The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-19
NEWS SUMMARY.

NE Wo ~ M NlkA1C I !:@
There is young man named BATES, in Ken
lucky, who is seven feet eleven inches high
DAVID Il. LANE, in Chicago, on going to bed,
blew out his gas and was found dead in the morn
ing.
bill is before the Alabama Legislature to di-
vide the school fund pro rata between the white
and black schools.
The Now York College Of Dentistry have just
established dispensary in Fifth avenue for the
treatment Of all complaints Of that character for
everybody desiring it, free Of charge.
Four hundred and three vessels laid up in Chica-
60 include three steamers, nineteen propellers,
thirtyfve tugs, forty-eight barks eighteen briggs,
and twenty y-nine schooners.
In the Legislature Of Virginia, the Senate passed
the House bill extending the time fixed by the
present Staw Law for payment Of interest on old
debts to August 1867. N
The quantity Of tea entered at the port of Lon
don for home consumption amounted in 1866 to not
less than 81 900, 900 pounds which produced GIGS
per cent Of the whole duty collected in the United
Kingdom.
President JoHNsoN's household is thus organized
under law passed BY Congress at it's last session:
Private Secretary, ROBERT JOHNSON; Assistant
Secretary: ROBERT MORROW Secretary to- sign
land pateuts, EDWARD D. NELL ;:Aides-de Camp,
Col. W: G. MOORE, Lieut.. Col. WRIGHT RrvRs,, Col
ANDREW K. LONG.
gentleman who spent two years in the Oil Re
gons Of Pennsylvania, after careful examination,
gives it as his opinion that Chesterfield county,
Va, is rich in Petroleum. A shaft is being sunk
for this purpose within 600 yards of Coal Field de-
pot, on the Richmond and Danville Railroad, thir-
teen miles from Richmond.
The ladies Of the Fredericksburg Memorial AS
sociaton gratefully acknowledge the receipt of six
hundred dollars from the Memorial Association Of
Montgomery, Alabama, through the hands of the
Rev. DR.. SAMUEL T. Cox, Of that city. This fund
is to be appropriated to RENTER the remains Of
soldiers from Alabama who fell in that county.
The New York Sun says: Several hundred
Irish immigrants, recently arrived, are leaving
this port every week, on their way back to their
native land. They came here with false ideas Of
the employment that awaits thet1h and finding d
themselves disappointed think ppverty Ii ill., their
own country preferabfg to similar dasatiffnfion
among strangers
dispatch from Portland, December Is, says:
The rivers in Maine are about sealed up by thaice;
butts the extraordinary fine weather Of the Iast
month enabled the lumber1nen to send almost
every foot of their produce to- Market. Attention
is now being directed to lrmbering in the woods,
which will be conducted this winter to an unusual
extent.
A letter from Little Rock, Arkansas, says the es-
innate heretofore accepted for the cotton crop this
year is greatly too large; not more than onehalf
the number of bales in 1860 will be made though
the cotton will class much higher, owing to the ia
vorable season for saving it. The writer puts
down the entire crcp Of the South at less than
one million bales.
Kentucky gentleman and his wife, Of the high
est character resided before the war sometimes
at Frankfort and sometimes at Chicago. On the
breaking out of the war the husband went into the
Confederacy. In 1862 he embarked on a ship and
ran the blockade. News came that the shin was
lost, and.he WAS not heard from until recently
when he made his appearance to find his wife mar
ried again.
The Richmond Dispatch Of Monday says: seRev
JOHN A. BRoADUs, Of Greenville, s. c. will deliver
two lectures before the Young Mems: 'Christiat
Association, on Thursday and Friday nights next
We need not urge our readers. to go, to hear this
eloquent and able divine We promise, il advance
. rich intellectual treat to those who are so for
tunate as to be Of the audience on either occasion
The place Of delivery will be announced in a few
days.
Fhe British: Board Of Trade, in It's latest pub
lished report, gives some important statements in
regard TO the density Of population in various
countries. According to this report, Great Bri-
tain contains 285 persons to the square mile:
Italy, 22e; France 18o; Prussia 49, Austria, 155;
Spain, "a; Turkey, 10; the United States II; the
Russian Empire, 9; Russia in Europe, 49, and
Brazil, 8. The eight European countries named
are said to contain over 27o, 100000 population
HORACE RANDALL, relation Of the WASHINGTON
and other distinguished families Of Virginia. is
still living in Culpepper County Va, at the age Of
105 - letter which he, wrote to Gen. WASHINGTON
in 1881, complaining the atrocities ofthe raitor
AR1roID; Fauquier County, Va, was found st
Mount Vernon few weeks ago and sent to it's an
thor, who recognized the document as his own,
and told Of many circumstance connected yith
the facts recorded II it.
The Alexandria Gazette. has been informed by
Dr. PAUL GREGORY that he has a specimen Of gold
and q small quantity Of quartz found On land
within six miles Of that city, Weighing two ana q
half ounces, which Professor HENRx thinks is q
pure article. On the farm adjoining the one on
which this specimen was found, the Doctor says
he washed out seven ounces of gold inside Of two
days, and he is under the impression that this gold
is found in the vein which runs through Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia: He has
leased large quantity Of land in the vicinity Of
where his specimens were discovered.
The New York Herald correspondence from Chi
huahua, JuAREz' seat CT government in Mexico, is
dated November 81. The Imperialsts are engag-
ed in Withdrawing their troops from their outposts
in the northern portion of the country with the