of the Prusslans, and persist in their old
custom of buying no article OF Berlin manufac-
ture. They also boastingly aver that without
the aid of the Saxon troops the late victories
over France would not have been won, and
John OF Saxony to report himself TO the Em-
peror William at Berlin, when the Emperor
should have come to Dresden TO report himself
to King John. Pretty much the same fee ng
of animosiLy to Prussia prevails in Munich, lie
capital OF Bavaria.
"A movement is organizing In st. Louis
among prominent merchants, bankers and
Capitalists, to form an association in the inter-
ests OF cotton and sugar producers, with the
design of controlling portion Of the trade.
The movement. c0ntemplates the establish
ment OF q bank 10 that direct interest," with
five hundred tL usand dollars capital. The
building of large cotton press, warehouse
and sugar sheds on the levee, with arrange
ments for freight, will give St. Louis advant-
age of competiugs points, One hundred thou
sand dollars are uow ready for the inaugura-
ton of this enterprise. and it Is said no diff
Guilty will be experienced in speedily raising
one million of capital. The project has been
talked of for some time, and now has assumed
definite shape, and will be undoubtedly carried
out soon.
"A detachment of German landwehr troops
are engaged, and have been.for a month"; in
reinterrlny tie dead around Metz. Private
latters from the spot describe the work as
horrible, sickenng and ease-oompelling in
the extreme In hundreds Of instances the
rain has washed away the shallow graves of
the half-decomposed bodies, and portions Of
corpses are lying bare. Most horrible OF all is
that portion of their task which compels them
to search out the bodies OF officers, and TO
transfer the remains to more suitable locali-
ty. The efluvium mas SO penetrated the ga..
ments of the workers that they are never rid
of it, day or night. Disgust and nausea de-
prive them Of their appetite and of the power
of sleep, and the scene Is more dreadful even
than Dantes visions Of the Inferno. Still it is
a necessary labor. US otherwise the whole
country around would be uniullabitabie.
At a late me tiny to re6rganizc the New
York Infant Asylum and Founding Hospital,
resolutions were adopted 70 so conduct ii as
to save the mothers as well as lessen the NOR
tality among deserted infants. During the
meeting DR.. Willard Parker gave some start
ling statistics: Among $4,000 births annually
in that city $500, he said, were not in wedlock,
and about 3oo0 foandlings die annually of
neglect. Ot 5,lU7 deaths in 1869, 74O5 were |
children under Ole year of age, equal to
81 4.l0 per cent. ~ Ill the deaths and in 1870
the number oil infants dying amounted to 81
per cent OF the whole ueaLh rate As an Illus
tratIon Of The necessity of mothers care he |