The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-02 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Among the deaths registered at the Bureau of
Vital Statistics in Washington is that of William
Daily, a native of Killereen, Ireland, who died
at his residence, No. 338, East Sixteenth-street,
New York, at the advanced age of one hun-
dred and six. Daily was born in the year 1760,
was a man of compact build, about five feet three
inches in height, with large, well-developed head
and chest, high forehead, and a very intelligent ex-
pression of face. In early life he worked hard, and
for many years past was temperate and abstemious.
In Ireland he was an extensive farmer and held
positions of responsibility and trust, but sudden
misfortune, late in life, led him to follow to Ame-
rica his daughter, who had been residing there a
number of years. He emigrated to New York in
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1848, and has since resided there, leading a quiet
and rather inactive life. This removal from his
native island he often thought was unfortunate for
him, and he often expressed the belief "that it
would shorten his life." At home he had the repu-
tation of being the strongest man in the county
where he resided, was always a quiet and peaceable
man, but with a high seise of justice, which led him
physical strength ; until the
life the powers of his mind
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he, until the attack of disease, might well have passed
for a strong, robust man of 70 years. His eldest
daughter, with whom he lived the last eighteen
years of his life, is nearly sixty-nine years of
age, but looks like a woman of forty-five to fifty.
Daily was married twice, first after he had attained
the age of thirty. He had seven children, all by
his first wife.
Three of his children are still living.
He had a sister who died at the age of one hundred
and three, andhis father attaiusd the same age. He
frequently mentioned the fact of his having been
permitted to shake hands with George 111. It is
a remarkable fact that he was never much of a
sleeper. As far back as his eldest daughter can re-
member he had required but very little sleep, fre-
quently sleeping but from two to three hours in the
night, seldom in the daytime. He was never sick
for a day until his final illness. He used tea and
coffee, but of late years seldom ever tasted alcoholic
stimulants of any kind. Dr. 11. M. Field, who was
his attending physician, says, " Like Dr. Parr, our
patient kept his pipe alive to the last." For the
latter part of his life he took great interest in read-
ing and hearing read the history of the American
Revolution, many of the events of which he remem-
bered as conteniporaneous with his early life.'
The Cincinnati Commercial says in that city con-
ductors and drivers on street railroads get but nine dol-
lars a week ; barbers make from twelve tolifteen dollars ;
waiters, eight dollars; boys and girls, who manufacture

The New York Tribune reckons the bank swind-
lings and embezzlements in America from May, 1865, to
May, 1866, at about $8,164,000, besides $3,472,000 of what
it calls " vulgar and violent robberies."
The citizens of Columbia, South Carolina, have
appointed a committee to ascertain whether General Sher-
man or Confederate General Hampton burnt that city.
Of course they will decide that -General Sherman is the
guilty one.
The ladies of Columbus, Mississippi, recently
decorated the graves of the Confederate dead in the ceme-
tery of that city. They also paid the same mark of respect
to the memory of some forty Federal soldiers buried near
by. This act elicits the approval of the press of that city,
which claims that, the war being over, no distinction
should be made between the deceased heroes of opposite
sides.

" The Ladies' Home Gazette" is to be the title of
a weekly literary paper, which will soon make its appear-
ance at Atlanta, Georgia. Mrs. L. Virginia French, one of
the most accomplished women of the South, is to be the
editor.

The new Masonic Temple now in process of erec-
tion in Bostbn wOrsurpass anything of its kind in the
United States, and will cost, with the land, about 5400,000.
The anti-negro riots in Memphis have resulted in
the destruction of all the churches wherein blacks tried to
worship God, and all the school-houses wherein they were
trying to educate their children. It isn't pretended that
anybody tried or wished to destroy white men's churches
or their children's school-houses.
" Prince " John Van Buren, with his two
daughters, arrived at Liverpool by the Scotia, last Satur-
day, and proceeded to the metropolis.
General Beauregard, of the late Confederate
service, arrived by the Scotia, and took apartments at the
Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool. His appearance on 'Change in
Liverpool attracted some interest and curiosity. It is said
he comes to England in connection with business relating
to a Southern Railway.
The President has lately pardoned General
Hayes, of Louisiana, in order to permit him to take
the office of Sheriff, to which he has been elected in
New Orleans.

