The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-20
NEWS SUMMARY.

acres Of the public lands disposed Of for actual
settlement and cultivation under the Homestead
law.
It is e singular coincidence that Major General
GRANT, q Scotch officer in the British army, in
1775 defeated Gen. LEE, in command OF the Amer
ican forces in New Jersey, and afterwards pro-
NOTED to the rank of Lieutenant-G and sub
sequently to that of General in the British army
He died every old" ct his scat at Ballendauock,
near Elgin, Scotland, in 1906.
The latest news from the seat of war in Paraguay
strengthens the belief in speedy end Of the war
The fortifcations of the Paraguayans are every
day made more inpregnable. The Argentine Re
public and Uruguay have actually withdrawn from
the contest and Brazil alone can raise neither the
men nor the money required for the continuation
Of the war.
We learn from a telegraphic dispatch to New
York paper that HENRY BYRD LEWIS. near male
descendant Of GEORGE WASHINGTON, was convicted
last night at King Georges Court House, Of volun-
tary manslaughter, in killing DR.. Ross some five
years ago. He was sentenced to tlree years; and
six months in the Penitentiary. The jury recon-
nended the prisoner to mercy. The trial lasted
ten days.
We learn from the New York Euen5ng Post Of
Monday, that the funeral Of PAUL DRAYroN, Most
Worshipful Past National Grand Master of the
colored Masonic fraternity, took place yesterday
from Zion Methodist Episcopal Church, ,corner Of
Bleecker and West Tenth streets. At the time Of
Mr. DRAYToNs death he on q mission to South
Carolina to organize Masonic Lodges among the
colored people.
It is related, says the New York Times, OF son
Of ROBERT E; LEE, that at recent dinner party
4 in Richmond one Of the guests proposed as a
toast tsThe Fallen Flag" Col. LEE promptly
placed his hand upon the glass, and arose.
Gentlemen" said he, ssthis will not do. We are
paroled prisoners. We now have but one flag, and
that is the flag Of our whole couptry-Ghe glorious
old stars and stripes. can recognize no other,
fight for no other, and will drink to no othern'
a ;telegraphic dispatch $50; the Tribune says)
states that a man supposed: to be- :srEpHENs,
the SsHead Centre OF the Fenian Organisation
has been arrested in Norfolk (England(. The
question Of identity has yet to be settled however,
and from the cleverness which STEPHENS displayed
I'm evading pursuit after his 1oeaAex~bae% oeoepe
from Dublin prison, we shall not be at all SUR
prsed to learn that, this instance the authori-
ties have got hold Of the wrong man, as it is high
~ improbable that the tsHead Centre" has been so
careless Of himself as such speedy arrest would
imply.
From the December number Of the Indiana
School Journal we gather the following education
al statistics Of that State for the present year:
The whole number of children, between the ages
Of six and twenty one, is $780, IT'S; school districts
S399; districts in which schools taught within
the year, 8166; pupils attending primary schools,
39O,714 attending high schools II ,098; number of
teachers employed, 9493; expended for tuition,
$1020,440 schoolhouses built within the year 346;
total value Of school property, $4515, ,7s4; total
number Of school-houses, 1891; number of private
schools 2O26.
The Tennessee House of Representatives on
Monday, passed the Senate bill loaning State bonds
to the following railroads: Memphis and Ohio,
$2oo0OO; Mississippi and Tennessee, $3.50, ,Oc0;
Knoxville and Charleston, $500, 900; Cincinnati,
Cumberland Gap and Charleston, $780, 600; Ten
nessee and Virginia, $500 600; Knoxville and Ken
tucky, $500, 900; Nashville and Northwestern, $780,
600; Washington and Alabama, $3.50, 600. This bill
goes to the Senate for concurrence in an amend
ment appropriating s150,000 to the East Tennes-
see and Western North Carolina and 100000 to
the Atlantic, Tennessee and Pacific Railroads
week ago last Sunday son Of PHILLIP GREE
LEY Of Chicago, was left at home with two younger
children. The lad nine years DID, discovering that
the house was on fire, directed the escape Of his
brother and sister, then he started of on run to
the church, which he entered, and marched
straight up the broad aisle, where he caught the
eye Of the preacher. teMr. CoI11ER," said the
little fellow, sis my father here? If he is tell him
OAAoO oA Aouso Is I'll on ure ana GnaC ne must come
home as soon as he can" The father and the COZ
gregation as well started instantly for the fire and
saved considerable portion Of the furniture, al
though the house was seriously damaged.
Fathers CLEARY and DoNNE1LY OF? New York.
recently brought suit in the Superior Court at
Boston, to recover $500 from Mr.. DoNAHoE, Of the
Boston PIot The circumstances were that the
Rev. DR.. cAHnL, when lying at the point Of death,
delivered in trust to Mr.. DoNAHoE about $500
with instruction to. send $4,000 to his executors,
$500 to his servant, and to expend the remainder
IN paying the expenses Of his sickness and burial
Under these instructions, Mr.. DoNAHoE expended
$500 on the funeral ceremonies. This. the plain
tltts claimed, unusual and extravagant ex-
pendlture. Mr.. DoNAHoE insisted that it was no
more than was needed in the case OF man Of DR..
CAHH1s social position and dignity in the Church.
The latter view was sustained by the decision Of
j the Court. ,
The Western Cb1:ttaa Aduocate has the follow
ang information, which corresponds with what we
nave learned through other sources. "a private
letter rom New York says that authors keep busy
making books, but publishers are coy. The de-
mand Tor books this season is not what it was
year ago. Then the public 1Eaw was Unsuitable.
Paper makers, presses, and binders were pushed
TO distraction; now there is quiet. English books
are occupying the market largely, and several
American houses find it cheaper to send their
stereotype plates to England rather than have the
york done here. Appropos to this letter a New