Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-08-07
News Items.

The Brewer gold mine bordering on
North Carolina lately sent seven pounds
of gold to the Charlotte mint.
There is no object in nature which ap:
proaches in glory a peacock with its tail
spread so nearly as young lady with
new poney phaeton and parasol on her
whip handle.
In the twenty-four hours ending on
Sunday morning five fires broke out in
different parts of Norfolk. The people
were panic striker, thinking that incendi-
aries were determined to destroy the
town.
An accident occurred on Monday on
the Baltimore and Ohio road by which
five men were killed and several wound
ed.
"A. T. Stewart made his will before
sailing for Europe. 1t shows him to be
worth one hundred millions of dollars.
The river Clyde in Scotland, on
which Glasgow and its shipyards are
situated, has been made safely navigable
almost entirely by artificial means. On
section Of the river, not more than
thirty miles in length, the "Trustees for
the improvement of the river Clyde'
have during a few years past expended
nearly thirty-six millions of dollars, and
such has been its effect in fostering the
business interests of Glasgow and its en-
virons that the people there think the
money has been well spent.
Experiments lately made with the
LeydeI jar demonstrate that, with q
sufficient current, small animals and
birds can be made absolutely rigid for
the moment in the position in which
they stand and so suddenly is the work
done, so completely is the posture of life
preserved that nothing but actual ex-
animation with the hand can impress on
the mind the fact that the creature has
with that sudden shock passed fr,m the
living.
-Forgeries seem to become fashiona-
bic amotlg tho inmates of conventf.
Recently the monks of Russian convent
were detected in counterfeiting the Gar S
paper money by che wholesale, and now
we learn from Perugia Italy, that the
Abbess OF the Clarissine Convent at
Fabbio has been. setenced to three
months imprisonment for having forged
signatures. 1t seems she had for q
number of years been iii the habi, of re-
ceipting for the annuities of nuns long
since dead, and thus managed to obtain
large amounts Of money.
There has been O curious little law
suit in Washington. Fernando Wood
resided next door to Caleb Gushing, but
is absent for the summer. Mr.. Kelly,
who is in charge Of the, residence of Mr..
Wood keeps dog. The dogs bark is
fearful and iicessant; Mr.. Gushing has
brought suit against Fernando Wood the
owner of the dog, for allowing the animal
to disturb Mr.. Gushing s rest a. night.
and for Interfering with his studies, and
the transaction of the ordinary business
durirg the day: The case involves a
very nice question of law: The court
gave judgment that the uuisarce be
abated by the removal or the killing of
the dog, and that the defendant be re-
quired to deposit a collateral of twenty
five dollars to secure the abatement ofthe
nuisance, which would be forfeited in
case of failure.
Discussing the Frcedmcn's Bureau
swindling, the Raleigh NerS says {:
1.-The pecuuiary venality of the Bureau
is another modern species of corruption
under the guise of philanthropy. 1t takes
the science of official rascality in the
nineteenth century, to prostitute schemes
of bcnevolence, inaugurated by the
Government, into vehicles of private
gain and personal emolument.'