The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-01-23
NEWS ITEMS.

arrange postal Iacliitles.
The citizens of Memphis, Tennessee, propose
a concert n aid of Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, as
we'll as for the purpose of purchasing an oil por-
trait of General Jackson to be transmitted to
Virginia.
During the intense cold of Sunday night last,
Mrs. Laffertv was frozen to death In New
York, with child in her arms and when found
next morning, the child endeavoring to
suckle from the breast of its dead mother.
A mao who was noticed to be driving quite
slowly, near Boonesboro, Iowa, the other night,
was found, though tightly grasping his lines, to
be frozen dead.
The increase in the number of criminal ar
rests in New York city, this year, over the year
previous, 1900
The Augusta (Ga) Chronicle states that about
thousand negroes have been sent, from that
section to tho Mississippi valley by the military
authorities, on account of their refusal to make
contracts with their former owners.
W II Hendon of Springfield, Illinois, who
was Abraham Lincoln's law partner, for twenty
years, is lecturing about hun.
A high wind which prevailed in Queens
county, Ireland, short time since, blew the
thatch from the cottage of one Patrick Murphy,
and revealed to him horn filled with four thou
sand guineas and several Spanish dollars.
1t is reported on good authority that the cot
ton tax to be paid at Macon, Ga, alone. for
January, February and March, will exceed So
100000.
Among the funds in the hands of the corpo-
ration of London, is the sum of 92OO year,
left in trust ''to burn heretics."
Business is declining in New Orleans, and
stores have been sold for less than The bricks
were worth. t.,
The Rev Benz. Kurtz, a distinguished divine
Of the Lutheran Church, died in Baltimore on
Monday.
General Brannon, u S. A., is disarmng the
negroes in and around Augusta and Gen. Till
son, Is, is compelling them to make contracts
for labor.
An exchange asserts that the Lowell Mills
now make one dollar every pound of cotton
TREY use. Tall profit, that.
The Georgia. Legislature have passed joint
resolution stating that President johnson has
been magnaninous in his treatment of the peo-
pie of that State.
There are upwards of seventy churches in
Washington viz fifteen Methodist, nine Eps-
copalians, nine Presby terians, five Baptist, three
Lutheran, twenty colored, and say dozen of
other 'persuasions."
A Newark paper boasts that that city is very
honest place-its business is all done on the
square.
General Swayne, Commissioner of Freedmen
for Alabama, writes that he has succeed 10 linn
ting the issue of subsistence to destitute per-
sons of all classes in his district to about fifteen
thousand r-tions per day. The State Comms,
sioner appointed by the Legislature for that pur-
pose, reports the number of destitute whites at
100000.
Formerly, We sent 10000 tons OF rice to Eu-
rope, but since the war Europe sends heavily to
US. The crop was everywhere ligh liter than usual
last year North Carolina, whose annual pro-
duet used to exceed 2OO,0 Q0 casks, raised about
1000.
No rain fell in India the last season The
autumn rice crops were lost, Prices in half of
Lower Bengal are one hundred per cent. higher
than usual In some parts people are in state
of starvation In Meughyr the poorer classes
pick up leaves as food. A shoemaker who gave
"a handful of grain soaked in water to each per-
son, was throngcd with hundreds of applicants
for the pittauce. The rotting grain used for
spirit now sells for food to those WHO can buy
been sprcssed, begged to satisfy hunger
Around Calcutta the peasan,ry fight for such
! puddles of water still left, to keep their
rice alive.
| A writer 10 the Chicago Tribune urges steam
communication with the south from that city
lie says grain can be loaded there 10 canal boats
and be taken to Richmond Va, without break
| ing bulk. by being towed down the Mississippi,
| III ha Ohio X ap1t RI
nal to Richmond, thus gaining a communication
with the ocean, and escaping the high prices de-
nanted by the eastern shippers.
| During the month of December, seven thou
sand three hundred guns and pistols, ninety
four thousand pounds of powder, eight hundred
and thirty-two thousand pounds Of shot, and
thirteen million percussion caps were sent South
! from New York.
| The schooner Retribution, formerly confed-
crate privateer, fitted out at Wilmington North
Carolina is reported ashore off Hatteras Inet
with fours of her crew frozen to DEATH hang
ing in the digging Her two pilots are thought
to have been washed overheard aud drowned.
In a recent lecture at Buffalo n Y, Henry
Ward Beecher said
1.-The time for amity has come, and no more
blood should be She'd and there is no need o.
vindlctive policy now to prove to the world,
what the desolation and ruin in the South has
already proved, that treason is damuable and
deadly. Rather let US say, "forgive, forgive"
than "slay, slay.'
Last Friday, woman in Harrisburg; for the
purpose Of playing practical joke: told her
neighbour that her (the neignbors) husband had
been killed on the railroad Upon hearing the
statement the lady tainted, and died from the