The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-11
News, Summary.

frage.
Blind dsTom has composed several admirable
pieces.
Total exports Of tea from China to Great Britain
mp to February 18th, 107, ,667, 100 pounds. ,'
Thirty thousand London tailors were engaged
in the recent strike. 40 .,..
New York laat year imported dry goods to the
amount ofsl15, ,sl4. nee
A French machine makes eleven pounds Of ice
an hour,iata cost Of half cent pound.
A correspondent describes CARLYLE's' face as
resembling ia heap of stones ovorgrown With
bramb1es." '>' -
There is TO- be general convention of railroad
presidents chief engineers, and general superin-
tendents in Philadelphia Oh the 4th Of July.
The gold crop of the world will probably roach,
s15oOOo,O00 this year. Previous to 1880 the
average annual yield was less than s34, 100000.
man who attempted to commit suicide in Can
ada, but didn't succeed was imprisoned seven
days for this offence.
or forty.four Republican papers in California,
twenty-five support the President, and twenty
four Congress. 9i
The Virginia. Porcelain Company, Augusta
county, manufacture excellent wares-their de-
signs are neat, tasty, and we'll executed.
The ladies Of Rome, Ga, have contributed the
sum OF ninety dollars for the benefit of the family
OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The Methodist Church at Winchester, which
had been taken possession OF by the military for
the use Of the old Baltimore Conference, has been
restored to the Church South.
The 10th OF May, the anniversary Of the death
OF SToNEwALL JACKSON, WAS observed generally
In Virgins, by q suspension Of business and by
AN ovation 70 our departed heroes, ~-r-
Ik fa NOT nnuanal fbaf 'ob;, .,.,L...l.
Kong with cargo OF opium worth million dol.
lars. There are frequent invoices OF sIoo, 900
worth OF silk. ~ ~, '@@
' The Commissioner Of Agriculture has received
from Honduras, Central America, q swarm of
stingiess beoe. These r.e. . oseily on aruiotl
and are excellent honey-makers. E,j
The fast save schooner Wdnderer has been late
ly rebuilt in Rockland, Maine, care being taken to
preserve all her good points as Q fast sailer. She
was launched last week. :. g.. -,
Hartford, Conn.,, has had but fifteen different
town clerks since the town was founded in 1885.
GEORGE WILLS served Ga years, JOHN ALLEN 81
years, and HEzEEIAH WILLIS 27 years.
The hotels in Staunton present quite neat and
comfortable appearance. They must have i'm
proved considerably since 1863 when they used to
charge twelve dollars day, and give fellow no.
thing to eat.
The Rev. THEODORE CLAPP, the distinguished
divine, and for many years a renowned pulpit ora
tor Of New Orleans, is lying very sick at his res
dence In Louisville, Kentucky, and not expected
to recover.
Dr. BYRD Of Savannah, formerly professor in
the O2lethOrpe Medical College, and more recent.
1y sugeon in the Confederate army, has invented
an artificial leg which is very highly praised by
eminent medical men.
NJ
NO deaths OF cholera have occurred In New York
city or at Lower Quarantine since Friday. DIR.
BIssELLs report, dated on board the hospital ship
on Friday evening, shows that she then had one
hundred and elk patients on board. >lN.'
A Mics 5sFEgpIHs, Of ohiokasaw county, Iowa,
has received an appointment as notary public for
that county. She is the first female ever having
received sush q commission, apdiHfepresentedJa %
saSle i German Publications. it ions for the vsS,
1865 shows this feshlt In theology, 1411 books;
9S5; Jurisprudence, 87U; education,
696; history, 651; natural history, 517 medicine.
4s1; classicd 400, art 1885, mechanics, 85s. etc. =
The largest amount OF revenue drawn from the
British people in one year never exceeded ss7o.-
600 900, while the cunt drawn the present wear
from the people Of the United States IL at the rate
Of $540, 100000 per annum.
1t appears from an Englieh Parliamentary re-
turn that Of 1851 men who completed their ,imited
service in tie army in the year 1864, All we're
discharged, and 9742 we're re- enlisted without pre-.
vious discharge, and 1928 after discharge. 7n[&,
The picture gallery OF Brown Univeraity, ia
providence, II. J., has been enriched by fine
painting of OLIVER CROMWELL, copied from thu
original in the possession Of the English Duke o.
baccleuch. It has been hung beside the picture
or CHARLES H., in Rhode Island Hall
a freedman named Henry Campbell: wac
Drought before Justice FULLER in Montgomery
last week, charged with violation OF his written
contract for labor. He was found guilty OF the
charge, fined $59, and committed to the dounty
Jail in default Of the money. ~ )
captain q. D. COLEMAN was released from the
missouri Penitentiary on Saturday last, by the
United States District Court; he was taken ont O
confinement on a writ Of hdbeas corpus, The
JGourt held that the. Court Martial exceeded il,
Jurisdiction IN imposing nm excessive sentence.
MIR JESSE L. HOLIDAY, weltknown printer
baltimore, died on Sunday afIer prottattsd i'll
ness, ih'th666th year his .at9. The deceased
was one uf tletoldest me beraofitiis, Baano,,
Typographical Society, having assisted Id les Tor
nation. = zssIaSIeY e ,.i,T
The steamer Chickan,augd, formerly the block
ado runner Guh, which was sunk in Oupe Pea,
river by the Copiedcrates during the attack OF
fort Fisher, has been raised, and has arrived a
Norfolk. sheis double-screw iron propeller. A
AZ-pounder Parrott gun is still on board. Hel