The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-13
NEW S s U M M "A r Y


yearly profit Of s21, 900 annually.
"A new hotel at Louisville, KY, to be called
the Galt House, is being erected at cost OF
s1,2OO,OOO. It will be finished by midsummer.
In case Washington and Georgetown are
united it is proposed to combine the names
and call it George Washing Town.
The New YORK Evening Post and the Jour-
nal of Commerce are reported to have cleared
s175,0OO and $15O, 900 respectively last year.
Aaron Jones, Of pugihstic fame, now dis
penses whiskey at saloon he has opened in
Cincinnati.
Hon. John s. Preston has accepted the IT,
vitation extended by the literary societies OF
the University OF Virginia to address th"m on
the final day Of the ensuing session.
1t is said that the Austrian Government ID
usinp its influence to induce the Cabinet Of the
Tuileries to recognize Senior Juarez as Presi-
dent Of the republic Of Mexico.
Calvin Blanchard, notorious old Fourier
ite, OF New York city, who was temporarily So
journing in Greenville, S. c., died last week OF
consumption.
What muniicerce was that shown by the
British Government in bestowing s125 upon
the widow OF sergeant Brett, killed at Man.
chesterl
Madeira made Eve hundred aud fifty thous-
and gallons of wine last year, an amount about
equal to the production Of 1866, but it was
much better in quality.
An English contractor has been sentenced
to FIVE years. penal servitude for merely at
tempting to swindle the Government in sup
plies for the Abyssinian war.
Fifteen of the negro delegates to the
Georgia Convention, having been unable to
get pay, worked during the recess as laborers
for s1.50 per day.
Mr.. Gladstone recently made five speech es
to his constituents in one week. They were all
reported in full and occupied seventeen col
umns Of fine type in the London journals.
Two thousand Spencer breechloaders have
arrived at Rome from America for the Pom
tifical army. The Zouaves will be armed with
an English breachloader, which Papal commits
sioners have gone to England to select.
The officers Of the New York and New
Haven Railroad have decided to use steel rails
in relaying the track Of their road, and the
President has ordered two thousand tons from
England.
During the past year the income OF the
Girard estate was more than s4C9, 600, OF which
$152O00 went for the support Of Girard College,
and the balance was applied to the estate or
remains in the treasury.
Dana has spent nearly half million in
starting his new paper. he expects to get
seven per cent. interest on $500, 900 Of the in
yestments from the rents Of Tammany Hall,
and the Sun is to make up the balance, If it
can.
Bavaria assented, with i'll grace, to the
new army organization which is in imitation Of
the Prussian. It was strongly limited to the
ministry that though the measure might be
necessary at present, the innovation would not
be tolerated for many years.
Just as the safety Of DR.. Livingstone is be-
coming certainty, the report comes from New
Zealand thst there is strong probability that
Issichardt, the explorer, long supposed to be
lost, is still alive near the Gulf Of Carpentaria.
By.and-by we may hear that Sir John Frank
lin is still alive in the frozen regions.
AS Gen. Longstreet was passing Knoxville,
Tennessee, on the cars, few days ago, two
police officers came into the car to serve on
him warrant Of arrest for treason. AS they
had the name wrong he denied that he was
the man called for, and while they went out to
correct it, the train moved off. We had sup
posed that the General had proved his loyalty
30 fully by his reconstruction letter, that he
was in no danger Of annoyance.
An outbreak in Alaska is the latest intelli-
gence reported from that interesting section OF
our widely-extended country. It appears from
dispatches from Alaska to December 9th, that
the Indians in the neighborhood Of Sitka had
been insubordinate, and raised the English flag
over their village. General Davis ordered them
to take it down or he would lombard the viii
lage, and it WAS taken down; but the Indians
are discontented and an outbreak is imminent.
Steam is,apparently perfect disnfectant
as far as yellow fever is concerned. Comman-
der Chandler, Of the United States steamer
Don, lying in Vera Cruz, on the breaking out
Of a very malignant type Of that disease, closed
the matches and filed the room with steam
bringing the temperature up to 225 degrees,
then dried them, and effecsually killed the dis
ease. Such success IN an infected port is re,
marksble. The method is not new one, how
ever.
Cotton is raised in many parts Of Italy,
and the value of the product Of late years has
equalled s12, 900 900 annually. This crop is all
used at home, but in addition, large quantities
are imported, chiefly from America, Genoa be-
ing the principal market. There are two huE-
dred cotton factories in Italy, employing ten
thousand workmen. Lombardy and Piedmont
are the provinces in which the spinning and
weaving Of cotton have made the greatest pro-
gress.
"A New York letter of lhe 9Th instant says:
"Some stir was occasioned in political circles
this afternoon, by dispatch from Washing
ton announcing as positive fact that the Su-
preme Court will render q decision Tin the
Mississippi and Georgia test case) adverse to
the constitutionality of the Military Recon-
struotion acts of Congress the practical effect
Of which will be to leave the decision of the
next Presidential election with the North. The
authority for the statement is said to be un-
doubted. 1t is also said that it is doubtful
whether even Chief Justice Chase will be
among the dissenters."
Mr.. Gladstone's late speech on Fenianism is
attracting much attention throughout Ireland.