The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-07
NEWS SUMMARY.

made u New York City; eighty-three were for
homicide.
The tunnel on the Albany and susquehanna
Railroad will be finished on June next. It will
be 1900 feet long.
The report Of the Minister Of Finance, NJ. FouLp,
will it is said, show that this years receipts viii
exceed the expenses by about fifty millions Of
francs.
Ice cutting will soon begin in Maine. Immense
ice houses are located ct Farmingdale, Pittston
and Richmond, holding from $4,000 to $1,000 tens
each.
A Catholic Fair, held in the Music Hall, Boston,
recently for the benefit OF Boston College and the
Church Of the Immaculate Conception, netted
o,72s IS.
In Windham County, Conn.,, last week, judge
refused divorce to couple who had been mar
ried but two weeks, on the ground that they had
not yet given matrimony fair trial.
A Mobile paper says rents are falling daily and
the cottage houses which were held 1T $50 few
months ago are now offered at $50 per mouth A
great mar- small dwellings, have been erected du-
ring the past months which may account for the
fall in rents.
Messrs. RossM1, FEDERICO R1ccr, the ibrettists
PIAvE and So1.ERA, and the choreograph SAINT
LEON, have all received the order Of Alexander
Nevesky from the Emperor Of Russia. This deco
pleasant addition Of one Thousand roubles pension.
The monthly report Of agriculture for December
contains fiscal estimate Of the crop Of 1866.
The total result is $50 OOO, 600 bushels. In the
eleven States not hitherto reported 1876, 600 900
bushels, against 274, 600, 900 bushels in 1859.
OF nine daily newspapers, published in Boston
In 1843, only three are now in existence, and Of
twenty magazines there remains the Aission-
arg Herald, Christian Examiner and North An,ert-
can Reoie,o. Of the weekly Press, which number
ed thirty-hve, twelve only now printed.
The artesian wells at Genelle and Passy, in
France emit stearn-the temperature Of the wa
ters, which come from $500 feet depth, being eigh-
ty-hve degrees Fahrenheit, whilst that Of the at
mosphere at the surface averages thirty six de-
grees.
CRA1a's Telegraph News Association have leased
the New Orleans and Balize telegraph line for
term Of years. This line intercepts vessels 1--WE to
ten hours sail below New Orleans, giving the as
socation great advantage in obtaining news from
Cuba, Mexico and Texas.
The new line of steamers between Germany and
the United States, touching at Southampton, will
sail from the Hanoverian port OF Gusteminde
twice week with the Prussian mail. The capital
OF the company which is to enjoy the monopoly Of
carrying the Prussian mail, is seven million
thalers. %.
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patches announcing that the Cotton Supply Ad-
ministration Company Of Algiers has received from
New Orleans and South Carolina twenty hogsheads
Of Sea Island and middling cotton seed, to be dis
tributed grataitously amoug the inhabitants Of
Algiers.
negro in Prince George recently attempted to
steal = house. Awaiting himself Of the absence
OF his employer, DIR. sHANDs, he pulled down
the house and was hauling the timber away for
the purpose Of fitting up a donnicil elsewhere
when the sudden return Of the Doctor stopped
further proceedings.
The Baton Rouge Comet understands that the
Bass levee, in Carroll Parish, is far from being
complete and that serious apprehensions are en-
tertained as to it's safety. At the last accounts
two thousand laborers were at work upon it, and
protection levees were being built around it to
keep the river hom encroaching too severely
upon it.
One OF the hotel keepers in Memphis prepared
dinner for four hundred persons and expected the
congressional excursion party to eat it; but some
malicious member OF the reception committee took
the excursionists to another hotel and left land
lord No. in very uncomfortable frame Of mind,
with large quantity Of scold vittles" on hand
General F. E. SKINNER, known to some by the
soslnaquet Of the Watchdog Of the Treasury, ,,
while he may be successful in keeping watch and
ward over the public funds Of the Government,
was unable at the Presidents reception on New
Years Day, to protect his own private person from
the onslaught of q skilful pickpocket, who in the
pressure OF the crowd, managed to appropriate
his pocket-book, containing between $40 and $50,
besides pair of sleeve-buttons and papers OF con
siderable value.
Among the guests present at the farewell dinner
given by Mr.. B1aE1ow at Paris, We observe tbs
names OF Drs. T. W. EVANS, WIZ. z. JOHNSTON, r.
MIEEIKR, WALTER CARY, Emo, J. MARION S1as, Of
South Carolina; G. PORTER, REY1AND, W. DAY, g.
Y. BUoKNALL, T. EVANS, J. W. CRANE. Pretty well
for American Doctors. There was nearly as many
ladies present gentlemen. The total number of
guests present was over $50.
Prince ARTHUR having now reached his six
teenth year, QUEEN VICTORIA has determined that
he shall enter the Royal Military Academy at
Woolwich, as gentleman cadet. The Prince of
Wales is general in the army, and Colonel Of the
Tenth Hussars. Prince ALFRED is q captain in
the navy; and 1t is intended that Prince ARrHun
shall be prepared for commission in either the
engineers artillery. The royal family will thus
be connected with nearly every branch of the SER
vice.
Another company has been organized by ex-
Governor CURTIN, OF Pennsylvania, and Genera,
RUFUS INGALLS,, formerly Chief Quartermaster OF
the 'sarmics operating against Richmond, to fur
ther Investigate the auriferous regions in the
neighborhood Of Great Falls on the Potomac All
the companies already organized assert that they
are at least paying the expenses Of mining, ana
many that they are making handsome profit over
and above th. ost OF the labor necessarily re-
quired.
Under recent Act Of Congress Commission
has been appointed by the Secretary Of War, and
will soon convene in Nashville, Tennessee, for the
purpose Of awarding to persons entitled to the
benefits Of said Act, compensation not exceeding
$500 for each slave enlisted or drafted in the United
States service, in Tennessee. Under this Act,
claims for slaves owned not only in Tennessee but
also in Kentucky, but who enlisted or drafted
in the State Of Tennessee into the United States
service, must be prosecuted before this Commis-
sion. #
The Baltimore Commercial says that the pros
perity Of that city ct the present time is 'unpre-
cedented." Last year there were 72O building per
mits issued, including those for renovations and
repairs The returns for this year up to the pres
ent time show that 1918 permits have been issued,
Of which over 1000 were for new buildings The
leading business streets, Baltimore, Hanover and
Jay, show great improvements in architecture.
while the suburbs rapidly filing up With dwell
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