The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-03
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NEWS SUMMARY


Omaha for $40, 800 year.
There is lady living in Portsmouth, Va.' WHO
has attained the remarkable age Of ia years.
The bridge at Columbia, Pa, burned to prevent
the Confederates from crossing in 1868, Is pelng
rebuilt.
Several small parcels of Virginia tobacco, from
this years crop, have already been sold IN the
Danville market.
A single dealer in eggs in Western New York
sent over half a million Of them to market at New
York in three weeks.
They pay good salaries in Denver, Colorado. An
Illinois preacher recently invited there is to receive
$1,000 year in gold.
A party of Swiss immigrants arrived in Lynch
burg few days ago, and reported to the Virginia
immigration Society.
The. .eight-hour men Of Cincinnati won't Voto ipr
the editor of the Gazette as Congressman because
he works sixteen hours day.
Mr.. ALEXANDER PACE, OF Prince George County,
sent the first bale of new cotton grown in Virginia
this year to Petersburg last Friday.
Owners OF starch factories in the northern part
of New Hampshire, the Concord Statesman says,
are contracting for potatoes at thirty,hree cents
per bushel.
The exact majority for HAaHT in California, is
ascertained to be nine thousand one hundl ed and
four. An interested politician thinks this Haight-
full majority.
The drought in central Illinois is terrible. Near-
ly all the wells and cisterns in Springfield are fail
ing, and in the country there is not we'll in len
that is not dry.
party consisting of men, women and children,
TO the number Of $50, will leave Boston the coming
north to settle near Natawka, on the Kickapoo
reservation, Kansas.
In Boston, as in London, the city authorities are
about to impose the necessity Of taking out
licenses upon the bootbacks. The newsboys OF
Boston ere also to be licensed.
Hon. JOHN A. LOGAN made speech at Cleve-
land, Ohio, on Saturday, in which he favored the
election Of colored men to Congress-, and itima-
ting that colored President would not be much
alnlss.
Archbishop MeCLosKEY it is said, has called for
volunteers among the priests in New York, to pro-
cesd at once to New Orleans to take the places OF
the clergy VINO are either worn out or ara down
with the yellow fever.
The flagstaff used by General GRANT over his
headquarters at Petersburg, has been presented to
the Bureau of Military Statistics OF New York, and
las arrived at Albany. 1t is now in charge OF VIII
LIAM q. MINK, Keeper Of the State House.
The Washington Inteligencer, in speaking OF
General DAN. E. S1oKLEs, says: "We learn that
it is hardly probable that this gentleman will be
gratihed with court Of inquiry. He has been Or
deyed to await further instructions at New York
city,
THOMAS DARCY MCGEE has joined the total alb
stinence society," ,enot only for the next Canadian
Legislative session. but, he says, with the help
Of God for oil time" He confesses to have been
a hard drinker, and that the habit told on bis best
resolutions.
The Portsmouth IN. H.) Chronicle says it is as
serted that Secretary TE1LEs has ordered court
martial to convene at the navy-yard there on the
I'd Of October, for the trial of engineer who re-
gently denounced the President and said he ought
to be impeached.
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Of Boston, it would seem, do not think Boston any
longer worthy OF witnessing their martial array,
They have sent committees to Providence New
Bedford and Portsmouth, N. H., to select a spot
for their next parade.
The Paris tradesfolk. 30 says letter writer, are
20 ng to teach the Yankees trick OF advertising.
They propose to erect along the Boulevards a
number Of lay .fgurers upon which clothiers Of all
kinds can display their wares, paying for the priv-
lege by the week.
The Lynchburg Virginian has been presented
With an apple that weighs thirty and half
ounces. II was raised in Amherst by MIR. j. b.
PAanIN. The Yarganian very properly proposes
to aend it (why not bring it p down to the exhibi-
nv
The Treasury Department has passed upon and
approved the last Of the claims Of the State Of
Missouri against the Government, and viii soon
issue warrant for one million dollars found due
in the final settlement. The total sum paid to
Missouri on these claims amounted to more than
six million dollars.
Broad street, Philadeldhia,'i 'is eleven miles and
half long, in one straight line, and one hundred
and fifteen feet wide, extending from League
Island, on the Delaware River, to the Northern
boundary of the present city limits. At it's present
rate Of improvement, it will require only few
years to mako it the most magnificent thorough
fare.in the world.
Another OF the ridiculous wagers in vogue was
paid in San Francisco lately. The loser, Union
man, carried hand organ the whole length of the
principal street, playing as he Vent and collecting
money for the benefit OF the Catholic and Protest
ant orphan asylums. The show would have been
more complete if the winning Democrat had play
ed the part Of the monkey.
The London Atheneun publishes this para
graph: Promising experiments have been made
in the burning Of creosote as fuel to heat steam
boilers. Containing three times more hydrogen
than coal, creosote gives off three times as much
heat-a fact Of no little Importance in these days
Of enormous consumption a. apprehended ex-
haustion of our coal r'iles."
The magnitude Of the marine interests on the
lakes is frequently illustrated at the st. Clair
''Aats," where sometimes, so large feet of ves-
sells is collected for passage through the difficult
channel that 'jam, occurs, iujuring vessels, and
temporarily obstructing navigation altogether.
The latest '.jam" was on the night Of the 25th,
but no serious damage resulted.
Ohio was, by the census Of 1860, the third State
in the Union having population of 1883, 500, or
IA per cent Of the whole The State now gives
more attention to the production of wool, having
the largest number Of sheep of any State, viz:
6,56S S052, out Of 81, ,695, 7s7 in the United States
The live stock in the State valued, in 1885, at
$151 00O OO0 which exceeds that of any other State
except New York, being s17O, ,552, ,5O6.
II is proposed to construct magnificent church
in Tarrytown, New York, to the memory of WASH
NovuN IRrNa. The site chosen for the church is
on Broadway, the principal avenue Of Tarrytown
IN the immediate neighborhood of Sleepy Hollow
and the cemetery where Mr.. IRVING is buried. The
work has begun, and the subscriptions amount to
upwards of twenty thousand dollars. Eight thous-
snd dollars more are required. 1t is estimated
tbat the towers will cost the additional sum Of ten
thousand dollars.
HORACE GREELEY proposes that an appropriate
building be erected at New York for the perpetual
exhibition aud encouragement OF American manu-
fsctures and he offers to devote to its purpose his
accumulated savings Of forty years-the sum of
two hundred Thousand dolars-guaranteeing that
the edifce should be opened on the 4th of July,
Il hot loI 4l-ok ,,rt,