The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-28
N ews Summary.

Owing to the 'protracted drought, the tobacco
crop in Cuba is q failure.
Butter is selling in Lynchburg at twenty cents
pound.
A close watch is kept on all the fish markets by
the Irish loyal police, for fear a pike might be
offered for sale. .-- p
San Francisco is goipgto be supplied with water
from lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains by an
aqueduct two hundred miles long. ,@-'
Miss EVANS, the authoress, has purchased a
marble mausoleum, to be erected to the memory
OF the Mobile soldiers who fell in the war.
Almost three thousand Mormons are expected
in New York, from Europe. Most Of them are
from England
In scufie in Danville, Va, on Wednesday, be.
tween two negroes, for loaded pistol, it went off
and killed one.
that telegraph cable was recently successfully
laid across the river at that place
Over five hundred children were confirmed on
Sunday, Goth, by Bishop DuooAN, in the Church Of
the Holy Family at Chicago. .'. .....
1t is said that ship-work worth s5,OOO,ooo has
been driven away from New York since the ship
carpenters' strike began. Next to nothing is being
done at present in the several ship-yards.
1t is reported the Chicago Republican, one of
the strongest opponents of the Presidents policy
in the West will change front. Its business man.
ager, and CHAs. A. DANA, it's editorial conductor,
will retire.
The Richmond (Va.) Republic has suspended
publication. The want Of patronage and the i'm
possibility of collecting debts from the impover-
ished people Of Virginia iare stated by the editor
as the causes.
Honors fall thick upon the young peasant KAA1-
sARoFF, who saved the life OF the Czar Of Russia.
Not only has he been made a noble at home, but
the Emperor Of Austria has conferred upon him
1.-The Cross Of the Order of Francis Joseph.
Is Mayor PARK, Of Memphis, lately sent chal-
lenge to one Of the editors Of the Argus. The in
,-Vitation to fight was declined, and the Mayor pub
lished q card denouncing the argus
coward.
Mr.. JOHN NJ. WAY, who brought suit against
one Of certain people who paid him visit one day
during the war and compelled him to make loyal
speech and hoist Union colors, has received ver-
dict of $780, He alleged his damages at s20, 900.
brutal fight occurred at New Orleans on Sun
day, May 13, between Tom KING and BILL FAR
BELL. Eighty-three rounds were fought in one
hour and eight minutes. and then the backcr rs of
the person last named acknowledged their man
whipped ,-.ss
At the Board OF Health meeting, lately, in New
York, various matters were under consideration.
One item developed WAS the fact Of herd of 1888
stump.tail COWS existing in four swill-stables In
Brooklyn. JOHN KRANoH1, the unsavory gentle
man in Fifty -ffth-street, is not to be molested in
the enjoyment Of such provender as he prefers.
The Eufaula Ne,1s says the postmistress at that
place forwarded, the 18th instant, to the Post
Office Department at Washington, two thousand
four hundred letters which have been accumula
ting and lying in the postof6ce at that place fol
the last three or four years. Among them are nu
merous letters from Confederate officials, ant
from the rank and file Of the Confederate army.
New Orleans paper Of the 18th inst. says tn
corn is tasseling everywhere, and soon our mar
kets will be flooded with the delicious ears. AZ
paragus is coming in slowly, the restaurants de
manding only the modest sum of rs cents pc
dish. Egg-plants can be found if one goes t
market early, and is not afraid Of loosening tn
purse strings. Figs are swelling finely under tn
influence of genial showers, and cantelopes ar
being glded by the morning sun.
Mexican correspondents states that the Frenc
war steamer Emperor was wrecked while goin
to Guadalajara. It is likewise stated that Methut
10 was assaulted on the morning OF the 1st ins
by 1900 Juarists under EsooBEpo. The Liberia
were permitted to retire, losing 80 officers and
nen. The guerillas Of PEREZ were defeated b
Col. TREvENs at Solado on the 22d ult., losing
killed and nine wounded. The Imperials took
prisoners and some arms. 20. ii .
The Alexandria (virginis) Gazette says tn
travellers on the Little River turnpike, a day
two ago, witnessed an agricultural procedu
which, before the war, had been heard OF, b
never seen in that locality. Two negro Wome
hitched to plow, and driven by negro ma
were breaking ground at tho point named. ~
women looked tired and worn, and the driver n
not the happy countenance OF cornheld nal
five or six years ago.
A writer in the New Orleans Chrtstdn Adcec'
says that, 30 far as he has ascertained, betwe
one thousand and twelve hundred church nous
were burned during the war; These churches,
thinks, had cost the people not less than 4
millions Of dollars. 1u. the loss the Methodi
were the greatest sufferers, the Baptists ne
then the Presbyterians, the Catholics least.
The New York Iribune's special corresponds
writing from Cork, April 26tb, says :~"whoe'
visits Ireland at the present time, II no pins
faith upon the veracity and general reliability
our American journals, expects TO behold
pie torn and divided by royolpti excitem
growing out Of the Fonihnr rconspiraeies. 4
that this whole Fenian business was either
tended, or will degenerate into a huge stock;t
bing and taIlevyihg operation upon the ignor
masses Of the Irish In America, by which @ 'ha
ful OF designing, loud.tongued leaders will enr
themselves, and Ireland and her sons abroad