The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-09
NEWS SUMMARY.

ISAAC DAVEGA, Agent in New YORK.
NEWS SUMMARY..
Gold closed in New York yesterday at -
The sentence Of LYNCH and MCMAHON, the con-
demned Fenians, has been commuted.
Innortant Mexican news will be found in ano-
ther column.
The deaths by cholera in Cincinnati stu average
about twenty per day.
r. 3. OArHERwoop, Of New York. has received
exclusive franchise from the City Council OF lndi-
annapolis for fifty years for the construction OF
water works to supply that city with water.
A fire broke out on Sunday night in grocery
store in Nashville, and damaged or destroyed three
other buildings adjoining, among them the Varie.
ties theatre. The total loss is estimated at
$92, 600.
The Secretary of the Treasury is preparing his
report for Congress, aud will be so employed Tor
several weeks. In the meantime Hon. VIM. E.
OHAND1ER, Assistant Secretary, performs the du-
ties Of Secretary.
The Nashville Republican, Banner says that the
rubbish Of the burnt district is. being rapidly
cleared up and IL is understood that the whole tef-
ritory is to be covered with new block that will
do honor 10 the city and its architects.
Government received $7,115,442 from Internal
Revenue last week, making the total income from
from this source since July i, 1885, $129 852; or
equal to an average Of more than seven millions
week, which would give yearly aggregate OF over
39e5, ,000,o0
The resting places Of tho Union soldiers, who
died during the war, are to be marked hereafter
with cash iron head blocks instead Of the wooden
.ones as at present in the various national ceme-
teries. The name, number, &C., Of each colder
are to be cast in raised letters.
The Trustees Of the Agricultural College at Am
herst Mass., have chosen MIR. PAUL A. CHAD
BOURNE, Professor of Natural History in Williams
College, end State Senator from Northern Berk-
shire for The last two years, to succeed Mr. FRENCH
as It's President.
The managers Of the Fall River mills have agreed
TO adopt the ten-hour system on the 1st Of Janu-
airy, or before, If the mills at Lowell and Lawrence
viii unite in the arrangement. The operatives,
however, decline to resume work till the new sys-
tenn goes into effect.
The recent assertion of o New York journal to the
effect that the largest cotton crop ever made in
Louisiana under the most favorable circumstances
was $4,000 bales is entirely disproved by the CEN
gus Of 1859, which shows that in that year III, ,798
bales were produced in the State referred to.
Ayoung Japanese Officer named Krro, has arrived
1t Monson, Mass, and will be instructed in the
English language by. Rev. CHARLES HAMMOND,
Principal of the Academy. he has been in the
Japanese military service, and served gun against
the English in the battle in the harbor Of Kagosi
mo, in 1854. -
The Wine Growers State Convention Of Califor-
mia has adopted memorials to Congress and to the
Pacific Congressional Delegation, asking reduc-
tion Of the tax on manufactured grape brandy to
the ratio in force last year. and that the import tax
on foreign wines costing fifty cents or loss per
gallon be raised to specific duty Of fifty conts per
gallon.
The Commissioners appointed to recommend to
the Vermont Legislature the contributions which
that State should make to the National Gallery Of
gtatuary at Washington, have decided upon statues
Of ETHAN ALLEN and Senator JACOB Co1LAMEn
each to be seyen-and-a-haf feet in height The
work will probably be done by the sculptors Pow
Ens and MEAD each furnishing one statue.
The Fredericksburg Neaos, of Friday, says {:
"some eighty OF ninety negroes, stolen during the
war, have boon recently landed at Tappahannock
to be taken care of by their former owners. The
Freedmen's Bureau having no further use for
them, furnished transportation Free About one
hundred and fifty have been landed at different
points on the Rappahannock.
The Bandusky, Ohio, Register states that the
manufacture OF flour in sandusky this year will
probably not much exceed half the usual amount
IN former years. This is owing to the short olop
in Ohio md the difficulty of getting wheat from
other markets. While the city millers have usual
ly4nado large shipments East, they this year dis
noso Of the bulk of their flour for home oonsump-
ton. z===
Tho business Of manufacturing at tho Column
bus, Ohio, Penitentiary is increasing SO rapidly
that the old buildings arc inadequate, and an ad-
diton ono hundred and twelve feet long by thirty
three feet wide, has beon recently built, increasing
tho manufacturing facilities one hundred per cont.
by reason of tho additional room obtained for i'm
proved machinery. A new building, fifty by sev-
enty feet is in course of erection for blacksmith
shop ard flo works.
a now and dangerous countorf,it of United
States legal tender notes Of tho denomination Of
$50 lately mads it's appearance at the Treasury
Department. and was pronounced by Gen. SPIN
NER, United States Treasurer, to be one Of tho
most skilfully executed ever brought to his notice.
The spuris us note detected by tho vignotto Of
Con. ALEXANDRA HAMILTON, First Secretary of the