The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-04

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DALY-U MONTHS. Observation-Disclosures. 500
DALY-lH HREE MONTHS.. Observation-Disclosures. 2.oO
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NEWS SUMMARY.
They are going to camp out at Lynchburg in the
spring 10 aroi l ezorbtant rents.
Tho Michigan fisheries furnish from seye1lty-hve
to one hundred thous, nd barrels OF fish per annum,
worth about s., 500, 000
resolution has been oferod in the FirG inia
Legislature authorizing the purchase OF copy OF
WEDsTKR's dictionary, al English grammar and
spelling-book for each member.
Sixty years ago there was hardly craft larger
than an Indian canoe on the great Western lakes.
In 1S4l the lake trae amounted to s65 1000 000; in
1851 to $500, 600 900, and in 1861 to oo0o00o.
OLIVER AMEs, of Easton, Massachusetts, has
bsen elected President Of the Pacific Railroad, to
hold the Office whio General DIX is absent as Min
lister to France. The salary is fifteen thousand
dollars per year.
The Paris Uoniteur says that nearly all the wood
necessary TO build tho temporary covering to pro-
tect the Holy Sepulchre during the restoration Of
that hallowed edi6ce, has reached Jerusalem. It
is intended to complete the work before castor.
HORACE GREELEY, few days ago, WAS re-elect-
ed editor-in-chief Il tho New York Tribune. The
paper, being owned By an Association, the form
Of electng an edtor-in-chiefsy early gone through
with, with tho same gratifying result to all parties
concerned.
1yf1, o0Y,Jnn nf
chanan, Va, that their town will be flooded from
the damming of the water by an immense ice
gorge that chokes up the channel Of James River,
near that place, which is said to be mile or more
in length and about twenty feet high
The building statistics of the two cities show
that 1900 buildings wore erected in New York in
1865, and 1000 in Chicago. At this rate it will be
but short Time before New York, Like St. Louis,
Cincinnati and Milwaukee, will be known only as
one Of the minor suburbs Of Chicago.
The Ocala Banner announces that the Florida
Railroad, from Waldo to Ocala, and On to Tampa,
would be built in a short time. This road, says
the Banner, taps the garden spot Of Florida; and
when built will wonderfully assist in developing
the unknown resources and wealth OF this section
Of the State.
The New York papers are asking, "What shall
be done with the snow 2" The railway companies
pile it along the curbs, and whom a thaw comes
the cellars are everhowed, while citizens who
shovel it back ints the middle of the street
rested tlsrefor.
OF nine daily newspapers publ shed in Boston in
1843, only three are in e1istenc= and OF twen-
tyeight magazines there remains the Missionary
Herald, Christian Examiner, and NORTH Anae''ican
Reoie,o. Of the weekly press, which numbered
thirty-fye, twelve only are now printed.
Tho Syracuse Courier says EDWIN c. LrrcHFHlD,
OF Brooklyn, who graduated at Hamilton College
in 1882, with one of the honors Of his class, hai
just made generous return to his alma mater, in
giving the sum Of 900 for the permanent en-
dewment Of the professorship of astronomy and
the astronomical observatory.
AFrench work, recently published, maintains
that evory tea Thousand years the waters of the
sea pass from one pole to the other, submerging
and overwhelming, in their passage, the earth and
all it's inhabitants According to the author of the
theory, NJ. PAUL DE JouvENAL, the last Of those
deluges occurred 1900 years ago. The next one is
due in 600O years more.
An enteeprising Connecticut man has succeeded
in curing beef in South America 30 that it can be
safely put up and brought North. It costs, cured,
cent t-and-a-haf per pound. !Ihe freight costs
two dolan barrel, and when brought to market
it iB equally good, and brings the same price as
prime mess beef put up ct Chicago.
son Wednesday last" says the Beaufort IS. C.)
Ne,s South Of Saturday, 'Major- General R. e.
ScorT addressed the freedmen in this town. He
gave them some good advice, which, if needed,
would secure to them both temporal and spiritual
prosperity. The General has been On tour
through this section of the State, and seem tired
and worried BY his trip"
In the Neu South we also SOC long advertise
nent OF lots and sblccks' to be sold for taxes, in
the town Of Beaufort. Over one hundred separate
lots or blocks are offered By the United States Tax
Commissioners.
HERMAN EHREsBERa, who was murdered BY tho
Indians in Arizona about month ago, was a
learned and scholarly gentleman Of German birth,
and mining engineer, long employed in Arizona.
He was secretary and translator to Commodore
STOCKTON during the Mexican war, and in the early
history Of Texas figured prominently, and was the
snly survivor Of the Fannin massacre.
In tho catalogue OF the cities, towns, villages,
rivers &C.. in the different States Of the Umon are
to be found the following repetitions named after
some. OF eur most distinguished forefathers:
Washngtons, As; Jacksons A.; Jeffersons, 81;
F1anklins, Al; Madisons, 26; Monroes, 25; Perrys,
a. Faye;tes II; Haniltons, 1s; CAROLS, 49,; Boli-
vars 3; Cntons, 10; Waynss, II; Casses, 6; Clays,
4; Fultons II.
sorns weeks ago, FRANCIS JOSEPH, Emperor OF
Austria, assembled eighteen parliaments in his
EMPIRE and laid before each of them speech
written expressly for itself. In these parGaments
we're Represented at least eleven languages or
dialects, and the only ones among them all that do
not require an interpreter to make the members
intoligible to each other, are tho Hungarian and
the Croatian.
The Calcutta correspondent Of the London 1a,neS
says the Government. Of India has declined to in
tergere nth tho practice Of taking dying Hindoos
to the Ganges inamersing them, and choking them
With the holy mud. Relying on tho representa-
tions Of an orthodox Hindoo authority, Sir JOIN
LAwRENoE has decided to leave the matter to Hin
doc opinion. The Bengal Government, on the
other hand, urge that in all cases of taking the
sick to the Ganges, notice should first be given at
the nearest police Office.
The Committee OF the Kentucky General Assem-
bly,, which Was last year appointed to investigate
tho subject Of the removal Of the seat of govern
ment from Frankfort, have recently reported.
They recommend that the capital be removed from
Frankfort. Several cities have offered induce
ments for the location Of the capital
and Dauviilo being the more promi-
nent. Tho city Of Louisville Offers bonus of five
hundred thousand dollars, and is likely to secure
the location.