The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-02-09
LOCAL MATTERS.

LOCAL MATTERS.
SEE SECOND AND THIRD PAGES -2a
ATTENTION is called to a largo invoice sale at
auction to-day, of bedsteads, by MAcKEY q BAKER.
CouRr OF CHANCERY.-The Solicitors OF this
Court are requested to attend at tho opening OF
the Court at II clock thu morning.
TIE FOLLOWING TE1EaRAMs await delivery at
the American Telegraph Office, for want of better
! address:
Capt. Alexander P. Keith, ". Fl. Mouldcn, W.
A. Woodward.
j TIE SISTERS OF MERCY gratefully acknowledge
the receipt, through Mr. FURLoNG, of three hun
4 dred and seventy-fve doars-the proceeds OF
lecture delivered by Rev. J. J. OCoNNELL, at the
request and through the kind exertions OF E.
DAILY, Esq, for the benefit of the orphans under
the care of the Sisters.
MUCH OB11GRD.-We thankfully acknowledge
the attention. and appreciate the courtesy, extend
ed to us last night by Messrs DEIGHEN and BAKER,
of the Mills House Stables, who gave us Lift at
late hour in one Of their fine carriages, and refus
cd to receive our greenbacks. AS We passed the
q Old Church, we heard the owl and saw tho calf.
j B,dckaUoOdS Magazine, for January, has been
I sent US by Mr.. JOHN RUSSELL. Tho following is
y the table of contents:
4 Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Part VIII; J. S. Mill on
our Belief in the External World; Switzerland in
Summer and Autr.n.n; Cornelius ODowd upon
= Men, Women and Things in General, Part AA; Me-
5 moirs of the Confederate War for independence,
= Part v; Lifo and Letters Of Rev. Frederick W.
a Robertson, NJ. A.; Tho Parliament of Salisbury
Plain; and The Late King OF the Belgians.
4 TIE ECLECTIC MAGAZINE of Foreign Literature,
for February, has como to hand. A fine portrai.
of Mr. GLADSTONE graces this number. very
interesting table of contents is here spread for
the cultured reader The selections are made
with very good judgment; and there is always
Insufficient variety in the character of the articles
suit almost every taste. Mr.. RUSSELL is the
q gent for this city.
ii THE V1e1IANr FIRE ENGINE CoMpANY.-An ac-
count of the celebration Of the thirty-seventh
anniversary of this company ten years ago, having
5been placed in our hands by q friend, VIC take
pleasure in quoting some extracts from it, as their
$parade on that day was one Of the most interest
3 Ing We have ever witnessed, and made, at the
? ime, q strong impression on us. The osh OF Feb
-uary, 1856, 'swas the occasion of a general re-
! union of all the surviving members of the COM
pany since its organization, and while the young
and active men took charge of o new engine which
had Just been brought out for the company, and
which they had christened the 'Little Giant, the
honorary members manned tho ropes of the old
engine. and in their march through the principal
streets made such show as would be expected
of ono hundred and ifty-three men belonging to
one corps, and oil similarly uniformed. At that
time there were five of the original members
living, Sut now there are but three, two OF them
having since gone to their last resting-placc.
The company was formed early as 1915, under
the title of ''The Vigilant Fire Company, with no
engine or apparatus; but in consequence OF con-
siderable destruction Of property from fire, they,
as good citizens, associated themselves together
to render help to their fellow-creatures. In 1873
they were incorporated under tho namo OF ''The
Tigilant Fire Engine Company, and on the fourth
of January, 1920, the City Council rendered to
them one of the city engines, and from that time
they have rendered all tho services they were
capable of to arrest tho devouring element and
to save the property of our people At the present
time they are in a most ilourishns condition,
having lately increased largely in MEMBERS whose
ambition is to be useful to the community; and
although their company may bo the Oldest, they
wish to contend with their younger brethren IN
that spirit of generous rivalry which has always
made the Fire Department of Charleston so har-
monious in allevatng the distress OF our dear old
city when suffering lader the ravages OF dcstruc-
tive flames.
Psovosr CoURr.-But two little sessions cases
was brought up before the Court yesterday, which,
VIC report.
S. NJ Neil, Policeman QUINN testified
that he took the cart of defendant from the rail
road on Wednesday, ne having no license as the
city ordinance requires. There was no driver
with the cart. Sentenced to pay q fne of $40.
Fred. L. Rain, colored-Polceman LEcKIE tes
tilted that defendant was drayl,an, and that ON
Wednesday last he obstructed the passage on
y North Atlantic Wharf, which he was ordered to
keep open for the benefit Of steamers which land
there, and are constantly receiving and discharg-
ing freight. Defendant not only refused to move
his drav, but when witness undertook to do it
himself, defendant collarcd him ard raised his
whip to strike him He took .iin, IA Tlc Guard
House, gu: would rot have haea a;:e III do so, i'll
consequence Of the resistance made, ii the relief
guard had not opportunely came UP. Sentenced
to pay fine Of s. or be imprisoned for 5 days.
M.vop,s CouRT.-The business before his
Honor. on YESTERDAY We @ &C.: light and quite