The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-05
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Io!d closed in New York at 1861.

ing tooth, and is now sued for $1,000.
Edward ". Dunbar, o preacher of the Gospe
in Minnesota has been convicted of polysamy.
Judge Williams, OF Pennsy ylgania, is announced
as the author Of the majority report, recommend
ing impeachment,
The Marquis de Gallfet and the Prince Achille
Murat have oesp dismissed from the French army
for duellng.
A Chicago divorce case rests on the complaint
Of the lady that her husband made her get up in
the middle OF the night and make the bed over.
Barney Aaron has agreed to engage in prize
fight or the 1st OF April, for s25o0 side, with one
James Collins.
Sixty thousand feet OF cedar wood, intended
for lead pencils were burned at Faber's factory IL
New York last Friday.
Anthony TrOlope, Edmund Yates, and other
English nove!ists, are following Dickens example
In reading their own productions
1t Is stated that Mr. Dickens walks two miles
into the suburbs Of Boston every morning. as o
"coustitutional."
-The Portland (Maine) Mercantile Library As
sociahon has offered Mr.. Dickens $500 to give one
reading in that city.
-Tne Paris hotel keepers have reduced their
cD2r85S SlQC0 lue 1iuIuS Ol VI puSlueoS, SOuSS-
quent on the close Of tie great Exposition.
A company has been 'ormed in Augusta called
the Georgia Fertilizer Manufacturing Company
for the purpose OF man Iacturing manures. The
capital is to be $4,000 in shares Of 800 eact
The publishers of the Savannah Advertiser, q
very lively free paper propose to enlarge and i'm
prove their journal the ist Of next January, and
charge thereafter $500 per annum.
The French Government has lately given an
order for the manufacture, at Esklstuna, in
Sweden, of $4,000 sword bayonets, to be delivered
at the end Of March, 1858.
The Pfussan troops, who formerly marched
only one hundred PAGES minute, now have to
make one hundred and twenty-five French stand
ard.
"A military alliance is seriously talked Of be-
tween Holland and Belgium, with view to the
mutual protection OF the two countries in case Of
foreign attack by France or Prussia.
"A military order, emanating from military
headquarters, detailing removals and appoint
msnts in that State, occupies six columns in the
Galveston, Texas, Bulletin.
Tho manufacture Of breech loading guns is
being carried forward in Austria with great ac-
tivity. The State arsenals alone produce about
six hundred per day.
Madame Miramon, widow ofthe Mexican gene
raj who was shot with the Emperor Macmillan at
Queretaro, has arrived with her children in France,
where they intend 70 reside
General Malone now controls nearly five hun
dred miles OF railroad-running from Norfolk
through the entire State Of Virgins into Tennes-
see.
Several valuable tracts Of land in the country
round about Winchester, Va, have lately been
sold to persons from Pennsylvania, who design to
reside in Virginia.
The steamship City Of Paris, which arrived at
New York on Friday from Queenstown, made the
voyage in little less than eight days. This pas
sage is said to rave been four hours shorter than
any ever before made.
The Sultan's journey to civilized parts has al
ready had a result A school viii be shortly open
ed at Constantinople for the united instruction Of
three thousand Christian and three thousand Mus
sulman children.
Prominent Englishin IN" in Manchester and
Liverpool are trife uncomfortable over a circular
issued from Fenian headquarters announcing that
for every Irishman executed, the life OF one Of the
aforesaid gentlemen will be exacted.
The Imperial family OF Russia narrowly escaped
extinct on recently, the heavy ceiling Of the dining
room at the Cars Criuean residence falling just
as his foot was upon the threshold, with his family
and suite following.
Miss Mary Jane Haynes recovered judgment
for ten thousand dollars against Isaac Harlon, in
the Clinton county (ohiol Common Pleas Court
last week, fer breach OF promise Of marriage.
This is one OF the largest verdcts ever obtained
In Ohio for breach Of promise.
R-The amount Of gold coined at Philadelphia
during the p-st fiscal year was s10,O 06O.sS; at
San Francisc SIS 225 0oo; Of silver at Philadel-
phia s257 $685. at San francisco $3.50 04s.54; Of
bronze and nickel and copper, at Philadelphia,
sl,s7s54O. Total NUMBER Of pieces struck, 81, no.
Ss4.
MIR. Dickens selects for the subjects OF his lee
turos in Boston the following GA Christmas
Carol" the "Trial from Pickwick," David Cop
perfeld, bob Slwyer's Party" nicholas Nick
leby," Boots at the Holly Tree Inn" and ''The
Story Of Little Dombey." These lectures have been
published in convenient fo:m and illust ated.
One OF the California members speaking Of
the atate Of affairs in his section says that the
majority Of the pc ,p!e on the Pacific slope favor
the payment Of the national debt il greenbacks;
those who hold bonds advocate the reverse policy;
but this class is so few in number that they exer-
else but slight impression on the general public
sentiment.
Havana dispatches state that another earth
quake had occurred at St. Thomas, Tortola and
other islands, accompanied with volcanic erup-
tions, and that the rose fifty feet, doing much
damage to the shipping and buildings on the ISL
Tr,rn Of IN md
ported in consequence. The American schooner
Wild Pigeon was sunk.
The track Of the Central Pacific Railroad has
been LAID from Cisco to the Summit and through
the great tunnel, over seven thousand feet above
the sea. The first passenger car passed through
the tunnel Saturday. Twcnty-four miles OF the
track have been aid on the East side Of the noun
taius. Wi fortnight o. open weather the gap
Of SIX miles will be filed up. when ! connection
will be made with the lower track, one hundred
and thirty miles East OF Sacramento.
Tho wife Of rich merchant in Frankfort elop-
Cd With her lover to the United States, a few
months since, where he finally deserted her. Over
come with shame and remorse, she wrote the most
heart.rending letters to her husband implorins
him to forgive and take her back. He paid no at
tsntion to her request SO, selling her jewels, she
took passage to Europe, and arrived in Frankfort
Just in time to find that her husband had procured
q dive co and married again. But he gave her an
asylum in his house at the request Of his second
bride.
DIR. Livingstone's safety, reported some time
ago By the Atlantic Gable, was announced on tie
authority OF letter written to the London Tines,
by Dr.. Roderici 7. Mugchison, President Of the
Royal Geographical Society. Dr.. Murchison says:
81 have this day received letter from Dr.. Kirk at
Zanzibar, dated the 2sth OF September, stating
that ne has seen native trader who has just re-
turned from the Western side Of Lake Tanganyika
and who gave him a detailed account of having |