William M. Gwin has been released from im-
prisonnient in a fortress near New Orleans, and has given
his parole.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, it is said, intends to remain
permanently with her husband at Fortress Monroe until
his trial.

Mr. Bandmann, the German actor who made
such a sensation in New York a year or two since, is
shortly expacted in this country.
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Mr. William Swinton, a New York journalist
and author, is about visiting England.

Dr. J. G. Holland (" Timothy Titcomb") has
left the Springfield Republican, with which journal he has
been connected for a number of years, and will devote all
his time now to the "making of books." Dr. Holland is
mentioned among the intending tourists to this country.
Paul H. Hayne, a Southern name not unknown
in literature, is in Augusta, Georgia, writing for the press
there. He lost a great deal of property by the war, and
now finds his talents and his pen of service to him.
Hon. Daniel S. Dickenson's life was insured for
$25,000.

The House of the Tennessee Legislature has
passed a resolution, by 0 to 11, declaring that Jefferson
Davis and other leading rebels have forfeited their lives,
ought to suffer death, and be held infamous for ever.
Sterling King, the ex-Confederate Colonel, who
announced himself the assassin of Mr. Lincoln, died of
starvation in Louisville. The wretched man, who was in
prison on a charge of stealing horses, first attempted
suicide by cutting his throat, but failing in this, deter-
mined to starve himself to death. He lived forty days,
taking a small portion of soup only five times during that
period. When he died he was a Imre sk?.l3ten.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SCOTT AT -WEST POINT.

—This veteran hero made his usual annual visit to West
Point on May 10. The occasion was taken advantage of

1.49, honour the old soldier by the officers of the army on
'-duty. General Van Vliet placed at the dispc-"„al of the
General the Government steamer a W. Th'omas. The
Lieutenant-General was accompanied by two members of
his staff in Mexico, Colonels Munroe and Van Buren ; also
by Majer-Generals Pleasanton, Butterfield, Potter, Van
Vliet and Vogdes, and a select party of prominent civilians.
General Vogdes sent the band of the First Regular Artil-
lery with the company. On passing Castle William,
Governor's Island, a salute of thirteen guns was fired,
by order of General Butterfield, in honour of the hero
of two wars. At dinner on board the steamer toasts
in honour of General Scott were drank with much enthu-
siasm
by all the party. The Lieutenant-General expressed
himself much indebted to all for their courtesy and kind-
ness. On the way up the river every steamer honoured
the Lieutenant-General by salutes and dipping their
colours. Passing Stony Point, a place famous in revolu-
tionary story, and " Benny Havens, 0 !" a place well re-
membered by many living West Pointers, the band played
appropriate airs. On arriving at West Point the Lieute-
` nant-General was received with due honours by General
Cullum, Colonel Black, and Captain Boynton. The cadets
were out on parade and presented a fins appearance. The
Lieutenant-General is in rather feeble health.—New York
Herald.

Mr. George Peabody is stopping at the house of

his sister, at South Danvers, Mass. He declined any for-
mal reception from the citizens of his native place. He
desires to remain quiet for several weeks at the house of

his sister, after which he will probably visit various parts
of the United States. It is his present intention to remain
in America about a year.

The heirs of the revolutionary Gen. Kosciusko
have lost a suit for six hundred acres of land situated near
White,Sulphur Springs, Ohio.

A resident of Memphis has sued the Avalanche
for libel in saying that he had been a rebel. Tho damages
are laid at $50,000. .

The Government and people of Nova Scotia are
honouring the memory of Dr. Slater, the physician who lost
his life by cholera while devotedly serving on board the
plague steamer England. The House of Assembly has
unanimously voted the sum of two thousand dollars to the
widow, and the people propose to raise a monument near
the scene of his labours.

The body of the lamented Preston King, late
Collector of Customs for New York city, was found float-
ing in the Atlantic basin on the 14th instant, and identi-
fied beyond doubt. It had been six months and a day
under the waters of the bay, until the cord by which the
bag of shot was fastenod had rotted off, when it rose to
the surface and floated.