The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-10-16
N ews Summary.


York yesterday at 50a.
The Imperiasts have captured Monterey
The Mate of the Eueqsing Star has arrived AZ
May Point Mills, Florida.
There was terrible fro in quebec OIL o''il.."'
Seventeen churches and converts and TWO tnou.
sand houses were destroyed flvo nYes "oio
lost. ~ !
Tho Commissioner of Agriculture estimates tno
cotton crop of the country at SUI, 0oo pales.
CHICAGO is tunnelling her streets to accommo-
date her increasing travel.
New York papers say five thousand fenians 70
going to Mexico. ,..n.,
A satirical and fashionable paper, ito be called
the Whip. is proposed in New York-after the
plan of the London Out
The population Of the Sandwich Islands mas
heen reduced by lcentiousness and dissipation, IN
fifteen years, from 1400 900 to TO- 600.
The richest man in st. Louis is, according to
the late income list JAMES II. LUCAS, whose in-
come is s103,271.
The Texas Legislature has appointed joint
committee to proceed to New Orleans and remove
the remains of ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSON to Austin.
The work of exhuming the Federal dead in the
State of Georgia has commenced, and will he con-
timed until all are removed to the National Oeme-
terry, at Marietta.
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Compa ny
have reduced the fare on their road from i've to
four cents per mile. Let their example be follow
ed in this section.
HThe vote ON the question Of purchasing the Gin
cinnati gas works. in the special election held on
Friday in that city, was overwhelmingly in favor
ofmaking the purchase.
AUGUSTUS N. DICKENS, the youngest brother OF
CHARLES DICKENS the English novelist, died lately
at Chicago. He was in the employ Of the Illinois
Central Railroad.
The banking house of GRuBER & Co., Leaven-
worth. failed lately Their liabilities are $215, ,OO0
their assets 100000 Depositors lose 100000
The failure is bad one, and their friends are try
lug to cover II up as much aa possible.
The yatuc3f real and personal estate in the
county Of New York, as shown by the Commis-
. sioner of Taxes and Assessments is sA7s,o92,o54
an increase over last year of s5l, oil 100. Tie
ratio of oftaxation is about 2.SU per cent.
II is asserted that Mr. GRAU has received an Of
fer from San Francisco to introduce R1sroR1 to
the miners of the Pacific slope. He also only asks
100000 for the privilege of letting the golden
dusttaen of California see the great Italian twenty
4 FIVE times.
The earnings of the Atlantic and Great Western
Railway during the first eight months of the pre-
sent year were, in round numbers three million
six hundred thousand dollars, an increase over
the corresponding months in 1865 Of about ten per
cent
VANDERBILT is becoming the Colossus of Roads,
so far as the Empire State is concerned He
owns most of the Hudson River road, as well as
the Harlem (the latter being "cornered" on him
at a cost of about $3.50 share), and also con-
trolling interest in the New York Central.
a United States mail box was found lately in a
ravine near st. Joseph, Missouri, broken open and
the contents rifed. It contained through mail
between Atchison and St. Louis. Many OF the
letters had been opened and the Enclosures ex-
tracted
A mechanic named EMORY, atAbany, New York,
has invented a new cotton gin, whose merits are
that it is portable. 1t is provided with q con-
denser, and can be worked as we'll in open air as
in q house, A larger per cent. OF wool is obtained
from the seed and the length of the fabric won
derfully preserved. The value Of the staple to the
manufacturer is enhanced from three to five cents
s per pound. =z.=.
question of great Importance is likely to be
pressed before the Treasury Department for decl-
sion, by the application for bonds involving the
right of the Union Pacific Railroad Company to
assign or transfer its chartered right OF con-
struction so as to enable another company to bulld
any portion of the road. The best legal talent OF
the country will be employed to sustain the aflrm-
ative.
correspondent writing from the West says
Kansas City, Missouri, will soon be city OF
100000 inhabitants. Its annual review OF trade,
as published in the annals of that city, showed a
business OF 81, 6,011 ,30O54. Behind and CONNER
cially tributary to Kansas City is grain and fruit
producing country larger than the States ONO,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota,
with no other outlet save through that city.
The St. Louis, NO., Dispatch says "The other
day, in the afternoon a wolf came into the door
ward of Mr. HAROLD, two miles east OF Butler,
Bates county, in this State and commenced catch
inp chickens woman of the house, ran it to the
fence and, in attempting to pass through, LAID
hold of its hind legs and held it FAST while another
woman present went to the opposite side, and with
club beat it to DEATH
II was at Dusseldorf that the news of the sue
cessful laying Of the Atlantic cable reached Prof
MoRsg. on the 28th of July. A commercial com
many of some OF the most respectable men OF the
CITY. about thrty-fye in number, were celebrating
their annual dinner at the hotel, and hearing that