The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-27
News Summary.

IN SwS summary.
Gen. GusTAvus W. SMITH is engaged in superin-
tending rolling mill at Chattanooga.
Professor BLOT commences series Of lectures
on cookery at Worcester, Mass Oh Monday next.
Abiography of JOHN LEEcu, so long the lead
ing illustrator OF Punch, is to be written by Dr..
JOHN BROWN, of Edinburgh, author of "R OBJ and
His Friends"
WILKIE COLLINS having completed his romance
OF "Armadale" in the June number OF the "Corn-
hill" it is announced that Miss THAoKERY will be-
gin new story in the July number. "a
Lord NoRpuRY having been asked to contribute
shilling to help bury an attorney who had died
poor, exclaimed, "Only shilling to bury an at
torneyl Here's guinea; 60 and bury twenty OF
theml"
few days since negro in King William coun-
ty, Virginia. killed monster blacksnake eight
feet long, and containing in it's stomach youn G
rabbit, five partridge eggs, two frogs, two hen
eggs, lzzard, and small chicken.
A case of murder, too horrid for recital, occu r.
red near Medina, New York, on the 18th inst. A
clergyman, named LINDsLEy whipped his son, q
child three years old, 80 sayagely, that it died
under the infliction. In tho statement before the
Coroner's jury the father confesses to have con-
tinued the chastisement for more than two hou, g..
The Macon Telegraph says: Gen. B. f. Blu T.
LER, in his recent speech in Boston, claimed th at
'as conquerors we {Northern people) have ac-
quired the title by conquest to all the people Of
the Southern States have Of life, liberty, land,
rights, constitutional or otherwise If the share
Of the Beast should be proporioned to his part of
the fighting and conquests, the addition to his
fortune would not buy him dinner"
person who had recently visited the Shenan-
doah Valley says it is wonderful to see the pro-
fusion OF cattle and poultry in this ''denuded" "
valley, after the devastation it was said to have
nlasassfd,, Except the absence OF fences in some
barn, no one won13 an, fertilization or burnt
tho --,-s. So ~ 'u!RRoss !S as aSfpB5] H} hepntp
all the destruction that has been made, excep t
loss Of life.
The sugar lands which lie along the banks of
the nsvigable streams in louisiana are now oh T.
ly devoted to cotton. During the war good deal
OF the necessary machinery was destroyed, and
much Of the plant cane was lost. The planters
have not had the necessary means to renew their
material, and consequently sugar ceases for the
time being to be staple product Of Louisiana,
Notwithstanding the fact that sue was once the
third sugar exporting country in the world.
They are going to have new METROPOLITAN
Methodist Episcopal "Temple" at Washington, to
SooV SAaotoVo' 1p ID w 10 put6y fOtn1o BtY16,
entirely built OF stone, 112 feetby 49, The steeple
will be on the corner Of Four-and-a-haif and O -.
street, 15o feet in height The frat floor will be
occupied on the east side with an infants depart
ment 80 by 80 feet, beautifully arranged"
Query-Would not plain old JOHN WESLEY be
somewhat surprised were he accidentally to lose
his way into this ''Temple ?"
a novel insurance case mas been decided in Mis-
souri,. The question arose upon the following
facts proyed building is insured against loss by
fire. It falls down, being heavily overloaded with
merchandise; the fall occasions a fire, which de-
stroys the fallen material. Query-is the insur-
ance company liable2 The Court decided that the
building insured having fallen, ceased to exist
as such, and that it ceased to exist by reason of a
peril insured against, and hence that the com.
pany was not liable. I.'
There was case short time ago before JUDGE
q. w. THOMAS, Of the Seventh Judicial Circuit Of
Virginia, State Court, in which he refused to
admit the testimony OF colored persons, on the
ground that he must be governed by the laws of
the State Of Virginia, which excluded such to IT,
mony in cases between whites. It now app ears
that Judge THOMAS was indicted for this offence
by UNDERwooDs Grand Jury at Richmon d, at the
time that Court was in session. No steps have
yet been taken to arrest Judge THOMAS to answer
the indictment.
The Wytheville, Va, Dispatch has the follow
ing: "We are called upon to chronicle an awful
casualty which occurred at our depot on Sunday
evening, as the cars were about starting east
Mr.. JAMES BYRN an employee on the Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad, who intoxicated, OF on
the train, with some of his friends, but he got off
again for some frivolous purpose: his friends in
the meantime persuading him to get on ag ain, he
did so but fell of, after the train had started and
gone but short distance, passing over him, cut
ting off both legs and ono of his arms. He was
picked Zip, and lived but five minutes. In his
pockets were found two bottles Of liquor"
The Richmond freedmen do not otappear to have
settled down yet to the quiet status Of peaceable
citizenship. The papers are full Of rows and
fights We extract one at random from the Dis
patch OF Monday "On Saturday night two negroes
living in the vicinity Of Chimborazo got into a
fight For a timo they used nothing but the wea-
pons which nature had given them; but at last
they seized rocks, and beat each Other vigprou sy
One Of them dealt, the othera iretnendSus blow
upon ths bead, fraoturing the a4ullin two places.
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