The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-01-04
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News Scraps mad Gatherings.
~ AIdaring attempt was made on 22d
of. Decemberto rob the dwelling of Mr..
AYILLIAM HART sen. OF ST. MATTHEW'S
ifs'.ARIsiI, sc.
e In E,Iorenco,l Alabama, the town
council have raised tho license for retain
ing spirituous liquors to onesthousand dol
Jars, and on billiard tables and Sten.pin al. 4
leys to fiyefhundred dollars.
u Anncre is comprised within the dis
ltance Of 220 feet length and .l05 feet
width. A square acre is attraction a loss
than 209 feet each way, being less than
one inch too much either side. f.s;
aJ-. EpwARp III. CouRrsAY, Professor
of Mathematics insthc University of .Yir-
1 gina, died on the 2ist inst, ut the resi-
dence Of the University! 4. 4 q
SuJls The manufacture ;of the CHlcHER-
iNGypianos will mot be stopped ainsc sconsc-s
,qucnce iofdhe death Of SAir. CuIskER1NG.
His sons contimetbc business.
" The JEFFERsoNIlN of Linden, Mar
lengo county, Alabama, Of tho l2lh inst,
says: The plantation belonging 10 the cs-
tate OF Isaac Curtis, in this county. and
managed bysIsaac Holder, will, we learn,
make the large yiell 5ofsnine bales tofcoi.!l
tonper hand. Beat il who can -
~ we learn By the Unionyile Jour,l-
a, Of the 23l inst, thut on.tues1ay night
last JAMES A. Price, who had been con-
fined in Union Jail ic nwait his itralsor,
4 the murder Of S;os.s HucnEs, ST., broke
1 Jail and has made lis escape.
~ In the Legislature of Georgia, a
! bill has been lintrod.,ced 10 establish a
system of ofcommou. school educalionin The
! State, ndtoappropriate S2o0,000 for he
:. education of poor chidrenain the different
J counlies. ts
@ 0JF lu New York, on Tuesday. 900 bales
Of Cotton were disposed Of, at decline Of
'ISI-2 c,principally onthelowcr qualities
Coffee was very firm. :BREApsruffs were
firm. 200 bb!s. OF Crude iTURpgsTISf:
changed hands at 81. 81 l-2 per Dbl. A5=
ssG The to,aI.whiie population Of tic
EUniled States is found to hc 10. 9.553,0GS;
4 free colorcd 434;49J; slaves a30i,3l3 II
Total 22,19l,s76
/ ~ Mr. Patrick McCarey, a freight Con.
ductor on the Sou:i, Carolina Railroad,
was INSTANTLY killed Oh Sunday last a,
| Hamburg, hysbeing jnmbel between the
cars while attaching them together,
! f5y The Savannah Morning Ne,rs
understands that counterfeit iittysdollar
! bills ofstlie Bank OF Hamburg, s. c., are
| in: circulation III the western part OF Geor-
!, gia. They are said TO be extremely well
executed and consequently yditficnlttodis.
4 tingiiisb The - " szs7 ~
E;5IE y Pope IS ! Ny yIensisgnes
iSnGEssW. snohh s &, s
1 - .ssrds m =, u
Whp'SSs IN Conflict wei. ns.issa ;nss..iisa. Nine
c,tss3 So Y src shot, so,ue OF lhc,n are
mortaly wounded; one died inlnelia,eiy,
~ II is reported TINT there is to be n
newspaper established at .Orangcburg C.
Ill I.
4 ~ The entire cost Of The NcwsO or.
leans Custom House will be, ills estinat.
ed, about S3,oO0000. iSl,405 ,oOUhas al.
ready been expended upopIt.
~ The oldest preacher IL the world
is the Rev. Robert Fletcher, of London
who in February next will be lO7 years
I, old. ~
GSY The Mcssrs. SrAHDroRD g.
SWORDS recently purchased FROM the
Mcssrs. HAErER all theplates ofthc Stan.
dard Edition OF the Common Prayer, and
most fortunately the delivery took place
onthe day preceding the great fire which
ldcstroyed the establishment oftre Messrs.
! HAnrERs. d
w The protector connecting B,ti.5
more with Liverpool by line of side
wheel steamers is TO be taken in hand on
the openingiofs sthe,new year.
~ bill is before the G corpia i, ,4is-
latare tochange the name OF Mary Dolly
Doxy Anna l Lewis TO that'uf Mary Dolly
poAy Aney sapp Both are bad enough,
but we think Mss Mary Dolly SC, had
better stick 10 Lewis.
q cotton factory llasjust been erect.
cd near Monticello, sin FIorida, for the \
manufacture Of fOsnabnrgs. This is the
third I'm establishment of the kind in middle
Florida.
+ U ln New Yotk city Aiere..are 40.
schools attended by l3o,5l7l schohrs.-
The sum of $3o6is06 was paidIor teach