The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-04-27
ews Summary.

0nQOrBoB present
Executive.
1t is said that General BRAxros BRAGG ia Iiyipo
on farm In Alabama, acting as agent for another
person.
Rev. ID. g. DoaaErT and ]. e. EDwAnps, of Vir
ginia, are guests OF Rev. DR.. PALMER of New Or.
leans.
DAfIRh WEBSTER used to say that the word
would" In RuFus CHoATE's handwriting, resem-
hled small gridiron struck by lightning.
Sturgeon are now being caught in large quanti-
ties in James River and kappahannock, though
they sell for sixteen and twenty cents per pound.
1nstruotions have been issued by General
MILES to quarantine all vessels arriving from
Key West, thus placing them in the same cate
CORY with those arriving from the West Indies.
beautiful monument has been erected in
the Congressional Cemetery at Washington over
the remans Of the twenty young girls who per-
lshed by the explosion at the Washington Ar
sena1.
WENDELL PHnh1Ps delivered a course Of leo
lures at Taunton, Mass., recently, which, we are
informed, proved decided financial failure
Even Massachusetts audience, it would appear,
can get too maoh Of good thing.
The message Of Mayor BROWN estimates the
present value OF taxable property in Nashville at
eighteen millions Of dollars or nearly four mil
lions more than five years ssc at the commence
ment OF the rebellion.
In the distribution of the reward offered for
BooTH, Detective BAKER's expectations were great
~ disappointed. He claimed ffty-fve thousand
dollars, and got three Thousand seven hundred
and fifty dollars
BuL~ER, the novelist, in letter to gentleman
OF Boston, says:" have closed my career as a.
writer OF fiction. I am gloomy and unhappy.
nave exhausted the powers OF life, chasing plea
sure where it is not to be found"
gang OF counterfeiters have been detected in
washington lately, having In their possession
plates for spurious twenty tydoiar compound inter-
eat notes. Piates Of the issues Of several banks
or New York wsre also seized
The heated term Is upon us says the Tribune OF
monday. On Saturday the mercury rose to II
uerees In the shade, and yesterday It is reported
"a having reached 50; fact which Ia something
very extraordinary In the meteorological way,
In New York alaughter-house on the
abattoire" plan ia to be immediately erected un-
der the approval OF the Board Of Health, on the
East River, ut one'hundred-and-sixth-str The
enterpr1se will be In running order within six
weeks.
The fourteenth annual convention and festival
oi the North American smngerbnnd will be held
In Louisville, Kentucky, on the twenty-third Of
July. It will cit for several days, after which a
grand excursion will be made to the Mammoth
Gave.
Inc CITY OF Paris is negotiating the purchase OF
nfteen hundred acres Of land in the neiehborhood
OF Portofse, twenty miles from the city limits for
Inc formation OF an enormous cemetery, to tho
aervice OF which q special line Of railway will he
devoted.
The Rockingham, Va, Register says large beds
--ezhaustiess in quantity and rich in auality-oft
plaster, have been discovered on the lands OF
PETER VINE, near Tenth Legion, In Rockingham.
hat t-,of
oetween TWO and three miles from the Valley
Turnpike. %f~... -
srnPHrNs, the Head Centre, says, that in max.
ing his escape he never assumed any disguise. he
had found Richmond prison 40 iII-oreanized that
he only wondered that any one had consented 10
remain in it; and the police 30 inefficient that he
deserved no credit for eluding them.
In Opposition to RENAu's writings, an aasocia. |
tlon has been formed in Paris for making a new
and more correct translation Of the Bible ipto
French. The frat meeting was held in the great !
hall OF the sorboEne, The translators are 10 be |
AZ in number, az Catholics, and 20 Protestanta
and Israelites. .rs
1t is related Of Lord CooEpunN, that he Was
once sitting on the hillside with his shepherd !
When' observing the sheep reposing in the coldest
stuston, he remarked, 'JoHE IT, we're q sheep.
"onid lie on the other side OF the hill" The
ehepherd answered.: sab, my lord, but II We had
iho recent political arrests in various parts Of
ttaiy arc estimated at about ninety thousand.
Iaere are actual returns Of arrests by one corps.
Inc hoyai oarbineers, Of over sixty thousand, the
NUMBERS varying from three thousand to seven /
tnouSand IN all the principal cities in the King
oom' inls does not look well for united Italy.
Ihe ha crosse Democrat publishes the name OF |
"isconsin patriot who went to the war. and |
drought nome, among other plunder, a younp
negro. After keeping the dsrkey at mental labor
1or some months, the model Republican actuallv |
s"sppea him of for dog with another Repubii |
can. ihats making the negro "dog cheap"
In Connecticut parish q aubscripton paner |
was recently started for the support OF preaching
and laid first before the minister for Ia spbacrn
.ion' as a member Of the parish. He subscribed /
swehty aouars no other one subscribed as much. |
als pay that year was less than four bnndred
aohars including his own subscription.
more than half the British House of uommons
Is composed Of University men. One hundred /
ana nfty-six are graduates Of Oxford. and ono
n, nunored and thirteen OF Cambridge. Christ,a
1hdreh mas the largest number from Oxford oo,.
Ieses' % VIZ: 30; aud Trinity from the Cambridge
ooneses' viz: DO. There should be inteI;oent
A'S,siation gu among such host Of sol,oIass. t1aVt
Inc peatuence, says the New York Dali, Ne,na
- SUI lnoreaaing among the pasaeppera OF tho
6toahef Virginia, now In the o,vsr S,...,,...I