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


10 get anyt thing beyond it. # il is proposed to
give any Of our generals cold Immortality by it,
call il Idckles, after Gen. s1oK1Es :"
Among other masyels to be sent to the Paris
Exhibition, Switzerland is about to forward the
famous reliquaries givem'by CHARIEMAaNE to the
Abbey ofst, Maurice (Valais.) One OF themfis q
large ony1vase, with figures ia relief; the other,
formed Of theprecious metals and Arabic enamels,
js according TO tradition, present formerly made
10 CHAR1;EMAaKE by the Caliph HARouN-A1rRAs-
A local Texas paper thus sarcastically demolishes
. neighboring town: ssThe artesian well at Corpus
has gone dry, Itisito be rebored out until water
with smell TO it Is tapped. The boring process
is novel one. Corpus is the centro Of the world.
BY holding up an auger stationary the revolution
Of the earth does the boring. They have mag
nihcent auger at Corpus. and by holding it bores
well. Yes, they have plenty Of aasers, and for
saws world without end.
In the liquor Law Investigation in Boston, Mr. G..
"A. R1oHARDs, liquor dealer, pas called to testify.
When his attention was called to the law, and he
was asked how he could justify himself as 9 pro-
tsssedly g,od citizen in daily violating it the
same way, suppose Che. .repied), as the judges,
1awyersand clargymen justify themselves for daily
tempting mo to violate it." There really did not
seem much to be said in the way Of cross-exsmi-
nation after that. sss4..
An emigreat from the vicinity of Boston, Mass,
TO Nebraska, called on the Commissioner Of the
General Land Office yesterday in reference to q
homestead he had taken up in Otoe county, Ne
He describes the land there as unsurpassed in
fertility, the rich black loan averaging about
three feetin depth. This county is mostly prairie
land, and has not been known as rich land. Cot
tonwood, locust and maple trees, he says, spring
up from the seed and attain to the diameter of
six to eight inches in four years.
The Cincinnai Gazette says all anxiety about
the wheat crop may now be dismissed, as that
crop is in good condition, and doing well A
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 State Journal learns that the
wheat in ssangamon and adjoining counties looks
finely, better than during the corresponding sea-
son for several years. The winter and spring thus
far have favorable for winter wheat, and farm
ers are expecting a large crop.
The interior Of the new Herald building Is rapid
" approaching completion. In the basement two
ofthelargest sized Hos's cylinder printing presses
are being erected;a metropolitan hoisting 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 an engine is being put up near
these with; which to work the presses. We learn
from the Herald Of Saturday that the Office was
moved on Saturday, and the paper first issued from
the new palace yesterday morning.
Mr.. ROBERT BoNNEB, the proprietor Of the New
York Ledger, viii soon erect q handsome five story
marble front fre-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-rooms
in the United States. Toe second story will be
nsed by Mr.. BONNER. On the upper floor there is
to be handsome composing and stereotyping
room. The building will be:fre-proof throughout,
with brick arches and iron beams supporting the
floors. Above the first floor the front will be Of
fine white marble. It is the design Of Mr.. BONNER
to make the building On ornament to the east side
of the city. It will cost nearly s15O,0OO.
DR.. SIMEON ABRAHAMs, an old New Yorker re-
Gently dead, left q will, becaeathing literally to
charitable institutions. After providing literally
for his brother and sister, he gives the Hebrew
Benevolent Society s25, 600 to the Jews Hospital
So, 600; to the Old LADIES' Home $4,000; to the
Blind Asylum $4,000; to the New York Society for
the relief of the Widows and Orphans of Medical
men 5000; to the Colored Home $500; to Colored
Orphans $4,000, and number OF other Ieeacies of
larger and smaller amounts. All the rest residue
and remainder Of hiB property is given to the New
York Hospital, to which institution he also eives
all the property Of which his brother and sister
have the use while living (house included) after
their death. He appointed BENJAMIN ABRAHAms
John II. RrKER and SAMUEL RrKER executors.
In the year 1866 Sir THOMAS GRESHAM proposed
IN the corporoton OF London to erect, at his Own,
expense o commodious building for merchants to
meet and transact their business, provided the
CORPORATION would provide q convenient and suita-
ble site. The city acquiesced in the proposal,
purchased 80 houses, which formed two courts
leading from Cornhill to Threadneedle street,
called New Saint Christopher Alley and Swan AL
lev for 1884, and sold the old materials of these
houses for EATS. The ground occupied by the
present building is about 40 900 feet and the price
would therefore be about Is. Cd. per foot. The
nresent value Of the site, at low estimate, is at
ieast s2O per foot or 100000, being increase of
s2;650 per year, On an original outlay Of $4,000.