The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-28
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dollars from people in Caroline County, Va, t.
help him in the prosecution Of young Grant.
Bob Lincoln has had his innocent fingers
burnt by putting them into the real estate
speculations OF the ungodly in Chicago.
The death is announced Of MIR. Johr
Fembertou. one of the oldest and most respect
ed Of the business meh Of Now Orleans.
Thomas b. Wynne, of Baltimore, he's beer
elected Supertendent of the Ricbmond and Pc
tcrsburg Railroad 80
VILE am McMaho1, printer in Louisville
: KY, is report. d as having fallen heir to sSOO(
sterling, bequeathed by an English relative.
Tho ;sMost Rev. James Laird Patterson.
lust appointed r man Catholic Archbishop o.
Glasgow, is graduate Of Oxford, and was for.
merly c ergyman Of the Church Of England
Rev. DR.. Dunn, the Vicar-General OF the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Chicago. who was
dismissed by Bishop Duggan, died in Chicago,
on Wednesday last, aged forty-6ve.
--Littre's great dictionary OF the French
language, destined to supersede all its prede-
cc,sors. even the dictionary Of the academy, is
pc.rly done. The manuscripts have gone to
ti.c printers.
Mr.. ". D. Chesterman, Of Richmond, on
Tuesday, bought The type, fixtures, and good
will of the Southern Opinion newspaper. He
will resume the publication OF it on the first OF
January next.
II is said that Brick Pomeroys New York
1 Iemocrat is losing concern, and will shortly
b. discontinued. The subscriptions to his La
Crosse publication have fallen off terribly
since the election cf Grant.
"A young man, about twenty-one years OF
age, named Frank Smith, a clerk in the employ
OF S. Franklin & Co., cotton factors Of Augusta,
was killed on Wednesday last in the Town OF
Washington, Ca, by the accidental discharge
of pistol in the hands Of friend.
"A duel took place at st. Joseph, Missouri,
on Wednesday,, between Hon. j. E. Early,
prominent lawyer, and Colonel I. A. Green.
also lawyer, in which Mr.. Early was slot and
killed. The affair grew out of an article re-
fleeing upon Green as a lawyer, which Green
supposed Early 10 be the author Of.
-Menard, the aolored Congressman elect
from Louisiana, will be IL an awkward fix II
admitted to the House. 1t will he impossible
IOt nlm 10 uuQ d Scdl On tnO sCpoclSoh oAoS "a
tho House, because these are already all taken.
So he will have to find quarters on the Demo-
cratieeide, where his reception will probably
not be of very enthusiastic character.
Last week, near Dresden, Weakly County,
Tennessee, q negro woman dug hole near
her cabin, placed her two children inst, then
lighted a large fire aod actually burned them
up. She was subsequently, arrested, and whom
asked why she committed the hsrrid deed,
said her children wo1ld not obey her, and SO
she concluded to kill them.
General Prim, by his delay in summonina
the Spanish Cortes, has given rise to the sus-
picion that he intends to make himself Diota-
tor. To refute this charge, Prim has recently
written letter, in which he says: II have no
thought OF being the master, Dictator or EN-
peror of my country. II l had any such wretch
ed designs I could not do better than follow
the advice of those who think themselves more
liberal than I, and should then urge Spain to
become republic. Iu that case she would
certainly offer me supeeme power in one form
or another"
"A recent extensive examination into the
character of goods sold at large number OF
grocery stores in New York city, discloses, be-
sides short weight, adulterations OF the follow
ing character: Ground Java coffee contained
roasted bread crumbs, peas and rye, chicory,
burnt sugar and coffee essences. Ground Gin
namon was adulterated with tapioca, ground
mace with pulverized crackers, ground cloves
with spices OF oil kinds, from which the essen-
tial oil had been extracted. Tea contained
willow leaves, genuine broken leaves aggluti-
mated by some artifce, damaged leaves and
tea dust. The green tea was colored with
powder supposed to be Prussian blue, and the
sugar was moistened with water to the extent
of ten per cent.
Mr.. George Peabody, Of London, in his
letter OF the 9th instant, accompanying his
gift OF $500 900 to the London poor, says ::
"rhis amount will increase my former dona-
tion Of the second trust to 100000, and, in
Guiding my gift un6er the first trust, in
March, 1852, OF sl5O.00O, a total OF fS5O, ,OOO."
These are eloquent figures. A man who in
in six years gives one million seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars (goldl 10 the poor.
deserves the applause he receives for his muni6-
cent charity. If to these benefactions Of MIR.
Peabody in Lond IN arc added the contribu-
tions he has made to the cause of education
and learning N America, the total will be
found to be between four and five millions of
dollars.
On Monday evening the Common Council
of Brooklyn voted to subscribe on behalf of the
city for three million dollars out of the five
million dollars of the capital stock of the COM
pany which has undertaken to build suspen-
sion bridge over the East Rivcr between New
York and Brooklyn. Its successful completion
will be witnessed at no distant day. The new
bridge will start on this side from point near
the Registers Office, in the City Hall Park, and
will strike the other side of tho East River OF
the corner OF Sands and Washington streets.
It's largest span or reach will be sixteen hun
dred feet, which is nearly six hundred feet
longer than that Of the bridge over the Ohio
River at Cincinnati, and nearly eight hundred
feet longer than that OF the Niagara Falls
bridge. Its tota! length will be little over a
mile, and it's width eighty feet, admitting oi
the passage of two hundred thousand persons
daily.
The current number of Packard's Monthly
has an article by the surviving Pollard, in