The Sun. — 1866-06-02 (London, England)

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.  Among the deaths registered at the Bureau of Vital Statistics in Washington is that of William Daily, a native of Killereen, Ireland, who died at his residence, No. 338, East Sixteenth-street, New York, at the advanced age of one hundred and six. Daily was born in the year 1760, was a man of compact build, about five feet three inches in height, with large, well-developed head and chest, high forehead, and a very intelligent expression of face. In early life he worked hard, and for many years past was temperate and abstemious. In Ireland he was an extensive farmer and held positions of responsibility and trust, but sudden misfortune, late in life, led him to follow to America his daughter, who had been residing there a number of years. He emigrated to New York in _ _  1848, and has since resided there, leading a quiet and rather inactive life. This removal from his native island he often thought was unfortunate for him, and he often expressed the belief "that it would shorten his life." At home he had the reputation of being the strongest man in the county where he resided, was always a quiet and peaceable man, but with a high seise of justice, which led him physical strength ; until the life the powers of his mind In physical strength and to protect the weak and unfortunate. He retained o mrlaae Bret nten al fewt lia remained kvdi agbol monthsue unimpaired,rd, e a sg : fewe he s as in personal appearance, he, until the attack of disease, might well have passed for a strong, robust man of 70 years. His eldest daughter, with whom he lived the last eighteen years of his life, is nearly sixty-nine years of age, but looks like a woman of forty-five to fifty. Daily was married twice, first after he had attained the age of thirty. He had seven children, all by his first wife. Three of his children are still living. He had a sister who died at the age of one hundred and three, andhis father attaiusd the same age. He frequently mentioned the fact of his having been permitted to shake hands with George 111. It is a remarkable fact that he was never much of a sleeper. As far back as his eldest daughter can remember he had required but very little sleep, frequently sleeping but from two to three hours in the night, seldom in the daytime. He was never sick for a day until his final illness. He used tea and coffee, but of late years seldom ever tasted alcoholic stimulants of any kind. Dr. 11. M. Field, who was his attending physician, says, " Like Dr. Parr, our patient kept his pipe alive to the last." For the latter part of his life he took great interest in reading and hearing read the history of the American Revolution, many of the events of which he remembered as conteniporaneous with his early life.' The Cincinnati Commercial says in that city conductors and drivers on street railroads get but nine dollars a week ; barbers make from twelve tolifteen dollars ; waiters, eight dollars; boys and girls, who manufacture  The New York Tribune reckons the bank swindlings and embezzlements in America from May, 1865, to May, 1866, at about $8,164,000, besides $3,472,000 of what it calls " vulgar and violent robberies." The citizens of Columbia, South Carolina, have appointed a committee to ascertain whether General Sherman or Confederate General Hampton burnt that city. Of course they will decide that -General Sherman is the guilty one. The ladies of Columbus, Mississippi, recently decorated the graves of the Confederate dead in the cemetery of that city. They also paid the same mark of respect to the memory of some forty Federal soldiers buried near by. This act elicits the approval of the press of that city, which claims that, the war being over, no distinction should be made between the deceased heroes of opposite sides.  " The Ladies' Home Gazette" is to be the title of a weekly literary paper, which will soon make its appearance at Atlanta, Georgia. Mrs. L. Virginia French, one of the most accomplished women of the South, is to be the editor.  The new Masonic Temple now in process of erection in Bostbn wOrsurpass anything of its kind in the United States, and will cost, with the land, about 5400,000. The anti-negro riots in Memphis have resulted in the destruction of all the churches wherein blacks tried to worship God, and all the school-houses wherein they were trying to educate their children. It isn't pretended that anybody tried or wished to destroy white men's churches or their children's school-houses. " Prince " John Van Buren, with his two daughters, arrived at Liverpool by the Scotia, last Saturday, and proceeded to the metropolis. General Beauregard, of the late Confederate service, arrived by the Scotia, and took apartments at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool. His appearance on 'Change in Liverpool attracted some interest and curiosity. It is said he comes to England in connection with business relating to a Southern Railway. The President has lately pardoned General Hayes, of Louisiana, in order to permit him to take the office of Sheriff, to which he has been elected in New Orleans.  William M. Gwin has been released from imprisonnient in a fortress near New Orleans, and has given his parole. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, it is said, intends to remain permanently with her husband at Fortress Monroe until his trial.  Mr. Bandmann, the German actor who made such a sensation in New York a year or two since, is shortly expacted in this country. _ _  Mr. William Swinton, a New York journalist and author, is about visiting England.  Dr. J. G. Holland (" Timothy Titcomb") has left the Springfield Republican, with which journal he has been connected for a number of years, and will devote all his time now to the "making of books." Dr. Holland is mentioned among the intending tourists to this country. Paul H. Hayne, a Southern name not unknown in literature, is in Augusta, Georgia, writing for the press there. He lost a great deal of property by the war, and now finds his talents and his pen of service to him. Hon. Daniel S. Dickenson's life was insured for $25,000.  The House of the Tennessee Legislature has passed a resolution, by 0 to 11, declaring that Jefferson Davis and other leading rebels have forfeited their lives, ought to suffer death, and be held infamous for ever. Sterling King, the ex-Confederate Colonel, who announced himself the assassin of Mr. Lincoln, died of starvation in Louisville. The wretched man, who was in prison on a charge of stealing horses, first attempted suicide by cutting his throat, but failing in this, determined to starve himself to death. He lived forty days, taking a small portion of soup only five times during that period. When he died he was a Imre sk?.l3ten.