The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-13

we're recs.ved at Pittsburg and sold to citizens at
nine and ten cents per bushel
AT Burning Springs, West Virginia, they use
gas Tor cooking, heating, dwelling and business
houses, lighting the streets, running engines, DC.
The Hudson River is closed with ice from Al
bany to Castleton. There is heavy ice gorge at
Catskill.
"A Baptist Church and several other buildings,
IN Frankfort, Ky., were burned on Friday might,
causing loss OF $4,000.
The New York Board Of Health have declared
New Orleans an infected port on account OF the
cholera prevailing there.
-rhe trial Of Ca 5tain Maurics Sohaf by court
martial, for shooting F. B. Shepherd OF Mobile,
was commenced there last week.
Louis. .ana's share OF the Peabody Southern
Educationa! Fund is to be devoted to the prepara-
tory education OF teachers.
--Lemuel G. Bcwden, Esq, Register in Bank
ruptcy for the First Congressional District OF Vir-
gnia has resigned his position.
--Major thompson, Ct the 4th United States cav
slIy, has been murdered by band Of desperadoes
near Jrt Mason, Iexas.
Wooden legs cost the government last year
f35,2J6 80. Wooden beads cost the COVE nment
much more than that.
"A shoe manufacturing firm at Marlboro, Mas
sachusetts, has recently failed with $1,000 la
bilities.
--Florida has voted for convention by about
1900 majority. OF forty-dve delegates chosen,
twonty.seven are white and eighteen colored.
--on the 4.h inst, there were thirty-two deaths
in New Orleans, including eight from cholera and
two from yellow fever.
-Tho lexas reg .stry is completed, and shows
56,666 whites and A. 430 blacks white majority
Of 923S IN a total registry OF 104, ,496.
Nearly two-thirds Of the Mont GEMS tunnel
has been completed. At the end of October less
than 1900 yards remained to be bored.
-D.ckeus is staying at the Westminster Hotel,
New York, house which is favorte haunt Of
such members of the press as can afford to pay its
rather ex.ravagant charges.
Mi. James NJ. Mason, Of Virginia, now in Can
ada, writes letter to B. W. Graham, Of Texas,
advising against any emigration Of the Southern
people to Jamaica or anywhere else.
--On the first Of the month the collector OF taxes
Of New York city had received s17,7Ss, ,7O7 Of tie
city taxes. The total tax levy amounts to s22-
1s5Ss7.
"A school cf theology, after the Book Of Nor
mon, was opened in Salt Lake City on the second
Of this month, ALL called the School OF the
Prophets"
--AaSaukee has officially decided the value Of
mans beard In fight rufaan pulled out
mans be- I'd, and the court awarded him fifteen
dollars damages.
The New York Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty TO Animals vera instrumental in convict
ing and furnishing last month about dozen Of
5enders.
The New York hotels have comparatively few
guests Just now. Some Of them have turned d of 8
pumbor Of servants and are looking for dull
times.
The Gadsden (Ala.) Times says that for the
past two months an average of fifty wagons per
week have passed through that town, filed with
dissatisfied Georglans and Alabamiaas seeking
homes in the Westaru States.
line coored race, it appears, are coming for
ward as invent rs, and the Patent Office report
shows that during the past year several have ap-
pied to the Patent Office tor patents on their own
inventions.
The ant-ritualists had fine row, two weeks
ago, in one VI the Lcndon churches. They hissed
the sermon, greeted the communion with three
cheers. smashed the font and one OF the crosses,
and provoked general fight.
During the year 1856 no less than two hun
dred and five persons were killed by wheeled vehi
cles In the streets Of London. This represents the
deaths only; the number Of accidents was OF course
Ear greater.
We recently referred to the damage done to
Ale casks in India by small beetle. The coffee
plantations about .iadras have lately been infast-
ed by the larvR Of some insect, which on one es.
tate destroyed 400, 900 trees in single season.
1T may interest lovers OF oysters to know that
the oyster very tenacious OF life, and is said to
keep up its organization in the human stomach for
. long time. An oysters heart, it is said, beats
percepubly halt an hour after it is swallowed, all
Of which it is very pleasant to know.
The widow of former men b,r Of Congress,
residing in Hallowel, Me-, lately married her
hostler He treated her cruelty, and she applied
Tor divorce, whereupon he decamped with
$4,000 IN bonds, leaving her in destitute circum-
stances.
The estimates for the next fiscal year, as sent In
by the various departments at Washington, are
War, $50 100000; navy, s47, 900 900; evil list,
SOL 600 900 pensions, $4,000 OcO bounty, s25 OOO-
900; Indiln and miscellaneous, $50 900 0OO Total,
SIS. .O0oO0O.
The British Government will soon lay down
telegraphc cabe between Jamaica and Cuba,
which is now connected with this continent and
with Europe through the Atlantic Cable. The
British Colonial Office will then be in immediate
communication with this important dependency.
Father Il. an, author Of Tho Conquered Ban
ner," and other beautiful Southern songs, formerly
of Knoxville, Tenn, has been transferred to the
Diocese Of Georgia. He ls to preach at Macon
next Sunday, on the occasion of the dedication Of
the new Catholic church in that city
MIR. Aheru, editor and proprietor OF the New
York Evening Gazette, announces the discontru-
ance Of that journal. S noe the purchase OF the
paper from Mr.. Sweetzer y Mr.. Ahern bitter
quarrel has existed between the Gazette and the
Ev, ming NAL, which now ends in the death Of the
former journal
--lhe New York opera season closed on satur-
day. The season has been pecuniarily most un-
fortunate one for the management-the expenses
over the receipts being something like 2O,00Q-so