The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-31

E8snrFhD The 9 .Asssesstses III
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Il For TED days past, q most Snterest-
Eng and @difying meeting has been
E&oing oazin the Baptist Church at
this place. Warm Christian hearts
have been burning With holy zeal,
and warm Christian hands have been
actiyss with holy work. Soldiers of
the Cross have been fighting man
fully, and with good effect Chris
| tians arc aroused from supinencss
to stronger effort and stronger prayer.
Aud sinners are being drawn out of
darkness into light
We hear shat1the headquarters of
the Freedmen Bureau for Edgefield
District, will, in few days, be re-
moved from Hamburg to this place.
Rain has been falling, gently but
steadily, for twentyfour hours; be-
ginning at noon on Monday, the 9th.
There is every appearance. Of our
now having quite enough, perhaps
too much.
In the course of the past week, We
saw gentlemen from varions parts
distant and opposite-of the District
All of them. without = dissenting
voice, gave extremely gloomy ac-
counts of the corn and cotton pros
poets.
ABBEvlLIE = The B,u1l.e, saws:
Last week, our follow -townsman,
Mr.. H. L. Tusten, arrested II very
susplclons-looklng person, who an
swcrs we'll to the description Of the
alleged pcrpctrator of ali outrageous
murder lately committed near Ches-
ter, Court House. Tue person arrest
cd came into tho village one day last
week. in company with two others.
all on foot. On being asked his name.
he replied <'Bill Morris" but ilnmc-
diatcly added that his name was not
Morris, but Kyle. lie afterwards
said his name was neither Morris nor
Kyle, and gave some other name.
These circumstances, together with
his filling SO exactly the description
Of the alleged murderers of Mr. Walk
cr, induced tho arrest.
NEwBElasY We extract tho follow
ing from the Herui,l:
We have been informed bv friend
that an interesting union meeting of
the different denominations of Chris
tans III the ncigllborhood Of Tabcr-
nacle Church has been in progress for
some days past. Already some sixty
persons have been added to The lif-
fercnt Churches.
The first bale uf new cotton brought
to this market is from the plantation
of Major j. B. Kinard. and was
bought by McsSrs Carwilc X Nc
Caushrin, on Monday last, ut twenty
seven cents. Its quality was fine.
MARION. The Crescent says:
1t is cheering to learn that new
bales Of cotton are now going for
ward on the trains to market, and
that in IL few mere weeks our dis
trcsscd country will be relieved of
many wants by the Grccnbacks which
will be put in circulation. The
cotton crop is promising in this Dis
trlct, and the young, late corn will
do we'll, as the recent rains will be III
time to save it, 1t is fortunate that
VIC have in Marion, under cultiva-
tl"n, lary, quantity OF rich low
land, which is always planted late in
May and sometimes in June.
OKANGEBU-I:G The Times records
the following accident:
We are panied to learn that sad
accident occurred on the morning of
the 9th lust, ut Dantzlcr y Antlay' $
Mill, Jamison's Turn Out, by which
one negro was killed, another had his
leg broken, and Mr.. Levi Jnabinet
had his thigh badly fractured, and
his sons leg was broken. The cause
of it was the. blowing up Of the mill
stones.