The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-16
NEWS SUMMARY.

Mr. PEABODY, ne mas received lOUo more.
Il is estimated that there have been SO, ,00O,OO(
logs cut ON the Kennebec river this winter-S0,
Ooo, 600 spruce logs and &c, 600 900 pine logs.
Marriages are rare among the Chinese in Cali
fornis. But one is recorded in our last San Fran
cisco papers-Ah Fly to Cum Ho.
His Holiness P1Us X has conferred on JoH,
MuHPH, Of Baltimore, tho distinction OF 'Printe
TO the Pope" an honor never before received b.
any one in the country.
IRWIN DAVIS, formerly waiter in Springfield
hotel, is now San Francisco millionaire, enjoying
an income from single silver mining company o
$4,000 to see, 900 month.
Columbus, Ga., it is said, will be tho leading
manufacturing city Of the South by next fall as
themost of the cotton factories burned by WILSON
at tbs close OF the war will be rebuilt by that time
Tie New Hampshire Statesman asserts that
f,roaar PEABODY sawed wood at the Columbian
Hotel, in Concord, to pay for nights lodging
fifty years ago.
It is said. that during severe gale on the Brit
ish coast, steamer lost Of her paddle wheels,
and in order 70 make the other work, the stock OF
cosls running short, four hundred pigs we're burn
ed TO Keep u:o the fires.
citizen Of Crawford County, Pennsylvania,
xho made safe Of an old stove, had over three
hundred dollars in greenbacks burned up the other
day by neglectng to remove them before making
Afre-. -
The question whether Freshmen may wear tau
hats and carry canes, has been settled at last at
Amherst College. The Faculty sustained the
Ffoshmen, and the sophomores yielded to the de-
cision.
: The Houston (Te1as) Telegraph says the cane
crops are up and growing thrifty and rapidly
most Of them have been worked over and brought
10 stand, and cotton is assuming vigorous look
and growing rapidly.
Measures have been taken for restocking the
. .Nsuimsc With salmon, shad and other fish. The
:spsvn has been, Deposited in the Pemigewasset,
!: nd hdhwsys have been constructed in connection
! With t6e dams the whole length Of the rivers.
Tie Tomhgbee Pesbytery of Mississippi are
about ta establish 10 frst-olAss female college at
NridiSn. Initiatory steps are also taken to estab-
: Hsh theological seminary for the Southwest in
the same vicinity.
The citizens Of Decat V county, Ga, have sub
scribed the full amount, 500 necessary for the
n1tension Of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad to
Bsinbsidge. The work will be prosecuted without
dslay.
BishopB BIoKw1TH, the newly elected diocesan OF
Georgia, is nstive Of Raleigh, North Carolina,
and . nephew Of the late Hon. GEORGE e. BADGER.
He is perhaps the youngest bishop in the country,
being only hirty-axe years old.
. Three citizens Of Newport, Maine, have been
fined SIS each for; carrying a rebel sympathizer to
dhs town hall and compelling him to make pubic
apolegy for expressions Of Joy at the assassination
OF iffeaident IdNcodR.
Rey. .JAHEs BM1HTB died few dayssg at Black
WafSEIslana;;iin the almshouse, OF delirium tre-
-msnsi Mr.-Ba11Hn,R seven years ago, was the pas
tor Of the Baldwin Piace Baptist Church, Boston,
where he succeeded such mem as Dr.. BALDWIN,
Rsy. J.. D. KsowIHs and Rev. Dr. STOWE.
: The Denver Neios Of the 30th, reports rich dis
coYeries. Of copper and silver ores in the Platte
Rueks district. Six lodes have been opened, and
from one to:two and half foot crevices are devel-
lpsd ID eaoh., This district is at or near Mr. C.. L.
HrHHARa's rancho. -. - - =
9 Tia Chicago Journal has reliable information
that there will be from thirty TO fifty quartz mills
Shipped to Montana this season. There we're only
stwaiye or fifteen mills in the Territory prior to the
opening Of navigation this Spring, and about half
OF Ithose;K@aworthless being cylinder crushers
.inksesd ofthe old and only reliable stamp mills.
During "a, severe thunder storm which visited
Waiffd Stun Stun hity ilast Monday afternoon, lofty
flagstaff, which stood in front Of the gate at the
oesnesary Of the old Soldiers Home, was struck by
iehtning and shiyered into fragments. A Con
eressional Committee should be appointed as soon
asposafblet to see If this work cannot be traced to
some rebel in this torpedo business.
Among recent productions Of California in the
vegetable kingdom, are the following: A mangel
wurtzel that weighed one hundred and eighteen
pounds, q cabbage head Of ffty-three pounds, q
turnip of twenty-si1 pounds, potato Of eight
pounds, q sweet potato Of fifteen pounds, carrot
Of ten pounds, an onion Of fortyseven ounces, and
PEmpkn Of two hundred and sixty pounds.n
ID. The New York Tribune Of Saturday contains the
following notice: DEo1H-NoN-DA-.wAH-HoH-J
.l.zxM-On Sunday, April 21st, at the residence OF
the brides father on the Cattaraugus Reservation,
III fhe Rey. AsAEn WRIGHT, D1-J1H-NoN-DA-wEH-
HOB, n. D., Grand Saohem of the Six Nations OF
Jndisps, to Miss JoH-A-zRH, daughter OF the Hon.
GAun LOGAN e1-President OF the Seneca Nation
OF Indians. :
cu4NJk ~ eiAo W0~ossSse's ss''ss
Reflector, in report of the Lynn shoe market,
notices as a curious fact the difference in shape
required by various sections. "The Southern
ladies wear boots cut very high in the instep; the
ladies' of California and the Western States require
broad, wide boot, while for the trade Of our New
England cities very marrow, delicate shaped boot
is demanded"
Some acute genius has published a calculation
by which it appears that If ADAM had been the
man he ought to have been, and had put out at
compound interest fartbing or penny or some
trifing coin which he might easily have spared
from his daily expenditures, it would long before
this sime have amounted to sum exceeding in
value the worth Of solid bar OF refined gold equal
in size to the earth on which We live.
The indications seem to be that there will be
great activity during the coming summer in the
gold-beazing country nearest Atlanta, and that
her mineral resources will be developed with
energy and very rapidly thereby giving profitable
employment to the destitute thousands in those
localities as weu as enriching the State by en-
HANGING the value Of it's real estate and increas-
ing its working capital.
From Treasury return just printed, it appears
That in 1856 the total amount Of the English ma
Honal debt was s8O2 s4 949, Of which f77s 31S 229
was funded, &8, 700 unfunded s21, $40 O2O the
estimated value Of terminable annuities. In the
sauna year the terminable snnuities created were
s102 22ss, those expired s7s,7s4 the value Of those
reduced $5S9, ,649. Obligations we're cancelled to
the amount of s2,554, 800, and the funded debt
paid of to the amount Of 81, 455. .066.
It is stated by gentleman Of Sslns, Kansas,
that section Of ground which he has examined
on his farm, contains not less than twenty-five
grasshoppers eggs to the square inch. To test
the vitality Of these he put two dozen eggs in
bottle and on the sixth day they Matched out, and
hoped about like lambs tyring to jump over each
others heads. Another piece OF earth was taken