The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-14
NEWS OF TEE DAY.

--, NEWS OF TEE DAE.
1T is said that Victor Emanuel has felt the
first blow of that terrible malady With which
he has been 80 long hreatened-apoplexy.
New York sbjures visiting cards, gorg-
equally bounc book, being kept on the hall
table Of every house for the visitor to write
his name. ,i......s..
New York has been suffering from wa
ter famine. The water connection, the pipes
and the reservoirs were all out OF order ana
Inhabitants we're put to great inconvenience.
California eclIpses the centenarian records
OF humanity with live frog. lately set free
from the centre OF stratum of sandstone,
which, according to Sir VIM. Thompson's
chronology, must be several million years old.
1t is hInted that Senator Pomeroy will at |
tempt 10 explain his alleged bribery OF Colonel |
York, by representing that he merely asked
Colonel York to hold the money while he went |
down stairs.
The Swiss Council of State has stopped
the salaries for three months of all priests
who read from their pulpits an unauthorized
Pspal brief establishing separate bishopr!c
for Geneva The conference at Basle has de-
-termined to create q grand Swiss bIshopric of
dissidents from Rome. ,s
Some one In New York has an Idea Of
founding q city of strasbourg In the United
States, the nucleus Of colony which will
mite the scattered natives Of Asace and Lor-
faiue who arrive In America. By ADVERTISE
ment In the New York papers the railway
companies and ali land spectators are In
vited to send inproposals for the sale Of land
TO the company. The land must be near both
wood and water, and on line oil rail-, If pos.
slble, though the last Is not essential.
Surrogate Coffin, of Westchester, New
York, rendered his decision on Monday, sd-
hitting to probate the will of Mr.. Greeley Of
1871, The surrogate, In announcing his de-
cIsion after reviewing the testimony, said that
while there are circumstances, that may be
consistent with the soundness of mind there
iore sane, they certainly, II strikes me, are not
inconsistent with continued unsoundness
where IT! has been once clearly established.
The onus was upon the proponent to remove
any DOUBTS upon the subject were 1t practi-
cable to do 3d.. There ia no evidence ss to
where the will was written or its attendant
circumstances, or as to where 1t was found, or
that thedecedent had any agency In Its pro-
duction or formal execution, and the evidence
oftDr, Choate, the medical expert, is not per.
mitted to be given. In this instance We have
the general insanity Of the decedent estab-
lIshed, and no sufficient proof that at the time
of the fdct,lm there was an interval of reason.
Applying the above principles to this state OF
facts, it follows that the will Of 1872 must be
refused probate. The will OF 1871 having been
duly proven, must therefore be admitted as
thelast Will and testament OF Horace Greeley.
On Monday the surrogate received dis.
patch from Isaiah T. Williams, asking for the
decIsion.! The surrogate replied that the will
or 1871 had been admitted to probate. Mr..
Williams then asked that appraisers be ap-
pointed and letters Of a6ministrstlon Issued.
When the executors fil the proper bonds and
comply with the law these letters of admins.
tration will be given and appraisers appointed.
The cost Of growing cotton In India is said
to be about six cents per pound, and 1t can be
laid down In Liverpool at eight and one.halt
cents, whereas 1t is claimed that the average
cost to the planter In this country is consider
ably more than that, and hence the American
article in Liverpool has this disadvantage COM
reting with Its rival from India. The fuctu..
lions OF the, English market now regulate the
amount efcotton planting In the United States,
and If India cotton Is to be made still cheaper
the American culture will, ir Is assumed, have
toslook to its laurels. American cotton, how
ever, is very much superior to that of India,
and hence Its better price and the greater de-
msnd for 1t. During the period OF lessened
supply of American cotton by reason of the
civilwar; the production Of the India article
was greatly stimulated, but the moment the
American cotton was on hand freely again
and prices came down to proportlonate
standard, the inferior India article had to give
way to avery large extent. But 1t is now
held that the lowest limit In price and the
highest range in grade of India cotton have
not yet been reached, and the fact is cited that
:he recent vast expenditures of the East India
Government for improving and Increasing the
bear their full fruits. Since 1860 nearly five
thousand miles of railway have been built for
developing the cotton lands Of India, and
outone-quarler OF these improvements have
been made within two years. and in addition
great expense has been bestowed upon the
river navigation of the country.
"A Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald on Sunday interviewed COM
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