The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-01

pestedy, On the plea that he agent for chari-
table association which 1eyer had an existence.
In this manner he had pooketed over 81, ,000
Ny6unY- man was drowned in Arkansas during
5 the recent flood, @hils attempting to rescue his
aistar; who had taken refuge on the top Of her
house from the rising waters. He SWAMI IN on
harseback, but failed ttoIreach the house and
turned back, but recalled By her cries he renewed
the sttempt and when near the house his horse,
sshk and both perished in her sight. She re-
manned on the house nearly three days before she
Usa rescued ! q = = = 5.-,.',* 80
The newspaper called the lsthme de ssiez says
fhat the French contractor DussAuDi has entered
into an agreement with the Viceroy OF Egypt to
construct two new ports, the one military and the
other commercial. They Will be separated by an
immanse ietty, traversed by . railroad. The works
win cost fifteen millions Of francs, or S,OOO, 600,
,and it will take six years to complete them.
The Norfolk ,eya.) Day Book, Of Tuesday, says:
seThe steamship Bosphorus, one Of, the line run
ninE; between this port and Liverpool reached
here yesterday afternoon and proceeded at once to
receive her cargo Of cotton, which is piled up as
high as the tops OF the houses in the neighbor-
hood Itt;s ship is built Of iron, is 318a feet IN
length, IS feet beam, and rs feet depth Of hole.
She will take sway about twenty-five hundred
bales Of cotton, which will be in addition to large
quantity Of corn and salt beef now in her ballast.
There is woman living in Rush township, Sus-
auehsnna county, Pa, named Ruth Rosenkrans,
aged eighty y-eight years and seven months, who Is
the mother Of twelve children, the grandmother OF
ninaty-one, the great grandmother Of two hundre1
n6nnOfhor
Of twenty -four-making in all three hundred and
forty-nine. family Of three hundred and fifty.
A prolific family indeed. She is now well, and
some time ago knit q. pail Of socks in three days,
and is able to do it now. . ,.s.sr-- J.
The Governor sof Pennsylvania has sent mes.
sage to the Legislature Il that ststen relation to
tie hwlessness which prevails in the coal regions
OF -Schnyhn county. According to the state
ments thus given, nearly fifty murders have been
committed in that county within e III years, and
punishment seems to be impossible, in consequence
Of the see1ot affiliations which exist among the
disorderly miners. Apowerful organization exists,
which is banded together for offensive and defen-
zive purposes, e1ertng bysthreats and terror an
authority which is superior 70 the laws
The New York Herald, Of Friday, isays: An or
.derot arrest for % xNIEn Drew and F1sK & BE1DEN,
brokers' WAS issued yesterday. on, the complaint
Of JosEpH B, srEwARr, the assignee OF LEONARD
HUYcK, charging them with wrongefd conversion
OF capital ;furRiahed by HUYcK for q joint opera
tian., Judgment is demanded in the sum Of $780,
OOe and 4 petition is entered to have the defend
ants render an account Of their operations in Erie
stock fbrtths last. year and hail. Mr.. DREW was
held to bail in the sum Of $780, 600, and Messrs.
FMKh BMDEN $50, 900 each.
Leading Conservatives in Tennessee, says q
Nashville dispatch, propose that colored voters be
invited to the political meetings, and send dele
gates to the convention which meets in this city
next month to nominate candidate for Governor.
The proposition is encouragingly received, and
WIN probably be adopted. The colored voters are
tnyited to send representatives to the Republican
Congressional Convention, which is called to meet
in this city on the 10th Of May next, and JOHN
TRrn1E, who has already announced himself as
candidate, will doubtless be nominated. 1t is not
Mown who the Conservatives will run.
The Columbus Inquirer says: "We saw yester-
day specimens Of soft, smooth, regular and ex-
cellent cutton thread which is now being mauufac-
tured at this establishment, some three miles
above Columbus. Thread of as high number as
sixteen is now being turned out. The highest
previously was twelve. Operations commenced
week before last. The making of cloth has not
yet begun. We are glad to chronicle anything to
the advantage Of our manufacturing interests and
to know that, at LAST, cne establishment is under
way. We hope that others may be before many
days.
The case Of BREoKKRDaEs administrators
AGAINST LEES executors and others has been per-
plexng the mind Of Kentucky ever since 1911. It
grew out Of another suit begun 17oS, SO that it's
history is that of Kentucky itself. JOHN BREcKN-
RIDGE and GEORGE NICHOLAS, two Of Kentucky's
ah1est men. made contract with JOHN LEE for the
1urchase of 600 acres in Bath County, and hence
arose an iyol1ed series Of legal distractions with
ont end From. 1875 to 1857 is bridged by this te-
aious law suit, to which JARNDFcE oersus JARNDYcE
looks feeble and uncompGcated. The Court Of
Appeals has. decided substantially in favor Of
BRroxNHDdE's heirs, the amount sued for being
about $4,000.
The Commissioners of the Kentucky Insci::stion
for the education and training Of feeble minded
children have just made report to the Legisla-
ture, in which they call attention to practice
which is quite common in Kentucky marriage
Of blood relations They add their testimony to the
abundant evidence already collected by physicians
and philanthropists, that large per centage OF
deaf mutes and OF the blind, limited per centage
NJ l,inatics, and no doubt much larger one than
either OF feebe-minded or idiotic children are the
offsr,;;ne of the marriage Of first cousins, The