Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-01-19
Appointments bv tho pre.,aen,

ny ana ~'th the adr'ee and consent of the Senate.
Pawhatan Ellis to be Charge d'AfTaires
to the United Mexican States.
K. NJ. Patterson, to be Director of the
Mint.
&c. Pickett, to be Fourth Auditor.
Franklin Pcale, to be Meter and Refner
of the Mint, at Philadelphia.
Edward D. Ingraham, Henry Toland,
Cheney Hickman, James Rogers, David
Henshaw, to be Directors Of the Bank of
the United States for the year 1886.
Michigan.-The rapid increase of popu-
lation in Michigan is beyond example, so
much so, that according to the Detroit Free
! Press) the farmers in the interior find it diff.
ficult to reserve sufficient produce for their
own families. Pork is worth % dollars per
barrel; lard, ls cents; butter, % cents;
and all other articles in proportion.
New York Canal.-Thc total number Of
canal boats that arrived and departed from
Albany, during the year 1885, was ten thou
sand nine hundred and sixty. y.seven-and the
sum Of 1857 ,565 26 was paid at the office
in that city for tolls during the business sea-
son of the same year.
The Alliance Mutual Insurance Compa-
ny.-We are happy to learn that this impor.
tant institution has been received with so
much public favor and so large fund is al
ready pledged that at meeting Of the Di.
rectors on Saturday evening it was deter.
mined unanimously to 60 on with business,
and the policies will be made binding this
morning.-N. Y. Jour. Com. 4ts inst.
Handsome Semi.Annual Diridends.-
The Jackson Maine Insurance Company
have declared dividend Of eight per cent.
The Neptune Insurance Company divi-
dend of seven per cent.
The Ocean Insurance Company, ten per
cent.
The New York Insurance Company, five
per cent.
The Ocean Insurance Company Of Bos.
ton, forty per cent.-N. Y. Com. Adr.
The American Sunday School Union have
issued new volume Of Hymns, entitled
Union Hymns. The Hymns arc arranged
according to subjects and form very neat
and portable volume.
Comparative Pauperism in Great Britain
and the United States.-According to q
statement of the last London Quarterly Re.
view, the paupcrs of Great Britain comprise
more than onc-sixth part of the whole por.
ulation, while in the United States, there is
not quite one pauper to eleven hundred and
fifty inhabitants, and near y one half of
these arc foreigners.
Bank Stocks.-Sales have been made
here, within few days, of few shares Of
Bank of the State Stock at $ll2, and ef
few shares of Cape Fear Stock at 500, d.
vidend off.-FayetteciNe Obs.
Census of Boston.-An official report
shows the whole population to be 1868,
of whom 1867 are colored persons. In
1880 the population ofthe city was 81, 1892.
Cold Weather.-At Boston, on the 18th
ultimo, Fahrcnheit's thermometer stood five
degrees below zero, at one o'clock p. M.
"There is no doubt" says the Boston
Atlas, {" that the thermometer in some parts
of the city sunk to I6 degrees below zero.
AtDorchester, at sun rise on that day, the
thermometer indicated degrees below zero,
at noon 13 below, at o'clock II below,
and at six 81 degrees below. At Salem the
mercury fell to l6.
An infant was lately found at the font
door of dwelling in New York, which was
carried to the Almshouse. 1t afterwards
appeared that it had been deposited there
by the brutal father, who, three days after
its birth, took it from his wife and its mother
for that purpose, under pretence of carrying
it to be baptized, and then absconded.
Rerenue of New. York.-We learn that
the amount of revenue collected at the Gus.
tom House in this city during the quarter
ending on the 3Oth September last, amount.
ed to no less sum than $5,472,642 04,
which is more than half the revenue Of the
year 1884.
An amusing incident happened on Tues
day morning last, in the House of Repre-
sentatives, Just before they convened, of
which the following account is given by the
Reporter for the Baltimore Chronicle: "a
Quaker lady in the gallery rose and COM
mcnced an exhortation to the members to
attend more to the principles of religion and
morality, as duty they owed to their God
and country, being Representatives Of the
frccst government in the world, and conclu-
ded by requesting permission to preach IN
. the Capitol this evening. Mr.. Carr was
sent up by the Speaker to cut short her dc;
livery, but the members on the floor CRED
"go on, hear, hear;" but some one near her
prevailed on'hcr to sit down, when mem.
Der arose and observed that he hoped, as
the lady in the gallery had concluded the