The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-17
I NEWS SUMMARY.

ding Uplands. .s,t t7r
Cotton in Liverpool closed 11la11a for Middllng
UplandH. A X
Tho Rev. Doctor YouNo, Of Now York, has been
elected to the Episcopal Bishopric made vacant by
tho death Of Bishop RuTLKDoE.
Tho body Of Lours Fox, tho missing Rochester
billiard player, who 30 mysteriously disappeared
in December Last, Was found recently floating in
the rivor at Charlotte, seYon mles'from that city,
Tho prospect OF plngue Of grasshoppers in
Kansas, OF whioh We mado mention some weeks
since, is apparently being realized The grass
hoppors said to be 30 thick in that region that
they scoop thom up by the pock
. Three ,ung men named HALLENsnuRa; Bu-
cHANAF and LANLY, havo recently mot death by
drowning, In Minnesota. Ono of them wont out
duck-shooting on Pearl Lake in largo gap
kettle. '4'.'i ;tt3.4 - OK.
Tho report OF tho Superintendent OF the Freed
mems Bureau for Tenpesaaoe Tor March, has bcen
made. Tho number Of schools in the State Is 1oS
pupils $3.50; teachers 14s. Tho interest in those
schools is rapidly increasing.
An exchange says that two largo pigs OF load
were brought, during tho war, from tho South to
Rochester Now York, oy Mr. Enos O. Fraley. Not
long since Enos attempted to cut Of pieco to run
into bullets, and found tho motal was solid silver
Governor CRAWFORD Of Kansas, has ordered
BrI8ndier- -donoral HARVEY to Immediately COM
menoe the enrolment Of tho militia in tho West
ern District, to be ready to net in caso OF any
trouble from the Indians during tho summon.
A Buffalo, dispatch :HayH the southern portion
OF the bay is still blocked with ice, and that tho
crows Of several vessels, uhich woro consequently
unable to come up to tho city, arc suffering Sc
riously from tho want OF provisions. Measures
are being taken for their speedy rolief
The frost on tho night Of Tuesday, 7th inst, was
In Tu1fa apI SI,o
west, and at many points tho early fruits -espcci-
ally tho poaohes-wero entirely cut of or seriously
damaged. In Ohio, no harm appears to haYo been
done. .,.,,s,ly, XIX,
The 34th Anniversary Of tho American Anti
Slavery Society celebrated in New York OH tho
18th instant. WENDELL PuIIL1Fs was tho chief
speaker. Resolutions woro passed. cslling on Con-
gross to impeach tho President without dolay, and
fayoring conlscation.
Tho Indian Bureau has Just issued for tho
Senate, long tabular statement Of the approxim-
nta number Of persons belonging TO each tribe Of
Indians in tho United States Tho total number is
8004 465. The Cherokocs, Apaches, Choctnws, and
Creek Tribes average about IA, 600 each.
Advices from the seat OF war on tho Plains state
that the Choyennes have been driven north by
General HANcocK's operations on tho Smoky Hill
routo. Numerous war parties were the road,
Arizona. @
Completely successful arrangements hayo been
mado, undcr tho supervision OF Government En-
Rireers, on ono Of the gun-boats, establishing .he
advantages Of tho use Of petroleum ns fuel under
tteam boilers. Tho apparatus used was simple
and inexpensive. and no alteration OF tho boiler
was required. -,,..-.,
- An Englsh tayern-kcoper recently illustrated
= punctuality in this wise. Speaking Of ono OF his
customers, ho said: "Ho Is the moat regular man
in Harwiok; he comes and gets drunk evory sa-
turday, and hns done tho aame for ton years, OK
cept when his mother died, and that time he came
7 On suadsy. It Ii grand thing to be punctual"
Mrs. WILLIAMS, late widow OF STEPHEN A. DoUd-
LLH, has 1commsnced suit against q ring Of
Chicagoans, who, Rhe alleges have been cheating
her and her children by stealing the estate Of her
!, Late husband. An exchange says ;. Tho epplica-
Hon to the Court disaloses finely concocted
scheme perpetrated under the guise Of hiendahip
: for her late husband. ,;nIli ~ -. - ,.ssr:I
Tho Richmond RAig says that further eIAtiGia-
tlon OF the Bright Hope Pit, tho scene Of the hte
disastrous explosion, hss shown that fire Ia stin
burning in the drift. Accordingly It was found
necessary on Wednesday last to close tho shAfts
again: The fire now, In all probability, can only
be exsnguished by rise OF water or by pumping
moro water in. S'
A aea Captain asserts that the Mississippi river
water viii keep longer at sea than any .other aud
in voyage in packet ship from New; York to
New Orleans, the passengers drank water which
wss taken on board at the lAttar place, and had
been carried thence to Liverpool and back TO Now
York, aud was on its way to New Orleans again,
still moro wholesome for the voyage than any that
could be procured at New York.
The richest man In Paris, after Baron RorHs.
CHILD, has just died. his name WAS GaKYyuIxE.
. he has left clear fortune Of five million pounds
i sterlng, to be divided among nephews and nieces
He wna bill dsconntar BY calling, but In ., Very
large way, ''doingr no bill under four thousand
pouni1a! For fifty. years he was martyr to neu-
Islgia, and during that long por1od believed him.
self to be in danger, and even hoped for 'death.
Neuralgia Is evidently tho high road TO riches.
Helpeopld ot ClarlhiiIloj; Tenn!i and Montgom
cry County propose to have at their beautiful Fair
I Grounds, which are unsurpassed foT spaiiouaness
and elegance, grand Tournament and Stock Fair,
on the 2sth, Soth and s1st or Mny. The Tourns-
nent will take plnce on the fret day, on which oc-
caaion General BASIL Duxz will deliyor an addreaa.
The successful knight will receive a premium Of
800, the championship to be commanded for by
Kentucky ard Tennessee.
The New York Tribune says: 'sFiye negroes sit
F.. npon tho Grand Jury in Judge UNpERwoop's Court,
and before them the President OF the Confederacy
is to repeat the words: Z win bo tried before God
and by my peera.'" Upon this tho New York Gon,-
I1nerc1al Advertiser comments: ''The Grand Jury
has had ita say already In regard to DAy1s and he
has no occasion, either In law or fact to 20 before
them and, repeat the words aboyo plAced in his
month. His lpeers will be In tho Petit Jury, and
1t remains to bo seen whether they nre OF mixed
nationality w. .....!5 .-i.$i > .i!5t ;.l .4
Ten naval apprentices are to bo selected by com.
petitiye examination from the two hundred and
and seventy on board tho Sabine at Now London,
rs naval cadets at Annapolis academy. This is a
better plan than tho ons formerly followed al.
Oyer tho country, Of deciding such applications By
Congressional hyoritism. II wo arc not mistaken
Gen. sIoK1Ks first inaugurated this practice, when
member OF Congress from the city of New York.
It was thus he made two appointments, one for
Vest Point and tho other for Annapolis, In 1850,
and his action found universal approval.
The Inauguration OF q q now religiouu sectn In
Boot Tp., sandushy Co., o., having ooessioned
much feeling In the Vicinity, meeting WAS held
TO oonsider tho matter, whom the apostle Of tho
new faith, a man named GAT, took the stand, SAW
the Fremont Journal, and began singing and pray
ing that the "angels Of God would erpel the an.
HGls Of tho devil from tho house, seYeral carual
minded persops thereupon objected TO his pro.
ceeding, and Of course row ensued, ending IN an
Indictment Of the 'egsy and iestivos party for !.
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