The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-28
NEWS SUMMARY.
Gold closed at New York Yesterday at 1a2;


histor, Of the late war, to be shortly published
by the National Publishing Company, Philadelphia.
About e NJ OF Christmas Day, frc broke
out III Brcad street, Augusta, resulting ia the de-
struction OF one house. The roof is supposed to
nave caught fire from some fire crackers thrown
there BY boys. No insurance ..-,-
Sixteen thousand cn,grants arrived in New York
during lie month Of November
Ne;, ,ly double the quantity sc lumber has .,ac:,
surveyed at Bangor: Maine this y.. as comna1c;i
with chat Of Lass year.
The Go7crnment sheds ct Brazos. Texas have
boon taken down and removed to Brownsville,
where tilcy viii be turned into winter quarters for
the troops in that locality.
Mr. HENRY, cattle dealer, was robbed on the
slccping-car between Ontario and Suspension
Bridge, on Saturday Of lis pocket-book contain
ing $4,000 in g. lbacks and $4,000 in Canada
bills.
The new Church Almanac gives the following
statistics Of the Episcopal Church in this country
including the Southern States: Whole number Of
parishes. 23o5; whole number Of clergy $3.50; total
membership, 1G1. .224; contributions the past year.
$3,051, 1,eG7.
. ISAAC REDFELD, of Boston, formerly Chief
Justice Of Vermont, has accepted the position Of
counsel for the Government, to look after the
cases now pending in Europe, growing out Of the
seizure Of property alleged to have belonged to the
rebel Government
Hundreds of mules and horses are constantly
passing through Nashville, going South, over the
various railroads Fifteen car loads arrived there
Monday per Louisville, and will be distributed to
Corlnth, Miss, and various points in Georgia, per
Nashville and Decatur and Nashville and Chatta
nooga roads.
Iho Eric Dispatch says that young lady named
HAsK1Ns, who has been teaching school in the
neighborhood Of Like Pleasant, recently under
took to correct pupil, little girl when she was
set upon by an elder sister Of the pupil and cr,ely
beaten. She was thrown down and her skull frac-
tured so that she is now maniac beyond the hope
Of recovery.
The Albany Journal states that the maneled
body OF man was found on the railroad track
near the Center Station on Saturday morning TIC
head could not be found, and the body was horri-
bly, mutilatcd. The remains we're brought to the
city. There was nothing on the body BY which it
could be identified and it is not known where the
accident occurred.
Tennessee paper says: teCot1ee County is fast
becoming Pennsylvania colony. Some fifteen to
twenty families from that State have purchased
lands around Concord and Oak Hill, and are set
ting. They have already laid out some eighty
hve thousand dollars for lands and .tho cry is sii
they come They are excellent iar,acrs ana good
citizens, a2d we have amp room for all such. Ono
Of them has purchased the extensive CArro.y
property.
An account of the disaster TO the Kate Ducr,
says t.lae just as the illfated ship was sinking.
with her pianks torn asunder and her mast falling
around her in confusion, a large Newfoundland
dog was noticed leaping from the main deck after
the body Of a boy who was buffeting with the
waves. Buoying the body upward the noble ami
NAL swan for the Scotland, but such was the vio-
ence Of the sea that the dog lost his hold and the
BODY sank simultaneously with the ship. Tie dog
Is sad to have been rescued by the sailors on
board the Scotland.
The newspapers Of Texas say it is becoming
dl1nculs TO decide whether beef or cotton holds
supremacy in Texas. That great State raises
large quantities Of both, and, having been but lit
tie affected by the war, continued to grow n
prosperity whilst the rest Of the Southern States
retrograded- Stock-raising and the exportation Of
cattle makes fortunes in short time for MANY
Iexans, and it is said that the transportation Of
catte Is now one Of the most lucrative branches Of
southern trade. Northern vessels, unable to earn
renluncratlve freights elsewhere, find it a good
paying business to carry cattle from Texas to
other portions Of the South
branch railroad from the Great Western Rail
way to the oil wells at Petroia, in Canada West
mas been opened. There are now upwards Of 15O
producing wells in Enniskil1en Township. Canada
west, ranging from eight barrels q day to up-
ward. Most Of the wells are pumping wells. but
recently large flowing wells have been struck Of
great magnitude. The latest event or this kind
was the striking Of large flowing well, the capaci
y OF winch ls over 800 barrels Of oil per day This
vel 1s now undor control, after thousands Of bar-
rels nave flown to waste, and it is now kept down
60 2oo barrels per day, till sufficient tankage ac-
commodation is prepared.
The Philadelphia Press gives summary OF the
last report on the G1RAaD estate. Tie estimated
gross revenues for 1s67-'68 are $3.50 600. an i.
crease from last year Of over fifty per cent. The
value OF the reai estate is constantly increasinp
and as it cannot be sold, leased for longer pe
1aod To an I've years, it must always furnish large
and steady revenue. The trust owns nearly two
hundred properties in Philadelphia, consisting Of
stores, dwellings, wharfs, lots and farms. besides
valuable coal and timber lands in schuylkill and
columbia counties. Some Of the rents have been
doubled others trebled. 1t is hoped that the fund
VII soon b able to support twelve hundred Or
phans.
The great Chicago tunnel for supplying pnre
water from the bottom Of the lake is completed.
The tunnel is circle Of b.ick, laid in cement two
miles long, under 80 feet OF land and 50 OF water
the elevation at lake extent being ii feet. From
the lower reservoir the lake shore the watgr is
to be pressed by heavy engines to two higl. reser
voirs, and from them conducted all over The c;tv