The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-03
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE.
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE CITY.
N ews Summary.

ted at IA 700 hogsheads.
Butter is selling at thirty cents per pound, and
eggs at twelve and half cents per dozen, in
Winchester, Va.
The Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad is taxed to
its utmost to carry tho freightH from Norfolk to
North Carolina and Eastern Virginia.
Eight years steady devotion to the wash tub
has enabled good woman in La Crosse to build
shree good houses. aud put away neat little pile
OF Government bonds.
The West Virginia Oil and Land Company have
struck oil in we'll that yields three hundred
barrels equivalent Of twelve thousand dollars)
per day.
daughter Of the late OWEN LovRJ ", for many
years member of Congress- from Illinois, is now
teacher in one of the colored schools in vicks-
burg.
The redoubtable W1oFALL (of Texas) and wife
are in London, where they are received with great
honor by the aristocratic sympathizers with the
South.
The London Times announces that marriage
is about to take place between the Princess MARY
OF Cambridge and the Prince DE TEoK, son Of the
Duke ALEXANDER, OF Wurtemborg.
The rivers in the West continue high. The
upper Mississippi and it's tributaries we're still
rising at last advices. The denizens OF the great
valley see nothing but disaster before them unless
the flood should speedily abate.
Senator SUMNER wept last week in delivering a
eulogy upon Mr.. FoorE. day or two before that
gentleman died, SUMNER charged him with pre-
tending Illness to avoid voting. SUMNER seems to
be as apt at crying as at lying.
Some over-zealous French officials forbid the
publication of VIoron Huao's Trauaileurs de la
Her in the local journals, but on an appeal to the
Emperor the restriction WAS removed. So says
A1n IL.
Port Republic, near Staunton, Va, promises to
be one Of the first manufacturing towns in the
State. 1t has now three iron foundries in full
blast; another is projected, and large -four mill
is about to be built.
The editor Of the Tennessean, q paper publish
ed in the interest Of the Freedmen's Bureau at
Nashville, presented his subscription list to the
President, who, observing Senator SUMMERS nnme
thereon for IS, wrote subscription of s25 there
under.
The entire population Of New York City, includ-
Ing it's suburbs, is Ass, ,383., OF this number
859,9S0 are natives, and 3O7, ,4O9 foreigners-f,ur
aliens to every six native born. There are 2O8, 700
Irish, ,1O9, ,97 Germans, a. 049 English, 8O49 French
9207 Scotch, and 1771 Swiss.
The preparations on board the Great Eastern
for receiving the new Atlantic cable have been
completed, and the slowing away Of the cable in
the tanks commenced on Saturday. At tho end of
June or the beginning of July the Great Eastern
will commence laying the cable.
The eccentr C Lord HOLLAND of the reign of
WILLIAM I'LL, used TO give his horses weekly
concert In Il covered gallery specially erected for
the purp ,se He maintained that it cheered their
hearts, and improved their temper, and an eye
witness says that "they seemed delighted there
with"
young lady from the East has brought suit
against prominent st. Louis merchant for a
breach OF PROMISE ; $4,000 is the sum required to
heal the pectoral fracture. IA youthful member
OF the feminine persuasion says that any gentle
man is welcome to break her heart at that
fgurel
present of eight very beautiful Arab horses Of
the famous Dioff breed, is about to be despatched
by the Sultan from Coustantinople to the Empe-
ror NAPOLEON. SULEIMAN AaHA CHIEF of the Inn.
perial stud, has been commissioned to replace
them, IL possible, by other animals OF equal beau
ty and purity OF blood. He will shortly leave for
Bagdad OH this errand.
THOMAS ]. KELLY, '.Adiutant- General T. r.
A." desires TO announce to all friends Of Irish
freedom that JAMES STEPHENS @. Z, T. r., would
positively Salt from Havre on the steamship Napo-
leon ILL.,, OH Saturday, the 28th ult dne at New
York about "Wednesday, tho 9th inst. Mr.. STE
PHENs will address the people Of the different
American cities.
According t" returns just published, it is found
that G3 67 per cent. OF the in the British army
are able both To read and WRITE aud G. 20 per cent
are OF superior education. or the remaining
1855 per cent, 1866 read but not write. and
1907 can neither read nor write 1897 per cent.
OF soldiers, therefore, unable either to read or
write.
The number Of words t. at were con- ainod in DR..
WEBs1EHs first dictionary Of tho English lam
guage was from 7O,00O to $4,000. After several
revisions, tho edition Of Wl:HsrEn's Die, iopsry.
published in 1859 contsined 90, ,798 w,r.is. Prof
WOhCRsTEN's dictionary contains about lO4 OVO
aud the ia'esL edition of Webster moro thun
1000 wo,dt.
Along the line OF the Nashville and Docatur
Railroad, between Columbia uud Pulaski, during
thunder-nt0rnI last week, half mile of the tell.
graph WIRES was Ineed, and divided iuto small
hagmCnts, irregular iu shape, add many Of them
no lsrGer thsn u bucIshnt Or a rmaIl rifle ball.
The glass insulatrrs we're fused, and the poles
were stiyered into fragments.
A doat0r named STRAUSS recently published iI
London q Dovel called tho .tOld Ledger" which
the AMen1nm dnscI bed exceedingly bad, selE.
oDIDplacrut. Nuisar, indicate aud prof.ne. Dr..
BrRAUss tnrrouro, brorlght LII action, which the
Ap.enGun, defended, upon tue distinct ground.
that tIie criticism Was warranted BY the char ACT or