The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-29
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her own fair hands the otter day.
Aaron Jones has got into court IN Clncin
natl for threatening to punch mans head.
A picture by Leutze, descriptive OF th'
Alaska treaty, has been presented to Secretar!
Seward by some prominent merchants OF New
York.
Hon. Wm. Lander, who was memoer o
the Confederate Congress, died In Llncolnton
NC, on the 9Th inst.
massachusetts educates her children at
cost Of nine dollars per annum for every ch'l'
within it's limits. 49,,
The Colorado Legislature devotcs large
,,ort;on of it's time to the passage OF uVorce
hills every one Of which Gov. Hall vetoes'
George NJ. Dent, brother-ln-law o.
General Grant, is o candidate for Congress IL
Arizona. -
The citizens Of Danville, Virginia, have de'
,;aoa bv vote to make corporate subscription
of s125 900 to the Norfolk and Great western
Railroad. ,...o - Akron
ohio snent over 100000 last year in build
mo dwellings, and manufacturing establish
ments.
A letter from New York says: within
Tho faw dsys past there have been consldera-
,,,o onarations in real estate, both in this city
srd BROOKLYN. The property consisted mostly
Of small dwelling houses, remote fron INC
GREAT centres of business and popuia'on'
Prices range from $4,000 to $4,000, when are
rather lower, the auc6oneers say, tnan 'ne
800 honsas and lots we're held at this time
last year." .,nno .r;o, ~
Jobn a. Surratt, it is known, has peen hAeu
sor the oath of next month, but have good
reoson TO believe that the case will never Do
hronobt to trial. The attorneys for the de-
fance Messrs. Merrick and Black, are prepar-
ad for surratts trial at any time, and tney
h,vo 7un confidence in their power to sustain
tba sotion of the majority Of the jury at the
frat trial. when they we're disposed to acquit
the prisoner.
The last number Of the Nationis out in op-
nosition to the bill creating the entire South
into one military district, with Grant In e1-
elusive control, and thinks the party had bet
TOR lat it alone. It was only intended, the
Nation SAWS, as s.an answer to Hancock's per-
eormance. in Louisiana" and its introduction
ia calculated to ''unsettle the public mind,
both at the North and South, and weaken con-
4dence in Congressional leaders"
Mrs. Mary Harty has recovered sS7oO
damages from the Central Railroad Company
of New Jersey, for the loss Of her husband, who
WAS run over and killed on that road in Noyem-
ber last. near Bergen. The amount OF
damages claimed was $4,000. The suit was
tried in the Supreme Court, Circuit, Brooklyn.
T. was claimed by the plaintiff that the part OF
the track on which the deceased was walking
vas used as public thoroughfare, and that
the accident resulted from the negligence Of
tbe servants of the company. The defendants
alleged that the road was the private property
Of the company, and that the deceased, being
a trespssser, was responsible for what might
happen to him.
"A delegation from the telegraphic opera
fora of several cities attended the electric ball
at the New York Assembly Rooms on Friday
night. Artificial light, Of wonderful brilliancy,
made by battery of great size and power,
identical in principle and construction to those
used by telegraph companies, but much larger
in siae. sstonished the participators by its
magnificent corruscations and showers OF
burning metals. The most amusing feature OF
the entertainment was the way in which the
dances were announced. A large sounder,
almost ten times the size and power OF the
nsua2-- instrument used in every telegraph
Office, was placed in connection with the
aforementioned battery, by which the pro-
eranme was raped out to the telegraph fra
ternity in language mysterious to all others
but quite intelligible to them.
The building OF the iron bridge over the
Great Miami, on the Ohio and Mississippi rail
road. ia considered rapid feat in railroad con-
struction. This structure required the driving
of three thousand piles, the laying of 62O0 cubic
wards Of masonry, the dredging Of four difficult
foundations in a quicksand, and the construc-
ton and erection of $50 feet Of iron bridge, in
three spans, and weighing 100000 pounds.
The first train crossed on the 18th of December
last--iust 12O days from the time the first pile
Was driven, and nine days and four hours from
the time the last stone was put in place. The
work was carried on night and day, and tele-
graphic communication kept up throughout
the whole OF the basin drained by the Miami,
40 that all storms we're prepared for hours be-
fore they or their effects reached the bridge
site.
"A Paris journal thus describes the gene
raj situation Of Europe: France, Austria and
Prussia appear equally to desire the mainte-
nance of peace, and are determined to employ
their influence respectively in setting aside
complications which are more or less menac-
ing. The inclinations OF Prussia in this direc-
tion do not appear doubtful. Hence the atti-
tude of those three powers towards Italy can
only tend to pacifcation. AS respects the
Eastern question, Russia, it is still believed,
will not, in spite of her very significant pro-
caeaines. immediately bring it to an issue. Be-
sides. the present moment has been chosen by
the Western Courts to urge upon the Porte
those internal reforms which would give satls-
faction 70 the Christian population Of the en-
pire, and thus deprive the Cabinet OF st. Pc
ters5urg Of its most specious pretexts for in
tervening in the affairs of Turkey"
-"Mack," of the Cincinnati Commercial,
writes that Morrissey has won golden opinions
for ouiet and unobtrusive demeanor and ur-