The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-31
NEWS SUMMARY. E

Crime is increasing fast in Illinois. The peni-
telitiary has 1100 convicts, or 80 per cent. more
than two years ago.
The receipts from informal Revenue on Saturday
were 1856, ,93G.18, making the total amount received
during the week s., 400 776.35.
JOHN MoRR1ssEx has bought on interest in
Troy newspaper. JOHN will speedily stcome down
to white chips" as Beau HICKMAN would say, if ne
goes very deeply into the newspaper business.
Mr.. HENRY s. ALLEN has become partner With
MIR. GEonaE w. CARLETON. The firm is now known
as G. ". CARLETON g. Co., and continues tho book
publishing business at its new store, No. 499
Broadway, New York.
The country Of Europe in which tho greatest
number Of marriages takes place is Saxony, where
the average is yearly to every lit inhabitants
The proportion in Spain is in 12e. In Franco
the rate is 1 in 1877.
A communication from Saxony states that the
cost Of the war to that kingdom will amount to
eighty millions and half OF francs, without reck-
oning the enormous losses suffered by trade and
commerce.
Prof. HENRY w. LoNaFELLow, DR.. SAMUEL G..
HOWE, Mr.. EDWARD QUINCY, Prof. OLIVER WEN
DELL HOLMES, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, JAMES T.
FIELDS, EDWIN P. N11pP1E and Mr.. MERRITT
TnnBLE, Of New York, acted as pall-bearers at
the funeral Of N. P. WILLIS in Boston, last
Thursday.
A new paper mill, capable Of turning out four to
six tons daily, is about to be started at Black Rock
near Buffalo. new process Of manufacturing
called the 'N1eech process" whereby paper is
made from grasses, is to be introduced. It is
claimed that good printing paper can be mado for
four cents pound.
Mrs. MARGARET HAwLEY, who keeps small
newspaper stand inside the Fulton Ferry New
York, makes q net gain of from s125 to $500 per
week. In ono day sixty dollars often cleared.
She has thus been able to educate her children
handsomely, and to lay by more than forty thou
sand dollars.
An officer in the army in the Indian country,
sends letter to friend in Lockport, which con-
tains the following cheerful passage: 81 would
send you lock Of my hair, but I fear it would DO
fraud upon the savages OF this vicinity. Ihero
is fair prospect that one of these noble red men
will be my barber before Spring"
For the week ending the Goth instant, National
Bank currency to the amount OF s104, ,275 was is
sued by the acting Comptroller. The total circu-
lation issued up to date s $780, 907 1896; actual cir
culation s29S 74s, ,964 for which securities held
as follows: For circulation, $40, ,514 0OO and for
deposits sss, ,761 ,450 Total securities held, ss7s
275, ,45O.
MIR. LEONARD ". JEROME, the fashionable stock
UIOkcI, IL tue SOCla1 non OF NcW IOrK- Every Gay
almost he delights that excitable community with
some novel sensation. He has just started
sleigh, called the Monitor, which is described as
ittlo else than beautiful boat on runners, with
erect PROV and graceful stern miniature guns pro-
jecting on either side, botl an ornament and de-
fence. The crew consists OF twenty ladies'.
The National Republican says: ssWe are author
lied to announce that the President will hold his
second public 1evee this season on Thursday eve
ning the 7th of February, and the third on Friday
evening, February 22-to commence each evening
Mt eight o'clock, and 10 close at eleven. We are
also authorized to announce that the Presidents
daughters, Mrs. PATTERSON and Mrs. STovER will
be at home on Monday afternoons"
Rev. Mr.. GILBERT HAVEN, in this weeks Lade-
pendent, has discovered a plan to settle at once ali
our political and social differences The substance
of it all is that the nation must cease to use the
words freedmen and 'colored, and white and
know only that Of men and brethren Why can
not Congress declare by resolution that there are
10 black men, and that the notion is an optical
7llusion2
By the will Of ELI W. GrsNE the great seattle
King" OF Ohio recently deceased, one son receives
1arm q $500 acres worth $50 per Spd diSs
sions Of the will, these large farms cannot be sold
during the lifetime OF his sons, and are to be con-
stantly stocked with at least so5 900 CATTLE
sach. -
The importations into New York during 1866, 81
elusive Of specie, valued in gold at S297O
Doo Some Of the principal articles we're as fol-
lows Dry goods, $685. 00O. 900; sugar, s21,
leather, s12, 4so55s iron, $780, 1885, lead S.
34O molasses s3,616,1s5; earthenware s., co., 37s:
steel, 81, ,949 949. i,
Prussia rewards her public seryents with no |
hand. On Christmas Eve presents voted
y the Prussian Chambers we're paid over to vari-
ous generals and statesmen. Count B1sMARok re-
>eaved SS75OO0 and the Prussian War Minister.
-9en. Won BOON, Gen. Won MoLrKE, Cen Won
61TTENfIELD, Gen. vow STEnsMEE and Gen.
Vod1E Won FALKENsrEN received $3.50, 900 each.
Inc debt o. the United States may be set down /
n round numbers at three thousand millions Of
1ollars This, il all in silver dollars, weighing one
'unce each, would amount to one hundred and
twenty-five Thousand tons, and wouI REQUIRE d |
ram OF wagons, loaded with ton each, three |
hundred and iity miles in LENGTH: to draw it.
Ihat skating has become ashionsble exercise |
evident from the following statements as to the |
Materials consumed during the present year in |
'ne skste factory ct Worcester two tons OF brass
'ooo Gross o. screws, $4,000 brass thimbles, 1000
23Ands OF German silver, nearly six tons OF rose-
wood, and ten tons Of steel, worked no bv thirty
"SAAASAA AAAOO <~VsVOV pd1f Ol Hh8Leas
Great fortunes have not unfrequently been real |
zed by the invention of some toy for children
which meets the approval Of the juvenile critics.
The inventor of thu common street toy known az
he Return Ball is said to shave realized s1Oo
w.. The inventor Of the ::sWalking Dol, " which
Hes 80 fashlonable few years ago, made s75aOo
~ his patent. The dancing '.Jim Crow tovs;n-
reduced about two years ago, was invented by nm
Invalid boy, and won a fortune.
The daily consumption Of oysters in Paris
amounts to upward Of three-quarters Of q million
vhich reach the capital in something Ike III
Aousand baskets, each Of which contains crea,
md furnishes altogether on an average ba1F an
'yster per head Of the population. The number
u snalls-now 80 savorite and edible with thePa-
1s-ah gourmands as to have thrown the frog. the
aatoaal delcacy par excellence, completely into
ne sLade-brought daily to the Paris noark.+ =
lot 80 easily ascertained; all one knows ), ~.
rom burgundy and Champagne, the great ssnai
districts, upward Of ono hundred H.,
and are dispatched to Paris every day.
dispatch from Chicago, January 22d s,,s.
1T is satisfactorily ascertained today that tha
)para House has been drawn by u. n. cnoapv
limseK He held the SO, 600 tickets which remain
d unsold. The reports Of othor parties hay;n,,
rawn it are for the purpose Of gaining time and
. allow the excitement to subside. The resn1t
lfts Mr.. CRosBy from bankruptcy to fortune
1 nearly million dollars. There has been M
ia So A1L p 1