The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

parts of the older States.
Population of vicksburg on the 1st OF May last,
sos7; of Natchez, s4s1; Of Jackson, 34s6.
Tha Ghee House in Selma has been rented the
ensuing year at $1,000 in gold.
The cultivation Of olives is spoken OF IN South
Carolina as an experiment worth tying on large
scale. <sGt,
JoHN Z. BURNS editor, is about to be started at
Selms, Ais.
The petition Of tie general and poet, AInERr
PIKE. Of Arkansas, for pardon, was Endorsed by
over 200 persons.
-Four young lads, under twelve years Of age,
were discovered in Boston church on Sunday
playing enchre Tor ssthe beer for the crowd"
Gen. STERLING Prices son, CE1ENs, was married
the other day in Missouri to the daughter OF GOV.
r. E. PRICE,
Gen. WAssmaroN's pew in Christ Church, Alex
sndria, the Southern Churchn1an says. orlglnauy
cost thirty -si< pounds ten shilings.
The people Of Clarksvile Tennessee, are raising
the money by voluntary contribution to purchase
a steam fire engine
JAaEs LAuDEnpALE, Of Washington county, Tex
as, and soldier under JACKSON at New Orleans,
died recently at the age Of 96.
Weekly shipments of copper from the Ducktown
mines pass through Chattanooga en- route for New
York.
This will be lively week at Houston, Texas.
During the week no less than five conventions will
meet there to consult about the various Industrial
and religious interests Of the State.
For the. six months ending December Sfst
/ there we're shipped from Pensacola, Florida, to
Spanish ports 100000 feet Of lumber, worth
$40, coo.
The military bridge over the Tennessee River
at Chattanooga was sold at auction on the 11th.
Can't. s1Ayros, the lessee, became the purchaser
at $3.50.
puppy Of mixed gender, and hs7ing eight
: legs, has been Uttered in Vicksburg stable. 1t
had also four tails. Puppies generally havo two
or four legs, and scarcely any tail at all.
The Norfolk papers explain the limited supply
and rise in price Of oysters experienced lately by
stating that the weather has been such as to put
ain end to s'tonging operations.
ALynchburg negro, who followed the Congres-
sonal e1curaionists as far as Bristol left them in
disgust, and reports that be only made ten cents
out of the whole party.
New York capitalists have formed q company to
accept the charter Of the Ccyington and Ohio Rail-
road in Virginia. The funds are secured, and the
work viii begin with the opening OF spring.
A wire suspension bridge in Tennessee lately
broke down while drove ofmules, belonging to MI.
JAMES NEAL, Of Nicholas, were crossing. Four OF
the mules were killed, md all were injured.
Mr.. Wu11Aa OsaooD, Conductor on the Mem
phis and Louisville Road, was brutally beaten at
Humboldt Station one day last weekly the friends
of q boy whom he had elected from his train.
To show how Yankee notions" are spreading
among the negroes-an old darkey is reported to
be accommodating fortune in Virginia by the sale
OF magic lotion, which, he ASSERTS will infallibly
atraighten hnky hair.
After the 1st Of January, 1870, the gambling
saloons OF Baden Baden and Spa are to be closed,
by order Of the Government. From that day there
is to be no more Roulette or II ente-et Quarante at
these places.
The Vicksburg Herald says that several gentle
men who have recently been engaged in duels
have been indicted by the grand jury Of the county
and bound over in the sum Of $1,000 to answer for
their offence. !.
a daily newspaper man who has just got ont OF
the traces says he is becoming quite well ac-
auainted with his isYamily. He discovered to his
surprise, that his daughter could play upon the
piano. He never had time to discover the fact
before.
The Mississippi papers take leave Of Gen. T. J.
WooD, late commander Of the department, with
many expressions OF regret and many compliments
raid to his official action while dscharging am ong
them delicate and difficult duty.
savannahis about cutting canal Of eight miles
along the coast, by which four hundred miles Of
inland navigation will be opened to steamers OF
four feet draft, to run from Savannah to Jupiter
inlet, Fla: :.'... - -
The Warrenton (va.) Lade1 announces the mar
riage on the 9th rlt., Of EUGENE CALLAHAN, white
man, Of Lowell, Mass, and late OF the q. s. army;
to Roberta Hudnan tcolored), formerly slave of
Z. B. STEWART, Of Fauquier.
CABr1L QUAn1Es, a little boy Six years old, while
playing in his mothers parlor at Richmond, Va,
put small sea shell in his mouth. It slipped into
his throat md suhocated him in spite Of all thu
efforts OF the family and physicians.
A negro on trial before the Mayor of Lynchburg,
for striking another negro, gave as excuse the
fact that the negro he struck belonged to the sod
ISSUE free before the war; and therefore tried to
impose on him.
In removing the rubbish from the property on
the corner Of Royal and Dauphin streets, in Mo-
bile, two or three days ago, the wcrkmen unearth-
ed the sscornoistonen Of building and found q
qnantity Of silver coin and other valuables, which
had been placed there BY the builder, Mr. McVoY,
in 1881.
The Norfolk Day Book gives sad account of
the once pleasant town of Hampton; having now
apopulaton Of 4000 negroes, the greater part of
whom are the most ''unmitigated scoundrels"
alive who in the face Of open day, and before the
eyes Of the merchants, pick up and walk off with
whatever they can place their hands on.
Two pack-pedlers entered the house Of Mr. JOHN
1lzRoH, jn Memphis, one day last week, spread
theirpacks, and when the family gathered around,
opened shawl so saturated with chloroform as to
throw the whole family into sstate Of nsensibility
The pedlers thoa robbed the house Of money and
valuables to the amount Of $3.50, and made good
their escape. (2)
At the monthly meeting Of the Massachusetts
Historical Society, held on Thursday, the Presi-
dent, Hon. RoBEET c. WINTHROP, read a letter from
Dir. GEORGE PEABODY announcing his gift to the
Historical Society of the sum OF $40, 600 as fund
Tor the publication Of the proceedings, and also
the preservation Of the historical portraits in the
possession Of the Society.
The Great Western Railway in Canada has been
arranged by the addition Of third track, SO that
the narrow guage cars Of the New York Central
can 60 through direct from New York to Chicago