The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-23
NEWS SUMMARY.

Luton c4oseo IN new YORK dull, with no change
at25 cents for hIiddling Upland,
Gold closed at 33t.
In 175o there were but seven newspapers and
periodicals. published in the United States in
1861 there were 4051 circulating annually s27. .o51
Tho river st. Lawrence was never known to
De SO high IN winter, and fears Of flood in the
spring are entertained by those residing on the
river below Montreal.
IL Anola tney pack railway carriages so full that
death is frequently the result, seven or eight
having died Of this cause in ono year on a single
road. y. y-Ss +a
There were S5SS lost children brought to the de-
Partment for lost children in New York, from No
vember, 1856, to March, 1867, Of whom 275 we're un
claimed by parents or friends
a gentleman who takes common sense views Of
things boing recently asked his opinion of poetic
Individual, replied, ssOh! he's one of those men
VINO have soarings after the infinite, and diyinrs
ateer the untathomable, but who never pay cash. =
Two French gamins were looking at an Egyptian
temple erectedat the Paris Exhibition. wonderine;
what the hieroglyphics meant, when one Of than
solved the doubt by stating that it was the tomb
OF the inventor Of photography .
They are telling queer Fish story, up il Wis
COUSIN. The papers say that recently the mills on
Inc Neena and Menaska were obliged to stop work
because the water wheels and fumes were so
clogged with fish or, a. one paper expresses it,
there was 'tmore fish than water ~
GEORGE PEABODY was given q public reception
by the school children Of Georgetown, Massaohu-
setts, the village where his mother was born and
where he iserecting church in commemoration
of her virtues. He will probably leave for Europe
about the LIST Of May:
Her Majesty ESTHER, BLYTHE alias ESTHER
RUGzzERFoRD, Queen oi the Gipsies, has made ap-
phcatlcn to the Parochial Board Of Jedburgh, in
Scotiand, Tor relief as pauper. Queen ESTHER
Owls horse and cart, and eight children The
Parish have offered to admit her to the poor
house.
Prince KANa, the actual ruler Of China refused
to allow the English there to build railroad. His
reasons IN opposition we're that the prejudices Of
the people we're very strong the country Of Con
fucaps differed from the wild, semi-barbarous and
primitive regions OF Europe, whose Inhabitants
were comparatively. of recent origin, whereas the
flo"Fy Kingdom was under elaborate culture and
the occupations Of the inhabitants were peculiar.
Ihe Rochester, N. Y. Democrat says the name by
which the new Russian Territory is to be known is
exciting discussion, and an anonymous paragrn-
phist remarks: ssEsquimaux (or better Eskimo, ac-
cording to LATHAM), would do very well; Sitka is
very good; Norland might do, as We are not likely
TO get anything beyond it. If it is proposed to
give any Of our generals 8 cold immortality by it,
CAL it Isickles, after Gen. s1cKEs.'e
Among other marvels to be sent to the Paris
Exhibition, Switzerland ,is about to forward the
Abhss%Vs relquaries given by CHARLEMAaaE to the
large nnyr Ma aAaurice (Kalais.} One ct them is
for1oed Of the precious - -; tene, tne .otner'
as, according to tradition, q prasl
20 70 c11ARIEMAeNE II "a by the Caliph H.s, nras4e
CHm. s,:s 4 .y5,5 : I ~: .- e'1'S~AIrRAs-
a local Texas paper thus sarcasticaly demolis,,,s
nelRhb.orng town: seIhe artezan well at Corn,,s
mas gone dry 1T is to be rebored ont mil oza+-
"1en a 9 smell to it Is tapped. The boring process
Is novel ones Corpus is the centre Of the world.
= noldlng up an auger stationary, the revolution
OF the earth does the boring. They have a mag
nificent auger at Corpus, and by holding it bores
4 Wen. Yes, they have plenty of aueers, and for
saws world without end-n
In the liquor law Investigation in Boston Mr.. G.
a. RICHARDS, liquor DEALER was called to testify.
Wnen nus attention was called to the law, and he
was was asked how he could justify himself as pro
1esseoiy good citizen in daily violating it-sn the
sane Wsy'' = suppose Che repied), as the judges,
lawyers and clergymen justify themselves for daily
telnptlng me to violate it" There really did not
seem much to be said in the way Of cross-e5ami
nation after that. I-1
An emierant from the vicinity Of Boston Mass.
TO, Nebraska, called on the Commissioned of tha
General Land Office yesterday in reference to :
homestead ~ he had taken up in Otoe county. Ne
braska, within fifteen miles of the Missouri river
He describes the land there as UNSURPASSED in
fertility, the rich bla,k loan averaging about
three feet in depth This county is mostly prairie
1and, and has not been known ns rich land Cot
tonWood, locust and maple trees, he saws, spring
mp Hcm the seed and attain to the diameter Of
SIX to eight inches in four years. N.
The Cincinnati Gazette says all anxietv ahon+
the wheat crop may now be dismissed, ss that
crop Is in good condition, and doing well.
Louisville paper says not only in Kentucky. but in
Tennessee also, the wheat crop is more extensive
than is usually seen, and promises an abundant
yield The illinois sate Journal learns that the
wheatan sangarnon. aaa adjoining counties looks
timely, better than during the corresponding seq
son TOE several years. The winter and spring thus
Ear nave been favorable for winter wheat and farm
ers are expecting large crop. @
The interior Of the new Herald building is rapid
" approaching completion. In the basement two
OF the largest sized HoEs cylinder printing presses
are being erected;a metropolitan hoistine engine;
for working the elevator which runs from the COM
posing room at the top Of the building to the base
ment, is already up and in operation; beneath the
broadway sidewalk two large steam boilers are in
operation, and en- engine is being put d up near
these with which to work the presses. We learn
from the Herald Of Saturday that the ofice was
moved on Saturday, and the paper first issued from
the new palace yesterday morning
Mr. RoBERT Bonner, the proprietor o. the New
York Ledger, viii soon erect handsome Ave story
marble mont fire-proof building at the northeast
corner Of Spruce and William streets. Immense
vaults will be built, extending beneath the side
walks, thus making one OF the finest press-rooma
in the United States. TIE second story will b
nsed by Mr. BoaHEn. On the upper floor there Is
TO be . handsome {. composing and stereotypinp
room. The building will be hre-proof throughout
with brick arches and iron beams supporting the
floors. Above the frst7 door the front will be og
fine white marble. # is the design Of Mr. BoNaEa
10 make the building an ornament to the east aide
OF the city: Il VIII cost nearly s15o, 900. q
DR.. snEoN ABRiIAa1s, an Sold New Yorker: Z: 70.
Gently dead, left . WILL beqaeathing hberally' to
charitable A2stit 7t:ons After providing lberaiv
1or bis brother ana aister, he gives the Hebrew
Benevolent Society s25, 700 to tie 1ewg, Hoan;ta1
$25 600; to the Old Ladies' Home $40, 600: to IN,
Blind Asylum 5000; to the New York soc;etv ~
the relief Of the Widows and Orphans Of Medical
men 5000 TO the Colored Home $500: to Co,orad
Orphans $1,000, and number Of other 1eoac;es nr
and smaller amounts. An the rest res,d,,a