The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-30
N e w S s U M M a r Y.

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lid: Orleans 115a112d. 81 20 e.
Twelve New York churches have bo
choirs.
The people of Savannah are jubilant owe
the fact that their new street railway is finish
ed and the cars running.
"A barrel of kerosene oil exploded on Tues
day last in store at Jersey City. The stoc
of the store, which was light, was soon cnvel
oped in flames.
The New York Board of Health has mad
an appropriation Of fifty dollars to purchas
apparatus for analyzing the air Of theatres
public schools aad churches.
Sixty thousand tons of coal were sold il
New YORK lately. Stove coal declined abou
twenty-five cents per ton, and there was still
small decline in other grades. il
Judge Drummond, Of the United States
District Court, sitting in Chicago, has decided
that in making income return man may de
duct promissory notes and bad debts.
The New York Sun asserts that number
of the citizens OF the fifth and fifteenth wards
of that city ere taking steps to organize vigi'
lance committee to take charge of the thieves
and murderers who infest the city, and whom
the police are powerless to arrest, or who, il
arrested escape punishment through the
laxity Of the courts of justice.
The first Episcopal cathedral ever built in
New England was opened for the first time on
Christmas. 1t has been fully organized, after
the English system, by the Right Rev. DIR.
Neely, the Bishop Of Maine. The Youngest
diocese in the New England States, that Of the
State of MaTre, is the frat one to have its full
cathedral SYSTEM Chicago, Buffalo, Pittsburg
and some other,cities have already adopted ii.
While Gilmore is gathering his band Of o
thousand musicians for the Boston jubilee,
Gottschalkhas been similarly occupied below
the equator. Be organized at Monteyideo o
mammoth orchestra of three hundred and fifty
pieces, which executed under his directions o
symphony and q grand march composed by
the pianist, and dedicated by him to the EN-
peror OF Brazil.
Owing to the mild weather and the heavy
soaked snow which has covered the ice in tho
neiehborhood Of New York, the ice-dealers Of
that city are greatly fearing short crop. In
New England the weather, although not alto
gether favorable, has given very good thicb.
ness Of clear ice, unusually free from snow,
and, in anticipation OF the increased demand
for the Southern markets, the shippers of ice
are laying in large supply. ~
The great event in the billiard world this
week was the return game Of the series be-
tween Dion and Foster, which was to have been
played on Thursday next, in Montreal. =, AS the
contest differs from the first one, which termi-
mated in favor Of Foster by only four points,
considerable speculation has been indulged as
to who shall carry off the honors and the $1,000.
The first was French caroms, three hundred
points, while the approaching Struggle is to
be decided by the four ball c.rom, the push
shot and the crotch being, of course, forbid
den.
The National Intelligencer says: "Citizens
of Washington, of high social position, with
out respect to party, are determined that the
grand ceremony Of the Inauguration Of the
Chief Magistrate OF the nation shall not 60 by
without an observance OF that most delightful
Part of the Tele. the holding Of an inauguration
i
is therefore relieved from the worrying and
harrassing complication or embarrassments
which had determined those who had previous
ly moved in the matter to altogether give up
the idea OF having the usual Inauguration ball."
General arl'Schurz the new senator from
Missouri, was serenaded at st. Louis on Satur-
day night. He made short speech as fo!-
lows II mean to say that the Union is more
strongly knit to- day than it ever was before,
and I hope that as it was in the past SO it will
in the future be; that the patriotic Americans
and Germans will cooperate in increasing the
power OF loyalty and PATRIOTISM, in defending
the cause of right and justice, and in obhter-
ating and wiping out all those resentmcnts
and that hard feeling which sprang from the
war by liberal and just policy. [Cheers.] AS
a representative Of that policy I stand before
you, and hope to see the day when many of
our enemies will be obliged to acknowledge
thatour fight was the good fight, and that our
triumph was the triumph OF right, justice, pro-
gress, civilization and goodwill to all men,"
Renewed cheersl
in New. York city there are lis, ,936 faml-
lies, and only SO 552 buildings used as dwell
ings. The average number of families to
house is about three, and of persons fifteen.
But this statement does not by any means
show the crowded condition Of the city. Six
teen thousand families occupy whole house
each, and seven thousand other dwellings have
but two families each, leaving about sixteen
thousand houses to accommodate upwards OF
eighty-fre thousand families-an average OF
more than five families and twenty-six persons
to each house. In some quarters this density
Of population becomes absolutely sickening to
contemplate, the extreme being twenty-nine
houses with an aggregate population of 544S
souls, or 1877 to each house. Though only half
the building lots in the city are yet covered,
the increase OF population far exceeds the
rapidity OF construction, and, consequently.
the overcrowding grows worse and worso every
day.
Senator Sherman's new financial bill, which
is Just now attracting much attention, provides
in substance as follows: Section first authoriz-
es the use of gold coin as money OF account,
in new contracts, by parties who dealre it.
Section second appropriates, out Of customs,
$40 600 year to the public debt. In thu
preeent condition of our funded debt, this
would reduce the principal of the deDt about