The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-01
JOTTINGS ABOUT THE STATE.

On Christmas day the Beaufort Dramatic
Association paraded en- costume.
-Greenville Is going to start new Repuo'
lican paper.
-Four deaths from meningitis In Newberry
last week.
The Right Rev. Bishop Lyach oficlated at
St. Peters Church In Columbia on SUNDAY
last.
-Attorney-G General 8. W. Melton and ex-
Atlorney-General D. b. chamberlain consul
tute the latest new law firm IN Columoia.
During the past week there has been a
large Increase In the travel over tne new Con-
garee bridge at Columbia.
Bishop Qnintard was detained In Ander-
son by the storm, and will not arrive 10 90
lumba till Thursday next: be VIII preach
there In Trinity Church on the following sun-
day.
William Carr, who was shot aud Killed re-
cen:ly near Newberry Courthouse oy the &C.
cIdental discharge OF pistol, ID SAID 10 nave
been very worthy young man.
The ladies of Marion are engaged 10 the
pralseworLhy work OF getting up concerts,
charades, &c., TO raise funds for the cemetery
OF that town.
A grand ball was announced to take
nlace Last night at Willlslon. Amongst the
managers was Mr.. 8. B. Woodberry, ofmuslcal
fame, and formerly of Charleston.
During the past week things In Columbia
in general, and around the Statehouse ID par
tcular, have been dull, stale. fiat and unproht-
able.
-Ex.pollcemau Welles, who was arrested
in Columbia lew days ago on cnarge OF
obtalning goods under false pretences, mas
been released from jail upon writ OF haoeas
corpus.
Columbia complains Of the bad condition
of the streets, Of sink holes and slumolng
places, and of want OF light. There are
other pitfalls and ways mat are oarA III
Columbia besides the holes IN the streets.
IN. G. Parker (px-state treasurer) q Go.
ara about TO erect very handsome building
in Columbia on Richardson street, near Ger.
walls. 1t will be three stories high, all iron
and brick, ffty-two feet front, and two hundred
feet deep.
/ The dinner for the poor colored children
of Beaufort, gotten up at the arsenal 5y Gen,
eral Whipper's wife aud Mr.. Philip Ezekiel
ra, successful affair, by which one hundred
I'd TWENTY-FIVE children were made happy on
rIstmas.
general court-martial has been ordered
tos It the headquarters of Columbia ior lne
trial o., such persons In the military service o.
the United States as may be brought oelore
II. The court will convene on January sc
pro1imo.
An accident occurred at Columbia on as las
Saturday 10 lad nine years old, q son OIL Ar
John FiIzsimmons. Whilst walking across
the trestle on the Greenvllle and Coumbit
Railroad he slipped and fell, receiving
very bad cash on The chin, but he was doini
| we'll at last accounts.
| Fine weather in Columbia on Monday
but dIsagreeable 10 pedestrians on account o
the melting snow and slippery paVements
The atmosphere at the North is said to hay'
presented smoky blue appearance. ant
peoples faces looked as though the blues Wer
Contagious, for walking through the slush wa
not labor Of love.
The Aiken Tribune, In just euiogy Q
the claims OF Aiken as sanitary resort, cue
the case of q citizen of South Carolina wao
travelling In Europe for his health, consnlte!
an eminent physcian in Paris respecting d
case, and to his astonishment was aoViseu
return to small town In South Carolina cane
"Alken" as the best and most speedy mean
OF recovering his health.